‘Ndrangheta, 56 arrests in many Italian cities

From the early hours of this morning, in Vibo Valentia, Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Avellino, Benevento, Parma, Milan, Cuneo, L’Aquila, Spoleto and Civitavecchia, investigators of the State Police are implementing an application order of precautionary measures ordered against 56 subjects.

They are seriously suspected, for various reasons, of mafia-type criminal association, external competition in mafia association, extortion, illegal carrying and possession of weapons, kidnapping, fraudulent transfer of values, unlawful competition with violence and threats and trafficking of influences unlawful, aggravated by the mafia method and facilitation, as well as corruption, disclosure of official secrecy and criminal association aimed at receiving stolen goods and laundering agricultural machinery, aggravated by transnationality and mafia facilitation.