54 arrests in 'Ndrangheta sweep across Italy 25 mn euros seized in Calabria, Lazio, Umbria
(ANSA) - Rome, June 24 - Italian police arrested 54 people in three Italian regions in a sweep against a top clan in the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia Tuesday. Police said the Mole' clan had a "significant arms trade with Eastern Europe as well as huge drugs trafficking with North Africa". They said the clan reinvested the proceeds in "large swathes of the legal economy in Calabria, Lazio and Umbria". Police seized assets worth some 25 million euros in the operation.
