Police bust major 'Ndrangheta cocaine ring
'Smuggled a ton of pure coke into Italy in five months'

(ANSA) - Turin, June 18 - Finance police on Thursday busted what investigators say is a major 'Ndrangheta mafia drug ring that smuggled a ton of pure cocaine into Italy in just five months.
Police arrested eight suspects and seized 415 kilos of uncut cocaine, worth about 35 million euros.
Seven people were arrested in Italy and one in Portugal as authorities seek another seven suspects, three of them Brazilian.
Police also seized assets worth eight million euros, sources said.
Investigators say the drug rink trafficked cocaine from Brazil and Peru via Portugal and Spain into Italy, where it supplied 'Ndrangheta clans in Calabria, Lombardy and Piedmont.