In Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Valle d'Aosta and Calabria, an order issued by the Milan investigating magistrate, an operation today against 20 people accused, for various reasons, of a criminal association aimed at a tax fraud of over 160 million euros, extortion, usury.

In particular, 18 arrests and seizures were carried out for over 34 million euros. A criminal organization was also dismantled, also made up of subjects close to members of a 'Ndranghetista family rooted and operating in Lombardy for a long time and to a criminal group of Calabrian origin operating in the Lombard capital.

The investigations have allowed to discover a complex 'VAT carousel fraud in the telecommunications sector with the use of a dense network of' cartierè and 'filtered companies, in EU and non-EU countries, registered as nominees with precedents also by association of mafia type and drug trafficking.