Italian police on Monday arrested
five people allegedly linked to the Camorra Neapolitan mafia on
suspicion of pocketing millions of euros for public works that
were never carried out.
Police said the money was laundered through firms in Tuscany
and Campania.
The Lucca-based organisation was allegedly linked to the
Casalesi clan of the Camorra, the one that forced anti-mafia
writer Roberto Saviano into police protection, prosecutors said.
The organisation was said to be "contiguous with the Casalesi
clan".
Finance police carried out some 50 searches and seized assets
in Tuscany and Campania belonging to businessmen linked to
Camorra clans.
They also seized assets from firms, front men and also a
public functionary, police said.
The Tuscan investigation is closely linked to one by
anti-mafia police in Naples, judicial sources said.
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