Over 100 arrested in huge anti-'Ndrangheta operation

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 3 - Carabinieri police on Wednesday arrested 108 people in a huge operation targetting clans belonging to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
    The 'Ndrangheta is widely considered to have become Italy's most powerful organized-crime syndicate thanks to its control over much of the cocaine that arrives in Europe and its reach has stretched outside its southern Italian base and gone beyond the country's borders.
    Wednesday's operation, which had the code name Eureka, primarily hit the Nirta-Strangio and Morabito mafia clans in order to dismantle an international drugs ring.
    The suspects are accused of crimes including mafia association, international drugs trafficking, arms trafficking and money laundering.
    The operation featured raids in Catanzaro, Vibo Valentia, Pescara, Milan, Salerno, Catania, Savona, Bologna, Vicenza, L'Aquila, Ancona, Rome and Cagliari. (ANSA).