(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 29 - A mayor of a small Calabrian town was
among 44 people arrested Wednesday in a probe into the suspected
infiltration of local and northern Italian political life by the
Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, Italy's richest and most
powerful organised crime group.
The mayor of Badolato, a municipality on the Ionian coast of
Catanzaro, Giuseppe Nicola Parretta, his deputy Ernesto Maria
Menniti, and the president of the city council Maicol Paparo,
were among those arrested during the operation conducted by the
Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catanzaro and the ROS
special branch which led to a total of 15 arrests in prison and
29 under house arrest.
The arrests took place in various locations on the Ionian coast
of Calabria and in the regions of Lazio, Piedmont and Lombardy.
(ANSA).
Mayor among 44 arrested in 'Ndrangheta probe
