Dozens arrested in nationwide 'Ndrangheta operation

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 22 - Carabinieri police on Friday arrested 52 people in a nationwide operation targeting the 'Ndrangheta mafia.
    Over 400 Carabinieri were deployed in the operation, named "Karpanthos".
    The suspects are accused of crimes including mafia association, criminal association for narcotics trafficking, extortion, robbery and money laundering.
    Of the people arrested, 38 were taken to jail, six were put under house arrest and eight will have to regularly check in with the police.
    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 base in the southern region of Calabria and gone beyond the country's borders. (ANSA).