Carabinieri police on Monday
arrested 58 alleged bosses and members of Mafia clans in the
Sicilian province of Agrigento, sources said.
The operation targeted the Santa Elisabetta and Sciacca clans
and hit 16 Mafia 'families', the sources said.
Alleged mobsters in the provinces of Caltanissetta, Palermo,
Enna, Ragusa and Catania were targeted too.
The mayor of the small town of San Biagio Platani was also
arrested.
Santino Sabella is accused of agreeing candidates for the
2014 local elections with the Mafia as well as exerting pressure
on the allocation of council contracts.
The probe has also uncovered protection rackets against two
associations running migrant reception centres in Sicily,
judicial sources said.
Police said the organisation busted Monday boasted of being
"the feather in the cap" of Cosa Nostra.
"The province of Agrigento is more serious, there are no
longer any trustworthy or reliable Palermo people," boss Luciano
Spoto was caught saying on a wiretap.
"Perhaps only in Corleone are there people with their heads
on straight, people who keep their word," he said.
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