Carabinieri, State and finance police
on Thursday executed over 200 arrest warrants in a huge
operation coordinated by DDA anti-mafia investigators targetting
Calabria's 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Local politicians, including Marcello Manna, the mayor of the
town of Rende, entrepreneurs, professionals and figures from the
criminal world of the province of Cosenza were among those
arrested.
Manna was put under house arrest.
Assets worth 72 million euros were seized as part of the
operation.
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