Italian police on Thursday made 59
arrests in a blitz against Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia clans.
The Carabinieri of the Catanzaro Provincial Command carried out
an operation Thursday morning, in the district of Lamezia Terme,
to execute precautionary custody orders issued by the
investigating judge at the request of the Catanzaro DDA
anti-mafia investigative directorate against the 59 people, 50
of whom were detained in prison and the remaining nine placed
under house arrest.
The suspects are accused to varying degrees of 'Ndrangheta-type
association, criminal association aimed at drug trafficking,
also aggravated by mafia methods and purposes, as well as
numerous crimes, also aggravated by mafia methods and purposes.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest mafia thanks to its virtual
control of the European cocaine trade, and also its most
powerful and dangerous having eclipsed Sicily's Cosa Nostra.
It has spread from southern Italy to the rest of the country and
much of the world.
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