Italy: Dozens Arrested in Huge Mafia Sweep

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October 24, 2012

Dozens were arrested and over €230 million seized in three nationwide anti-mafia sweeps throughout Italy on Tuesday. (AAP)

The sweep came the day afterItalian police impounded a four-story villa in southern Italy worth an estimated three million euros from the elderly widow of late Calabrian mafia boss Antonino Gallico.

The hoome was seized on the orders of an anti-mafia magistrate in the provincial capital, Reggio Calabria, following a detailed probe of local clans belonging to the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta, now considered the world's most powerful crime syndicate. (ADNKronos)