Anti-'Ndrangheta operation in the province of Crotone and other Italian regions, police arrested 17 members of the Arena-Nicoscia clan based in the town of Isola Capo Rizzuto. The arrested are charged with mafia-type association, extortion, loansharking and weapons trafficking.
The linchpin of these activities and a prominent figure would be a 44-year-old Calabrian entrepreneur, resident for years in Egna (defended by the lawyer Nicola Nettis of Bolzano), believed to be at the center of a massive tax crime ring. The glue with the Calabrian gang.
In the blitz of the Carabinieri, assets worth 50 million were seized from 23 people and companies connected to them in Bolzano, Bologna, Crotone, Milan, Rome, Foggia, Salerno, L'Aquila and Switzerland.
