Police nab dozens of suspected mobsters in global operation | Al Jazeera English

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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2018 · News & Politics

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Police in Europe and South America have arrested at least 84 suspected mobsters in a massive international crackdown targeting a powerful branch of Italy's notorious mafia, officials said.

Hundreds of officers took part in the coordinated operation on Wednesday in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Suriname, against the 'Ndrangheta clan, one of Italy's three main organised crime groups. 

Those arrested are suspected of drug trafficking, money laundering, bribery and violence, said Italian police and Eurojust, the European prosecution agency that tackles cross-border organised crime


Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba reports. 

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