Italian and Swiss police have arrested 75 suspects in a vast operation against the 'Ndrangheta, the southern Italian mafia, seizing 169 million euros in goods.
Swiss authorities have arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to the powerful Italian 'Ndrangheta crime organisation
and are holding them pending extradition, the government said on Tuesday.
Justice officials in Bern are denying reports from Italian police that 16 alleged members of the Mafia were arrested in the town of Thurgau, a Swiss town, saying that investigations are still ongoing.
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swiss prosecutors on Friday said that they had uncovered a </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">mafia organisation that has been</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> involved in drug and arms trafficking as well as money laundering dating as far back as 1994.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Italian Mafia is becoming more and more active in Switzerland, according to an annual police report published Thursday. The country is mainly being used for money-laundering operations, the report says.</span></p>
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