Police detain 130 in raids across Europe targeting ‘Ndrangheta mafia

Raids form part of three-year investigation into crime syndicate controlling cocaine flow into Europe

Police have arrested more than 130 people in coordinated raids in half a dozen European countries as part of a crackdown targeting the Italian ‘ ’Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, prosecutors and police have said.

The suspects are mostly accused of money-laundering, criminal tax evasion, fraud, drug possession, production and smuggling, mafia-type criminal association and the possession and trafficking of weapons, authorities in Germany said on Wednesday.