Lorenzo Tondo at the
Guardian offers a piece on the arrest of Cosa Nostra members in Sicily.
Police in Sicily have
arrested 94 people, including alleged mafia members, in dawn raids, following
large-scale EU agricultural subsidies fraud.
The raids have been described as one of the largest
operations focused on the Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra.
Prosecutors claimed Sicilian mobsters had fraudulently
received more than €10m in agricultural aid since 2010, including funds for
thousands of hectares of “ghost” farmland in the east of the island – land that
was either non-existent or owned by the Italian state or regional government.
Two Mafia clans, the Batanesi and Bontempo Scavo
families, are believed to be at the centre of the alleged fraud, according to
investigators. The two had been in conflict with each other for years but
recently decided to end their turf wars and instead team up in their illicit
activities.
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