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Top mafia boss arrested in southern Italy: report

Police in southern Italy late Monday arrested a top mafia boss who was among the country's 30 most dangerous fugitives, the ANSA news agency reported.

Police in southern Italy late Monday arrested a top mafia boss who was among the country's 30 most dangerous fugitives, the ANSA news agency reported.

Giovanni Tegano, 70, who had been on the run for 17 years, has been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder, arms trafficking and mafia association.

He had been the subject of an international arrest warrant since 1995 and was considered a "high-value" 'Ndrangheta boss, associated with gangland warfare that claimed scores of lives in the late 1980s.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni hailed the arrest, saying it was the "hardest blow that could be dealt today to the 'Ndrangheta, being the number one wanted from Calabria."

The 'Ndrangheta is considered the most powerful and ruthless of the four organised crime syndicates operating in Italy.

Italy's Eurispes social studies institute estimated 'Ndrangheta's turnover from trafficking in drugs and arms, prostitution and extortion in 2007 at 44 billion euros (65 billion dollars), the equivalent of 2.9 percent of Italy's gross domestic product (GDP).

Source: AFP
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