2021-04-08 14:06:36 GMT2021-04-08 22:06:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ROME, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Some 70 people were arrested in a major anti-mafia operation in Italy on Thursday, and economic assets and estates worth around 1 billion euros (1.19 billion U.S. dollars) were seized, local media reported. The operation was run by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecution office in coordination with the anti-mafia district directorates of Rome, Naples, Reggio Calabria, and Catanzaro, according to Italy's main business daily Il Sole 24 Ore. All of the people involved were variously charged with mafia association, money laundering and tax fraud in relation to oil products trade, the newspaper reported citing police.