More than 200 Ndrangheta mobsters - considered one of the most powerful organised crime groups in the world - were convicted and sentenced last November.
Italian police bugged the 2021 wedding of Gioacchino Amico (top left) at Villa Di Lorenzo near Palermo, where guests included mafioso Antonio The Lawyer Messina (bottom right).
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Italy s largest mafia trial in decades is under way in Lamezia Terme, Calabria
More than 350 members of the Ndrangheta criminal network and their alleged associates are defendants in the case
Italy s anti-mafia police arrested politicians, white-collar workers and first-level bosses in early-morning raids today on the Ndrangheta crime family.
The pre-dawn blitz dubbed Low Profile by Italy s anti-mafia squad - the Direzione Investigativa AntiMafia (DIA) - targeted mobsters and individuals accused of aiding the crime syndicate s illegal activities in the city of Catanzaro, Calabria.
During the operation, 13 people were jailed and 35 were placed under house arrest, local media reported.
Among the arrests were mafiosi holding the position of capo (captain) in the organisation, politicians, prominent entrepreneurs, and suspects in public administration roles.
The arrests come as 355 members of the Ndrangheta crime family stand as defendants in a Maxi trial in the southern town of Lamezia Terme.
Hundreds of suspected members of Italy s most powerful mafia group will face a judge this week, with a dedicated converted courtroom being used for the country s biggest trial of the last three decades.