Italy-US anti-Mafia raids, arrests by police and FBI

Yesterday - 16.22 mafia operation on both sides of the ocean, with 20 detention measures implemented in Italy, seven in the United States, in cooperation with the FBI, has even led to the capture of leading figures considered in the panorama of Italian-American organized crime. Continue reading this news These are the results of a blitz of international news which gave the same forces. Among the arrested Roberto Settineri, 41, a businessman from 88 wine business between New York and Miami, which investigators believe is the "ambassador" of the Sicilian clans, and families of St. Mary of Jesus in particular, in America. The operation, called "Paesana Blues", performed with the cooperation between the police (Sco Service, Central Operations and the flying squad of Palermo) and FBI, was coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Palermo, which issued 20 detention orders against many people, investigated, for various reasons, of mafia association, money laundering, extortion, attempted murder, drug trafficking. about two years of investigation, say the investigators, have served to dismantle particular families of St. Mary of Jesus (Palermo), who had several contacts overseas. The investigation, which concluded a series of investigations that have seriously damaged "Cosa Nostra" (arrest of Bernardo Provenzano, Salvatore and Sandro Lo Piccolo, Domenico Raccuglia, John Grotto, and the operation "ghoti"), have allowed us to "deconstruct" a Mafia family in Palermo, hitting their projections, international. Settineri, explained to investigators, accused of being in contact with the Gambino family in New York, and was followed by the FBI while accompanying some suspected mobsters in Palermo on a business trip in the U.S.. The detention orders were signed by the Directorate District Anti-Mafia prosecutors in Palermo and Roberta Francesca Mazzocco Buzzolani and deputy prosecutor Ignazio De Francisci. - On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia