(ANSA) - ROME, APR 16 - Police in Sicily on Tuesday arrested
11 people allegedly close to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina
Denaro in relation to a probe into money laundering.
The suspects, six of who were taken to jail, with the others
being put under house arrest, allegedly laundered huge amounts
of money for Palermo's mafia clans with the help compliant
entrepreneurs and financial experts.
The investigation was conduct by the Palermo DDA anti-mafia
department and Carabinieri police in the province of Trapani.
The suspects are also thought to have formed a clans of
Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia. (ANSA).
Messina Denaro loyalists arrested for money laundering (2)
Suspects allegedly laundered huge quantities of Mafia's cash
