One of Italy's most dangerous mafia bosses arrested

 Italian police on Wednesday arrested one of the country's most wanted mafia bosses in an early-morning raid in Naples.

Giuseppe Dell'Aquila, 49, had been on the lam for nine years and was on the Italian Interior Ministry's list of 30 most dangerous fugitives when he was arrested in the town of Varcatura. He was wanted on suspicion of extortion, robbery and money laundering.

Investigators said he was the head of the Mallardo-Contini Camorra crime family who came to power after winning a bloody war among crime clans in the area in and around Naples.

The Mallardo-Contini clan has extensive investments in the central Italian Lazio region including city of Rome, where it would make profits from illegal activities in real estate, police said.

The Camorra is one of Italy's most powerful mafia syndicates based in the Campania region where Naples is the biggest city.

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