Police in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria raided 46 residential and commercial buildings

10/20/2021- 11:05 p.m.

Police in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria raided 46 residential and commercial buildings on Wednesday as part of a European probe into the Italian mafia, German police said.

They said they would release more information after the raids had been completed.

The synchronised raids were the result of a European investigation into a group, some of whom belong to the “Ndrangheta”, the most powerful mafia group in Italy. They are accused of forming a criminal organisation and of tax evasion worth millions of euros.

Police in Bavaria said in a statement that police and tax investigators in Augsburg had been investigating the case for more than a year, under the leadership of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.“