Top mafia figure arrested

Published July 28, 2008

ROME, July 27: A leading Mafia figure from Naples has been arrested near Rome, ANSA news agency reported on Sunday.

Adriano Graziano, nicknamed ‘The Teacher,’ was picked up as he left a designer clothes store in Valmontone on Saturday along with an unnamed business associate, also detained.

The 41-year-old is associated with a Camorra clan targeted by organised crime detectives, with 23 arrests in May.—AFP