ROME: Italian police on Monday arrested more than 90 mafia suspects on charges of extortion and association in criminal networks in Palermo, the capital city of southern Sicily Island, local media said.

Prosecutors reportedly dismantled part of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, better known as the Sicilian mafia, which they found to have penetrated part of Palermo's legal economy through a suffocating extortive network.

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