Sunday, November 09, 2008

Liposuction sting nails Italian 'mobster'

A suspected Italian mobster who went into a clinic for liposuction surgery has ended up losing more than his excess weight.

Domenico Magnoli, a suspected cocaine trafficker, also lost his freedom.

Soon after he regained consciousness, police officers disguised as nurses and visitors bearing flowers arrested him in his hospital room.

"We performed a little operation of our own," police spokesman Col Aldo Jacobello said.

"Our carabinieri were all in plainclothes, with a couple of them disguised as nurses and others as visitors bringing chocolates and a bouquet of flowers," Col Jacobello said.

Italian police say the 27-year-old French-born man is linked to the Ndrangheta, the powerful Calabrian crime syndicate which operates drug-trafficking rings between South America and western Europe.

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