ROME (Reuters) - A mafia clan in southern Italy staged hundreds of fake car crashes every year to get millions of euros in insurance payouts to buy drugs and weapons, police said on Friday.
The insurance fraud was just one of the charges against 70 people sought for arrest in dawn raids by police on Friday in the Calabrian city of Lamezia Terme, near the "toe" of Italy.
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