PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police arrested 94 people in pre-dawn raids on Wednesday as part of an investigation into an alleged Mafia scam that defrauded European Union agriculture funds of millions of euros.
Prosecutors said they believed the fraud was orchestrated by two Mafia clans in eastern Sicily who obtained at least 5.5 million euros (£4.7 million) in EU farm subsidies for land they did not own between 2010 and 2017.
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