ROME, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were arrested Friday in Italy during an anti-mafia operation across Sicily's regional capital Palermo, local media reported.
Coordinated by prosecutors of the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate (DDA), the operation targeted a Sicilian clan dominating over a major neighborhood of Palermo's historical center.
All of those arrested were variously charged with mafia association, attempted murder, extortion, robbery, illegal possession of weapons, and fictitious ownership of assets.
A ledger showing the accounts of the clan's illegal activities, and names of their victims, was seized during the raids, along with an unspecified number of commercial assets.
Prosecutors were able to uncover the core of their illegal activities thanks to wiretaps, and the depositions of two mobster-turned informants.
Friday's operation was part of a six-year-long wider probe, which had already brought other members of the same mafia family in prison for mafia-related crimes and extortion.
