ROME, June 27 (UPI) -- Italian police say they arrested 17 suspected members of two of Italy's three main Mafia branches -- Calabria's 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra in Naples.
Police arrested 12 suspected 'Ndrangheta members in the northwestern Italian region of Liguria, ANSA reported Monday.
Five people detained north of Naples are believed to be Camorra members and close to imprisoned Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, superboss of the notorious Casalesi clan.
Schiavone was featured in Roberto Saviano's literary expose on the mob, which was later turned into a movie. He has been in prison since 1998.
During the investigation, officials searched the offices of an attorney in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, Alessio Saso, who is under investigation on suspicion of vote-buying, ANSA said.
Sicily's Cosa Nostra is Italy's third Mafia organization.
