ROME (Reuters) - Italian police have arrested the leader of the powerful Calabrian mafia, Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said on Monday.
Pasquale Condello, 57, was captured in a house in ReggioCalabria in the southern tip of mainland Italy, police said.There were no further details of his capture.
Amato said in a statement that Condello was "the number oneboss of the 'Ndrangheta", the name of the Calabrian mafiawhich, largely through drug trafficking, has become far morepowerful than the more famous Sicilian mob.
Police called Condello "the Provenzano of Calabria", Amatosaid, a reference to Bernado Provenzano, the Sicilian "boss ofbosses" who was arrested in April 2006.
(Reporting by Gavin Jones; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
