PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
The operation was being carried out by police in Italy -- mostly in Sicily -- and the FBI in the United States -- mostly in the New York area.
The Italian Interior Ministry said it would hold a news conference about a "large operation against organised crime" on Thursday afternoon, without giving details.
Vincenzo Licciardi, 42, purportedly a boss of the Camorra crime group, was arrested in a Naples suburb. He had been on the run since 2004 and was one of Italy's 30 most wanted criminals, police said.
The Camorra is thought to be much less unified in structure that the Sicilian Mafia, made up of rival clans that often clash violently in turf wars.
