Hundreds of alleged members of Italy's most powerful organised crime group Ndrangheta, and their white-collar collaborators would be sentenced this week after a historic trial.

Italy: Hundreds of mobsters to be sentenced following historic trial

German and Italian police on Wednesday arrested more than 100 members of the Italian ’Ndrangheta' organised crime syndicate as part of a "wide-scale" operation. In Germany, more than 1,000 officers searched dozens of homes, offices and stores across Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia.

Germany, Italy clamp down on notorious mafia group 'Ndrangheta'

Police have arrested 334 people in one of the largest anti-mob operations ever seen in Italy, highlighting the growing reach of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, prosecutors said on Thursday.

More than 300 people arrested in huge Italian mob swoop