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The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Alleged mafia members among 91 jailed in Italy over EU subsidies fraud

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Farmland around Corleone in Sicily
Farmland around Corleone in Sicily. The defendants were given sentences of up to 30 years on charges including extortion and mafia association. Photograph: Jordi De Rueda Roige/Alamy

Judges in Italy have handed down prison sentences to 91 people, including alleged mafia members, after a large-scale EU agricultural subsidies fraud.

According to magistrates in the Sicilian city of Messina, mobsters fraudulently received more than €5m (£4.3m) in subsidies between 2010 and 2017, including funds for thousands of hectares of “ghost” farmland in the east of the island that was either nonexistent, stolen from farmers or owned by the Italian state or regional government.

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