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Alleged Italian Mobster Arrested 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2001-01-10

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An alleged Mafia kingpin suspected of running a vast cigarette smuggling network in the Balkans was arrested Wednesday.

Albino Prudentino, 50, was taken into custody after a police raid on a house in the seaside resort of Aghios Vasilios, near the southern port city of Patra.

Police said Prudentino was the head of the " Sacra Corona Unita" organization, which had an annual turnover of $818 million from cigarette smuggling.

" He is considered one of the largest cigarette smugglers in Greece and Italy, " Athens Security Police Chief Giorgos Aggelakos said.

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