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Italian police close in on ‘toxic’ shipwreck

By Guy Dinmore and Eleonora de Sabata in Rome and in Reggio Calabria

Published: October 20 2009 22:05 | Last updated: October 20 2009 22:05

A mission was launched on Tuesday off the Italian coast to investigate what anti-Mafia investigators have long suspected was a conspiracy between organised crime, industrialists and government agencies to dump nuclear and other toxic waste in the Mediterranean and off Africa.

An Italian marine survey ship under police protection started tests 12 miles off Calabria’s coast on the wreck of a cargo ship 500 metres below.

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