ROME, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Italian police said on Thursday they had broken up an international criminal organisation that had swindled ‍some 30 million euros ($35.2 million) from victims including the cultural body that manages Florence’s artistic monuments.

Prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia issued warrants for the arrest of 10 people including ‌Italian, Nigerian, Albanian and Chinese ‌nationals accused of money laundering and issuing false invoices.

They launched the investigation after the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, a non-profit organisation that manages Florence cathedral and other city landmarks, reported that it had been the victim ‍of an email scam.

Intercepting email correspondence, criminals posed as the company that carried out restoration and conservation work ‍fo

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