Mar 17 2007
FRANKFURT — A Serbian businessman with ties to the criminal underworld has been arrested in Frankfurt, after spending four years on the run.
Italy’s Ansa news agency reported Thursday Andrija Drašković, considered an heir to Željko Ražnatović a.k.a. Arkan by the Italian judiciary, was arrested on an oustanding international warrant issued by the Bari anti-mafia department. Continue Reading »
Mar 16 2007
AMSTERDAM - The Netherlands may hand mafia boss Francesco S. over to Italy, the court in The Hague decided this morning. S.’s Dutch attorney Inez Weski tried to prevent the extradition in interim proceedings in The Hague. Continue Reading »
Mar 09 2007
An Italian fugitive sentenced to 25 years in prison for a Mafia-related killing was arrested Thursday in southern Romania, police said.
The suspect, Antonio Constantin, is suspected of being a senior member of the Sacra Corona Unita, a criminal group operating in southern Italy, said Paolo Sartori, a police liaison with the Italian embassy in Bucharest. Continue Reading »
Mar 08 2007
Bernardo Provenzano, the former boss-of-all-the-bosses of the Sicilian Mafia, used to send his murderous instructions via public transport, it emerged yesterday.
Mr Provenzano, 74, was captured in his hideout near the town of Corleone last April. At the site, the police discovered hundreds of pizzini, or typed instruction letters, from the Godfather to his fellow Mafia dons. Continue Reading »
Mar 07 2007
Italian police arrested 21 people in Sicily in an anti-Mafia operation Tuesday, local media reported. Continue Reading »
Mar 06 2007
An alleged Mafia underboss was running a sport bookmaking syndicate through which almost $500 million flowed in a period of only 11 months.
Police say Francesco del Balso, 36, ran 25 bookmaking operations in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto that del Balso himself boasted did more than $1 billion in business. Continue Reading »
Mar 06 2007
If you can’t settle a vendetta with blood, try real estate.
Burton Kaplan, a Mafia informant in the “mob cops” case, was getting back at his one-time ally, Luchese underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso, when he sued to evict the capo’s son from his Brooklyn home last year, court papers reveal. Continue Reading »
Mar 05 2007
For decades, gritty stories about the Mafia have occupied the pages of popular literature and dominated the big screens of Hollywood. And yet, few people know the real story behind how and when this formidable system of organized crime actually began. Continue Reading »
Mar 04 2007
A former mobster has written a tell-all book, for the first time ever exposing the inner workings of an Israeli gang that took over the New York drug trade for a brief period in the eighties.
Ron Gonen, who has spent the past 18 years in the US Witness Protection Program, has teamed up with author Dave Copeland to offer an insider’s glance into a parallel universe of crime, murder and deceit. Continue Reading »
