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(AGI) - Palermo - Eight persons have been arrested overnight in a police anti-mafia operation carried out in Palermo. Continue Reading »

(The Associated Press) HAVANA: The man who was the gangster Meyer Lansky’s driver and bodyguard during the Mafia’s heyday before the Cuban Revolution died here in February, but only a few people noticed. His passing was a curious footnote in a Communist country whose brief history as a gambling magnet for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten. Continue Reading »

(AFP) ROME - Notorious Sicilian Mafia bosses Bernardo Provenzano and Toto Riina have gone back on trial from their prison cells for four gangland murders in 1969, the ANSA news agency reported. Continue Reading »

Crimes, weapon trafficking, corruption, drug and human trafficking still exist in Bulgaria after its NATO accession in 2004 and European Union accession in 2007.

Romania’s Evenimentul Zilei commented on the situation in Romania and Bulgaria after their EU accession. Continue Reading »

THE Manchester wife of a Mafia boss jailed in Italy for murder, drugs trafficking and extortion has said she ‘loves him to death’.

Ann Hathaway (pictured), 44, from Middleton, said it was ‘love at first sight’ when she met Antonio ‘Uncle Tony’ Rinzivillo while working as a dancer in 1979. They have two daughters but he was jailed for 30 years in 2001. Continue Reading »

CBC News - Vito Rizzuto, considered the godfather of the Mafia in Montreal, was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in the murders of three alleged gang leaders.

Rizzuto, the man the RCMP call the “godfather” of Montreal, was arrested in Montreal three years ago and extradited to the U.S. last August. Continue Reading »

By Adrian Humphreys, National Post - New York • Close friends of Vito Rizzuto, the Montreal Mafia boss to be sentenced today for a gangland massacre 26 years ago, discussed the prospect of murdering the New York informant who was set to testify against him.

Two men who police say are well-placed members of the Rizzuto criminal organization - one based in Montreal and the other in Rome - spoke on the telephone many times over several months about the arrest of Rizzuto at his Montreal mansion in 2004, according to transcripts of calls secretly monitored by police. Continue Reading »

Nigel Jones reviews The Mafia at War by Tim Newark - The two things that almost everyone once knew about Italy’s Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, were that he made Italian trains run on time, and that he, uniquely among Italian rulers, successfully, if temporarily, crushed the Sicilian Mafia. Never forgetting a slight, the Mob, so the legend goes, ate their revenge cold years later when they handed over their Sicilian heartland without a shot being fired, lock, stock, and non-smoking barrel to the invading Allies.

Not having investigated Italian railway timetables between 1922-43 I cannot report on the veracity of the first claim, but Tim Newark has exhaustively examined the second, and establishes beyond doubt that any notion that it was the Mob that won Sicily for the Allies is a myth. Continue Reading »

A man wanted in Italy on suspicion of four murders connected to the Naples mafia has been arrested in the UK.

Police traced Gennaro Panzuto, 32, to a flat in Preston, Lancashire, after a search which lasted more than a year. Continue Reading »

PRESTON, England, May 18 (UPI) — British authorities arrested a man they allege is a Mafia boss who traveled to England to avoid a clash between rival mob families in Italy.

The Telegraph reported Friday Italian detectives tracked Gennaro Panzuto to a home outside the Preston and surprised the alleged mobster and his neighbors earlier this week. Continue Reading »