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2K Games has launched the official site for Illusion Softwork’s highly-anticipated sequel to the critically-acclaimed 3rd-person action game, Mafia.

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Driving a getaway car following a bank heist is considered a violent crime under U.S. law, but not to the degree of a Mafia hit man hacking up and disposing of a body, a federal judge told a government prosecutor Monday. Continue Reading »

The refined Italian restaurant setting of elegant wooden tables decked with white tablecloths jarred with the meeting’s gruesome purpose – to condemn mafia killings in Germany. Continue Reading »

Blood feuds and settling of scores is not unusual among the mafia

In July 2007, Italian police arrested notorious mafia boss Giuseppe Bellocco in Calabria, southern Italy

DW-WORLD:DE: An expert on organized crime warned that Germany has to be alert about an expansion of mob activity within its borders after officials linked the killing of six Italians in Duisburg to the Calabrian mafia, ‘Ndrangheta.

Federico Varese is a professor of criminology and Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University. Previously, he taught at Williams College and Yale University. His main areas of research are organized crime, corruption, Soviet criminal history, and the dynamics of altruistic behaviour. His book, “The Russian Mafia” won the Ed Hewitt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Continue Reading »

The head of Italy’s anti-Mafia task force has said that the criminal gang behind the deaths of six men in Germany is now the most powerful crime syndicate in Europe.

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The ‘Ndrangheta, or Calabrian Mafia, is blamed for Wednesday’s murder of six Italians in Duisburg.

Pietro Grasso, Italy’s anti-Mafia commissioner, said the killings demonstrated that it was now operating globally. Other experts warned that the ‘Ndrangheta was also active in Britain, where it controlled the flow of Colombian cocaine. Continue Reading »

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American sport was rocked yesterday when a leading basketball referee pleaded guilty to passing betting tips to professional gamblers, after an FBI operation linked to the Gambino Mafia family.

Tim Donaghy also admitted placing bets on games over which he officiated, in what the head of the National Basketball Association (NBA) described as the “worst situation” he had ever experienced for the sport. Continue Reading »

(Adriana Sapone/AP) Police seized 5million worth of weapons, including 7,500 Kalashnikov assault rifles, from a ship in Gioia Tauro harbour in 2004. Eighty per cent of cocaine in Europe passes through the Calabrian port

The murders of six Italian men in Duisburg, Germany, are believed to be linked to a clan feud within the ‘Ndrangheta branch of the Mafia based in Calabria

The ’Ndrangheta from Calabria has long spread its tentacles beyond Italy, but it has always kept a low profile. The violence at Duisburg is a rare and disturbing instance of its bloody feuds breaking out on foreign soil. Continue Reading »

LOS ANGELES - Steven Seagal, whose action movies once were major box-office attractions, believes false allegations by FBI agents ruined his career, the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

The comments in the Times are the first Seagal has made publicly about an investigation begun some five years ago by the FBI into accusations he intimidated a reporter and had ties to organized crime. Continue Reading »

In this handout composite picture provided by the German Police, one of the possible killers in the recent murder of six Italians is seen. Police suspect Calabrian Mafia connections in the murders that took place at an Italian restaurant in Duisburg on August 15, 2007.

German police have issued a computer sketch of a man thought to be linked to the gangland-style killing of six Italian men in Duisburg this week, attributed to a mafia clan feud.

Police found the victims with gunshot wounds to the head outside an Italian restaurant near the northwestern city’s central train station in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Continue Reading »

Escalating rivalry blamed for six killings in Germany amid fears of all-out bloodbath

Carabinieri man a roadblock in the southern Italian town of San Luca on Wednesday after six people were killed in Duisberg. Photograph: Francesco Saya/AP

The cemetery of San Luca is made up of row after row of little, house-like structures in which the tombs of the dead are stacked one on the next amid sprays of plastic flowers, statues of the Virgin, electric votive candles and portraits of themselves when alive.

Maria Strangio’s tomb bears the photograph of a young woman with lush, dark hair wearing pendant earrings. It also has an inscription: “Your beautiful youth was shattered when everyone was smiling at you. Death carried you far away. It separated you from your loved ones who every hour repeat your name in the silent, empty house where everyone remembers you.” Continue Reading »