Dec
07
2007
LONDON — US tennis legend John McEnroe expressed his concern on Friday that organised crime, such as the Russian mafia, could be infiltrating tennis.
The former world number one believes that threats to tennis players or their families could be forcing them into throwing matches.
“The thing that worries me is that mafia types, like the Russian mafia, could be involved. That’s potentially pretty dark and scary,” McEnroe told The Daily Telegraph. Continue Reading »
Dec
04
2007
PALERMO - Italian police arrested 38 Mafia suspects in Sicily and hunted for nine others on Tuesday, the latest in a series of roundups that the government said were crippling the organised crime group. Continue Reading »
Dec
04
2007
AUTHOR Joe Pieri’s latest book ‘The Octopus’ puts the spotlight on the Mafia and charts the rise of the rise of the organisation from its days as a way for Sicilian communities to help each other to its reincarnation as an infamous society of organised criminals. Continue Reading »
Dec
04
2007
ROME - A suspected Mafia boss and scores of alleged mobsters were arrested during raids Tuesday in eastern Sicily, police said.
Police detained 46 people _ including alleged mob boss Vincenzo Santapaola _ in Catania, the largest city in eastern Sicily, said Capt. Vincenzo Letizia of the local Carabinieri police force. Continue Reading »
Dec
04
2007
TWO sons of a jailed Calabrian mafia boss have been killed in southern Italy in what appeared to be a vendetta attack targeting their father, police said overnight. Continue Reading »
Dec
03
2007
ROME - A man considered one of Italy’s 30 most dangerous Mafia fugitives was killed Monday in Sicily while trying to escape police, authorities said.
Daniele Emmanuello, 43, was found in a ravine where he apparently fell after trying to flee a shootout with authorities, police said. It was not clear whether he had been shot before falling. Continue Reading »
