Mafia News

ROME — Police in Sicily on Wednesday arrested the chief executive of a subsidiary of Italcementi SpA, Italy’s biggest cement maker, on suspicion of Mafia collusion, authorities said. Continue Reading »

One of the world’s most feared mafia bosses accused of arms dealing, drug running, uranium trafficking and multiple murders has been captured by around 50 police commandos in Moscow. Continue Reading »

A Russian businessman wanted by FBI and Interpol has been arrested in Moscow, offcials said Friday.

The Russian Interior Ministry’s anti-organized crime unit’s spokesman said that Semyon Mogilevich was detained late Wednesday, the AP reported. Continue Reading »

Palermo, - A little less of two centuries of prison have been requested by prosecutors Domenico Gozzo, Annamaria Picozzi and Gaetano Paci in the ‘San Lorenzo 5′ trial taking place at the fourth section of the Palermo court headed by Annamaria Fazio. Continue Reading »

Palermo - Gaspare Pulizzi, one of the chief henchmen of Mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, arrested on 5 November 2007 in Giardinello (Paleromo) along with the chief henchman of Tommaso Natale and his son, has started to cooperated with the anti-mafia investigators. Continue Reading »

Mafia bosses do not come much more brutal than Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano. Among the crimes, for which the brothers have been serving life sentences since 1994 are involvement in the murder of two anti-Mafia judges, the killing of an anti-Mafia priest, the bombing of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and another in Rome that killed 10 people and injured 93. Continue Reading »

Rome - A Palermo judge handed out sentences worth a total of over 400 years on Monday to 38 Sicilian Mafia figures linked to jailed Corleone boss Bernardo Provenanzo, the news agency ANSA reported. Continue Reading »

Refusal to fork over protection money is undermining mob

Palermo, Sicily — When it came down to business, Cosa Nostra could always count on fear.

No more.

In a rebellion shaking the Sicilian Mafia to its centuries-old roots, businesses are joining forces in refusing to submit to demands for protection money called “pizzo.” Continue Reading »

Salvatore “Totò” Cuffaro has been found guilty of having dealings with the Mafia

The state president of Sicily has been found guilty of having dealings with the Mafia and sentenced to five years of solitary confinement.

Salvatore “Totò” Cuffaro, 50, passed state secrets to Giuseppe Guttadauro, a Mafia godfather, while in office. A court in Palermo heard that Cuffaro told Guttadauro there were hidden microphones in his house. Continue Reading »

Nikolay Davydenko has again defended himself against suggestions he threw a tennis match last year, and rubbished talk that he had links with the Russian mafia. Continue Reading »