Mafia News

MONTREAL – Five alleged leaders of the Montreal Mafia who have been in jail since November 2006 are opting to go directly to trial.

Nicolo Rizzuto, Paolo Renda, Rocco Sollecito, Francesco Arcadi and Lorenzo Giordano have chosen to skip their preliminary hearing. Continue Reading »

Clare Longrigg reviews Gomorrah: Italy’s Other Mafia by Roberto Saviano

On 26 May 2002, a long-running feud between two crime families on the outskirts of Naples erupted in a shoot-out between two cars. In one were five women from the Cava clan, including the wife and teenage daughters of the recently arrested boss. Since his arrest, the women had started carrying guns and doing target practise. Continue Reading »

Palermo - Thirty-nine leaders and members of the mafia organization under Salvatore Lo Piccolo were arrested over the night in a police operation in Palermo. Continue Reading »

Hauling trash and organized crime.

The Italian government called in the army on Tuesday to clean up the mounting piles of waste in the city of Naples. Residents blame the authorities for not doing more to stop the Camorra, the region’s Mafia group, which controls garbage collection and has caused the city’s constant waste problem for more than a decade. Organized crime appears to have a hand in trash collection all over the world, from Naples to Tony Soprano’s northern New Jersey. Why are gangsters always hauling garbage? Continue Reading »

The head of the Sicilian Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, has been put under tighter security amid suspicion that he is directing the mob from his cell. Continue Reading »

“We have to be prepared for the possibility [of Russian mafia involvement] but we have no proof.” Interview: Larry Scott WTA Tour chief

Organised crime - including the Russian mafia - could be involved in fixing matches, the head of women’s tennis has told BBC Sport. Continue Reading »

Vincent Angelo Meli, a reputed member of the Detroit Mafia, was remembered by his son Wednesday as a “great family man” and loving father.

Vincent Meli died of bone cancer Monday at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren. He was 87. Continue Reading »

A Sicilian court has ordered mafia boss of bosses Salvatore Riina and another mafioso to pay 3.3 million euros ($A5.54 million) to the family of a top anti-Mafia judge killed in a car bomb attack, the family lawyer said on Saturday. Continue Reading »

Police anti-corruption head makes charges

Organized crime influenced Defense Ministry contracts, Mladá Fronta Dnes reported, quoting Roman Skřepek, head of the anti-corruption and financial crime unit of the Czech Police. Continue Reading »

NAPLES — The Naples region was grappling Thursday with a chronic rubbish disposal problem, with at least 2,000 tonnes of excess garbage piled up outside dumps and in the streets. Continue Reading »