Mafia News

Rome — An Italian media rights watchdog, Information Safety and Freedom, has launched an appeal for greater protection for journalists reporting on the Mafia in Italy.

“We launch an appeal to international associations for the freedom of the press because we want to keep watch over the safety of our colleagues in Italy who operate in the areas controlled by the Mafia,” said Stefano Marcelli, the president of ISF on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

Caserta — Italian police arrested 53 alleged members of the Mafia organisation, known as the Camorra, in the southern Campania region on Monday. Continue Reading »

Italy marked the 16th anniversary of the murder of anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone Friday by announcing stronger powers for prosecutors and new measures to confiscate mafia assets. Continue Reading »

ROME — Italian police said today they had arrested the head of a clan of the ‘Ndrangheta, or Calabrian mafia, which is suspected of being behind the execution-style killing of six Italians in Germany last year.

Giuseppe Nirta, one of Italy’s most-wanted mafia fugitives, is suspected of being the “boss” of the Nirta-Strangio clan which is at the centre of a long-running feud that police believe led to last August’s killings in Duisburg. Continue Reading »

ROME — The increasingly aggressive Calabrian mob syndicate did almost $69 billion in criminal business in 2007, most of it in cocaine trafficking, while also getting its grip on illegal immigration, prosecutors and researchers said Wednesday. Continue Reading »

While the two former scotland yard detectives who led the review of tennis have suggested that there could be “organised criminal gangs” at work looking to corrupt professional players, they said that there was no evidence of a link with the Russian or Italian Mafia. Continue Reading »