May 21 2008
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 »
May 19 2008
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 »
May 16 2008
Three armed men, believed to be Albanians, burst into a cafe in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas late on Wednesday night and shot dead three customers in what police believe was a settling of accounts between rival protection gangs in the area. Continue Reading »
May 15 2008
With only days to go until a nail-biting end to this year’s Serie A, Inter Milan found itself caught up in a Mafia scandal.
Inter is leading the league by one point over Roma going into the last game, but the club has had a clamorous end to the season after a series of faltering performances and dressing room clashes.
Yesterday, the club’s tailor, Domenico Brescia, 55, was revealed to be a convicted murderer who is close to the Crisafulli Mafia clan. Continue Reading »
May 09 2008
The investigation into the Mafia shootings of six Italian men in Duisburg nine months ago netted eight arrests in Italy on Friday, according to reports in Italian media. Continue Reading »
May 08 2008
Police on Thursday detained two convicted Mafia members in the Sicilian city of Palermo who had been on the run for several months.
Convicted Mafia members Gaetano Nostro, 39, and Raimondo Messina, 36, went to ground several months after they were released from detention on a technicality. Continue Reading »
May 08 2008
Cheeseman seeks a larger bathroom
Reputed New England Mafia underboss Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio. Photo by Stuart Cahill
Boston’s once legendary La Cosa Nostra - which for years struck fear in Hub hearts as its hit men painted the town red with blood - sank to a sorry new low yesterday with the Mob’s 400-pound reputed underboss’ pathetic plea for a jail cell with a super-sized toilet.
That bizarre request came to light yesterday amid a hearing in federal court on alleged New England Mafia underboss Carmen “The Cheeseman” DiNunzio. Continue Reading »
May 07 2008
Heavily guarded Roberto Saviano is known as the Salman Rushdie of Italy
Heavily guarded Italian mob author Roberto Saviano, 28, poses for a photograph at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in Toronto. Nathan Denette/National Post
TORONTO -Roberto Saviano, the embattled Italian author of a sensational expose of the calamitous world of the Camorra, the Mafia of Naples, stares with darkly brooding eyes but flashes a mischievous smile when asked what Canada means to the mobsters in his neighbourhood. Continue Reading »
May 05 2008
BEIJING — Chinese police have cracked 874 mafia-style crimes and removed 9,662 criminal gangs since a campaign aimed at eradicating the country’s serious gang crimes launched in 2006, according to government figures released here on Monday. Continue Reading »
May 05 2008
Avellino — Italian paramilitary police on Monday arrested 20 people as part of a major probe of Mafia activity in the province of Avellino in the southern Campania region. Continue Reading »
