Jul 16 2008
This story is the third in a series focusing on the FBI as the agency hits the 100-year mark.
WASHINGTON — The Teflon Don is dead and gone. The Mustache Petes of the Mafia’s old guard are mostly behind bars. And the crime rackets have gone global. Continue Reading »
Jul 15 2008
Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme was sentenced today in federal court to five years in prison on charges of lying and obstructing justice. Continue Reading »
Jul 14 2008
Ottaviano del Turco once headed parliament’s anti-Mafia commission
A former Italian finance minister and several senior officials have been arrested on suspicion of corruption. Continue Reading »
Jul 13 2008
Organized in cells, new group has stronger loyalty
REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy — The tale of “The Godfather” seems almost quaint from this rocky, remote outpost in Italy.
Prosecutors and lawmakers are increasingly riveted by a more mysterious and blood-bound crime racket rooted in these far southern reaches of Calabria — not Sicily — that in the past two decades has put Italy at the heart of the global cocaine market. Continue Reading »
Jul 13 2008
Naples — This may be the only city on Earth where the nation’s prime minister was forced to send a well-armed military regiment to guard the garbage dump. The soldiers are dug in, ready to fight.
At this moment, it’s not clear whether they are preparing to take on residents, who riot and rampage every time the city tries to open a new dump, injuring police and firefighters - or the Mafia that controls the region’s refuse business and has been known to decapitate enemies with a circular saw. Continue Reading »
Jul 11 2008
Palermo — A fugitive Italian Mafia leader, Salvatore Parisi, was arrested on Friday by the Italian Carabinieri or paramilitary police on the outskirts of the Sicilian town of Monreale. Continue Reading »
Jul 11 2008
Who is Jelavic? The successor to Zlatko Bagaric and Zagreb’s underground throne or respected businessman that legally supports his family.
Nikica Jelavic (38) called Boxer, was born in Gabela near Capljine. He finished high school and served his compulsory military service in Sarajevo. After serving in the army, Jelavic was a boxer for a while in the club “Metalac”, and this is why he gained the nickname “Boxer”. During the eighties, he mainly worked as a bouncer at various discos, and during the nineties he started to trade money. Today, he lives with his wife and three children in a villa worth a few million kuna in Zagreb’s Cmrok. Continue Reading »
Jul 10 2008
After the death of the supermodel, different theories of the cause of her tragic end were made, like mafia pressure and a lawsuit.
Ruslana Korshunova is the 20-year-old model found dead in front of a building in Manhattan where she lived. Continue Reading »
Jul 09 2008
The large-scale operation of Russia’s enforcement bodies, which involved even a helicopter, was held in Pirogovo conservation reservoir of the Moscow region’s Mytishchi district. Photo: Ignaty Savransky
Russia’s enforcement officers broke up Monday last years’ biggest underworld convention of criminals, which venue was the Moscow region. The officers detained 39 mafia bosses, but the better part of them got liberty by Tuesday evening. Continue Reading »
Jul 09 2008
The Ergenekon gang, a terrorist organization that is currently the subject of an extensive investigation that saw a number of high-profile arrests last week, had drawn up plans to establish a national mafia that would be directly subordinate to the Turkish General Staff. Continue Reading »
