Mafia News

Palermo — An Italian judge was on Wednesday due to rule in a landmark Mafia trial whether the municipality of Palermo and business associations, as well as Italy’s Interior Ministry may collectively act as plaintiff or claimant alongside 15 alleged victims of the Sicilian Mafia’s extortion racket. Mafia bosses Sandro and Salvatore Lo Piccolo are among 76 suspects standing trial for Mafia association. They include business people who paid the so-called ‘pizzo’ or ‘protection money’ to the Mafia and did not report their extortionists to police. Continue Reading »

Croatia’s new justice minister has announced a package of measures to tackle organised crime, following a spate of mafia-style killings. Continue Reading »

Mafia boss Antonio Iovine

American Nato officers have been renting a villa near Naples for years that belongs, indirectly, to Antonio Iovine, a clan chieftain of the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia.

Mr Iovine, 44, nicknamed “o’ninno” — the baby — because of his small stature, is wanted for murder and other crimes, and is listed among the 30 most dangerous criminals in Italy. He has been on the run for 12 years. Continue Reading »

Trapani — Police on Monday arrested criminal lawyer, Francesca Adamo, and ten others during major anti-Mafia raids near the western Sicilian port city of Trapani. A probe is investigating 21 people, including a local politician, for alleged Mafia association and extortion between 2006 and 2007. Continue Reading »

ONE lucky ticket-holder in Sicily, the home of Cosa Nostra, has scooped 100 million (£78.8 million) in the Italian National Lottery – but is keeping a low profile to avoid being targeted by the Mafia. Continue Reading »

Zagreb — A car bomb killed Ivo Pukanic, a prominent Croatian journalist, and a colleague in downtown Zagreb on Thursday, and the country’s president and premier called it an assassination. Continue Reading »

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Caserta — Jailed Neapolitan Mafia boss Francesco Schiavone from the powerful Casalesi clan will be denied a TV set in his cell and all high-security Mafia prisoners will be prevented from reading newspapers from the regions in which their criminal organisations operate, the Il Napoli-E Polis daily reports. Continue Reading »

Calogero Mannino acquitted after 14 years

Palermo — A Palermo appeals court on Wednesday cleared former Christian Democrat (DC) minister Calogero Mannino of Mafia links, apparently ending a 14-year legal saga. Continue Reading »

Rome — Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators have moved to close a top restaurant in the historic centre of Rome because of its alleged links to the Calabrian Mafia or ‘Ndrangheta. The Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, reported on Tuesday that the magistrates believe the ‘Ndrangheta is running ‘Alla Rampa’ and another 20 other lucrative businesses in Rome, including hotels, restaurants and shopping centres. But the article also makes the far more alarming claim that the Calabrian Mafia has made a pact with the Neapolitan Mafia or Camorra to divide the city and its business between them. Continue Reading »

Reggio De Calabria — Forty-three defendants went on trial Monday from both sides of a deadly Italian mafia feud that led to last year’s slayings of six clan members in Duisburg, Germany, AFP reported. Continue Reading »