Jun 23 2008
Banco di Sicilia can play an important role against the mafia in Sicily by funding sound and competitive companies, the chairman of the Sicilian unit of Italian bank UniCredit said on Tuesday. Continue Reading »
Jun 21 2008
Roberto Saviano arrives at court. Photo: AFP
A MARATHON trial spanning nearly a decade — during which five innocent people involved in the case were murdered — has meted out 16 life sentences in a massive blow to one of Italy’s most powerful criminal clans. Continue Reading »
Jun 20 2008
An epic trial against one of Italy’s most powerful Mafia families has handed life sentences to four godfathers, decapitating a clan worth an estimated £20 billion.
Francesco Schiavone was arrested by Italian police in 1998
The Casalesi clan, which takes its name from the town of Casal di Principe near Naples, has been described as the successor of the Corleone family, which ruled Sicily in the 1980s. Continue Reading »
Jun 19 2008
Rome — Italian tax police seized assets worth some 900 million euros from organised crime between January and June this year - a fivefold increase against the same period in 2007. Continue Reading »
Jun 19 2008
An Italian appeals court has upheld life sentences for members of one of the most violent clans of the Naples mafia, the Camorra. Continue Reading »
Jun 19 2008
Naples — An Italian appeals court on Thursday upheld life jail sentences for 16 bosses of the Camorra, the Naples version of the Mafia, in what was hailed as a victory for the state. Continue Reading »
Jun 17 2008
MILAN — Banco di Sicilia can play an important role against the mafia in Sicily by funding sound and competitive companies, the chairman of the Sicilian unit of Italian bank UniCredit said on Tuesday. Continue Reading »
Jun 17 2008
Palermo — Police on Tuesday raided Italy’s highest appeals court, in an ongoing anti-Mafia probe that led to eight arrests on Monday, according to Italian daily La Repubblica’s website. Continue Reading »
Jun 17 2008
Palermo — Eight ‘prominent’ arrests were made by the police of Trapani and Agrigento last night, the conclusion of an investigation by the Anti-mafia District Department of Palermo into attempts to slow down legal proceedings against members of the mafia with the help of members of the Freemasonry. Continue Reading »
Jun 14 2008
ROME — An appellate court in Naples is expected to reach a verdict next week in a huge trial involving the most powerful and violent clan of the poor southern region’s Camorra mafia. Continue Reading »
