Jan 13 2009
A suspected mafia boss on Italy’s most wanted list escaped arrest on Monday through a tunnel dug under his home linked to the local sewage network, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Continue Reading »
Jan 12 2009
INTELLIGENCE on Italian Mafia links to Lancashire has been gathered by police.
Officers have been accumulating intelligence on individuals over the past 18 months which has been passed on to Italian authorities for offences committed abroad. Continue Reading »
Jan 12 2009
Naples — – The suspected head of a murder squad run by the Camorra clan denounced in Roberto Saviano’s global bestseller Gomorrah dodged arrest Monday by diving into a tunnel built under his hide-out, police said.
Giuseppe Setola, 38, the Casalesi clan’s alleged killing team leader, is thought to have made his escape by reaching a sewer network at a town near Caserta north of Naples. Continue Reading »
Dec 23 2008
Roberto Saviano’s life mirrors that of the mobsters who have vowed to kill him: He has gone into hiding, even from his neighbors.
Saviano, 29, is the author who fingered the Camorra mafia in a bestseller. A month ago, Italian police learned of what they call a credible plan to murder him before Christmas. Continue Reading »
Dec 20 2008
Within hours of being arrested in a huge anti-mafia operation by Italian police this week, godfather Gaetano Lo Presti was found dead in his prison cell, hanged by his own belt.
Lo Presti’s apparent suicide has offered a tantalising insight into the inner workings of the world’s most famous mafia organisation as it struggles to rebuild its leadership in the face of a devastating offensive by Italy’s law enforcement agencies. Continue Reading »
Dec 19 2008
Gerlando Caruana was arrested in project Omerta, a Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit investigation, in 1998. Photograph by: Gazette file photo
Despite his stunning admission that he was a “man of honour” in the Sicilian Mafia while he conspired to smuggle large quantities of cocaine into Canada, Gerlando Caruana of Montreal has been turned down for full parole.
During a parole hearing held Friday morning at the Federal Training Centre in Laval, Caruana, 65, finally acknowledged that he and his younger brother Alfonso were part of the Sicilian Mafia, a extremely rare admission among those who are part of the secretive society that originated in Italy and, over the past century, carried over to countries like Canada and the U.S. Continue Reading »
