Police in Italy and the U.S. arrested 26 people Wednesday in a sweeping series of raids that dismantled an international Mafia drug network, according to Italian police.
Photo: Associated Press
Twenty people were arrested in Palermo for alleged drug-trafficking, extortion and usury, according to a statement by Italian police on Wednesday. Three members of the Gambino crime [...]

Tags: camorra, Drug trafficking, FBI, Gambino, italy, Mafia, ndrangheta, United States, usury

German courts have been dealing with an unusual problem. More than 100,000 tons of Italian trash were shipped to eastern Germany, saving a waste treatment plant from bankruptcy. But what could have been a solution to Naples’ notorious garbage crisis ran afoul of the law.
Plastic bags filled with garbage covered the [...]

Tags: camorra, Germany, illegal waste disposal, italy, Konrad Doruch, Lorenzo Miracle

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The terrorists of ETA have dealings with the Colombian drug cartels to finance their activities, using Portugal as a passageway to get the drug into the Spanish Basque Country.
The accusation was done by the Italian journalist and writer Roberto Saviano, who claims to have proof and to be familiar [...]

Tags: camorra, ETA, ndrangheta, Portugal, Roberto Saviano, spain

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, January 28 - Italy on Thursday unveiled a new anti-mafia plan putting together all current laws against organised crime and setting up a national agency to oversee seizures of assets from the Mob.
The cabinet met in Reggio Calabria, where the new agency is to be located, shrugging off recent threats from [...]

Tags: agency confiscated assets management, camorra, Cosa Nostra, italy, ndrangheta, Silvio Berlusconi

London firms act as fronts for drug-dealing and money-laundering and provide hideouts for fugitive gunmen, says anti-mafia investigator
The tentacles of the mafia are spreading to the UK, as British cities become key locations in the mob’s vital money-laundering operations, according to Italy’s leading expert in organised crime, Francesco Forgione.
Last week Britain’s Gambling Commission suspended the [...]

Tags: camorra, Cosa Nostra, Francesco Forgione, italy, law on confiscation, Mafia Export, ndrangheta, UK

Confiscated mafia properties have been used for social good – but a legal change could mean criminals get their assets back
A brief glossary of mafia terms might help to explain what we mean by the “peaceful coexistence” between the state and organised criminality, and therefore to understand what is happening in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy.
The mafias: [...]

Tags: camorra, Cosa Nostra, Giancarlo Caselli, italy, law on confiscation, Luigi CIotti, ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita, social reuse of seized properties

ROME: The Mafia is one of Italy’s most famous exports; now it even has an atlas.
In a book published in Italy this week, Francesco Forgione, the president of the Italian Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission from 2006-2008, has used thousands of pages of court documents and judicial acts to create a map of global Mafia [...]

Tags: Australia, camorra, Cosa Nostra, Francesco Forgione, ndrangheta

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Italian police say they have arrested two more suspected mafia bosses, a day after seizing their brother in a raid near the southern city of Naples.
They say Pasquale and Carmine Russo were detained in Sperone, some 30km (20 miles) east of Naples.
Salvatore Russo, the head of a Camorra clan that bears his [...]

Tags: camorra, Carmie Russo, italy, Pasquale Russo

by Conchita Sannino for La Repubblica
Naples. A new type of Cigarette trafficking is back. A stock of hundreds of millions every year. The 20 pieces packet made in Ukraine for 50 cents is worth ten times more going from Naples to London. In 2008 there was a huge number of confiscations. Beside China, there are [...]

Tags: camorra, China, Greece, Katowice, Lithuania, London, Naples, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, smuggling of cigarettes, spain, Ukraine, Warsaw

“My little cat … I’m going crazy without you …. You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think …. Little cat, when are you coming? … I love you, little cat.” On Jan. 4, 2001, Dušanka Jeknić, representative of the Montenegrin trade mission in Milan, Italy, was speaking on the phone at her home in the [...]

Tags: Aruba, Baja Sekulić, camorra, croatia, Cyprus, Darko Raspopović, Dušanka Jeknić, Duško Jovanović, Franco Della Torre, Germany, Giuseppe Scelsi, Goran Zugić, Greece, italy, ivo pukanic, Liechtenstein, Milo Đukanović, Montenegro, Montenegro Tabak Transit, Operation Montecristo, Orazio Porro, Paolo Savino, Ratko Knežević, Sacra Corona Unita, Serbia, Silvio Berlusconi, Slobodan Milosevic, Sretko Kestner, Stanko "Cane" Subotić, Switzerland, the Netherlands, tobacco smuggling, United States, Vuksan Simonović, Yugoslavia