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

On March 20 in Milan, Italy, the XV Day of Memory and Commitment in Remembrance of Victims of Organised Crime is taking place.
The event was conceived and is organised by the association Libera, associations names and numbers against mafias and is intended to show to the entire Italian community the commitment of Italian citizens against [...]

Tags: Day in Memory of Victims of Organised Crime, italy

Italian police arrested seven people on Wednesday on suspicion of trafficking arms to Iran - two Iranians they believe are secret agents and five Italians. Two more Iranians were being sought, police said.
Police made the arrests overnight in several cities. They initially said nine people had been held but later said two arrest warrants for [...]

Tags: Arms trafficking, explosives, Germany, Iran, italy, secret services

ROME—A judge Tuesday ordered the arrest of 56 people, including one of Italy’s richest men, as part of an international probe into an alleged $2.7 billion money-laundering and tax-evasion scheme involving two major Italian telecommunications providers.
Prosecutors allege billionaire Silvio Scaglia was part of a ring with mafia ties that used phony [...]

Tags: Babelgum, Corruption, Fastweb, italy, Money laundering, organised crime, Telecom Italia

(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

Rome – German tourists can now obtain a map of Sicily’s capital Palermo flagging the shops that refuse to pay extortion money to the Mafia, the German embassy in Rome said in a statement Thursday.
“The Addiopizzo tourist map signals all the shops in Palermo that… have pledged not to pay racketeering fees,” the statement said.
The [...]

Tags: Addiopizzo, extorsion, Germany, italy, racketeering

Four Australians, three of whom are Victorian, will go on trial in an Italian court next month on charges of conspiring with the Calabrian Mafia to import one of Australia’s largest cocaine shipments.
The accused - Nicola Ciconte, 54, of Rowville; Michael Calleja, 51, of Kew; Vincenzo Medici, 45, of Mildura, and Carmelo Loprete, 41, of [...]

Tags: Australia, Carmelo Loprete, Cocaine, Drug trafficking, italy, Michael Calleja, Nicola Ciconte, Vincenzo Medici

BUCHAREST - Romanian police have broken up a network suspected of smuggling women to western Europe and charged 30 people with human trafficking and Internet fraud, an organised crime prosecutor said on Monday.
The group, known as the Cordunenilor Gang after the family alleged to control it, operated in Italy, Spain, Germany, Britain and Ireland, a [...]

Tags: Germany, human trafficking, internet fraud, ireland, italy, Romania, spain, United Kingdom, women trafficking

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

Nicola Cosentino, the Italian minister accused of mafia links, praised the government’s success in fighting organised crime as anti-mafia police seized 20 million euros in assets from the Neopolitan Camorra on Monday. “This is a new victory for the state against organised crime,” said Cosentino after police seized the assets.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi (left) with Nicola [...]

Tags: Corruption, italy, Nicola Cosentino