by BBC - May 18, 2009
An alleged leader of the powerful Neapolitan-based mafia, the Camorra, has been arrested in southern Spain, Italian prosecutors have said.
Raffaele Amato was detained in a joint operation by Italian and Spanish police in the city of Marbella on Saturday.
Mr Amato is accused of eight murders between 1991 and 1993, [...]
From BBC - March 13, 2009
Police in Amsterdam have arrested the main suspect in the gangland killing of six Italian men in the German city of Duisburg in August 2007.
Giovanni Strangio was detained with his brother-in-law - also a Mafia suspect - in a joint operation involving Dutch, German and Italian police. Police believe the [...]
The Calabresi criminal organization called ‘ndrangheta has set its branches all over Germany with stable structures and 230 clan.
The alarm comes from a confidential report of the “Bundeskriminalamt” (Bka), the federal anti-crime Bureau, of which the main points are highlighted in tomorrow’s issue (10 of March) of the weekly magazine “Focus”. The dossier edited by [...]
Tags: 'ndrangheta, Calabria, clans, Duisburg, Germany, Italy
When the bills started piling up and the banks wouldn’t lend, the white-haired art dealer in the elegant tweed jacket said he drove to the outskirts of Rome and knocked on the rusty steel door of a shipping container.
A beefy man named Mauro answered. He wore blue overalls with two big pockets, one stuffed with [...]
Tags: financial crisis, Italy, mafia
by John Hooper for The Guardian - December 16, 2008
Almost 100 alleged Cosa Nostra “godfathers” and rank-and-file mobsters were arrested today in an operation that Italy’s chief anti-mafia prosecutor said had smashed an attempt to reconstitute the crime syndicate’s “high command”.
More than 1,200 paramilitary carabinieri took part in the raids, which included operations in the [...]
by Stephen Brown for Reuters News Agency - November 12, 2008
ROME–Italian shopkeepers pay about $380 million a day to mafia protection rackets and loan sharks and fear the current downturn could allow organized crime to further tighten its stranglehold on the vulnerable economy.
The warning came yesterday from the Italian shopkeepers’ association Confesercenti, many of whose [...]
By Deepa Babington for Reuter Africa - November 24, 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Libya and Italy may start sea patrols to deter illegal migrants from entering Europe within weeks to sharply reduce the flow of migrants arriving in Italy, Libya’s envoy to Rome told Reuters.
Ambassador Hafed Gaddur warned, however, that solving the migrant problem did not [...]
Tags: Italy, Lybia, trafficking of humans
By BBC - November 21, 2008
Fifty-eight-year-old Silvana Fucito was terrified the first time a member of the Camorra came into her shop, put a gun on the counter and said “either you pay up or we’ll kill you”. Yet this tiny woman, with her manicured nails and diamante hair clips, told her husband to step [...]
Tags: Camorra, Italy, Roberto Saviano, Silvana Fucito
Operation in the town of Torre Annunziata. “Donna Gemma”, who together with her husband was in charge of
the Gionta family, has been captured with other eight women.
In a letter the boss’ pieces of advice to his son “ Be careful when you talk and learn to use the Kalashnikov”. Drug pushing is the main business [...]
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