Crime Boss Dawood Ibrahim May Be Behind Mumbai Attacks

Indian security officials believe that Dawood Ibrahim, a notorious organized crime boss with connections to both India and Pakistan, may be the mastermind behind the Mumbai massacre. Haaretz is reporting that 21-year-old Amir Kasab, the only terrorist captured in the attacks, conceded to authorities that Ibrahim helped finance both his training in Pakistan, and the [...]

New ‘Mafia’ weapon – cell phone pistol

A man in Naples, Italy was literally able to shoot his mouth off with this cell phone look-alike that was recently confiscated.
The Italian police seized the weapon in a raid on a Mafia gang, and the “phone” that even featured a fake display turned out to be a pistol with four [...]

Making enemies in high places

In Italy, it is called the “Saviano effect,” the intense national focus on the Camorra elicited by Roberto Saviano’s 2006 best seller, Gomorrah, which traced the rise of the Campania region’s violent and economically mighty clans.
But while Saviano, 29, has become a household name — appearing regularly in the Italian news media [...]

Mafia’s Secret Firing Range Found Beneath Housing Estate

The Sicilian mafia’s hitmen are skilled and practiced, their murders are rarely botched, even when carried out from the back of a motorcycle traveling at speed.
But one of the many mysteries that surrounds the Cosa Nostra is where its killers acquire their lethal dexterity. It is known they have practiced in the [...]

Canadian author lifts the lid on soccer and organized crime

Everywhere Canadian Declan Hill goes to promote his book “The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime,” people have questions about local soccer matches or competitions whose results seem out of order.
At recent stops in Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, Hill was quizzed about specific incidents of possible on-field shadiness. He had no [...]

Italy’s war with mob escalates after murder spree near Naples

CASAL DI PRINCIPE, Italy – The paratroopers’ armored vehicles had barely taken up position in this fiefdom of the Casalesi crime clan when the mobsters decided to show who was boss.
On a sleepy Sunday, a few hundred yards from where the crack Thunderbolt brigade was deployed with automatic rifles, two gunmen drove [...]

More arrests in Project Colisée

MONTREAL – New arrests and charges continue to pile up in the Project Colisée investigation as four more men have been apprehended, and another is being sought on charges related to the lengthy investigation into the Montreal Mafia.
The first round of arrests  in Project Colisée took place in Nov. 2006, when more [...]

Downsizing the Mob

The arrest of 17 people last week as part of “Operation Mobbed Up” — as well as the subsequent discovery in East Providence of human remains thought to be those of Joseph “Joe Onions” Scanlon — put front and center the bygone days of the Rhode Island Mob.
In its heyday, the operation [...]

Official seeks assurance for Naples’ U.S. renters

NAPLES, Italy — Americans have been renting homes reportedly belonging to Naples’ infamous Camorra mafia crime gang, prompting the senior NATO military officer in the country to seek assurances from Italian officials that Americans will be safe.
In a Nov. 3 statement, Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, [...]

Mob trial ends as three plead guilty

The Montreal courthouse was humming with activity yesterday as one case in a major investigation into the Montreal Mafia came to a close and another began.
Three men arrested in Project Colisée, the lengthy probe into the Rizzuto Clan, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to time served plus probation for handling high-calibre [...]

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