Mafia investment ‘gave Silvio Berlusconi his big break’
February 4, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
The Mafia invested heavily in a 1970s housing project which gave Silvio Berlusconi his big break in business, an Italian court heard.
The allegation that Sicily’s Cosa Nostra helped finance the project was made in a Palermo court by Massimo Ciancimino, the son of a Mafia don who was close to the head of the Sicilian [...]
Italy claims finally to be defeating the mafia
January 10, 2010 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
The Italian government says it is winning the war on organised crime. But can the mafia ever be defeated?
Of all the meticulously planned police stings, it was one of the most unexpected. When suspected mafia mobster Giuseppe Bastone was arrested by Italian paramilitary Carabinieri, he had been living for six months in a tiny [...]
Italian police nab one of top 30 Mafia fugitives
June 21, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
ROME (AP) — Authorities arrested one of Italy’s most dangerous Mafia fugitives as he left his apartment in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Italian police said Sunday.
Salvatore Miceli, suspected of being a key intermediary in the drug trafficking trade, had been under surveillance by Italian and Venezuelan police for three days [...]
