Italy police arrest dozens in anti-Mafia raids

ROME (Reuters) – Italian police arrested dozens of people accused of links to a clan of the powerful Calabrian mafia and seized assets worth up to 250 million euros (209 million pounds), Italian police said Wednesday.
The crackdown is the second significant wave of arrests in a week aimed at dismantling the ‘Ndrangheta, which has overtaken [...]

Another mafia bust in Italy

Italian police busted a Sicilian Mafia drug ring operating in Peru and Colombia, making 13 arrests and seizing 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds) of high-quality cocaine overnight, a statement said Monday.
Among those arrested was the suspected kingpin, Paolo Messina, accused of operating in rare collaboration with the Naples-area crime syndicate the Camorra, the statement said.
Camorra clan [...]

Meet the most powerful Mafiosi in Italy

The leading members of the ’Ndrangheta crime gang who were arrested this week look more like a group of grandfathers on an outing to the local bowling club than capos in Italy’s most powerful crime syndicate
TO LOOK AT THEM as they file through the iron-gated entrance to the sanctuary you could mistake them for the [...]

Italian ‘Ndrangheta steps out of Mafia’s shadow

Following Tuesday’s arrests of at least 300 suspected members of the ‘Ndrangheta, the BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Rome takes a closer look at the Italian crime family.
The wedding scene in The Godfather is a sumptuous affair, replete with hope, but laced with menace.
Now, undercover police agents in Italy have infiltrated the real thing and revealed [...]

Suspected mafia member, 64, jailed in Germany for fraud

Karlsruhe, Germany – An Italian man described by prosecutors as a member of a Camorra crime syndicate was jailed Monday in Germany for 42 months after he admitted leading a fraudulent products scam.
His group specialized in selling electrical generators and other machinery, charging customers for high quality and delivering the lowest quality. German police rounded [...]

Seattle strip-club magnate Frank Colacurcio Sr. dies at 93

Frank Colacurcio, Sr., who led a local strip-club empire and was painted by law enforcement as the Pacific Northwest’s own organized crime figure, died Friday, according to his attorney.
Colacurcio, 93, had most recently been under indictment on racketeering charges stemming from massive law enforcement investigation into prostitution inside his well-known clubs, including Rick’s on Lake [...]

As Italian firms fall victim to the recession, Mafia fills the void

Italy’s feared mobs are taking advantage of the recession by moving from their traditional southern strongholds to buy up legitimate businesses in the country’s rich north to launder their vast earnings from cocaine and extortion rackets, anti-mafia judges have told The Independent.
One magistrate said yesterday that mobsters from ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s biggest crime syndicate, were investing [...]

2 sumo coaches implicated for selling special ringside tournament seats to yakuza

Two sumo coaches participated in selling special ringside seats to senior yakuza gang members affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate at last year’s July Grand Tournament in Nagoya, a source with the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) has revealed to the Mainichi.
The JSA questioned the two coaches after receiving an inquiry from police, and will consider [...]

Police: Italy mafias run produce markets

Anti-mafia police say they have broken up an unusual alliance of Italy’s three main crime syndicates controlling wholesale produce markets, including price fixing.

Police said they were arresting dozens of suspects Monday, including a suspected mobster who had just disembarked at Naples’ port from a honeymoon cruise.
Gen. Antonio Girone of Italy’s anti-Mafia DIA squad says the [...]

Ndrangheta brokering Mexican drug trade

Calabrian syndicate has re-focused efforts on shipping drugs from Latin America to West Africa, grossing $60 billion a year.
NEW YORK — This Friday, mafia boss and notorious narco-trafficker Vincenzo Roccisano is scheduled to appear before a Nassau County judge after his February arrest, at a Long Island restaurant, for illegally re-entering the United States. Four [...]

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