Strip king Jackson, banker in cash-scam probe

A gunman known as George Smith has links to a multimillionaire fugitive from eastern Europe and a money-laundering racket gone wrong.
These are some of the elements circling around the slaying of strip-club king Lolly Jackson – although it remains to be seen whether these aspects played any part in Monday night’s murder.
According to a court [...]

Mobster’s Sicily villa handed to the media

The keys of the Sicilian villa where the notorious Mafia godfather Toto “the Beast” Riina spent his final months as a fugitive have been handed over to the local branch of the Italian journalists’ guild, several of whose members died under his bloody rein.
The gift is the latest from the national agency that confiscates mob [...]

Cosa Nostra leader Gianni Nicchi captured in Sicily

The Italian interior minister said police in the Sicilian city were holding Nicchi after a raid on an apartment, where he had been hiding.
Roberto Maroni described the 28-year-old convicted Mafioso as a “young, dangerous, ambitious, pitiless killer”.
Police found Nicchi, 28, hiding Saturday in an apartment in Palermo. Local news reports said he [...]

Dominican Police arrest a 2nd Italian Mafia figure

Agents assigned to Interpol yesterday arrested Italian Mafia lieutenant Mariano Martone, wanted in his country to serve a 25 year sentence for assaulting more than 10 banks and stealing more than 170 million euros (around RD$8.2 billion).
Interpol chief Atahualpa Cabrera, interviewed by newspaper Diario Libre, said Martone’s arrest warrant was issued [...]