Mafia infiltrated rebuilding of Italian quake city

ROME — Members of Italy’s Camorra mafia won contracts to rebuild the quake-hit city of L’Aquila with the help of four bank employees, police charged Thursday after carrying out six arrests.
In an operation codenamed “Untouchable”, police also seized 21 businesses, 118 buildings and other property worth a total of around 100 million euros (128 million [...]

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 [...]

Corruption scandal spreads to Vatican

A prominent Catholic cardinal and a former minister have been put under investigation as a corruption scandal that has tainted the Italian government spread to touch the Vatican.
Magistrates told Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe and Pietro Lunardi, a former infrastructure and transport minister, that they were being investigated for aggravated corruption, judicial sources said.
Magistrates in Perugia are [...]

Amanda Knox is innocent, jailed Italian mobster says his brother killed Meredith Kercher

“Foxy Knoxy” was framed.
That’s the tune an Italian mobster jailbird is singing, claiming his brother brutally murdered a female British college student, not American Amanda Knox.
Luciano Aviello, who is currently serving a 17-year sentence for his mafia ties, told Knox’s lawyers his brother Antonio slaughtered Meredith Kercher and asked him to hide the bloody knife [...]

Camorra Mafia boss caught after 7 years on run

After more then seven years on the run police in Rome finally caught up to and arrested Camorra mafia boss Nicola Panaro. Panaro is head of one of the most powerful clans of the Naples based Camorra mafia. The 41 year old mafia boss had evaded the police for years and was considered one of [...]

Italian police nab Mafia boss

A suspected leading member of Naples’ Camorra mafia was arrested Saturday in a raid on an apartment where he was staying, police said.
Sebastiano Tutti, the head of a mafia clan of the same family name, had been sought since 2007 and changed hideouts several times over the course of three years.
Police nabbed Tutti in a [...]

Camorra boss arrested in Naples

They say Luigi Esposito – who is on the list of Italy’s 30 most wanted men – was held at a luxury villa in the city.
He is believed to be one of the heads of the Nuvoletta clan of the Camorra, which operates in the Naples region.
He had been on the run since [...]

Fugitive Mafia brothers arrested by Italian police

Police arrested Pasquale Russo, 62, and his youngest brother Carmine, 47, in a 2am raid on a cottage in Sperone, about 20 miles east of Naples.
Pasquale Russo, on the run since 1993, is considered the boss of a Camorra mafia clan bearing his name and has been convicted several times for murder and [...]

32 mobsters arrested in Italy

ROME – ITALIAN police say they have arrested 32 suspected mobsters with close ties to the Casalesi clan, a branch of the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate.
Police in Caserta, near Naples, say the suspects were arrested early Wednesday in Modena, in northern Italy, and Caserta on charges of Mafia association and extortion. [...]

Wanted mafia chief nabbed in Naples

A senior figure in the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, has been arrested after spending more than six years on the run, the ANSA news agency reported on Sunday.
Raffaele Diana, who is regarded as one of the heads of the Casalesi clan, was arrested at Casal di Principe in the Caserta region, the [...]

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