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Climate

Why mob bosses should be worried about the evaporation of this US lake

As climate change dries up the US’s largest reservoir, a darker history is being uncovered.

Italy

Mafia fugitive and 'cocaine king' extradited to Italy from Brazil

The fugitive was arrested by Brazilian authorities last year after more than 27 years on the run.

Italy

Fugitive arrested after being spotted on Google Maps' Street View

An image available on Google appears to show a man who looks like Gammino outside a fruit shop in Galapagar in July 2018.

World News

Huge 'mega-trial' convicts 70 members of Italy's biggest mafia group

A huge Italian 'mega-trial' has convicted 70 people linked to Italy's most powerful mafia group, 'Ndrangheta with hundreds more due in court.

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World News

Eleven mafia suspects arrested on suspicion of luxury car tax evasion

Police in Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria conducted raids against suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta mafia organisation.

Italy

Toning down the violence, Italy's mafia has set its sights on EU cash

In the last few years, Italy's organised crime groups have become more business-oriented, helping cash-strapped companies to infiltrate the legal economy and make more money.

World News

Over 100 arrested in Spain and Italy in major money-laundering sting

Spanish and Italian police have arrested 106 people connected to a gang that allegedly laundered money for mafia groups and made millions of euros through online scams.

United Arab Emirates

Italian alleged mobster who bought stolen Van Goghs arrested in Dubai

Raffaele Imperiale has been wanted by Italian police since two stolen Van Goghs, thought to have been bought with criminal cash, were found in a farmhouse he owned outside Naples.

Italy

Italian police nab woman reputed to be Naples crime boss

Maria Licciardi, 70, was one of the victors in a long-running blood feud between alliances of clans that left Naples littered nearly daily with bodies earlier this century, prosecutors say.

Spain

Most-wanted mafia boss arrested in Madrid after two years on the run

The 60-year-old, dubbed the Calabrian clan's "boss of bosses" in the 1980s and 1990s, was sentenced in absentia to another 11 years in prison for murder and criminal association aimed at drug trafficking in January.

Italy

Outrage in Italy as notorious mafia killer released early from prison

The news of Giovanni Brusca's early release after 25 years in jail sparked a wave of emotion in Italy. The 64-year-old man is believed to have taken part in hundreds of murders for the Sicilian mafia.

Brazil

'King of cocaine': Italian mafia boss arrested in Brazil

Italian mafia leader Rocco Morabito was one of the top ten most wanted men in the world.

Italy

Fake euro banknote dealers busted by German and Italian police

Officers descended on 19 houses in Naples, Italy and Germany on Thursday and seized fake banknotes amounting to €160,000 as well as a gun and cocaine.

Italy

Mass arrests of suspected mafia members announced in Italy and Germany

More than 800 police and tax officers were involved in the fresh raids in Italy and Germany, which saw millions of euros' worth of assets seized and 31 people arrested in connection with 'ndrangheta drug operations.

Italy

Mafia member arrested after tattoos spotted in YouTube cooking video

In January, Italy began one of the largest organised crime trials in its history against the 'Ndrangheta mafia syndicate.

World

Italy opens 'maxi-trial' against 'ndrangheta organised crime syndicate

"I think it’s the first time that the son of a boss has decided to turn against his father in 'ndrangheta and he’s the pivotal testimony for this trial," said University of Oxford professor Federico Varese.

Italy

Organised crime believed to be behind Italy's anti-lockdown riots

They are turning peaceful protests violent, mixing with honest business owners who are in financial difficulties because of the coronavirus restrictions.

Italy

In Foggia, Puglia, an upstart mafia wages war

Unlike the Cosa Nostra, mafiosos in Puglia aren't reluctant to attract attention.

Italy

Mafia crook among 19 suspects in plot to form Italian Nazi party

Italian police carried out a number of raids on Thursday as part of a two-year investigation into far-right extremists suspected of planning a new Nazi party in Italy.

Italy

Watch: Youth boxing at Naples church keeps boys from life of crime

In a neglected Naples neighbourhood, this church has been transformed into a boxing ring. There is 40% youth unemployment here and one of the few organisations with jobs on offer is the mafia.