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Anti-Mafia Magistrate Borsellino Sacrificed Himself

February 4, 2012
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A trial witness has said that Paolo Borsellino, the Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo in 1992, knew about the attempt on his life and chose to sacrifice himself. Colonel Umberto Sinico, a witness for the defence in the Mori trial, reported that in late June 1992...

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Local Govt Dissolved for “mafia infiltration”

February 4, 2012
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The Italian government on Friday dissolved the city government of the northern border town of Ventimiglia because of suspected infiltration by organized crime. The scenic town of 25,000 residents on the Ligurian coast last year drew international attention because the hundreds of illegal migrants attempting to cross into France from the city after arriving...

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Mafia Treasure Hunters and the Costa Concordia

February 3, 2012
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Lying silently beneath the pristine Italian waters are jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian glassware, and thousands of art objects – including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master. When passengers fled the Costa Concordia, they left everything behind and now a fortune is at the mercy of treasure hunters. It could just...

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In Italy Police Arrest Six Mafia Bosses

January 28, 2012
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Italian police today arrested six alleged bosses of the Cosa Nostra and Camorra, including Nicola Schiavone, the son of the infamous Neapolitan godfather Sandocan, and Gaetano Riina, the younger brother of former Cosa Nostra kingpin Toto Riina for trying to monopolize the freight transport market in southern Italy. The Mob had long been trying...

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The Vatican Signs Treaties to Fight Terror, Drugs, Mafia

January 27, 2012
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The Vatican’s internationally recognized political entity, The Holy See, on Wednesday ratified the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, the 2000 United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, and the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. “The Holy Father reminds us that...

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Police Bust Drug Trafficking Mafia in Belgium

January 21, 2012
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Police have busted an international drug trafficking ring and arrested 15 suspects, including an Italian mafia boss they consider to be the network’s mastermind, Belgian police said Friday. The Italian, from southern Italy’s Salerno region, was known to police for his involvement in the Naples mafia, the Camorra, since the 1980s. While living in...

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Italian Crime Groups Control Big Food Business

January 20, 2012
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Organized crime in Italy controls agricultural and food businesses worth 12.5 billion euros ($16 billion) a year, or 5.6 percent of all criminal operations in the country, according to a parliamentary investigation presented on Thursday. Organized crime has spread its involvement through the entire food chain from acquisition of farmland to production, from transport...

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$83M Seized in Mob Assets

January 19, 2012
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Italian police say they seized more than $83 million worth of assets Tuesday from the Camorra’s violent Casalesi clan in an operation that focused on a jailed businessmen and two Casalesi members, including the brother of jailed leader Michele Zagaria. The Naples mafia has been in the midst of a power struggle after the...

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Death Toll’s Rise in Italian Mafia War

January 13, 2012
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Italian police say they believe the recent deaths of five people may be related to turf wars between rival Camorra mafia clans in Naples. Patrizio Serrao, 52, was killed Tuesday in Melito, Italian news agency ANSA reported Thursday. His body was found in the same area where two bodies were discovered in a burnt-out...

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Arrest of Berlusconi Ally Blocked

January 13, 2012
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Italy’s parliament voted on Thursday to block the arrest of lawmaker and ex-treasury official Nicola Cosentino, a close associate of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, on accusations of mafia associations. Naples magistrates had asked parliament to lift the immunity from arrest of Cosentino, a member of Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party who is being...

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