Posts Tagged ‘ The EU ’

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has outlined plans she describes as "the most radical reform of policing for 50 years." A key point is the abolition of Serious Organized Crime Agency (Soca) in favour of a new UK-wide National Crime Agency, which will include organized crime, border policing, and the child exploitation and online...
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Brothers Krasimir and Nikolay Marinov, also known as the Marguin brothers, who are "reputed to be the biggest mafia bosses in Bulgaria," have been acquitted of charges that they plotted three murders. Krasimir Marinov pleaded not guilty to the charges, while his brother Nikolay was tried in absentia after he disappeared earlier this year....
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An Italian delegation meeting in Berlin with German investigators for a conference on ways of tackling organized crime found the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia launders billions of dollars in cash through Germany."Italian mafia organizations are investing billions of euros into Germany to hide their profits from the Italian authorities,” organized crime experts said in...
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Pasquale Claudio Locatelli, a reputed boss of the Camorra who escaped from a French prison in 1989 was arrested Saturday by Spanish police at the Madrid airport, Locatelli, 58, wanted in France and Italy, is accused of being the intermediary between Colombian cocaine producers and European drug trafficking organizations, and of serving as a...
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Sicilian prosecutors say the law, now in Parliament, would make it nearly impossible to catch fugitive mafiosi or discover their crimes. On Friday they received a boost from a top U.S. justice official in their campaign against the bill designed by Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government to drastically tighten restrictions on electronic eavesdropping. U.S. Assistant...
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A counterfeiting ring operating in eleven countries allegedly operated by the Camorra was busted by the European Union Police. They specialized in importing and distributing fake Chinese-made iPhones. The EU's Europol is coordinating arrests in 11 countries, including Italy, where nine people are sought, the police said in a statement today. Eurojust, the EU...
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Italian police have arrested fugitive Michele Chierchia, a reputed mob boss with the Camorra on drug trafficking charges at a villa near Fiumicino airport outside Rome. Chierchia was listed among the country's 100 most dangerous fugitives. Anti-mafia prosecutors in Lucca, Naples and in the Sardinia region's capital, Cagliari,had issued arrest warrants for him on...
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The decision to let Sicilian mafia godfather Salvatore “Vito” Vitale, a reputed boss with the Cosa Nostra out of jail has outraged the victims of organized crime. According to his lawyers’ Vitale is suffering from diabetes, depression and a heart condition and should be released "on compassionate grounds." Salvatore “Vito” Vitale Vitale was a...
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The National Police has arrested Alessandro De Fronza in Gavà one of the most wanted members of the mafia. Wanted by Italian authorities on charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy. De Fronza, a reputed member of the Palermiti clan from the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia has been apprehended in Barcelona, Spain. "The arrest took...
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The 500 euro note, or the “Bin Laden,” so called by criminals because you know it's out there, you know what it looks like and it moves around a lot but no one ever sees it, has been removed from the UK currency market. UK wholesalers agreed to stop selling the distinctive pink and...
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