Tag Archives: arrest
Fallen insurance magnate Ligresti released from house arrest
(ANSA) – Turin, December 10 – Disgraced Fonsai insurance magnate Salvatore Ligresti was released from house arrest Tuesday. Ligresti and company officials, including family members, are accused of corruption in the probe into alleged accounting fraud and market manipulation at … Continue reading
Police arrest 35 for managing Camorra crime ring
(ANSA) – Rome, December 3 – Carabinieri police on Tuesday arrested 35 people allegedly involved in a criminal ring managed by Camorra mafia clans based in the southern city of Caserta suspected of smuggling drugs and weapons, extortion and loan-sharking. … Continue reading
Police arrest 13 around Naples in tax fraud ring
(ANSA) – Naples, December 2 – Police arrested 13 people in and around Naples Monday in an alleged smuggling operating involving as much as 10 million euros in unpaid taxes on diesel fuel. Authorities said that more than 400 times … Continue reading
Jonella Ligresti released to house arrest in Fonsai fraud
(ANSA) – Rome, November 20 – Jonella Ligresti, who was arrested in July as part of a major fraud investigation involving the Fonsai insurance group, was released to house arrest on Wednesday. Judges in Turin decided to release her to … Continue reading
Ex-Berlusconi undersecretary freed from house arrest
(ANSA) – Caserta, November 8 – Camorra-linked politician Nicola Cosentino, from ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (PdL) party, was released from house arrest on Friday after a court ruling in Caserta. Cosentino, a former industry undersecretary under Berlusconi, was … Continue reading
Anti-mafia police arrest two over 1992 Camorra mafia murder
(ANSA) – Naples, October 28 – Anti-mafia police arrested two people for a 1992 murder believed to have been part of a power grab by the Casalesi clan of the Neapolitan Camorra mafia, investigators said on Monday. The suspects, Giuseppe … Continue reading