Tag Archives: Mafia
Mafia cold case solved after 12 years
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-6232d789a803fe7962b37a653fc28330.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Mafia cold case solved after 12 years” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-6232d789a803fe7962b37a653fc28330.jpg” (ANSA) – Palermo, March 19 – Italian police on Wednesday said they had cracked a 12-year-old Mafia murder thanks to new information from informants. PMafia-linked Sicilian … Continue reading
Mobster informant says 1990s bombings stopped when Mafia won
IMG class=hide alt=”Mobster informant says 1990s bombings stopped when Mafia won” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-d064fab98e10f1360540a04e1d45d86e.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, March 14 – Mafia bombings in the 1990s ended because the Sicilian crime syndicate had obtained all it wanted in secret talks with the State, … Continue reading
Police arrest mafia boss wounded in ambush over love affair
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-fb3c5f1e15652d5db41c881a38d3fde5.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Police arrest mafia boss wounded in ambush over love affair” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-fb3c5f1e15652d5db41c881a38d3fde5.jpg” (ANSA) – Naples, March 11 – Police on Tuesday arrested the brother of a jailed Camorra mafia boss on weapons charges after he … Continue reading
Bureaucracy ‘worse’ than the mafia, Confindustria says
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-0e6a43dbd8ec99d7de48aa61f18626c1.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Bureaucracy ‘worse’ than the mafia, Confindustria says” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-0e6a43dbd8ec99d7de48aa61f18626c1.jpg” (ANSA) – Palermo, February 25 – Bureaucracy is more to be feared than organised crime, a representative of the influential industrial employers’ association Confindustria said Tuesday. … Continue reading
Re-open cannabis debate, hurt mafia, says ex-health minister
IMG class=hide alt=”Re-open cannabis debate, hurt mafia, says ex-health minister” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-79562239e32a53ac859d538faad2922e.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, February 20 – It’s time that Italy re-opened the debate on liberalizing marijuana use, to cut out drug traffickers, permit its medical use, while acknowledging the … Continue reading
Former Sicily governor convicted of Mafia charge
IMG class=hide alt=”Former Sicily governor convicted of Mafia charge” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-d46f1a38cdc17752fb37905c0fa67df0.jpg” (ANSA) – Catania, February 19 – Former Sicilian governor Raffaele Lombardo was sentenced to six years, eight months in jail by a judge in Catania after being found guilty of … Continue reading
Daughter of convicted Palermo boss repudiates mafia roots
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-d1d8ebe273cfff99e3d47404022fc5692.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Daughter of convicted Palermo boss repudiates mafia roots” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-d1d8ebe273cfff99e3d47404022fc5692.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, February 13 – The daughter of a former Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss on Thursday rejected her mafia roots and decided to collaborate … Continue reading
49 arrests made in knock-off designer goods mafia probe
IMG class=hide alt=”49 arrests made in knock-off designer goods mafia probe” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wpid-289d6a925579fe88b1ee023340a6559c.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, January 17 – Italian finance police in Naples on Friday began executing 49 arrest orders regarding alleged members of six different organized crime groups. PThey … Continue reading
Mafia informant on the loose after prison leave
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wpid-3106f81d0862d11f8ec22d846baad07a.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Mafia informant on the loose after prison leave” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wpid-3106f81d0862d11f8ec22d846baad07a.jpg” (ANSA) – Pescara, December 19 – A member of the Naples-based Camorra mafia who turned informant was listed as a fugitive Thursday after he failed … Continue reading
‘Protection raised’ for 4 magistrates after Mafia threats
IMG class=hide alt=”‘Protection raised’ for 4 magistrates after Mafia threats” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wpid-a597578474a39f82cd50d7020f4e97eb.jpg” (ANSA) – Milan, December 16 – Four Italian magistrates have been put under the “highest level” of police protection after threats concerning their investigations of the Cosa Nostra Mafia, … Continue reading