Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 17:50
The Italian mafia plotted to blow up the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa among other monuments in the country.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 14:08
Francesco Raccosta, a mafia boss in Italy, was beaten with iron rods by a rival clan and later thrown at sly for pigs to eat him alive.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 23:54
Convicted in tax fraud, Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has formally appealed to either perform community service for a year rather than be jailed or to be put under house arrest.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 15:52
A new judicial report suggests that disgraced former premier Silvio Berlusconi made a 20-year pact with Mafia bosses to whom he paid millions of euros in exchange for protection and help with his business empire.
Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2013, 16:27
A major police operation in Italy on Friday led to the arrest of 38 people, including almost every member of a southern town council, for alleged mafia connections.
Last Updated: Monday, December 12, 2011, 19:39
Italian police seized $134 mn in mafia assets as part of operation against the Naples crime syndicate, the Camorra.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 20:37
Michele Zagaria, on the run since 1995, was found in an underground bunker in his hometown province of Caserta.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 14:38
Italian cops carry out operation to nab over 300 in a crackdown on Ndrangheta.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 12:17
Italian mafia is spreading its tentacles in the UK, with London firms acting as fronts for drug-dealing and money-laundering, a media report has claimed
Last Updated: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 14:22
Italian police arrested two Mafia leaders, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, a day after he was accused of links to the organisation.
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