Former Cosa Nostra boss tells Milan court the Sicilian Mafia considered pinning its bombing campaign on the political Left as a favour to Silvio Berlusconi. He claims a veiled threat of further attacks was sent if he failed to help.
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Palermo Chief Prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia tells parliament’s anti-mafia commission that organised crime groups are looking to rebuild a “high-quality arsenal”. These include drone weapons Italy is unprepared to defend against.
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Italian investigators have dismantled an illegal shadow bank in Prato that allegedly channelled up to €100 million a year through an untraceable hawala payment network for Chinese, Albanian and Italian organised crime groups,. There were 41 arrests and €60million seized.
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Police have arrested three suspected murderers and issued 18 further precautionary measures in a coordinated operation targeting extortion rackets run by the Foggia mafia and its affiliated Gargano clans.
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Silvio Berlusconi’s most loyal political fixer, Marcello Dell’Utri is heading back to court aged 84. He is accused of hiding vast capital flows from the late tycoon that he was legally obliged to disclose.
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He was one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, hunted for more than a year on charges of murder. But Roberto Mazzarella, 48, head of one of Naples’ most powerful Camorra clans, was undone not by a tip-off or an informant but by an Easter holiday.
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Giovanni Brusca, the mafia hitman who detonated the bomb that killed anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992, is now officially a free man.
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Premier Giorgia Meloni reaffirmed her government’s commitment to fighting organised crime on Friday, Italy’s National Day of Remembrance for Mafia Victims. President Sergio Mattarella said a cohesive society can combat all mafias.
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Communities across Sicily are expressing unease as more than 20 senior mafia figures have been released from prison in the past three months. These men, many of whom were influential leaders in Cosa Nostra, are now returning to their former neighbourhoods, raising fears of renewed criminal activity.
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A nun was arrested on Thursday with 24 others in a police operation targeting a branch of the Calabria-based ’Ndrangheta in Brescia province.
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