Move into tax evasion and money laundering means organised crime has 'not diminished but evolved', warns prosecutor ...

During the production of the movie masterpiece, director Francis Ford Coppola found himself entangled with real-life New York ...

In an “alarming” situation, there are on average 100 prisoner mobile phones in each Italy’s prisons, said Nicola Gratteri, a ...

Fabrice Rizzoli, the president of Crim'HALT anti-mafia group, claimed there are 24 gangs on the island, which were responsible for 20 murders and 10 attempted hits ... by the Italian anti-mafia ...

Once a jewel of the Mediterranean, by the 1980s the Sicilian capital had become dilapidated and dangerous. Now, freed of the ...

A notorious Sicilian mob boss was allowed to celebrate his silver wedding anniversary in the church where a top mafia ...

More than 5,500 years ago, two women were tied up and probably buried alive in a ritual sacrifice, using a form of torture associated today with the Italian Mafia, according to an analysis of ...

“How could I have known?” he told the Italian media. “It’s not as if I can ask for an anti-mafia certificate from people who come to the church. It’s not us who should be responsible for ...

Imprisoned mafia bosses are calling each other to conduct drug deals and even ordering “punitive expeditions” against their rivals because phones are so widespread in Italian jails. In an ...

“How could I have known?” he told the Italian media. “It’s not as if I can ask for an anti-mafia certificate from people who come to the church. It’s not us who should be responsible for carrying out ...