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 ...

An investigation of the remains, which are believed to be from women who were bound together and buried alive, yielded evidence of a form of torture associated nowadays with the Italian mafia ...

Marcello seemed untouchable. He soon climbed the ranks of the Louisiana mafia, skimming money from some of the largest ...

Part of a historic prison on the idyllic island of Pianosa where Italy’s most notorious gangsters were held, has been ...

They were likely buried alive in a ritual sacrifice, a form of torture now associated with the Italian mafia. Researchers believe the burial site acted as a place where people gathered to mark the ...

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.

However, magistrates say it is also because the Sicilian mafia and its Calabrian counterpart ... inequality and polarization to undermine the declining and indebted Italian state. Italy’s traditional ...

Is the mafia real? Does the phenomenon exist in Malta ... Malta’s gaming industry has been systemically used by Italian gangland bosses to launder their money. Kleptocratic embezzlers from ...

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 “alarming” ...