Anti-Mafia Police Seize Green Energy Companies
Italian police have seized assets worth 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion) from green energy businessman Vito Nicastri who is suspected of ties with both Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia and the...
View ArticleFather-And-Son Team Lose Companies Over Suspected Ties To Sicilian Boss
Italian authorities have seized six companies worth 30 million euros ($40 million) from Francesco Morici and his son Vincenzo Morici who allegedly have ties to fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro from...
View ArticleSuspected Mobsters Lose Fruits Of Their Labor
Italian authorities have busted 22 suspected members from the Galliciano clan of the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia for their alleged roles in laundering the crime family’s dirty money as reported by...
View ArticleUS Treasury Dep’t Identifies Sinaloa Drug Kingpins
The Treasury Department has identified eight more bosses from the Sinaloa drug cartel pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act which subjects their U.S. assets to seizure and bans...
View ArticleSebastiano Scuto Gets 12 Years In Prison For Mafia Association; Loses Control...
Sebastiano Scuto was sentenced last month to twelve years in prison upon his conviction of laundering money for and paying protection to the Laudani clan from Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia, and now...
View ArticleFrom Good Life To House Arrest; Italian Authorities Seize Reputed Mobster’s...
Italian police seized assets worth 16 million euros ($20.6 million) including real estate and luxury goods in connection with a money laundering investigation into reputed Sicilian mobser Salvatore...
View ArticleMafia Clans Lose Assets Worth $100 Million
The life is only fun until someone loses his assets. Italian police have seized over $100 million in suspected Mafia assets pursuant to two separate investigations. In one probe companies, property and...
View ArticleMobster’s Booty Distributed To Victims’ Relatives
Chicago Outfit mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. was convicted on racketeering charges involving thirteen murders over the decades in the 2007 Family Secrets trial, and next month the victims’ relatives will...
View ArticleTreasury Department Targets Latino Gang; Continues To Ignore Italian Mob
Last October the Treasury Department designated MS-13 as a transnational criminal organization under Executive Order 13581 which freezes their U.S. assets and bans Americans from conducting business...
View ArticleItalian Authorities Put The Financial Squeeze On Boss Of Bosses Matteo...
Matteo Messina Denaro, the so-called “boss of bosses” from Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia, has been a wanted man since 1993, and his days on the run may be drawing to a close as authorities seize...
View ArticleGun Dealer For Calabrian Mobster Loses Assets
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 10 million euros ($13 million) from Alfredo Bizzoni who once served “a 20-month prison sentence for supplying weapons to a Calabrian mobster that channeled...
View ArticleWaste Carter Loses Assets For ‘Ndrangheta Ties
Assets worth 8 million euros ($10.3 million) including an 18th century aristocratic palazzo have been seized from waste carter Carlo Sama for his alleged association with the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian...
View ArticlePoliticians Drinking At Mafia Bar
The famed Antico Caffe’ Chigi, a watering hole used by Italian politicians when conducting the people’s business in Rome, is among the assets seized by authorities in a raid against the Gallico clan...
View ArticleAsset Raid Against Mallardo Clan
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 50 million euros ($64 million) from the Mallardo clan of the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia as reported by ANSA: “a car dealership, seaside establishment and...
View ArticleAssets Worth Millions Seized From Mobster’s Heirs
In Italy death offers no protection for a mobster’s assets. Italian authorities have seized assets worth 16 million euros ($21 million) which had been bequeathed by the late mobster Salvatore Izzo to...
View ArticleMafia Raids Take Down 100+ Mobsters In Italy
It’s a good morning in Italy. Italian police have arrested more than 100 suspected mobsters in two unrelated raids — one targeting Sicilian Mafia clans in Rome and another focussed on a Calabrian Mafia...
View ArticleCalabrian Mafia Loses $9.3M In Northern Assets
Italian authorities have seized assets worth seven million euros ($9.3 million) from a suspected ‘Ndrangheta clan operating in the northern city of Turin in the Piedmont region as reported by ANSA....
View ArticleTreasury Department Targets Los Gueros
Federal revenuers have designated six associates and several companies allegedly tied to Mexican drug cartel Los Gueros under the U.S. Kingpin Act which prohibits American citizens from doing business...
View ArticleMobster’s Heirs Lose Assets
In Italy death offers no protection for a mobster’s assets. Italian authorities have seized assets worth 700 million euros — nearly $1 billion — which had been bequeathed by Dante Passarelli to his...
View ArticleFinancial Squeeze Continues On Sicilian Boss
Italian police have seized assets including olive oil companies, numerous bank accounts and real estate holdings worth 38 million euros — $51.4 million — which allegedly are traceable to Sicilian Mafia...
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