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Italian Police Seize Assets From Stealth Mobster
Italian police have seized assets worth 1.2 million euros ($1.6 million) from businessman Giancarlo Capobianco who was convicted on racketeering charges for his involvement with Sacra Corona Unita or...
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Italian Authorities Closing In On Mafia Boss
Matteo Messina Denaro, the so-called “boss of bosses” from Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia, has been a wanted man since 1993 but his days on the run may be drawing to a close according to Italian...
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Asset Seizure Targets Fugitive Boss
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 1.8 million euros ($2.4 million) from three suspected associates of Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro who has been on the lam since 1993 as reported...
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Asset Raid Against Calabrian Mafia
Italian police have arrested 47 white-collar professionals for their alleged support roles in the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia, and seized assets including fourteen companies worth 90 million euro...
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‘Ndrangheta Narco Arrested On French Riviera
Fugitive narco Giovanni Franco from the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia has been on the lam since February 2012, and he was found living the high life on the French Riviera as reported by ANSA....
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Asset Seizure Targets Calabrian Mafia
Italian police have seized assets worth $150 million euros ($200 million) including a luxury hotel in Rome from Giuseppe Mattiani, his son Pasquale, and other family members on suspicion that they have...
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Asset Raid Targets One-Time Boss From Magliana Gang In Rome, Italy
In July 2012 Italian police arrested Ernesto Diotallevi who allegedly headed the Magliana Gang which ran the Rome rackets, and now they’ve seized assets worth 25 million euros ($33.6 million) which...
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Asset Seizure Targets Sicilian Clan
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 18 million euros ($24.4 million) from transport businessman Giuseppe Maucer who is suspected as a front man for the Nardo clan from Cosa Nostra or the...
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Massive Raid Targets Calabrian Mafia
Italian police have arrested 20 suspected mobsters from the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia and seized 88 properties worth 70 million euros ($95 million) as reported by ANSA. Some of the high-end real...
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Asset Seizures Aim To Wipe Out Mafia Fronts
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 15 billion euros ($20.4 billion) from suspected Mafia fronts since 1992 as reported by ANSA: “some seven billion of those 14.475 billion euros in assets...
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Asset Seizure Targets Cosa Nostra
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 160 million euros ($217 million) from an unidentified businessman suspected of ties to a Mafia clan outside Palermo, Sicily as reported by ANSA: “the...
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Asset Seizure Targets Palermo Family For Suspected Ties To Mafia Bosses
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 51 million euros ($70 million) from Mario Niceta and some other family members for their suspected ties to imprisoned bosses from the Brancaccio clan of...
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Asset Seizure Targets Sicilian Mafia
Italian authorities have seized assets worth 50 million euros ($70 million) from construction and hotel businessman Giuseppe Amodeo who is suspected of ties to two Cosa Nostra bosses in the western...
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Italian Police Closing The Circle Around Fugitive Cosa Nostra Boss Matteo...
Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been on the lam since 1993, and Italian police have busted several of his close relatives who allegedly provided a “web of protection around the Cosa...
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Year-End Review For Mob-Busting Agency
In 2013 Italy’s top mob-busting agency — the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (DIA) — busted 160 mobsters, and “seized goods and assets worth 1.93 billion euros [$2.65 billion] and confiscated 2.7...
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Ho, Ho, Ho: A Mafia-Free Christmas
From swords to plowshares. Libera Terra is an organization that manages agricultural land confiscated from the Mafia, and this Christmas it is selling gift baskets with food treats such as organic wine...
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‘Ndrangheta Busts Across Italy
Italian police have arrested over a dozen suspected ‘Ndrangheta mobsters in unrelated raids across the country as reported by ANSA: in Rome three suspects were charged with gunning down reputed boss...
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Whitey Bulger’s Personal Items Up For Grabs
The feds plan on auctioning off Whitey Bulger’s possessions in order to provide restitution to his victims’ family members as reported by Denise Lavoie for The Associated Press: “they are trying to...
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Italy Vows To Ramp Up Fight Against The Mafia
Italian Premier Enrico Letta announced today that his government is developing measures to ramp up law enforcement against the country’s Mafia groups with a particular emphasis on asset seizures as...
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Italian Police Seize Tourist Resort
Italian police have seized a tourist resort worth 200 million euros ($273 million) on the southern coast on suspicion that the Aquino and Morabito clans from the ‘Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia were...
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