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Italian entrepreneur Antonino Vadalà, who is at the centre of an investigation into the murder of the Slovakian reporter Jan Kuciak, will be extradited to Italy in the coming days, according to Milan Filicko, the spokesman for the Kosice Prosecutor's Office, who is handling the case. The extradition was granted by the local authorities at the request of the Italian courts for crimes unrelated to Kuciak’s murder. According to the Czech media, he consented to being extradited without appeal. Vadalà was arrested in Slovakia for the first time with other people in connection with the murder of Kuciak and his...
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More than 30,000 Slovaks supported President Andrej Kiska's call for the resignation of the national police chief, in the wake of the crisis caused by the murder of a journalist investigating the corruption. About 30,000 people gathered in Bratislava on Thursday according to the daily SME, holding signs saying "shame on you" and "Gaspar, resign! referring to police chief Tibor Gaspar. Other rallies were held across the country. President Andrej Kiska, a liberal, disagreeing with the populist left-wing government, said earlier in the day to the press that he was counting on the dismissal of Tibor Gaspar "in the coming...
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The Slovak police announced on Saturday that they had released, after 48 hours of detention, seven Italian nationals arrested after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, who was investigating alleged mafia-linked corruption in Slovakia. "The investigator verified the facts necessary to bring (possible) charges. After 48 hours, the detainees were released,” said a police statement, without giving further details. The police had identified the seven men arrested as Antonino V. (42), Sebastiano V. (40), Bruno V., Diego R. (62), Antonio R. (58), Pietro C. (26) years old) and Pietro C. (54 years old). The men, who were arrested on Thursday,...
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The growth of Albanian drug trafficking and the proliferation of cannabis production in the country has earned Albania the nickname the “Columbia of Europe”. Italian authorities have found links between the Cosa Nostra and criminal groups in the Balkan country, while their influence on Albanian politics ensures they can continue to operate with minimal state interference. Albania, one of the smallest and poorest countries in Europe, has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown marijuana on the continent. An illicit industry that could be worth about 5 billion euros a year - about half of the country's gross domestic product. Albania,...
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An Italian Mafia boss known as the “cocaine king of Milan” has been arrested in Uruguay after managing to stay on the run and dodge drug trafficking and organised crime association charges for 23 years. Rocco Morabito, 50, was apprehended as a result of a joint investigation carried out by Italian and Uruguayan police, who tracked him down to a property in the southern resort city of Punta del Esta, where he had been living using false papers for more than 10 years. Morabito, who Italy’s interior minister described as the most wanted member of the notorious Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta clan,...
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Scores of Italian gang members, corrupt officials and crooked businesspeople have been convicted at the end of one of the largest graft trials Italy has seen. Dozens of defendants were found guilty of a range of offences at the end of a hearing in Rome that laid bare a system of intimidation, extortion and bribes that was used to win multi-million euro city contracts for a “Mafia-style” network. The largest sentence was handed down to the alleged ringleader of the operation, Massimo Carminati, who was jailed for 20 years. His lieutenant, convicted murderer Salvatore Buzzi, was handed a 19-year prison...
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The EU last week used the G20 summit in Hamburg as an opportunity to urge world leaders to slap sanctions on people smuggling gangs responsible for trafficking tens of thousands of migrants from Libya to Italy. European Council President Donald Tusk presented G20 officials with a document urging them to commit to efforts to counter people smuggling and an agree to pursuing “UN sanctions against those involved in smuggling and trafficking in Libya,” according to a report from Politico. The proposal was opposed by Russia and China. “We need more efforts at the international level to break the smugglers' business...
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The Vatican is considering a new doctrine for excommunicating Catholics convicted of corruption or mafia-related offences. At a conference on corruption attended by bishops, prosecutors, UN officials and victims of organised crime last week, Pope Francis instructed a commission to hammer out the detail of the doctrine. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's retired ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said: “Our effort is to create a mentality, a culture of justice that fights corruption and promotes the common good.” The commission is looking at steps that can be taken to create legalisation and policy to prevent organised crime, Tomasi said,...
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Mafia gangsters have made tens of millions of euros after taking charge of one of Europe’s largest migrant reception centres, prosecutors allege. Police in Italy have arrested 68 people with connections to a Roman Catholic charity mobsters used as cover to skim millions of euros in state funds, officials said yesterday. Members of a crime family with links to the ‘Ndrangheta clan are said to have used a camp in the Calabrian town of Isola di Capo Rizzuto as a cash machine, helping themselves to €36 million while the migrants who were housed there were forced to subsist on pigswill....
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Dozens of people with links to Naples' notorious Casalesi cartel have been arrested by Italian police. In a series of early morning raids on Wednesday, anti-mafia officers detained 69 suspects - including several high-prolife political figures, public officials and academics - in connection with an investigation into allegations of bid-rigging and corruption. A former mayor of Pompeii and Naples' top archaeology official were among those held after police targeted properties in at least 10 towns across an area spanning Naples and the city of Caserta. They were arrested as part of an operation codenamed “the Queen”, which was set up...
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