A Mafia hitman who fled Italy after being sentenced to life for murder has been seized by police working as a fitness trainer at a luxury spa hotel in Germany. Valerio Salvatore Crivello, 44, poses in undated photo. He was caught working as a masseur in Sylt, Germany, on Monday,…
A secret written code followed and enforced by the Mafia has emerged after police in Italy wiretapped a meeting of a crime clan's leaders. The code - said to have been written down as statutes by the Cosa Nostra's founding fathers generations ago - is understood to control the way…
Secret undercover tapes have revealed how the Italian Mafia planned to recover nearly a tonne of hashish from a truck destroyed in the Morandi Bridge tragedy. More than 40 died when the bridge near Genoa partially collapsed four years ago. Now it has emerged that a Mafia-run chiller truck was…
A mobster who was the right-hand man of a ruthless Russian mafia organisation that is believed to have orchestrated the murders of dozens of people is set to stand trial and charged with even more murders. Artur Dzhioev, described by Russian prosecutors as one of the key members of a…
A suspected Italian Mafioso has been seized after eight years on the run working as a top chef at a luxury hotel on the French Riviera. Antonio Cuozzo Nasti, 56 - from Giugliano, Naples - was arrested in a dawn raid near Cannes today (May 3) where he reportedly worked…
