Firm quits Sicily to spurn Mafia
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An Italian cement firm says it is pulling out of Sicily as a sign of its refusal to submit to Mafia extortion.
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NEW YORK - Former police commissioner and one-time Cabinet nominee Bernard Kerik said Wednesday he would resign as an executive at Giuliani Partners, former Mayor Rudolph Giulianiâs consulting firm.
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Telecom Italia's TLIT.MI controlling   shareholder, Marco Tronchetti Provera, resigned as chairman on   Friday after a bitter row with the government over the future   of Europe's fifth-biggest telecoms group.
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Commerzbank, Germany's fourth-biggest bank, said that the head of its investment banking division, Mehmet Dalman, has quit.
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The Altria Group said Wednesday that it would spin off its international tobacco business on March 28, freeing it to pursue cigarette sales more aggressively outside the United States.
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Baltimore Technologies, once a darling of the dotcom boom, is to quit the London stock market, putting an end to its chequered history as a listed company.
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Aventis' exit leaves the pharmaceutical company in dire straits.
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Lech Walesa said Tuesday he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and which helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe. "I have given up my membership last year because Solidarity and I have gone separate ways," he told The Associated Press.
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The chairman of UK-listed online gambling company World Gaming, James Grossman, quits the business.
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Stephen Richards will retire from his positions as chief operating officer and chief financial officer.
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ROME - Italy's anti-Mafia investigators have long battled money laundering. Now they're cracking down on jailed mobsters' dirty laundry.
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Japanese financial authorities announced today they would shut down Citibank's private banking business in the country after finding "severe legal violations" in its operations.
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The boss of Australian packaging company Amcor quits his post amid a growing scandal over allegations of price-fixing.
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Dexia said Sunday that it had decided to formally terminate its plans to form an alliance with the Italian bank Sanpaolo IMI. The board of the French-Belgian bank &quot;has noted unanimously that the conditions
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The government is dissolving an elite graft-busting unit set up by prosecutors, the security minister announced Tuesday in the latest twist in a struggle between South Africa's crime-fighting agencies.
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The company's development group has been hit with layoffs.
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A dead Sicilian Mafia boss who once helped lead a drug ring out of New York pizza parlours may get the last laugh back home in Italy.