Organized Crime Takes Lead in Italyâs Economy
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Organized crime represents the biggest segment of the Italian economy, accounting for more than $127 billion in receipts, according to a report issued on Monday.
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Rome: Anti-Mafia judges in Italy have ordered the arrests on Monday of 52 people, including a member of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, for widespread collusion with organised crime gangs ...
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Police in Italy warn of the growth in the number of art works illegally being taken out of the country.
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Long considered something of a junior partner among Europe's elite nations, Italy is carving out a hefty role in world affairs.
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Money seized from organised criminals is to be used to expand two crimefighting units.
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Organized criminals in Europe are diversifying and moving away from specializing only in single types of crime, European police body Europol said on Tuesday.
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Italy's municipal elections give a boost to Romano Prodi's centre-left bloc after tight national polls.
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When Connecticut's largest city was mired in the economic slump of the early 1990s, the homicide toll climbed to record levels and drug dealers and gang leaders ruled, charging tolls to cross their turf. Then, when economic relief came to Bridgeport in the late 1990s, violent crime fell, as it did in other big cities around the country.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Transactions worldwide by  organized crime reach $2 trillion every year, and about half  that amount goes toward corruption and bribes, the United  Nations drugs and crime watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.
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chiefs hold emergency meetings over how to combat a mob turf battle in the southern Italian city. were the latest victims of a struggle for control a multi-billion dollar trade in drugs, arms and prostitution.
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A new Italian white wine has become a  symbol of the fight against organized crime, incurring the  wrath of gangsters from Naples because it was produced from  grapes grown on land confiscated from a Mafia godfather.
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Members of organised crime are joining financial firms to commit fraud, a new report by the industry watchdog reveals.
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Police have detained more than 50 people in a swoop on the local mafia, known as the Camorra, in the southern Italian city of Naples, which has been the scene of an escalating turf war.
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An associate of the Lucchese organized crime family operated an illegal multistate prescription drug ring that employed members of the Bloods street gang, the Bonanno
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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AMSTERDAM -- Authorities announced a major crackdown on organized crime in Amsterdam's Red Light District yesterday , for the first time allowing national police investigators and tax authorities to see the extent of what had long been seen as a local problem.