Italy over the weekend ordered the release of several mafia leaders from jail under the government’s new coronavirus regulation. A report by CNN quoting Italy’s anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero de... read more →
European countries are freeing up their jail spaces by releasing low-risk prisoners early in a bid to keep the coronavirus outbreak at bay. Euronews reported on Thursday that releasing inmates... read more →
Italian intelligence services arrested 19 people and seized a cache of weapons on Thursday, as part of an extensive operation into a far-right group who wanted to create a new... read more →
Italian police have made 16 arrests in an operation targeting a gang smuggling drugs to Europe through Africa. Raids, which were carried out in several cities includind Parma, Florence, Rome... read more →
A Dutch cargo ship flying the Panama flag has been seized in the Italian port of Palermo with 20 tons of hashish on board, with a market value of up... read more →
Romanian and Italian police - with the support of Europol, its Joint Task Force on computer crimes (J-CAT) and Eurojust - have arrested 20 suspected hackers in a series of... read more →
A British model has been freed after reportedly being kidnapped in Italy by a shadowy online organisation known as the Black Death Group. Chloe Ayling is said to have been... read more →
Police in Italy are investigating claims that Mafia organisations have teamed up with Daesh to smuggle oil into Europe. Rome-based daily La Repubblica this week told readers detectives suspect the... read more →
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... read more →
Police in Italy have seized 37 million opioid tablets they claim were destined to be shipped to Daesh militants in Libya. Officials said the jihadi group would have sold the... read more →
