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 →
NGOs working to save migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean are colluding with people smugglers, an Italian prosecutor has told La Stampa. Speaking with the Italian daily, Sicily-based Carmelo Zuccaro... read more →
A notorious Italian mafia boss wanted for a range of drug trafficking offences has been arrested by authorities in Mexico after Italian police tracked him down using social media. Giulio... read more →
An international investigation into people smuggling networks has resulted in the arrest 18 men suspected of trafficking migrants from Greece to northern Europe. More than 100 migrants were rescued from... read more →
A “violent and dangerous” mafia boss has been told he will spend at least 10 years in an Australian jail and likely face deportation back to Italy after he was... read more →
Police in Albania have announced a nationwide crackdown on marijuana cultivation, which has increased to such a degree in the country that it has become known as the “outdoor cannabis... read more →
