Organised crime: Italy’s mafia turns to white-collar crime as murder, extortion fall out of favour

EMILIO PARODI, of Reuters, reports on how the Italian mafia have moved into white collar crime…
After 30 years, Italy arrests mafia boss Messina Denaro at Sicilian hospital

Palermo, Italy Reuters Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man who has been on the run since 1993 was being treated for cancer. Nicknamed “Diabolik” and “‘U Siccu” (The Skinny One), Messina Denaro had been sentenced in absentia […]