Italian court says former prime minister was victim of extortion by Cosa Nostra in the 1970s

Vito Roberto Palazzolo, arrested at Bangkok airport, had been living in South Africa under the assumed name Robert von Palace Kolbatschenko and is wanted in Italy.

Organised crime is Italy's biggest business, generating far greater than sales than Eni, the country's oil behemoth, according to a new report.

Until six people were shot dead at an Italian eatery in Duisburg in 2007, no one considered Germany mafia heartland. An Italian court has sentenced eight men, including the mastermind of that shooting, to life in prison

The Italian Mafia is becoming more and more active in Switzerland, according to an annual police report published Thursday. The country is mainly being used for money-laundering operations, the report says

Dozens of mafia companies have headquarters in a warehouse on the outskirts of Bucharest. The groups "connected" to the illegal grouping "Container" sold among themselves fictitious firms on millions of euros

Giovanni Falcone, Prosecutor, as well as his colleague Paolo Borsellino and the General of the Carabinieri Carlo Dalla Chiesa, are the most famous victims of the fight of the Italian State against organized crime

In the Cosa Nostra's stronghold of Palermo, Sicily's sprawling port capital, the Mafia have ways and means of knowing if you are turning a profit. And inevitably they want a cut

A Rome court on Thursday ordered the disgraced billionaire founder of Italian internet company Fastweb to be released from house arrest in northern Italy at the request of his lawyers. Silvio Scaglia, 52, is currently on trial over a 2 billion euro mafia money laundering and tax fraud scam

More than 30 businessmen have been expelled from the Sicilian chapter of Confindustria - Italy's main private employers' association - for failing to report mafia extortionists, according to chapter president, Ivan Lo Bello