International Organised Crime
Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted man, was arrested while receiving cancer treatment in a private clinic in Palermo, prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia said Monday. He was Italy’s Most Wanted Man and also high up on the list of Europol’s Most Wanted Men in Europe. Italy’s Chief of Police, Lamberto Giannini, congratulated the Carabinieri, the … Read more
The attacks were the brainchild of Matteo Messina Denaro, the son of Francesco Messina Denaro, also known as Don Ciccio, who started his career as a campiere and ended it as the boss of the Castelvetrano cosca and the head of the Mafia Commission of Trapani.
According to a video message posted by the Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, the Belgian security forces had prevented an organized crime squad from kidnapping him.
The death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel was tragic, but it was not the only killing linked to organized crime activity in Liverpool that week. Another three people were killed in Merseyside in the space of a few days.
Viktor Zelinger was the head of a highly organized criminal gang that engaged in a variety of actions often associated with organized crime, including extortion, arson, assault, drug trafficking, illicit gambling, loansharking, and wire fraud.