International Organised Crime
7th August 70-year-old Maria Licciardi, the head or “Madrina” (Godmother) of the Licciardi Camorra, was arrested by the paramilitary Carabinieri’s special operations unit as she attempted to check in her luggage at Rome Ciampino airport.
19th July the Italian National Magistrates Association organized a meeting at the Valley of the Temples in Sicily, to honour the memory of Paolo Borsellino, who was killed by a car bomb in Via D’Amelio, near his mother’s house in Palermo on the 19th of July 1992.
The Camorra is going strong. It is trying to vanish into the background, giving the false impression that is has been weakened, but this is far from being the case.
In the first three months of 2021 around one hundred restaurants and shopkeepers in Tokyo took a stand against the Yakuza. Entrepreneurs in the capital have faced massive losses of business during the pandemic. Struggling to keep their heads above water, they are no longer willing to pay the Japanese mafia the mikajimeryo (lace) extorted … Read more
Covid has unleashed a financial crisis in Italy, and the Camorra is circling, just like vultures before the kill. Sectors such as tourism and construction have slowed down considerably, and in some cases they have ground to a halt. This has led to thousands of people losing their jobs, and they are now struggling to … Read more
