International Organised Crime
Rocco Morabito, an ‘Ndrangheta mafioso who was second on the Italy’s most-wanted list (after number one Matteo Messina Denaro), was finally captured in Brazil in May 2021, after more than 27 years on the run.
Confiscation orders were issued for a total value of about EUR530,000 euros against Aiello and 200,000 euros against Puccio
The Mexican Mafia was founded in the late 1950s by inmates in the California state prison system. Latino gang members from Southern California banded together for protection against inmates of other races and Latino gangs from Northern California.
Anabel Hernández , a Mexican journalist and author, has published a book about Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of the wife of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, and other wives of other cartel drug lords.
The prison sentence for the 70-year-old boss Leo Sutera, believed to be the head of the Sambuca mafia clan and very loyal to the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, was reduced on appeal from 18 years to 14 years and 6 months. The Palermo court of appeal also confirmed the prison sentences of three mafia collaborators … Read more