Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Naples mafia boss suspected of having given €10,000 to one of his men to buy a newborn baby, a paper reported on Sunday.
Suggestions that the Camorra has been usurped are exaggerated, explains Neapolitan mafia expert Felia Allum, who says the clan continues to infiltrate all aspects of life in Naples.
Italy and Austria have broken up an international arms trafficking ring that supplied the Camorra organised crime group with 800 guns including "weapons of war."
Italian police on Saturday arrested top mafia fugitive Marco Di Lauro, the fourth son of ex-Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro, after over 14 years on the run.
Italy’s interior ministry has removed the police escort given to veteran mafia journalist Sandro Ruotolo, it was announced on Saturday, causing an outcry among his supporters and professional peers.
Italian police on Tuesday captured a mafia boss who had been on the country's list of most dangerous fugitives, after discovering his luxury hide-out in the Naples hinterland.
A mafia gang played football with the head of a decapitated rival, according to revelations from a former member of the organized crime group reported in the Italian media.
Crackdowns on Italy's mafia clans and the arrests of notorious bosses have had unintended consequences - including the rise of an inexperienced but reckless generation of aspiring leaders. Felia Allum, Senior Lecturer in Italian and Politics at the UK's University of Bath explains what this has meant for Italy.
Italian police detained dozens of politicians and businessmen around Naples on Wednesday in a swoop that revealed the local mafia has got its tentacles into archaeology and the crematorium business.
Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested 31 suspected mobsters, including the daughters of a jailed mafia boss, accusing them of executing orders delivered from behind bars and snapping up key clan roles.
Italian police swooped on Wednesday on a Mafia clan
in Sicily, arresting dozens in an international operation to dismember a powerful crime group run by women.
Spanish police said on Thursday they have arrested a suspected member of Italy's Camorra mafia who was on the run since 2007 in the Mediterranean port of Valencia where he worked as waiter in a pizzeria.
The Italian mafia is on the march, infiltrating whole new sectors of Italy's economy, a new official report has warned. But while corruption is spreading, old-school mafia violence is becoming less common.
An MP for Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party is being investigated for collusion with the mafia, Italian media reported on Wednesday, just a day after a high-profile politician from the party was arrested on corruption charges.
Spanish police Tuesday arrested 26 suspected members of the Italian Camorra mob accused of laundering mafia money through companies in Spain, prosecutors said.
A high-profile mafia boss allegedly paid a judge and a lawyer €250,000 to "fix" the outcome of a double murder trial, which he has claimed was part of a system of bribes at the Naples court of appeal.
The Camorra mafia was only partially responsible for its crimes and was helped by a corrupt system, involving politicians from all political stripes, a mafia boss turned state witness has said.
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 17 people accused of being part of lucrative illegal waste dumping in Campania, with ties to one of the regions most notorious mafia families.
The brother of a Naples shopkeeper who committed suicide after his business was threatened with closure has sparked controversy by saying that crime syndicate the Camorra would have given him more time to pay.
A cardinal and bishops in Italy's so-called "Triangle of Death" have called for urgent action to tackle toxic mafia dumps blamed for rising cancer rates near Naples.
Italian police on Monday arrested four suspected mafia members who were forcing shopkeepers to buy Christmas flowers for up to €100 each to raise money for jailed mobsters.
A man from Battipaglia, near the southern Italian city of Salerno, was arrested after telling a barman he was a mafia chief in order to get free drinks and croissants.
