Italy’s ‘Godmother’ mafia boss arrested at Rome airport

A top female mafia boss in Naples, Maria Licciardi, was arrested Saturday while attempting to fly to Spain, Italian media reports said.

Spanish police return Italian mafia fugitive to Italy after three years on the run

Mafioso on the run caught after posting Italian cooking videos

Pope criticises the mafia for ‘exploiting’ the pandemic

‘Ndrangheta: Italian grandma tips off police to bring down mafia clan

‘Ndrangheta: Court takes over mafia-linked Sicilian ferry company

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Former Rome mayor on trial for corruption

‘Ndrangheta: Local politician among 19 arrested in mafia sting

Dozens arrested in Swiss-Italian mafia sting operation

Italian public officials arrested as police uncover major mafia fraud

Police bust mafia pocketing income support meant for Italy’s poor

Italy tightens rules on releasing mafiosi from prison during coronavirus outbreak

Hundreds of mafia members leave prison under Italy’s lockdown

Mafia set to profit from Italy’s coronavirus devastation

Why Italian cinema is starting to glamorize the mafia

Italy boosts anti-mafia force after attempt to blow up witness in Puglia

Italian police chief and ex-MP among 334 people arrested in major mafia bust

Italian mafia caught turning toxic plastic into shoes

Italian police seize ‘astonishing’ stash of explosives, guns and drugs in mafia stronghold

Austrian father and son jailed for supplying guns to Italian mafia

Italian mafia boss suspected of trying to buy a baby for €10,000

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How the Italian mafia poisons everyday life in Naples

Italy’s Nigerian mafia hit by major police raid

Italian police join FBI in raids on historic mobster families

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Two Italian ‘Ndrangheta suspects arrested in Brazil

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Italian mafia boss escapes prison in Uruguay

The lira is still being used in Italy – by the mafia

Mafia turncoat’s true story gets star turn at Cannes

Italy remembers the life and death of anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, 27 years on

Naples starts demolition of notorious crime-ridden Scampia buildings

Italian PM sacks Salvini ally suspected of corruption and mafia ties

Actor from mafia film Piranhas stabbed in Naples

The mafia is a bigger security threat than terrorism or migration: Europol

Europe underestimates ‘cancer’ of Italian mafia: experts

Italy and Austria smash mafia arms trafficking ring

‘We mustn’t bow to violence’: Italy’s Covid-hit businesses battle to resist mafia

Spanish police strike blow to Camorra mafia crime network

Anger as Italy’s interior ministry pulls police escort from mafia journalist

‘New generation’ of young mafia heirs arrested

Daughter of Italian mafia boss denies cashing in with ‘Corleone’ restaurant

Italy demands €2 million in ‘expenses’ from the family of mafia boss Totò Riina

Croatia arrests wanted Italian former mafia member

Mafia informant’s brother shot dead on Christmas Day

The Italian mafia is expanding abroad, and European police forces aren’t prepared

‘Godfather’ arrest a crucial blow to Italy’s mafia, say police

Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia hit by major international bust

Italy’s Salvini in trouble for tweet on ‘Nigerian mafia’

New mafia boss and 45 suspected mobsters arrested in Sicily

Italy nabs fugitive mobster on most dangerous list

Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia ‘on all continents’ and still growing

Rome knocks down flashy mafia villas

Italy’s budget was tampered with to favour tax evaders, deputy PM claims

How the mafia uses violence to influence Italian politics

Italian court cuts sentences for ringleaders of Rome’s ‘Mafia Capitale’ gang

Police confiscate 150 million euros from fruit and veg mafiosi brothers

“Come to Ostia, you won’t get headbutted”: summer promo ad sparks controversy

Italy’s Salvini declares war on mafia after migrant worker deaths

Italian police bust ‘Ndrangheta cannabis plantation with 26,000 plants

Italian family of child dissolved in acid by mafia to receive €2 million

The life and death of Sicilian anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino

Police raids target powerful Casamonica clan in Rome and southern Italy

‘I’m not afraid of Matteo Salvini’: Italian author Roberto Saviano defiant after threat to remove protection

Italian mafioso jailed for attack on journalist

Villa seized from Italian mafia to be turned into LGBT centre

Italian mafia is spreading abroad, investigator warns

Italy judge hands down hefty sentences in mafia collusion trial

Italy tightens net around mafia godfather with 22 arrests

Italian mafia recorded plotting to kill ‘troublesome’ journalist

Italy’s anti-mafia police arrest 11 suspected aides of Cosa Nostra boss

Italian businessman named by murdered Slovak journalist held on drugs charge

Slovak police free Italian suspects held after journalist murder

Murdered Slovak journalist was ‘investigating Italian mafia’

‘Concrete risk’ of mafia meddling in Italy election, ministers warn

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Italian police bust Chinese ‘mafia’ running rackets across Europe

Neapolitans take to the streets to protest series of attacks by violent teen gangs

Over 160 suspects arrested in German-Italian anti-mafia sweep

Ambulance driver suspected of killing patients to make money from their funerals

Italy launches manhunt for mafia boss on the run for 24 years

Nearly 200 journalists in Italy are under police protection

Late mobster’s daughter launches ‘Uncle Totò’ online shop

Mafia ‘godmother’ arrested in Palermo

Italian police sweep Ostia amid fears of mafia war

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Italian mafia diversifying, spreading north: experts

Italy dissolves five town councils for mafia infiltration

Mafia boss Totò Riina buried in Corleone

Bologna priest compares abortion to mafia killings

Italy’s Five Star Movement takes control of former mafia town Ostia

Is Totò Riina’s death the end of the Sicilian mafia?

‘The Beast’ of Sicilian mafia, Totò Riina, dies in prison

Mafioso assault sparks Italian media protest

Italy wiretaps bill could aid mafia and harm press freedom, critics say

Organized crime casts long shadow over Sicily election, says anti-mafia prosecutor

Son-in-law of notorious mafia boss begs for money on Facebook

Mafia boss accused of using the head of a decapitated rival as a football

Naples fights mafia – with first bookshop in 50 years

Juventus fans in mafia grip, say Italian justice officials

Over 20 arrested in major anti-mafia sweep in Lombardy

Italian police bust Sicilian-Colombian cocaine racket

Mafia love story musical shows a different side to Naples

Marital row exposes mafia fugitive, Milan’s ‘king of cocaine’, in Uruguay

Italy’s ‘most wanted mafioso’ arrested in Uruguay

Daylight murders reveal lack of state capacity in southern region

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Mafia boss refused jail release for cancer treatment

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‘The recovery fund is in their sights’: Europol warns of Italian mafia profiting from crisis across EU

Statue of slain anti-mafia prosecutor decapitated in Palermo

How Italy is helping teenage mafia heirs escape the criminal underworld

Meet the man helping Italy’s mafia children through therapy

At least 13 arrested as police swoop on Italian mafia in Spain

Italian police target 116 individuals in major anti-mafia sweep

Italian mafia drug lord arrested in Geneva pizza restaurant

Italian court opens door to jailed Mafia boss’ possible release

Mafia boss shot dead in Sicilian street

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One of Italy’s largest migrant centres was mafia-run, say police

Milan anti-mafia probe uncovers clan links to Lidl supermarkets

Italy dissolves four town councils over mafia infiltration

Five Star Movement leader is a ‘threat’ to press freedom in Italy: Reporters Without Borders

Fugitive mafia boss busted at Tuscan balcony barbecue

Pope Francis washes feet of former mafiosi in Easter rite

Police close two public schools over mafia links

Italian mafia expert labels UK ‘the most corrupt country in the world’

Young guns take charge of mafia clans – with deadly results

Italian police capture mobster wanted over mafia massacre in Germany

Thousands march in anti-mafia protests across Italy

Priest demands that mafia reveal victims’ burial site

‘I never met mafia bosses’: Juventus president denies organized crime links

Mafia godfathers can’t be church godfathers, bishop rules

Naples police uncover mafia links to university, museum, and crematorium

Facebook search traps Italian mobster in Mexico

Italy creates national ‘Mafia Victims Remembrance Day’

The godfather: Church fumes in Sicily as mobster’s son gets offer he can’t refuse

Naples police arrest 31 suspected mobsters, including ‘mafia daughters’

Italy’s top football club accused of mafia links

Pope criticizes mafia’s ‘blood-stained money’, ‘evil power’

Police seize luxury villas and cars from ex-mafia boss ‘Angel Face’

Italian priest sparks scandal after inviting public to mass for slain Canada mafia boss

Italy nabs suspected allies of fugitive mafia boss

Italy police nab mafia fugitive known as ‘The Dancer’

Police charge 69 for toxic waste dumping in Italy’s ‘Land of Fires’

Gomorrah writer Saviano tells mafia: you did not succeed

Police catch mafia fugitive ‘Mamma’ in secret room in his own home

Remains of ‘up to six bodies’ discovered in Sicilian cave

Italian police probe helicopter wedding for mafia links

Italian mafia fugitive found on family holiday in Benidorm

Italy sacks council in Sicilian ‘Godfather’ town

Italy arrests senator over ‘mafia links’

Italy seizes €44m from mafia boss obsessed with ‘Scarface’

Italian police nab hobbling mafia boss

Italy mafia boss Bernardo ‘the tractor’ Provenzano dies

Police raids as tensions mount in Italy’s Chinatown

Naples mobsters bring home dough from bread sales

Italy hails mafia killer’s arrest as historic

Exotic animals from Italy’s underworld find safe haven

How the brutal murder of an anti-mafia hero altered Sicily

Star pizza maker/mafia boss nabbed in Dutch seaside town

Art-loving mafia mobster’s collection in Italy show

Italy dissolves northern town council infiltrated by mafia

Italian police posing as pizza delivery boys nab mafia boss

Why Italian bookshops are snubbing a mobster’s son

Airtime for mafia boss’s son sparks fury in Italy

Mafia boss’s €3.5m hospital stay funded by Italian taxes

How the mafia infiltrated this Italian town’s anti-mafia group

Probe opens after Easter parade honours mafia boss

Mafia suspects refuse to leave Switzerland

Swiss arrest fifteen suspected Italian mobsters

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More informants needed to break mafia’s grip on north

Italy swoops on powerful women-run Mafia clan

Mussolini’s ‘love boat’ seized from alleged tax evader

Italian mobster nabbed as he visits newborn son

Italy nabs mobster bosses ‘living like animals’ in bunker

Mob boss sparks fury with 100th birthday bash

Italian female footballers defy mafia-style threats

Five convicted in Rome corruption trial

Mafia toxic waste causes high cancer rates: report

Women’s football team hit by mafia-style threats

Italy soccer star to stand trial for mafia ties

Rome ex-mayor to stand trial for corruption

Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain pizzeria

Granny mafia boss, 38, hooked for fish scam

Italy’s mafias swap brutality for white collars

Italian Mafia ‘election’ details revealed

Sicily mafia ‘plotted hit job on interior minister’

Italy’s landmark mafia trial goes to prison

Totti paid to thwart son’s kidnap: report

Refugees and Roma ask to testify in mafia trial

Italian police arrest mafia ‘baby boss’

Mafia trial puts black soul of Italy in the dock

‘Rome can’t fight crime’: Anti-corruption chief

Wanted Colombian DJ arrested in Italy: police

Costa Rica busts cocaine ring linked to Italy mafia

Ousted Rome mayor warns of mafia return

Italian police arrest 48 ‘Ndrangheta suspects

Mafia baptism ad sparks anger in Sicily

Italian turns to crowd funding for mafia PhD

Rome mayor slams Rai mafia family interview

Mafia boss dad was ‘like Pope Francis’

Ostia council dissolved over mafia fears

Reporters threatened over mafia boss’s funeral

Italy wants answers on mobster’s flashy funeral

Outcry as mafia boss given lavish send-off

Slain anti-mafia judge’s daughter under guard

Italian police find cocaine haul under frozen squid

Fugitive mafia Godfather protected ‘at high level’

Italy cracks sheep code in mafia sweep

Rome mayor fights for survival amid chaos

Mafia milks Italy’s green energy boom

Italy seizes mafia assets worth €2 billion

Seized mafia assets a ‘headache’ for Italy

€1.6bn seized from Sicilian mafia pensioners

Rome Mayor Marino sent bullet in post

Regrets but no remorse for Sicily’s mafia veteran

WATCH: Brilliant video lays bare mafia power

Six more arrested in Rome mafia probe

Italy arrests 44 tied to Rome’s garbage mafia

Canada cracks Italian mafia drug ring

Brazil arrests mafioso on the run since 1980s

Hideout of ex-mob boss becomes police station

Italy and FBI bust mafia network in NYC pizzeria

New York mafia boss extradited to Italy

Mafia boss arrested in Costa del Sol post office

Italy to give anti-mafia witnesses new jobs

Extradition of ex-mafia boss from UK dropped

Rome tourist restaurants hid mafia money: police

Mafia threats against local politicians rising

UK court orders ex-mafia boss extradited to Italy

Spain sticks by ‘Mafia’ restaurant chain

Italy’s mafia matriarch conquers the world

Italian mafia looted WWII ship for bombs

Sergio Mattarella: Sicilian ‘man of the law’

‘Ndrangheta mafia boss found in Rome attic

Italy hails ‘turning point’ in battle against mafia

Italy swoops against notorious ‘Ndrangheta

Italy’s mafia reaps profit from ‘charity’ clothing

Italian anti-mafia film-maker dies at 92

Rome’s mayor defies mobster threats

Anti-mafia probe shakes Italian capital

Ex-Rome mayor in city hall mafia probe

Mafia use tigers and parrots to wield power

Four sentenced for killing anti-mafia judge

Italy captures mafia initiation rites on film

Filming Sky’s mafia show in mob villa a ‘mistake’

Italy head of state to testify at mafia trial

Italian president to testify at mafia trial in October

Italian president must testify at mafia trial

Mafia clan nabbed after firms refuse to pay up

A glimpse at the Calabrian mafia in film

Mafia luxury watch theft ring busted in Ibiza

Mob storms hospital in Naples: nabs mafia body

Italy’s journalists live in fear of mafia threat

Mafia spreads ‘like cancer’ but cuts violence

Berlusconi MP probed over mafia links

‘Mafia trio’ extorted TV series on mob

Suspected Italian mafiosi arrested in Spain

‘The Madonna does not bow to gangsters’

‘Ndrangheta mafia taking root in northern Italy

‘My father’s uncle killed Joe Petrosino’

Pope excommunicates Italian mafia

Mafia profits make up 1.7 percent of Italy’s GDP

Pope to visit town of boy killed by mafia

Mafia paid judge €250k bribe to ‘fix’ murder case

Corrupt politics helped us thrive: mafia boss

Mafia secrets will make Italy’s elite ‘tremble’

Ex-Berlusconi MP arrested over mafia links

‘Mafia is behind stolen anti-cancer drugs’

Fury after Naples called a ‘mafia stronghold’

Mafia killer uses Jose Mourinho as alibi

Italy plans global network to fight mafia

Bury him: Jailed mobster’s hit order

Ex-MP likely to stay in custody in Lebanon

‘The mafia has infiltrated every sector in Germany’

Ex-MP arrested in Beirut ahead of mafia ruling

Ex-MP flees Italy ahead of mafia ruling

Jailed mafia godfather hospitalized in Milan

Fugitive Italian mob boss re-arrested in Britain

Meet the Italian prosecutor set for ‘historic’ anti-mafia court battle

Sicilian mafia boss ‘bites off and eats’ prison guard’s finger

UK judge says mafia fugitive free to go home

Mafia earns more than McDonald’s: study

Pope meets mob victims as church shuns dons

Child killing shows mafia ‘code of conduct’ is myth

Mafia fugitive wins British extradition battle

17 people arrested over mafia waste dumping

‘Bank of Italy’ mobster sparks fears of new mafia

Italian women take on the mafia

Mafia plot to kill ex-New York mayor revealed

‘Italy worse than Camorra with my dead brother’

Italian ‘mafia boss’ in UK extradition hearing

Spain’s ‘mafia’ eateries spark Italian outrage

‘My son was killed by the mafia’

‘Toxic waste victims need doctors not soldiers’

Mafia pondered bombing Pisa’s leaning tower

One dead after Italian police launch mafia sting

Mafia toxic waste protester dies of cancer

‘Mafia-linked firms’ renovated Sting’s villa

Italian mafia boss to teach prison law course

Italy to send army to fight mafia toxic waste

Rome police crack secret mafia code

Bishops plea for aid in Italy’s ‘Triangle of Death’

Mafia nabbed in Christmas flowers racket

‘Pizza Connection’ mafia boss to be extradited

Police crack down on fugitive mafia godfather

Italy’s ‘ecomafia’ boss arrested in Naples

‘Anti-mafia’ mayor arrested for mafia ties

Mafia boss was ‘fed alive to pigs’

Mafia boss arrested in London ‘had heart attack’

Pig’s head dumped at politician’s home

Toxic mafia dumps sow panic near Naples

Germany cracks down on Italian mafia

Thousands in Naples protest mafia pollution

Vatican plays down mafia ‘threat’ against Pope

Swanky Rome hotel seized in mafia sweep

Italians invited to snitch on the mafia

Mafia arrests made after informant murdered

Police seize mafia-made ‘toxic bread’

Milan council dissolved over mafia links

Mafia targets ‘war veteran’ journalist

Italians invited to whistle-blow on crime

Celebrities call for end to toxic waste near Naples

Calabrian mayor resigns after ‘mafia pressure’

Prison ‘too tough’ for Mafia Godfather

Daughter of Berlusconi’s ex-staff in mafia probe

Saviano remembers journalist slain by mafia

Ex-Berlusconi MP arrested in Dubai

‘I’m proud of my name’ – daughter of mafia killer

Mafioso’s holiday ruined by Facebook blunder

Ex-mafioso: ‘the mafia will never die’

Mafia boss in London ‘fears reprisal killing’

Three survive car bomb in southern Italy

Sicilian MP blasts the Danes over ‘mafia’ pizza

Arrested mafia boss ‘spread terror in Sicily’

Mafia ‘travel agent’ arrested in London

Mafia rituals revealed in southern Italy

Police arrest mobster in pyjamas

Berlusconi party MP probed in mafia sweep

Biggest ever anti-mafia raid in Rome

US sanctions Naples mafia members

Mafia boss arrested in southern Italy

Mayor arrested in anti-mafia sweep

Cocaine king and escape artist

Anti-mafia mayor quits after mob threats

Italian mafioso deported from Colombia

Italian mafia capo caught in Colombia

Mafia drug profits on the rebound

Mafia murders drop as gangsters go ‘clean’

Google doodle honours anti-mafia judges

Sheep’s head left outside Sicilian farmer’s door

Sicilian town scraps footballer’s citizenship

Foreign mafia move in on Italy

One hundred arrested in mafia drug operation

Anti-mafia figures slam Camorra TV drama

Sicily’s ten most notorious godfathers

High-profile mafia trial opens in Sicily

Italian mafioso arrested in Colombia: Interpol

Eight charged over 1992 Falcone mafia killing

Italy busts major mafia scam that defrauded the EU of millions

Journalists an ‘easy target’ for mafia, says watchdog

Slovakia to extradite Italian suspect named by murdered journalist

Mafia makes billions from Italian agriculture: farmers’ association

Spanish restaurant chain can’t trademark ‘Mafia’ name, EU rules

Police detain Italian mafia suspects named by murdered Slovakian journalist

Year in review: Italy’s major news stories from 2017

At least 5,000 restaurants in Italy are thought to be mafia-run

Spanish ‘La Mafia’ restaurants banned after Italian complaint

Explosives found at Naples home of Isis suspect

Mafia-themed pasta sauce and coffee ‘an insult’ to Italy

Suspect found 32 years after Italy judge murder

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Mastermind of mafia’s child murder caught

Mafia ‘cashes in’ on Sicily’s migrant influx

Mafia turncoats help police solve 1989 murder

Naples mafia clan fleeced cash from funeral homes

Businessman killed for not paying mafia’s ‘pizzo’

Sicilian mafia boss was ‘dissolved in acid’

Mafia’s grip on Italian food ‘jeopardizes safety’

‘Mafia boss’ swindles drinks from bar