Italian police seized assets worth more than €1.6bn from five Sicilian siblings suspected of links to the island’s Cosa Nostra mafia, in one of the biggest ever such operations.

A suspected boss of the Naples-based crime syndicate known as the Camorra has been arrested in Brazil after more than 30 years on the run, police said.

You can say it’s a bad day for football when a cup final report has a diagram of street-fighting rather than the tactics of the two teams.

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Italian police say they have broken up an insurance fraud run by a crime syndicate that counted on the collusion of doctors, lawyers and car repair shop owners.

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A Europol report last week claimed that 380 soccer games in Europe and 680 worldwide were ‘suspicious’. Match-fixing has tainted the world’s most popular sport, drawn in major crime gangs, and ruined players’ lives, writes Sheila Norman-Culp

Ireland has insufficient laws to tackle the growing problem of criminal gangs passing off counterfeit euro notes, according to the European Commission.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has dropped former allies accused of corruption and mafia association as election candidates, in a bid to shed the image of scandal that has dogged sections of his centre-right party.

“It’s like a final,” said Juan Mata yesterday of Chelsea’s match against Napoli.

One of Italy’s most wanted fugitive mobsters was captured by police today.

AMANDA Knox and her lover Raffaele Sollecito turned to a convicted child killer and a mobster in their bid to overturn their convictions for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher at the weekend.

IF THERE are gods of football, justice, then on Sunday they were surely smiling down on Naples.

MEMBERS of Italy’s Camorra mafia won contracts to rebuild the quake-hit city of L’Aquila with the help of four bank employees, police charged yesterday after carrying out six arrests.

A powerful mobster from the Camorra crime syndicate in southern Italy has been arrested, Italian police said today.

Hundreds of immigrant workers rioted through a southern Italian town after two of them were shot in what they claim was a racist attack.

ITALIAN police arrested 61 purported members of the Naples-based Camorra mob yesterday for allegedly running drug and extortion rings in the southern Italian city.

ITALIAN police arrested scores of suspected mobsters yesterday, including three top fugitives believed linked to the gangland-style slaying of six African immigrants near Naples, authorities said.

Scores of suspected Mafia members were arrested in a series of raids by Italian police today including three top men linked to the murder of six immigrants earlier this month.

An extra 500 troops are being deployed on the streets of Naples to deal with violent crime after the murder of six African immigrants sparked rioting.

A top mobster belonging to a powerful Camorra crime clan was arrested as he was shopping in a designer clothes shop near Rome, Italian police said today.

Police in Italy arrested 49 suspected Mafia members in a series of raids today.

ANGRY crowds in Naples hung effigies of city officials from lampposts yesterday in protest over huge piles of rubbish building up in the streets.

Police in Naples carried out a series of raids early today and arrested 17 people as part of a crackdown on the Camorra crime syndicate in the southern Italian city.

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has agreed to appear in a movie chronicling his drug-induced fall from grace - but his former wife Claudia Villefane fears the impact it will have on his children.

Police have arrested the suspected leader of a Naples criminal clan involved in a vicious turf war that sparked dozens of murders last year, officials said today.

Hundreds of Italian police were arresting dozens of people around Naples today as part of a fight against a bloody mob turf war which has terrified the southern Italian city, police said.

DJ supremo Fatboy Slim was robbed at gunpoint by a vicious Mafia gangster during a gig in Naples, Italy.

Police today raided the headquarters of 12 Italian soccer clubs, including four from Italy’s top league, as part of a nationwide investigation into an alleged betting scandal masterminded by the Neapolitan Camorra crime organisation.

SCORES of police combed Naples yesterday for gunmen who fatally shot a girl in the head during a mob turf war, as Neapolitans angrily denounced the grip held on their city by the Camorra crime syndicate.

A 14-year-old girl is said to be brain dead after being caught in a Mafia shoot-out in Naples.

Police in Italy were today questioning 28 Pakistani terrorist suspects and carrying out further searches on the flat where a ringed photograph of Britain’s Chief of Defence staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, was found.

A shootout involving wives and other female relatives of feuding Mafia bosses has left three women dead and five people wounded in a tiny village near Naples.

Police have arrested one of Italy’s most-wanted fugitives - a 50-year-old woman accused of running one of the biggest Mafia clans in Naples.