An IT engineer who left a trail of debt behind him after borrowing a sum of just under €50,000 from six colleagues at his firm has been sacked for violating the company’s expenses policy.

More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6m airport heist dramatised in the hit Martin Scorsese movie Goodfellas, an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York City home yesterday and charged in the robbery and a 1969 murder.