While loan-sharking is still an activity of organised crime in Italy, increasingly mobsters have sought to buy up hotels, restaurants, pharmacies, car dealerships and other businesses for years now.

Italian authorities said they’re looking into claims that they arrested the wrong man in a major migrant-smuggling investigation.

Italian police arrested six members of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia as part of an inquiry that uncovered a threat to kill interior minister Angelino Alfano.