Wiretap recordings of President Giorgio Napolitano were destroyed on Monday following orders from Italy’s constitutional court — on the same day he was due to be sworn in for an unprecedented second mandate. The taps were about negotiations with the mafia!
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Food officials are being intimidated by cartels to sign off products as beefs
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“..In 1974, Rich created Glencore, the world’s largest commodity trader. One of the places where Glencore makes money is Zambia, which has copper mines. In 1964, Zambia nationalised its mines, but, the IMF and World Bank forced Zambia to privatise them. Thus, Switzerland now makes more money from Zambia’s copper than Zambia itself…”
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A Russian businessman helping Swiss prosecutors uncover a powerful fraud syndicate has died in unexplained circumstances near his mansion in Britain, in a chilling twist to a Russian mafia scandal that has strained Moscow’s ties with the West.
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The suspension of a city council in southern Italy has shone a light on how the EU poured hundreds of millions of euros into Italy’s Mafia black hole
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More than 80 people, including a well-known porn star and a Socialist Party official, were arrested in an early morning raid on Tuesday that was launched by authorities across Spain against a money-laundering ring linked to Chinese businesses
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Two counter terrorism experts talked about the drone strike program and the people and groups it targets. They said the Obama administration’s expanded use of drone strikes may be undermining its overall security objectives in places like Yemen and Pakistan.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel is portrayed as a mafia boss, accused of disempowering parliament and having an “East German neutrality of values” that is foreign to many westerners, in a new book by a former advisor to Helmut Kohl.
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Italy’s traditional goldsmiths are up in arms over a boom in the poorly regulated cash-for-gold sector that is making billions for the mafia as hard-up Italians rush to sell off their bling.
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Prosecutors in Palermo accuse Nicola Mancino of withholding evidence about talks between the state and Sicilian mafia
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