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'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndràngheta is an organized crime group centered in Calabria, Italy.
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Albania
Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Shqipni/Shqipnia or Shqypni/Shqypnia), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe.
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Albanian mafia
The Albanian mafia or Albanian organized crime (Mafia Shqiptare) are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians.
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American Mafia
The American Mafia (commonly referred to as the Mafia or the Mob, though "the Mob" can refer to other organized crime groups) or Italian-American Mafia, is the highly organized Italian-American criminal society.
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Apulia
Apulia (Puglia; Pùglia; Pulia; translit) is a region of Italy in Southern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto to the south.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Arms trafficking
Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunition.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Autostrada A4 (Italy)
The Autostrada A4, or Serenissima, is a motorway which connects Turin and Trieste via Milan and Venice.
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Banda della Comasina
La Banda della Comasina (Gang of the Comasina) is the name which the Italian media used to describe a criminal group active in the 1970s in robberies, kidnappings, drug trafficking and weapons in the northern area of Milan: the Comasina.
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Banda della Magliana
The Banda della Magliana (Magliana Gang) is an Italian criminal organization based in Rome founded in 1975.
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Barbaro 'ndrina
The Barbaro 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Bergamo
Bergamo (Italian:; Bèrghem; from Latin Bergomum) is a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the Alpine lakes Como and Iseo.
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Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and was suspected of having been the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia until his arrest in 2006.
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Black Hand (extortion)
Black Hand (Mano Nera) was a type of Italian and Italian-American extortion racket.
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Bologna massacre
The Bologna massacre (strage di Bologna) was a terrorist bombing of the Central Station at Bologna, Italy, on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200.
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Boss (crime)
A crime boss, crime lord, mob boss, kingpin, or Don, is a person in charge of a criminal organization.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Bulgarian mafia
The Bulgarian mafia (мутри, mutri) is a series of organized crime elements originating from Bulgaria.
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Calabria
Calabria (Calàbbria in Calabrian; Calavría in Calabrian Greek; Καλαβρία in Greek; Kalavrì in Arbëresh/Albanian), known in antiquity as Bruttium, is a region in Southern Italy.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Camorra
The Camorra is an Italian Mafia-type, by Umberto Santino, in: Albanese, Das & Verma, Organized Crime.
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Camorra in New York
The Brooklyn Camorra or New York Camorra is a loose grouping of early-20th century organized crime groups that formed among Italian immigrants originating in Naples and the surrounding Campania region living in Greater New York, particularly in Brooklyn.
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Campania
Campania is a region in Southern Italy.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Capo dei capi
Capo di tutti capi or capo dei capi is Italian for "boss of all bosses" or "boss of bosses".
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Carabinieri
The Carabinieri (formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Carabinieri Force" or previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabinieri Corps") is the fourth Italian military force charged with police duties under the authority of the Ministry of Defense.
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Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which the item taken over is a motor vehicle.
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Charles Sabini
Charles "Derby" Sabini (born Ottavio Handley 1888, Saffron Hill, London – died 1950, Hove, Sussex) was an English criminal.
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Cocaine
Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.
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Comasina
Comasina is a district (quartier) of Milan, Italy.
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Commisso 'ndrina
The Commisso 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Contract killing
Contract killing is a form of murder in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people.
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Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty undertaken by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit.
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Corsican mafia
The Corsican mafia is a set of criminal groups which are part of the French Mob, originating from Corsica.
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Cortesi brothers
The criminal Cortesi family originated in Italy, although the men, who would become part of the London underworld, were all born in Paris, France.
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Cotroni crime family
The Cotroni crime family is a Mafia organization based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Crime in Italy
Crime in Italy is combated by the spectrum of Italian law enforcement agencies.
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Croatia
Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.
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Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan
The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan is a Mafia clan (in English called "crime family") of the Cosa Nostra and held a key position in the illicit drug trade and money laundering for Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Extortion
Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.
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Felice Maniero
Felice Maniero (born September 2, 1954) is a former Italian crime boss who was the head of the Mala del Brenta, a criminal organisation based in the region of Veneto throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Foggia
Foggia (Foggiano: Fògge) is a city and comune of Apulia, in southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia.
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Francis Turatello
Francesco Turatello (Asiago, 1944 – Nuoro, August 17, 1981) was an important Italian crime figure, and mob boss who operated during the 1970s mainly in the city of Milan.
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Freemasonry
Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
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French Connection
The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States through Canada.
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Fugitive
A fugitive (or runaway) is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from jail, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals.
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Gaetano Badalamenti
Gaetano Badalamenti (September 14, 1923 – April 29, 2004) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Gaetano Fidanzati
Gaetano Fidanzati (September 6, 1935 - October 5, 2013) was a boss of the Resuttana mandamento of the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo.
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Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Gaming law
Gaming law is the set of rules and regulations that apply to the gaming or gambling industry.
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Gang
A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.
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Georgian mafia
The Georgian mafia (ქართული მაფია) is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking mafia groups.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone (18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.
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Gomorrah (TV series)
Gomorrah (Italian: Gomorra) is an Italian crime drama television series created and produced by Roberto Saviano.
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Greek mafia
The Greek mafia is the colloquial term used to refer to various organized crime elements originating from Greece.
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Honoured Society (Australia)
The Honoured Society (Onorata Società) is a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta criminal confederation, started in Melbourne and currently active in all Australia.
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Hungary
Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.
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Illicit cigarette trade
The illicit cigarette trade is defined as “the production, import, export, purchase, sale, or possession of tobacco goods which fail to comply with legislation” (FATF 2012).
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Israeli mafia
The Israeli mafia (מאפיה ישראלית or) is the general term for organized crime groups operating in Israel and also internationally.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.
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Italian diaspora
The Italian diaspora is the large-scale emigration of Italians from Italy.
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Italians
The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Lavezzi archipelago
The Archipelago of Lavezzi (Îles Lavezzi; Isuli Lavezzi; Isole di Lavezzi) is a collection a small of granite islands and reefs in the Strait of Bonifacio that separates Corsica from Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Lazio
Lazio (Latium) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy.
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Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (April 21, 1919 – December 15, 2015) was an Italian financier, liaison officer between the Italian government and Nazi Germany, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal.
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Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lumbardia, pronounced: (Western Lombard), (Eastern Lombard)) is one of the twenty administrative regions of Italy, in the northwest of the country, with an area of.
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Luppino crime family
The Luppino crime family is a 'Ndrangheta organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Mafia
A mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate whose primary activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.
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Mafia Capitale investigation
The Mafia Capitale is the name given to a scandal involving the government of the city of Rome, in which alleged crime syndicates misappropriated money destined for city services.
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Magliana
The Magliana neighborhood or ward is located on the South-West periphery of Rome, Italy along the Tiber River.
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Mala del Brenta
The Mala del Brenta, also known as Mafia veneta (Venetian mafia) or Mafia del Piovese, is an organized crime group based in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy.
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Malta
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Massimo Carminati
Massimo Carminati (born May 31, 1958), allegedly nicknamed "the last king of Rome", is an Italian underworld figure and former associate of far-right terrorist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari and criminal gang Banda della Magliana, which were at the centre of sensational allegations of state collusion and Masonic conspiracy during Italy's years of lead.
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Maxi Trial
The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo in Sicily.
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Milan
Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.
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Milan metropolitan area
The Milan metropolitan area, also known as Grande Milano ("Greater Milan"), is the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world.
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Montenegrin mafia
The Montenegrin mafia (Crnogorska mafija) refers to the various criminal organizations based in Montenegro or composed of Montenegrins.
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Montenegro
Montenegro (Montenegrin: Црна Гора / Crna Gora, meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe.
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Musitano crime family
The Musitano crime family is a 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian Mafia) organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.
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Neo-fascism
Neo-fascism is a post–World War II ideology that includes significant elements of fascism.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Northeast Italy
Northeast Italy (Italia nord-orientale or just Nord-est) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency.
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Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Core), abbreviated NAR, was an Italian neofascist Militant organization active from 1977 to November 1981.
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Nuova Camorra Organizzata
The Nuova Camorra Organizzata (Italian: New Organized Camorra) was an Italian Camorra criminal organization founded in the late 1970s by a Neapolitan Camorrista, Raffaele Cutolo, in the region of Campania.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
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Organized crime in Nigeria
Organized crime in Nigeria may refer to a number of fraudsters, drug traffickers and racketeers of various sorts originating from Nigeria.
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Palermo
Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
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Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino (January 19, 1940 – July 19, 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.
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Paolo Di Lauro
Paolo Di Lauro (born August 26, 1953) is an Italian crime boss, leader of the Di Lauro Clan, a Camorra crime organization.
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Papalia crime family
The Papalia crime family is a 'Ndrangheta organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco in Northern Italy.
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but which is not included as part of a state's formal armed forces.
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Pentito
Italian term pentito ("repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate people in Italy who were formerly part of criminal or terrorist organizations and who, following their arrests, decided to "repent" and collaborate with the judiciary to help further investigations.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Political corruption
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.
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Potenza
Potenza (Potentino dialect: Putenz) is a city and comune in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata (former Lucania).
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Propaganda Due
Propaganda Due (P2) was a Masonic lodge under the Grand Orient of Italy, founded in 1945 that, by the time its Masonic charter was withdrawn in 1976, had transformed into a clandestine, pseudo-Masonic, ultraright organization operating in contravention of Article 18 of the Constitution of Italy that banned secret associations.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Racket (crime)
A racket is a planned or organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal or extorted money regularly or briefly but repeatedly.
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Raffaele Cutolo
Raffaele Cutolo (born November 4, 1941) is an Italian crime boss and the charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra.
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Renato Vallanzasca
Renato Vallanzasca Costantini (or; born 4 May 1950) is a notorious Italian mobster from Milan who was a powerful figure in the Milanese underworld during the 1970s.
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Rizzuto crime family
The Rizzuto family is an Italian-Canadian crime family based in Montreal, Quebec.
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Roadblock
A roadblock is a temporary installation set up to control or block traffic along a road.
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Robbery
Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.
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Romanian mafia
The Romanian mafia is a broad term used for organized crime groups based in the Romanian Diaspora.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Rum-running
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.
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Russian mafia
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia, sometimes referred to as Bratva ("brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union.
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Sacra Corona Unita
Sacra Corona Unita (SCU, Italian for "United Sacred Crown") is a Mafia-type criminal organization from the Apulia region in Southern Italy, and is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto.
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Salvatore Contorno
Salvatore "Totuccio" Contorno (born 28 May 1946) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who turned into a state witness against Cosa Nostra in October 1984, following the example of Tommaso Buscetta.
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Salvatore Riina
Salvatore "Totò" Riina (16 November 1930 in Corleone – 17 November 2017 in Parma), called Totò 'u Curtu (Totò the Short; Totò being the diminutive of "Salvatore"), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.
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San Luca feud
The San Luca feud or Vendetta of San Luca is a long-running conflict between two clans of the 'Ndrangheta—an Italian organized crime organisation—that began in 1991 in Italy's Calabria region in the village of San Luca.
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Secondigliano
Secondigliano is a relatively modern suburb in the north of Naples, in southern Italy.
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Secret society
A secret society is a club or an organization whose activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed from non-members.
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Serbian mafia
Serbian organized crime or Serbian mafia (Cpпска мафија / Srpska mafija) are various criminal organizations based in Serbia or composed of ethnic Serbs in the Serbian diaspora.
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Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Siderno Group
The Siderno Group is a criminal association in Canada and Australia related to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria.
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Southern France
Southern France or the South of France, colloquially known as le Midi, is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Italy.
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Southern Italy
Southern Italy or Mezzogiorno (literally "midday") is a macroregion of Italy traditionally encompassing the territories of the former Kingdom of the two Sicilies (all the southern section of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily), with the frequent addition of the island of Sardinia.
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Stidda
The Stidda ("star" in Sicilian) is a name for Mafia-type criminal organizations centered in the central-southern part of Sicily in Italy.
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Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
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The Carlton Crew
The Carlton Crew is a criminal organisation based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which was formed in the late 1970s by Painters and Dockers Union's enforcers and independent racketeers and named after the Melbourne suburb in which it is based, Lygon Street, Carlton, commonly called "Little Italy".
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Triad (organized crime)
A triad is one of many branches of Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates based in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and in countries with significant Chinese populations, such as the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and New Zealand.
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Truck hijacking
Truck hijacking is the taking of a truck by force, or the threat of force to the driver, for the consignment being carried, or for using the vehicle for other illegal purposes including terrorism.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Veneto
Veneto (or,; Vèneto) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.
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Years of Lead (Italy)
The Years of Lead (Anni di piombo) is a term used for a period of social and political turmoil in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the early 1980s, marked by a wave of both left-wing and right-wing incidents of political terrorism.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.
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1980 Irpinia earthquake
The 1980 Irpinia earthquake (Terremoto dell'Irpinia) took place in Southern Italy on November 23 with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).
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Redirects here:
Italian Organized Crime, Italian organized crime, Mafia in Italy.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Italy
