Organised crime
Money mules: how young people are lured into laundering cash
Criminals are using students and others to unwittingly move funds through their bank accounts
Anna Tims
04, Oct, 2021 @6:00 AM
The mafia killed Alessandra Clemente's mother. Now she wants to take them on as mayor of Naples
Alessandra Clemente’s plan to end the cycle of violence relies on winning over the mothers and wives of the Camorra mobsters
Lorenzo Tondo in Naples
02, Oct, 2021 @11:05 AM
British gangs and international rivals join forces to increase cocaine sales
Analysis by National Crime Agency finds more than 1,700 UK criminal groups involved in drug supply
Mark Townsend
19, Sep, 2021 @7:15 AM
Lynne Owens to step down as head of UK National Crime Agency
After five years at the agency tackling organised crime, she is leaving to focus on treatment for breast cancer
Jamie Grierson
17, Sep, 2021 @2:53 PM
UK negligent in failure to stop customs fraud, says senior EU lawyer
Non-binding opinion says UK allowed criminal gangs to flood Europe with cheap Chinese-made clothes
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
09, Sep, 2021 @12:40 PM
Watchdog warns UK banks of Afghanistan financial crime risks
FCA reminds financial firms to guard against money-laundering amid fears of rise in terrorist activity
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
31, Aug, 2021 @3:21 PM
Alleged Italian drugs kingpin linked to stolen Van Goghs arrested in Dubai
Raffaele Imperiale, suspected of buying Van Gogh paintings on black market, considered one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives
Staff and agencies in Rome
19, Aug, 2021 @3:52 PM
Buried in concrete: how the mafia made a killing from the destruction of Italy’s south
The south of the country bears the scars of how bosses enriched their clans with illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas
Roberto Saviano and Lorenzo Tondo
25, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
Revealed: murdered journalist’s number selected by Mexican NSO client
On 2 March 2017, Cecilio Pineda Birto made a broadcast about alleged corruption. Hours later he was dead
Nina Lakhani in Ciudad Altamirano
18, Jul, 2021 @4:28 PM
‘No peace without justice’: families of Italy’s mafia victims wait for closure
Italy’s sluggish legal process under the spotlight as devastated relatives fight for cases to go to trial
Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
12, Jul, 2021 @4:00 AM
The top journalist, the mafia boss and the gunman: Dutch fear the rise of ‘narco crime’
While Peter R de Vries fights for life in an Amsterdam hospital the nation reflects on how to end the grip of drug gangs
Senay Boztas
10, Jul, 2021 @6:00 PM
Act giving AFP powers to monitor An0m devices did not become law until after FBI operation began
Police say they used ‘appropriate legislative powers’ during Operation Ironside but a lawyer representing people charged says legal concerns remain
Nino Bucci
10, Jun, 2021 @5:30 PM
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