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HEAVY SENTENCES IN THE LUCHAIRE AFFAIR

The high court of Venice has tried forty French, Italian [...]

CONTINUING SHAKE-UP IN INTELLIGENCE

The recent appointment of Giuseppe Tavormina as head of the [...]

GIUSEPPE TAVORMINA

In the midst of continuing political scandals for corruption and association with the mafia, the press gave little attention to [...]

HEAVY SENTENCES IN THE LUCHAIRE AFFAIR

On 16 April, following a 9 hour prosecution statement before [...]

ZHOU YI PING

Zhou Yi Ping is considered the leader of the Red Sun Chinese mafia which is quite powerful in Rome, Florence [...]

LUCHAIRE TRIAL CONTINUES

The prosecution is expected to sum up its case on [...]

LUCHAIRE AFFAIR TRIED IN VENICE

A scandal caused by the French company Luchaire's export of 400,000 shells for 155 mm and 203 mm artillery to [...]

SERGIO COLOMBINI

Major General Sergio Colombini has been appointed vice commander of the Carabinieri, replacing General Grilli who has retired. Born in [...]

STRANGE SERIES OF USTICA DEATHS

Former Italian general Roberto Boemio, a key witness in the [...]

MAFIA GUIDE PUBLISHED

The Italian newspaper Epoca recently published a 24-page special section [...]

ANTI-MAFIA SPIES & NEW BOSSES

Following the assassination of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, as well as an anti-mafia police specialist, Prime Minister [...]

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ARMS SALES: THE CASALEE MYSTERY

The trial in early 1991 in Brescia of the Valsellameccanotecnica (VSMT), the Fiat subsidiary accused of having sold nine million mines to Iraq between 1982 and 1986 (a $180 million contract), shed light on a company formerly unknown among arms [.

Controversial Italian Minister of Finance, Rino Formica, has challenged Italian [...]