Italy has passed a law that aims to tackle corruption, Reuters reports.

By Michael Mattson

World leaders continue the search for solutions this week to a human trafficking crisis in the Mediterranean.

Romanian authorities arrested a man thought to have been trafficking drugs and found he was a violent criminal wanted internationally for murder, according to police and local news sources.

Up to 700 migrants were killed when their boat capsized late on Saturday night in what has been called the Mediterranean’s worst tragedy in living memory.

In a two-month operation spanning 47 countries, Interpol and Europol have seized thousands of tons of fake food and drinks.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)is calling on the EU to step up its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean after a drastic increase in deaths aboard smugglers’ boats.  The agency describes the current EU operation, Triton, as a “woefully inadequate” replacement for Italy’s Mare Nostrum, which ended in October 2014.

Italian police have cracked open a Camorra-type crime gang based in Rome, arresting 61 suspects linked to the group.

By Lorenzo Bodrero, of Investigative Reporting Project Italy, writing for OCCRP 

The Guardia di Finanza of Naples and the Carabinieri of Frosinone, Italy today issued 28 arrest warrants for members of an international drug-trafficking ring based in Italy and with ramifications in the Netherlands, Spain, Venezuela and Colombia.

Rome police have arrested 31 suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta organized crime group, seizing  more than 600 kg of cocaine and hashish, along with an arsenal of weapons.

Top police officials from Albania and Italy met this Monday, Jan. 19, to discuss stepping up coordination in the fight against organized crime.

After a ship packed with 360 Syrian migrants was rescued en route from Turkey to Italy, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has denounced current European Union anti-trafficking operations as insufficient.

Police in Italy have arrested 40 suspected gangsters after capturing unprecedented hidden-camera footage of the ‘Ndrangheta’s infamous organized crime initiation ceremony.

Daniele Ozzimo, a former member of the Rome city council, was sentenced yesterday with five others for their part in the ‘Mafia Capitale’ corruption scandal, according to Repubblica.

Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is being investigated by Italian prosecutors on suspicion of money laundering, reported Turkish news outlet Today’s Zaman.