Italian authorities said Thursday they arrested a member of a ‘Ndragheta-affiliated family of drug dealers, who is wanted since 2015 and was thought to be hiding in Brazil.

An Italian hardcore football fanatic who allegedly jumped to his death last July may have been murdered for helping the secret services to investigate mafia infiltration into Juventus fandom, his ex-wife told La Repubblica Monday.

Following 39 arrests across 15 countries, Spanish police announced Wednesday that they have dismantled an international child porn ring that distributed material via WhatsApp.

Seven Albanian drug trafficking suspects were arrested after authorities chased their speedboat for nearly 22 hours across the Mediterranean Sea in a movie-like operation involving high speed boats, helicopters and planes.

Italian authorities captured in Florence Sunday a fugitive Mexican former-governor charged with drug smuggling, bank fraud, racketeering and money laundering, Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced.

A money-laundering trial set to begin in mid-April in Italy has shed light on a hidden offshore operation that may have contributed to a major human rights crackdown in Azerbaijan in 2013.

EPP Political Assembly, Marseille 2011 - Luca Volontè (Wikimedia Commons)

Italian authorities seized on Monday assets worth €20 million from a family accused of extortions, racketeering and counterfeiting cigarettes and oil in the city of Naples.

An Italian court sentenced on Wednesday two generations of a Ndrangheta-linked family to a total of more than 52 years in prison for running an illegal on-line gambling empire worth over US$ 65 million.

Police in Italy arrested Tuesday the boss of a Sicilian mafia family and five of his aids for extortion and for forcing people —  often at gunpoint —  to vote in elections for a candidate close to the organization.

Italian military police detained Tuesday 46 suspected members of one of the most powerful groups of the Camorra crime network for mafia association, extortion, drug trafficking and handling of stolen goods, among other crimes.

Minutes after being saved by the crew of the  rescue vessel Topaz Responder in late November, Mohamed , an asylum seeker from Cote d’Ivoire collapsed on the deck as he recounted the journey that brought him through Africa, into the Mediterranean, and to the edge of a watery death.

Asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea, disembark in Palermo, Sicily (Photo: Valentino Bellini)

Italian ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will stand trial again after prosecutors accused him of bribing witnesses to lie about previous accusations he paid for sex with an underage prostitute.

The Carabinieri arrested Thursday 33 people and seized assets worth €40 million (US$ 42.8 million) in a crackdown on one of the most powerful clans within the 'Ndrangheta criminal network, the Italian military police told IRPI.

Italian police arrested 54 suspects and seized assets worth €8 million from a massive drug trafficking organization related to the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta crime group on Tuesday.

Turkish police busted a human trafficking ring Friday, detaining 23 alleged traffickers suspected of smuggling migrants from Turkey to Europe, local media reported.

Italian authorities announced Tuesday that they have arrested seven suspected fraudsters who are believed to have lured more than 200 people into investing in an "eight star" resort in Belize that was never built.

Italian police announced Tuesday the arrest of a brother-and-sister duo for allegedly running a years-long cyber-spying operation that targeted the accounts of nearly 18,000 victims, including European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Italian police arrested 17 suspected cocaine traffickers on Tuesday, allegedly tied to a prominent Calabrian crime family, OCCRP partner IRPI reports.

An Italian gambling magnate known as “the king of slots” was arrested on Tuesday on the Dutch Caribbean half-island of Sint Maarten for his alleged involvement in an offshore tax evasion scheme, Italy’s Financial Guard said.

Italian police captured the leader of a clan of the notorious ‘Ndrangheta crime group on Thursday, ending a six-year run in which he evaded the law.