Membership of Japan’s yakuza crime gangs falls to all-time low Agence France-Presse in Tokyo theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 07.25 EST Members of the largest yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, at a funeral in the 1980s. Photograph: AP The… Read More ›
Sicilian Mafia
Italian mobsters work with Egyptian crime syndicates to imprison migrants and extort cash
Revealed: Mafia’s prime role in human-trafficking misery Michael Day Thursday, 24 October 2013 The role of Italian mobsters in human trafficking – of the kind that saw more than 350 African migrants perish off the coast of Lampedusa in… Read More ›
How the Italian Mafia turned clean energy into dirty money
Justin Smith April 9, 2013 06:34 If the 1970s mob classic “The Godfather” had been filmed today, you’d see giant wind turbines in the backdrop of scenes around Vito Corleone’s hometown. Wind turbines near the village of Patirnico, between… Read More ›
Italian Mafia corrupts green energy sector, sting operations show
3:34 AM 01/25/2013 The Italian Mafia has heavily infiltrated the country’s renewable energy sector, according to reports of sting operations there. Since the early 2000s, when governments started flooding global energy markets with cheap loans, organized crime elements have taken… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 