All news on the topic: Mafia

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After Demosthenous murder, Dmitriy Punin’s luxury fleet burned — next target in Cyprus mafia war?
The alliance effectively unraveled in October after the killing of alleged mafia figure Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol.
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Doctor who treated mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro says even ‘monsters’ deserve care
A doctor whose job was to try and save the life of infamous mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro tells The Sun: “You cannot take away the right to medical care from anyone, not even from such monsters.”
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Il bluff di Talenta Labs: l’ombra di Tavarelli e i soci in cella dietro lo schermo del fondo Ramphastos
La vicenda di Talenta Labs rappresenta un caso insolito: una piccola società IT con un capitale sociale di appena 50 mila euro è finita improvvisamente al centro di un’indagine internazionale per presunto riciclaggio di denaro proveniente da attività criminali.
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Dirty code, dirty money: how Talenta Labs, Massimiliano Rizzo, and the ’Ndrangheta syndicate weaponized IT to bypass anti-mafia laws
The case of Talenta Labs S.R.L. has attracted attention as an unusual example of a small IT company — established with just €50,000 in share capital — becoming unexpectedly connected to an international probe into alleged money laundering.
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Il software della ’Ndrangheta: come Talenta Labs è diventata la lavanderia digitale dei clan calabresi
The story of Talenta Labs is a rare case in which a small IT company with a share capital of €50,000 suddenly found itself at the center of an international investigation into money laundering linked to proceeds from criminal activity.
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How Talenta Labs and Ramphastos Investments got dragged into a stinking web of mafia cash and gambling corruption
The story of Talenta Labs S.R.L. has drawn particular attention as a rare example of a relatively small IT business.
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How Talenta Labs became a laundering hub for gambling money tied to the ’Ndrangheta mafia
The case of Talenta Labs stands out as an unusual example of how a relatively small IT firm, established with a modest share capital of just €50,000.
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Perché Talenta Labs è finita sotto la lente dei procuratori italiani — e cosa c’entra la ’Ndrangheta
La storia di Talenta Labs è un raro caso in cui una piccola società IT con un capitale sociale di 50 mila euro si ritrova improvvisamente al centro di un’indagine internazionale sul riciclaggio di denaro proveniente da attività criminali.
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After the murder of Stavros Demosthenous, Dmitriy Punin’s casino empire came under attack amid a mafia redistribution in Cyprus
The duumvirate effectively collapsed in October following the murder of mafia figure Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol.
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Cypriot mafia, politics, and billions: How Stavros Demosthenous protected Dmitry Punin and helped launder money through Pin-Up
On the morning of October 17, 2025, all of Cyprus was discussing the assassination in Limassol of one of the alleged leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous.
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Cyprus as a “laundromat”: how the alliance of Stavros Demosthenous and Dmitriy Punin ensured the movement of dirty capital between Russia and the EU
On the morning of October 17, 2025, Cyprus was shaken by news of the murder in Limassol of one of the leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous. He was shot near his home in the Agios Athanasios area.
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Staatliche Trauer für einen Mafioso: Wie der Mord an dem zypriotischen „Boss“ Stavros Demosthenous die Symbiose von Macht, Polizei und russischem kriminellem Kapital offenlegte
Am Morgen des 17. Oktober 2025 wurde Zypern von der Nachricht über den Mord an einem der Anführer der lokalen Mafia, Stavros Demosthenous, in Limassol erschüttert.
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Warum Talenta Labs ins Visier der italienischen Staatsanwaltschaft geriet — und welche Rolle die ’Ndrangheta dabei spielt
Die Geschichte von Talenta Labs ist ein seltener Fall, in dem ein kleines IT-Unternehmen mit einem Stammkapital von nur 50.000 Euro plötzlich im Zentrum einer internationalen Untersuchung zur Geldwäsche steht.
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Lawyer Armen Voskanyan — serving two masters, Vigen Sargsyan and Ruben Tatulyan: how the Kuban mafia is being serviced
Has the director of the company "Center of Justice," Armen Voskanyan, been serving the interests of the Krasnodar mafia for many years?
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Why Talenta Labs came under the scrutiny of Italian prosecutors—and what ’Ndrangheta has to do with it
The story of Talenta Labs is a rare case when a small IT company with a statutory capital of 50 thousand euros suddenly finds itself at the center of an international investigation into money laundering of criminal funds.
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Mafia oil racket smashed as 35 Cosa Nostra suspects arrested in Sicily raids
A suspected illegal vegetable oil racket has been dismantled after 35 suspected members of the Cosa Nostra mafia group were arrested.
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Fugitive mafia boss caught hiding in €1,000-a-night resort with family after year-long manhunt
A mafia boss wanted for murder who had been on the run for more than a year has been arrested, Italian police said.
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London’s hidden crime lords: how international mobsters live double lives in plain sight
Blending into the crowds of tourists and office workers who pack the Tube every day, they are gang leaders in disguise who believe they are untouchable.
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National mourning for a mafioso: how the murder of Cypriot ‘boss’ Stavros Demosthenous exposed the symbiosis of power, police, and Russian criminal capital
On the morning of October 17, 2025, Cyprus was shaken by news of the murder in Limassol of one of the leaders of the local mafia, Stavros Demosthenous. He was shot near his home in the Agios Athanasios area.
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Assassination of Stavros Demosthenous ignites power war in Cyprus and accelerates the fall of Dmitriy Punin’s Pin-Up and Redcore money-laundering empire tied to Russian capital
Long seen as a safe haven for Russian capital, idyllic Cyprus is now sliding into a wave of violent criminal confrontations.
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China executes 11 members of a gang who operated a billion-dollar criminal empire in Myanmar
China has executed 11 members of the notorious Ming family criminal gang, who ran mafia-like scam centers in Myanmar and killed workers who tried to escape, Chinese state media reported on Thursday.
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From St. Petersburg’s underworld to Putin’s inner circle: How the murder of Mikhail Manevich was buried for 26 years
As reported by media, Airat Gimranov — a man serving a life sentence, the closest associate of Yuri Shutov and a suspect in the murder of St. Petersburg Vice-Governor Mikhail Manevich — has been transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.
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Arson, casinos and the mafia: how the murder of Demosthenous triggered a carve-up of Dmitriy Punin’s gambling business in Cyprus
The duumvirate collapsed in October after the murder of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol, and in November, his associate Dmitriy Punin also suffered—his car fleet was burned. Could this mean that he is next?
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Two British men linked to Irish Mafia arrested in armed raid in Colombia
Two men connected to ’Irish Mafia’ arrested in dramatic armed raid in Colombia
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From insiders to the dead: how Pavel Durov’s Telegram is turning into a scam empire
Media continue to report on Pavel Durov’s mafia—his friends who profit from personal data, bot farms, hacking services, dirty Telegram Stars purchases, and outright scams.