All news on the topic: Cosa Nostra

More than 1,200 officers involved in dawn raids in and around Palermo, reportedly biggest operation against Cosa Nostra since 1984.

Most of the bosses, released from prison on furlough or for good behaviour, have never disavowed Cosa Nostra.

Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’

Those in charge are now officially criminals, bullies, and incompetents, says Fleet Street Fox. The Mafia would never have sold the water or wasted money on Rwanda

Nothing could stop what was one of most powerful criminal organisations in the world, no one would dare touch them - or so they believed

Messina Denaro was captured at a clinic in Palermo, Italy, where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, the head of the police force's special operations squad confirmed