All news on the topic: Organised Crime

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Was the Hackney shooting of a nine-year-old girl connected to a Europe-wide gang rivalry?
Fatal clashes between Turkish criminals in the heroin trade are spreading in Europe, an Observer investigation reveals
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Andrew Tate blocked from visiting sick mother amid rape and trafficking charges
Former kickboxer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are currently banned from leaving Romania but had requested to return to the UK where their ill mother lives
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Mobster has no regrets about posing for topless photo that put him behind bars
Mafia elderly statesman Ralph DiMatteo surrendered himself to the authorities shortly after his son posted a picture of him half naked in a swimming pool. Here’s what he had to say about the picture…
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Two men guilty of killing DJ who was tortured as partner heard screams
Mehmet Koray Alpergin and girlfriend Gozde Dalbudak were kidnapped on their way home from a date night at an Italian restaurant in Mayfair before the DJ was brutally beaten, throttled, scalded with boiling water, stabbed and maimed.
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Twin brothers rose through ranks of notorious gang to terrorise UK underworld
Twin brothers Marvin and Michael Berkeley were front and centre during the rise of the Fallowfield Mandem, both delighting in playing the gangster on the bloody streets of Manchester
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Real-life Goodfella's mobster busted in £5m plane heist dies at 86
Real-life Goodfellas mobster Vincent 'Vinny' Asaro, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, has died at the age of 86, three years after being released from prison early due to ill health and Covid fears
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£30,000 sculpture stolen in heist finally rediscovered 16 years later at auction
The prized Wally Bird piece was taken from Pitzhanger Manor House in Ealing in 2007 but was recently spotted in a catalogue by a researcher looking into stolen art
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Wife of infamous drug lord El Chapo released from prison after reduced sentence
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the glamorous wife of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, has been released from prison after a reduced sentence today
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Thugs who stormed rival gang's house will 'look over their shoulders' forever
Criminals who robbed £1million worth of cocaine from an organised crime group in Liverpool are now facing years behind bars - but will also have to "look over their shoulder" for the rest of their life.
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Ex-gangster 'groomed' for crime as child becomes CEO after 17 year-jail sentence
Stephen Gillen was a bonafide gangster and earned a living on the wrong side of the law, until his life came crashing down when he was sentenced to 17 years in a category A prison.
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Brit collapses and dies after downing 22 shots in just 90 minutes at nightclub
The 36-year-old Brit was plied with 22 powerful shots in just 90 minutes before collapsing at the Wild Night strip club in Krakow, Poland, where he was then fleeced of £420
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How British ex-con turned his life around after becoming Australia’s Most Wanted
Neil Cummins, 47, was first introduced to criminality while on the streets of his native Liverpool - but ended up becoming a gangster himself after moving to Sydney in his early teens
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Female Mexican drug Cartel assassins fight in new organised crime 'phenomenon'
Two balaclava-clad women guarding cartel burglars as they thieved motorbikes and hauled them on the back of a getaway truck in Zacatecas, Mexico, show a new emerging crime phenomenon
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Man orders grizzly murder of his mistress - still gets signed by football club
Goalie Bruno Fernandes ordered a gang to abduct actress and model Eliza Samudio, 25, who was later strangled to death before her body was butchered and fed to a pack of ravenous hounds in Brazil
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Four people kidnapped at gunpoint from minivan in Mexican cartel territory
The four US citizens had crossed into Mexico on Friday in a white minivan, but soon came under fire before a gang of suspected cartel gunmen dragged them into a pick up and drove them away from the scene in Matamoros
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Gangsters arrested in 'cartel' murder which saw teen mum and baby shot in head
Suspected gang members Noah David Beard, 25, and Angel "Nanu" Uriarte, 35, were dragged into custody after six people were murdered in a brutal massacre in January, including a teen mother and her six-month-old baby boy
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Vodka firm said to be 'front for notorious crime cartel on brink of collapse'
Nero Drinks Company has been named by Spanish police as a suspected front to launder money for infamous Dubai-based crime gang the Kinahans, whose bosses currently have a $5m bounty on their heads