Italian anti-mafia police have arrested another mafioso on the run. This happened just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of the leader of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra Matteo Messina Denaro in a clinic in Palermo (Sicily). CNN writes about it...
Many mafia dons, crooks, drug lords and dictators in the United States owned luxurious mansions with magnificent decorations. The author of the blog “Foreign Real Estate” on Yandex.Zen has compiled a list of notorious estates acquired with criminal proceeds. Charles Ponzi's House in Massachusetts Charles Ponzi is the man who built...
Many people know about such a concept as money laundering, mainly from TV shows and political news. Years have passed since the mafiosi began using schemes to cover illegal businesses with legitimate businesses. The phenomenon itself was overgrown with many facts and stories. Before you ...
Many films have been made about “Great Al”, hundreds of books have been written, and his personality has become a cult figure. What can I say - everyone has heard about Capone, a legend of the criminal world, a racketeer, a killer, a mafia boss, a reformer, a bootlegger and a pimp. A man who was sent to prison not for dozens of murders...
Having appeared at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, thieves in law very soon became the head of organized crime in the USSR, and then in Russia. Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, achieved unprecedented success in the United States and was killed by a sniper's bullet in Moscow. Ivankov at one time ...
In the United States, a high-profile trial is underway over the Russian thief in law Razhden Shulaya, known in criminal circles under the nicknames Razhden Pitersky, Brother and Roma. According to the investigation, the authority gathered around him people from the expanses of the former USSR and created the largest in ...
At the end of January, the media reported that Boris Nayfeld, nicknamed Biba, who is called the most famous Russian mafioso in New York, announced his desire to return to his homeland. In an interview with Associated Press, Biba told that he had lost everything - and asked for ...
The growing popularity of avocados has led to more revenue from the sale of this vegetable than from marijuana. According to Sekret Firmy, the average American eats twice as much avocado in a year as 2 years ago: 10 kg in 2,7 against ...
According to the NY Post, the trial of Boris Nayfeld has begun in Manhattan Federal Court. Journalists call him “a prominent representative of the first generation of the Russian mafia in America,” writes the BBC. 69-year-old Nayfeld, known in the criminal community as Biba, stated at the trial that he admits...
Judge Catherine Forrest has set for November 7 the beginning of the trial in New York over the Brooklyn gangster, named Beeba, who was arrested in January. A native of Gomel, who is called the representative of the first generation of the "Russian mafia" in America, is accused of extortion and conspiracy to ...