Is there really a mafia in Italy?

Since 1992. when the Mafia murdered two high Italian magistrates who were really fighting to eradicate it, Falcone and Borsellino, they infiltrated (or made some kind of deal with) Berlusconi's Forza Italia! party, and succeeded in expanding to the entire country. read more

There is a small number of similar criminal organizations operating in Italy but based outside of Italy or composed of non-Italians living in Italy, such as the Chinese Triads, Russian, Georgian and Israeli networks, African (notably Nigerian) gangs, and Balkan crime groups including the Greek, Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Montenegrin (who ran cigarette smuggling operations with the Sacra Corona Unita) and the Albanian mafia. read more