A man walks along an empty promenade in Reggio Calabria. Italian authorities have seized €140 million ($164 million) in assets as part of a large-scale investigation into an oil trade tax evasion ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested at least 320 people Tuesday in dawn raids across the country against the powerful Calabrian mafia, one of their biggest crackdowns on organised crime in years.

International anti-mafia stings may have increased in recent months, but Italian organised crime groups constitute a social and economic "cancer" that the world seems to underestimate, experts say.

Calabria – which is shaped like a rasher of bacon and stretches from just below Naples (where the Camorra hold sway) down as far as the tip of the boot, a few miles off Sicily (featuring the better ...

For decades the Sicilian Mafia dominated headlines. Today a different criminal network quietly eclipses it in wealth and reach: the Calabrian-based ’Ndrangheta. Unlike the cinematic clan wars of old, ...