When Italian anti-mafia police surprised the Sicilian mob on 11 February 2025 their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging investigation is an organized crime group having to adapt to modern realities and displaying a nostalgia for the loftier ambitions of the past. They don't produce mobsters like they used to, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a wiretapped conversation before he was shot dead a year ago
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When Italian anti-mafia police surprised the Sicilian mob on 11 February 2025 their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging investigation is an organized crime group having to adapt to modern realities and displaying a nostalgia for the loftier ambitions of the past. They don't produce mobsters like they used to, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a wiretapped conversation before he was shot dead a year ago
Many believe that the Mafia of old has long since been active. Not so, says Europol. The new and improved Mafia organized crime ring thrived on violence, intimidation and $12 million in online fraud profits; all specialties of the Mafia. International law enforcement has busted up an extensive cybercrime operation run by a gang with ties to the Italian Mafia.
The group allegedly used phishing attacks to defraud hundreds of victims. The suspects used various lures to convince victims (mostly I
