Mafia Ways

ROME (AP): A simple Cabinet reshuffle has degenerated into Italy's latest political scandal, with accusations of horse trading, Mafia ties and a rare public criticism by the president of Premier Silvio...

Brussels - The European Union was put on the spot Wednesday after a top human rights watchdog alleged that Kosovo's premier has become the head of an organized crime ring while Western powers looked...

Bulgarian Socialist Party 's Petkov was forced to step down as a minister in the last cabinet in 2008 after an unexplained meeting he held with controversial Dupnitsa businessmen and alleged mafia bosses,...

Last Tuesday’s Senate session was shocking. And that’s an understatement. By now, we’re used to sensational exposes on the Senate floor but senators squabbling during a session,...

(BRUSSELS ) - Embattled Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday brushed off accusations of mafia ties and said he had no intention of quitting.

More than thirty people took the witness stand on Monday as the court in the south-western town of Kyustendil resumed the trial against a notorious pair of alleged local mafia bosses.

One of the alleged top drug dealers in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in the recent years, Dimitar Vuchev aka Dembi, said on Monday that another of alleged Bulgarian mafia bosses, Zlatomir Ivanov aka "Baretata"...