Profile: Roberto Saviano, Italy's anti-mafia activist

Italy's anti-mafia activist has been forced to live under 24-hour police protection after publishing his best-selling expose on the mafia.

Bulgarian Anti-Mafia Head Warns of Prolonged Blast Probe
The overnight blasts in Sofia have been an intimidation attempt, according to Commissar, Stanimir Florov. Florov made the statement Tuesday during a special police press conference about the overnight...
Italian anti-Mafia police arrest 80 Mafiosi from 2 powerful syndicates
MILAN - Anti-mafia prosecutors says that 80 Mafiosi from two prominent crime syndicates have been arrested in separate operations. Anti-Mafia investigator Renato Cortese said 40 were arrested for association...
New York City Uses Anti-Mafia Law to Sue Cigarette Vendor
New York City is using a federal statute designed to prosecute the Mafia in order to sue a black-market cigarette vendor who it says cost the city $6.5 million in lost taxes over about a six-year period....
Head of Bulgaria Anti-Mafia Team Kicked out
Stoyan Kushlev, chairman of Bulgaria's state Commission for Establishing of Property Acquired from Criminal Activity, has been dismissed, it emerged on Wednesday. The post is not compatible with Kushlev's...
Labor to introduce anti-mafia laws
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally will introduce tough new anti-mafia laws if Labor wins the March election.
Keneally to introduce anti-mafia laws
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally will introduce tough new anti-mafia laws if Labor wins the March election.
Dozens held in anti-mafia raids
Police in Italy and Germany arrest 35 people in an anti-mafia operation, with warrants also issued in Canada and Australia.