When Grigory Rodchenkov’s doping scheme granted Russia top position in the Sochi medal table, Putin awarded him with the Order of Friendhsip. Now that the scandal broke out, he defines him “an imbecile with obvious problems”.

Grigory Rodchenkov, exdirector del Laboratorio Antidopaje de Moscú, es parte de un programa de protección de testigos. Habla con El Confidencial a través de su portavoz.

Last Thursday Vasile Adrian Rudac and Alexandru Nica, also known by the alias Calu, became the latest members of a crime group called Brigada Oarza to be sentenced.

How many innocent people have been killed by Italian mafias, caught in crossfire, killed for extorsion or by accident? IRPI’s new research brings the number to an astonishing 1.120, among whom are 125 women and 105 youth.

When 68-year-old Italian football coach Fabio Capello took charge of the Russian national team in 2012, expectations for the famous coach were as high as his salary.

An international team of reporters from the non-profit investigative journalism centres IRPI and ANCIR (with the Investigative Dashboard Africa) partnered with the data analysts of QUATTROGATTI and the production room of CORRECT!V to uncover for the first time the Italian Mafia’s grip on Africa.

The Guardia di Finanza of Naples and the Carabinieri of Frosinone, Italy today issued 28 arrest warrants for members of an international drug-trafficking ring based in Italy and with ramifications in the Netherlands, Spain, Venezuela and Colombia.

On April 4, Italian police arrested 26 suspects for being involved in a Mafia-style sex trafficking ring in Italy led by Romanian nationals.

On Sunday, Italian authorities seized US $820 million worth of assets belonging to Vincenzo Rappa, a deceased Sicilian businessman.

According to Italian prosecutors, organized crime figures manipulated the bid process for a high-speed railway project related to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, as well as a more recent tourism development project in northwestern Italy.

The European Parliament has approved a directive that will make it easier for member states to freeze and confiscate criminal assets across the continent, reports a European Parliament press release.

Italian police and the FBI have arrested 17 people in Italy and seven in the United States during an operation that authorities say dismantled a drug-trafficking group.

On Jan. 27, the Turin financial police issued 14 arrest warrants for members of “one of the largest drug-trafficking gangs in Italy,” authorities say.

On Wednesday, Italian police issued more than 90 arrest warrants in a nation-wide operation against the Camorra, a Mafia-style organization that originated in Naples. Authorities also seized US$ 340 million of its assets.

Their job is to deliver cocaine, tons of it. They work for trans-national organized crime syndicates and South American cartels. Thanks to them, people can buy cheap cocaine at some hidden corner in any city, fuelling a market that in 2009 the UN estimated at $85 billion annually.

Was Silvio Berlusconi’s rise to power founded on an “original sin” — a secret deal between politicians and the Mafia to stop its violence in exchange for political protection?

Olive oil is the product our tables really cannot miss. For countries of the Mediterranean Basin, that have a rooted consumption tradition, olive oil simply is the most indispensable ingredient for cooking.

It’s a battle lasting for almost one and a half century the one between Italian mafias and the State. A war that has long gone over ordinary battlefields. State officials, prosecutors, judges, journalists, policemen, ordinary citizens have been killed in a fight that is still on.

“You throw garbage in and you get gold out.” The famous sentence pronounced by a mafia associate and wiretapped by investigators more than 20 years ago must have sounded particularly familiar to Antonello Pianigiani.