Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
December 12, 2025

How the ’Ndràngheta turned ancient sites Into criminal assets: Findings from Operation Ghenos-Scylletium exposes the role of TOCGs in archaeological plunder

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Today, the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) in Rome announced the culmination of a sweeping series of coord...
November 25, 2025

Italian Authorities Arrest 55 Suspects in Major Archaeological Looting Probe in Sicily

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In a major operation targeting two antiquities-trafficking networks, the Palermo unit of the Carabinieri’s Nucleo Tutela del Patrimonio Cult...
August 10, 2023

So one particular (Sicilian) looting "mafia" was actually a Mafia.

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Interrogated by Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia and deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido, shortly after his January 16th arrest by the Carabin...
October 10, 2018

Trial dates tentatively set for December 2018 for 19 "Operation Demetra" defendants

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Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanissetta, the court of first instance with general jurisdiction in criminal matters withi...
August 8, 2018

Sicilian judges reject appeal made by William Veres

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Screenshot of William Veres from the documentary “The Hunt for Transylvanian Gold Judges from the Tribunale del Riesame di Caltanisset...
July 8, 2018

On the trail of looted antiquities, Carabinieri arrest another individual in Sicily.

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Image Credit: Carabinieri  An ancient amphora and 25 terracotta fragments of ancient statues, some believed to date as far back as the...
July 6, 2018

More details on Operation Demetra

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Image Credit:  Carabinieri TPC As has been noted to be the case in the past, Sicilian trafficking cases sometimes have organized crime ...
July 4, 2018

Operation Demetra: The Trafficking of Sicilian Archaeological Treasures

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Image Credit: Carabinieri TPC Updated 13:00 GMT+1 In a press conference held today, at 11:00 at the Public Prosecutor's Office...
November 17, 2017

A Sicilian Mafia Primer to Organized Crime Members with apparent ties to Gianfranco Becchina

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This is a list of mafia-tied individuals and cooperating mafia-tied individuals authorities have stated have associations with, or wh...
July 2, 2015

Sicily, Palermo, Cicero, and a missing Caravaggio ...

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Cicero's bust in the Musei Capitolini  ["Cicero - Musei Capitolini"  by Glauco92 - Own work.  Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0...