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In Italy a group of business schools and associations launched a postgraduate course to teach how to become good managers of assets that the government has seized from the Mafia.

Independent has a piece on counterfeit designer goods. Nothing really new in it, but brings various strands together in a single article.

Mark Kennedy accused of inventing claims about Tarnac group. This case has been going on for four years now. “The coming insurrection” was the text and all sorts of connections were made..but was it all a convenient fantasy for the French Ministry of the Interior…and others. The illegitimate English “national domestic extremism unit” invented by ACPO, with no parliamentary legislation creating it is involved in creating the “evidence”. Who will ever know what was going on?

Police arrested 48 person (among them, many women) during an anti-Camorra operation this morning. Investigators underlined the increasing importance of women in many Camorrean clans, where they took over the leading positions of their inmate husbands.

160 innocent bystanders killed by Camorra in Naples since 1980. Article in the Indpendent gives some insight into criminal careers, structures and rivalries in Northern naples.

telegraph article about a £50 device made in China that can block luxury cars electonic locking system, enabling thieves to open doors and start the ignition.

In a few days the trial (preliminary hearings) concerning the alleged State-Mafia negotiations will start. The Italian Government will join the trial as civil claimant.
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