"mafia"

Rome - A teenaged actor who appeared in an award-winning film about child criminals in Naples has been stabbed in the Italian organised crime stronghold, media reported Monday.

REVENGE APPEARED to be the motive in the brutal murder of an Israeli man by his two compatriots on Koh Samui Island on Sunday.

ROME - The ringleader of a gang whose criminal tentacles reached into almost every department of Rome's City Hall was sentenced to 20 years in prison by an Italian court on Thursday.

Facing jail for smuggling Kalashnikovs, the teenage heir to a powerful mafia clan in Italy was instead removed from his family and given a chance to break free of the criminal underworld.

A former MP and four members of his entourage were released on bail on Sunday after being detained overnight for carrying firearms in public without permission.

HOUSES of Pheu Thai Party politicians, including former members of Parliament, were among 14 locations in Samut Prakan targeted yesterday in coordinated raids involving more than 100 police and military officers.

NCPO says powers will not be abused; only influential figures being targeted.

POLICE arrested 19 people in Bangkok yesterday as part of an ongoing crackdown on mafia figures.

A POLICE officer who allegedly demanded kickbacks from truck drivers on the Asia Highway in Nakhon Sawan’s Takhli district has been detained for seven days pending disciplinary and criminal investigation.

But Prawit says influential figures will be prosecuted if strong evidence exists.

‘6,000 SUSPECTS INCLUDE STATE OFFICIALS’: PRAWIT

THE JUSTICE Ministry has produced a list of thousands of suspects seen as “dark influences”, whose alleged criminal behaviour has been categorised into five types of offences, deputy permanent secretary Pol Colonel Dussadee Arayawuth said yesterday.