In the shadowy alleys of American history, few figures loom as large as the mafia gangsters of the 20th century. These men, with their sharp suits and sharper instincts, built empires on the back ...

also known as the New Mexican Mafia, a US prison gang. He was in and out of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry for 20 years and served time for armed robbery and ...

the list of crimes is long. So who are the Italian mafia? The Sicilian gangs established the model for other mafias. They meted out local justice in the 1800s, then grew in power and sophistication.

A Japanese government agency running a helpline for victims of the Yakuza, including former gang members, has confirmed it ...

Spanish prosecutors believe more than €50m ($62m; £44m) of Russian mafia money was laundered by the so-called Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya gang, based in St Petersburg. Prosecutors have demanded ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade Soner Ergin, a brother of Turkey’s Karagumruk gang leaders, has paid a visit to Devlet Bahceli, ...