In the Italian south, the lives of foreign agricultural labourers are so cheap that many have described their conditions as a modern form of slavery. The produce they pick ends up on the shelves supermarkets. Its said 3 things permit modern slavery; vulnerability, discrimination and a lack of the rule of law. All are present in Italy.
Italy’s agricultural sector is booming, with food products making up 8.7% of GDP. Exploitation of immigrant workers is hugely profitable. In Italy, the slum of the San Ferdinando camp and others have sprung up near the tomato fields in the southern region of Puglia. They are lawless, grim wastelands where many migrants wind up.
The body of Ecuadorean gang boss Junior Roldán has disappeared from its resting place in a cemetery in Colombia. The number two in Los Choneros, a prison gang which has terrorized Ecuador, had been found shot dead in Colombia's Antioquia province in May. His body was placed in a wall vault in the town of Envigado after no one claimed his body. He had fled to Colombia after surviving two previous attempts on his life in his native Ecuador.
Cops suspect that he was killed by his bodyguard who wanted to steal the large sum of cash the gang leader had taken with him when he went into hiding.
Cops told local media that men had broken into the cemetery overnight and taken the body. Motive is unclear.
Roldán had many enemies and created more by forming an alliance with Mexican cartels.
Before he fled Ecuador, he had been shot and injured by members of a rival gang calling itself Los Lobos (The Wolves).
He had previously survived an attack in which drones laden with explosives were set off above the prison wing in which he was detained at the time.
The gang he belonged to, Los Choneros, mainly engages in drug trafficking and extortion.
TikTok videos celebrated the gang members’ deaths with red “X”s over photos of the dead men.
The six men shot dead in the town of Artemida (Loutsa) in Eastern Attica were members of the Dalton mafia led by Turkish criminal Baris Boyun. The story made headlines after the victims’ names became public.
Boyun is a drug dealer known for hitmen riding motorcycles based in Istanbul Turkey.
Mob boss Raynald Desjardins is out and about after doing his time for the Montagna hit, and has been for months. His name hasn't hit the news, yet. There is a great deal of bad blood associated with those who crossed the influential gangster when he was caged.
Shot 3 times, Montagna smashed through a window of the house to try to save himself.
Raynald Desjardins was nervous when detectives visited on Nov 25, 2011. It was a day after Desjardins killed Montagna. Montagna had sent a text message; "I want you to know that you are my friend." Montagna agreed that Jack Simpson, a Desjardins man, take him to the meeting.
Desjardins was not there. Five minutes later Montagna fled Simpson's house with 3 .357 gunshot wounds. Montagna was shot dead on November 24, 2011.
Footprints at the edge of the river were consistent with Jack Simpson's boots.
The day after the murder of Salvatore (Sal the Iron Worker) Montagna, Raynald Desjardins was obsessed by the fear of being killed. The boss was worried, anxious and irritable. He isn't satisfied with the armored Lexus he procured after being targeted in mid-September. He arranges to import an armoured GMC Denali SUV equipped with a bomb protection system. Desjardins was arrested the next day.
Raynald Desjardins in 2011
Desjardins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit the murder of Salvatore Montagna. Montagna was killed weeks after an attempt on Desjardins’s life in Laval.
Desjardins was the right-hand man to Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Desjardins immediately suspected Montagna. The two men had been partners for several months in an attempt to take control of the Montreal Mafia away from the Rizzuto organization, but their alliance fell apart early in 2011.
Six men pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of taking part in the conspiracy to murder Montagna. Vittorio Mirarchi (38); Jack Simpson (73); Calogero Milioto (44); Pietro Magistrale (64); Steven Fracas (31); and Steven D’Addario (38) — admitted their role in the conspiracy to kill
Jack Simpson
Calogero Milioto
Steven Fracas
Pietro Magistrale
Felice Racaniello
The morning that Salvatore Montagna was shot three times and died on a river bank outside Montreal, Raynald Desjardins was having breakfast elsewhere in town with his daughter and chatting about her wedding photo album. Shortly after the killing, Desjardins sent a Blackberry message to his associate, Vittorio Mirarchi: “Done.”
“Perfect,” came the reply. Police who were wiretapping Desjardin’s mobile phone immediately knew who was behind the 2011 murder.
Cops arrested eight customs officers in connection with 55 kg gold stolen from the departmental warehouse at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Four assistant revenue officers of customs and four constables in charge of warehouse security are busted.
While this gold heist has a happy ending, there has been not a whisper about the $20m gold heist at Pearson airport this spring.
“This is an active investigation and we are exploring all avenues,” said cops.
The air freight container stuffed with $20m in gold and banknotes was unloaded from an Air Canada jet arriving at Toronto’s Pearson airport onto a Brink’s security truck while on the airport tarmac. The loot, the size of a desk, was then driven through a tunnel underneath the runways to an Air Canada cargo holding facility on the other side of the airport called Cargo West. It then disappeared. The afternoon flight to Toronto was from Zurich. The shipment was destined for TD Bank with Brinks providing security.
Canadian rapper Daystar Peterson (Tory Lanez) filed a motion in the Superior Court of Los Angeles to be released on bail while he appeals his felony conviction. Due to violence its a long shot. Lanez has been caged since Dec. 23, 2022, and is held in the Men’s Central Jail in LA while waiting to be transported to a state prison.
Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years for shooting Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion in the feet during an argument between the pair after a party in 2020.
He was found guilty on three gun charges in December 2022 and has been held in jail since. Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, had seven US top 10 albums in the past seven years.
The dummy was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semi-automatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle; and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Karl Greenwood, 46, co-founder of the fraudulent OneCoin cryptocurrency, a massive pyramid scheme that fleeced more than $4 billion from investors worldwide, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He pleaded pleaded guilty in December to wire fraud and money laundering. Greenwood was arrested in 2018. His partner in crime, Ruja Ignatova, 43, is on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list and remains at large.
Ruja Ignatova knew about efforts to arrest her months before she vanished according to documents provided by Frank Schneider, a former spy and trusted adviser to Ignatova. Ignatova disappeared on 25 October 2017 after learning of a high level international cop meeting planning to take her down. Ignatova bugged an apartment belonging to her American boyfriend and learned he was cooperating with an FBI probe into OneCoin. She boarded a flight from Bulgaria to Greece and hasn't been seen since. Ruja Ignatova, Sebastian Greenwood, and Konstantin Ignatov launched Onecoin in 2014. It was a classic ponzi scheme. In late 2019, the remnants of Onecoin imploded. US prosecutors alleged the scheme brought in $4b world-wide.
Ruja Ignatova disappeared around the time a secret US warrant was filed for her arrest. Konstantin Ignatov was arrested in March 2019. In Nov 2019 he pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud.
Vodka heiress Marinika Smirnova, 40, was fined £1k after being filmed on her phone driving through Hyde Park in London.
The heir to the Smirnoff vodka empire was caught using her phone while driving her Porsche in London. She was busted near her luxury six-bedroom home. She received six penalty points on her driver's licence due to the incident, the bad girl. A Youtuber spotted Smirnova driving her red Porsche 911 Targa 4S and ratted her out.
Initially, cops offered Smirnova a fine, but she didn't respond so the case proceeded to court.
Anthony Psilopoulos, 38, is charged with a slew of gun charges including Possess Restricted/Prohibited Firearm No Licence, Possess Restricted/Prohibited Firearm Knowingly Not Holding Licence, Discharge Firearm into Place Reckless to Others, Possession Contrary to Order, Fail to Comply with Release Order, Fail to Comply with Probation Order. BPMC refers to Black Pistons, a farm team of the Outlaws. Also busted is Darryl Kerswell, 51.
Cops seized 13 firearms, two over capacity magazines and ammunition.
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd was an American bank robber. When paroled after his first bank robbery Floyd vowed that he would never see the inside of another prison.
He committed a series of bank robberies over the next several years; it was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Pretty Boy." According to one account, when the payroll master targeted in a robbery described the three perpetrators to the police, he referred to Floyd as "a mere boy — a pretty boy with apple cheeks." In 1929, Floyd was wanted in numerous serious cases. Floyd was a suspect in the deaths of Kansas City brothers Wally and Boll Ash who were rum-runners, found dead in a burning car on March 25, 1931.
Members of his gang killed Patrolman Castner of Bowling Green, Ohio on April 23. On July 22, Floyd killed federal agent Curtis Burke. Floyd and Adam Richetti became the prime suspects in a June 17, 1933 gunfight known as the 'Kansas City massacre' that resulted in the deaths of 4 cops.
On July 23, 1934, following the death of John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd was named Public Enemy Number 1.
He hated his nickname so much that after being gunned down he made one final declaration, “I’m Charles Arthur Floyd.”
On October 22, 1934, Floyd was killed in an apple orchard near East Liverpool, Ohio, while being pursued by local law officers and FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis.
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