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In a scathing attack on the Congress leadership in Andhra, union cabinet minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has described the state unit chief B Satyanarayana Rao as “ the don of the liquor mafia , the land mafia and the mining mafia ” and dubbed N Kiran Kumar Reddy as an ineffective CM. In a note to the Congress leadership, Deo, who represents Andhra’s Araku segment in the Lok Sabha, has called for change at the top — of the state unit as well as the government. The note couldn’t have come at a worse time. The Congress is hemmed in by the demand for a separate Telangana state and the rise of the Jagan Mohan Reddy, who after quitting the party has emerged as a force to be reckoned with. The tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister has described Rao as the “fountainhead of corruption” with “a pie in every scam on which he has been able to lay his hand”. “It will be difficult to find a worse person for this post than the present incumbent,” the minister’s 11-page note s...

Book excerpt from ' Mafia Prince :’ The story of Philip Leonetti’s mob hit of Vincent Falcone as ordered and watched by Nicky Scarf. The perfect trap: Philly mob honcho walks up the stairs, right into his death Vincent Falcone in the trunk of Philip Leonetti's car. Reprinted from “Mafia Prince: Inside America’s Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra” by Philip Leonetti and Scott Burnstein. Available from Running Press, an imprint of The Perseus Books Group. “ Mafia Prince : Inside America’s Most Violent Mafia Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra,” is the book that came together after gangster and stone cold killer Philip Leonetti emerged from hiding to tell his story to Scott Burnstein and Christopher Graziano. Once the underboss to and the nephew of possibly the most vicious psychopath the mob has ever produced, the Philadelphia boss Nicky (Little Nicky) Scarfo, “Crazy Phil” turned and testified, sending dozens of ...

 19/11-2012 12:47, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Makhinur NIYAZOVA. The Russian mafia boss, a citizen of Georgia Ilya Samsoniya, born in 1973, was detained at Manas International Airport. The Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan informed 24.kg news agency.  Reportedly, on November 16, in Bishkek, during boarding Moscow - Bishkek flight the officers of the General Organized Crime and Corruption Control Department (GUBOPiK) detained a foreigner with a forged passport of the Kyrgyz Republic’s citizen.  As noted, the examination found out that the detainee is a citizen of Georgia, and he is also so called mafia boss Ilya Samsoniya. The GUBOPiK Investigation Department filed a criminal case under the Article 350 of the Kyrgyz Criminal Code (Use of forged documents).  The report said, now the police is checking the involvement of the detained person in crimes committed in Georgia and Russia. “His extradition is not considered so far,” the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry sai...