The Heineken Kidnapping is a fictional adaptation of a true story

By Anna Holligan, BBC

The man known as the godfather of Dutch crime has been released from prison in the Netherlands.    Willem Holleeder served six years of a nine-year sentence for extortion. He has been a hugely powerful, notorious and influential figure on the Dutch underworld for decades.

Holleeder’s most infamous crime has recently been turned into a movie  soon to be released across Europe and there is a new Hollywood version in the making.  read more Here  

Angela “Big Ang” Raiola, neice of late Genovese Capo  Sally Dogs” Lombardi

JANUARY 27–This season’s breakout star on “Mob Wives,” VH1’s hit reality series about big-mouthed mob molls, is a convicted felon who was caught repeatedly selling cocaine during the course of an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration probe targeting a mob-tied drug ring operating in New York City, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Angela Raiola, nicknamed “Big Ang,” was one of 15 defendants indicted–and later convicted–for their roles in the narcotics operation, which distributed crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, and marijuana in Brooklyn and Manhattan, according to court records.  read more Here

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Montreal Mafia Figure  Moreno Gallo

Moreno Gallo, a convicted killer and  reputed  ranking  member of  the mafia in Montreal in both the Catroni and Rizzuto regimes of  La Cosa Nostra, who agreed to be deported to Italy,  now wants a Federal Court judge to approve his return to Canada. read the story

MONTREAL — A suspected adviser to the Rizzuto crime family, who agreed to be deported to Italy, has done an about-face and now wants a Federal Court judge to approve his return to Canada.

Moreno Gallo, a convicted murderer and popular baker in Montreal’s Little Italy neighbourhood, filed the motion days after his expulsion on Jan. 4.

The Canada Border Services Agency says Gallo has an “active implication in organized crime.”

The 66-year-old had said through his lawyer that he’d rather live in Europe than face assassination amid an ongoing purge of top Rizzuto figures.

But in court documents filed in Winnipeg, Gallo says he is known as an upstanding citizen in Montreal, where he immigrated when he was nine years old.

Our bakery employs 15 people, including members of my family,” he wrote to the court. “My family and I provide donations through charities. We provide pizza to poor children and give to local campaigns. Personally I help the poor and homeless of the community. They know they can always find food and comfort in our bakery.”  read more  Here

Written by  Geoffrey Ramsey, insight

Uruguay has long been one of the safest countries in Latin America, but some are warning that the influence of organized crime is on the rise, with gang shootouts  in the capital and an increase in large-scale cocaine seizures

“Shootout Between Two Gangs of Narcos” The January 23 story, which describes a 10-minute long gun battle between rival gangs on a city street, would seem more likely to appear in a newspaper in northern Mexico than in Montevideo-based El Pais. read more Here

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