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The irresistible call of a lavish Easter feast in Sicily landed a prominent mobster behind bars on Sunday after authorities arrested him as he was returning to the island from Brazil to celebrate with family.
Considered by authorities to be the newly appointed “capo” of the Pagliarelli Mafia district in south-east Palermo, Giuseppe Calvaruso (44), had been living for months in Brazil, from where authorities say he was delegating mob affairs to loyal subordinates.
Easter in Sicily is one of the most important Catholic celebrations. After being away from home for nearly a year, Calvaruso had planned a brief stay to feast with family, authorities said, departing from Natal and stopping over briefly in Paris before landing at Falcone Borsellino airport in Palermo. He was arrested on Easter Sunday by Carabinieri police while waiting for his luggage. Anti-Mafia prosecutors are charging him and four other loyalists who were also arrested, including his right-hand man in Palermo, G
The irresistible call of a lavish Easter feast in Sicily landed a prominent mobster behind bars on Sunday after authorities arrested him as he was returning to the island from Brazil to celebrate with family.
Considered by authorities to be the newly appointed “capo” of the Pagliarelli Mafia district in south-east Palermo, Giuseppe Calvaruso (44), had been living for months in Brazil, from where authorities say he was delegating mob affairs to loyal subordinates.
Easter in Sicily is one of the most important Catholic celebrations. After being away from home for nearly a year, Calvaruso had planned a brief stay to feast with family, authorities said, departing from Natal and stopping over briefly in Paris before landing at Falcone Borsellino airport in Palermo.
Donald Trump’s fundraising campaign has been accused of duping supporters into making repeated donations as it accumulated a massive war chest in the run-up to the presidential election.
The key to the operation was the small print in the fundraising emails sent out by the Trump campaign and WinRed, the company that processed the donations.
A box making the donations recurring, rather than a one-off, was ticked in advance – authorising the campaign to continue taking money. It led to a flood of additional donations but also hit supporters with sizeable credit card bills they were not expecting.
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Egypt’s first female ship’s captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away at the time.
Marwa Elselehdar was working as a first mate on the
Aida IV in Alexandria when the 200,000-tonne
Ever Given got stuck, blocking one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. The 29-year-old is a figure celebrated by feminists in Egypt. In 2015 she became both the youngest and the first female Egyptian captain to navigate the newly expanded Suez Canal.