Mafia
FBI announces arrests in NBA-linked betting probe and Mafia-backed poker scheme
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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Thursday, October 23, 2025, unsealed two indictments tied to illegal gambling, charging more than 30 people across 11 states — including Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier — in alleged insider sports-betting and rigged high‑stakes poker schemes with links to La Cosa Nostra.
Roberto Mazzarella, head of the Camorra's Mazzarella clan, was arrested at a luxury villa in Vietri sul Mare on the Amalfi Coast. The 48-year-old fugitive, wanted for a 2000 murder in Naples, did not resist during the police raid. Authorities found cash and luxury watches at the scene.
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Santiago's Seventh Guarantee Court imposed preventive detention on 17 out of 18 defendants linked to a Chinese mafia in the Meiggs neighborhood, as part of Operation 'Eastern Wall'. The accused face charges including drug trafficking, criminal association, and money laundering, among others. The involved former carabinero was also sent to prison.