Investigators allege that Vito Nicastri was a front man for the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, investing illegal earnings in his business empire.
The three had been under investigation for aiding and abetting the Mafia, and were among ten people whose arrest the prosecutor had requested.
Mr Dell'Utri, who was returned to parliament again in April's election, is appealing against a nine-year prison sentence for association with the Mafia that was handed down in December 2004.
When he suggests that magistrates should be subject to mental-health checks, or when one of his close associates, a senator who is appealing against conviction for associating with the Mafia, says a convicted mob killer was a hero, there are good reasons to argue that Mr Berlusconi should not lead his country.
In 2000 Italian authorities uncovered 16, 000 bogus bottles of 1994 and 1995 Sassicaia, apparently prepped for sale by the Neapolitan mafia.
The mayor of the Sicilian town of Corleone, famous for its connections to the Cosa Nostra mafia, has apologised to victims of the criminal network.
She was campaigning as she died, in Italy, for the right to speak out against the Mafia.
Last month the top court sentenced Mr. Dutt to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Muslim mafia bosses linked to the terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment hub.
Yet the biggest challenge now for Mr Berlusconi does not concern conflicts of interest, court cases or the Mafia.
Lawyer Ben Emmerson, acting for Litvinenko's widow Marina, told the hearing that Litvinenko was working for the British intelligence service MI6 and had been tasked by MI6 with working also for the Spanish intelligence service as it investigated Russian mafia activities in Spain.
General Mario Buscemi, who led the last deployment of the army in Italian towns, to tackle the Mafia in the 1990s, recalled that he had 20, 000 men just for Sicily.
Nor even the stunning efficiency with which the capital's airport taxi mafia manage to transport me to city center in vintage cars for only twice the fare that it costs in Bangkok.
Stars demand high fees, banks refuse to lend money for film-making, so the industry has depended on mafia finance.
The comments on the Mafia Wars 2 Facebook page reflect players dissatisfaction with the announcement, many swearing off the company for good it seems.
Supporters of the Mafia theory note that it has been blamed for the burning down of the Petruzzelli theatre in Bari in 1991 and the bombing of the Uffizi art gallery in Florence in 1993.
Pier Luigi Bersani's party was given a boost on Thursday when anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso said he would run for office under the Democratic Party banner.
An entire news cycle, and then some, was consumed by speculation over what the next step will be for a company that sells cartoon farm animals and pretend Mafia accessories.
But as Leadership Editor Fred Allen and I were combing through the recent arrivals, two books stood out from the tilting piles and grabbed our attention: Mother Teresa, CEO: Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership by Ruma Bose and Louis Faust, and Mob Rules, What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman by Louis Ferrante.
The post notes that Zynga claims to have 250 million active users for games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars.
He had a fondness for mafia movies, international travel and a passion for reading history, to learn from the past's "mistakes, " he wrote.
But for all the bluster, the Kremlin remains wary, to put it politely, of really cracking down on mafia-controlled businesses.
You're not alone if you can't stand the regular requests from Facebook friends to hide a cache of weapons or to hold hot merchandise for them in Mafia Wars.
In 1932, Al Capone, the Mafia boss who became America's "Public Enemy Number One, " began his prison sentence for tax evasion.
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