Prosecutors have asked for prison sentences totalling nearly 5,000 years for 322 defendants, who bear nicknames like “The Wolf,” “Fatty,” “Sweetie,” and “Lamb Thigh” and are accused of a dizzying array of offences.

Based in the poor southern region of Calabr…

Rome (AFP) Hundreds of alleged members of the ‘Ndrangheta — Italy’s most powerful organised crime group — and their white-collar collaborators face sentencing this week following a historic, nearly…