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Posted By: Ciment

Ndrangheta News - 02/17/17 09:09 PM

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/mafia-...216-guemgq.html

Mafia kingpin Rocco Arico guilty of extortion, faces deportation

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/17 11:37 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/17 12:04 AM

Coincidence, I just bought a book "the gangland war" based on the Australian crime groups kingpin Carl Williams, Moran family and the Ndrangheta "Benvenuto" crime family. Can't wait to read it.

Watch the first season of underbelly an Australian tv serie. Apart the benvenuto family,all the caracthers (williams, Moran ecc) are well defined.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/17 03:16 PM

Giuseppe Costa, who has been collaborating with the authorities for years, spills about Antonio Commisso in particular.

https://shar.es/19yZbU

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/17 03:38 PM

Coincidence, I just bought a book "the gangland war" based on the Australian crime groups kingpin Carl Williams, Moran family and the Ndrangheta "Benvenuto" crime family. Can't wait to read it.

Watch the first season of underbelly an Australian tv serie. Apart the benvenuto family,all the caracthers (williams, Moran ecc) are well defined.

Thanks Furio, I didn't know there was a TV series on them.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/17 03:59 PM

Giuseppe Costa, who has been collaborating with the authorities for years, spills about Antonio Commisso in particular.

https://shar.es/19yZbU

I find that informants in the Ndrangheta are few compared to other large crime families. Similar to Bucetta, I think the reason he is talking is because they killed most of his family.It would be interesting if we were to know more on their inner networks.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/17 11:50 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters...ve-oil-U-S.html

Italian police break mafia ring exporting fake olive oil to U.S.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/17 12:42 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/27/17 11:07 PM

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/27/17 11:49 PM

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 12:01 AM

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Yes. A member of the Piromallis, Rosario Vizzari, who lives in NY for 20 years had contacts within the FBI. So the heads of the clan knew they were being targeted by Italian investigators.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 05:26 AM

@Hollander

What exactly do the Piromallis do in NY? Is it just, like a coordination/command post type thing?

Didn't know there been there 20years already, lol

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 05:28 AM

Which investigations were they tipped off too? In Italy or America? Or both?

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 07:51 AM

@ Billy

I've been meaning to ask you, you know I had all kinda problems signing up, I'll try again, it's still a go? The site I mean...

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Billy the article say that 'a capo del fbi' aka high ranking fbi agent said to the piromalli to dont go on italy because there are investigations on them and that the fbi chief "want make a career on your skin".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 09:55 AM

@Hollander

What exactly do the Piromallis do in NY? Is it just, like a coordination/command post type thing?

Didn't know there been there 20years already, lol

These guys control the huge Gioia Tauro port, in NY they are involved in import/export. They also have a presence in Philly.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 03:41 PM

@ Billy

I've been meaning to ask you, you know I had all kinda problems signing up, I'll try again, it's still a go? The site I mean...

I've sent you a PM Cabrini.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 03:44 PM

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Wow, that would be quite unprecedented to have a high ranking FBI official in the pocket of a mafia organization. Can't think of an example of something like that happening before, does anyone else?

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Wow, that would be quite unprecedented to have a high ranking FBI official in the pocket of a mafia organization. Can't think of an example of something like that happening before, does anyone else?

John Connoly e John Morris in Boston with Bulger and Flemmi from 1975 to 1995 or barboza and flemmi with sa paul rico in the 60s;Greg Scarpa Sr and Lyn devecchio are the examples that come to my mind.
Anyway the article say of a generic capo del fbi aka chief of the fbi so Billy dont make him more important respect what they are.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 09:16 PM

Which investigations were they tipped off too? In Italy or America? Or both?

Good question, I would say if the feds are in the know on both sides.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/17 09:23 PM

They knew about the op last month.

Italian police, FBI in 'Ndrangheta op
33 arrests in Piromalli clan

(ANSA) - Rome, January 26 - Italian police and the FBI on Thursday carried out operations against one of the most powerful clans in Italy's strongest and richest mafia, the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta.
Some 33 people were arrested in probes into the Piromalli clan's business interests in Italy and the US, including around the massive Gioia Tauro container port and across the wealthy Lombard belt, where the clan exercised "radical control over business apparatus and the real-estate and agri-food sectors including Milan's fruit and vegetable market". The Piromallis' agri-food interests amounted to an annual 16 billion euros, police said, while their US interests were centred on "massive" penetration of the olive-oil market.
The ringleader of the operations was Antonio Piromalli, 45, son of one of the historic leaders of the clan, 72-year-old Pino, who has been held in the top security '41 bis' mafia jail regime for over 20 years.
Police seized some 40 million euros in assets.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/17 09:41 AM

Arico sentenced to 14 years jail for extortion, drugs, weapons

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz4aFojjYnL

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/17 07:41 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/17 10:53 AM

The truckdriver Domenico Stambè, 55, was shot dead in Vibo Valentia. His brothers, Angelo and Nazzareno, respectively 40 and 47, were arrested a few years ago by the police of Asti provincial command aboard a Fiat Ducato with inside a veritable arsenal of 20 guns, 13 pistols and ammunition.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/17 11:32 AM

http://www.standard.net.au/story/4384210...lients/?cs=4162

Fugitive Calabrian mafia figure was one of slain gangland lawyer's final clients

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/22/17 05:10 PM

'Ndrangheta boss Vottari arrested over mafia feud
Feud culminated in 2007 Duisburg massacre

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, March 22 - Santo Vottari, a 45-year-old 'Ndrangheta boss on Italy's most-wanted list, was arrested by Carabinieri police on Wednesday in a bunker in the Reggio Calabria area, sources said. Vottari is considered the head of a clan that was involved in the San Luca feud, principally between the Pelle-Vottari and Nirta-Strangio clans, which culminated in a 2007 massacre in the German city of Duisburg in which six people were murdered. Vottari had been on the run since 2007 and must serve a 10-year term for criminal association.
The fugitive boss was found inside a hide-out carved out inside a bunker in the Calabrian town of Benestare. Interior Minister Marco Minniti complimented police on their "excellent" work.
Carabinieri Commander-in-Chief Tullio Del Sette congratulated police on Vottari's arrest and on that of two members of another 'Ndrangheta clan, Salvatore Etzi and Salvatore Palumbo, which he said had "inflicted a heavy blow" on the Calabrian mafia.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_...c1035cc6bf.html

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/24/17 10:24 PM

Video of Santo Vottari's arrest:

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/27/17 02:07 PM

How the Italian mafia is at home in the Netherlands

https://euobserver.com/investigations/137328

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/27/17 08:33 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/31/17 11:46 PM

The fugitive Leo Caridi, boss of the 'ndrina Caridi-Borghetto-Zindato, arrested in Switzerland, was extradited to Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/07/17 08:44 AM

Maria Rita Lo Giudice took her own life by jumping of the fifth floor of her home. The 25-year-old girl is the daughter and granddaughter of prominent members of the 'Ndrangheta in Reggio. She had a brilliant university career, but felt isolated from the choice to distance herself from the family history.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/07/17 10:47 AM

Another tragic fuckin post about an Ndrangheta family member, who didn't know HOW to break away, PSYCHOLOGICALLY.

A lot of people don't get that aspect of growing up in a CRIME FAMILY. More than just a tough neighborhood, but when YOUR FAMILY, adheres to a criminal code.

That girl was probably an outcast amongst everything she ever knew, and all she did was try to live like a regular person.

It's not an easy thing to walk away from your siblings, parents, friends you grew up with, to completely break away from the culture. But it's the only way, ain't no half stepping with it......

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/07/17 10:53 PM

Police close two public schools over mafia links
The Local
news@thelocal.it
7 April 2017
13:30 CEST+02:00

Italian police on Friday seized two public schools in Calabria, southern Italy as part of an anti-mafia raid.
Military police cordoned off two of Locri's public schools - the State Institute of Art and the State Professional Institute for Industry and Craftsmanship - as part of the sting.

The schools, which have a combined total of around 800 students, were "totally illegal", police said, lacking proper documentation or permits.

It is not yet clear when or whether the schools will reopen, as that decision will depend on safety and security checks ordered by the public prosecutor.

Further anti-mafia raids were carried out on private residences, and police seized assets worth 12 million euros.

In total, 15 people were charged, issued with arrest warrants, or placed under house arrest, with one suspect jailed.

The suspects include employees at local authorities in the towns of Locri and Reggio Calabria, as well as businessmen and employees of the companies which built the two schools.

The accusations range from fraud to coercion and abuse of office, all of which are aggravated due to the connection with organized crime groups.

https://www.thelocal.it/20170407/police-seize-two-public-schools-over-mafia-links

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/12/17 09:29 AM

Giuseppe Costa, who has been collaborating with the authorities for years, spills about Antonio Commisso in particular.

https://shar.es/19yZbU

A week ago they arrested Salvatore Commisso he has the position of "the day master". The man helped to direct and coordinate the association taking the most important decisions, giving roles and other associated provisions, participating in rituals and affiliation of "conferring gifts ". Also he would have taken care of relations with Giuseppe Commisso aka "the master".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/17 08:40 AM

Calabria has the highest rate of youth unemployment in the EU, 58.7%.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/17 01:11 PM

Calabria has the highest rate of youth unemployment in the EU, 58.7%.

Which would give the 'Ndrangheta a steady supply of hungry and ambitious young men to pick from as their enforcers.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/02/17 10:31 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/17 06:00 AM

Ndrangheta-linked narco trafficker got (2)
Pasquale Michael Assisi son of fugitive boss Nicola

(ANSA) - Turin, May 4 - Italian police on Thursday arrested in Turin a member of a family of narco traffickers with links to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia. Pasquale Michael Assisi, 30, is the son of fugitive boss Nicola Assisi, 59, on the run from a 13-year sentence for drug trafficking, and the brother of Patrick, 34, believed to be hiding in South America. 'Ndrangheta controls the European cocaine market.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_...f031f728e6.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/17 09:53 PM

Rocco Papalia, 67, has been released. He's one of the most important and powerful bosses of the 'Ndrangheta rooted in the North, in the municipalities of Corsico and Buccinasco, near Milan.
Papalia was in prison since September 10, 1992, when he began his long detention in Cagliari, for a long series of crimes, committed in the 80s onwards: from drug trafficking to kidnapping.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/07/17 08:53 AM

Champagne and pastries for the boss Papalia's return in Buccinasco
A constant coming and going. A secular procession to the house of the boss Rocco Papalia, to celebrate his return home after twenty-six years in prison. But his release worries investigators

http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronac...l?refresh_ce-cp

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/17 08:34 AM

Another crack in the Grande Aracri clan. Giuseppe Liperoti, formerly cashier of the clan, has repented.

http://gazzettadireggio.gelocal.it/reggi...3025?refresh_ce

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/17 08:56 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/17 06:23 PM

Italy: 'Ndrangheta Boss Arrested while having Lunch
Written by Lorenzo Bagnoli

Rocco Barbaro, a relevant 'Ndrangheta boss known as "u' sparitu" (the disappeared), was caught in his daughter's flat while fugitive in his hometown Platì, a small village in Calabria. He was having lunch with the family. Platì is a stronghold of 'Ndrangheta clans, a safe heaven for mafiosi.
Barbaro has been fugitive since 2015, when he was sentenced for association in mafia and for a property fictitiously registered. The Italian Interior Minister shortlisted Rocco Barbaro among the 30 most dangerous fugitives in Italy.
Barbaro is an influent boss in Lombardy, the richest Italian region: he was in charge of managing businesses between Platì and Northern regions. His clan, the Barbaro-Papalia, is particularly influential in drug trafficking. During a phone conversation tapped by the Italian police, a mafia affiliate, called Agostino Catanzariti, defined Rocco Barbaro as the "capo dei capi" (boss of the bosses) in Lombardy because of his strong relationships in the whole region.
Barbaro moved to Buccinasco, a small municipality in the outskirt of the Italian economical capital Milan, in 2012, after serving 15 years in prison for international drug trafficking. Since his clan moved to Buccinasco, the place is called "the Platì of North", because of the pervasive presence of 'ndrangheta families.
In Buccinasco, Barbaro worked officially in a tyre shop. According to investigations run by Milan prosecutors, Barbaro was the real owner of a bar called "Vecchia Milano" used as headquarter by the local mafia families.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/6431-italy-ndrangheta-boss-arrested-while-having-lunch

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/17 04:46 PM

Police op nabs heads of De Stefano 'Ndrangheta clan
Reggio Calabria, May 11 - A police operation on Thursday 'decapitated' the De Stefano clan of Calabria's powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia, sources said. In the operation, two former big fugitives of justice, Orazio De Stefano and Paolo Rosario De Stefano, an uncle and nephew thought to be helm of the organization, were among five people detained. Orazio De Stefano spent 16 years on the run before being captured in 2004.

http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/n...gheta-clan.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/12/17 10:39 AM

The Italian government on Thursday dissolved three town councils in Reggio Calabria due to evidence of 'ndrangheta infiltration. The affected towns were Laureana di Borrello, Bova Marina and Gioia Tauro.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/12/17 01:10 PM

https://theconversation.com/italian-judg...long-term-73499

Italian judges removing children from mafia families are right to think long term.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/12/17 01:13 PM

https://www.thelocal.it/20170512/italy-d..._medium=twitter

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/17 01:13 PM

The financial police of Reggio Calabria seized goods, with a value of 28 million euros, from the businessman Angelo Restuccia. It was found that the farmer started and increased his activity back in the 80s thanks to the backing of the Piromalli and Mancuso clans. For prosecutors and investigators, therefore, Restuccia is an emblematic example of "mafia entrepreneur." They have also highlighted the disparity between income and accumulated assets.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/17 10:54 AM

Italy busts mafia clan, Catholic group in migrant scandal

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world...5#ixzz4h8y9h0Oz

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/23/17 06:33 PM

'Ndrangheta cocaine trafficking ring smashed
21 mobsters arrested in Milan, Rome and Catanzaro

(ANSA) - Milan, May 23 - The Milan branch of the Italian DDA anti-mafia unit has targeted drug trafficking activities by a branch of the organized crime group 'Ndrangheta, originally from the southern Calabria region.
An operation was begun by the Carabinieri in the early morning hours of Tuesday to arrest 21 individuals on charges of criminal association for drug trafficking, with the aggravating circumstance of using mafia-type methods. The arrests have taken place in the Milan, Monza and Brianza, Perugia, Alessandria, Catanzaro, Rome, Varese and Vercelli provinces.
Measures have also been carried out in Germany. The investigation began after the Bareggio arrest in flagrante delicto in September 2015 of one of those under investigation, who was found in possession of 30 kilograms of cocaine. The soldiers discovered the existence of an association based in Arluno, near Milan, and connected with the 'Ndrangheta family Gallace, which holds sway over Guardavalle near Catanzaro and which has branches both in Lombardy and in the Lazio towns of Anzio and Nettuno. The mafia-type criminal organization, the latest in a long string of similar ones to make their appearance in the Milan area, allegedly controlled immense trafficking of cocaine and imports of the illegal substance from South America.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/05/...e389733f6a.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/25/17 09:50 PM

Carabinieri of the ROS have arrested five people accused of a series of murders in the late '90s and early years of this decade as part of the so-called " Platì feud "that pitted the time Marando and Trimboli families. The suspects are Rosario Barbaro, 77, Saverio Trimboli (43), Rosario Marando (49), Bruno Polito (45) and Domenico Trimboli (36).
The investigation that led to the detentions started after the death of Pasquale Marando in 2002. The police have found that Marando was killed and his body disappeared at the hands of members of the family Trimboli with permission from Rosario Barbaro, head of the local of Plati. The feud ended after the intervention of the higher-order structure of the "Crimine".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/27/17 10:07 AM

112 yrs asked in Piedmont 'Ndrangheta trial
8 yrs requested for Juve capo ultra Rocco Dominello

(ANSA) - Turin, May 26 - Prosecutors on Friday asked a total of 112 years in prison for 15 of the 23 defendants in the 'Alto Piemonte' (North Piedmont) trial on Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia infiltration in the Turin area.
The longest term, 17 years one month and 16 days, was asked for Diego Raso, a member of the so-called Santhià branch of the Calabrian Mob.
Among the defendants are Saverio Dominello and his son Rocco, a capo ultra of Juventus, both accused of mafia association and attempted murder, for whom prosecutors have asked 12 and eight years respectively. In the dock for externally aiding and abetting mafia association there is also another Juve fan, Fabio Germani, for whom five years in jail have been requested.
One part of the probe, in fact, regards attempts by Calabrian organised crime to infiltrate Juve fan circles via ticket touting. In a sporting probe, the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) is looking into meetings where Juve Chairman Andrea Agnello allegedly met Rocco Dominello.
Agnelli has admitted meeting him but stressed there had never been any "pressure" exerted on Juve.
A hearing in the FIGC probe was adjourned Friday until after the Champions League final between Juve and Real Madrid in Cardiff on June 3.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/05/...69773529c4.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/17 10:07 AM

'Babyboss' son of Italian mafia don kills best friend for liking Facebook picture of his girlfriend

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/son-italian-mafia-boss-kills-best-friend-over-facebook-like-1624379

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/17 10:33 AM

Italian Carabinieri Arrest Major 'Ndrangheta Drug Boss
Published: Friday, 02 June 2017 15:44
Written by Cecilia Anesi, Investigative Reporting Project Italy

Calabria's Carabinieri Military police arrested Friday morning a 'ndrangheta drug lord they were searching the last 23 years for.

Police hammer through Giorgi's fireplace (Photo: Carabinieri, Reggio Calabria)

After sitting quietly in the same position during the five-hour police search of his Calabrian home, Giuseppe Giorgi had to move his body that grew stiff.
The cracking sound he made revealed his hideout and investigators who were knocking down the walls, turned their hammers toward the fireplace.
"U Capra" - or "the Goat" - had escaped arrest after being sentenced in 1994 to a jail term of 28 years and eight months for international drug trafficking. Authorities thought for long he was hiding in Germany or Latin America.
But as investigators hammered out a few bricks behind the fireplace at his house in his birthplace of San Luca, Calabria, the 56 year-old climbed out of his secret bunker and shook the hand of an officer for a job well done in finding him.
'U Capra' was the most important drug lord for the family Romeo alias Staccu of San Luca, a tiny Calabrian village but a 'ndrangheta stronghold.
The Giorgi family of San Luca is dedicated to cocaine trafficking from Latin America to Northern Europe and has strong contacts with Colombian cartels as well as cells in The Netherlands and Germany.
It is well connected with other famous 'ndrangheta clans rooted in Northern Europe, particularly in Duisburg, Germany, where they own bars and hotels and where cocaine is distributed throughout Germany after it arrives from the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp.
Giorgi was among the most wanted fugitives in Italy. Former mafiosi who after their arrest started collaborating with the police, claimed Giorgi was involved also in arms trafficking and illegal disposal of toxic and radioactive waste.
Ships loaded with hazardous waste were allegedly sunk with dynamite off the Italian coast.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/6534-italian-carabinieri-arrest-major-ndrangheta-drug-boss

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/05/17 08:34 AM

'Ndrangheta mobster Giuseppe "the Goat" Giorgi receives a "baciamano" from an admiring neighbor on the way to jail.

Video: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/media/N...9e30c3da47.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/17 07:26 PM

Giuseppe Giorgi arrested by police in July 2017 after 23 years on the run!

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/17 02:03 PM

Italian mafia drug lord arrested in Geneva pizza restaurant

Police in Geneva on Friday arrested a member of the 'Ndrangheta mafia group in a pizza restaurant in the city's Italianate district of Carouge.
The 39-year-old man, considered the brains behind an international drug trafficking ring, had been on the run for the past two years after being sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison in Italy, reported La Tribune de Genève on Monday.

Convicted for trafficking cocaine from Columbia and heroin from Pakistan and Afghanistan, he vanished in October 2015 when under house arrest, which had been granted due to health reasons.

During an investigation lasting several months, Italian authorities discovered that the man lived in the French commune of Veigy-Foncenex and worked over the Swiss border in a pizza restaurant in the Geneva suburb of Carouge.

He was arrested there at around midday on Friday.

Contacted by the paper, the Swiss federal justice office confirmed that the man had been arrested at the request of the Italian authorities, who will likely issue a formal request for extradition.

In the meantime he will be detained at Geneva's Champ-Dollon prison.

It's not the first time a member of the Italian mafia has ended up hiding in Switzerland.

In March 2016 Swiss authorities arrested 15 people suspected of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta.

All Italian citizens – though two were also naturalized Swiss – they had been living in the cantons of Thurgau, Zurich and Valais.

Based in Calabria in the 'toe' of Italy's south, the 'Ndrangheta crime organization is considered one of the richest and most powerful in Europe.

Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20170606/italian-mafia-drug-lord-arrested-in-geneva-pizza-restaurant

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/13/17 11:34 PM

The cameras of the police have succeeded in penetrating the table of the new axis of negotiations between organized crime in Calabria and Sicily, for drug trafficking and cattle rustling: 19 arrests last week in Ragusa and Agrigento.

http://catania.blogsicilia.it/patto-fra-...-comiso/396036/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/17 04:17 PM

Italian police on Friday arrested 17 people allegedly linked to the 'Ndrangheta in Rome. Those arrested are suspected of extortion, money laundering, loan sharking ad other mafia crimes, police said.
They are also suspected of being linked to a Camorra clan that has been operating in Rome for years, the Senese family.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/17 07:44 PM

Fugitive Bruno Crisafi arrested after police tip off from Australia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...s_campaign=1490

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/17 11:36 AM

Maybe some of you watched the disturbing footage of the shooting in 2013, I think its on youtube.

Revenge, this would be the motive of the murder of Gregorio Mezzatesta, 54, murdered yesterday morning in the center of Catanzaro. Employee of Railways of Calabria, and married with two children, clean record, no suspects bond, a quiet life divided between the house in Soveria Mannelli and work in the capital. A life without shadows, say the investigators. But there is a point of no return in Mezzatesta life. It is January 19, 2013. In Decollatura, a small town on the hills of Lamezia Terme, the security cameras of the Bar Reventino frame four men seated at a table. An increasingly heated discussion until one of these gets up holding a pistol and began to fire. A chilling scene with the desperate and useless attempt of one victim to save his life sheltering behind a pillow.

Victims are Francesco Iannazzo, 29, and Giovanni Vescio, 36 years. The authors of the double murder are Dominic and his son Giovanni Mezzatesta respectively brother and nephew of Gregorio.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/17 02:19 PM

Maybe some of you watched the disturbing footage of the shooting in 2013, I think its on youtube.

Victims are Francesco Iannazzo, 29, and Giovanni Vescio, 36 years. The authors of the double murder are Dominic and his son Giovanni Mezzatesta respectively brother and nephew of Gregorio.

I watched it years ago,brutal video. They are eliminating innocent family members,what a scum.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/17 08:18 PM

Here it is, I forgot Domenico is a former policeman.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d1d_1388687852

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/17 01:35 PM

Nine arrested in 'Ndràngheta anti-mafia sting

LAMEZIA TERME- Local police have arrested nine people following an anti-mafia operation dubbed "red string" against the Giampà wing of the 'Ndràngheta Mafia clan, in the province of Calabria, a hotbed for organised criminal activities.

Those detained are accused of breaking the law under the stamp of the Mafia and of several cases of extortion at the expense of shop owners and entrepreneurs in Lamezia Terme.

Additionally, the nine people arrested are suspected of carrying out a series of attacks designed to intimidate local business owners, including throwing flaming bottles into the shops and damaging them with the use of explosive devices.

Initial investigations have revealed that some of the suspects detained following the operation had recently obtained their freedom after being arrested in similar police stings called "Medusa" and "Perseo."

It is believed that the moment these individual were permitted alternative protective measures than official detention, they immediately returned to the foray of organised crime with the intentions of imposing again their influence on the criminal underworld of Lamezia Terme.

The operation was carried out by State Police in collaboration with the Catanzaro rapid response team and the Police Comissioner of Lamezia Terme.

Source: http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node%2F5567

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/17 09:06 PM

Police arrested in Milan Francesco Piccolo, 57, considered the right arm of the Calabrian clan of Flachi and searched since the beginning of June to serve a residue of 4-year and two months sentence in the investigation 'cornerstone' in 2011. Piccolo, who has previous convictions for theft, damage and dealing, has to answer for criminal association with the mafia aimed at extortion, drug dealing and possession of weapons. The operation led to the arrest of 35 people.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/17 09:52 AM

Eleven arrests were carried out by the police against people considered affiliated to the 'Ndrangheta. Conspiracy mafia, attempted murder, usury, extortion, robbery, damage, fire, illegal possession of arms and ammunition offenses alleged against them in various ways.
The operation was conducted by the military of the station Chivasso (Turin) in the provinces of Torino, Varese, Reggio Calabria, Cosenza and Vercelli, in conjunction with relevant departments.
Seized real estate, companies and businesses, life insurance policies, bank accounts, large displacement cars, safes, jewels and luxury watches, and cash.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/17 08:00 PM

The Court of Reggio Calabria Assize of Appeals upheld a life sentence imposed at first instance to the alleged boss Tommaso Costa for the murder of the young entrepreneur Gianluca Congiusta, which occurred on the evening of May 24, 2005 in Siderno, while he was driving his car.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/17 04:42 PM

Gratteri: "The health of the Ndrangheta in the North is good"
07/02/2017 admin Ndrangheta 0

Nicola Gratteri
ROME - The health of the Ndrangheta in the North is "good", a presence that "manifests itself in different ways." "Before shooting more," "Today families are dedicated more to business, make investments. They buy and sell hotels, restaurants, shops. They devote themselves to the laundering of drug profits". It is the analysis of Nicola Gratteri, the public prosecutor in Catanzaro, interviewed by the Press. "They are the holders of the wholesale. The detail they leave it to Nigerians and others. The Ndrangheta has a near monopoly. For decades selling cocaine to Cosa Nostra and the Camorra. Always the big importers of cocaine are the Ndrangheta area Ionian and Tyrrhenian coast, "he explains.

"In the construction industry the ndrine have always been a big part offering cheap labor, ensuring the disposal of waste, supplying cement weakened. The Northern entrepreneurs who have adapted, now they can not say they did not know or did not understood. i explain: for years if your suppliers offer you a 100 material and the newcomers you give it to 60, there is something wrong. it's obvious. " "New partners typically enter into partnership with minority stakes, then end up control, the company" to take in hand. The young talent? "The Ndrangheta children are educated, graduates, are lawyers, doctors, engineers. They are in government. But always respond to the same rules. At that mafia method that can not be denied."

https://mediacalabria.it/gratteri-la-salute-della-ndrangheta-al-nord-e-buona/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/17 08:40 AM

A plantation of over 1,000 marijuana plants were found in Ricciolio district by police from Siderno and the squadron eliportato hunters Calabria.

Posted By: Stubbs

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/17 06:12 PM

Meet the man helping Italy's mafia children through therapy

Help came from psychologist Enrico Interdonato, 33, who volunteers with a project that tries to free youngsters from the notoriously ruthless 'Ndrangheta in Calabria by placing them in care in secret locations across Italy.

The programme, called "Liberi di Scegliere" (Free to Choose), aims to show teens they can forge a life outside the criminal underworld without feeling they have betrayed those they love.

"They're raised as princes destined to inherit a dynasty, the embodiment of their town's criminal history," Interdonato told AFP.

"Their fathers are almost always in prison or dead, their cousins or brothers are in jail. In the closed societies of small Calabrian towns everyone knows them and they feel it's their duty to live up to the family name," he said.

"At risk" minors are removed from their families by the juvenile court in the southern city of Reggio Calabria and given a chance to finish their education. Those who want it also get help finding work once they turn 18.

The first challenge Interdonato faces is convincing the youngsters not to see it as a punishment but an opportunity to find themselves in a place where their family names - renowned at home - hold no power over them.

They also have to be convinced of the ills of a lifestyle which seduces many in a region with crippling unemployment.

"Being heir to a mafia clan means obligations but it also means privileges, having access to significant economic and social power," he said.

'Traumatized'

They may wear designer clothes and command the fear or respect of locals, but "they are still the same as other teenagers in one respect: the changes in their bodies and brains are still underway".

Though each case is different, all at first are "emotionally rigid" and traumatized after having seen relatives killed or taken away in the middle of the night in police raids.

Once a relationship is forged, Interdonato takes them along to meetings organized by the Addiopizzo association, a grassroots movement of victims of mafia extortion who have joined forces to denounce their tormentors.

"Just as police infiltrate the mafia, we infiltrate the anti-mafia!" he quips.

"These are people traditionally considered the enemy of the mafia, so the kids get a chance to see the human face of their 'enemy', and see what their world does to them."

The encounters can be "very emotional", he says. "In one case a victim living under police escort ended up befriending one of the lads and offered him a job."

Interdonato, who sees the minors once or twice a week, says the aim is not to get the youngsters to turn on their families - though the mothers of some children sent away do just that, becoming police informants.

"No one wants the blood ties to be cut or for youngsters to hate their fathers. We say: 'You must love your father, but you must choose your future for yourself.'"

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/17 08:11 PM

Fugitive Giovanni Priolo, 61, was arrested in Amantea, Cosenza. Priolo is linked by family ties with members of the powerful clan Piromalli of Gioia Tauro. An arrest warrant was issued for the attempted murder of Giuseppe Brandimarte on the morning of 14 December 2011.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/16/17 09:10 PM

Investigators in Milan discovered the Calabrians infiltrated the pharmaceutical market.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/17 07:19 PM

'ndrangheta made a pact with Riina in his war against the state.

Calabrian 'Ndrangheta' boss 'involved in 1990s mafia bombing campaign' held
JULY 26TH, 2017 CANINDIA NEW WIRE SERVICE 0 COMMENTS8

Rome, July 26 (IANS/AKI) Italian police on Wednesday arrested an alleged Calabrian mafia 'Ndrangheta boss accused of ordering bomb attacks on police in Reggio Calabria in 1994 that killed one officer and gravely injured two others.

Police said the arrest of Rocco Santo Filippone shed new light on the mafia's deadly bombing campaign against the state during the 1990s.

Filipponi, the alleged head of the 'Ndrangheta's Filippone clan was held together with jailed Sicilian mafia boss Giuseppe Graviano, who received an arrest warrant in prison. Both men are accused of ordering the three bomb attacks in Reggio Calabria on January 18, February 1 and December 1, 1994.

Filipponi's arrest, carried out on the orders of anti-mafia prosecutors amid a "vast" police operation involving raids across the country on Wednesday, showed the 'Ndrangheta was involved in the series of bombings that shook Italy in the early-to- mid-1990s, police said.

Previously, Italian authorities had pinned sole responsibility for the attacks on the Sicilian mafia, claiming it was an attempt to stop politicians meddling in its business affairs.

The bombing campaign began with the high-profile 1992 murders of Sicilian anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and with them eight police officers. Ten people were killed the following year in mainland bombings in Rome, Milan and Florence.

A controversial trial is currently ongoing over an alleged pact between the Italian state and the Sicilian mafia under which the crime syndicate agreed to halt the deadly 1990s bombing campaign in exchange for cushier prison conditions for jailed mafia members.

–IANS/AKI

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/03/17 08:55 AM

The former turncoat Pasquale Gagliostro, 53, has been killed in an ambush in a crowded Palmi countryside yesterday. Gagliostro aka "il pistolero" was affiliated with the Parrello clan.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/04/17 11:42 PM

Hello,

someone have Details and Information about the Ndrangheta Farao-Marincola Clan in Germany and Calabria?

Is this Ndrina allied with other Clans? Or have Links and Relationships to other Criminal Organisation.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/08/17 08:04 PM

Hello,

someone have Details and Information about the Ndrangheta Farao-Marincola Clan in Germany and Calabria?

Is this Ndrina allied with other Clans? Or have Links and Relationships to other Criminal Organisation.

They are from Crotone and allies of the groups in Cosenza. Active in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Bochum, Mannheim and other cities.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/11/17 01:15 AM

Thank you.

Do you know if they have contact with the Mancuso, Grande Aracri and Arena Ndrinas?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/12/17 08:52 AM

Thank you.

Do you know if they have contact with the Mancuso, Grande Aracri and Arena Ndrinas?

Mancuso for sure, also Piromalli and Bellocco.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/25/17 09:39 AM

The recently released superboss Rocco Papalia, spend 25 years in prison.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/25/17 10:16 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/01/17 10:17 AM

Pasquale Libri died at the age of 77, he was among the most influential bosses.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/17 10:17 PM

About their encrypted communications. Which allows the 'ndranghetists to handle drug trafficking in continuous contact with South American cartels. Whoever is involved in the drug business receives a "protected" cell phone of seven thousand euros.

http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/...9107?refresh_ce

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/26/17 09:11 AM

Big 'Ndrangheta operation in Lombardy (2)
Seregno mayor put under house arrest

(ANSA) - Milan, September 26 - An operation linked to a probe into alleged infiltration of Lombardy's political and business world by the 'Ndrangheta mafia saw 21 people arrested on Tuesday. Of those, 21 suspects were taken to jail and three were put under house arrest, including Edoardo Mazza, the mayor of the province of Monza town of Seregno and a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.
He is accused of facilitating the business of an entrepreneur linked to the mafia who, in turn, alleged got him votes.
The probe is also into alleged extortion and drug trafficking.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics...13a32ada10.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/17 10:18 AM

The pentito Domenico Cricelli has been arrested for the failed murder last year of the head of the Civilian Motoring of Chieti in Abruzzo. He organized the hit while in the protection program. Cricelli testified against the Mancuso clan, he's from Albert Anastasia's birthplace Tropea.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/05/17 09:54 AM

At the request of the chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Federico Cafiero De Raho they arrested entrepreneurs in the waste and water business in Gioia Tauro but also the boss Gioacchino Piromalli, known as the "lawyer." The boss of Siderno Giuseppe Commisso, who was already detained, was also investigated.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/05/17 06:20 PM

Switzerland to extradite Italian mafia members

THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 5, 2017 11:19 AMOCT 5, 2017 - 11:19
Nine men with links to Italian mafia group 'Ndrangheta are being extradited to Italy, the justice ministry has told Swiss Public Television, SRF.
In recent years, Switzerland has made a number of arrests in cooperation with the Italian authorities. Many of the men, suspected for their membership in 'Ndrangheta, have since been in jail awaiting extradition. Based in Calabria, southern Italy, 'Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world.
Key to the investigation was hidden camera footage of a meeting in Frauenfeld, canton Thurgau, in northeastern Switzerland. The video shows 15 men discussing drugs and arms trafficking. It seems that the Thurgau off-shoot of the mafia has been in operation for 40 years.

Secret film of mafia meeting in Frauenfeld

For security reasons, the justice ministry has declined to say when, exactly, the men will be turned over to the Italian authorities. However, the turnover is expected to take place quite soon.
Previous extraditions
Between February and August, three other suspected mafia members were handed over to the Italian authorities.
In March 2016, 15 suspected Ndrangheta mafia members were arrested in a massive sting operation carried out in March 2016 in the cantons of Thurgau, Valais and Zurich.
The two from Valais have already been sentenced to six- and nine-year prison terms in Italy.
swissinfo.ch/sm

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/08/17 10:00 PM

24 people affiliated with the 'ndrangheta were sentenced in Milan to a total of 210 years in prison for cocaine trafficking among other charges. Among those convicted in the drug-related proceeding, there are members of several families in Calabria such as Morabito, Bruzzaniti and Crea. In Milan they supplied a kind of pure cocaine called 'Z1' imported from Holland and Brazil.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/10/17 08:50 AM

A new hard blow by the Rome prosecutor on organized crime, and in particular the 'ndrangheta. This morning 19 people were arrested on charges of international drug trafficking. The criminal organization devoted to cocaine and hashish had a base in Rome, but ramifications abroad. The DDA in Rome carried out investigations through telephone interceptions of an aggressive criminal group responsible for multiple imports in part destined for the Ndrangheta, and in particular, to the Alvaro clan of Sinopoli. 500kg drugs was also seized.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/17 10:51 AM

Posted By: Dwalin2011

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/17 02:49 PM

Interesting, but how on earth did Raffaele Dragone and Nicolino Grande Aracri' end up ordering murders together? Grande Aracri' ordered Raffaele Dragone's uncle Antonio killed, and the nephew is working with him now?! In the 'ndrangheta they usually give more importance to family ties than in the Cosa Nostra even, that's considered one of the reasons there aren't many informants in the 'ndrangheta. I would have expected Raffaele Dragone wanting to take revenge for his uncle's murder, and he is allied with the murderer...Maybe he too was a "beneficiary" from his uncle's death?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 04:05 PM

Seems like every week there is an Ndrangheta bust where many members gets locked up. How much longer can they hold on to the position as one of the most powerful organization in the world if no the most.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 04:11 PM

In Italy,you are guilty until its proven otherwise,a lot of arrested members gets released after short period of time,most of assets seized go on public auction where no one is willing to buy mafia assests,so its bought again by people close to them.

You have same large busts in Sicily.

Posted By: Dwalin2011

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 04:50 PM

In Italy,you are guilty until its proven otherwise

If only they used the same logic for politicians in mafia investigations....Everybody else is easily replaceable, and the "key figures" in organized crime shout at slander and get money compensation by court orders all the time, from people who "dare" to say the truth about them. It's not like they need the money, it's just to give a message and teach "rebellious" people a lesson. As long as the "guilty until proven otherwise" logic is used ONLY for lower social category gangsters, it's completely useless and only underlines the untouchable status of the white collar scum....

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 05:53 PM

I've read alot of busts against the Piromalli clan. Are they still the nr 1 Ndrangheta clan?

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 07:14 PM

I think the Piromalli ndrina is not the most Powerful Clan in Calabria. The Clans from San Luca are just as powerful.

I think in the Ndrangheta the San Luca clans have more to say as the Piromalli.

Also the Plati Clans are very Powerful.

The Clans Mancuso, Morabito, Bellocco, Pesce, De Stefano and other also Powerful.

My question would be, you Guys think this Powerful Ndrangheta Clans are Richer and more Powerful as the USA LCN, as an example the Genovese Family?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 09:46 PM

@Dwalin2011: i completely agree,politicians,white collar criminals,freemasonry etc. very very very rare go to prison and they are brains behind mafia,as long as they are free and out of jail things will be same.The busts with 20+ people they are all easily replaceable as u said,they don't have problem finding people to do dirty work for them. And this is not only for Italy,pretty much everywhere in the world its same.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/17 11:44 PM

I think for now the answer is yes the ndrangheta is more powerful and by miles more than the USA LCN. But what i wonder is , Cosa Nostra throughout the whole world at its prime i dont know if it was on Lucianos time or Toto riinas time but at their prime, were they more powerful than the ndrangheta is today at their prime. Worldwide that is.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/24/17 09:04 AM

My question would be, you Guys think this Powerful Ndrangheta Clans are Richer and more Powerful as the USA LCN, as an example the Genovese Family?

The big 'ndrangheta families have about 200-400 members and thousands of affiliates, so yes.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/24/17 07:51 PM

My question would be, you Guys think this Powerful Ndrangheta Clans are Richer and more Powerful as the USA LCN, as an example the Genovese Family?

The big 'ndrangheta families have about 200-400 members and thousands of affiliates, so yes.

And not just the man power,the money big ndrangheta families have is insane.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 12:18 AM

True, about the money I read the Piromalli and Labate clans are selling some of their activities in Reggio Calabria and Gioia Tauro with the intent of investing more overseas capital.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 04:17 AM

You think te Piromalli clan for an example has the kind of money that Casalesi clan (camorra) has? I've read somewhere their(Casalesi) total assets are estimated at 30-40 billion euros.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 01:38 PM

But what i wonder is , Cosa Nostra throughout the whole world at its prime i dont know if it was on Lucianos time or Toto riinas time but at their prime, were they more powerful than the ndrangheta is today at their prime. Worldwide that is.

both lcn and sicilian cosa nostra at their peak were more powerful than today 'ndrangheta

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 02:56 PM

both lcn and sicilian cosa nostra at their peak were more powerful than today 'ndrangheta

For Sicilian Mafia yes,but i wouldn't say the lcn was powerful as today ndrangheta. Ndrangheta have control of whole cities in south italy,very influential in politics in Italy,they are worldwide organization,with cells in germany,swiss,australia,usa,canada etc

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 03:42 PM

yes but american mafia at its peak was the most powerful criminal group (a very powerful one) in the most powerful country
control new york or the states is more important than control italy and political connections in the states are more important than the italian one

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 04:00 PM

LCN was only in USA, yes i know thats the most powerful country in the world but still. Ndrangheta is in Italy,Canada,Australia,Germany,Switzerland,Africa, South America etc etc.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 04:11 PM

lcn was also in canada, cuba and other states at its peak
ndrangheta is very strong in italy, in other countries it has cells but it is not even close to what it is in italy

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/17 08:58 PM

The Calabrians are dominant in Australia where the drug prices are 3-4 times higher than in the US. They are dominant in Canada for now also from what ive read. In South America the main groups dealing with cocaine is Ndrangheta, Sinaloa Cartel among very few others, im talking about who eats the big pie. They pretty much control the Europe cocaine trade which is now about the same as the US trade.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/26/17 04:26 PM

calabrians are dominant in australia, in canada cosa nostra is still more powerful than 'ndrangheta, montreal is more mobbed up than toronto
anyway lcn at its peak was more powerful for the simple fact that it dominated united states underworld and it had strong political and union links in the most powerful and richest country
no matter how much cocaine ndrangheta controls, political connections in italy are not the same as the states

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/17 01:44 AM

The 'Ndrangheta became the most powerful crime syndicate in Italy in the late 1990s and early 2000s it is still developing. Through their Masonic activity they will stay at the top of the crime world for a long time, like Cosa Nostra in Sicily and USA in the past for decades.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/17 09:05 PM

How will their Masonic activity help them do that? Just curious thats all

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/17 09:50 PM

How will their Masonic activity help them do that? Just curious thats all

Masonic lodges in south italy = groups of very powerful and influential people,there are secret conversations recorded where you can hear top people in Ndrangheta mentioning P3 and P4.

If you don't know what P2(Propaganda Due) was,go read about it.Some of members were: important state officials, important politicians and a number of military officers, including the heads of the three Italian secret services, Silvio Berlusconi,son of last king of italy,top people from Banco Sicula including Antonio D'Alì Sr.(Matteo Messina Denaro's fathter worked for D'ALi faily). Today his son Antonio D'Alì jr. is at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organised crime and gis cousin Giacomo D'Alì is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana.

They are linked to murder of Roberto Calvi called Gods Banker because of his close association with Vatican Bank,he was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano.

Still wondering how connections with masonic lodges can help

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/17 11:11 PM

Yes it goes even as far that the boss Pantaleone Mancuso on wiretaps said the 'ndrangheta isn't relevant anymore it's all about the freemasons.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 01:32 PM

After a long judicial battle between the prosecution and the defense Carmelo Zagari and Francesco Crea were acquitted by the appeal court.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 04:24 PM

Masonic lodges in south italy = groups of very powerful and influential people,there are secret conversations recorded where you can hear top people in Ndrangheta mentioning P3 and P4.

freemasons in italy are still powerful but less than the past they are not anymore what they used to be

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 05:05 PM

Masonic lodges in south italy = groups of very powerful and influential people,there are secret conversations recorded where you can hear top people in Ndrangheta mentioning P3 and P4.

freemasons in italy are still powerful but less than the past they are not anymore what they used to be

Well ofcourse we will never see another P2,but still very powerful and well connected people.

United Kingdom have most powerful masonic lodges,after that goes Italy.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 06:24 PM

Can someone please explain what P2 is? And how deep was ndrangheta involved in it

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 09:00 PM

Can someone please explain what P2 is? And how deep was ndrangheta involved in it

It was the most powerful lodge of the freemasonry in Italy Cosa Nostra was heavily involved, the Calabrians and Camorra to a lesser extent. It was led until his death by Licio Gelli aka the puppetmaster. Succesors of P2 are called P3 and P4. Many of the current bosses of Ndrangheta are freemasons.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/28/17 11:31 PM

Ndrangheta even have another secret society in itself,called La Santa. Almost all members of La Santa are freemasons if not all of them.

P2 even had control of leading newspapers in Italy called Corriere della Sera,paper had financial trouble,they got money from P2 using funds from Vatican Bank via Paul Marcinkus(President of the Vatican Bank)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/17 12:52 AM

It makes sense, because when Sicily was unified with Italy in 1860, the founders of the Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta structered their organizations along the same lines as Freemasons. Much later the same thing happened with the Sacra Corona Unita and other puglia groups. The infiltration into the mainstream lodges and grand lodges started in the 1970s.

Posted By: Dwalin2011

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/17 01:16 AM

I read in some articles that the Argentina dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla, was a member of the P2, but others say he was an ally but not a member. If he was a member, was he the only foreigner affiliated or were there others?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/17 09:24 AM

No idea, but I have seen a list with more people of the junta alleged members of the lodge. P2's relationship with Argentina was developed through Giancarlo Elia Valori. Some say he's now the leader of the (new) P2.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/17 10:28 AM

I read same thing,he was not the only member of P2 from Argentina:

Federico Carlos Barttfeld ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995,under-secretary of state in Néstor Kirchner's government, relieved of his functions in 2003 following allegations of involvement in the Dirty War.

Emilio Massera a member of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla in Buenos Aires from 1976 to 1978.

José López Rega Argentinian minister of Social Welfare in Perón's government, founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ("Triple A")

Aldo Alasia

Cesar De la Vega

Raúl Alberto Lastiri President of Argentina from 13 July 1973 until 12 October 1973

Alberto Vignes minister of Argentina

Carlos Alberto Corti admiral from Argentina

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/17 03:51 AM

I read that Ndrangheta kept Colombian hostages during deals incase the colombians doesnt deliver. I thought only the Colombians kept hostages.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/07/17 10:18 AM

Major bust against the 'ndrangheta, 50 arrests! The majority of the arrested are young, if not very young. What this survey reveals are the new manifestations through which 'ndrangheta exercises control over the territory.' Historical clanships such as the Morabito "Tiradritto" and the Palamara-Scriva, the new levers have inherited the arrogance from the old generations. Children of the Digital Age, the young bosses did not just show themselves in the streets, but also on social networks, where they did not hesitate to retire armed to the teeth as the protagonists of the TV series Gomorrah. Active in Calabria, but for months they have been noticed in the hinterland of Milan, winning the boss's grandson Giuseppe Morabito.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/17 05:14 AM

I have one question.. I read about El chapo and his estimated wealth at 14 billion dollars, then you have Pablo escobar who was worth about 30 billion dollars same goes for Amado carillo fuentes close to 30 billion..

Do you think their Italian counterparts have those kind of money. We "know" Ndrangheta makes more money than the cartels as a group but does the head of each clan, take like Piromalli boss for example or Nirta, Pelle, Vortari boss is worth that kind of money as individuals.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/17 01:04 AM

Suspected hitmen, instigators of 'Ndrangheta murder arrested
Giuseppe Canale shot dead in Reggio Calabria in 2011

Reggio Calabria, November 10 - Carabinieri police on Friday arrested six alleged members of the "Chirico-Condello" clan of Calabria's powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia in connection with the 2011 murder of Giuseppe Canale in Reggio Calabria. The suspects include the alleged killers of the member of the rival Serraino clan, both aged 20, the alleged organiser of the assassination, and the three alleged instigators. Canale, 33, was shot dead in broad daylight by two hitmen contracted by the "Chirico-Condello" clan on August 12, 2011. A passer-by was also slightly wounded in the attack.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/17 01:06 AM

The killers were 14 at the time.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/17 12:18 AM

No big bust on Ndrangheta as far as the cocaine buisness in the last couple of months, as far as i know. Used to be every bust with over a ton of coke had ndranghetas name all over it.. Maybe they have lost power or just gotten better at it?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/17 01:01 AM

4 days ago, 50 members of 'Ndrangheta were arrested in Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/17 02:03 AM

4 days ago, 50 members of 'Ndrangheta were arrested in Calabria.

They have enough money their biggest problem is to make it clean money and invest it smart.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/17 05:35 AM

Yes but was it a big Cocaine bust on 1+ ton? because thats what i was said. I know they have been on the news but as far as the big cocaine shipments it hasnt for a while.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/17 11:10 PM

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/n...les-son-aliados

A link telling how the mexicans and the calabrians are working together and how the Calabrians do not like the mexicans violence since they prefer a low key profile and bribing their way thru instead of gunning. And thats like on of their demands if the mexicans want to work with them , not to bring the violence to Europe.

It says it has strong ties with the Zetas, so im thinking. Could it POSSIBLY be that the Zetas now dont make so much noise and seems like they have lost power only becase the Ndrangheta is learning them to keep a low profile? I dont know, it seems like a long shot, just asking for your opinions.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/13/17 12:19 AM

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/n...les-son-aliados

Good find.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/17 01:09 AM

https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-w...s-cocaine-trail

Heard that one of Cocaine main routes are now through Africa and thats why the prices are up in Europe.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/17 12:09 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/18/17 10:37 AM

Nicola Figliuzzi, arrested last week for a murder in Reggio Calabria, start his collaboration with the anti-mafia district director.

http://www.zoom24.it/2017/11/17/ndrangheta-pentito-figliuzzi-60086/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/19/17 01:51 PM

'Ndrangheta, 7 repenting in 5 years in Vibonese.

http://www.zoom24.it/2017/11/18/b-60178/

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/19/17 03:51 PM

http://www.rfi.fr/europe/20130516-italie-reddition-chef-mafieux-ndrangheta

It is thanks to these operations that it would hold today, among others, 3% of the capital of the Russian energy giant Gazprom .

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/19/17 10:48 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/22/17 11:18 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/23/17 12:07 PM

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/17 09:27 AM

Here is a Article about the Commisso Clan and the Siderno Group in Italy and Africa.

https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/mafia/blog/2017/11/13/girl-abidjan/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/25/17 06:56 AM

Francesco Citro (31) from Crotone was shot dead in northern Italy (Reggio Emilia). Three hours earlier, his wife's car was set on fire.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/26/17 12:15 PM

Franco Longo from Vacallo is called the banker of the 'ndrangheta in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.

http://www.ammazzatecitutti.it/flash/201...la-maxi-retata/

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/29/17 10:22 AM

http://www.spiegel.de/international/euro...a-a-806233.html

The rules for doing business with the South Americans are clear, he says: "We always pay in advance, and if they don't deliver, we kill them."

In such an unfortunate case, says Antonio, a couple of nice Italian families go to South America on vacation. During the trip, the men disappear for a while and take care of the job

How believeble is this article you think?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/30/17 10:34 AM

Drug broker Giuseppe Morabito, a 49-year-old native of Reggio Calabria, was caught in Lombardy.
Morabito, near the Locride clan, was arrested in 2007 under the "Stupor Mundi" operation, coordinated by Dda reggina, being considered the top of an organization dedicated to the international "cocaine" traffic, supplied through the Netherlands and Belgium, to be deported to Piedmont and Lombardy.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/30/17 10:29 PM

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/17_april...8e356a8af.shtml

Also, ten thousand million euros worth of assets were seized.

10 billion dollar.. Wonder if these kind of seizure brings down the Pesce clan to its knees or does it keep going on like always.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/30/17 10:47 PM

My bad it was 10 million dollars..

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/01/17 10:22 AM

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/01/17 10:59 AM

In which Ndrangheta Clan is this guy? I have nothing found in the Article.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/01/17 07:26 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/02/17 02:52 AM

In which Ndrangheta Clan is this guy? I have nothing found in the Article.

There are several Calabrians based in Dubai, it's a safe haven for many guys.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/17 01:23 PM

Do they have the same kind of monopoly in the Heroin trade in Europe as in the Cocaine trade?

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/17 06:06 PM

I just watched some documents about the Ndrangheta, and i wonder who are they ?! Like i mean what makes them the strongest oc group in the world ?
And do they opreate in the us with the Lcn or with other street gangs ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/17 09:26 PM

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4opjz1

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/17 11:36 PM

Ndrangheta is wide spread,they do operate in US,but they have really strong presence in Switzerland,Germany,Australia etc.

They have really strong links to freemasonry,which makes them really powerful in Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/17 11:49 PM

Their base is in Canada, but they are also on the east coast in particular NY and Florida.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/17 12:03 AM

Ndrangheta is wide spread,they do operate in US,but they have really strong presence in Switzerland,Germany,Australia etc.

They have really strong links to freemasonry,which makes them really powerful in Italy.

Thanks

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4opjz1

Thanks !

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/17 04:41 PM

Does anyone know where to find Domenico Trimbolis statements? I wanna know what he said about the ndrangheta and the drug trade etc.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/17 08:19 PM

Blitz in Taurianova, 48 arrests also the former mayor. The investigation allowed the magistrates to rebuild the protection network of the boss Ernesto Fazzalari, a fugitive for over 20 years and arrested by the carabinieri in June 2016. The former mayor of Taurianova (Reggio Calabria), Domenico Romeo, also ended in handcuffs. The Avignon, Zagari, Fazzalari and Viola clan have been cut off to which the Sposato, Tallarida and Maio-Cianci groups are connected with functional autonomy.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/17 11:33 AM

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/12/c_136820850.htm

25 mln euros seized, 48 arrested in operation against Calabrian mafia in Italy

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/15/17 09:13 PM

The repentant Consolato Villani just told in an 'ndrangheta trial that Toto Riina came to Reggio Calabria to meet the De Stefanos and the Piromallis to make agreements to bring the 'ndrangheta to participate in the massacres. The first favor of the Calabrians to Riina was the murder of the judge Scopelliti. From there arose a pact between Cosa Nostra and some parts of the 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/17 12:45 AM

Italian police on Wednesday caught a member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia on the run since November from a warrant for drug trafficking. The man was named as Domenico Pepè, 62, from Rosarno in Calabria. He was stopped by Carabinieri near Salerno south of Naples. Pepè, a member of the Pesce clan, has ties to the Dominican Republic and Peru.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/17 01:47 AM

Someone of you know the Farao Ndrina?

You think this Clan is Powerful and Strong or more a weaker Ndrina?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/27/17 01:44 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/28/17 12:07 PM

A 41-year-old factory worker was in very serious condition after being ambushed in Calabria Wednesday. Leonardo Minnici, a man with no criminal record, was hit by two rifle shots, police said, at Caraffa del Bianco in the crime-ridden Locride area.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/17 11:18 PM

Longo has been sentenced by the federal court in Bellinzona to 5 and a half years for recycling millions of criminal origin.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/03/18 07:28 PM

Does anyone know where to find Domenico Trimbolis statements? I wanna know what he said about the ndrangheta and the drug trade etc.

From the few things I read he mostly described the system and codes used in the drug trafficking and the contacts with the Vibonese.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/03/18 10:49 PM

Hollander, i would like to know if he talked about prices and stuff, how much he was moving a month and how much he earned etc. If those kind of statementes exists

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/18 11:16 AM

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/nation...af968b7e10d6b8e

Australian Law enforcement restructure to focus on Italian mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/18 11:27 AM

The Carabinieri carried out, in the province of Perugia and in other localities of the national territory, 62 precautionary measures (46 people arrested, seven under house arrest and the others subject to residence), issued at the request of the anti-mafia district attorney of Perugia, by association of mafia type, extortion, usury, damage, fraudulent bankruptcy, fraud, fraudulent transfer of values, with the aggravating of the mafia, as well as for the association aimed at the traffic of drugs and exploitation of prostitution. Seized assets for 30 million.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/18 09:37 PM

http://www.theweek.co.uk/90851/does-the-mafia-still-exist

Does the Mafia still exist?

"The 'Ndrangheta can now call upon up to 60,000 foot soldiers scattered across 30 countries, says Quartz."

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/18 09:45 PM

Wow

Wow is that even true ?
I thought something between 10,000 - 12,000 members

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/18 10:33 PM

Wow

Wow is that even true ?
I thought something between 10,000 - 12,000 members

I also found that somewhat exaggerated. I know they have been expanding faster than other mafia's but to reach 60k is far fetched.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/18 11:18 PM

I wonder how the Mafia benefits from Garbage buisness. I know its good money and all but exactly where is the scam, how do they scam that buisness, how do they profit so much from it?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/11/18 03:16 AM

I wonder how the Mafia benefits from Garbage buisness. I know its good money and all but exactly where is the scam, how do they scam that buisness, how do they profit so much from it?

Let's pretend you own a waste management company and through intimidation and payoffs of city officials you are guaranteed a large section of New York. You would be a millionaire in no time. Furthermore, pretend that some of your associates also own waste management companies and this group of 5 or ten companies all collude and bid for city contracts. This process will in fact monopolize waste management removal and enrich you and your associates.
In Naples the mafia on several occasions were successful at holding people & city hostage and will not allow removal of waste without getting what they want. At the right price they will removal asbestos or nuclear waste illegally without following proper protocol. These are but a few examples notwithstanding payroll roll (no show) jobs, money laundering and other.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/14/18 11:42 AM

An 18-year-old boy was shot dead Saturday afternoon in the historic center of Crotone under the incredulous eyes of passers-by.

A 57-year-old man opened the fire. Salvatore Gerace - this is the name of the killer - was captured later by police officers.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/15/18 11:35 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/16/18 11:19 AM

Rosa Zagari is back in freedom, the partner of the boss Ernesto Fazzalari ended up in jail as part of the "Terramara" operation. The Court of Freedom decided this yesterday, accepting the appeal filed by the woman's lawyer, Antonino Napoli.
Zagari was challenged the role of participant of the cosca Zagari-Fazzalari with the task of helping the fugitive Ernesto Fazzalari,and maintain relations with affiliates.
Before being arrested after 20 years on the run, Fazzalari was considered the second most dangerous fugitive in Italy after Matteo Messina Denaro. The Court of Review, fully accepting the arguments of the lawyer Antonino Napoli, has therefore ordered the release of Zagari.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/18/18 11:23 PM

A 46-year-old meat merchant was killed in an ambush in Siderno, Locride. Seven gunshots were fired at him in the head, chest and shoulders. The victim, who would have been part of the Cosca Commisso, was involved in an investigation by the DDA of Reggio Calabria. At the trial the 46-year-old was sentenced to six years imprisonment.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/19/18 03:37 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/20/18 01:20 AM

This is pretty big, Muia was described as the "Viceroy" of the clan Commisso.
The murder has broken years of a mafia pax.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/20/18 08:09 AM

Guys, what do you think, which Ndrinas are the most Powerful and Richest from the whole Ndrangheta?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/20/18 11:20 AM

Guys, what do you think, which Ndrinas are the most Powerful and Richest from the whole Ndrangheta?

Piromalli-MolÃ¨ is the most powerful 'ndrina on the Tyrrhenian coast, it has more than 200 members.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/20/18 11:28 AM

I think also the Piromalli are one of the most Powerful Ndrina. But other Clans are also very Powerful. What do you think about the San Luca Clans Pelle and the Nirta La Maggiore Scalzone?

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/18 05:49 AM

i still don't understand their hierarchy
first they were like the camorra
and then the sicilian cosa nostra helped them and change their hierarchy to be match exactly like them
and then they improve that added a lot of bosses positions ? am i right ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/18 11:50 AM

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/18 03:45 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/18 04:15 PM

The big question. Who are the current capo crimine, mastro di giornata, mastro generale, capo societÃ and contabile?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/18 12:14 AM

Guys, what do you think, which Ndrinas are the most Powerful and Richest from the whole Ndrangheta?

Richest i think is the Piromalli but the San Luca ndrinas has the most power , in particular the Pelle clan, thats what i think.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/18 01:46 AM

The Pelle clan and the Barbaros are tight, because of the marriage Elisa Pelle and Giuseppe Barbaro in 2009 attended by 2,000 people. So San Luca and PlatÃ¬ are one now.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/18 07:21 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/18 07:53 PM

Can you please find the Antonio Pelle part with english subtitle, have been trying for months now to find ROberto Savianos Kings of Crime with subtitle.

Barbaro, wasnt it Barbaro brothers who got killed in Australia by some arab guy?

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/18 08:11 PM

The Barbaros from the Video are other Guys from the Barbaro ndrina.

I have only found this Italian Video. Not with English or other Subtitles.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/23/18 03:43 PM

Suspected 'Regent' boss of Emilia 'Ndrangheta held
Carmine Sarcone brother of pair arrested in 2015 operation

(ANSA) - Bologna, January 23 - Carabinieri police from the northern city of Bologna on Tuesday detained Carmine Sarcone, a 39-year-old suspected of being the 'regent' boss of the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia syndicate in the Emilia area, sources said on Tuesday.
He is suspected of mafia association.
Carmine Sarcone is the brother of Nicolino and Gianluigi Sarcone, both of whom were arrested in the 'Aemilia' operation in 2015.
Nicolino Sarcone, who has been convicted to 15 years in jail, was considered the head of the autonomous mafia organization in Emilia linked to the Grande Aracri 'Ndrangheta clan of Cutro, in Calabria. Dozens of searches were conducted on Tuesday in relation to the latest operation.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...143291d-8cba-4e17-85b4-4a423602e49d.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/18 10:39 AM

Francesco Farao, the son of the boss of the Ndrangheta Giuseppe Farao, who is in prison under the 41-bis regime, has decided to become a collaborator of justice

Potrebbe interessarti: http://www.parmatoday.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-gigliotti-pentito-francesco-farao.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/18 11:56 AM

The repentant Antonio Valerio risked a war between them and the Casalesi clan . All because, according to what he told the magistrates, when he was an entrepreneur under the 'ndrangheta Cutro's in Emilia Romagna, he threatened to plant two bullets in the head of two members of the Casalesi clan. The latter had to receive a sort of commission on the monetization of checks for 5 million euros. The agreement provided for 15% of the total payment. The fact is, that something went wrong. Those checks were not collected for reasons of a purely bureaucratic nature. Those who had issued them were kidnapped and forced to cover with real estate registered in front of the 'ndrangheta, but no payment was made to the Casalesi. These guys returned to office on a couple of occasions to see the covenant respected, but during the last meeting they were threatened by Valerio who ordered them to leave Emilia Romagna.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/18 10:32 PM

So who came out with the victory? the Ndrangheta or Casalesi clan

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/18 12:31 PM

The carabinieri arrested 33-year-old Carmine Alvaro in Palmi, sought after since 2016 because he escaped the execution of a detention order issued by the DDA of Reggio Calabria for traffic narcotics aggravated by the mafia purposes. Alvaro was surprised by the Hunters in a cottage that he used as a hiding place. The arrested is one of the nephews of the boss Carmine Alvaro, aged 65, called "U cuvertuni", considered a prominent element in the Alvaro-MacrÃ¬-Violi gang.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/18 11:25 PM

How is it that Ndrangheta makes more money on drugs than the Sinaloa cartel when Sinaloa supposedly controls almost all of the coke in South America?

Anyone with a thought?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/18 12:51 AM

How is it that Ndrangheta makes more money on drugs than the Sinaloa cartel when Sinaloa supposedly controls almost all of the coke in South America?

Anyone with a thought?

You can't know who makes more money,not like they keep log of earnings for last year. Literally not very smart question to ask,since no one can answer you.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/18 01:46 AM

Sinaloa has seen a few splits the latest enemy is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The 'Ndrangheta is still one organization there are internal feuds, but nothing like we see in Mexico.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/18 10:00 AM

How is it that Ndrangheta makes more money on drugs than the Sinaloa cartel when Sinaloa supposedly controls almost all of the coke in South America?

Anyone with a thought?

You can't know who makes more money,not like they keep log of earnings for last year. Literally not very smart question to ask,since no one can answer you.

im thinking they know how much they make because of the Snitches, maybe a cartel boss starts to tell and he knows how much his crew has made then they estimate from that, same goes for the Ndrangheta.Cause i believe the LE will ask "how much did u move" , then the goes to the media.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/18 04:44 PM

How is it that Ndrangheta makes more money on drugs than the Sinaloa cartel when Sinaloa supposedly controls almost all of the coke in South America?

Anyone with a thought?

sinaloa doesn't control almost much of the coke in south america, only a part, mostly destined to the states

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/18 12:36 AM

So who came out with the victory? the Ndrangheta or Casalesi clan

The Casalesi, Valerio had compromised the balance of relations between the Calabrians and the Casalesi clan.
Don't forget those guys are big, among the most powerful criminal organizations in the world with approximately 150 to 160 zone leaders and 8000-9000 associates.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/18 06:47 PM

http://it.euronews.com/2018/01/28/v...icciche-piromalli-trump-tillerson-maduro

International diplomacy with bated breath. Next Thursday, Donald Trump's Foreign Minister, Rex Tillerson, before a Texas oil industry expert, will list, at the University of Texas at Austin, what are the priority policies of the US administration in the Western hemisphere. A few hours later the president begins his first official visit to South America.

With this trip Trump is pointing to the consensus of the countries that will visit Tillerson in the next few days. The objective is that Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Jamaica authorize the gesture that could bring the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro to its knees: the oil embargo.

This could trigger a domino effect since Venezuela has become in recent years, territory of the international underworld, among other things the powerful Calabrian N'drine who managed the drug trade, especially cocaine, from Colombia and sorted in Venezuela to arrive in America and Europe also through the port of Gioia Tauro.

Of the tentacular relations of the Italian mafia he returned to speak a couple of days ago with the death of Aldo MiccichÃ©, Italian dealer, collector, according to him, of Italian-Venezuelan votes, but above all, according to the magistracy, sort of clan factotum Piromalli in Caracas, one of the most powerful families of the Calabrian underworld. The American Goddess instead, took interest in Franco Lauricella, another heavy name in Venezuela, accused of money laundering

Because the business of the Calabrian Ndrangheta ranges from drugs to oil with interests in PDVSA the Venezuelan state oil company. Something that could change if a green light came from the parts of Washington.

Didnt know Ndrangheta had such a heavy presence in Venezuela. The Piromalli clan particularly

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/18 06:48 PM

So who came out with the victory? the Ndrangheta or Casalesi clan

[quote=Hollander][quote=doggystyle][quote=Hollander]

Yes but it says Valerio "ordered" the casalesi to leave Emilia Romagna.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/18 01:53 AM

Milan police arrested Edoardo Novella, a son of the boss Carmelo, killed in an ambush on July 14, 2008. Carmelo Novella had plotted to make the Lombardy region 'Ndrangheta independent from the so-called Crimine in Calabria, and for this he was brutally killed.

Edoardo, 42, still plays a prominent organizational role according to investigators.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/18 05:38 PM

http://www.corriere.it/video-artico...51259a-fae8-11e7-88bf-04c0b4baa14a.shtml

So Italians use Albanians to bring drugs from the port of Rotterdam across Europe

The Italian mafia is there and works with small amounts of drugs and this could be the reason why we can not find them in the port or in imports of large quantities. They divide the loads of drugs into small portions and distribute them in Europe

Maybe this is why we havent seen a big Ndrangheta bust in a while, i remember not to long ago the LE was busting Ndrangheta each month with a minimum of 1 ton shipment evene 5-8 tons. Now they seem to use others like the Albanians to handle it for them , and as far as i could get it from reading this they are dividing these large shipments into smaller quantities so even if a container of 100-200kg gets busted they have 800kg passing through.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/18 05:53 PM

Or maybe they have simply moved out of the drug buisness.

http://www.spiegel.de/international...-world-of-the-ndrangheta-a-806233-3.html

According to a Ndranghetisti named Carlo thats their plan, moving out of the drug buisness and looking to get in to politics more.

But because the drug became less and less profitable and police pressure was increasing, the 'Ndrangheta had to look into new business opportunities. "We want to go to the source of government contracts and subsidies, politics," says Carlo.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/18 06:27 PM

Don't forget those guys are big, among the most powerful criminal organizations in the world with approximately 150 to 160 zone leaders and 8000-9000 associates.

they are not anymore what they used to be, their power was just inflated by saviano

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/18 07:38 PM

They lost influence like the rest of cosa nostra because they had about 50 turncoats like:

The Casalesi clan counts about fifty collaborators of justice between bosses and minors. A partial list follows:

Carmine Schiavone (1993), died in 2015
Domenico Bidognetti (2008)
Antonio Iovine (2014)
Luigi Basile (1988)
Attilio Pellegrino (2014)
Raffaele Ferrara
Franco Di Bona
Dario De Simone
Angela Barra (2003)
Giuseppe Quadrano
Emilio Di Caterino
Cipriano D'Alessandro (2013)
Luigi Diana
Alfonso Diana
Salvatore Venosa (2012)
Massimo Amatrudi
Luigi Tartarone (2012)
Anna Carrino (2007)
Mario Schiavone (2009)
Salvatore Laiso (2009)
Salvatore Fasano (2009)
Giuseppe Guerra
Orlando Lucariello
Roberto Vargas (2010)
Raffaele Piccolo
Paolo Di Grazia
Oreste Spagnuolo (2009)
Francesco Cantone
Luigi D'Ambrosio
Gaetano Vassallo (2008)
Pasquale Vargas
Giovanni Ferriero (1999)
Maurizio Di Puorto
Nicola Panaro (2015)
Massimo Pannullo (2003

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/18 08:20 PM

the mafia from catania (eastern sicily) is more powerful than casalesi clan, for example
saviano inflated the real power of camorra/casalesi
sicilian mafia is still stronger

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/18 08:36 PM

the mafia from catania (eastern sicily) is more powerful than casalesi clan, for example
saviano inflated the real power of camorra/casalesi
sicilian mafia is still stronger

Still the Casalesi was the most powerful Camorra clan,maybe they are still most powerful,i don't know for present day.

The Sicilian mafia in general is more powerful than Camorra,they are much more organized and have strong links to freemasonry

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/18 11:32 PM

Moneywise the Casalesi are/was big time. They are worth 30 billion euros according to media.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/03/18 04:52 PM

Another bunker found in Rosarno.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/04/18 11:27 AM

"Green 'ndrangheta", the new report by Salvatore Federico
Written by Editorial Staff

The work of the photographer from Serrese, realized following the "Cacciatori di Calabria" in Vibonese and Reggino, is focused on the production of marijuana, a "business" made in house for the clans, which follows different routes from that of cocaine.

While in many parts of the world marijuana has been destined to the free market, not only for therapeutic purposes but also for recreational use, in Italy the legalization of cannabis still appears to be a taboo subject.

http://www.ilvizzarro.it/apertura/green-ndrangheta-il-nuovo-reportage-di-salvatore-federico.html

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/04/18 12:55 PM

@ m2w

I got a question for you...

Where would you rank the Camorras control of high fashion amongst mafia rackets? To my eyes, it's like controlling the Garment Center in NYC with no labor union. And this doesn't really go anywhere....are they losing ground to the Chinese there?
It's one of the things Saviano emphasized, cloths and drugs, that these were the the staples of the Camorra.

The Piromallis have a huge agricultural business, but I don't think this would matter if they didn't have access to the US, Germany, e c t .....to get their products in large supermarkets and whatnot....

Also, I think we have to consider the timelines. In the late 90s- early 2000s, the Sicilians were weaker, and the Camorra and Calabrese were bigger in drugs. I think they WERE stronger then.

To me it's similar to the sixties when they were in disarray after Cavataio and his games. The big money was in Naples, so they initiated some camorristi so as to gain access to the market. During this time Zaza certainly was on par with the top Mafiosi of his time, money wise, though he didn't have the Masonic links guys like Greco and Bontade had....

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/04/18 02:03 PM

high fashion and counterfeting are among the biggest camorra rackets
saviano anyway emphatisized the camorra too much
in my opinion camorra never was stronger than sicilian mafia, not even in the early 2000, although saviano claims it
sicilian mafia has more links with freemasons that it makes it stronger
ndrangheta yes, it is the strongest italian oc since the early 2000, but it is losing power nowadays too
concerning drugs it depends, sicilian mafia produces most of italian self-produces marijuana and most of hashish in italy is usually seized in sicily

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/04/18 03:03 PM

Italyâ€™s notorious Calabrian mafia is peddling millions of pills to ISIS and Boko Haram.
Next on their agenda could be the U.S. market.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-italian-mob-is-peddling-pills-to-isis.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/05/18 10:12 PM

Carabinieri seized assets of about 200 million euro from Salvatore Mazzei, building contractor of Lamezia Terme: the 62 year-old is considered tied to the gangs of 'ndrangheta.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/05/18 10:42 PM

''Italyâ€™s anti-drug trafficking agency estimates that 80 percent of all Europeâ€™s cocaine comes in from Colombia through the Calabrian port''

This can't be right, considering all the huge amounts seized in Antwerp and Rotterdam the last couple of years..

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/05/18 11:23 PM

I agree Billy, someone said they controlled 80% of the coke in europe many years ago and it's repeated by international media to this day without evidence.
Even if it's true it doesnt mean they use this port the calabrians also get their drugs by land from holland and spain.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/18 03:29 AM

''Italyâ€™s anti-drug trafficking agency estimates that 80 percent of all Europeâ€™s cocaine comes in from Colombia through the Calabrian port''

This can't be right, considering all the huge amounts seized in Antwerp and Rotterdam the last couple of years..

Yes but if you read other papers and more serious journalists they say that in recent years they have changed from Calabrian port to the ports of Genoa, Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Hamburg etc etc. I cant remember from what dutch documentary i saw it but they were saying Calabrians run the Rotterdam port, when it comes to drugs ofc.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/18 07:32 PM

Not news but, rather, a rundown of the Jonico (Ionico) mandamento and a great map--scroll down farther down in the item to see the map (JPEG).

Link to Italian-language item:

https://newz.it/2018/02/07/la-mappa...azione-semestrale-2017-della-dia/291488/

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/18 07:50 PM

Thanks for sharing, never saw this map before. I posted maps of all 4 major italian mafia groups here: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/u...;Main=35263&Number=889086#Post889086

I will add this map there

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/18 05:57 PM

Yes but it says Valerio "ordered" the casalesi to leave Emilia Romagna.

That didn't happen Modena is still one of the main bases in the north of the Casalesi and Moccia clan. The 'ndrangheta in the region has taken a few hits in recent years with the arrests of the Sarcone brothers and their group.
Nicolino Sarcone boss in Emilia.

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Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/18 03:23 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com/huge...f-drug-smugglers-growing-boldness-2018-2

A huge cocaine bust on a private jet in the UK is a sign of drug smugglers' growing boldness

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/18 06:14 PM

Do these guys really make money like Fortune 500 companies? I read about a seizure of about $400 million worth of pills in Australia some odd years ago. I wonder how theyâ€™ll fare without supposedly their biggest money maker in drugs if they do in fact decide to move away from it.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/18 07:36 PM

Was it Ndrangheta whos behind this coke and the one in Spain or what? Cause i didnt understand it fully.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/18 09:47 PM

Was it Ndrangheta whos behind this coke and the one in Spain or what? Cause i didnt understand it fully.

Yes, it was the Ndrangheta behind both incidences.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/18 01:29 AM

About time you may think There has been a while since the ndrangheta was busted big shipments of coke

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/18 02:44 PM

A 66-year-old pastor, Bruno Muratore, was shot dead in the "Salvatore" district of Varapodio, in Reggio. Muratore's body was found by the Carabinieri of the Company of Taurianova. The shepherd was killed while he was in his fold, not yet known whether in an ambush or someone he had met. The victim was known to the carabinieri for his criminal record. Muratore was 18 years in prison for murder.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/13/18 09:09 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/13/18 09:16 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/16/18 11:20 AM

The killing last night in Catona di Reggio Calabria is linked to conflicts within the 'Ndrangheta. The 53-year-old Pasquale Chindemi, shot dead in an ambush, was affiliated to the Araniti gang. The victim's name is a name that counts on the crime scene of Reggio Calabria. And it is for this reason that now there is fear of a new war of 'ndrangheta on the banks of the Strait.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/18 12:04 AM

This is pretty big! He was close to Pasquale "U Supremu" Condello.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/18 12:21 AM

Wow,so he was important player there,we could see wave of violence in Calabria,im sure order came from someone higher up in ranks.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/18 05:39 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/18 03:57 PM

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-mafia-into-switzerland-and-9695295.html

Footage from secret meeting reveals spread of Calabrian â€™Ndrangheta Mafia into Switzerland and Germany

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/17/18 08:14 PM

While very interesting, this article is old news..

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/18 12:28 PM

It's amazing how they still have big meetings while under surveillance.

[Linked Image]

Posted By: southend

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/18 03:18 PM

It's amazing how they still have big meetings while under surveillance.

[Linked Image]

that's one gangster photo. reminds me of when the waiter had the button camera snapping shots when Tony promoted Uncle Junior to Acting Boss

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/18/18 11:43 PM

In this case they also used waiters.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/19/18 10:43 AM

Maxi-operation against the â€˜Ndrangheta in Reggio Calabria and Florence: with 41 arrests and seizures to a value of 120 million euros.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/19/18 12:05 PM

that's one gangster photo. reminds me of when the waiter had the button camera snapping shots when Tony promoted Uncle Junior to Acting Boss

Same here, I even could hear Tony & co. say: ''To Junior!!'' with 'Paparazzi' on the background.. That was one epic scene, maybe the best episode ending of the series..

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/19/18 03:01 PM

Some 120 mln euros seized, 41 arrested in anti-mafia operations in Italy

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/19/c_136985744.htm

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/19/18 04:57 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/20/18 04:45 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...trafficking-drug-devastation-brazil-poor

Could it be possible that the Ndrangheta totally controls the cocaine in Santos? I mean afterall Sao Paulo/Santos is the city with the most italians in the world. 6 million italians i think, that makes it possible for Italian mafia to run things over there, even thou the Brazilian gangs are fucked up. Much of Europes cocaine comes from the pot of Santos i think they were saying like 80 %

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/18 03:09 AM

The investigation Passo di salto (referred to as Passo del salto in some articles) targeted the cosche of Pizzata, Pelle of San Luca, and Marina di Gioiosa Ionica -- the last is the town from where a number of Siderno Group members in the Greater Toronto Area have ancestry, but I don't recognize any familiar surnames from the list of those investigaged.

Links to Italian-language articles:

Operazione â€œPasso di saltoâ€, Gratteri elogia lâ€™operato delle Forze dellâ€™Ordine
https://www.oggisud.it/cronaca/cron...elogia-l-operato-delle-forze-dell-ordine

Operazione 'Passo di Salto', ecco i nomi
http://bit.ly/2FftUKN

Operazione â€œPasso di Saltoâ€, dal pentito Mirarchi rivelazioni cruciali
https://www.secondopianonews.it/cal...ntito-mirarchi-rivelazioni-cruciali.html

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/18 02:23 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/23/18 02:08 PM

http://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/poli...-piu-potente_DL9zdiKgmZtcwZV4TzqH1M.html

"'Ndrangheta is the most powerful mafia"

Published the: 2/21/2018 17:22

"Even if some areas are more welcoming and attractive than others, no territory can be considered more immune" from the conditioning of the 'ndrangheta. It is a " deep and uniform movement that affects the majority of the northern provinces, with a particular intensity in Lombardy , and which has been favored until recent times by widespread attitudes of underestimation and removal". It is the parliamentary anti-mafia commission to underline, in the final report, that "the colonization" ndranghetista has established itself in a leopard spot with a particular predilection for the minor municipalities ".

The Mafia method "is not used only to alter the competition and pollute the legal economy.Those investigations have involved local administrations in varying degrees, signaling worrying episodes of corruption in the public administration and politics, with which the mafias they relate with extreme open-mindedness and without making differences between political parties and political parties, as also confirmed by the various dissolution that in recent years have affected the northern municipalities: Bordighera and Ventimiglia (later both canceled by administrative justice) in the province of Imperia in 2011, LeinÃ¬ and Rivarolo Canavese (TO) in 2012, Sedriano (MI) in 2013, Brescello (RE) in 2016 and, finally, Lavagna (GE) in 2017 ".

Long undervalued and wrongly considered a subordinated and backward mafia, the 'ndrangheta "is today the richest, most aggressive and powerful criminal organization, deeply rooted in Calabria, where it has a suffocating control of the territory and economic and public activities. administration, has settled in all the regions of the country, even if with different degrees of penetration, and also shows a marked transnational profile ".

A world leader in drug trafficking, "has privileged, if not exclusive, relations with the main drug traffickers in Central and South America, and is the organization that has best exploited the opportunities of globalization".

MAFIA - The "phase of submersion" of our "following the defeat of the Corleone, subversive and stragista mafia, and the absence of an active leader, which resulted in the absence of a unified strategy, have not affected the criminal potential of our own thing, that despite the incessant action of the police and the magistracy shows an extraordinary capacity for regeneration ", reads the final report.

"Cosa Nostra is vital in every Sicilian province: in these years the organization has maintained control of the territory and still enjoys broad consensus, and still largely exercises its capacity for intimidation which still corresponds, conversely, the silence of the victims . the death of Toto Riina, paradoxically, is another current source of strength . Cosa Nostra - says the report - is in fact free to ridarsi a central decision-making body, and then a common strategy, until now hindered by a leader who, in jail for life in 41-bis, he could neither command nor could he be replaced, so the transition phase that has formally opened and will probably undergo a short-term acceleration will be carefully monitored ".

CAMORRA - The intense repressive activity of recent years, which saw the decline of historic clans like that of the Casalesi, "has accentuated the fragmentation and atomization of the Camorra but has not affected its aggression.A criminal reality, difficult to frame in a unitary definition, which never before appears strong and dynamic, with extensive control of the regional territory, a close relationship with the politics and institutions of some areas, a vast national and international projection, where it plays a leading role in the market world of drugs and distribution networks ". The Report underlines the phenomenon "of the increasingly widespread and dangerously active youth gangs, especially in Naples,. Even the chambers showed an evolutionary process towards a more accentuated entrepreneurial vocation ".

The report then extensively describes the evolution of the Pugliese mafias , developing the analysis "on the plural territorial mafia that, in Puglia, sees from the one extreme of the region what remains of the sacred united crown, but also of the Bari mafia, with its marked resemblance to the Neapolitan Camorra, and above all the violent Foggian and Gargano mafias, which in this phase represent for their ferocity the element of greatest danger, as well as a metaphor of the long underestimation that allowed them to grow ".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/18 12:24 PM

The first coke seizure of 2018 in the port of Gioia Tauro, 74kg on the market it would have yielded over 14 million euros. In 2017, the numerous seizures of "coca" made at the port was in total just under 2 tons.

Posted By: southend

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/18 02:19 PM

whose more powerful in Italy - Camorra or Ndrangheta?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/18 02:27 PM

whose more powerful in Italy - Camorra or Ndrangheta?

The Ndrangheta, it controls most of the cocaine in europe and has a more extensive global reach than that of the Camorra.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/27/18 11:06 AM

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/18 01:15 PM

Calabrian Mafia boss serving multiple life sentences for murder granted furlough to visit his dying mother http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ing-multiple-life-sentences-for-murder-g

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/18 04:25 PM

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...igating-political-links-to-italian-mafia

Summary of last work by JÃ¡n Kuciak, shot dead with fiancÃ©e, focuses on â€˜Ndrangheta ties

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/18 12:50 PM

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/18 05:54 PM

I just read a different article about this murder from the Guardian. This is some McMafia shit here, truly globalized organized crime..

Very sad for the journalist his family. This is going to create enormous backlash and might do the perpetrators more harm than good..

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/18 07:02 PM

'Seven Italians' arrested over Slovak reporter's murder
'Entrepreneur VadalÃ with brother, cousin, 4 others'

(ANSA) - Bratislava, March 1 - Slovak police have arrested Italian entrepreneur Antonino VadalÃ together with his brother and cousin and four other Italian men in connection with the murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancÃ©e, sources said Thursday.
According to local media reports, VadalÃ on Thursday morning was arrested with his brother Bruno and cousin Pietro Catroppa as part of police operations targeting two of the entrepreneur's apartments in Michalovce and Trebisov in eastern Slovakia.
Seven Italians were arrested in connection with Kuciak's murder, during searches at Michalovce and Trebisov, Slovak police said. Police chief Tibor Gaspar said the seven were arrested "as suspects, with the agreement of the prosecutor".
All the arrested are Italians: as well as prime suspect Antonino VadalÃ and his relatives Sebastiano VadalÃ and Bruno VadalÃ , Gaspar named the others as Diego Roda, Antonio Roda, Pietro Catroppa, 54, and Pietro Catroppa, 26.
Murdered journalist Kuciak, 27, had reported for the news site Aktuality.sk on fraud cases, often involving businessmen and politicians.
Kuciak had in particular investigated the VadalÃ family and its alleged ties with the international crime syndicate of Calabrian origin, 'Ndrangheta. The newspaper he worked for published the report on Wednesday.
Kuciak and his fiancÃ©e, also 27, were found dead on Sunday at his home in Velka Maca, 65km east of the capital Bratislava.
Italian police alerted Slovak police and international bodies "some time ago" on the the group of Calabrians arrested in the eastern European country on Thursday, judicial sources said on Thursday.
Anti-mafia prosecutors in Reggio Calabria "officially brought to the attention of the international police organs and the Slovakian national police the need to monitor the activities of the group of Calabrians arrested because they are suspected of being involved in the murder of the young journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend," a statement said.
Acting Reggio Calabria Chief Prosecutor Gaetano Paci told ANSA his office had also supplied information about the trio's alleged links to the Calabria-based crime organisation 'Ndrangheta.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...947f32d-0f04-4615-92ce-85ed620c9786.html

Posted By: Stubbs

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/18 09:38 PM

Buzzfeed: A Powerful Italian Mob Yo...der Of A Journalist And His Girlfriend

This story and the Calabrian connection getting in the international media. Interesting! Wonder if it'll lead to a huge crackdown on the Ndrangheta?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/18 10:01 PM

In order to crack down the Ndrangheta in a huge way they need to do it in Italy. And there the Ndrangheta is no news, they have been known there for a while now. Thats my opinion

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/18 01:40 AM

Yesterday a woman killed her husband while he was sleeping after a fight in their home in Castellace di Oppido Mamertina (Reggio Calabria). The Carabinieri arrested Maria Giuseppina Barca, a 63-year-old, for murder. She was accused of having killed Rocco Cutri ', a 70-year-old, who was close to the' Ndrangheta. The victim was known to the carabinieri for the proximity to the "Alvaro-Violi-Macri" gang, he was the father-in-law of Carmine Alvaro, 65, called" u cuvertuni ".
There were long grudges and disagreements caused by the death of the couple's son, Domenico, who was killed in Sinopoli in 2008 at the height of a dispute.

The gangs of 'ndrangheta of the vibonese had entered into business with the Albanian narcos, considered by the investigators the main producers of marijuana on the continent, skipping the intermediation of the Puglian mafia, historically in business with drug traffickers of the country of the Eagle, managing to contract the importation in less than three months of 5 tons of marijuana for a value of 10 million euros. This is what emerged from the "Stammer 2-Melina" investigation that this morning led to the arrest of 25 people - 18 in prison and 7 at home - between Calabria, Puglia, Sicily, Lazio, Tuscany, Lombardy and Albania.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/18 08:05 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/18 08:09 PM

Third world immigration to Italy and the rest of Western Europe is occurring at replacement levels. It is unprecedented in the whole of human history, and poses an existential threat to the survival of indigenous European peoples. And VICE is an organ of Leftist, globalist propaganda.

By contrast, the mafia, though it certainly has blighted the economy and culture of the Italian South, does not pose imperil the historical survival of the people.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/18 03:08 AM

https://news.sky.com/story/mafia-ge...lling-of-journalist-and-fiancee-11273703

'Mafia get out': Thousands protests in Slovakia over killing of journalist and fiancee

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/18 03:18 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/18 07:49 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/18 09:35 AM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/04/18 11:34 AM

Was it Ndrangheta whos behind this coke and the one in Spain or what? Cause i didnt understand it fully.

Yes, it was the Ndrangheta behind both incidences.

https://www.infobae.com/america/col...del-cartel-de-sinaloa-en-un-jet-privado/

Here it says its the Sinaloas

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/04/18 11:55 AM

one of the people arrested by british police is calabrian, alessandro lembo, so the ndrangheta is involved

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/04/18 12:02 PM

Like someone said here earlier they all work together in moving wholesale amounts.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/04/18 11:33 PM

Credits to dwalin for posting this. Big news,finally real brains behind mafia doing jali time.

'Ndrangheta boss (and powerful freemason), the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano was sentenced to 20 years in a trial following investigations against a sort of secret masonic lodge infiltrating politics and economy, with the senator Antonio Caridi considered their main "front man" in the state institutions. This trial regards the defendants who chose the "short trial" ("rito abbreviato") and got the proceedings against them concluded sooner; 34 out of 38 defendants got convicted. A number of other defendants chose a "normal" trial, including the alleged leader of the organization, the lawyer and ex-parliament member, Paolo Romeo (already with a criminal record for mafia association).

Giorgio De Stefano was basically untouchable since the 80s: after the 'ndrangheta war in the 80s almost every boss directly involved in it got a life sentence in the "operation Olimpia" trial, while he got 6 years only, imo it was due to his masonic and political connections. I am honestly surprised he received so many years now. Hopefully it won't get overturned on appeal or in supreme court.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 12:06 PM

Credits to dwalin for posting this. Big news,finally real brains behind mafia doing jali time.

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 12:56 PM

They definitely seem hot right now...

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 01:55 PM

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Not at all, same thing happened 2 years ago,when police uncovered secret 'Ndrangheta cupola that picked men for parliament.

The secret 'Ndrangheta 'cupola', members of the so called 'Santa', ruled the elections of several politicians at provincial, regional and national level; among them Giuseppe Scopelliti, ex mayor of Reggio Calabria, Umberto Pirilli, member of the European parlament and Felice Romeo (members of the Alvaro crime family) dirigent of regional forestals; they run the national and European funds destined to Calabria, they had links with Cosa Nostra, Camorra and Sacra Corona. Among the politicians who had links with the 'cupola' also Giovanni Alemanno, ex mayor of Rome, and Maurizio Gasparri, vice-president of Senate.

Its just that stuff like this are very rare,most of these people are untouchable. They are real brains behind the mafia

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 02:10 PM

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Not at all, same thing happened 2 years ago,when police uncovered secret 'Ndrangheta cupola that picked men for parliament.

Its just that stuff like this are very rare,most of these people are untouchable. They are real brains behind the mafia

Do the Ndrangheta or the Italian mafia whatsoever have the same political influence in Italy like the Russian mafia has in Russia? I dont know how it is but i think the Russians has more power of the state or am i wrong? I know in Kosovo and Albania the mafia has complete control of the state, there the Prime ministers and presidents ARE the mafia, they are involved in drugs and shit but most of allt extortion and stealing the Funds they recieve.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 02:34 PM

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Don Lucchesi from Godfather 3 also comes to mind..

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 02:43 PM

They definitely seem hot right now...

Cabrini, where are you from? Im wondering cause i wanna know if Ndrangheta is known in the US as its known here in Europe.

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Don Lucchesi from Godfather 3 also comes to mind..

Yeah him to

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 03:04 PM

I agree for what you said for Kosovo and Albania,but its pretty much same here in Serbia and whole balkans,everyone stealing funds and some extortion here and there.

I would say yes,Italian mafia in Italy is pretty much same like Russian Mafia in Russia. You have same thing with Sicilian Mafia , freemasonry secret lodges controlling politicians etc.

Take a look at Matteo Messina Denaro,its obvious that he has protection of masonic lodges,secret services etc. His father started as armed gurad for D'Ali family , Antonio D'AlÃ¬ Sr. was founder of Banco Sicula biggest private bank in Sicily, he was also memeber of P2. His son Antonio D'AlÃ¬ jr. became a senator for Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1996, and in April 2001 under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for fighting organized crime,his cousin Giacomo Dâ€™AlÃ¬ is a counsellor of the Banca Commerciale Italiana in Milan.

P2 is most famous of these masonic lodges , some of members were: president of Vatican Bank,Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Leaders of all 3 italian secret services , son of last king of italy , generals etc. Silvio Berlusconi too. Some say there are P3 and P4 today.

Posted By: Dwalin2011

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 04:11 PM

This guy sounds interessing. Like a James Bond type of villain hehe. Is this a sign of Ndrangheta losing power?

Don Lucchesi from Godfather 3 also comes to mind..

Imo Lucchesi is more similar to Licio Gelli and other freemasons "above" the underworld. Giorgio De Stefano, even though he is a freemason, a lawyer and ex-politician, is more directly involved, he is a 'ndrangheta boss in the full sense of the word, he is or was the boss of the De Stefano 'ndrina: became boss after his cousin Paolo was whacked in 1985. It's said he participated in all the 'ndrangheta meetings related to the war, ordered murders, didn't want to make peace unless Paolo's killers were killed etc. During the war, he was on the run like the other bosses.

He is a hard-core gangster and a white-collar guy at the same time, I would say.

By the way, in the Italian documentary series "Blu notte" ("Blue night") with Carlo Lucarelli, in the episode about the history of the 'ndrangheta, it was said that, when Giorgio De Stefano was active in politics, during the local elections in Reggio Calabria he got so many votes that he overcame his own political party leader and was forced to ask people not to vote for him any more....Quite an insane but funny situation, if you ask me On the other hand, it's sad so many people were willing to vote for him...

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/18 08:23 PM

i tihink italian mafia in italy is more entrenched with politics than even russia, but they are different things
in russia putin is a sort of dictatorship, he wouldn't let the russian mafia controls everythings like in italy, the men realy powerful in russia are only the oligarcs linked to putin
in italy is more complex, the most powerful are members of masonic lodges, who can be often both politicians, mafia members and businessman at the same time

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/09/18 05:35 PM

https://www.tio.ch/estero/cronaca/1246162/-ndrangheta--autorizzata-l-estradizione-di-morabito

Rocco Morabito is being extradited to Italy i think. I would like to follow his trial i would like to know what he is being charged with and how much coke they think he has moved. Would someone help me with this?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 01:15 AM

It was not until 1955 that the Calabrian mafia acquired the name 'ndrangheta that it bears today.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 12:12 PM

Two arrests in Milan as part of the fight against the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy: 58-year-old Francesco Cicino and 37-year-old Vincenzo Montemurro, former right-hand man of the boss Carmelo Novella, killed in 2008. They are accused of attempted extortion and being responsible for the beating last May in Legnano of Edoardo Novella, son of the boss, which was appropriate for 250 thousand euro. The arrests, carried out by the Dia di Milano, follow the operations "Linfa" and "Kerina 2" , which, in recent months, had led to a total arrest of 15 people,mainly of Calabrian origins, investigated by association aimed at trafficking and possession of drugs .

The investigations had previously led to the total seizure of over 150 kilos of drugs. The process started in February. On January 27, Edoardo Novella, the son of Carmelo, had already been arrested. His father, ruler of the structure of 'ndrangheta called "Lombardia", was killed in an ambush on July 14, 2008 in San Vittore Olona, â€‹â€‹in Milan. Edoardo Novella played a prominent role in the organization. The assault on the son of the boss took place on the morning of 13 May 2017.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 12:31 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 12:41 PM

Posted By: The_Rooster

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 12:52 PM

The Ndrangheta are more like the Cartels in Mexico than a traditional Mafia group

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 12:54 PM

The Ndrangheta are more like the Cartels in Mexico than a traditional Mafia group

No, they are much more organized and they are in everything,from small crimes to big crimes like EU Funds,waste disposal etc.

They are ivy league of organized crime.

Posted By: The_Rooster

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 01:18 PM

I get all that, I meant with those underground bunkers and tunnels and hideouts in the middle of the forest

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 01:39 PM

I get all that, I meant with those underground bunkers and tunnels and hideouts in the middle of the forest

Camorra have them too,but much less than 'Ndrangheta. They have whole network of underground tunnles under San Luca(Village in Calabria,stronghold of 'Ndrangheta)

Posted By: The_Rooster

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 01:41 PM

Unreal

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 06:57 PM

The Ndrangheta are more like the Cartels in Mexico than a traditional Mafia group

No, they are much more organized and they are in everything,from small crimes to big crimes like EU Funds,waste disposal etc.

They are ivy league of organized crime.

They are also a religious group, like a sect.

Posted By: The_Rooster

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 07:21 PM

Pretty amazing when you take into consideration the religious aspect of the group. So because of that do we put then as probably the most powerful crime group of all time? or do they still sit 2nd behind the cartels?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 09:40 PM

sicilian mafia in the 1980s was stronger than today ndrangheta, so not the most powerful of all time, it was probably cosa nostra in the 1980s, and american cosa nostra in the 1960s

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 10:54 PM

sicilian mafia in the 1980s was stronger than today ndrangheta, so not the most powerful of all time, it was probably cosa nostra in the 1980s, and american cosa nostra in the 1960s

You obviously have a fetish for the Sicilians.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/18 10:58 PM

You obviously have a fetish for the Sicilians.

it's just the truth, sicilian mafia in the 1980s did massacres that nobody would do nowadays in europe, i mean judges, policemen, journalists killed, strong links with giulio andreotti the most powerful italian politician of all time, with masocnic lodges and secret services
not only drug trafficking (sicilians produced heroin) and other stuff

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 01:07 AM

Well i do agree with what m2w said,but we have no idea what is happening today,we know there are close links with 'Ndrangheta to masonic lodges,politicians , but how far that goes , we have no idea. In past 5 years there were busts of 'Ndrangheta/masonic lodges members controlling politicians, picking members for parliament etc

'Ndrangheta is very religious group, the top of 'Ndrangheta called La Santa, La Santa names come from mamma santissima, Mamma santissima literally means "most holy mother" and refers to the Virgin Mary, who is regarded as the protector of the 'Ndrangheta. Also their ranks

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 01:21 AM

Saint Michael is the most important.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 01:53 AM

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43353273

Rocco Morabito: Cocaine kingpin to be extradited to Italy

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 04:48 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 08:36 PM

Good ones this calabrian song is about the sicilian Toto Riina!

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/18 11:37 PM

You obviously have a fetish for the Sicilians.

Ndrangheta did same kind of massacres, not in Calabria but in GERMANY... They also killed politicians and shit, they even helped toto during his crazy rampage. They also had wars which cost 500-1000 lives just like the Sicilian war. They control judges, have links with presidents etc etc,, and that is power. Killing eachother is not power, the real power is when you do your illegal buisnesses, the state, the people and everybody knows about it but they cant do shit, cause you got it all on lock.

Ndrangheta controls big cities all over the world. I dont think the Sicilians did that in that extend as Ndrangheta. ALTHOUGH the Sicilians controlled USA and thats like all the other countries combined so i dont know. But i personally think the Ndrangheta are stronger today than the Sicilian was then.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/18 04:05 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/18 11:07 AM

Rocco Papalia, considered the 'godfather' of Buccinasco (Milan) and one of the most important leaders of the Calabrian mafia in the north, released last May after 26 years of detention, was stopped by the Carabinieri while driving his wife's car without a license.

The result was a fine of five thousand euros and the communication to the judge supervising the infringement. In addition to not being able to get away from Buccinasco, having to stay at home from 21 to 7, Papalia, convicted of murder, possession of weapons, kidnapping and drug trafficking, also has a driving ban, since it has the license revoked. At this point Papalia could lose probation and end up under house arrest.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/18 03:20 PM

it's evident you don't know what happened in the 1980s...
sicilian mafia in the 1980s was stronger than today ndrangheta, and i'm not talking only about murders/violence (anyway ndrangheta never killed judges/policemen/jounralists, only a few compared to tons of sicilian mafia) sicilians at that time were strongly liked directly with giulio andreotti the most powerful italian politician ever, the masonic lodges were stronger at that time, same secret service and sicilian mafia was strongly connected with everyone
also in the 1980s italy was by far more corrupted than today, there were not only thousands of mafia-related murders (today only a few) but also slaughters done by mafia/secrte services/freemasons etc.
concerning abroad sicilians killed several people too, they were the strongest in usa/canada by far ,the stronger in all the northern big italian cities (milan/turin/genoa/bologna) and connections all over europe for heroin trafficking (germany/france/belgium/uk/spain etc.)

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/18 10:07 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/18 11:48 AM

http://www.casinoreports.ca/2018/03...a-licences-avoid-money-laundering-probe/

Italian Gambling Operators Terminate Their Malta Licences to Avoid Money-Laundering Probe.

In a joint operation, investigators seized the assets of six companies and revealed that the Calabrian mafia clan â€™Ndrangheta owned three Maltese gaming licences through Italian companies, registered in Malta. The organized crime group lad laundered millions of euros, according to the police.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/18 11:59 AM

http://www.trasportoeuropa.it/index...diretti-denuncia-mafia-nellautotrasporto

On 10 March 2018, the police arrested the fugitive Antonino Pesce, considered belonging to the homonymous gang of the 'Ndrangheta, which would also have interests in the transport of citrus fruits. The farmers' association returns to denounce the monopoly of the mafias in the handling of fruit and vegetables.

The operation carried out on March 10 by the Mobile Squad and the Central Police Service in Rosarno, ended with the arrest of Antonino Pesce, once again puts the activities of the 'Ndrangheta in the road haulage of fruit and vegetables in Calabria. In fact, Pesce, considered one of the leaders of the homonymous cosca. According to the investigators he managed the citrus trucking from the Gioia Tauro plain.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 06:57 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...99356db-ea8e-4694-97de-795619c8a608.html

Reggio Calabria, surgeon at the service of the 'ndrangheta. 19 million euros seized

Surgeon's clinic allegedly treated fugitives
(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, March 15 - Carabinieri and finance police in Reggio Calabria on Thursday seized assets worth 19 million euros from a local surgeon, Francesco Cellini.
The man is suspected of treating fugitive members of local crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta, including alleged members Pasquale and Giovanni Tegano, as the legal representative of the Anphora cooperative that manages the local private clinic nova Salus.
The man is a suspect in the anti-mafia Sansone operation dating back to 2016 against the local mafia clans of Condello in Reggio Calabria and Zito-Bertuca, Imerti-Buda in Villa San Giovanni.

Posted By: BillyBrizzi

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 07:33 PM

Couldn't agree more M2W, you took the words out of my mouth. Saved me a lot of typing..

I doubt there ever will be another organization in Europe, that had the kind of power, reach and wealth the Sicilian CN had in the 80's and early 90's..

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 08:02 PM

sicilian mafia in the 1980s was stronger than today ndrangheta, so not the most powerful of all time, it was probably cosa nostra in the 1980s, and american cosa nostra in the 1960s

I find it is difficult to compare. Each of them were a power house in their own era. Now it looks like it is the Ndrangheta in this era.

You must also consider the following facts, the Ndrangheta never received as much public recognition( movies,books ...etc) as did the Sicilian Mafia and the LCN. No other mafia expanded to as many countries globally as much as the Ndrangheta did and are still continuing to expand today.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 08:16 PM

I agree for the most part of your characterization of the Ndrangheta using religious symbols and names to describe their family structure; but I have a small objection as to them being a very religious group. They kill, lame, intimidate, sell drugs, prey on people and other. This is not what Catholicism teaches. I'm assuming that is not what you meant.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 09:08 PM

This is not something i made up just now,that is what they think. One of their most important meetings is next to holy statue. I agree that it makes no sense they being religious group and doing stuff that they do.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/18 11:02 PM

Well-known prosecutor Nicola Gratteri has written a book about the Church's links to 'ndrangheta. Of course it is not mainstream Catholicisme, but pseudo-religious. That's why I called it a sect.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 12:43 AM

I find it is difficult to compare. Each of them were a power house in their own era. Now it looks like it is the Ndrangheta in this era.

there is not so much to compare, sicilian mafia in the 1980s was by far stronger

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 01:46 AM

While the State was fighting Cosa Nostra and vise versa, the 'ndrangheta was completely ignored. That's the main reason it has become such a big factor in every day life in Italy it's much smarter than the bombing massacres of cosa nostra.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 10:12 AM

I find it is difficult to compare. Each of them were a power house in their own era. Now it looks like it is the Ndrangheta in this era.

there is not so much to compare, sicilian mafia in the 1980s was by far stronger

The money Ndrangheta make today is much more than the Sicilian mafia did. More money equals more power so you do the math.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 11:58 AM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 03:11 PM

The money Ndrangheta make today is much more than the Sicilian mafia did. More money equals more power so you do the math.

according to who? sicilian mafia made more money at that time, it produced heroin in italy and involved in tons of other business, invested money even in vatican banks etc.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/18 11:36 PM

Remember while the Sicilian mafia was huge in Sicily, USA and mainland Italy in the 50s till 70s, the Calabrian mafia was still a local thing in 1975. 'Ndrangheta only got big after Falcone and Borsellino really hurt the Sicilans.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/18 12:03 AM

The money Ndrangheta make today is much more than the Sicilian mafia did. More money equals more power so you do the math.

according to who? sicilian mafia made more money at that time, it produced heroin in italy and involved in tons of other business, invested money even in vatican banks etc.

The cocaine trade is worth more than the Heroin trade was back then. And the Ndrangheta is the one of the biggest player in that game, if not the biggest. Look at the bust back then with the heroin trade with sicilians it was 50 kg 100kg. Today with Ndrangheta you see 1 ton 5 tons 8 tons of cocaine shipments.

The Calabrians has penetrated the northern Italy in a way which the Sicilians did not.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/18 03:52 PM

A woman was killed in the late evening in Reggio Calabria while she was in the car with her lover who was injured in the arm. Fortunata Fortugno, 48 years old, has been reached in the head by gun shots fired by several people. The wounded, Demetrio Lo Giudice (53), involved in the "Eremo" operation, is considered a prominent member of the homonymous gang of 'ndrangheta.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/18 04:02 PM

The Calabrians has penetrated the northern Italy in a way which the Sicilians did not.

sicilian mafia earned more because produced in italy withouth intermediators etc. (some sicilian labs produced 5/6 tons for year and sicily was full of labs)
ndrangheta import it from colombia and also behind big shipments of tons there are usually several different criminal groups, not only one
sicilians were the strongest in northern italy too at that time, anyway they were huge in the united states and connections all over western europe
north italy is nothing compared to the states

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/19/18 02:03 PM

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/slovakia-calabrian-mafia-robert-fico-bratislava-1.4580296

'Little Slavic tiger' Slovakia marred by murder, organized crime, street protests and intrigue

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/19/18 07:36 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/20/18 02:38 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/21/18 01:16 AM

Police on Tuesday executed an arrest warrant for Antonino Labate, 68, an alleged boss of 'Ndrangheta, who is accused of trying to kill six Romanians. He is suspected of starting a fire at a home in the south of Reggio Calabria in February that could have killed the six, including two children. The group managed to save themselves by getting out of the home via a window.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/21/18 10:31 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/21/18 02:03 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/23/18 05:15 AM

I think there is very little evidence they are involved of course they could be feeling really threatend by him but its not part of their mo, â€˜Ndrangheta has never killed a journalist; they wish to act silently.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/23/18 06:41 PM

there is strong evidence that it's involved in my opinion, yes ndrangheta usually acts silenty at least nowadays, but look the duisburg slaughter etc.
it depends

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/23/18 07:26 PM

Yeah the Duisburg bloodbath was exceptional.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/26/18 09:44 AM

Peppe "Manigghja" JerinÃ² has been moved to the tough 41bis regime. A key man who from Gioiosa Jonica would have conditioned the mafia balance of half of Calabria , from the first feud of the woods to the trafficking of drugs.
JerinÃ², today, ends up in a hard prison. The minister Orlando has in fact accepted the request from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria that he had already arrested him in September 2014, in the context of the operation called Ulivo 99 . In the subsequent trial, defined at first instance before the Court of Locri, he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment .
Heir to Don Ciccio JerinÃ² , the patriarch who would have hosted even Michele Navarra while in hiding, before being assassinated by the Corleonesi, Giuseppe JerinÃ² is the brother of Vittorio, already involved in various judicial events, the best known one relating to the kidnapping of Roberto Ghidini . Operation Ulivo 99, which has undermined a system of drug trafficking between Romania and Bolivia, passing through Calabria and the Netherlands, could be the end of a criminal history.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/28/18 05:17 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/18 04:50 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/18 04:41 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/02/18 08:37 AM

Military police arrested Antonio Filippone, 45, son of Rocco Santo Filippone, a leading element of 'ndrangheta of the Piana di Gioia Tauro. He will have to serve the residual sentence of 5 years imprisonment for drug dealing.

The Filippones made a pact with cosa nostra of Palermo.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/18 09:36 AM

The fugitive years of the boss Giuseppe "Peppe" Pelle are over. The 58-year-old son of 'Ntoni Pelle 'Gambazza', historical patriarch who has written in his own hand the history of the Calabrian 'ndrangheta, has been identified in an isolated house, near Condufuri, a few kilometers from "his" San Luca. The boss was hiding in one of the most inaccessible districts of the entire province, where the first slopes of the Aspromonte begin to climb towards the peaks, the roads become mountain mule tracks, hardly passable, and the rivers are transformed into natural trenches. Almost a natural bunker, besieged this night by fifty men of the Reggio Calabria Squad, who with a very quick blitz entered the house, while other agents were besieging the entire area to avert any attempts to escape. Surprised inside the house with other men, the boss gave up without any resistance. On him hung a warrant for a mafia association last summer, plus a residual sentence of two years and five months to be served on a previous conviction for the Mafia.

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Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/18 11:31 AM

CAUGHT: â€˜Ndrangheta leader Giuseppe Pelle ran regional politics on behalf of Calabrian Mafia http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...pe-pelle-ran-regional-politics-on-behalf

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/18 12:56 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/18 04:41 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/08/18 02:26 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6c9w965DM&feature=share

Video:Fugitive mob boss found hiding in Italyâ€™s hinterland

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/09/18 04:50 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/18 08:58 AM

Matteo Vinci died in Limbadi near Vibo Valentia in Calabria as the car he was driving blew up because of a suspected bomb on Monday. His father was seriously inured in the blast, in 2014 the Vincis were arrested in a police operation. It seems he had problems with Sara Mancuso sister of the clan chiefs Pantaleone ("Luni") and Giuseppe Mancuso.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/11/18 12:39 PM

Die Welt: The Italian Mafia Returns to Bulgaria and Romania
Novinite Insider Â» OPINIONS | April 10, 2018, Tuesday // 15:43|

Die Welt: The Italian Mafia Returns to Bulgaria and Romania Source:

" 'NdrÃ ngheta has been active in Eastern Europe for 20 years. It is also capable of influencing elections," said the anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri of Calabria in a large article in the newspaper Die Welt. According to the German edition, he is the most important forensic expert on the international contacts of the powerful Calabrian mafia.

Back in 2008, Francesco Forgione, Chairman of the Rome Anti-Mafia Commission, presented a comprehensive report on the international expansion of 'NdrÃ ngheta. The Calabrian has long been under police protection because of his discoveries and is well aware of the dangers associated with one of the the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. He is also the author of the book Mafia Export.
"The organizations of the Italian mafia have long settled in all countries of Eastern Europe - above all in Bulgaria and Romania," said Forgione, quoted by Die Welt. The mafia's interests are "the same everywhere in the world," the expert added:

"The Mafia wants to profit from all sorts of financial transactions, money laundering, investment and illegal trade of all kinds."
Giant money from international trade in drugs, weapons and hazardous waste has been invested in real estate or stock exchange transactions - this is the simplest way to launder money, "says Francesco Forgione, adding:

"We know from our investigations that the Mafia is involved in Romania's poisonous waste scandals and has spread its tentacles to Gazprom." It is a fact, for example, that the Casalesi clan, one of Camorra's most successful bandit groups, has consolidated interests in Romania, and the Corleone clan has been involved in scandals with illegal poisonous waste. "

Recently, the mafia's appetites are also directed at EU structural funds, the resources of which are slowly being shifted from the southern flank of Europe to the eastern European member states. For 'NdrÃ ngheta, which has huge resources, it is like a childish game to buy political influence in these countries, explains Forgione.
"This is the known mechanism of corruption - the Mafia bribes politicians to ensure impunity, and for politicians in the region, Mafia money is welcome because they serve their clientele and fund election campaigns," said the Italian expert.

It is supposed that the Mafia is directing its Eastern European business from the territory of Germany, where its criminal structures have been rooted for decades. "The Mafia entered Germany for a while along with the gastarbaters and for a long time went unnoticed because the authorities in the country had enough problems with other organizations - for example, the mighty Russian mafia," says Forgione, adding: Only after the bloody bath in Duisburg in 2007 when six people were gunned down in front of a restaurant in the middle of the day, the German authorities began to look at the structures of the Italian mafia.

'NdrÃ ngheta directs drug exports through the strategic Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and controls its subdivisions in the Benelux countries. Two members of the Strangioo clan of San Luke in Calabria, who were involved in the killings in Duisburg, were arrested in Rotterdam and Brussels.

Francesco Forgione suggests that the expansion of the Italian mafia to Eastern Europe begins immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indisputable in this regard are the words of a boss of the mafia, which he said on the fateful date of November 9, 1989: "The Wall has fallen, go straight to Berlin and buy everything in the East," he ordered in a conversation tapped by the police.
Forgione argues that much of the Italian restaurant which are favorite of the Germans are tied to the Calabrian mafia bosses. The newspaper "Die Welt" notes that 11 members of the 'NdrÃ ngheta were arrested in Germany in the January police action.

The fact that the mafia is expanding its business in Eastern Europe is also evident in the drug and arms trade returning to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and Montenegro. Eastern European countries, including EU members, have often offered a "safe ground" for illegal transactions because legislation, search methods and cooperation in the fight against organized crime are far less developed than in Italy and Western European countries, " concludes Francesco Forgione, quoted by Die Welt.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/22/18 09:43 PM

The Court of Cassation annulled without delay the life sentence imposed on the boss of 'Ndrangheta Tommaso Costa for the murder of the merchant Gianluca Congiusta, killed in Siderno in an ambush on May 24 of 2005. However, the Court of Appeals will have to go back to ruling on Costa to determine the punishment of a conviction for Mafia association, drug trafficking and attempted extortion.
The man's attempt to foil an attempted extortion against his father-in-law is the motive for the murder. According to the reconstructions of the DDA the story would intertwine with the rivalries between the Costa and Commisso clans.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/25/18 07:04 PM

The 'ndrangheta doing business in Europe
The semi-annual report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department shows a cross-section in which Calabrian crime ranks in many countries of the old continent
Editorial Staff Wednesday 25 April 2018 12:44 13 shares

Drug trafficking, of course. But also recycling, construction, catering, sports betting, counterfeiting, agri-food and - latest arrivals - renewable energy. ' Ndrangheta , Camorra and Cosa Nostra have for many years been branched into numerous European countries, and are active in any sector of business smells. An impressive river of money, an export that knows no crisis, a map that is spreading day after day to ever new areas, as documented by the latest half-yearly report of Dia . Here is a picture of the interests of the mafias, and of the 'ndrangheta in particular, abroad.

France
The Italian organized crime has long been rooted in the territory, where it lays illicit capital and invests in drug trafficking: historically this is also territory of inaction, as shown by the arrests of prominent members of the Sicilian mafia and the Calabrian. Some 'ndranghetisti, who initially settled in Liguria, have moved to the CÃ´te d'Azur , to Nice, Menton, Cannes where there would be a "second generation" of Calabrian mobsters. And a 'local' would be active in Ventimiglia, a center of Â«strategic power - according to Dia - for the numerous 'ndrine in the territory'.

Germany
Germany continues to be a "center of attraction" for Italian mafia organizations, mostly present in the West and in the South of the country, particularly in the richest regions, such as Baden-Wurttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Hesse. The Italian groups, in addition to taking care of the typical illegal activities, over the years have tried to infiltrate the legal economy, acquiring restaurants and pizzerias, used as a cover. At these latitudes, our mafias seem to have assumed, each of them, a specialization: the drug trafficking for the 'Ndrangheta , the building for Cosa Nostra, the sale of counterfeit goods for the Camorra.But it is the 'ndrangheta the most aggressive, also ready to fit into the new criminal spaces opened by the post-reunification crisis in the former East German Land.

Belgium
Belgium, due to its position at the center of Europe and the strategic importance of the port of Antwerp, polarizes many illegal transnational activities: for years, it has been a center of interest for all the main Italian mafias, in particular Cosa nostra and 'ndrangheta , dealing with drug trafficking and economic-financial crimes. In particular, the provinces of Mons-Charleroi, Hainaut and LiÃ¨ge are historically infiltrated by the gangs.

Switzerland
It remains a privileged destination for the laundering of proceeds deriving from crimes, mostly committed abroad: the priority interests of the 'ndrangheta are confirmed by the results of various investigations, as well as by the presence of "subjects considered contiguous to organized crime, suspected of recycling in the catering and building sectors ".

Malta
A subsidized tax system, on the one hand, and legislation that allows companies to be set up very quickly, on the other hand, have recently made the island "a financial hub capable of attracting substantial investments, even by criminality. organized Italian ". Among the sectors of interest - remember Dia - that of online betting, particularly appetite from the 'ndrangheta.

Spain
The Italian organized crime, as well as for the coverage of fugitives and drug traffickers, has over time exploited this area for the recycling and reuse of dirty money in hospitality and catering establishments, in real estate activities, in construction companies, in transport, in wholesale, agriculture and fishing. Presences of 'ndrangheta are reported in Girona and in the province of Madrid, while Malaga is the crossroads of subjects referable to all three major mafias.

Netherlands
Economy strongly devoted to international trade and advanced logistics facilities such as the port of Rotterdam and Schiphol airport: the Netherlands, like Spain, is used as a channel of entry into Europe of cocaine coming from the American continent and hashish coming from Morocco. Here, several mafia fugitives have sought refuge, but the interests of the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta are also documented, aimed at exploiting the opportunities associated with drug trafficking.

Bulgaria
In a privileged position on the "route of the Balkans", it acts as a link between Eastern Europe and the West, resulting in the center of various illicit trafficking, species of narcotics; but it is also the object of interest, by Italian consortiums, for the reinvestment of illicit capital through financial activities.

Slovakia
The February killing of journalist Jan Kuciak , engaged in an investigation of alleged relations between local government officials and 'Ndrangheta, has given rise to the suspicion that this is one of the new markets of Eastern Europe ended up in the crosshairs of our mafias. In relation to the crime, seven Italians were arrested, all released within a few hours. But already the last report of Dia spoke about the presence of "an organization linked to the 'Ndrangheta, dedicated to recycling through financial transactions . "

Romania
Here it would be proven the presence of mafia and criminal groups from Calabria, mostly devoted to illegal economic activities, first of all recycling : the most direct way to capitalize the possibilities offered by another expanding market.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/18 11:46 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/28/18 05:53 PM

The priest Don Pino Strangio of San Luca is on trial for external mafia association and participation in a secret association in odor of 'Ndrangheta. For decades, he's the "master" of the sanctuary of Polsi, the sacred place of the clans that converge there every September for the feast of Our Lady of the Mountain. And if this happened in public, far more worrying - says the investigation that sent him before the judges - was for years the activity that Don Pino Strangio has done in secret. It was he who met regularly with leading exponents of the 'Ndrangheta reggina to discuss candidacies, elections, alliances. Don Pino was and perhaps is a fundamental point of reference. Relatives of Strangio became known for the massacre of Duisburg that showed Germany the bloodiest face of 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/03/18 08:25 PM

25 'Ndrangheta arrests in Piedmont, 22-yr fugitive nabbed
Drugs, weapons and extortion

(ANSA) - Turin, May 3 - Italian police on Thursday arrested 25 people on suspicion of belonging to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in Piedmont.
A so-called 'locale' or 'Ndrangheta branch was smashed between Asti and Cuneo.
The gang dealt in drugs, weapons and extortion, police said.
Separately an 'Ndrangheta drug trafficker on the run for 22 years, 73-year-old Angelo Filippini, was arrested in Morocco with the help of Interpol.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/07/18 07:08 AM

The final sentence for the former mayor of Siderno is 12 years in prison for mafia association. Alessandro Figliomeni was involved, together with another fifty people, in the operation coordinated by the DDA of Reggio Calabria "Recovery", conducted in December 2010 against presumed exponents of the Commisso clan.
The sons, according to the prosecution, would have had a leading role in the criminal organization. The detention of the former mayor was executed after the magistrates discovered by wiretaps that the political exponent was about to leave for Australia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/18 04:22 PM

'Ndrangheta informant badly hurt in attack
While returning to protected home

(ANSA) - Bologna, May 8 - An 'Ndrangheta mafia accountant-turned-informant was badly hurt in an attack while he was returning home in a witness protection scheme home on April 18, media reported Tuesday.
Paolo Signifredi, 53, from Baganzola di Parma, an accountant considered close to 'Ndrangheta boss Nicolino Grande Aracri, was severely beaten by three men.
He had given evidence in the Grande Aemilia trial into Calabrian mafia infiltration in Emilia.
Signifredi started helping anti-mafia police with their enquiries in August 2015.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/18 09:30 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/10/18 12:09 AM

Salvatore Cassalona, â€‹â€‹a 51-year-old from Palermo, has been sentenced to eight years by the Supreme Court. The Sicilian is affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta in Tuscany.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/12/18 10:01 AM

Ten members of the Vibo Valentia group in the capital Rome were acquitted, among them the boss Saverio Razionale, 57, of San Gregorio d'Ippona, and a lawyer, an accountant and a former witness of justice.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/18 07:02 PM

For 22 years he has had a thirst for revenge, since he was ten years old and they killed his brother. The men's hunt ended last Friday when he sowed panic and terror between Limbadi and Nicotera , in the Vibo Valentia, killing two people and wounding three others. Francesco Giuseppe Olivieri , 32, presented himself alone in front of the prison in Vibo Valentia, claiming he wanted to be. Immediately, the carabinieri arrived on the spot, where he was overheard by the substitute attorney of Vibo Valentia Concettina Iannazzo. "I acted to avenge the death of my brother".

Last Friday Francesco Giuseppe Olivieri wanted to punish all those he considered directly or indirectly involved in the death of his brother. For this reason, within one hour, he has done damage, ambushes and executions in three different centers of Vibo Valentia, killing Giuseppina Mollese, 80, and Michele Valerioti, 68, and injuring three others. But the list of goals - he confessed to the judge - was much longer.

He grew up, in the stronghold of the MANCUSO clan, cultivating the desire to avenge the death of Mariano, his brother killed when he was just over ten years old. Officially nobody knows who it was,at least for the courts. But in the village it has always been said that the murder was ordered to respond to another execution.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/23/18 12:05 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/23/18 12:16 PM

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6358013/italy-world-cup-vincenzo-iaquinta-prison-guns-mafia/

MAFIA LINK SHOCK Italy World Cup-winner Vincenzo Iaquinta â€˜faces six years in prisonâ€™ after â€˜illegally harbouring gunsâ€™ for Mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/29/18 07:16 AM

The doors and windows of the villa in via San Francesco d'Assisi in the hamlet of Rogorotto, near Milan, have been closed for days. The 'boss' house of Francesco 'Ciccio' Riitano, is empty and nobody knows what the destiny of the building will be. In fact, the entire Riitano family decided to abandon Arluno, a Milanese municipality that had become the operational base of the mafia association dedicated to international drug trafficking, dismantled in May 2017.

The hypotheses on where Ciccio Riitano can hide are numerous: one thinks of Germany, near Frankfurt, where the 'boss' also has an activity; or just in Calabria, where he would find numerous support. Even Spain is among the hypotheses , given that the Iberian peninsula was one of the places touched by the international drug traffic managed by Riitano and his, as well as Colombia. Or maybe the 'boss' is still here, in the province of Milan, and maybe he is hiding right in Arluno.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/01/18 06:27 AM

The vice prefect of the Island of Elba, Giovanni Daveti, 66, and Giuseppe Belfiore, 61, repeatedly arrested for association mafia and leading exponent of a clan of 'Ndrangheta, both ended up in jail, the criminal association, disjointed by the Livorno Guardia di Finanza coordinated by the chief prosecutor Ettore Squillace Greco, aimed at tax fraud and other serious crimes.

Another seven people involved ended up under house arrest and all the precautionary measures were ordered by the judge of the Court of Livorno.

Belfiore is the brother of the instigator of the murder of the Turin public prosecutor Bruno Caccia in 1983 and is affiliated to one of the most well known 'ndrangheta gangs operating in the Piedmont area and abroad (especially France and Spain.)

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/01/18 12:57 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/18 03:47 AM

https://news.sky.com/story/italian-...warns-countrys-anti-mafia-chief-11396031

Italian mafia going global as influence spreads, warns country's anti-mafia chief

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/18 11:23 PM

Thanks to Carmelo.

Leonardo Portoraro, 63, was shot dead with a machine gun in front of a restaurant in the town of Villapiana (Cosenza); his brother Giovanni was also killed in 1992. He was a native of Cassano allo Ionio and among the most powerful bosses of Cosenza province.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/18 03:22 AM

I read an interview with Nicola Gratteri which is like the main Ndrangheta prosecutor and knows everything about them. He said in order to make a large deal you got to pay a small fee , then they ask him to who this fee has to be paid, he then says its a organization which is above all the Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian cartels , i assume Ndrangheta is also included there since the interview is about them...

You guys think he means the Mexicans or some shit like CIA? Does the Ndrangheta have to pay the Mexicans for smuggling coke you think?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/18 10:16 PM

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/06/alex-perry-the-good-mothers.html

The Good Mothers: Women Are the Key to Breaking the "Most Powerful Organized Crime Outfit on Earth"

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/18 10:22 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/18 10:24 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/18 06:48 AM

Thanks to Carmelo.

https://lacnews24.it/tg-cronaca/omicidio-portoraro-boss-sibari-villapiana_53359/#

Posted By: 2a

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/18 03:29 PM

I apologize if this has been discussed before , but how currently involved are Ndrangheta clans in cocaine production ? I do believe I've read that certain clans have been running cocaine labs in certain South American countries for some time .

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/18 07:01 PM

I have also read they have their own cocaine labs in South America but i dont know if its a large number or if its true even.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/09/18 07:21 AM

A young man from Mali was shot dead on June 2 in the Italian province of Calabria. Soumaila Sacko, 29, leaves behind his wife and a five-year-old daughter in Mali and friends and colleagues in southern Italy. He worked to bring in the harvest and was also an activist for the grass roots union, USB, which campaigns on behalf of African day labourers.
Sacko was one of thousands of workers who work as harvesters and day labourers, earning a pittance on the orchards of vegetable and agricultural farms in the hinterland of Gioia Tauro. The workers are housed in tents, barracks or improvised huts made of wood and plastic sheeting.
Most of the young workers come from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast or Senegal. Many of them have no proper papers and are treated like slaves.
On Tuesday, a 43-year-old farmer named Pontoriero was arrested on suspicion of murder. The newspaper Corriere della Sera writes that the Pontoriero family is alleged to be associated with the Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/11/18 12:50 PM

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/i...sur-les-urnes_2794931.html#xtor=CS2-765-[twitter]-

Municipal elections in Italy: in San Luca in Calabria, the shadow of the mafia hovers over the ballot boxes
Since 2013 and the dissolution of the city council for mafia infiltration, no candidate appears in the municipal election of Sunday in this borough of 4,000 souls, cradle of the Calabrian mafia.

The cradle of the dreaded 'Ndrangheta
Yet in San Luca, in Calabria, the cradle of the most formidable clans of 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, not the slightest electoral tremor. The town of 4,000 inhabitants, including a dozen mafia families, hanging on the mountain slopes of wild Aspromonte, no voting since 2013 and the dissolution of the city council for mafia infiltration. Also, reflecting an Italian reality, like 43 other Italian municipalities (22 in Calabria), San Luca no longer has a mayor and is managed by a senior official.

Posted By: Gallinari

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/11/18 04:40 PM

Long Live The Rooster.

@ SC, disappointed in you that you had to stoop to name calling. But youre the boss. Feel bad for you too now.

@ Loscalzo, your nonsense about Tampa still holds no weight and Ive been vindicated many times over.

All the best to Nickle, Bensonhurst, Cabrini, and Giacomo. Keep up the good posts in my absence

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/11/18 06:18 PM

Long Live The Rooster.

@ SC, disappointed in you that you had to stoop to name calling. But youre the boss. Feel bad for you too now.

@ Loscalzo, your nonsense about Tampa still holds no weight and Ive been vindicated many times over.

All the best to Nickle, Bensonhurst, Cabrini, and Giacomo. Keep up the good posts in my absence

Wrong thread buddy.

Long Live The Rooster.

@ SC, disappointed in you that you had to stoop to name calling. But youre the boss. Feel bad for you too now.

@ Loscalzo, your nonsense about Tampa still holds no weight and Ive been vindicated many times over.

All the best to Nickle, Bensonhurst, Cabrini, and Giacomo. Keep up the good posts in my absence

Wrong thread buddy.

Strax, Rooster has nothing better to do than make multiple accounts and spam threads out of anger. A man with such influential reach in Buffalo law enforcement and the Buffalo underworld sure does have a lot of free time on his hands, huh?

Posted By: SC

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/11/18 08:05 PM

Nicky, drop it. You agreed to ignore Rooster (or whatever name he tries to go by) and I must ask you to live up to that promise now. Just ignore him. I won't ask you again.

Fair enough.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/11/18 09:11 PM

At the trial 'Ndrangheta stragista the collaborator of justice from Puglia

"La 'Ndrangheta Calabrese is everyone's mother, embracing all the groups in Italy: Camorra, Cosa nostra and Pugliesi. There was no group that had no contact with Calabria " . To say it is the collaborator of justice Salvatore Annacondia , killer of Trani with more than 50 murders behind him and a rise in power from Puglia to Lombardy that led him to have the recognition of important 'ndranghetisti as Domenico Tegano and Franco "Coco" Trovato.
The repentant was heard today at the trial 'Ndrangheta stragista that sees defendants the boss of Brancaccio Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Santo Filippone, Calabrian considered at the top of the Tyrrhenian mandate at the time of the attacks against the Carabinieri in Reggio Calabria between 1993 and 1994. Annacondia recounted his experience with the Calabrian families of the mafia, insisting on the enormous power achieved by the 'Ndrangheta: "We can say that the Calabrian family is the most powerful in the world" . The people who commanded a certain "level knew how to assert themselves only by speaking - he added - who commands and directs can use calm" . Among all, the repentant has no doubts, to keep the ranks was the boss Domenico Tegano called ' Mimmo' :"In Milan everyone was headed by the De Stefano family of Reggio Calabria, headed by Tegano, there was no leaf that moved without the consent of the Tegans" .
There would have been an extended criminal circuit like "a consortium" which included "the Sicilians, including the Fidanzati, the Pugliesi and the Calabrese" , an acronym that "rarely came out of the big bosses' mouth, used it to make people understand what it was the structure " .

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/dos...rangheta-e-la-grande-mamma-di-tutti.html

Posted By: Gopher

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/18 02:17 PM

Long Live The Rooster.

Posted By: Gopher

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/18 02:19 PM

Cmon now Nikki, obey SC, be a good little Loscalzo

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/14/18 08:08 AM

FORMER BOSS FRANCO PINO TELLS OF THE SUMMITS BETWEEN NDRANGHETA AND COSA NOSTRA AFTER THE MURDER OF BORSELLINO

https://www.pillamaro.it/cronaca/le...cosa-nostra-dopo-lomicidio-di-borsellino

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/14/18 11:55 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/15/18 08:34 PM

Lea Garofalo was killed by her Mafia family. Now she's the face of anti-mob protests

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/...-the-face-of-anti-mob-protests-1.4707462

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/18 12:29 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/19/18 02:30 AM

Im just talking fantasies now, but im curious what you guys think..If Ndrangheta would be like some kind of terrorist group like the ones you see in the Mission Impossible , Bond movies. Would they be more powerful and dangerous than say ISIS or Al Qaeda? I read somewhere ISIS budget was like 2 or 3 billion dollars a year and Ndranghetas is 50-70b..

Sorry if im fucking this thread up with these kind of questions,,, this thought just came to my mind and i wanted to ask you guys what you think.

Posted By: 2a

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/20/18 07:44 PM

Sorry if im fucking this thread up with these kind of questions,,, this thought just came to my mind and i wanted to ask you guys what you think.

Theoretically speaking yes , though as far as practicality is concerned the answer is probably no . After all the power base of ISIS is in undeveloped countries , which makes the task of being a financially successful terrorist group all the more easier . I think it's safe to say that a highly active terrorist group couldn't maintain the revenue flow of the Ndrangheta if they were based in a developed country , since the authorities of advanced countries are all the more proactive with respect to terrorism .

That said it's curious to note that the Ndrangheta is so successful in spite of its business dealing with Islamic terrorists . One would think that the authorities would wage a very furious campaign against organized crime groups that do business with terrorists , however it seems the Ndrangheta has ( so far ) escaped an effort of that sort .

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/20/18 11:11 PM

Over 10 arrests in Belgrade,only 2 Serbians , rest of them are Italians,they were one of top dealers of cocaine in Serbia. One of them was married to sister of 'Ndrangheta boss. Huge arrests

According to police,group bought 86,7% pure cocaine in Amsterdam for 33,000e per kilo. Then transported it via Germany to Austria,where some of it went to Italy and some to Balkans.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/18 02:04 AM

Over 10 arrests in Belgrade,only 2 Serbians , rest of them are Italians,they were one of top dealers of cocaine in Serbia. One of them was married to sister of 'Ndrangheta boss. Huge arrests

According to police,group bought 86,7% pure cocaine in Amsterdam for 33,000e per kilo. Then transported it via Germany to Austria,where some of it went to Italy and some to Balkans.

33 per kilo is pretty expensive in Amsterdam, especially if you got Ndrangheta contacts. I know some guys who gets it delivered here to sweden for 34-35 thousand euros, and its usually 85-90%

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/18 11:38 AM

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/24/le...al-and-flourishing/#.WzAT1kB3Q3I.twitter

Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/18 12:06 PM

Great article ! Thanks for posting

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/18 12:24 PM

Great article ! Thanks for posting

My pleasure Strax.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/18 04:13 AM

Wow, I would like to know more on the buying of Thailands and Indonesias government debt.. Thats real power if you ask me.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/18 10:25 PM

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/18 02:45 PM

'Ndrangheta bust in Crotone

(ANSA) - Rome, June 28 - Italian police on Thursday arrested several people as they broke up a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia organisation operating in the city of Crotone.
Those arrested have been charged with a series of crimes including personal injuries, robbery and weapons possession.
'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, has a chokehold on the European cocaine market.

Source : http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...f052790-d096-42fe-b2c6-5bfc50703e4c.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/01/18 08:49 AM

Wow.. the son of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso, alias the engineer, would have started to collaborate with the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro. The news is resounding and if confirmed it would have disruptive effects.

Emanuele Mancuso, scion of the homonymous family of Limbadi, would have repented. The thirty-year-old son of Pantaleone Mancuso would already be in Rebibbia prison under protection program. Emanuele is also the nephew of the historical leaders of the cosca, Luigi, Antonio and Giovanni Mancuso.

The District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro and the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri would have the key to accessing the most unspeakable secrets of one of the most powerful gangs of the Calabrese 'ndrangheta. So they are trembling, but also the leaders of the other Vibonese clans, the entrepreneurs and the "white-collar workers" who with the family of Limbadi have made business.

There is no doubt that Emanuele Mancuso is aware of several things. He will certainly be able to tell about the new family structure, the alleged fractures that have characterized the life of the clan in recent years. Real or alleged frictions that have come out recently, too.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/18 04:36 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/18 01:54 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/18 01:05 PM

http://www.liberainternational.eu/?p=2706

An interessting read.. It needs to be translated though

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/18 08:52 AM

''Ndrangheta in Juve ticket-touting for 10 yrs'
Ties between Calabrian Mob bosses and ultra leaders

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...df48268-4782-495f-8e2e-b63a86c98341.html

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/18 05:36 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/09/18 07:29 AM

Broad operation of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria 38 people arrested, held responsible, for various reasons, mafia-type association, association aimed international drug trafficking, attempted murder, extortion, port and possession of weapons, damage and other crimes.
There are two dangerous gangs of the 'ndrangheta of Rosarno, both devoted to extortion and importation of tons of pure cocaine from South America and hashish from Spain and Morocco, destined to Lombardy, Piedmont and Sicily. In the investigation has also emerged the violent opposition between the two groups, both intent on imposing the criminal scene of Rosarno and to acquire the mafia control of the territory with aggressive intimidation, damage and ambushes with firearms and explosives.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/10/18 06:25 PM

Because he violated his parole the court of surveillance decided this morning the legendary boss Rocco Papalia has to work for two years in prison. In March he had been driven a car, despite having the ban and not having a driving license, and a few weeks later he had railed against the journalists in front of the house in via Nearco, partly his home and partly confiscated.
Against the decision, the Papalia family, through the lawyers Ambra Giovene and Annarita Franchi, will immediately appeal.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/12/18 08:55 AM

Three thousand marijuana plants have been discovered and seized by the Guardia di Finanza in Roccaforte del Greco. The financial police, who operated with the helicopters of the Air Section of Lamezia Terme, have identified the plantation of cannabis of the "skunk" type, with shrubs in some parts more than two meters high, in a soil half hidden by a dense bush. The quantity of seized marijuana, from which more than 1,500 kilograms of narcotic substance could have been obtained, once it had been placed on the market, would have yielded over 10 million euro.

An operation by the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria is under way for the execution of 13 precautionary custody orders against entrepreneurs and alleged 'ndranghetisti. The investigations, coordinated by the DDA of Reggio Calabria, according to the investigators, would have allowed to ascertain the systematic infiltration of the Calabrian gangs in the works necessary for the construction of wind farms in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Crotone and Vibo Valentia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/17/18 07:02 AM

Operation against the feared Casamonica clan in Rome, Reggio Calabria and Cosenza.
31 people ended up in handcuffs while six other people are currently wanted. The charge against them is to have formed and took part - in competition and with different roles - to a mafia association, the Casamonica clan, dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, usury: all with the aggravating factor of the Mafia method.
The thesis of the investigators is that at the head of the clan there is Giuseppe Casamonica, recently released from prison after about 10 years of imprisonment.
The Sinti gypsies are allied with the Â´ndrangheta.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/17/18 11:37 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-31-members-notorious-mob-arrested.html

More on the Casamonica clan.
Italian police search the gaudy homes of mafia mobsters as 31 members of Rome's notorious Casamonica clan are arrested in huge crackdown

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/18 12:07 AM

Fabio Giuseppe GioffrÃ¨, 39, was shot dead in the town of Seminara (Reggio Calabria); in the ambush was seriously injured a 10 years old boy. The GioffrÃ¨ clan was involved in a bloody feud.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/18 07:13 PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44873067

The mafia murders that brought down Slovakia's government

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/25/18 07:42 AM

Operation of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia, coordinated by the DDA reggina, with three arrests for homicide, port and possession of clandestine and war weapons, receiving stolen goods, committed with the mafia method and purposes.
The investigations made it possible to identify the instigators and perpetrators of the murder of Giuseppe Canale, a member of the Condello-Chirico gang, killed on 12 August 2011, in the middle of day by two vibonese killers hired by the Reggio group.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 01:34 AM

https://thevision.com/attualita/frutta-connection/

In this article this guy Silvio Aquino they say he is one of the biggest drug traffickers in Europe.. Then they say they had followed him for 8 months and they counted 2.4 ton cocaine he had bought for 21k euro and sold 28k... I mean this cant be a big shot in the game as they say? Are they exaggerating Ndranghetas "dominance" on cocaine as they are doing with guys like this..

Okey this guy wasnt in ndrangheta but he was Calabrian and had ties to them i think.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 01:48 AM

https://thevision.com/attualita/frutta-connection/

Okey this guy wasnt in ndrangheta but he was Calabrian and had ties to them i think.

The Aquino murder was ordered by a Neapolitan.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 02:01 AM

https://thevision.com/attualita/frutta-connection/

Okey this guy wasnt in ndrangheta but he was Calabrian and had ties to them i think.

The Aquino murder was ordered by a Neapolitan.

Interresting. But what do you think of my question? the whole exaggeration thing?

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 02:20 AM

ItÂ´s impossible to say so many groups involved in the european trade, for example the sicilians are making a comeback. In the South they are big but they rarely supply the northern markets.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 04:55 AM

@Hollander

Any group or clan in particular driving the Sicilian resurgence?

Also, is it primarily concentrated in Europe?
Or are there markets outside Europe (NYC, Canada,...) they have entered?

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 07:53 AM

@Hollander

Any group or clan in particular driving the Sicilian resurgence?

Also, is it primarily concentrated in Europe?
Or are there markets outside Europe (NYC, Canada,...) they have entered?

The latest DIA report said:

On a purely criminal level, the revival of the Palermitan clans coincided with the renewed interest of the Sicilian clans for drug trafficking. And increasingly Sicilian clans act in symbiosis with foreign criminal groups. In Sicily, tons of drugs come from all over the world, with sometimes unprecedented routes. From South America but also from Germany and Spain, Morocco and Lebanon, Greece, the Mediterranean.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 10:09 AM

If you happen to have a link, I would love to read that.....

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 11:44 AM

If you happen to have a link, I would love to read that.....

http://www.limesonline.com/carta-mafia-2018-dia-mandamenti-di-cosa-nostra-2/107166?refresh_ce

It speaks of a Mafia 2.0 that seems to be inspired by the doctrine of "sinking" desired by Bernardo Provenzano.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/18 12:31 PM

Hollander, my man I LOVE YOU, lol...

I've been trying to up my research game lately.... Guys like you and anti and ciment keep great post coming..

Thanks again, didnt expect such a fast reply

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/28/18 01:08 AM

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opi...of-a-new-war-against-the-rise-of-global/

Canada is on the frontline of a new war against the rise of global organized crime

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/28/18 02:49 PM

Hollander, my man I LOVE YOU, lol...

I've been trying to up my research game lately.... Guys like you and anti and ciment keep great post coming..

Thanks again, didnt expect such a fast reply

Thank you ....Cabrini !

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/29/18 04:07 PM

He died of natural causes, taking with him many of his secrets. Pietro Siclari, an entrepreneur of reference for the most important clans of Reggio Calabria. All his contacts matured and mediated in the reserved and secret context in which high 'ndrangheta and deviant freemasonry hold hands and mix and work together to manage relationships, contacts and business. Throughout his life he has managed to keep a low profile, weaving relationships and affairs in the shade with the greatest exponents of the 'Ndrangheta and the city politics, and even his death has managed to pass almost under track. The seizure of assets for over 142 million euro was performed against Siclari a few months ago.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/18 08:48 AM

Ndrangheta, 11 arrests in the Crotone area

July 30, 2018 8.32 The Carabinieri of the company of Petilia Policastro (Crotone), have performed in the area of â€‹â€‹Roccabernarda, an order for precautionary custody against 11 people held responsible, in various capacities, of mafia-type criminal association. The crimes found are: murder, imprisonment and illegal port of arms, extortion, stolen goods, ideological falsehood committed by public officials in public documents, abuse of office, various damage and killing of animals.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/01/18 11:05 AM

Arrested by the carabinieri the Calabrian boss Simone Cuppari, head of the namesake 'ndrina originally from Brancaleone (Reggio Calabria) and based in Francavilla al Mare (Chieti) from where he controls the traffic of drugs and recycling. Cuppari was wanted since February 2017, when it had escaped capture during the "Design" operation, coordinated by the district anti-mafia directorate of L'Aquila and conducted by the Carabinieri of the provincial Command of Chieti. The boss, already sentenced to 28 years, was tracked down and arrested in an anonymous house in the province of Bergamo.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/01/18 11:12 AM

Police arrested 14 members and associates of the Libri crime family, among the most powerful 'Ndrangheta clans in the city of Reggio Calabria. The inquiry started after the death of the boss Pasquale Libri in 2017 and it showed the new heads of the clan. In the police wiretaps Filippo Chirico, son-in-law of Pasquale Libri, talked about a 'cupola' formed by 7 bosses in order to run the city and led by the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano, strongly linked with the freemasons.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/01/18 03:30 PM

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...g-cardboard-splints-third-world-clinics/

Italian doctors using cardboard as splints in 'Third World' clinics of southern Italy

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/18 07:08 PM

45 people arrested, accused of mafia association, international drug trafficking, extortion and attempted murder, among others charges, on behalf of the Cacciola and Grasso clan in Rosarno mainly dealing in extortion and drug trafficking, importing cocaine from South America and hashish from Spain and Morocco. The drugs were mainly sold in Lombardy, Piedmont and Sicily. Four women, including a criminologist, had a leading role within the organization. Carabinieri believe that the criminologist, thanks to her profession, "was key in the dynamics" of the organization.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/18 11:12 AM

http://www.lepoint.fr/europe/italie...03-08-2018-2241337_2626.php#xtor=CS2-239

Italy: a well-known criminologist in cahoots with the mafia
Angela Tibullo, an expert in organized crime, has been arrested on suspicion of working for one of the most powerful mafias in Italy, reports "Le Parisien"

Aged 36, Angela Tibullo is one of the well-known faces of the fight against the Mafia in Italy . A renowned criminologist throughout the country for her fierce fight against the infamous Calabrian clans in the south of the country, she is an expert in Italian organized crime. Or at least was. Angela Tibullo was actually in cahoots with mafia she claimed to fight, reports Le Parisien .

The criminologist was arrested on Thursday as part of a crackdown by the investigating judge of the Reggio Calabria court. She is accused of being in the service of ' Ndrangheta, one of the most powerful mafias in the world . The justice suspects the expert to have set up a device of corruption making it possible to lighten the sentences of the godfathers of this Italian clan particularly dangerous and known for its cocaine traffic.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/06/18 09:03 AM

84 year old Giuseppe Morabito aka Â´u TiradrittuÂ´ considered the number one of the 'ndrangheta, wants to get out of jail.

https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/giuseppe-morabito-boss-1.4075834

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/07/18 09:56 AM

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/7060

Clash with suspected mafia boss halts Madonna festivities

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/08/18 10:55 PM

Funny, the cannabis seeds were purchased online by Emanuele Mancuso, the son of the boss Pantaleone, called the Engineer, who withdrew 26 thousand to plant them on family land and, waiting for them to become lush marijuana plants, they enjoyed their growth through the images of a drone that controlled, through a camera, even the phases of irrigation.

I think it was Skunk, a pretty good weed.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/12/18 10:06 PM

On a beach in Nicotera, Vibo Valentia between tourists and swimmers Francesco Timpano, 45 years old and with a history of drug- related offenses, was shot dead. He was involved in drug trafficking managed by Emanuele Mancuso, today a collaborator of justice and son of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso known by the nickname of "Engineer".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/18/18 10:44 AM

The boss of the 'ndrangheta Luigi Abbruzzese, 29, was arrested at dawn today in Cassano dello Jonio (Cosenza), by the State Police. Abbruzzese, included in the list of most dangerous fugitives, is the head of the homonymous cosca, hegemon in Sibaritide. He was convicted on 20 years' appeal for drug trafficking. At the time of capture he had 2 guns, ammo and a fake document.
The Abbruzzese are a huge clan of Gipsy origin.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/07/18 05:41 PM

The Carabinieri sent a squadron Hunters to San Luca for security at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi, the pilgrimage to Polsi has ancient origins and is still very important. Hundreds of thousands of worshipers from all over Calabria and Eastern Sicily come to honour the Madonna, a token of faith to pay at least once in oneâ€™s lifetime. But in September the bosses of the 'Ndrangheta, hold annual meetings in San Luca, at these meetings, every boss must give account of all the activities carried out during the year and of all the most important facts taking place in his territory. The capo crimine, who is elected every year, is in charge of convening these meetings.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/15/18 06:27 AM

Angelo Tutino, reference point of the 'ndrangheta Rosarnese according to numerous investigations, was arrested in the nineties, but recently released from prison. Tutino is nephew of the old boss of Rosarno Giuseppe Pesce, called 'nail', and from 1996/97 he began his
criminal career with the support of his uncle Giuseppe Iennaci, starting with the scams of oranges. According to journalist Klaus Davi, Tutino, still completely free, would have benefited thanks to the strategy of the low profile and the unfiltered position that in some way would have preserved it, at least for now, from the attention of the public opinion.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/18 11:33 AM

'Ndrangheta: the memorial of the boss Lo Giudice confirms the agreement with Cosa Nostra in the attack on the State

Notizia tratta da: https://www.ciavula.it/2018/09/ndrangheta-memoriale-boss-conferma-attacco/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/20/18 09:17 PM

Italian police on Thursday seized 14 water purification plants in the Reggio Calabria area for breaking environmental rules. Some 53 people including Reggio Calabria Mayor Giuseppe FalcomatÃ were placed under investigation. "It's a worrying picture" said prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/20/18 10:37 PM

Beautiful, bloody music.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/18 08:48 AM

Italy's famed anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri could swing his focus to Australia after receiving a secret dossier of alleged Calabrian organised crime. The Mafia files detail 'Ndranghetaâ€™s hold on Australia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/18 10:12 AM

Italian police on Friday arrested three people on suspicion of murdering a 'Ndrangheta boss in a hit near Reggio Calabria last July.
Domenico Fioramonte, 41, the alleged hitman, and Giuseppe Domenico LaganÃ ComandÃ©, 20, and Saverio Rocco Santaiti, 58, were arrested for the murder of Fabio Giuseppe GioffrÃ¨, a livestock farmer and the leader of the GioffrÃ¨ clan, on July 21. Police said the murder was a reaction to a series of extortions by the clan. A 10-year-old Bulgarian boy was hurt in the hit. Santaiti is a member of the historic 'ndrina who ruled Seminara.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/18 11:35 AM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...alabrian-Mafia-entrenched-Australia.html

Drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion: How Italy's feared Calabrian Mafia became entrenched in Australia

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/18 12:45 PM

https://fr.sputniknews.com/international/201809211038179353-mafia-france-criminalite/

France is drowning in cocaine

The increasing number of cocaine seizures in France indicates that traffickers are redoubling their efforts to satisfy growing demand. What are their networks? How to fight them? Fabrice Rizzoli, a specialist in serious crime and David-Olivier Reverdy, Alliance's national investigative referent, spoke to Sputnik.

September 15th, port of Le Havre. Intrigued by a container from South America that they targeted for "suspicion of transport of narcotics", the French customs had a thin nose. It is not less than 752 kilos that will not end up in consumers' nostrils after the authorities have discovered them in several sports bags. A catch of an "exceptional" quantity, according to the Ministry of the Action and the Public Accounts. Yet this kind of "police success" may well become a habit.

According to the figures of the annual report of the Information, Intelligence and Strategic Analysis of Organized Crime Service (SIRASCO) of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ), the seizures of white powder have increased by 105 % in 2017 to reach 17 tonnes. Traffickers seem to work hard to satisfy more and more consumers in France. According to the French Observatory of Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT), cocaine has 2.2 million "experimenters" and 450,000 "users" regular in France. Increasing numbers But who makes all these tons come in?

By sea, land and air

According to several sources, the Ndrangheta , named after the Calabrian mafia, would have made the cocaine business in Europe thanks to the alliances it has forged with the cartels of South America. A journalist from France 24 wrote in 2013 that "it would control 80% of the importation of white powder into Europe". "With the support of the South American cartels, the Calabrian mafia is hand-in-hand on the cocaine trade in Europe, of which it holds the quasi-monopoly today", launched last March Franceinfo. This criminal network, born in the poorest region of Italy, would it snow and good weather in France? Certainly not, for Fabrice Rizzoli, specialist in organized crime, corruption and economic crime and professor at Science-Po:

"I totally dispute these numbers. The drug market is so complex, so huge, there are so many drugs and consumers, how do you think that only one criminal organization controls even 80% of the importation into Europe? It's totally impossible, it's a pipe. It would take important work, academic, transversal between journalists, researchers and why law enforcement to really shed light on the drug trafficking, which is done very little in France unlike countries like the Italy."

Drug authorities are targeting three main routes of entry for cocaine into France. The sea comes first. Just for the port of Le Havre, in 2017, no less than 3.5 tons were seized. This is far from the 42 tons of the port of Antwerp in Belgium, but the container ships are not the only ones to load the "white".

"The sources are multiple. Sometimes we see cocaine transport vessels under the French flag. The drugs transit a lot by some overseas departments, such as the French West Indies or Guyana, "said David-Olivier Reverdy, national investigative reference Alliance Alliance police.

In early September, a French-flagged sailboat was intercepted in the Azores archipelago by Portuguese police. On board? 840 kilos of cocaine. In July, French customs discovered a ton and a half of "white powder" in a sailboat off Martinique.

"French organized crime is quite capable of carrying out cocaine trafficking. This includes both the crooks of the Corsican milieu and the men of the cities. They have relays in the Caribbean, where are Guadeloupe or Martinique.
Traffickers can easily recruit tourists, adventurers, globe-trotters or people who have gambling debts and that we will push to carry cocaine to Europe with sailboats for example. You can see a lot of seizures on French boats, especially on the site crimorg.com which I recommend reading daily to my students, "says Fabrice Rizzoli.

The organized crime specialist is also targeting vehicle procurement from the Netherlands. According to him, it would feed a large part of the traffic, especially in the cities:

"You also have another sector in Rotterdam, which remains the first port in Northern Europe for the entry of narcotics and especially cocaine. Several types of smugglers will provide, including residents of difficult neighborhoods, who will then distribute it in the cities. I am convinced that this phenomenon is very important and that a multitude of these individuals feed the French market. "

To sort through all these traffickers who buy in the Netherlands, Fabrice Rizzoli divides the "smugglers" or smugglers into several profiles, depending on the quantity purchased. The "consumer-resellers" who buy for about 30 grams and decide to keep some for their own pleasure and sell the other. The "small semi-wholesalers" who will supply themselves for 100 or 200 grams and finally the "semi-wholesalers" who leave with half a kilo. "Then they bring it back to all the cities of France whether in Chartres, Evreux, Paris, Brittany or elsewhere," he continues.

Air transport is also to be watched for the authorities. In 2017, 1.7 tons were seized by the only national police at airports and the majority of aircraft came from the French territories of the Caribbean and Guyana. These overseas departments, close to the main producing countries of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, are considered as "rebound zones" towards the metropolis. SIRASCO reports that 608 smugglers, including 250 "mules" who had ingested the drug were arrested at the departure or arrival of Guyana last year

But French traffickers sometimes do business with powerful criminal organizations that are likely to benefit from their connections in South America. If Fabrice Rizzoli refuses to make the Calabrian mafia the main supplier of cocaine in France, he does not deny the implication:

"The Calabrian mafia plays its role, but more through joint ventures with French organized crime. That is to say, the Ndrangheta is not the entity that pours tons of cocaine into France, but the one that seals alliances. You have four or five French clans who put money together and call on individuals from the Calabrian diaspora in France, especially in the south-east, before ending up in Spain and importing cocaine. "

Several cases of this type have shaken Provence in recent years. In February 2017, fourteen people appeared before the Criminal Court of Marseille . In question? A drug trade between the Caribbean and the PACA region that involved local thugs and individuals suspected of being close to the Calabrian mafia.

Other data that adds to the complexity of the problem: the diversification of traffic. Many criminal groups who had built their wealth on the sale of cannabis gave in to the white sirens, attracted by larger profits, as David-Olivier Reverdy recalls:

"This diversification of traffic is a big problem for us. These networks become established and in many cases the trafficking of cocaine can be paralleled with that of cannabis, which are often managed by the same individuals. This reflects a diversified supply of traffickers, but it also means more competition for market share. "

The ex-laboratory price in South America is around 1,000 euros per kilogram. In France, on the market of half-big, it exchanges on average with 30.000 euros. What to whet appetites. In Marseille alone, 29 people lost their lives in 2016 in settling accounts, mostly related to drug trafficking. 14 last year. On September 17, a 16-year-old was killed in a shootout in Saint-Denis. According to city councilor StÃ©phane Peu who spoke to our colleagues Franceinfo , the area of â€‹â€‹the drama is a place known for drug trafficking.

Is the war on drugs lost?

How does the police fight against these trafficking? If, unsurprisingly, David-Olivier Reverdy refused to go into details, he gave us some information on the subject:

"We rely heavily on informants, the so-called" uncle "jargon. It is also a real ant work to bring back the information through wiretapping, the crossroads of records. Sometimes, we can also be lucky and fall on documents that are left by small dealers fleeing and that will allow us to go back tracks and get their hands on larger networks.
We also have contacts in South America, notably via the Central Office for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugsin the Caribbean, intelligence officers, liaison officers. It is also thanks to the international cooperation that takes place between the different police of the world. There is bound to be information circulating between states. "

Cooperation that seems more important than ever. South America is still producing more cocaine. Colombia remains the world's leading producer with 171,000 hectares in 2017 (+ 17% compared to 2016) for an estimated production capacity of 1,379 tonnes (+ 31%). The market value of such a stock is $ 2.7 billion. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this is a record since the organization began its measurements in 2001.

"There is a war on drugs and more cocaine is being produced. When coca production goes down, technological advances make it possible to make more cocaine with fewer leaves. And then you have effects of communicating vessels. When you make war on a particular cartel in one country or another, and you manage to reduce production for a while, it increases in another country. The war on drugs does not work. It is lost, "says Fabrice Rizzoli.

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It snows on France ... The market of the cocaine in full explosion
An article in Le Monde, dated 2016, estimated the expenses of the fight against drugs and its trafficking at 1,000 billion dollars (883 billion euros) per year. According to the daily newspaper, the narcotrafic generates a turnover of 300 billion dollars globally. In 1998, at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the slogan "A world without drugs: we can do it" was launched. 18 years later, at the session held in New York from 19 to 21 April, the tone was for the recognition of defeat and a shift towards less repression and more prevention.
"The war on drugs is absolutely not lost. It is not because we can not stop a traffic that we have to give up. Tomorrow what? We will legalize because we are unable to stop the traffic and the settling of accounts that result? Because we can not end the struggles for drug sales and greed? We are talking about miraculous amounts amassed by the traffickers. Legalization is the weapon of those who abandon the fight, "says David-Olivier Reverdy. He appeals in particular to the public authorities:

"To give ourselves the means is not to be afraid to carry out controls at all costs, especially on container ships in ports or cities when the drug has already arrived at its destination. It is also possible to complete territories, to build files much more easily. It is also to provide legal and legislative means in terms of criminal law and procedure, to simplify the work of the investigators and not to make it more complex as at present we tend to do so. Finally, it is to pronounce very strong penalties for the traffickers without possibility of development or delivery.

On 20 September, a major network of "coke" traffic was dismantled in Marseille. Ten people were arrested. A manufacturing laboratory was also discovered in an apartment in the northern neighborhoods of Marseille, as well as 12 kilos of cocaine, three handguns and 400,000 euros, including 200 in cash.
The interregional director of the judicial police, Eric Arella, welcomed it at a press conference: "This is the largest cocaine trafficking dismantled since the beginning of the year in the Bouches-du-RhÃ´ne. But it's certainly not the last.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/24/18 08:16 AM

A vast operation of the Carabinieri has been underway since the early hours of this morning, in execution of a detention issued by the DDA against members of the Â´ndrangheta of Sinopoli, accused of mafia-type association, extortion, fraud aggravated, fraudulent transfer of values, aggravated by the mafia method and purposes.
Also arrested the mayor of Delianuova, Francesco Rossi, elected 3 years ago. According to the investigators, he would have been in all respects involved in the Alvaro clan whose main illegal enrichment activities would have been linked to public works contracts. The investigations of the police have shed light on the criminal interests of the Alvaro, one of the most aggressive groups of the Tyrrhenian mandamento of 'ndrangheta reggina, able to infiltrate public bodies and local governments to influence their choices and illegally procure public procurement and funding. In all 18 people were arrested.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/24/18 04:58 PM

TodayÂ´s arrests from the Alvaro family.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/24/18 09:07 PM

A farmhouse served as the nerve center of the Alvaros. At the ScifÃ farmhouse, the presence of exponents of the province of Reggio Calabria was recorded, such as the "PELLE-Gambazza" of San Luca, the "MOLLICA" of Africo, the "RUGOLINO" of Catona, "TETTO" of Natile di Careri, "CONDELLO" of Varapodio, "CALLEA of Orti," MORABITO "(" DE STEFANO ") of Archi," SCOPELLITI " of Melia di Scilla, the" GUADAGNINO "and PAPALIAâ€ of Delianuova, â€œMAZZAGATTIâ€ of Oppido Mamertina and â€œLAROSAâ€ of Giffone.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/25/18 12:43 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/25/18 10:04 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...82609d5-9ad6-480a-998b-52a7ced42b80.html

Priest nabbed for judge threats
'Stay away from windows, they know where son goes to school'

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/26/18 09:14 AM

Rocco Barbaro, 46, was arrested by the Carabinieri in Careri. Barbaro, a resident in the Milan hinterland, has to serve four years for extortion and robbery on behalf of the Â´ndrangheta.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/18 10:11 AM

Last week the officers of the police station of Bovalino (Rc) arrested Paolo Nirta, 41, of San Luca (Rc), already a fugitive, considered a leading exponent of the gang Nirta-Strangio, operating in the center aspromontano and in the surrounding areas.
During the subsequent search, the police found and seized cocaine weighing 521 grams.
The search was extended to the man's home, where a Beretta caliber 9 short pistol with an abraded serial number, 150 cartridges of different caliber and other material was found and seized.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/18 09:26 AM

Italian police on Tuesday arrested five suspected members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia in Milan on suspicion of drug trafficking and extortion. The five allegedly brutally beat a Milan businessman to make him cough up last year.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/05/18 08:42 AM

Bishop Francesco Oliva of Locri-Gerace calls on Â´ndrangheta members to renounce the culture of death and the obligation to keep silent.
Pentiti who renounce their Mafia past can receive a relief this weekend when they go on pilgrimage to the popular Marian Sanctuary of Nostra Signora dello Scoglio in Calabria. According to ecclesiastical law, on that occasion they must ask for forgiveness of sins in a personal confession, receive the communion and pray for the pope.

The indulgence for temporary sins was announced by Bishop Francesco Oliva of Locri-Gerace. With his initiative, he wants to encourage members of the Mafia to break any ties with the crime organization and turn away from the culture of death, which has signed their lives in the past as a mafia. Such a mentality is at odds with the Christian faith, according to the bishop.

The region of the Marian Sanctuary is one where the 'Ndrangheta , the Calabrian mafia, is the most active.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/05/18 09:47 PM

Amazing video Hollander , enjoyed every second of it! Thank you for sharing. There is also episode about Paolo DI Lauro , but no english subtitles

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/10/18 09:48 AM

Italians should have supplied Swiss weapons for the Ndrangheta â€"
switzerland Nation, switzerland

On Tuesday, the federal correctional court asked a member of the Calabrian Ndrangheta by means of a videoconference as witnesses. The man provided details about the role of the accused before the Federal Criminal Court.

The witness confirmed individual points of indictment, but not the membership of the suspect in the Ndrangheta. The man from Calabria sat in a courtroom in Calabria during the interrogation. He was only filmed from behind. The man is currently serving a long prison sentence.

Hide weapons in the car

He confirmed that the defendant had grown up with the large, historic families of the Ndrangheta â€" but without being a member of the Mafia. The suspect used to have nightclubs and betting salons.

The witness is a friend and compatriot of the accused. He confirmed that he had illegally bought weapons in Switzerland at the request of the Lombard Ndrangheta. The defendant then transported part of it to Calabria itself.

"He dismantled the weapons and hid them in the car he used for these transports," said the witness. There was always a strategy for the transport of weapons from Switzerland to Italy, the man specified.

He also confirmed that the defendant was assisting the Mafia and guarding the drug trade for guarding hemp fields in the Canton of Bern.

Process in Italian

On Tuesday, the lawsuit against the 61-year-old defendant began at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. He had previously explicitly demanded that the trial be conducted in Italian because he spoke no other language. The man who lives in the Canton of Bern is accused, among other things, of participating in a criminal organization.

The married family man himself comes from Calabria. The federal prosecutor's office (BA) accuses him of having been involved in various actions of the Ndrangheta in Switzerland and Italy in the period from 2003 to 2011.

The Italian is still accused of participating in numerous meetings of the Ndrangheta in Lombardy and Calabria â€" at reception ceremonies of new Mafia members. In 2003 and 2004 he had been actively involved in operations of the Calabrian mafia, who came in and around Turin to take bloody actions.

The suspect must also answer for the transport of several kilos of cocaine and hashish for violations of the narcotics law. (Sep / SDA)

Created: 09.10.2018, 14:18

https://navva.org/switzerland/nation/italians-should-have-supplied-swiss-weapons-for-the-ndrangheta/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/10/18 11:01 AM

The boss Rocco Papalia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/11/18 11:37 AM

'Ndrangheta Lombardy capo gets 16 yrs
Rocco Barbaro convicted of mafia association

(ANSA) - Milan, October 10 - Rocco Barbaro, the capo dei capi of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangeta mafia in Lombardy, got 16 years in jail for mafia association on Wednesday.
Barbaro, 53, nicknamed U Sparuto (The Disappeared) for his life on the run from a narcotrafficking charge, operated out of a bar he owned in Milan, not far from the famed Duomo.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/11/18 02:11 PM

'Ndrangheta Lombardy capo gets 16 yrs
Rocco Barbaro convicted of mafia association

The Barbaro-Papalia clan has been the most powerful in the north for decades, he's a son of the godfather Francesco Barbaro. His father was sentenced to life three years ago at the age of 88!
His sister married Giuseppe Pelle, one of the four sons of Antonio Pelle, the 'Ndrangheta boss from San Luca, securing a tight alliance between these two powerful families. The marriage was attended by 2,000 people. Giuseppe Pelle was captured in April.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/18 05:24 PM

Process Aemilia, the repentant Valerio: "La 'ndrangheta is reorganizing"
From Iacchite - 11 October 2018

The tones used are as usual histrionics and over the top, but they do not make the messages lighter. Antonio Valerio , volcanic collaborator of justice and a key witness to the prosecution in the maxi Aemilia trial against the 'Ndrangheta, and' returned this morning to take the floor to reply to the lawyers of the accused, who during the whole phase of the preliminary investigation tried to to demolish its credibility.

Reading for more than an hour a memorial (that will deliver to the judges) Valerio instead points out the unassailability of his reconstruction of the underworld association rooted in Reggio Emilia and dependent on the Grande Aracri family of Cutro . But moreover, talking about the "past, present and future of the 'ndrangheta in Reggio Emilia", hypothesizes possible scenarios that do not leave peacefully. First of all, accepting the definition of "Pythagorean" that a defense lawyer has given him, Valerio says of himself: " I am sure that even Tommaso Buscetta would get up from the coffin to congratulate Valerio because he was a regret too far ahead for the mafia of that historical period. Today is the same historical moment of the 'ndrangheta here in Reggio Emilia and the voids of wonder and amazement and bewilderment, like those of the first men who looked at the world Valerio filled them with the guide and with the truth ".

Where there was a murder, underlines the repentant, "I put names and surnames, authors and facts as they took place. On the association I have made hundreds of names and surnames of participants in the 'ndrangheta ", with evidence" precise serious and concordant and not only for the blood facts of '92 ". But today there is a new phase, summarizing, that of a 'ndrangheta in Reggio Emilia "autonomous, evolved and technological".

A 'ndrangheta "5.0" in which "the old dogmas and the new go hand in hand but it is the new one that advances". Hence the warning from Valerio: " Do not deceive yourself that the 'Ndrangheta ended with the Aemilia operation. It is reorganizing itself with new methods and there is no lack of young talent. I myself met at least twenty in the Muto brothers 'Revolution' bar . In Reggio Emilia you are all, no one excluded, under a stage of siege and subjugation 'ndranghetistico that has no equal because even the terrorists did not come so much. Nothing's finished ".

Valerio continues: "The power does not give up and the command line is there. After Carmine Sarcone there is Beppe (Giuseppe) Sarcone and the Amato (Alfredo and Francesco, sinti imputed in the trial) create instability in the coterie, but they can wait, they have to wait. Or they have to shoot if they want the command like we did cutres in '90 ". According to the collaborator then "now the women are in charge of this association since their husbands brothers and sisters-in-law are in prison" and "the apartments in exchange are the cryptocurrency expendable cash of the 'ndragheta. Better than bit coins ". Valerio also mentions why he fired his previous defender Alessandro Falciani: "I did not share anything of his line and he was removed".

Finally, he throws a jab to the defendants, who have been defended several times claiming to be discriminated against their southern origins: "Our origins are not discriminating - Valerio speculates - but what we are: mafiosi and 'ndranghetisti and damn organized"

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/18 11:06 PM

Police arrested 15 members of the 'Ndrangheta 'locale' based in the town of Lonate Pozzolo, in the northern province of Varese (Lombardy),

Like we have seen before in some places the boss Emanuele De Castro is a Sicilian from Palermo.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/18 11:15 PM

Police arrested 15 members of the 'Ndrangheta 'locale' based in the town of Lonate Pozzolo, in the northern province of Varese (Lombardy),

Like we have seen before in some places the boss Emanuele De Castro is a Sicilian from Palermo.

Boss of 'Ndrangheta locale is Sicilian ? Is he made both into Sicilian Mafia & 'Ndrangheta ?

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/18 11:58 PM

Police arrested 15 members of the 'Ndrangheta 'locale' based in the town of Lonate Pozzolo, in the northern province of Varese (Lombardy),

Like we have seen before in some places the boss Emanuele De Castro is a Sicilian from Palermo.

Boss of 'Ndrangheta locale is Sicilian ? Is he made both into Sicilian Mafia & 'Ndrangheta ?

He was in Â´68 born in Palermo, but emigrated to northern Italy so he was probably only inducted over there in the Â´ndrangheta, his son Salvatore is also involved.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/18 07:37 AM

The police in the Dominican Republic arrested Marcello Battigaglia, 75, considered the promoter of a criminal association active in Lombardy and dedicated to the import of large quantities of cocaine. The investigations made it possible to ascertain that he was in contact with Calabrian and Latin American criminal groups. He managed cocaine traffic to Italy, in particular to the provinces of Milan, Monza and Como .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/18 08:31 AM

In Rome a leader of the Italian crime organization 'Ndrangheta was arrested. Filippo Morgante (48) had been a fugitive for a year. He is considered one of the leaders of the Gallico mafia family. Morgante still has to serve a prison sentence of eighteen years for membership of a criminal organization, forbidden possession of weapons, drug trafficking and intimidation.

"Gangsters have to rot in prison," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said in response to the arrest.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/18 09:45 AM

Juventus wiretaps revealed

An investigative report explains how Juventus ultras came to be involved in a trial for alleged mafia ticket touting.

https://www.football-italia.net/129674/juventus-wiretaps-revealed

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/23/18 09:25 PM

New blow to the clan Barbaro-Papalia. The Carabinieri have executed in Milan, Como and Reggio Calabria an order for custody against 10 Italians and 4 Moroccans held responsible, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking and in particular cocaine. The investigations are directed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Milan and have made it possible to ascertain that the group, set up and organized by 4 brothers managed the cocaine shop using a dense network of Maghreb pushers.
Four members of the family with the same surname: Francesco Barbaro , 32 years old (already in prison for another story); Giuseppe Barbaro , 24-year-old, Salvatore Barbaro, a 30-year-old, and Antonio Barbaro, 33 years old. The latter is considered the leading figure of the organization after the arrest of his brother Francesco. The military captured Antonio and Salvatore Barbaro on the Austrian border, Giuseppe was taken from his apartment in Buccinasco, in the Milan area.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/18 10:11 AM

'Ndrangheta, 8 arrests in Milan for three murders between 2008 and 2010: one was the boss Carmelo Novella. The men are held responsible for the murders of Novella, Antonio Tedesco and Rocco Stagno, belonging to the 'locale' of Seregno-Giussano and killed between 2008 and 2010 in the provinces of Milan and Como.
Thanks to the statements of the collaborator of justice, Antonio Belnome, the head of the 'locale' of Giussano, the investigations had allowed to discover that the murder of Carmelo Novella, head of Lombardy, had happened to block his attempt to emancipate from the province of Reggio Calabria.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/18 03:37 PM

Soccer player Vincenzo Iaquinta has been sentenced to two years in prison. The 40-fold international of Italy was convicted on Wednesday because of illegal possession of weapons. The former striker was also accused of ties with the 'ndrangheta, but this has not been proven. His father Giuseppe is convicted of his ties with the mafia and disappears behind bars for nineteen years. When the verdict was heard the family made a scene and people spoke shame of the punishments. "This is impossible, they ruin my life on the basis of nothing at all, it is purely because I come from Cutro in Calabria, I suffer as a dog for my family and children, but I did not do anything."

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/18 09:52 PM

118 terms for over 1,200 yrs in 'Ndrangheta trial

(ANSA) - Reggio Emilia, October 31 - A Reggio Emilia court on Wednday handed down 118 prison terms totalling over 1,200 years in a major trial into the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia's infiltration of the Emilian economy.
The longest term was 21 years and eight months, for Carmine Belfiore. Others convicted included Gaetano Blasco (21 years), Michele Bolognino (20 years and 7 months) and Giuseppe Iaquinta (19 year), a businessman and father of former Italy striker Vincenzo Iaquinta. In ethe fast-track trial, judges gave 16 years and 4 months to Gianluigi Sarcone, and 16 years to both Palmo and Giuseppe Vertinelli.
There were another 24 terms amounting to some 325 years, for crimes committed from jail during the trial.
The sentences corresponded largely to prosecutors' requests.
The trial established there was a large and well-established 'Ndrangheta cell in northern Italy and particularly in the Emilia region around Bologna.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/18 08:22 AM

Italian mob boss of 'Ndrangheta dies in prison at 91
ByRenzo Pipoli

View of the Calabrian countryside. The 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization based in Calabria, was traditionally more rural than the Sicilian Mafia and Naples Camorra. The historic leader of the 'Ndrangheta, Francesco Barbaro, died this week. Photo courtesy of valtercirillo/pixabay

Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Francesco Barbaro, the historic boss of the global 'Ndrangheta crime organization based in southern Italy, died Thursday night in prison while serving time over the killing of a police official.

Barbaro, known as "Ciccio 'u Castanu" and the oldest inmate in Italy, died at 91 in a prison in Parma, about 280 miles north of Rome, Gazzetta di Parma reported Friday. He was imprisoned for the 1990 killing of Brigadier Antonino Marino, but previously did a prison stint of more than two decades for kidnapping.

Authorities said "he lead the most powerful and important division of the Calabrian 'ndrangheta."

His son, Rocco, was arrested in May 2017 and was sentenced on Oct. 10 on charges of leading drug trafficking activities between Italy and South America. Another son was recently released from prison due to health issues.

He "was adored like a relic" by great-grandchildren now living throughout the world, Gazzetta di Parma reported.

The 'Ndrangheta is a mafia-like organization based in Calabria, a region of southern Italy. It has in recent history operated independently of the Sicilian Mafia.

Other known organized crime organizations are the Camorra, based in Naples, and the Sacra Corona Unita, in the region of Puglia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/18 08:25 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/18 12:42 PM

https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/02...-is-infiltrating-countries-across-europe

How Italy's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia group is infiltrating countries across Europe

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/18 12:43 PM

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...-politics-on-behalf#.W919eumEC9M.twitter

â€˜Ndrangheta leader Giuseppe Pelle ran regional politics on behalf of Calabrian Mafia

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/05/18 07:33 PM

Cops negotiate end to post office siege
'Ndrangheta convict had held four people in Reggio Emilia

(ANSA) - Bologna, November 5 - Police on Monday ended a post office siege in Reggio Emilia by talking down the hostage taker, an 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia convict.
They took him out after he let them in to the premises following negotiations.
Shortly before the cops were allowed in, the man, Francesco Amato, had let two of his four hostages go.
When they reappeared with Amato, the police were given a round of applause by the people present at the scene.
"He opened the door, let the hostages out and then handed himself over to us," said Reggio Emilia provincial Carabinieri commander, Colonel Cristiano Desideri.
The siege had lasted eight hours. The four women who had been taken hostage were said to be unharmed.
Asked what had persuaded Amato to give in, Desideri said "time, patience and dialogue with the negotiators, who made him understand that he could not get what he wanted", that is a meeting with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
Initially there were five hostages, but a 54-year-old cashier was let go almost immediately after she had a bad turn and was treated by an emergency medical team.
Amato was convicted last week in the sprawling 'Aemilia' trial on 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia infiltration in the Emilia region. He holed up in the post office early on Monday, taking staff hostage with a knife, local sources said.
Amato allowed all the customers out of the branch before taking hostage five female staff including the woman director.
Police blocked roads and started negotiating, sources told reporters.
After about an hour one of the five hostages, the cashier, was let out of the branch. She fainted as soon as she got out and was treated by an emergency medical team Amato had been on the run since last week's conclusion of the 'Aemilia' trial which handed down 118 sentences totalling over 1,200 years in jail, including the father of former soccer player Vincenzo Iaquinta, who got 19 years.
Iaquinta himself got two years for weapons possession but was cleared of mafia charges.
Amato also got 19 years and has been on the run since the sentence, police said.
Entering the post office, he reportedly said "I'm the one who got 19 years in Aemilia".
He then allegedly threatened those present, saying "I'm going to kill you all".
He was reportedly brandishing a kitchen knife.
If negotiations with Amato had proved fruitless, police said they would have sent in special forces.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...67e59a4-36a9-4f98-ba21-63262a4dc977.html

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/07/18 10:02 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/18 09:30 AM

Carabinieri arrested Antonio Callipari, 25 year old linked by kinship ties to the Nirta "Versu" clan of San Luca and escaped arrest in September 2017, as part of the " Unknown 23 " operation. The wanted person was captured in the early afternoon of Friday, in San Luca in a house from which he attempted in vain escape from a rear exit.
Callipari , according to investigators, would be the "promoter" of the illicit activities of the organization, and is also accused of having committed traffic with the constant availability of weapons . He would also coordinate the supply of cocaine and other drugs from Calabria to Lombardy , using self-equipped double-bottoms, capable of handling up to 50 kilos of coke weekly .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/18 08:13 AM

The soldiers of the economic-financial police unit of the Catanzaro finance guard, coordinated and directed by the public prosecutor's office, arrested 24 people in Catanzaro and Lamezia Terme (12 in custody and 12 under house arrest) belonging to a gang of 'ndrangheta and public administrators and seized assets for a value of ten million euro. The details of the operation will be illustrated by the prosecutor of the republic Nicola Gratteri.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/18 10:01 AM

Huge operation against online gambling, 68 arrests in Reggio Calabria, Catania and Bari. ItÂ´s the new frontier in the fight against the mafia. Assets worth a billion were seized, the famous clans from Calabria, Puglia and Catania control the business of 4.5 billion euros.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/18 05:36 PM

From the first light of dawn, an imposing international police operation is underway, coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-terrorism Directorate, which sees jointly employed by the Guardia di Finanza, the
State Police , the Carabinieri and the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the capture of 68 criminals. organized in Puglia, Calabria and Sicily and in the seizure of assets for 1 billion euro in Italy and in many foreign countries.

The alleged offenses are all attributable to the mafia association, the fraudulent transfer of values, to money laundering and self-laundering, to the illegal collection of online bets and the related fraudulent subtraction of the tax revenues from the relative earnings. The ongoing repressive activity comes to the end of complex investigations, delegated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorates. of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bari, Reggio Calabria and Catania and regards criminal groups that had read and controlled, with mafia methods, the lucrative market of illegal collection of bets on sporting events and not, for a volume of bets greater than 4.5 billions of euros on various online platforms managed by criminal associations. The substantial accumulated earnings, monitored by the Guardia di Finanza, they were then reinvested in real estate assets and financial positions abroad, in the name of persons, foundations and companies, screened with the complicity of a comfortable name. The seizure orders in Italy and abroad are being implemented on these assets, thanks also to the fundamental collaboration of the Authorities
Judicial authorities from Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Netherlands, CuraÃ§ao, Serbia, Albania, Spain and Malta, as well as the Eurojust Cooperation Unit. Details of the operation will be announced during a press conference at 11 am, at the offices of the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-terrorism Directorate, in via Giulia, 52 in Rome, in the presence of the National Prosecutor and the District Prosecutors Bari, Reggio Calabria and Catania.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/16/18 09:27 AM

Camorra and 'ndrangheta in Massa-Carrara: 7 arrested for extortion
The criminal group thrown out by the carabinieri is accused of activating a turn of extortion against at least three people, including entrepreneurs and bank managers, in Lunigiana. Two suspects are close to the Camorra and a third person to the 'Ndrangheta.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/28/18 11:42 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/02/18 09:26 AM

The jailing of an Italian restaurateur for money laundering proves that mob activity from Calabria has reached Britain.

Edoardo Archetta first opened the folding doors of his Italian restaurant, Bucci, at 195 Balham High Road in south London, 33 years ago. Over time, it became the kind of establishment that completes a neighbourhood, that â€œlittle place I knowâ€, loved by regulars for its homely preparations of risotto ai funghi and calamari al balsamico, and for how it seemed to embody a quality so elusive in restaurants, and even in life: authenticity.

So it is anyoneâ€™s guess how Bucciâ€™s patrons digested the news from Southwark crown court earlier this year that Archetta, the man who up until that point had run their favourite bistro, was also the linchpin in a mammoth smuggling and money-laundering operation for the worldâ€™s most powerful and murderously ruthless mafia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/02/18 09:44 AM

Italians Andrea Petraglia, 43, Sergio Franco-Carlevero, 50, Gaetano Di Bello, 53, and 46-year-old Edoardo Archetta funnelled the money through a bureau de change in Paddington, west London. Southwark Crown Court heard the millions of pounds were made through the sale of illegal alcohol on the black market.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/03/18 08:28 PM

ndrangheta is not in asia, that's gratteri fantasy
nigerian mafia is the only present on all continents

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/04/18 03:40 PM

Balham bistro used to launder dirty money by notorious Italian Mafia group 'NdrÃ ngheta

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk...otorious-italian-mafia-group-ndrangheta/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/05/18 07:38 AM

Major police action underway here in Holland, Italy, Germany and Belgium against the 'ndrangheta. More to follow..

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/05/18 08:03 AM

About 100 arrested !

It concerns dozens of raids in the Netherlands, but more information can not yet be provided by a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service.

In Germany, the raids are focused on the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the mafia has traditionally had a large presence. There were also raids in Bavaria and Thuringia. The raids follow years of investigative work, which also involved officers from Switzerland. The raids are coordinated by the EU's Judicial Cooperation Unit, Eurojust.

In Germany, it's the biggest police operation against a mafia clan by German police on German soil, Der Spiegel news magazine reported. Germany's counter-terrorism unit GSG9 is also involved in the operation. Around 100 locations were raided, among them pizza restaurants, German daily Bild reports.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/05/18 01:03 PM

Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia hit by huge international sweep

Police arrested dozens of people in Europe and South America in a "decisive hit" against Italy's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia group, officials said Thursday.

The international sweep involved police in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium working together against the powerful organised crime syndicate based in southern Italy.

The group was involved in "cocaine trafficking, money laundering, bribery and violence", the European judicial agency Eurojust said in a statement.

It said the operation codenamed "Pollino" followed an investigation that began in 2016, adding that it would give more details at a press conference in The Hague later.

Italian police said 90 people had been arrested so far in the operation targeting the 'Ndrangheta group and its "projections across South America."

The vast anti-mafia operation was carried out by Italy's anti-mafia and anti-terrorism force in collaboration with German, Belgian and Dutch authorities, it said.

Italian media said key organised crime family members were targeted.

The European police agency Europol said it was a "decisive hit against one of the most powerful Italian criminal networks in the world."

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, who is Italian, sent "congraulations" to the police forces involved, adding: "Europe fights 'Ndrangheta criminal groups."

- 'Operates on all continents' -

The 'Ndrangheta -- which derives its meaning from the Greek word for "heroism" -- is made up of numerous village and family-based clans in Calabria, the rural, mountainous and under-developed "toe" of Italy's boot.

Despite intense police attention and frequent arrests, the organisation has continued to extend its reach.

It has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra in influence thanks to its control of the cocaine trade, and is the sole mafia organisation to operate on all continents, according to anti-mafia prosecutors.

The Europe-wide operation came a day after Italian police arrested new Cosa Nostra boss Settimino Mineo and dozens of other suspects in Sicily in a major swoop.

Jeweller Mineo, 80, was detained along with at least 45 others just before he was due to be appointed official heir to notorious mafia boss Toto Riina who died in prison last year.

In Germany, Wednesday's operation focused on restaurants, offices and apartments linked to the mafia group, focusd on the North Rhine-Westphalia region, Der Spiegel reported.

It said 47 suspects had been targeted and 65 premises were being searched, adding that searches were also underway in Spain.

Dutch NOS television said the 'Ndrangheta were mainly active in the Netherlands in drug smuggling through the country's huge flower export market.

Belgian media said the arrests in that country were concentrated in the Limburg area.

Police in several countries including these in Germany raided properties linked to the Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia group

Italian media said key organised crime family members were targeted in the raids, such as this one in Cologne

Before Wednesday's Europe-wide raid, Italian police arrested the new boss of the Sicilian Mafia, Settimino Mineo

Wednesday's operation focused on restaurants, offices and apartments linked to the mafia group, such as this Italian restaurant in Pulheim, western Germany

Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/italys-nd...Llvez3jbr9FSpGMt-uUa_8F6TRx99Z3fBCjE5LFI

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/05/18 01:37 PM

47 arrests in Germany,14 in Belgium, 5 in Holland
Some arrests in South America
In addition, up to 4,000 kilograms of cocaine and 140 kilograms of ecstasy pills were confiscated.

Among the suspects the heir of Antonio Pelle.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/05/18 04:26 PM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-mafia-mobsters-rounded-raids-world.html

Nearly 100 suspected mobsters 'linked to feared 'Ndrangheta mafia' are rounded up in raids across the world

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/18 03:12 PM

A pentito from the 'Ndrangheta who lived in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam, for a long time, Giuseppe T., played an important role in the investigation into the Italian mafia.

That is what the dutch tax police Fiod is aware of after reporting by De Telegraaf . "He mainly provided insight into the working methods of the organization and in the family ties," says a spokesperson. "He explained the methods of money laundering and drug trafficking, he could also name names and he recognized people from photographs."

On Wednesday, 84 people were arrested in several countries during an action against the mafia clan from Calabria. In the Netherlands, were arrested five persons .

In the Pollino investigation, the Amsterdam region played a supporting role. That was different in previous studies on the 'Ndrangheta. The Calabrese mafia organization turned out to have tentacles in the flower auction at Aalsmeer. That branch was busted in September 2015 in a study in which dozens of arrests were carried out in Italy and the Netherlands.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/18 05:46 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/18 05:53 PM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/18 05:58 PM

https://www.standard.co.uk/business...y-uk-simply-moved-to-malta-a4009076.html

Focus: Gamblingâ€™s underbelly â€" police claim â€˜mafiaâ€™ giant closed by UK simply moved to Malta

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/18 07:52 PM

In yesterday's bust they also arrested Antonio Calogero Costaduro (44) in Maasmechelen, Belgium. He was born in Genk, but is a son of capo clan Salvatore Nirta of San Luca.
A good source says that Costaduro has risen in the Nirta-Strangio clan in recent years. He is a pivotal figure in the 'ndrangheta and organizes international drug trafficking through the port of Antwerp.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 08:54 AM

Nicola Gratteri, the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, says the 'ndrangheta moves at least 40% of the world's cocaine

In the world the Â´Ndrangheta make up 56% of the Italian mafia vs. 16% Cosa Nostra

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 04:43 PM

Nicola Gratteri, the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, says the 'ndrangheta moves at least 40% of the world's cocaine

In the world the Â´Ndrangheta make up 56% of the Italian mafia vs. 16% Cosa Nostra

40 % of the worlds cocaine trade thats quite alot. I think that Gratteri and others in Italy put these numbers up just for the world to think that He/they are fighting some kind of Supreme crime group.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 06:43 PM

Nicola Gratteri, the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, says the 'ndrangheta moves at least 40% of the world's cocaine

In the world the Â´Ndrangheta make up 56% of the Italian mafia vs. 16% Cosa Nostra

i also think is bullshit, 40% of worldwide cocaine would be 100% of european one
gratteri tends to hype ndrangheta because he's calabrian

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 06:45 PM

They do have a foothold in North America, but are not the main suppliers over there. In the rest of the world they are bigger. 40% is still a lot, but if you look with whom they work in South America and Europe it's possible.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 06:51 PM

in north america they control little (mostly in ontario), in australia they probably control a lot
anyway in europe aside italy they don't control so much (and even in italy they don't control 100% of cocaine), i doubt they control cocaine coming to france or uk like gratteri claimed with this 40%
they have some little grip in germany, belgium, in the rest of europe i don't think so

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/18 11:06 PM

The group busted this week had links to Surinam.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/18 05:46 PM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/18 06:28 PM

The group busted this week had links to Surinam.

ndrangheta is the main european supplier of cocaine, i just don't believe in gratteri numbers
it is more believable that it moves 40% of european cocaine, not worldwide, it would be more than mexican cartels

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/18 07:06 PM

40% of cocaine in Europe , maybe. But worldwide, no way. You have whole bunch of cartels in South/Central America.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/18 10:53 PM

Europe and Australia. Down under the profits are huge. I get a gram here for 40 euros.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/18 12:34 AM

Europe and Australia. Down under the profits are huge. I get a gram here for 40 euros.

Is it good quality ? Thats cheap , here a gram goes from 70 to 150 euros , depends on quality.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/18 11:30 AM

It differs, often it is too much cut.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/18 12:13 PM

A Violi was also arrested last week.

Antonio Barbaro alias â€œPileriâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 27.8.1978 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Barbaro alias â€œPileriâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 17.9.1982 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Carmelo Bramanti, nato a Salerno il 3.12.1971 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Serkan Bilgici, nato a Bonn (Germania) il 17.01.1980 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Halil Bozkurt, nato a Mersin (Turchia) il 15.12.1980 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Campagna, nato a Napoli il 28.01.1973 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Maria Rosaria Campagna, nata a Napoli il 20.02.1969- Custodia in Carcere;
Luciano Camporesi, nato a Rimini il 10.7.1975 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Salvatore Santo Cappello, nato a Napoli il 31.08.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Fausto CommarÃ , nato a Crotone il 04.12.1962- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Condo, alias â€œDominic â€" lâ€™Australianoâ€, nato a Mount Lawley (Australia) il 29.8.1980- Custodia in Carcere;
Natale CondÃ², nato a Locri (RC) il 24.12.1963- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Costadura, alias â€œU Tignusuâ€, nato a Genk (Belgio) il 31.8.1974- Custodia in Carcere;
Orsolia Andrea Cundy, nata a Dimbau (Romania) il 15.12.1992 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Roberto Esposito, nato a Gragnano (NA) il 14.09.1991 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Andrea Gentile, nato a Locri (RC) il 23.3.1989 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Gentile, alias â€œCiccioneâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.6.1981 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Giorgi, alias â€œGianni da Mammaâ€, nato a San Luca (RC) il 28.2.1966 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Giorgi, nato a San Luca (RC) il 07.12.1963 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Rosario Grasso, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) il 20.07.1982 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Grasso, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) lâ€™8.6.1992 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
ViteshJamnapersad Guptar, nato a Nickerie (Suriname) il 19.10.1974 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Ietto, nato a Careri (RC) in data 13.11.1971 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Antonio JerinÃ², nato a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 12.5.1963- Arresti domiciliari;
Rocco JerinÃ², nato a Cinquefrondi (RC) il 26.6.1993 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Cesar Steven Linares Ramires, nato a CalÃ¬ â€" Valle del Cauca (Colombia) il 11.06.1994- Custodia in Carcere;
Carlo Luciano MacrÃ¬, alias â€œRumenoâ€, nato a Siderno (RC) il 9.4.1962 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Girolamo MacrÃ¬, alias â€œJapanâ€, a Siderno (RC) nato il 15.10.1987- Custodia in Carcere;
JosÃ¨ Manuel Mammoliti, nato a Cinquefrondi (RC) il 03.05.1989 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Manglaviti, alias â€œCICIâ€™â€, Locri (RC) il 26.09.1972 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Francesco Marando, nato a Locri (RC) il04.1983- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Marando, nato a Locri (RC) il 29.11.1985- Custodia in Carcere;
Marco Martino, nato a Cosenza il 01.09.1979- Custodia in Carcere;
Pasquale Biagio Muzzupapa, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) il 03.02.1967 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Salvatore Pacino, alias â€œSaverioâ€ â€" â€œU Pacciuâ€, nato a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 19.8.1965- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Paparo, nato a Crotone il 17.01.1991- Arresti domiciliari;
Tommaso Perlapiano, nato a Castellanza (VA) il 25.10.1971- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Pelle, alias â€œVanchedduâ€, nato a San Luca (RC) il 4.04.1962- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Pelle, alias â€œMicu i Mataâ€, nato a San Luca (RC) il 15.10.1950- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 15.04.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 17.11.1990- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 19.05.1981- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 19.09.1998- Arresti domiciliari;
Giuseppe Pipicella, alias â€œZipanguluâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 20.05.1971- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Pizzata, alias â€œPiritinuâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.12.1988 â€" Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Romeo, alias â€œCorleoneâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 31.12.1978- Custodia in Carcere;
Filippo Romeo, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.10.1976- Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Luca Romeo, alias â€œBiscottinoâ€, nato a Locri (RC) il 25.9.1994- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Romeo, alias â€œU Pacciuâ€ â€" â€œMaluferruâ€ â€" â€œU Nanuâ€,nato a Locri (RC) il 22.4.1986- Custodia in Carcere;
Sebastiano Romeo, nato a Locri (RC) il 14.08.1979- Custodia in Carcere;
Sebastiano Romeo, nato a Reggio Calabria il 10.2.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Stefano Romeo, nato a San Luca il 15.09.1967- Arresti domiciliari;
Giulio Fabio Rubino, nato a Caserta il 16.04.1984- Custodia in Carcere;
Serafino Rubino, nato a Caserta il 25.03.1980- Custodia in Carcere;
Vincenzo Salzano, nato a Napoli il 16.07.1968- Custodia in Carcere;
Angelo Sansotterra, nato a Magenta (MI) il 28.06.1949- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Scalia, nato a Locri (RC) il 28.12.1978- Custodia in Carcere;
Stefano Scalia, nato a Locri (RC) il 12.01.1984 â€" Custodia in Carcere;
Raul Singh, nato in Guyana il 29.03.1983- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Strangio, nato a Siderno (RC) il 18.11.1989- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Strangio, alias â€œCardaraâ€, nato a San Luca (RC) 18.09.1959- Arresti domiciliari;
Giuseppe Strangio, alias â€œPeppi i Cicciuâ€,nato a Locri (RC) il 04.05.1995- Arresti domiciliari;
Sebastiano Strangio, alias â€œZucchero â€" â€œSebastianu cu zuccheruâ€ â€" â€œGrigiaâ€ (Gringia), nato a Melito Porto Salvo (RC) il 29.10.1970- Custodia in Carcere;
Kemal Tekin, nato a Colonia il 25.10.1984- Custodia in Carcere;
Santa Ursini, nata a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 9.07.1942- Arresti domiciliari;
Giorgio Violi, nato a Reggio Calabria il 07.07.1976- Custodia in Carcere;
Gianluca Antonio Vitale, nato a Locri (RC) il 3.06.1978- Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Vottari, nato a Locri (RC) il 12.07.1982- Arresti domiciliari;
Teresa Vottari, nata a Locri (RC) il 4.03.1970- Arresti domiciliari;
Antonio Zappia, alias â€œPiolaâ€, nato a Melito di Porto Salvo (RC) il 5.08.1992- Custodia in Carcere.

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/foto/2018...90-arresti-2/780910/#DltdfGe5D1BGDfDu.99

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/18 02:30 PM

Apparently there was a conflict in Amsterdam.

As proof of the great pervasive capacity abroad of the 'ndrangheta and its social danger, there is a passage of an interception in which Domenico Pelle told an anecdote about the brothers "Civas" and "Zucchero" identified by Francesco Strangio [22] and Sebastiano Strangio [23]. These, during an evening spent inside a night in Amsterdam, they had begun to shoot, generating the escape of all the patrons; at that moment, the uncle of Domenico Pelle, Santo Vottari [24], already a fugitive and exponent of the homonymous family, accompanied one or more subjects, who, recognizing the two brothers and disapproving their behavior, arrived in the room. had reassured the owner of the local promising that they would be compensated for all the damage caused by the two Strangio: "... They entered a night bum, boom, boom, boom ... incomp ... all escaping, they started to run away too ... How they go for run away into ... incomp ... with this madman who still had it in his hand ... And what do you do here? He says that as soon as he saw them he got scared ... He was ashamed not scared, he was ashamed, come back go to the owner see that tomorrow evening come friends see that everything paid that I paid he said, he got into the car and ran away ... He said my uncle Santo, we are ashamed. At the same time, the GIP ordered the preventive seizure [25] of numerous assets directly attributable to GIORGI Giovanni, which will be executed with the direct competition of the German authorities

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/10/18 07:06 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/18 10:59 PM

Ex-Mafioso: 'The Netherlands has everything that goes with a criminal life'
A former member of the 'Ndrangheta' is dropping this week in Nieuwe Revu from the school about the presence of the Italian mafia in our country. 'The Dutch have a positive attitude towards Italians.'

When the Italian Rocco Gasperoni was arrested in Scheveningen in May 2016, it was an eye-opener for many of his friends in the seaside resort. The 75-year-old Gasperoni appears to be a member of the Italian mafia 'Ndrangheta. In 2001 he was convicted in Turin for large-scale drug smuggling, but during his house arrest Gasperoni fled to the Netherlands, where he opened a well-run pizzeria in Scheveningense Stevinstraat. The fact that he could no longer manage it himself after his arrest led to disappointed reactions from the neighborhood. "He made delicious pizzas, he was a beloved neighborhood figure, we're going to miss him," that's how it sounded. That he was a mafioso did not seem to bother anyone.

Gasperoni realized like no other how important it is to not stand out. Just do it, then as an Italian criminal you can lead a normal life in the Netherlands without having to go under, so was the creed for a long time. However, that has changed now, because Gasperoni is by no means the only mafioso that has ended up behind bars in the Netherlands in recent years. On the contrary; they are regularly arrested, such as last Wednesday, when agents in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Belgium picked up ninety people during a major campaign aimed at the 'Ndrangheta. Five of them were arrested in the Netherlands.

The action is the result of a survey in 2014, when the FIOD investigative service found links to foreign countries in a money laundering case in Brabant. There were also hundreds of raids in the context of operation Pollino, of which eight in the Netherlands and 2 million euros, 140 kilos of ecstasy pills and 4000 kilos of cocaine seized. This makes Pollino even more successful than a previous operation against the Mafia in September 2017, when several Mafiosi were arrested at the Galecop shopping center in Nieuwegein, after one of the largest mafia bosses in Italy, Francesco Nirta, was arrested in his apartment earlier in the day.

But the climax was probably February of the past year, when one or two mafiosi were arrested on one morning. Prior to this, a 38-year-old Italian was arrested in Tilburg in January 2017 who led a criminal organization in Sardinia, and in December 2016 a 46-year-old member of the Neapolitan mafia was detained in Utrecht. Both men were fugitive and had a considerable prison sentence in Italy. In the Netherlands, however, they could continue their criminal walk unnoticed.

But the Italian mafia does not always try to stay under the radar in the Netherlands. In October 2017, the 44-year-old mafioso Saverio Tucci - nicknamed the Angel Face, because of his bright blue eyes - is found dead in a car in Amsterdam-West. His remains are in the trunk of a Renault Clio. He was killed with a firearm, according to forensic investigation. It is suspected that it is a retribution for the murder of Mafia boss Mario Romito in the Italian region of Gargano, also called the trace of the boot. There, mafia fans Li Bergolis and Romito have been fighting for almost ten years.

It is old-fashioned territorial drive and there are also interests in the cocaine trade. Deaths fall over and over again, with as yet low point a fourfold murder on August 9, 2017, performed by Saverio Tucci among others. The fact that Tucci had to pay his share in the attack with death is not uncommon in Mafia circles. The fact that the Italian mafia is fighting conflicts across the border is rare. In countries such as the Netherlands, which are important for the transit of drugs, the Mafia prefers to keep quiet.

They are signs that the Mafia is indeed active in the Netherlands. 'Yes', because our own national criminal investigation does not really want to. According to her, it is all along with the interference of Italian mafiosi in the Dutch criminal circuit. According to Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Detective of the National Unit, it concerns 'a small number' of people, while Italian detectives say at high and low that the Netherlands has a big problem with the Italian mafia.

The fact that the Netherlands and Italy differ on the scale of the problem is due to the fact that almost no figures are available. The most recent investigation - named Cerca Trova (who searches, will find) - carried out in 2017 by the police, tax authorities / FIOD and the Public Prosecution Service, reports that between 1992 and 2014 55 Mafiosi were arrested or found dead in the Netherlands. Of 38 Mafia members there is a suspicion that they were in the Netherlands at some point in time. The report also recognizes that the Mafia families in the Netherlands use Italian catering establishments or other companies as a safe meeting place and cover, for example for fugitives and narcotics dealers. They are also used as a meeting office, as a cover for drug transports,

Cerca Trova mentions 22 Italian catering establishments affiliated with the Mafia. "The tip of the iceberg," says Benito, a former Mafia member. Before Benito left the Mafia because of his family, he transported cocaine to the Netherlands on a large scale. 'We let it come from Colombia, directly to the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and from there it was spread throughout the European hinterland, especially to Italy. We had partners in the Netherlands, customs officers who passed containers uncontrollably and fast boys, especially Albanians, who broke the containers at night at the port site to take out the coke. The narcotics then went over the road to Italy, sometimes in passenger cars, sometimes with goods transports. '

The couriers are usually young men, with Italian, Dutch or other nationality. In the case of goods transport, the choice of perishable goods as decanting agents is to use perishable goods such as flowers or fruit. 'Sometimes we paid in cash, sometimes in kind. Then we left a few kilos of coke in the Netherlands. The rest were smuggled to Italy for the 'Ndrangheta.'

The Netherlands is also a popular refuge among fugitive Mafiosi. Cerca Trova designates the Netherlands after Spain as the most important flight port. Mafiosi 'feel completely safe', can be read in the report, which of course also mentions the reputation of the Netherlands as a transit country of drugs and the good infrastructure as reasons why Mafiosi like to stay here. But also the positive attitude of the population towards Italians plays a role, just like the fact that it is relatively easy for an Italian to set up a cover; an Italian restaurant.

"But in addition, the Netherlands also has everything that goes with a criminal life," says Benito. 'The drugs rules are liberal, the sentences for drug offenses are low, there are many brothels and money laundering is relatively easy. It is no coincidence that the Netherlands has been a major attraction for the Mafia outside of Italy for decades. They often meet here. In the past there were often wild parties with many prostitutes. And nobody was afraid of the police, who had no eye for the Italian mafia at all. '

https://www.revu.nl/artikel/ex-maffioso-nederland-heeft-alles-wat-bij-een-crimineel-leven-hoort

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/18 02:58 AM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/18 07:40 PM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

You can do the math. From about 2,000 euros per kilo of pure cocaine in Colombia to 50 euros per gram of cut coke in Amsterdam.
BTW if cocaine was not forbidden worldwide, it was probably as expensive as coffee or sugar.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/18 07:47 PM

It also depends how much they are going to cut it.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/18 08:13 PM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

ndrangheta buys the cocaine 1500 euros for a kilo in south america and they sell 1 kilo for 30.000 euros to european wholesale distributors
in europe 1 kilo sold on the streets generates 80/100.000 euros

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/18 08:57 PM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

A kilo of pure cocaine , here in Balkans goes from 35,000-40,000 euros.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/18 05:37 AM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

Yes but the transport and all of that comes in to play to. However does it come near to the number of 24 billion dollars on drugs alone a year you think?

1000 tons of cocaine need to be sold for 30 billion dollars if im not wrong?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/18 07:30 AM

Italian Mafia activities are expanding abroad and European police forces are still unprepared

https://menafn.com/1097826871/Itali...lice-forces-are-still-unprepared?src=Rss

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/18 10:59 PM

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

Yes but the transport and all of that comes in to play to. However does it come near to the number of 24 billion dollars on drugs alone a year you think?

1000 tons of cocaine need to be sold for 30 billion dollars if im not wrong?

they are just inflated numbers, nobody knows exactly how much organized crime earns anyway

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/18 12:49 AM

Mafia will be wiped out soon - Salvini
We'll give our all to defeat organized crime says minister

(ANSA) - Sorbolo, December 18 - Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that the days of Italy's various mafia syndicates are numbered. "We are the ones who are stronger," League leader Salvini said in Sorbolo, near Parma, at a ceremony for the handover to the finance police of accomodation from property seized from the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
"They can hang on for a few months or a few years, but the Mafia, the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta will be wiped off the face of this splendid country. We'll give our all".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/18 12:52 AM

LOL even Benito Mussolini couldnÂ´t defeat them.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/18 03:06 AM

Mafia will be wiped out soon - Salvini
We'll give our all to defeat organized crime says minister

Whats the deal with this Salvini? Roberto Saviano said he is the mafias guy am i right?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/18 11:42 AM

Mafia will be wiped out soon - Salvini
We'll give our all to defeat organized crime says minister

Whats the deal with this Salvini? Roberto Saviano said he is the mafias guy am i right?

Matteo Salvini backed by politician 'with links to mafia'

Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to â€˜Ndrangheta

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...backed-by-politician-with-links-to-mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/20/18 10:06 AM

The gangs of the province of Crotone were ready to unleash a new mafia war to ensure control of the territory. This is what the police found at the end of an investigation coordinated by the DDA of Catanzaro that led to the arrest of several prominent members of the families of the 'Ndrangheta Crotone. The measures are taken against various members of the gangs of Isola Capo Rizzuto, Crotone and Petilia Policastro accused, for various reasons, of mafia association, attempted murder, extortion, attempted robbery, fire, port and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. The investigations revealed that the gangs had already planned some murders.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/18 11:12 AM

Novella jr is free. Now he could claim damages for unjust detention. Edoardo Novella, 42, was acquitted "because the fact does not constitute a crime" from the accusation of being one of the organic members of a criminal association. Novella is the son of Carmelo, head of the Lombardy 'ndrangheta killed 10 years ago in San Vittore Olona after daring to rebel against the Calabrian mother house.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/18 12:42 PM

You donÂ´t here much about the guys from Crotone. ItÂ´s the poorest province in Italy and one of the poorest in Western Europe.

THE NAMES OF THE ARRESTED
ARENA Salvatore born on 30.06.1991 in Crotone,
ASRAT SEYOUM Brook born 17.11.1987 in Ethiopia, res. Isola di Capo Rizzuto
CALABRETTA Gianfranco born 31.05.1987 in Crotone and resident in Isola di CR
CAPICCHIANO Antonio born 27.11.1977 and resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto,
CAPICCHIANO Orlando born 23.10.1993, Isola di Capo Rizzuto
CAPICCHIANO Salvatore intends Porcedduzzu born the 24.07.1975 of Isola di Capo Rizzuto;
CARVELLI Cesare born 11.10.1985 in Crotone
CURCIO Rosario understood Pilirusso born on 27.07.1960 in Petilia Policastro
DEVONA Rocco intended Fettina born on 22.101984 in Crotone
GENTILE Antonio born on 22.08.1968 in Crotone,
GENTILE Giuseppe, understood PepÃ¨ born on 20.12.1974 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
GIARDINO Alessandro born 16.04.1998 Isola di Capo Rizzuto
IERARDI Tommasino, born in Petilia Policastro (KR) on 28.10.1977
LENTINI Antonio born on 14.06.1999 in Crotone
MACRILLO 'Francesco born on 20.05.1993 in Crotone
MANFREDI Antonio born on 21.11. 1999 in Crotone
MANFREDI Luigi born on 30.04.1997 in Crotone
MUCCARI Giovanni born 17.11.1988 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
NICOSCIA Antonio understood Macchietta or Mulinello, born on 02.03.1977 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
NICOSCIA Antonio born 23.11.1987 residing in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
PAPALEO Santo Claudio born on 06.09.1988 resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
SERAPIDE Carmine born 13.11.1987 resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
SANCT Antonio born on 28.12.1978 in Crotone

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/22/18 10:35 AM

The lawyer Paolo Romeo is considered the head of the occult component of the Â´Ndrangheta.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...i-nuovo-sulla-detenzione-di-paolo-romeo/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/18 01:20 AM

In the 90s the Â´ndrangheta held a big meeting with the Chinese bosses in Milan. They made a fortune, the Chinese supplied the workers and managers the Calabrians the money and the papers. All foreign groups in Italy work under the mafias.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/18 02:39 AM

Can you send link please?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/18 02:57 AM

ItÂ´s in the book Blood Ties: The 'Ndrangheta: Italy's New Mafia. It was a bestseller in Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/18 01:30 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/18 01:12 PM

In Pesaro, the brother of the pentito Girolamo Bruzzese was shot dead: he lived under state protection and in secret house.

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...omo_ucciso_a_colpi_di_pistola-215123435/

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/18 03:01 PM

"State protection" my ass. Shame on them

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/18 03:48 PM

"State protection" my ass. Shame on them

Yeah they should look at the protection program for relatives, it probably shows they are capable to infiltrate the program. The family usually condemns a pentito immediately to avoid retaliation like this.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/18 04:24 PM

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/18 05:22 PM

In cases of vendetta or something like this , they usually kill on Christmas. Correct me if i am wrong but back in 2006 they killed a few family members in Calabria on ChristmasDay as revenge for killing back in 1991. Them infiltrating the program,really shows how powerful they are , you cant really hide from these guys.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/28/18 06:54 PM

Bruzzese left the program 2,5 years ago, but Federico Cafiero De Raho , National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, said about the killing in Pesaro. "People at risk who have collaborated with the state, have exposed their family members, can not be forgotten by the state." Even if the victim asked to leave the protection program, safety must always be guaranteed.

It does seem that LE world wide have relaxed some when it comes to informants and their families.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/18 02:30 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/30/18 09:07 PM

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/31/18 02:25 AM

Is this from the same operation not to long ago? Cause it seems they seize assets worth billions every 2-3 month in Malta from the Italian mafias.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/01/19 08:34 AM

I read somewhere that the Italian mafias are owned by The Black Nobility. Is this true you think?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/01/19 03:06 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/02/19 10:58 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/03/19 07:20 PM

The Guardia di Finanza of Rome confiscated real estate, cars and company shares, for a total value of about 2.8 million euro from
the boss Carmelo Giovanni Tripodo (born in 1958), of Calabrian origins but long since residing in lower Lazio, where he is the head of a fierce criminal mafia association.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/03/19 08:17 PM

Invoking the names Garibaldi, Mazzini and La Marmora in the opening is a Masonic reference, as are mention of the stars, the sun and the moon.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/04/19 01:09 PM

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...-i-porti-per-il-traffico-di-cocaina.html

The 'Ndrangheta and the ports for cocaine traffic

by Aaron Pettinari
Presented the report "Italian port security"

"The drug market is a market that knows no crisis and the 'Ndrangheta controls 80% of the cocaine traffic that arrives in Europe", declared Nicola Gratteri in an interview with our newspaper . it has never been questioned and it is also confirmed by more recent surveys.In recent days, the report was confirmed by the "Italian port security" report . "Among all the various mafia organizations in Italy, in fact - reads in the document -the Calabrian has managed to acquire almost total control of this traffic, pushing other criminal organizations, Italian or foreign, to specialize in the traffic of other drugs or other illicit trafficking. The peculiarity of the 'Ndrangheta is that the detention of this monopoly allows it to care less than other trades, such as that of foreign manufactured tobacco, preferring to leave this type of activity in Camorra and Puglia mafias, almost to divide up the proceeds for a peaceful modus vivendi. The acquisition of this substantial monopoly was possible thanks to the creation of solid relations with the South American cartels that made the 'Ndrangheta one of the most important mafia organizations in the world, with ramifications also in central and northern Italy and in the rest of Europe (as well as in the rest of the world). Therefore, it is the other Italian mafia organizations that have to turn to the Calabrian clans for the purchase of consignments of cocaine ".
In the study developed by Clarissa Spada and Francesco Marone and edited by Lorenzo Vidino , the themes of illicit trafficking and jihadist infiltration in Italian ports are analyzed . In particular, with regard to the former, we focus on the "smuggling of foreign manufactured tobacco, illegal immigration, arms trafficking and, above all, that of drugs, in relation to which we find a different treatment of cocaine, heroin, hashish and marijuana, as opportune as expected, the differences concerning the places of origin, the routes and the modes of transport, as well as the criminal groups that deal with the relative marketing continues to be the main gateway to white powder in Italy ".
In particular, it highlights how the 'Ndrangheta, in recent times, is "diversifying" the destination of the loads of the drug. The Port of Gioia Tauro remains the most important in the world chess game because it "is also the largest gateway to cocaine, so much so that it is sometimes called" Coca Tauro. "A port that has now become fundamental for the 'Ndrangheta, where the the most important families of the Gioia Tauro plain - Piromalli, Pesce, MolÃ¨, Bellocco - dominate and succeed in penetrating the management of the port on several levels ". However, due to the repressive action, the Calabrian organized crime would gradually diversify the points of arrival. "so they decided to turn to the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans have managed to create and cement have made these areas a crossroads of sorting " , moreover, closer " to the remuneration dealing channels with those of Lombardy, Piedmont and even Northern Europe "." In confirmation of what was said - adds the study - 2018 began with very few cocaine seizures at the port of Gioia Tauro (about 74 kg from January to May 2018). On the contrary, more substantial quantities have been found in ports such as Genoa and Livorno " .

The routes of the White Gold
The loads of Cocaine arrive from South America (above all from Colombia) and from Mexico often taking advantage of transhipment operations with feeder services , also passing through West Africa or the ports of southern Spain. Four are the main broken indicated by the scholars.
The California express: from North America to Panama through California and Mexico. From Panama then, through the feeder services , we collect the minor loads from Chile, Peru and Brazil, directed to Gioia Tauro.
Medusa: from Mexico to the Bahamas. Here smaller loads are collected from the rest of South America through the ports of Spain, especially Valencia. The decision to enter the Schengen area by first touching the Spanish ports is certainly not random, but is intended to evade controls, and make the cargo less suspicious. One of the elements constituting the risk analysis of customs is precisely the origin of the cargo, together with the ship's flag. The fact that a ship has in theory already passed the controls of another European state, causes the illicit load to attract less attention.
Argentina: towards Montevideo, in Uruguay, and South Brazil, before leaving for Gioia Tauro.
From West Africa: in order to avoid predictable routes, many consignments of cocaine are diverted to Ghana and Nigeria and then sent to Europe.

Traffic methods
According to the report, the most used means of transporting coca is certainly that of containers. The drug is "concealed behind cover loads, sophisticated double-dumps developed to circumvent X-ray controls or even in empty containers." For several years the rip-off system has been adopted, which consists of positioning the game of drugs in bags in front of the container ship, in such a way as to be easily removed from port operators 'infidels', who receive specific instructions to carry out such an action ".In this case the load is not inserted in the very first phase of filling the container, "but at a later time, with the opening of the container itself through tampering and, sometimes, replacing its seal". Another one concerns transshipment operations off the coasts on smaller boats, often fishing boats. It also happens that the drugs are thrown into the sea from the mother ship, equipped with GPS, so as to intercept them. Finally, the use of specially modified motor ships in the bottom to then proceed with the extraction of the load with the help of divers.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 03:50 AM

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...-i-porti-per-il-traffico-di-cocaina.html

The 'Ndrangheta and the ports for cocaine traffic

by Aaron Pettinari
Presented the report "Italian port security"

Man its always the same articles about Ndrangheta.. They control 80 % of the cocaine in Europe, they have good ties to the Cartels bla bla bla. I would love to see more articles on them Like this one

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-real-spectre

or this one

http://www.spiegel.de/international...he-world-of-the-ndrangheta-a-806233.html

With little more insight

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 09:22 AM

'According to statistics compiled by the Italian judiciary, until 2008 there were about 1,000 pentiti affiliated with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, 2,000 with the Camorra in Naples -- but only 42 with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.'
this one from the secondo link is just bullshit anyway, according to ministry of interior there are currently about 700 people in the witness program and it includes members, associates and civil testimonies of all the 4 major mafia groups and even other groups (also foreign)
sicilian mafia and camorra have both 250 and ndrangheta 140

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 04:06 PM

I don't think it's necessary for the camorra to turn to the Calabrians they have always had good connection in the coke business since the Sicilian Mafia never was involved only heroin untill the 90s with the Cuntrera-Caruanas and others.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 04:13 PM

Im sorry but im not gonna take anyhing you say serious because its kind of obvious youre a lover of Cosa Nostra. On every thread you are very quick to mention that the Sicilian mafia is way much "better" than the NDrangheta.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 05:33 PM

i just don't like bullshit, if you don't believe in me just check yourself i read it in articles from the italian minister of interior, a more serious source than this german one; probably the german journalist written it wrong, i don't know

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 05:38 PM

sicilian mafia was and it is still involved in cocaine trafficking, although currently less than camorra and ndrangheta
the biggest single seizure ever of cocaine in italy (5,5 tons) was imported by sicilian mafia in 1994, by the caruana-cuntrera's

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/19 09:54 PM

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...-i-porti-per-il-traffico-di-cocaina.html

The 'Ndrangheta and the ports for cocaine traffic

by Aaron Pettinari
Presented the report "Italian port security"

Man its always the same articles about Ndrangheta.. They control 80 % of the cocaine in Europe, they have good ties to the Cartels bla bla bla. I would love to see more articles on them Like this one

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-real-spectre

or this one

http://www.spiegel.de/international...he-world-of-the-ndrangheta-a-806233.html

With little more insight

I agree that certain articles may have information that may repeat itself, but in most articles there is always one new item, fact or sentence that wasn't mentioned in the past. News also get updated and this is how you get to learn more. Not every news articles can be insightful and may not meet your expectation but you should not dismiss them for the reason previously stated.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/19 10:53 PM

Ex-mafia boss' ndrangheta: 'The Netherlands in top 3 most contaminated countries'

The Netherlands is one of the most contaminated countries by the Calabrese 'ndrangheta, because of its strategic location as a transit port of drugs and the investment climate. That says former mafia leader Luigi Bonaventura in an exclusive interview in the program Criminal Circles on NPO Radio 1.

"The Netherlands is all in all a good territory for the business, for investments. There are many opportunities. It is one of the most contaminated countries. My top 3 would be: Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands ", says Luigi Bonaventura. Until 2007, he led some 200 Mafiosi in southern Italy for the 'Ndrangheta'. Then he became a spontaneously, and crown-witness in dozens of anti-mafia cases. His testimonies contribute to the arrest and / or conviction of at least 500 criminals.

The port of Rotterdam is of strategic importance. Bonaventura, as a mafia boss, led criminals who organized the drug route through the Netherlands for him. "I want to emphasize that nobody can let cocaine arrive in containers in Rotterdam, without contacts on the spot. That is impossible. You can only do something where you have confidants, who sometimes belong to multiple organizations and who allow the arrival, unloading and sorting of the product. "

"When you talk about the 'ndrangheta' in Europe, then Germany is the most important country, which we can now call her second homeland. We also have to take their presence in Eastern Europe very seriously, "says Bonaventura.

https://www.nporadio1.nl/achtergron...nederland-in-top-3-meest-besmette-landen

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/19 11:22 PM

Ex-mafia boss' ndrangheta: 'The Netherlands in top 3 most contaminated countries'

https://www.nporadio1.nl/achtergron...nederland-in-top-3-meest-besmette-landen

A lot of cocaine entering Serbia/Balkans is coming thru Netherlands. One of most powerful serbian organized crime figures is hiding there and running his business from there. Im talking about Filip Korac

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/19 11:37 PM

Yeah Strax Serbians are the strongest mob from the Balkans in Holland. Stronger than Albanians. Because they are more rooted we have Jugoslavs here since the late 60s.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/19 11:43 PM

Yeah Strax Serbians are the strongest mob from the Balkans in Holland. Stronger than Albanians. Because they are more rooted we have Jugoslavs here since the late 60s.

Here they sell a kilo for 35,000 euros. You think they pay % to 'Ndrangheta ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/19 11:54 PM

It depends a guy like Darko Saric had his own sources for huge shipments in South America. All they need is local dutch contacts for loading, unloading and transport throughout Europe.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/19 11:45 AM

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...caso-dal-suo-libro-e-nata-bad-blood.html

'' Camorra and 'Ndrangheta partners in business''

by Giuseppe Tallino
The interview with Antonio Nicaso, professor of social history of organized crime at Queen's University. He is among the top experts of 'Ndrangheta

'Follow the money' is no longer enough. To intercept and defeat the mafias, we need more. Criminal organizations have evolved: they have created an international network that moves in silence, sub-track. And to recycle and invest the dirty money exploit 'normative paradises', legal advisors and professionals of high finance: it is the scenario that has traced Antonio Nicaso , professor of social history of organized crime at Queen's University. He is among the top experts of 'Ndrangheta. He has written numerous books with Nicola Gratteri , procurator of the Republic of Catanzaro.

Professor, Nicola Schiavone, neo-repentant of the Casalesi, argued that the current fragility of his (former) clan is likely to open the doors of Casertano to other criminal organizations.
The presence of the 'Ndrangheta in Campania is historically proven: already with Domenico Tripodo has had good relations with the Camorra. Relationships started at the time of cigarette smuggling.

Now, instead, what kind of contact is there between the two systems?
There is a synergistic relationship destined to increase. The 'ndrangheta is active above all in Terra di Lavoro and in Salerno, but in Campania it will not expand to become territorial government: I tend to exclude it. In Sicily, for example, it is expanding in the areas of Vittoria and Ragusa because there is the fruit and vegetable market. And then we must also remember that the 'Ndrangheta provides cocaine to Camorra and Cosa Nostra.

The hypothesis that the local dying mafias are replaced by external gangs is founded?
We must not underestimate these organizations when they are with their backs to the wall. That they are not militarily strong as in the past is confirmed by the facts. But I am able to regenerate myself: I would be well advised to sign their obituary. Erroneously we are led to believe that the mafias exist when they shoot. And instead it is when they do not they are more dangerous: they assert themselves in other forms.

No substitution, therefore, but only collaboration.
A criminal partnership is already underway and will continue to take root in Italy with the involvement of Albanian mafias: they will become the armed wing of historic organizations. For example, they will take care of the transport of cocaine. The traditional groups, on the other hand, will focus on territorial government: they will try to infiltrate institutions, to corrupt them. In short, they will entrust dirty business to emerging structures.

The 'ndrangheta, as already pointed out, is among the main importers of narcotics in Europe. On the littoral Domizio, however, there is another transnational criminal gang that is able to get large quantities of drugs in Italy: I talk about the Nigerian mafia.
One of the most important routes traveled by cocaine starts from Brazil, from the port of Santos, and reaches Central Africa, where there are storage depots controlled by the 'ndrangheta. The Nigerian mafia manages to transfer cocaine from Africa to the Old Continent and does so by agreeing with the 'ndranghetist brokers: they treat prices in the Colombian forest and in Peru.

In practice there is a kind of subcontract: the 'ndrine delegate to the Nigerian mafia a part of the process that the narcotics must take to get to Italy.
Exactly, because they control the routes, which are then the same ones used for illegal immigration. More than clashing now the various criminal groups are willing to do 'network'.
Albanesi e 'ndrangheta, for example, have become partners in many countries of the world. First there was synergy between the Calabrians and the Serbian-Montenegrin mafia. And now they also collaborate with the Nigerian one. The only winning strategy for them is to move on track, to avoid violence. The Duisburg massacre was a boomerang: it made known a phenomenon that was considered marginal.

The mafia has become a global phenomenon.
It's true: the mafias have globalized, but the Antimafia is not.

The crime of mafia association does not appear in the penal code of various countries.
In the Common Law the associative crime is not considered: because it is contrary to culture and the legal system. Participation in criminal activity is punished, but not affiliation. Abroad there are many difficulties. For one thing: it is complicated to apply measures of personal and patrimonial preventions when there is not a law that can identify the mafia of a person.

The mafias make a network between them. But in some cases they have been able to change their structure to creep into other groups recognized by civil society. The Calabrian gangs have created the Saint to affiliate some of its members to Freemasonry.
When I explain the mafias to my students, I use the formula of water. The two hydrogen atoms represent violence, a factor common to all criminal organizations. The difference is the atom of oxygen which is the relationship with power, the external competition, the collusions. The mafias, without the relationship with the majority of a country, with representatives of politics, could not resist.

They need the 'power' made up.
The mafias have never been revolutionary, but reactionary and phenomena of ruling class: they are the armed wing of power. In the 1960s, when funds arrived for the South, the 'ndrangheta changes the nature of its structure: it passes from a fabric based on the friendships functional to the bond of blood. Become familistic: relatives, cousins â€‹â€‹and brothers-in-law begin to affiliate. Feels the need to sit down with the power, to enter into relationships with important exponents of finance and law enforcement. For the 'ndrangheta it was a turning point.

A sort of registration to the tennis club.
The analogy is effective. Call back to what were once the gentlemen's circles, where lawyers and judges sat. The Saint is born with the same reasoning: allows some 'ndranghetisti, initially 33, one for each important family, to enter the elitist club.

Before establishing relations with the 'power', before creating links with foreign organizations, from the south, quickly, have spread their tentacles to the north.
We need to sweep away the culturalist interpretations of the phenomenon: the mafias are not the product of a mentality of the territory. They did not reach the north because of political confinement or forced stay. In the north they moved and rooted because they guaranteed the same conditions they offered in the south: cheap labor and services at bargain prices, like the Casalesi in Modenese. Do you want to spill, recycle, transport inert? We do it, the cosche answered. They were looking for someone to minimize costs and maximize profits. And they found him in the mafia.

Sometimes there are democratic short circuits. It is rare but it happens that to govern "new" forces, at least on paper, far from the old logic.
They look at the national level, but not with great care. The mafias focus on local phenomena. If they have to focus on politics, they prefer to control the municipal administrations and not the election of a representative in Parliament. Exploiting the nominees, they create companies with German partners, now especially Eastern Europe, in order to run into the alternative energy business and other projects that are easily financed by the EU. But these are procedures managed at the local level, not in Brussels.

But in some cases they still try to interact with those who manage public affairs and high-level business.
Yes, but when we refer to money laundering, we do not have to think about what the Schiavone or Morabito do for action: the organizations exploit professionals in the sector. Lawyers who have studies in international law, accountants and financial advisors manage those delicate moments for the clans. Outside Italy there is an alarming scenario. There are lawyers who even set tariffs to recycle money: the mafias pay between 20 and 25% of the amount they want to "clean" and invest.

To fight them, therefore, 'follow the money'.
Follow the money was a great strategy. But now it is no longer effective. And I explain why: there are banks that have many branches in off-shore countries. Imagine this scenario: The brokers who manage the money of a mafia family deposit 30 million euros in a facility where no one asks me the origin of money. With the money I deposit, I ask another branch, located in a different country, for a loan. If I have to open a restaurant I do not do it with the proceeds of the drug, but with a mortgage. So the bank gives me ten million euros and it does so because he knows I have 30 deposited as collateral.

And the investment superficially appears clean.
Exact. For the investigative apparatuses to retrace these steps is a great challenge: today one of the problems to be faced with urgency are the 'normative paradises'. I refer to those countries where there are mild anti-mafia laws. It is difficult to investigate: banks respond to cost-benefit criteria. Bad money drives out the good one: dirty money easily enters the legal economy. This is the strength of the mafias. They have less and less need to use weapons

Where the bullets do not arrive, the money arrives.
And where it's needed Google arrives as well. Some mafiosi in wiretapping boast of what is written about them on the net: "Just type our name to see what we are made of."

One of his books, 'Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War', inspired the TV series of the same name (in Italy the first season is visible on Netflix). Some cinematic interpretations of the 'mafia world' push youngsters to imitate criminal behavior represented in those films. But in Bad Blood the presence of malfeasance is not all-encompassing.
There is indeed a struggle. It is wrong to represent only evil. Some series determine forms of emulation, also because the conflict that the writer creates is between the bad and the worst. And there is no alternative. Instead, every context expresses evil, but also good. To tell only the evil is counterproductive: in those cases it should be the viewer to identify the good independently. But he does not always have the chance to do it. It is necessary to tell the territory's ability to react: when it is said that Sicily has invented the mafia, it must be added that it has also created the Antimafia.

Are we condemned to relate the war to the gangs forever or sooner or later we will succeed in winning it?
If we were to think that Cosa nostra are the Riina and Provenzano we will never win. The strength of the mafia lies in its ability to manage relationships with men who have power. It is used to attack assets, the banks that recycle, the professionals who clean the money. The plot must be hit. The mafias represent a phenomenon that has more than 150 years: they are a ballast for the south.

Casalesi and Cosa Nostra, according to the investigation of the DDA, over the years have managed to place politicians close to them in top positions of the Government.
Calabria, on the other hand, is a border territory. The 'ndrines have taken on another strategy. If we look at the list of loose municipalities we see that the Camorra has Councils infiltrated in Campania, the mafia in Sicily, the 'Ndrangheta, however, in addition to its region of origin, has agencies in Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy. They have not looked at the highest systems, in parliamentary elections, but at local realities. Also because Parliament has never paid real attention to the fight against organized crime. What we have in terms of anti-mafia legislation are emergency measures. They are the result of emotional reactions related to striking facts. After the massacre of Ciaculli we have the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, with the murders of Pio La Torre and Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa the Rognoni-La Torre law, and following the massacres of Palermo, the awarding legislation. The mafias in Italy are from the Bourbon period, but we introduce measures to fight them only since 1960 and as 'response'. We never sat around a table to deal with the issue in a structural way.

But we have excellent investigators.
In the world we are the leaders in the fight against organized crime, but it is a skill born from the emergency. There has never been a political will to fight criminal organizations, because it would be necessary to face all that support them from the outside.

Today it is said that the most precious currency is information.
And in fact the 'ndrangheta already uses the darknet and the undernet. In a recent Eurojust operation, a broker says he can pay in bitcoins. Crime knows how to adapt. I can combine old and new. The 'ndrangheta is a daughter of the beautiful reformed society, the camorra of the early nineteenth century, and continues to have the rules that the camorra, however, has lost. He acquired them in the 'penal baths', where there was a common detention. The Camorra campana has influenced 'ndrangheta and Cosa nostra.

If the Casalesi are in crisis it is precisely because they have expanded their sweaters: everyone or almost can enter that organization. Instead of becoming a ragarrista is a very complicated procedure.
They took the point. The Calabrian is the only mafia organization that has managed to keep alive the semantic ritual of the Reformed Society. They modified it, but the core is that. I repeat: they combine tradition and innovation. In Canada, Australia and Germany they still have initiation rites. They are used to create identity.

The mafias are conservative phenomena. Europe, where the main business of the gangs is concentrated, is punctually shaken by Islamic terrorism. Italy is so far the only one, among the most important nations of the Old Continent, not to have suffered attacks. Is there a strong presence of the mafias?
That there are synergies between criminal organizations and terrorists is true. The Camorra, in Campania, in some cases has provided them with false documents. The 'Ndrangheta has for years had relations with Middle Eastern and South American terrorists. They are organizations that finance themselves with the 'toll': the drug passes through their territories, like the migrants that cross Syria. And to guarantee transit, they receive money. I do not know if these relationships have had a role or not to prevent attacks in Italy. Credit must also be given. But the problem is complex. We are in the minefield of hypotheses. The level of our investigators, of service men is very high. Everywhere our capacity in this sector is well known, because for some time we face, unfortunately, such phenomena. If this analytical-investigative capacity could be added a strong and continuous political will to defeat the mafias, things could change. You could do a lot more.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/19 05:07 PM

Published: 07 January 2019

by Francesca Panfili
The power of Calabrian crime unveiled by the investigations

There is a common thread that unites the German territory with the Calabrian territory and, unfortunately, often passes through the powerful presence of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany. A presence that sees the Italian mafias invest millions of euros per year beyond the Alps and that is confirmed not only by the estimates made by the German Ministry of Justice, but also by recent investigations conducted by the district attorney of Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria on the role of Italian mafias in Germany. From these surveys it emerges how the Italian gangs have been restructured after the Duisburg massacre of 15 August 2007, always reusing the same schemes of 'immersion' capillary in the territory. This reorganization involves the recycling of money and the detection of commercial businesses managed by clan families, such as restaurants, bars, ice cream parlors and pizzerias, financed by the huge profits from drug trafficking. The last blitz coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate led to the arrest of a dozen members of the Calabrian clans who were active on the territory of the Bundestag and on an international scale. The Prosecutor had already spoken about the mafia business in the German territoryGiovanni Bombardieri and the Assistant Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo who declare last December: "The affairs established by various members of well-known families of the 'Calabrian Ndrangheta operating above all in the heart of Locride, dedicated to international drug trafficking, have been identified abroad. , recycling, reinvestment of significant financial capital, especially in the commercial and catering sectors, relying on logistic bases not only in Calabria but also in other Italian regions as well as in the Netherlands and Germany and equipped with a real fleet of vehicles to get cocaine to its destination ".
The same scenario also emerged from the Stige survey conducted by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteriand by the addition Vincenzo Luberto who investigated the role of the clans of CirÃ² and the lower Ionian Cosenza with the German territory. What emerges from this operation is a dense network of economic ties that unite this part of Italy to Germany through the intermediation of a character, Mario Lavorato , known in the news for his relationship with the powerful cosca of Farao-Marincola di CirÃ² . Worked it was already finished under investigation in the 90s and was then acquitted. Of his role also spoke several repentants such as the Sicilian Gioacchino Sghembri and Domenico Critelli , deceased boss of Cariati known as 'Saragat'.
This time Mario Lavoratoit would have favored the commercial expansion and the export on the German territory of the products of the 'ndranghetiste families, imposing their purchase to restaurants, bars and pizzerias managed by Italians. To do so, Lavorato would use an association known as Armig of which he is the inspiration, which collects the various Calabrian catering activities in Germany between the cities of Frankfurt and Offenbach and the area of â€‹â€‹Baden Wuttemberg. For magistrates Nicola Gratteri and Vincenzo Luberto , 'Don Mario' would have used the association to facilitate the interests of the Cossack gangs of which he claimed to be a friend in telephone interception. 'That's my family'said Lavorato in wiretapping in which he also challenged magistrates and authorities. Mario Lavorato's project would not only be limited to the sale of food and wines from the companies of the cirotani clans, but would also extend to German tourism in cities such as Cariati, Rossano and Mandatoriccio where its 'friends' are owners of accommodation facilities and restaurants. In 2017 Mario Lavoratohe managed to bring the mayor of Offenbach and the tourism industry executives of the German town touring the central-northern Ionian area to forge new collaborations and convince the German administrators to create tours and vacations organized in these places controlled by the Faraos and the Marincolos. Of these family settlements in Germany since the 90s, several repenters spoke, including Heicko Kschinna who defined Giuseppe Farao and Cataldo Marincola as the bosses of the Calabrian mafia in Stuttgart and the former killer Giorgio Basile , originally from Corigliano, who spoke of the police German said:"The police never wanted to believe us, but the Germans must convince themselves that there, wherever there is a pizzeria, there is the 'Ndrangheta".

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/19 05:23 PM

https://blogs.20minutos.es/quefuede...no-en-la-carcel-por-tratos-con-la-mafia/

What happened to ... Vincenzo Iaquinta: the Italian world champion in prison for deals with the Mafia

We have seen athletes with problems with justice go through the blog, but I remember, none of them for their dealings with the mafia. This is the case of Vincenzo Iaquinta.

Who was it ?: An Italian striker from the mid-90s at the beginning of this decade.

Why is he remembered ?: For being the world champion with the Italian national team and player of the caliber of Juventus of Turin.

What became of him ?: He retired in 2013 in the ranks of Juve. After hanging his boots, he got the title of coach, but his legal problems have stopped him.

Did you know ...?: I explain to you what is the problem with the justice: on October 28, in the context of a macro trial against the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia of Calabria (where Iaquinta is natural), the footballer He was sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of illegal possession of arms, while the player's father, Giuseppe, was sentenced to 19 years in prison, accused of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta.

- The player denies any relationship with the mafia and ensures that he was convicted only for being Calabrian.

- Reach fame in his time at Udinese, where he made the leap to Juve in 2007.

- The Turin team paid 11.3 million euros for their services.

- He was part of the Italian team that won the World Cup in 2006: he played five games and scored a goal against Ghana in the first phase.

- He was also in the 2010 World Cup, where he started. The 2008 European Championship was lost due to injury.

- The goal against Ghana of the 2006 World Cup was the first of the six that he got with the Azzurra .

- In the 2010 World Cup he also scored a goal: it was a penalty against New Zealand, in the first phase.

- He is married and has four children.

- It measures 1.89 meters.

Biography, palmares, statistics: Vincenzo Iaquinta was born in Crotone, Calabria, Italy, on November 21, 1979. He debuted as a professional in 1996 at Reggiolo. In 1998 he landed at Padova and later, that year, he went to Castel di Sangro. In 2000 he signed for Udinese, where he spent seven years. He then spent four and a half seasons at Juventus, because in 2012 he was loaned to Cesena. He returned to Juve in June of that year, but retired soon after. In his palmares he has a scudetto with Juventus. With Italy he played 40 games and scored six goals. He won, as I was saying, a World Cup.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/19 05:37 PM

From "Coca Tauro" to other ports, cocaine is the business of the ndrangheta
Domenico Latino analyzed the Italian Port Security report on Italian port security 2018 in Gazzetta del Sud

Of editorial board - January 4, 2019

The traffic of cocaine is still firmly in the hands of the ndragheta. And 'this is the main fact that emerges from the report of " Italian port security " analyzed by Domenico Latino on the issue today of the Southern Journal .

One of the novelties in the traffic of white powder is the search by families of new routes and ports in order to make the detection of loads by the investigators more difficult.
The report reads: Â«Among all the various mafia-type organizations in Italy, in fact, the Calabrian has managed to acquire almost total control of this traffic, pushing other criminal organizations, Italian or foreign, to specialize in the traffic of other drugs or in other illicit traffics. The peculiarity of the 'Ndrangheta is that the detention of this monopoly allows it to care less than other trades, such as that of foreign manufactured tobacco, preferring to leave this type of activity in Camorra and Puglia mafias, almost to divide up the proceeds for a peaceful modus vivendi. The acquisition of this substantial monopoly was possible thanks to the creation of solid relations with the South American cartels that made the 'Ndrangheta
among the most important mafia organizations in the world, with ramifications also in Central and Northern Italy and in the rest of Europe (as well as in the rest of the world). Therefore, it is the other Italian mafia organizations that have to turn to the Calabrian clans for the purchase of cocaine consignments ".
Gioia Tauro, according to the study published by Clarissa Spada and Francesco Marone and edited by Lorenzo Vidino, continues to be the main gateway to white powder in Italy.

"And it is precisely in this way - the authors write - that the port of Gioia Tauro increases even more its importance in the world chessboard of traffic. As known, in fact, it also constitutes the largest entrance door to cocaine, so much so as to be sometimes called "Coca Tauro". A port which has now become fundamental for the 'Ndrangheta, where the most important families of the Gioia Tauro plain - Piromalli, Pesce, MolÃ¨, Bellocco - dominate and succeed in penetrating the management of the port on several levels Â».
The strong crackdown on Gioia Tauro has meant that the 'ndrangheta has gradually started to look elsewhere, looking for new points of arrival, where to get its "white gold" from South America. "The various gangs have thus thought to address the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans have managed to create and cement have made these areas a crossroads of sorting ", moreover, closer" to the remunerative dealing channels ".

The impressive checks carried out over the years in the Calabria airport have pushed the clans to diversify the routes and try to find new points of arrival for cocaine. "The various gangs have thus thought to address the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans managed to create and cement have made these areas a sort of crossroads ".

Analyzing the report he writes this morning Latino in Gazzetta del sud: "The container is certainly the most widely used means of transporting coca, concealed behind cover loads, sophisticated double doppers developed to circumvent the X-ray controls or even , in empty containers. For some years the technique of rip-off system has been adopted, which consists in positioning the drug lot in bags in front of the container ship, in such a way as to be easily extracted from "infidel" port operators. Another one concerns transshipment operations off the coasts on smaller boats, often fishing boats. It also happens that the drugs are thrown into the sea from the mother ship, equipped with GPS, so as to intercept them. Finally,

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/08/19 01:59 AM

Ex-mafia boss' ndrangheta: 'The Netherlands in top 3 most contaminated countries'

https://www.nporadio1.nl/achtergron...nederland-in-top-3-meest-besmette-landen

I would love to see more of these Ndrangheta snitches and if they talked numbers. Like in El CHapos trial now all the snitches they tell how much kilos/tons they moved. How much money they made, how much people they killed.. I Would love to see an ex Ndrina confirm the numbers the media says the earn, the 50 billion dollar a year,.. Hear from them if its completly false or close to the truth.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/19 08:04 PM

In the early hours of today, Thursday, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catanzaro, supported by the military from the special wards of the Arma, led the operation "Reventinum".

Twelve people arrested on charges of mafia-type criminal association. On the basis of what emerged during the investigation, two clans of the 'Ndrangheta would have fought in a bloody way to acquire dominion over the Presila Catanzaro mountains. The investigation has resulted in the blitz taken at dawn in Calabria and in some northern regions.

The declarations that the young 30-year-old repentant Emanuele Mancuso, scion of the powerful Mancuso clan of Limbadi left on many occasions, are destined to open new lines of inquiry.

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...ele-mancuso-collabora-boss-tremano-leone

New repentant ! This is Francesco Trunfio, considered a member of the powerful Piromalli clan.

https://lacnews24.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-nuovo-pentito-gioia-tauro-trunfio-piromalli_73709/

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/13/19 09:36 AM

foreign gangs are usually weak and disorganized in italy, they are puppets of italian oc
anyway nigerian gangs who are the strongest among foreign groups nowadays work more for sicilian mafia and camorra than ndrangheta
several drug dealers in the northern italian cities are nigerians and they work under italian oc that need manpower to deal large amount of drugs and there are not enough local ones

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/13/19 12:58 PM

26 year old Antonio Barbieri, nicknamed 'U gnaujiÂ´ was shot two times in the head in his Mercedes. HeÂ´s fighting for his life. Barbieri recently lived in Germany.

https://altrepagine.it/index.php/no...a-colpi-di-pistola-grave-un-pregiudicato

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/16/19 10:44 PM

Over 115 kg of pure cocaine seized in operation against mafia in Italy
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ROME, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Italian police seized over 115 kilograms of pure cocaine in the southern port of Gioia Tauro in a major operation against the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, authorities said on Tuesday.

The drug was hidden aboard a cargo ship inside a container carrying paper reels from San Antonio in Chile. The ship reached Gioia Tauro after a stopover in the Panamanian port of Rodman, and its final destination was the port of Livorno in central Italy.

The cocaine seized would have been worth about 23 million euros (26.3 million U.S. dollars) on the market, Italy's finance military police and customs agency carrying out the operation said in a statement.

The Gioia Tauro port in the Calabria region is considered a major hub for international drug trafficking, and is allegedly under the control of the 'Ndrangheta, currently seen as the most powerful of Italy's three traditional mafia organizations.

According to Italy's anti-drug services, most of the cocaine smuggled in Europe has been delivered from South America to Gioia Tauro port in latest years.

"Almost two tons of cocaine have been seized at the Gioia Tauro port alone in 2017," finance police explained on Tuesday.

"According to the analysis of the Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services (DCSA), this would amount to 80.98 percent of all cocaine seized across the country in the year," they added.

In its annual report released in mid-2018, the DCSA said Gioia Tauro confirmed to be the main entrance for cocaine to Italy. "The analysis of seizures (of cocaine) carried out in this port area in the last 5 years shows an increasing trend with a peak in 2017."

Italy's finance police on Tuesday also sounded an alarm on allegedly unabated efforts of the 'Ndrangheta to find new entry points to the European continent.

"It seems likely the 'Ndrangheta local branches -- which have almost become sole agents for Latin America drug traffickers in Europe -- are constantly looking for new harbors with a relevant traffic volume and, at the same time, more tenuous controls," they wrote.

Police mentioned the ports of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and of Antwerp in Belgium as examples.

In early December, Italian police coordinated an international anti-mafia operation that busted a major 'Ndrangheta drug smuggling and money laundering ring in Europe.

Some 90 suspects -- 70 of whom were Italian nationals -- were arrested in cooperation with police forces in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-01/15/content_74376357.htm

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/17/19 11:19 AM

There were also cases where the Calabrians work with chinese importeurs. Italian chinatowns make loads of money both legal and illegal.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/17/19 07:04 PM

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-suspected-sicilian-mobsters-for-drug-smuggling/a-47122157

German police arrest suspected Sicilian mobsters for drug smuggling.
Italian and German police have launched raids against members of the Sicilian Mafia, according to Italian officials. The suspects nabbed in Germany were allegedly linked with Turkish clans and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/19/19 10:29 AM

He died after four days of agony. Police arrested two youngsters, Cristian Filadoro, 27, and Vincenzo Fornataro, 33, would have confessed during the interrogation. At the base of the crime, according to the first indiscretions, sentimental reasons. Both men have a record for drug dealing, extortion and robbery.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/20/19 10:24 AM

Siderno boss Cosimo Commisso, also known as "The Quail", has been released ! The Godfather served a life sentence since 1998, but was acquitted for not having committed the fact by a Naples judge.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/19 10:58 AM

Cosenza: drug dealing and extortion, 17 arrests
Extortion and drug dealing in Cosenza: a vast operation of the Carabinieri in progress..

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/19 05:30 PM

The way people talk about the Ndrangheta, it would appear that pretty soon the Camorra and cosa nostra will he answering to and buying from them.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/19 08:55 PM

The way people talk about the Ndrangheta, it would appear that pretty soon the Camorra and cosa nostra will he answering to and buying from them.

They will never answer to 'Ndrangheta. Sicilians have their own territory and Camorra too , no need to asnwer to Calabrians. Sicily is biggest producer of weed in Europe, it is common that they supply 'Ndrangheta with weed in exchange of cocaine.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/19 01:49 AM

Seems like a fair arrangement. Have the Sicilians ever made money like the Ndrangheta are making right now? It almost seems unprecedented. Had the American mafia kept up what they were doing before they were just decimated, Iâ€™m sure they would rival them in power and influence but clearly the Ndrangheta is one of the top OC groups in the world if not the top OC group. And the crazy part is, thereâ€™s little to no articles out online that identify the real top Ndrangheta bosses.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/19 02:03 AM

Did the Ndrangheta have to go outside of Italy to really start to grab the control of the cocaine trade in Europe or did they first become a powerhouse in Calabria and then the rest of Italy

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/19 07:36 AM

sicilian mafia at its peak probably made far more money than today ndrangheta
heroin (the most lucrattive drug at that time) was produced in sicily and distributed in both europe and north america
cocaine is imported by south america not produced in italy

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/19 10:58 AM

Did the Ndrangheta have to go outside of Italy to really start to grab the control of the cocaine trade in Europe or did they first become a powerhouse in Calabria and then the rest of Italy

They are big players, but they do not control European cocaine trade. There's not a single group who can do that.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/19 11:59 AM

During 1980's Sicilian mafia was more powerful than 'Ndrangheta today. As Hollander said , they are big players in EU , probably the biggest , but a single group cant control cocaine trade in Europe.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/23/19 08:32 PM

In northern Italy 16 members of San Luca's Nirta-Scalzone family were arrested, among them Bruno Nirta, brother of Giuseppe, who was shot dead in Spain in 2017.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/23/19 09:18 PM

During 1980's Sicilian mafia was more powerful than 'Ndrangheta today. As Hollander said , they are big players in EU , probably the biggest , but a single group cant control cocaine trade in Europe.

It's just that the Calabrians emigrated to a lot more places so the 'ndrangheta is more widespread.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/24/19 03:28 AM

During 1980's Sicilian mafia was more powerful than 'Ndrangheta today. As Hollander said , they are big players in EU , probably the biggest , but a single group cant control cocaine trade in Europe.

Were there ever any real estimations on how much Leggio or Riina was worth? I have heard people say that before though. Is the Ndranghetaâ€™s wealth and power even comparable to the Sicilians in the 80s and if not, are they on their way?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/24/19 08:59 AM

During 1980's Sicilian mafia was more powerful than 'Ndrangheta today. As Hollander said , they are big players in EU , probably the biggest , but a single group cant control cocaine trade in Europe.

Dont listen to m2w he is just an hardcore sicilian mafia fan its just funny. If you think logical the Calabrians make more money now cause they are way deeper in the legitimate buisnesses than the mafias before thats number one then there is the Cocaine buisness which is more worth than the Heroin buisness was back then, and it has spread out throughout every country in the world basically. I mean the numbers Ndrangheta pulls in i have never ever seen somewhere that the sicilian mafia were ever close to it, or any other organization for that matter except for Russian MAfia and the Yakuzas but then we are talking about a countrys whole mafia not a single group like Ndrangheta... Ndrangheta took over the Cosa Nostras place and learned from their mistakes and got better at the things they were doing wrong,, Its kind of obvious right? Its like saying Soccer teams was better in the 80's than the teams now?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/24/19 10:02 AM

doggystyle you seems just a wannabe hip pop fan you dont knows nothing except some inflated numbers you read sometimes and absolutely nothing of the 80s
at that time the political power and the impunity of sicilian mafia was unthinkable today in the western world... just see the tons of mafia murders and judges and politicians killed the direct links with giulio andreotti and p2, the production of heroin in in sicily, international connections etc.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/24/19 02:54 PM

The 80's were completely different time. Sicilian mafia was way more in legitimate businesses than 'Ndrangheta today. Go read about masonic lodge P2,even the president of Vatican Bank was involved (Paul Marcinkus). There are some evidence that P3 and P4 exist today, few 'Ndrangheta bosses were caught on tape talking about it.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 12:28 AM

Iâ€™ve heard this so many times. But what does a Masonic lodge do for the mafia exactly? Iâ€™m not even 100% sure a Masonic lodge is. Masons are builders, so are you saying that the mafia controls what gets built and what doesnâ€™t?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 12:29 AM

During 1980's Sicilian mafia was more powerful than 'Ndrangheta today. As Hollander said , they are big players in EU , probably the biggest , but a single group cant control cocaine trade in Europe.

I do agree that I havenâ€™t seen numbers like the Ndrangheta before. Not even from the Russians, Colombians or Mexicans.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 12:47 AM

Masonic lodge is a group of very powerful/influential people.When u have at least group of 10 people, its easier to get new powerful people to join , because everyone wanna increase their influence and wealth.

Take a example at masonic lodge P2, some of the members were: Silvio Berlusconi (prime minister of italy later), Paul Marcinkus(president of Vatican Bank),Roberto Calvi(CEO of Banco Ambrosiano), Michele Sindona(banker, owned Franklin National Bank) , heads of all secret services in Italy,Vittorio Emanuele(son of last Italian king) and so on. U get the point.

Masonic lodges are literally "brains behind the mafia", its mostly white collar criminals , they almost never go to prison.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 01:04 AM

Freemasons control governments and in Italy the mafosi infiltrated the lodges since the 70s, many old school mafiosi were against it and that was the cause of many conflicts. At the end the new mafiosi who were now also masons won the wars.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 07:45 AM

[quote=doggystyle]
I do agree that I havenâ€™t seen numbers like the Ndrangheta before. Not even from the Russians, Colombians or Mexicans.

probably because these numbers are mostly inflated or total bullshit, nobody can knows how much a criminal group earn, it's impossibile
anyway the richest gangster in italy is by far the sicilian boss matteo messina denaro, police really seized about 5 billion euros in assets from him, so far

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 01:07 PM

[quote=doggystyle]
I do agree that I havenâ€™t seen numbers like the Ndrangheta before. Not even from the Russians, Colombians or Mexicans.

I read about the 1.5 billion. They seized 3.5 billion more since then?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 01:08 PM

Why were the old school mafiosi against them if they could increase their power and influence?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 01:25 PM

Why were the old school mafiosi against them if they could increase their power and influence?

They were afraid of losing power that the freemasonry would run their affairs and political connections. Italian lodges unlike british and mainstream lodges have always been very political and are not recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 02:22 PM

If the people from the lodges like Berlusconi were the real brains behind the mafia since the 70s, then were they basically like bosses? Were they the most powerful men in the mafia?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 02:24 PM

[quote=doggystyle]
I do agree that I havenâ€™t seen numbers like the Ndrangheta before. Not even from the Russians, Colombians or Mexicans.

I do put some stock into the numbers they report regarding the Ndrangheta because all the large seizures that theyâ€™ve had. Yet they keep importing to the same areas regardless. So I do believe that their profits must be staggering.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 02:39 PM

[quote=m2w]

according to police seizures sicilian mafia is the richest, followed by camorra but ndrangheta is probably earning more in the latest years sicilian mafia accumulated billions in assests since the 70s

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 04:12 PM

[quote=m2w]

The camorra and Sicilians have been more powerful for a longer period of time so I understand what you mean. But like you said, in recent years it seems the ndrangheta has taken their opportunity as the Sicilians and Camorra have been under the spotlight and theyâ€™ve become the top power in the world and still growing. At least at the moment.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 04:25 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...8acd933-57f7-45c5-bb03-263d97ab3276.html

Val d'Aosta councillor arrested in 'Ndrangheta probe
Operation against mob infiltration in northern province

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 04:28 PM

http://www.cn24tv.it/news/185845/ndrangheta-arrestato-in-belgio-strangio-consegnato-all-italia.html

'Ndrangheta: arrested in Belgium, Strangio delivered to Italy.
Domenico Strangio , a 30-year-old from Siderno, belonging to the homonymous family of San Luca, will be handed over to the Italian police .

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 04:34 PM

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...esi-un-quarto-della-popolazione/4923084/

'Ndrangheta in Valle d'Aosta, the arrested businessman: "We are 32 thousand Calabrians, a quarter of the population"

So said Antonio Raso, the restaurateur considered at the center of the investigation that led to the arrests on Wednesday. A presence that allowed to address votes with promises of work and led to the election of an affiliate, Nicola Prettico, in the city council of Aosta who had attended a meeting in San Luca

by Andrea Giambartolomei | 25 January 2019

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/19 10:38 PM

If the people from the lodges like Berlusconi were the real brains behind the mafia since the 70s, then were they basically like bosses? Were they the most powerful men in the mafia?

No the ones who are pulling te strings are members of the 'ndrangheta or cosa nostra but who are also freemasons.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mafia-join-italys-freemasons-to-do-deals-with-judiciary-b6jcm7v0n

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/19 05:33 PM

In recent years,it happened few times that members of freemasonry were arrested & sentenced.

All credits for this post go to:EddyGreen

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/19 10:20 PM

Like pantaleone mancuso said on a wiretap a few years ago, it's now freemasons the 'ndrangheta doesn't matter anymore all the big decisions are taken in the lodges.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/19 11:52 PM

Correct me if im wrong cause i dont know so much about this. But isnt the mafiosis very religious and believe in god etc ? and the Freemasons are Satan worshippers usually?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/19 12:20 AM

Correct me if im wrong cause i dont know so much about this. But isnt the mafiosis very religious and believe in god etc ? and the Freemasons are Satan worshippers usually?

One of the first things I thought of initially lol

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/19 12:23 AM

Are the current bosses of the ndrangheta even known? They are very secretive.

Posted By: Andragathia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/19 12:30 AM

The church doesn't want it's congregation to join the masons. But being treated so poorly by this pope, who like the vatican, forgets what people and their ancestors have done to protect them, and saying he excommunicates honorable men, has caused friction. So to gain strength through numbers, many have become masons. Devil worship is not their thing. Their symbols have been hijacked by imposters and used to give that impression. Look at the shriners, if that is the work of satan then he must be turning over a new leaf.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/19 12:51 AM

Correct me if im wrong cause i dont know so much about this. But isnt the mafiosis very religious and believe in god etc ? and the Freemasons are Satan worshippers usually?

When it comes to money,power and influence they don't care who do you believe in. President of Vatican bank was member of P2 , and a lot more people from Vatican i am sure.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/19 10:34 AM

'Ndrangheta: 25 arrests in Calabria for international drug trafficking linked to the Mancuso clan.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/19 02:40 PM

When you see such a large amount of people starting to get arrested, would it be safe to assume that their strength could be decreasing a little? They are no longer an anonymous or measly crime organization as pretty much everyone knows about them present day.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/19 10:52 PM

In the bust today were also arrested a Colombian boss who worked with Escobar and several sicilians.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/19 10:21 PM

Also arrested an actor who has worked as an appearance in the TV series "Gomorra" .This is Carlo Cuccia, 39, from Tradate (Varese).

Cuccia appeared in the fiction as "specchiettista", the one that has the task of reporting the presence of the target to be hit at the time of ambushes. In reality, within the criminal organization Cuccia, according to reports from the investigators, had been assigned the task of finding arms.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/19 02:21 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/31/19 03:12 AM

Based on where it was recovered, is it safe to say that itâ€™s the Ndranghetaâ€™s shipment?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/31/19 06:46 AM

Based on where it was recovered, is it safe to say that itâ€™s the Ndranghetaâ€™s shipment?

They didn't say for certainty but based on the fact that the Ndrangheta controls about 80 % of the cocaine entering Europe, the probability that it may be them is a good assumption.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/31/19 02:49 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/31/19 07:11 PM

Is that a totally different haul? Thatâ€™s an insane number

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/31/19 11:01 PM

Iâ€™ve heard you say that the Sicilian mafia was the strongest and richest OC group/cartel ever seen. Can you tell me if they were really richer than the Medellin cartel under Escobar? Because he controlled roughly 80% of the coke trade and his operations was taking in an estimated $26 billion a year when he was on top. Can you direct me towards articles of the Sicilians, ndrangheta or Camorra members rivaling that?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 12:03 AM

Is that a totally different haul? Thatâ€™s an insane number

I believe it is a different haul because they speak of different amounts of bags seized.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 03:38 AM

Is that a totally different haul? Thatâ€™s an insane number

I believe it is a different haul because they speak of different amounts of bags seized.

Ndrangheta is not playing lol

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 05:52 AM

You can see in alot of articles about the Ndrangheta making twice that amount. But i've never read about the Sicilian mafia that they did. But if m2w says so then i guess it is so.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 11:46 AM

'Ndrangheta: the role of women grows, from drug trafficking to the collection of lace
No longer the mere role of logistical assistance to the fugitives, "women have conquered important spaces" in the criminal activities of the 'ndrangheta protagonists of vicious activities related to the trafficking of drugs and the collection of lace' ". It was Francesco RattÃ , manager of the Reggio Calabria mobile team, to outline the role of women in the Calabrian organized crime, speaking at the conference 'Investigate 2.0 - Past, present and future in the fight against crime', in Rome at the High School of Police '. More and more important roles that cage 'even those who want to get out of the criminal circuit. "We are not yet witnessing mass rebellion phenomena, until now we are only recording single episodes of women who choose to collaborate with justice to escape from that world", adds the investigator. A risky way, if you think that "the code of the 'Ndrangheta foresees death for this kind of transgressions. In fact, there have been cases of 'ndrangheta and suicide' feminicides.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 06:44 PM

You can see in alot of articles about the Ndrangheta making twice that amount. But i've never read about the Sicilian mafia that they did. But if m2w says so then i guess it is so.

I do not doubt his knowledge. I just hold the Medellin cartel as the standard and I would love to hear someone make a case for another OC/cartel group to see if Iâ€™m wrong. At Pabloâ€™s height they were dwarfing other OC groups based on money and power. This was back in the 80s as well. So their income is even more impressive. Ndrangheta in recent years Iâ€™m sure can be compared if those numbers are accurate. And based on the police seizures that are reported, I do believe the estimated numbers.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 06:59 PM

medellin cartel led by escobar was very rich, anyway like i said the numbers are often inflated and wrong, nobody can know exactly how an organized crime group earns, they are mostly speculations
anyway sicilian mafia produced heroin in sicily and supplied both europe and north america and it was the most lucrative drug at that time, it also was involved in several other rackets (public works, constructions, fruit, fish and vegetables markets, extortions, gambling, waste disposal) while medellin cartel focussed on drug only
so although probably there are not estimates about sicilian mafia of that time i think it earned even more, and also sicilian mafia is the crime groups in italy with the most billions seized in assets, accumulated in the past, though ndrangheta is earning more in the lateste years

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 09:06 PM

If the Sicilians were earning more than the Medellin cartel, how do you think they stayed under the radar? And what was the mafiaâ€™s biggest money earner outside of drugs and did it compare to what they were making in drugs? Also, if you can then link me some of the seizures worth billions. Iâ€™ll look for them myself as well, but the only one I know of is the one involving Denaro.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/19 10:28 PM

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/24/le...ganized-crime-is-global-and-flourishing/

The following was taken from the attached article published in 2018. If true, according to this article, the Ndrangheta has achieved monumental success/revenues from their criminal enterprises.

Calabriaâ€™s prosecutors would conclude that the â€™Ndrangheta had a presence in 120 of the worldâ€™s 200 countries and a global income of $50-100 billion at its upper end, around $10 billion more than Microsoftâ€™s annual revenue. They ran heroin, marijuana and 70 percent of the cocaine in Europe. They extorted Calabriaâ€™s businesses for billions of euros every year and, further afield, embezzled and rigged contracts from the Italian government and the European Union worth billions more, even cornering the market in the disposal of nuclear waste, which they dumped in the Red Sea off Somalia. Their empire linked a mob war in Toronto to a cocaine-delivering pizzeria in Queens, New York, called Cucino a Modo Mio (I Cook My Own Way) to the reported ownership of an entire Brussels neighborhood to mining in Togo.
Their gun-running business directly affected the destiny of nations: Franco Roberti, head of Italyâ€™s anti-mafia directorate, told me the â€™Ndrangheta was selling weapons to several sides in Syriaâ€™s civil war. But it was laundering their riches and those of other crime groups from around the world, which the Calabrians did for a fee, that made the â€™Ndrangheta a global power. Millions of people worked in their companies, shopped in their stores, ate in their restaurants, lived in their buildings and elected politicians they funded. Giuseppe Lombardo, a Calabrian prosecutor specializing in the â€™Ndranghetaâ€™s finances, told me that by buying up the government debt of two Asian countries, Thailand and Indonesia, then threatening to dump it, the â€™Ndrangheta had blackmailed entire nations into letting it operate on their territory. Their money, said Lombardo, had elevated the group to a position of invulnerability. They now occupied a "fundamental and indispensable position in the global market," he said, one that was "more or less essential for the smooth functioning of the global economic system."

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 03:20 AM

In northern Italy 16 members of San Luca's Nirta-Scalzone family were arrested, among them Bruno Nirta, brother of Giuseppe, who was shot dead in Spain in 2017.

Bruno Nirta is a "santista".

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 05:59 AM

The fact that the Ndrangheta handles these massive asset and drug seizures in stride should tell us all we need to know.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 08:05 AM

The fact that the Ndrangheta handles these massive asset and drug seizures in stride should tell us all we need to know.

I agree, it is self explanatory.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 02:21 PM

https://www.telemia.it/2019/02/ndra...mato-carcere-a-vita-per-francesco-baron/

Ndrangheta: Francesco Barone ,33 year old from Rosarno, was accused of killing his mother after discovering she had an extramarital affair.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 04:28 PM

there is a link of assets seized from organized crime groups in italy, it's in italian but you can use google translate; 11.640 is the total, and almost half (4.728) of them in sicily, and some of the ones seized across italy belonged to sicilian mafia too, so about 60% of the total
they are official numbers, not speculations

https://www.wired.it/attualita/politica/2017/07/19/beni-confiscati-mafie-mappa/?refresh_ce=

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 05:04 PM

https://www.wired.it/attualita/politica/2017/07/19/beni-confiscati-mafie-mappa/?refresh_ce=

Iâ€™ll habe to download google translate. 11.64 billion? At the rate that the ndrangheta is going, I wouldnâ€™t be surprised if they ended up having the most assets seized in the future. In the 80s which you consider the absolute prime for the Sicilian mafia, are there estimates on what they were bringing in relative to what the ndrangheta is bringing in now? Or what the Medellin cartel brought in under Pablo? I know Riina had aroun $125 million worth of assets confiscated when he was arrested. Camorra bosses were also loaded maybe like Riina as well at that time I believe. Iâ€™ve seen reports of Alfieri, Zaza, Bardellino and Nuvoletta being worth close to billions of not in the billions. Like you said, only real insiders really know but I wouldnâ€™t put it past them during that time.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 05:12 PM

it's not 11 billions, it's the number of assets seized apartments, companies, hotels etc. 11.640, i don't know the value
anyway, they seized 5 billions from messina denaro only, so from sicilian mafia as a whole is much more

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 09:14 PM

What assets of his did they seize? I saw that 1.5 billion were seized from an Italian businessman who served as a money launderer for them. And I saw 1.4 were seized from cascio who is supposedly another money launderer.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 09:36 PM

they seized about 5 billions in total from businessmen messina denaro used as frontmen (nicastri, patti, savalle and others)

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 10:12 PM

I added the translated copy

Goods confiscated from the mafia, the map of companies and properties taken away from criminal organizations
Villas, apartments and businesses, this is how the assets of the bosses are reused, region by region, municipality by municipality

by Antonio Iafano

There are 12,480 of the stolen assets from the mafia and returned to the community. This is stated by data from the National Agency for Assets seized and confiscated from organized crime (Anbsc), updated from 1980 to early July 2017. The assets consist of 11,604 properties and 876 companies. To these figures are added another 130 thousand units, of which about 17 thousand classified as seized, 52,010 as confiscated and 23,692 recipient goods, or confiscated with final sentence but which are still awaiting destination.

According to the information portal of the Anbsc , there are currently 3,339 ongoing judicial procedures, of which 77% consists of preventive measures and the remainder from classical criminal proceedings. Thanks to the data provided by the Agency, we have mapped and analyzed the assets that were once criminal organizations.

The properties
The map shows the confiscated and intended real estate exiting the management of the Anbsc. The buildings can be transferred to the patrimony of the territorial entities , maintained to the patrimony of the State or sold .

There are 11,640 real estate already destined in Italy. The only Region of Sicily has 4,728 assets , which added to those of the other southern regions represent just over 80% of the total reused properties.

Palermo is the municipality with the highest number of properties ( 1,744 ), followed by Reggio Calabria ( 386 ) and Naples ( 233 ). Milan is the fourth among Italian cities and first among the northern ones with 217 confiscated properties .

The main recipients of the assets are the Municipalities , with 81% of the properties, and the Police for which 11% of the properties have been allocated . A smaller percentage is used by the Regions and other State administrations. More than half of the properties, as provided for by the anti-mafia code, are used for social purposes , the remainder for institutional or public order purposes . 19 properties are maintained by the Anbsc for economic purposes . About 60% of the assets are represented by real estate units for residential use , while about 30% of land and almost 9% of units for industrial or commercial use . Among the assets there are also over 1000 units surveyed as castles or palaces of artistic and historical value. There are 163 properties sold and 14 those destroyed.

The companies
Palermo , with 146 companies , is also the first city for the number of companies confiscated, followed by Rome ( 93 ), Milan ( 43 ) and Naples ( 36 ).

Among the 876 companies confiscated , limited liability companies account for 62%, individual companies 16%, limited partnerships and 15%, only limited companies are only 2.17%.

The confiscated businesses are above all belonging to the construction sector. Businesses belonging to the trade around 10%. A significant share, almost 8%, is also represented by the hotel and restaurant sector.

In contrast to real estate, most companies are liquidated and closed. According to data from the ANBSC 813 companies have been liquidated, 59 sold and only 3 are rented.

According to the Register of Companies, in 2016 the companies confiscated from the mafia counted 2,973 employees and a production value equal to 638,572,504 â‚¬

How much are the assets confiscated from the mafia?
According to the President of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, Rosy Bindi, this is a wealth worth over 25 billion euros. However, there is a great deal of confusion among the state offices that deal with the subject. Last year the Court of Auditors tried to estimate the value of confiscated assets, crossing the data of the Ministries of Justice and the Interior, he concluded that the value amounts to at least one billion euros.
But even this figure is not entirely reliable. Article. 36 of the Anti-Mafia Code provides that the judicial administrator appointed by the Court to estimate the asset, and art. 47 that the National Agency for the Seized and Confiscated Assets will decide the destination of the asset on the basis of the estimate of the value performed by the administrator. The Court of Auditors, in his report he noted that judicial offices almost never transcribe the value of the asset and that ANBSC does not have the legal obligation to report the value of the assets. So the Court of Auditors makes its analysis starting from the estimate of the asset at the time of the seizure. The problem is that, as the Court itself notes in its report,

between the communication of the judicial chancery and the actual destination of the assets, they spend more than 5 years, a period in which the good is often abandoned and loses its value. This makes inaccurate any assessment of the total estimate of assets confiscated from the mafia.

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 10:34 PM

there is a mistake in this article... according to this source the assets still awaiting destination are 17.387, 5.812 in Sicily, 2.465 in Campania, 2.028 in Calabria

https://www.ilsicilia.it/beni-confi...-mancate-seimila-immobili-senza-padroni/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 11:56 PM

I added the translated copy

by Antonio Iafano

The companies
Palermo , with 146 companies , is also the first city for the number of companies confiscated, followed by Rome ( 93 ), Milan ( 43 ) and Naples ( 36 ).

Among the 876 companies confiscated , limited liability companies account for 62%, individual companies 16%, limited partnerships and 15%, only limited companies are only 2.17%.

In contrast to real estate, most companies are liquidated and closed. According to data from the ANBSC 813 companies have been liquidated, 59 sold and only 3 are rented.

According to the Register of Companies, in 2016 the companies confiscated from the mafia counted 2,973 employees and a production value equal to 638,572,504 â‚¬

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/19 11:58 PM

there is a mistake in this article... according to this source the assets still awaiting destination are 17.387, 5.812 in Sicily, 2.465 in Campania, 2.028 in Calabria

https://www.ilsicilia.it/beni-confi...-mancate-seimila-immobili-senza-padroni/

Do you think Riina still has money hidden away that his family taps into or do you think that they brought his family to their knees financially(at least from his finances)

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/19 04:56 AM

Is there a specific family within the ndrangheta that is the powerhouse of the organization?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/19 09:57 AM

Is there a specific family within the ndrangheta that is the powerhouse of the organization?

In the past it was the Piromallis with the legendary don Mommo Piromalli, who was seen as the boss of the bosses. He was the head of the 'ndrangheta tirrenica. Don Antonio MacrÃ¬ was the head of 'ndrangheta jonica.
According to the boss Saverio Mammoliti they needed the trust and the approval of three bosses Piromalli, MacrÃ¬ and Paolo Violi in Canada.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/19 04:08 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/19 11:28 PM

Is there a specific family within the ndrangheta that is the powerhouse of the organization?

What about Pelle? I saw a documentary about him recently. I saw something about Ciccio Pesce too.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/19 11:31 PM

Is there a specific family within the ndrangheta that is the powerhouse of the organization?

Was there any ndrangheta clan that was/is as powerful as the Zaza clan, clans in the casalesi, Nuvolettas or Alfieri? From what Iâ€™ve seen online, they seemed to be very profitable and very powerful in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Iâ€™m sure they still are to this day.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/19 11:59 AM

Is there a specific family within the ndrangheta that is the powerhouse of the organization?

The Piromalli-MolÃ¨ clan now controls the largest container port in Italy. But back in the 70s they made a fortune with kidnappings the Piromallis kidnapped John Paul Getty for example. The camorra clans were powerful because they controlled the Napels port.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/19 03:36 PM

What you guys think about the San Luca clans?

I often read that they belong to the most powerful clans of Ndrangheta.

Here some Links.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrina_La_Maggiore

http://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Nirta_(%27ndrina)

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/19 05:21 PM

The port in Calabria is the largest in Italy? I wouldâ€™ve guessed Salerno. Not that I would know.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/19 05:24 PM

What you guys think about the San Luca clans?

I often read that they belong to the most powerful clans of Ndrangheta.

Here some Links.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrina_La_Maggiore

http://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Nirta_(%27ndrina)

Thatâ€™s why I asked about Antonio Pelle. He was the leader of one of the San Luca clans. I havenâ€™t seen any asset seizures done on him so itâ€™s hard to tell exactly what his fortune may have been. The same can be said for any ndrangheta mafiosi. Whereas the Camorra has had a lot of asset and drug seizures done on individual people and clans so you can more easily estimate what the individuals may be worth.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 01:13 AM

I think its still the Piromallis, when it comes to money atleast.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 09:34 AM

I think its still the Piromallis, when it comes to money atleast.

One of their strengths was they created alliances with other groups like the Crea, Mazzaferro, Pesce and Mammoliti.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 11:51 AM

The Australian branches, like Barbaro are powerful..

The Mancuso clan is powerful, the Commisos, the DeStefanos are big masons, The Coluccios, Bellocco and Pesce clans get a piece of every shipment through Gio Tauro. The Crupis are embedded in the Holland flower industry, the Figliomenis are big in Local Calabrian politics...

Domenico Pelle, 26 year old boss just got busted....

The Piromalli- Mole clan I think still has the most wealth.....not sure

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Twenty-six thousand marijuana plants, clash of the Vibo Valentia clan: the son of the boss Mancuso repents, 18 arrests

Police operation called "Secret Gardens". To control the plantations they used drones. The narcotic had a market value of 20 million

of ALESSIA CANDITO
July 21, 2018

VIBO VALENTIA. The latest unprecedented trade strategy of the Calabrian clans for drug trafficking exploits drones, web and migrants. It is on the web, in fact, that Emanuele Mancuso, thirty year old son of the boss Pantaleone "The Engineer", sailed in search of the best seeds of hemp, which then bought in huge quantities. Formally everything is regular, because the seeds can be bought for collecting. It is a pity, however, that the young scion of the Mancuso thigh, who recently started collaborating with the magistrates, used them to grow 26,000 marijuana plants in huge plantations scattered throughout the Vibonese.

The investigators of the Police Headquarters of Vibo Valentia, led by Andrea Grassi, discovered that with the coordination of the Catanzaro DDA directed by the Chief Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, they reconstructed the entire production chain of cannabis, managing to identify all the characters involved. Together with Mancuso, 17 people (8 in prison, 10 at home) have been involved in handcuffs. They have been accused in various ways of having been part of the supply chain. Another 21 are investigated on the loose. The 18 sites of a company specialized in the sale of Indian hemp seeds, scattered between Alessandria, Brescia, Caltanissetta, Catanzaro, Chieti, Genoa, Imperia, Lecce, Milan, Naples, Salerno and Savona are searched and seized.

"The investigation was almost defined and closed - explains the Chief Prosecutor Gratteri - when the stroke of luck arrived, the repentance of Emanuele Mancuso". About a month ago, the engineer's son, already in jail for extortion, asked to speak with the magistrates and since then he would have filled verbal reports. An absolute novelty for the powerful and up to now impenetrable family of 'ndrangheta of Limbadi, which has never counted with a collaborator in its ranks. "For this reason - say the investigators - Emanuele Mancuso's collaboration could be precious".

Exuberant character, became known not only for the criminal enterprises but also for the angry phone calls with which he used to storm the local newspapers to contest this or that article, Mancuso was born and raised within the clan. And he is aware of the structure, balance and roles within the numerous quarrelsome family of 'ndrangheta, long divided between those who invoke a low-profile and low-profile policy that does not disturb business and those who do not disdain striking actions, such as the car bomb that on 9 April killed Matteo Vinci.

Deposits that Mancuso jr knows perfectly well, as well as knowing about the lucrative business of the clan, among the pioneers of international drug trafficking and today unscrupulous in the policies of reinvestment of the billions earned by transporting coca through the oceans. Even Emanuele had chosen to engage in the traditional "family business", however, cutting out a substantially autonomous business sector in the field of light drugs, carried out with an "innovative" method.

"He's a specialist - says Gratteri - I've never seen one more experienced than him in marijuana cultivation. He looks like an agronomist, he also knows all the techniques of indoor cultivation ". And he had managed to invent a real "industrial" production chain of grass, taking advantage - says Gratteri - "of the hypocrisies permitted by the current law". The seeds were bought on-line on the portal hempatia.com, now blocked, specialized in the sale "for collectors", and connected to a distribution network of over 18 stores scattered throughout Italy.

It is from there - investigators have discovered - that the seeds were then used in six gigantic hidden fields between Nicotera, Ioppolo and Capistrano, where marijuana plants were grown capable of producing over 2 million doses of "grass". Foreign farm workers were involved in the care, management and irrigation of the plantations, many of them coming from the San Ferdinando tent.

This is a novelty for the Calabrian clans, who generally have always entrusted the supervision of "cultivations" to their own low laborers. A task that is not particularly prestigious, but criminally risky, for this - explain the investigators - entrusted to laborers without rights and sometimes even without documents. Mancuso and his people, though not physically present, watched over their precious crops, thanks to some drones that flew to control both workers and crops.
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Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 12:16 PM

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 12:16 PM

Leandro Greco is said to have ties to this region....

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 12:19 PM

Then you have the Ursinos, who look to be tight with the Gambinos, I suspect they are active in Toronto...

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 05:51 PM

About the Barbaro's they control the Lombardy 'ndrangheta.
Rocco â€˜U sparitu â€" a nickname he shares with his brother Giuseppe, also known as Charly, who has been in hiding for 14 years â€" was considered the boss, and according to Catanzariti is a member of the Vangelo (â€œGospelâ€), a high-ranking group within the â€˜ndrangheta. Rocco was arrested in 2017.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 07:59 PM

Are any of these clans at war over vendettas?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 11:06 PM

Then you have the Ursinos, who look to be tight with the Gambinos, I suspect they are active in Toronto...

In New York you also have the Aquino-Scali group said to be pretty dangerous.

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 11:08 PM

The Australian branches, like Barbaro are powerful..

Domenico Pelle, 26 year old boss just got busted....

The Piromalli- Mole clan I think still has the most wealth.....not sure

Is this the same Barbaro clan whos sons has been murdered by bikers or somehting like that? They dont seem to powerful

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 11:19 PM

The Australian branches, like Barbaro are powerful..

Domenico Pelle, 26 year old boss just got busted....

The Piromalli- Mole clan I think still has the most wealth.....not sure

Is this the same Barbaro clan whos sons has been murdered by bikers or somehting like that? They dont seem to powerful

They are cousins, but indeed several members have been killed. The most important member was Domenico Barbaro who later settled in Milan called 'Mico l'Australiano and his sons Salvatore and Saverio.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/19 11:31 PM

Are any of these clans at war over vendettas?

There are tensions/fights all the time, but the last real war was probably the San Luca feud. After the Duisburg massacre in 2007 it has been pretty quiet, however their presence has almost quadrupled in Germany over the past decade.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/19 07:48 AM

What you guys think about the San Luca clans?

I often read that they belong to the most powerful clans of Ndrangheta.

Here some Links.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrina_La_Maggiore

http://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Nirta_(%27ndrina)

in san luca there are 3 strong ndrangheta clans nirta-strangio, pelle-vottari and nirta-scalzone, all with international connection, that's the highest concentration in a town only
san luca is the most powerful in the ndrangheta

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/19 10:48 AM

An intimidating escalation and threats addressed to two pizzerias in the province of Reggio Emilia.
Today the carabinieri arrested Mario, Cosimo and Michele Amato : they are the sons of Francesco, considered one of the organizers of an association of 'ndrangheta in the rich province of the central north region and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in the Aemilia maxi process.
According to the investigators of the District Anti - Mafia Directorate of Bologna, together with his brother Alfredo he would have been " constantly in touch " with the other alleged associates of the Crotone crime family of the Grande Aracri.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/10/19 11:13 PM

Are any of these clans at war over vendettas?

I saw a doc about that feud. Very gruesome.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/19 10:47 PM

Are any of these clans at war over vendettas?

I saw a doc about that feud. Very gruesome.

Speaking of that.

'Ndrangheta, massacre of Duisburg: confirmed life imprisonment for Sebastiano Nirta

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/ar...ta-d4a146f4-21d7-44f6-b5c1-1f59a9c335b3/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/12/19 09:58 AM

'ndrangheta in Veneto: 7 arrests. Operation against the Multari family, active in the Verona area for over 30 years.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-in-veneto-7-arresti-e-20-perquisizioni/

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/13/19 08:32 PM

Are any of these clans at war over vendettas?

I saw a doc about that feud. Very gruesome.

What Documentation did you see? Do you have a link?

Here another Video about the Ndrangheta and the San Luca Clans at 09:55.

https://www.france24.com/en/2013051...heta-calabria-drug-trafficking-france-24

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/14/19 01:57 AM

Seeing a lot of the ndrangheta members last names compared to camorra and cosa nostra last names is so weird. Mole, Nirta, Pirommali etc. All names that are so uncommon and to an extent, may not even sound or look that Italian(speaking mainly about Mole).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/14/19 11:38 AM

There are little more than five pages that the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate dedicates to the province of Vibo Valentia in its usual semi-annual report. The time frame taken into consideration concerns the first six months of 2018. In Vibonese - the dossier reads - the widespread, nefarious influence of the Limbadi local is recorded. Ergo, the Mancuso are still dictating the rules of the game in one of the Italian territory with the highest mafia density. A family, that of the Mancuso, which - according to the Dia - boasts solid alliances with the coasts of Reggio Calabria and those of the plain of Gioia Tauro. The report specifically cites the bomb attack that killed the young Matteo Vinci, an innocent victim of mafia arrogance.

The role of women.The figure of Rosaria Mancuso emerged from the "Demetra" investigation conducted by the Carabinieri and which shed light on the attack by Limbadi. The role of women in the 'ndrangheta vibonese appears to be marked in another investigation that characterized the first half of the investigative activities of the various law enforcement agencies. The Dia cita, among many others, the "Black Widows" operation carried out by the State Police that carried out the arrest of 7 subjects, held responsible, in various capacities, of attempted murder and illegal arms, as authors of the attack on 28 July 2017, in Sorianello, against two brothers. The investigations have allowed to bring back the motive of this ambush to the criminal dynamics in place in the municipalities of Soriano, Sorianello and Gerocarne "... for the conquest of the leadership in the territory between two opposing factions, within the same" local of 'ndrangheta "known as the local dell'Ariola ...". Of absolute importance, once again, of some women of 'ndrangheta (hence the name of the operation) whose role, from the investigation, is returned in all its centrality: sometimes as the instigators of heinous criminal actions, sometimes as accomplices in the concealment and conservation of weapons.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/14/19 02:35 PM

Many last names have Greek influences, like the word Â´ndrangheta itself.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/14/19 03:56 PM

Many last names have Greek influences, like the word Â´ndrangheta itself.

So does Sicily. But you can clearly spot the differences between Greek culture and Italian culture. Language as well I would assume. But did people specifically from the Greek influenced villages stay there instead of immigrating in the late 1800s and early 1900s? Because a lot of Sicilians, calabrese and Neapolitans(that I see who are in one of the 3 mafia groups) who are still in Italy have pretty distinct last names. I know itâ€™s hard to determine what region one is from by last name because there can be a family with that name from multiple regions throughout Italy, but still.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/19 03:49 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/19 11:49 AM

Reggio Calabria, killed in ambush of 'ndrangheta Francesco Catalano: "Near the boss Ciccio RodÃ "
His role had lately grown in the northern suburbs of Reggio Calabria. A crime that fits perfectly into the dynamics that are affecting the gangs of Gallico , the district of origin of the victim. In fact, between intimidation, damage and murder, the local 'ndrangheta for more than a year is at the center of never healed frictions.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/19 01:04 PM

Ndrangheta Fugitive Strangio captured
'Dangerous' criminal had been on run for a year

(ANSA) -Rome, February 15 - Carabinieri police in the southern region of Calabria said Friday that overnight they captured a "dangerous" 'Ndrangheta mafia fugitive, Francesco Strangio.
Strangio, who had been on the run for a year, was found in an apartment in the centre of Rose, a small town in the province of Cosenza.
He is linked to the Strangio-Janchi clan of San Luca and will now serve a 14-year term for international drug trafficking for having negotiated and managed the importation of cocaine from South America.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/19 06:31 PM

Many last names have Greek influences, like the word Â´ndrangheta itself.

To add to my point, the name Janchi is also a last name that you could add to the list. My guess is that the southern regions such as Calabria and Sicily must have a lot of unfamiliar names like this as you were saying.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/19 07:53 PM

janchi is not a surname, it's the nickname of the strangio family members

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/16/19 01:45 AM

janchi is not a surname, it's the nickname of the strangio family members

Ok I misunderstood. I saw Strangio-janchi and thought it was an allegiance between clans.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/16/19 02:54 AM

How many Ndrangheta members are there? I know itâ€™s hard to know an exact number but is the 6,000 number on Wikipedia accurate at all? For such a large organization thereâ€™s very little info on individual members. Compared to the Sicilians and Camorra, thereâ€™s barely anything since they have whole essays on many different members of their organization.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/19/19 11:38 PM

Italian police on Tuesday arrested 23 people in busting a drugs gang belonging to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The arrests were made in Calabria, Campania, Lombardy, Liguria and Puglia, police said.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/19 04:08 PM

The Australian branches, like Barbaro are powerful..

Domenico Pelle, 26 year old boss just got busted....

The Piromalli- Mole clan I think still has the most wealth.....not sure

Is this the same Barbaro clan whos sons has been murdered by bikers or somehting like that? They dont seem to powerful

They are cousins, but indeed several members have been killed. The most important member was Domenico Barbaro who later settled in Milan called 'Mico l'Australiano and his sons Salvatore and Saverio.

Salvatore Barbaro turned himself in at the Carabinieri station in Milan, he must serve 8 years. His wife is the daughter of the powerful boss Rocco Papalia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/19 07:32 PM

Mafia group planning to distribute drugs between Italy and Spain detained by police

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2019...d-spain-detained-by-police/#.XG78bOj0nIV

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/19 02:27 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/19 07:28 PM

Reggio Calabria, boss of the 'Ndrangheta write to the judge Roberto Di Bella: "thanks for the work of recovery for our children, continue like this"

The president of Reggio Calabria's juvenile court, Roberto Di Bella, receives letters from prisoners and also from bosses in prison at 41bis, who invite him to continue his work. He receives them for his commitment to the 'recovery' of the children of affiliates to the 'ndrangheta. His recent work was inspired by the fiction of Rai1 "Liberi di scelta", with Alessandro Preziosi as the magistrate. To state the receipt of these letters was Di Bella during an interview with gNews, the information newspaper of the Ministry of Justice. " I had this chance, probably, I would not be here today ," wrote an inmate.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/23/19 11:00 AM

Is this the same Barbaro clan whos sons has been murdered by bikers or somehting like that? They dont seem to powerful

I think it was internal, the bikers wouldnÂ´t go after him without the blessing of the Calabrian bosses. Pasquale faced 20 years in prison. According to some rumors, this sword of Damocles would have convinced Barbaro to break the code of silence with the police, the reason for the crime, as well as in the control of the drug market, should perhaps also be sought in the fact that the young man had become an informer.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/19 11:15 AM

'Ndrangheta, the former Senator Pietro Fuda investigated for Mafia association. Former president of the province of Reggio Calabria.
He had challenged the dissolution of municipal councils as a tool to fight the clans. He would allow the Commisso clan to take a position of influence in the Siderno City Council. The DDA has also established a connection with secret Masonic lodges.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/19 01:25 PM

Posted By: JoeTadaro

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/19 11:32 AM

Do the Barbaros in Australia have any power? I follow the one son on Instagram but he doesnâ€™t seem like heâ€™s too bright lol

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/26/19 05:04 PM

â€˜Ndrangheta boss faces U.S. charges in connection to seizure of over 1,500 kilos of cocaine bound for Europe http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...rges-in-connection-to-seizure-of-more-th

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/26/19 11:46 PM

Thanks, Biondo was tied to the Spanish boss El Gordo. In 2012 the Calabrian capo, his pregnant wife and his young son survived an ambush in Lloret de Mar. El Gordo was killed in a car bomb in 2017.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/19 01:17 PM

Maria Vallonearanci had a leading role her now ex-husband is part of the Acri-Morfo clan.
Maria became a repentant of 'ndrangheta and fled to Germany: "In Italy I was not safe"

Notizia tratta da: https://www.ciavula.it/2019/02/maria-pentita-ndrangheta-germania/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/19 12:52 AM

Can anybody tell me abou the Gazprom deal that they had?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/19 02:38 AM

Can anybody tell me abou the Gazprom deal that they had?

Yeah i would like to hear more about that too

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/19 03:54 AM

Also,(unrelated question) did Scilla in Calabria and Palermo in Sicily have the same architects? I was looking at pictures of Scilla and it reminded me so much of Palermo. Sicily is known to have towns like we saw in The Godfather. Just houses built on top of each other going up hills. Some of them on the water making them fishing villages. But I have been told that the villages in Sicily differ in terms of how they are designed from most of southern Italy and just Italy in general. Looking at Scilla though I would guess that Calabria has similar looking villages. At least very southern Calabria like Scilla.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/19 09:43 AM

Police arrested at the Milan Malpensa airport, the fugitive Giuseppe Iaria (38), they caught him after he landed by plane from Dubai.
Iaria was wanted since 2016 considered a close confidant of the top bosses Giuseppe and Vincenzo Iamonte of the homonymous gang of 'ndrangheta hegemon in the territory of Melito di Porto Salvo.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/19 11:05 AM

The new collaborator of justice Salvatore StambÃ¨ !

He was born in the Vibo Valentia, in that inland territory made of forests, inaccessible areas, where the 'Ndrangheta over the years has made its presence felt - heavy. His family, even if not yet recognized in judicial way as belonging to organized crime, in fact it is. And he was part of it until a very short time before deciding to empty the bag and collaborate with the investigating magistrates, the DDA of Turin specifically. Yes, because Salvatore StambÃ©, a prominent member of the homonymous association originating from Gerocarne, in the Vibonese area, has been collaborating for several years in the Langhe of Asti.

And his revelations may represent for the investigators of the DDA of Catanzaro that important, if not quite decisive, piece to recompose the puzzle of the killing of his 57 year old brother Dominic, which occurred on the morning of March 4, 2017 in the garden of his home in a isolated area of â€‹â€‹Sant'Angelo di Gerocarne.

According to what the article published exclusively in the paper edition of the Quotidiano published today, signed by Gianluca Prestia, most of the StambÃ© family moved to Costigliole d'Asti. Salvatore established himself definitively in 2011, the year after his baptism of 'ndrangheta, as well as the joint killed. And there, relying on the support of "those of Gioia Tauro", he formed a "Locale" of 'ndrangheta. A "Bastarda" as they say in jargon when this is not recognized by Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/19 08:20 PM

New report by Italian intelligence confirms the predominant role of the Calabrian mafia Â´Ndrangheta in drug trafficking but also its capacity to infiltrate legal economies, e.g. waste management, wholesale, and gambling.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...gheta-leader-su-narcotraffico-e-rifiuti/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/06/19 10:15 PM

Two mobsters of the Calabrian ' ndrangheta were arrested in Madrid. This is Rosario Grasso , 37, considered as a prominent member of the homonymous clan in Rosarno and recently added to the list of dangerous fugitives ; and Giuseppe Di Marte , 31, considered an international narcotrafficante of the same clan.

http://www.cn24tv.it/news/187852/nd...tturati-a-madrid-due-boss-latitanti.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/19 12:26 PM

I come face to face with the boss of the 'ndrangheta
6 March 2019 15:50

We are in Rizziconi, a Calabrian village near Gioia Tauro. Every time we say the name of the family, people run away or send us to that country in a bad way. We find only one person willing to talk, an elderly gentleman to whom we ask why everyone escapes when we say the name of that family. He replies that "if you lived here you would escape too" . We went there because on December 25, 2018 Marcello Bruzzese, the brother of a repentant of 'Ndrangheta , Girolamo, was murdered in Pesaro. Girolamo had been the right arm of the boss Teodoro Crea, then thanks to his statements he helped nail several members of the Crea family. According to the rules of the 'ndrangheta the faults always fall on the whole family. Even the choice of the day of the murder of Marcello is not accidental. December 25th, the day when everyone is celebrating. "So they remind you of the pain" , tells us the Procurator of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri. Currently the sister of Marcello and Girolamo lives under a false name in an unknown location . We were able to interview her to ask her what it means to live under protection . The life of these people is not easy. With the false documents that are provided you can not have a telephone sim, you can not buy a car, you can not even go to the hospital . " The 'ndrangheta has a strong control of the territory in Calabria , even if a boss is arrested the population does not dare to occupy that territory and the boss's sons can easily replace their father", tells us the prosecutor i Catanzaro. Click to view the service Total control is obtained on the one hand by intimidating people and on the other by seizing local politics. But there are those who do not bend like the former mayor of Rizziconi, Antonino Bartuccio who has decided to stay in that country even after having arrested the boss. He tells us how his life has changed . No one else greeted him in the village. But it was worth it because his stay in Rizziconi has become the symbol of the state that does not surrender to organized crime . Before leaving, we wanted to ask a few questions to Nino Crea called 'or malandrino. Nobody in the village wanted to help us find it but after hours of stalking it happens in front of us. He says that he wanted to meet us and that he would have many things to tell us but that he can not do it because he is on trial. Luigi Pelazza tries anyway to ask him some questions: the result is that Nino, presumed regent of the cosca Crea, escapes on a scooter

Notizia tratta da: https://www.ciavula.it/2019/03/le-iene-faccia-a-faccia-boss-ndrangheta/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/19 07:38 PM

Madrid? Is there a European country that the Ndrangheta hasnâ€™t infiltrated? Itâ€™s like theyâ€™re everywhere

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/19 07:38 PM

How prevelant are they in America?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/19 07:48 PM

How prevelant are they in America?

ndrangheta is stronger in europe than americas

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/19 08:45 PM

Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/08/19 11:15 AM

No less than seven 7.65 caliber shots were fired to assassinate Stefano D'Arca, 54, killed after midnight near Piazza Pitagora, in the heart of Crotone. The ambush was stretched in front of the "Bar Moka". The victim in the past had been involved in events of a judicial nature. The site of the murder was promptly reached by the Flying Squad agents. Based on the first findings, the crime was committed at the end of a violent quarrel. Two people, the father and the son of the bar owner, would have already been detained.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/09/19 03:37 PM

Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.

Why do you think they havenâ€™t had much success in America? Not enough connections? I know they have connections in Canada but the Canadian families havenâ€™t been as successful as the top American families.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/19 12:04 PM

Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.

A Camera di Controllo (board of control) exists in Canada, how successful this is hard to say.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/19 03:21 PM

The board of control was also wanted by Frank Costello and Albert Anastasia to avoid conflicts with the American Cosa Nostra. It was discovered by Canadian law enforcement agencies in 1968 but its creation dates back to at least 1962.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/19 11:59 PM

Italian police arrested 19 people in an operation against the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and Lombardy. National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho said the gang had offered services to companies in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia. Key suspects Carmelo Caminiti and Antonio Pizzi are linked to the powerful De Stefano clan. According to the investigators, the first appears to be the son-in-law of Michele Franco and the brother-in-law of Carmelo Consolato Murina.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/19 01:37 AM

I see a lot of reports about mafia members being arrested. Yet it doesnâ€™t seem to effect them too much. Why is this? Is it just a solid like of succession or do they just know that they will get off?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/19 01:19 PM

Not much , its mostly soldiers that are easily replaceable. Also in Italy you are guilty until proven otherwise, so a lot of them get released. And when it comes to seized assets, when it goes to auction , everyone know its from the mafia, so people don't buy that stuff, its usually bought again by mafia members/families.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/19 08:40 PM

33 nabbed in 'Ndrangheta sweep
10 mn seized from Veneto to Calabria

(ANSA) - Venice, March 12 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 33 people in a sweep across Italy against the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The operation was launched against the presence of 'Ndrangheta in the northeastern Veneto region, around Venice.
Searches were made in Treviso, Vicenza, Padua, Belluno, Rovigo, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Milan and Crotone.
The probe, which began in 2015, uncovered infiltration into the economic fabric of Veneto espcially, by the Cutresi clan, police said.
Various seizures were made to the tune of 10 million euros.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/19 02:22 PM

Dutch article about Giuseppe Trovato and his gang of Calabrians and Albanians operating in the town Viterbo in central Italy. They were busted in January.

https://www.trouw.nl/home/als-de-maffia-los-gaat-in-een-rustig-italiaans-provinciestadje~ae4b002d/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/19 12:05 PM

The police in Rome arrested Pantaleone Mancuso, 58, known as " the Engineer ", referred to as the boss of the 'Ndrangheta of Limbadi.
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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/19 03:42 PM

He was playing in a bingo hall with a foreign woman.

Mancuso, a well-known name in the Ndrangheta circles, had been acquitted of the double murder of his aunt and of the woman's son, which took place in May 2008.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 12:07 AM

What is he being charged with?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 12:09 AM

And how accurate is the 80% number that many people throw around? I know that they have the largest port but there are other large ports in Italy as well. How can we even know that they supply 80% of Italy let alone all of Europe? Not that I doubt it because they obviously have a whole lot of money.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 12:25 AM

What is he being charged with?

He already convicted only for mafia association the sentence is not final yet. He is a son of the generation of the eleven Mancuso brothers who gave birth to one of the most powerful 'ndrangheta families in entire Calabria.
His uncle, Luigi Mancuso, (currently unavailable, after having served almost 20 years in prison) is indicated as the one who hosted the summit between the leaders of the 'Ndrangheta and the Corleonese of Cosa Nostra. A meeting requested and obtained by the Sicilians in the summer of 1992 to ask the Calabrians to go to war against the State by participating in the season of the massacres.
His son Emanuele is collaborating with justice at the moment.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 01:37 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 03:46 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 04:08 PM

Reggio Calabria, sensational breakthrough in the Scopelliti murder investigations: confirmed the mafia-'ndrangheta agreement, investigated 17 "super bosses" and gang members [NAMES and DETAILS]

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/2019/03/o...gio-calabria/816089/#Ml3x2ODDpTewmtXz.99

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 04:21 PM

According to the survey, the relations between the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta are still very solid today.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 06:56 PM

Did the ndrangheta go to war with the state at all? I thought they strayed away from that

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/17/19 07:03 PM

Did the ndrangheta go to war with the state at all? I thought they strayed away from that

It was alleged they were involved people are talking about that for years many turncoats have confirmed this. But this latest survey into the murder of the statesman Antonino Scopelliti is the first concrete evidence.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/18/19 02:40 AM

Did the ndrangheta go to war with the state at all? I thought they strayed away from that

How badly does that hurt the ndrangheta if at all? I thought they had been suspects in that murder since it happened.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/18/19 09:05 AM

Did the ndrangheta go to war with the state at all? I thought they strayed away from that

How badly does that hurt the ndrangheta if at all? I thought they had been suspects in that murder since it happened.

I donÂ´t think too much it was done as a favor to Cosa Nostra they probably didnÂ´t want to upset Riina/Bagarella.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/18/19 09:24 AM

'Ndrangheta: operation in progress between Piedmont and Calabria, 17 arrests
Calabria, 'Ndrangheta: ongoing operation of carabinieri and finance guard against an organization rooted in Piedmont

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/18/19 04:21 PM

A 'ndrangheta-cosa nostra pact for the illicit traffic, 16 suspects between the Vibonese and Turin.
A strike to the mafia branch in Piedmont of the Bonavota clan of Sant'Onofrio. A mafia structure that, according to investigators, has for years been rooted in Carmagnola - province of Turin - and neighboring areas, attributable to the Arone, De Fina and Serratore families , all originating from Sant'Onofrio and connected to the Bonavota cosca. The association would have been committed to committing crimes relating to weapons, drugs, money laundering and spending counterfeit money, directly acquiring the control of economic activities in the building, catering, bar, transport and automobile trade sectors .

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/18/19 08:13 PM

It looks like the Ndrangheta and LCN get along very well. I know that calabrese and Sicilians are extremely similar as they are so close to one another. Iâ€™ve read that Messina was at one time under Ndrangheta control and is now ruled by both LCN and Ndrangheta. But how closely do Cosa Nostra and Camorra work together? Are they not as close?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/19/19 04:13 PM

The Court of Cassation confirmed the 11-year sentence imposed on the former bosses of Cosenza Daniele Lamanna and Franco Bruzzese accused of the murder of Luca Bruni, regent of the homonymous family of 'ndrangheta who disappeared with lupara bianca on 3 January 2012 Rende.

The remains of Bruni were found in the Rendese countryside two years later thanks to the revelations of Adolfo D' Oggetti who took part directly in the consummation of the crime. The shareholder, who was imprisoned for mafia association because he was considered a member of the "New Family" clan led by Maurizio Rango in Cosenza, decided after a few months of incarceration to collaborate with the prosecutors of the Catanzaro Dda led by Nicola Gratteri.

The same choice was made later by Lamanna and Bruzzese, also belonging to the same clan .

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/23/19 12:41 AM

All syndicates from Mezzogiorno work together in particular in northern Italy. Casalesi boss Mario Crisci once said "In the North they are more dishonest than us, they make good money".

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/24/19 03:14 AM

Are there any wars going on within the Ndrangheta? The Camorra is always at war from what I see but I understand theyâ€™re very different

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/24/19 11:29 AM

Are there any wars going on within the Ndrangheta? The Camorra is always at war from what I see but I understand theyâ€™re very different

The only major conflicts in Italy are in Foggia in Puglia with more than 30 murders in two years, Camorra had less than 10 murders in 2018.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/25/19 12:08 PM

ANSA) - Rome, March 21 - Italian police have seized some 30 million euros in assets from the Casamonica Roman crime family and members of clans in the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, judicial sources said Thursday.
The seizure, made in May 2017, became an official confiscation on Thursday, the sources said.
Among the assets seized are 10 properties in Calabria, Rome and Ardea near Rome; 21 companies and businesses; 25 company buildings and 24 motor vehicles, including luxury cars.
A number of bars and restaurants in Rome's historical centre including near St Peter'sand in the trendy Trastevere district, were among the properties confiscated.
Two car salesrooms were also seized in Rome.
Police said the Casamonicas had sealed a pact to enable the Calabrian Mob to infiltrate the Italian capital's economic fabric starting in the 1990s.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/25/19 04:01 PM

Letâ€™s say the most powerful clans are the Pesce or Piromali clans. How much of their business do you all believe is legitimate income that they can report? They clearly make a huge chunk from drug trafficking. But what else do they have going?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/26/19 09:58 PM

They make tons of money from legitimate business practices. They are in a way more powerful than the legitimate state.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/27/19 01:38 AM

They make tons of money from legitimate business practices. They are in a way more powerful than the legitimate state.

Would individual clans ever even consider going legitimate once they get to a certain level of wealth and power? Or is that impossible because they are known drug traffickers?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/27/19 09:37 AM

They make tons of money from legitimate business practices. They are in a way more powerful than the legitimate state.

Would individual clans ever even consider going legitimate once they get to a certain level of wealth and power? Or is that impossible because they are known drug traffickers?

I think that would be their ultimate goal, they want their sons to be professionals, lawyers, accountants, bankers etc...but in the end the 'ndrangheta as well as cosa nostra will always be a cult of death.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 04:00 AM

I think so too. How far is the reach of the Pesce clan and when did they come to prominence? I know the Piromali(I apologize if I spelled it wrong) clan has been powerful from the beginning but the Pesce Clan seems to have really risen up. The Pelle clan too. But I have seen people on here say that the true power will always be in Reggio Calabria. Seems like the closer geographically to Sicily the better

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 04:13 AM

We even have lawyers who control the 'ndrangheta in Calabria and in Lombardy.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 03:48 PM

We even have lawyers who control the 'ndrangheta in Calabria and in Lombardy.

Are these lawyers gangsters are or they something more? Iâ€™m just trying to think how cruel and ruthless a lawyer could be. Both physically and mentally

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 03:49 PM

And it may be different overseas but in the US, I think once someone is identified as a drug kingpin, itâ€™d be very difficult for him to go legit.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 04:38 PM

We even have lawyers who control the 'ndrangheta in Calabria and in Lombardy.

Are these lawyers gangsters are or they something more? Iâ€™m just trying to think how cruel and ruthless a lawyer could be. Both physically and mentally

Known lawyers who are also powerful bosses are Giuseppe Neri and Giorgio De Stefano the latter serves a 20 year sentence. They are gangsters who operate in both worlds.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 10:00 PM

I never knew that. Iâ€™ve seen their names around when I was looking up info on the ndrangheta but never saw anything about them being lawyers. How is that advantageous to them? Because they know the ins and outs of the law?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 10:03 PM

And do the tourist places of Calabria, Sicily and Naples come under control of the local mafias? For example, how influenced are towns like Cefalu(Sicily), Scilla(Calabria) or Capri or Procida(Naples)? Were all under mafia control at some time or are places like that for the most part left alone?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/19 10:34 PM

Of course popular tourists places are controlled by the mafia , you really think they don't want a cut from all that tourism ?

How does that help if they are lawyers? Go read this: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=968037#Post968037

Lawyers,bankers and so on are on top of organized crime.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/19 12:44 AM

Controlled isnâ€™t the right word. How present are they in those areas sounds a little better. Do they own some of the hotels and villas that tourists stay in? Same with restaurants? Iâ€™m guessing thatâ€™s where they make a lot of money from tourists.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/19 12:50 AM

How do these lawyers, bankers etc. get ingratiated into the mafia exactly? Are they blood relations? It almost appears that there are the lawyers, politicians and bankers as one org and then the mafia under them as they are button men in a way. Am I 100% off?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/19 09:56 AM

The boss Morabito will be extradited
Agreement signed last March for the transfer from Uruguay to Italy of the dangerous criminal

30 March 2019
Last March 1, on the occasion of the visit of Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero, Italy and Uruguay signed an agreement on the transfer of convicted persons so that they "can serve their sentence in the territory of the State of compliance".

As we had anticipated, it was clear that the measure could relate to the case of Rocco Morabito, the 'Ndrangheta boss arrested in September 2017 after 23 years of inaction and currently imprisoned in the Central prison of Montevideo . The confirmation has just arrived: a criminal Appeal court has authorized the extradition to Italy of the Calabrian boss sentenced to 30 years in prison for mafia association and drug trafficking.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/19 02:13 PM

You would think that this would be a big blow to that clan

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/31/19 11:17 AM

Below is the report by Maria Grazia Mazzola for Tg1 entitled "The infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Europe" . Antonino VadalÃ , the entrepreneur at the center of the latest report by Jan Kuciak, the Slovak journalist killed last year along with his girlfriend reveals to an undercover agent, whom he considers his accomplice, as he gave orders to a minister. VadalÃ says he bought the head of the secret services, the police, the finance, the interior ministry with a million euros.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...ni-della-ndrangheta-in-europa-video.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/31/19 11:46 AM

You would think that this would be a big blow to that clan

It was remarkable 23 years on the run.

Each town within â€™Ndrangheta territory contains a â€œLocaleâ€ - Ð° basic administrative unit ruled by a boss, the Capo Locale, through his own chain of command.
The titles of his subordinates are not just there to sound fancy. Each is linked to a specific function.
A Capo-Crimine is something like a minister of war, while a Contabile acts as a treasurer.

The investigation in 2017 into the Morabito's among others led to a record number of arrested bosses, but it revealed structures and titles police had never heard of.
While some have been decrypted -- such as the â€œCoronaâ€ (Crown), which seems to be an alliance of five or more small Locali that join together to gain more weight in the Provincia -- investigators still have not figured out what the â€œCavaliere di Cristo" (knight of Christ), â€œCrociataâ€ (Crusade), or â€œStellaâ€ (Star) are.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/01/19 09:16 AM

PROCESS' NDRANGHETA STRAGISTA
'Ndrangheta stragista, the repentant Fiume reveals the summits between Sicilians and Calabrians
Details Published: March 31st 2019

by Aaron Pettinari
Friday, at the trial, the new report was filed

"The first meeting between Sicilians and Calabrians, carried out in Lombardy, in which there was talk of stragist strategy took place in the period in which Valente or Valenti was killed in the Bologna prison. If I am not mistaken, the Mormile murder had already been consummated". It is the repentant Antonino "Nino" Fiume , brother-in-law and right-hand man of Peppe De Stefano ("crime chief" of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio), who put these statements on record last March 14. Fiume had to be heard last Friday, but the testimony was missed, at the trial "'Ndrangheta stragista" which sees Rocco Santo Filippone accused , considered close to the powerful ndranghetist clan of "Piromalli"Giuseppe Graviano , already at 41 bis for the massacres of '92 and '93. Both are accused of the Carabinieri attacks between 1993 and 1994, when the pinned Antonino Fava and Vincenzo Garofalo died; attacks that must be read within the stragista context of those years aimed at blackmailing the State and adopting softer measures to combat organized crime.
The interrogation report was however filed by the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and the picture that emerges is precisely the involvement in some meetings by the bosses De Stefano of Reggio, the Mancusos of Vibo and the Reggio referents in Lombardy, Franco Coco Trovato and Antonio Papalia .
Summit were also held in the Vibonese area, along the "Costa degli dei". "If I remember correctly - recalled Fiume - we stayed several times in Parghelia, certainly during the summer of 1990 at the Blue Paradise. I was always in the company of Giuseppe or Carmine De Stefano . During the stay, Coco Trovato were also present. TotÃ² Schettini We were invited by Luigi Mancuso , to whom Coco had given us an expensive watch: the same Mancuso accompanied us to the tourist village together with his driver TotÃ² Pronesti and his nephew Salvatore Russo. I do not remember if already in the 1990s there was talk with the Mancusos of the stragista strategy desired by the Cosa Nostra. If I remember correctly, the speeches started later. What I remember with certainty is the fact that the first meetings on this topic took place in Lombardy and are the meetings organized by Coco Trovato but wanted by Antonio Papalia ".
But the repentant also spoke of another meeting that would take place in 1991 in Contrada Badia a Nicotera: " The meeting lasted many days in 1991, after the failed attempt on Coco Trovato and Giuseppe De Stefano. I remember having slept in various places in the availability of the Mancusos, even near the garden of the parish of Limbadi. I confirm that during this meeting the strategy of the stragista was discussed, and it is carried out by Cosa Nostra Franco Coco Trovato was certainly possibilist. It is useless to reiterate that Franco Coco Trovato was first of all a man of Papalia, Antonino and Domenico " . These words Fiume will soon have to repeat them in the courtroom in front of the Court of Assizes of Reggio Calabria, presided by Ornella Pastore .
In addition to the collaborator of Justice Reggino Friday was also the testimony of the journalist of the Corriere della Sera Bruno Tucci, but also this deposition has been postponed, while the trial will resume next 5 April.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/dos...-i-summit-tra-siciliani-e-calabresi.html

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/01/19 03:13 PM

ANSA) - Cuneo, April 1 - The body of a Juventus ultra whose July 2016 death after being questioned on 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia ties was ruled a suicide was exhumed for a new autopsy at the request of his widow on Monday.
Raffaello Bucci died after falling from the viaduct at Fossano near Cuneo.
The autopsy is now being performed at the request of his widow Gabriella, who has always suspected foul play.
Bucci, 41, was a Juve ultra head.
Recent probes into ticket touting and ticketing have revealed links between Juve ultras and 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/02/19 07:50 AM

'Ndrangheta, two arrests in Locri: in prison Rocco Morabito, son of the boss "Tiradritto" !

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/ar...to-f099a932-1371-4bbc-a063-2c199bf10d8d/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/02/19 07:48 PM

What does the government do with the houses and villas of the mafiosi after they are seized? I have seen some pictures of houses formerly belonging to Camorra mobsters and they are mansions. Iâ€™m sure they could afford some of the nicest Beverly Hills mansions. Do the Ndrangheta members live lavishly at all or are they all generally low key?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/02/19 08:43 PM

I answered to this question to you more than 3 times lol

After their property is seized,sometimes government converts them to something else like school,kindergarten etc... But mostly their property is going on public auction,since everyone know who it belonged to, ordinary people are too afraid to buy it,so it gets bought by his relatives/people close to him , and its back in hands of organized crime again

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 12:25 AM

I remember i read somewhere that Rosetta Cutolo the sister of Raffaele Cutolo bought a palace with 300 rooms that she and her members lived in.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 01:19 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 03:45 PM

In Limbadi the whole 'ndrangheta decides, and the local Church turns to the other side
The killing of Matteo Vinci a message to the residents. Despite the excommunication of the mafiosi pronounced almost five years ago by Pope Francis, the local prelates do not dare to stand up to crime and refuse even to give hospitality to those who want to oppose the mafia arrogance

The demonstration is scheduled for next April 9, a year after the death of Matteo Vinci, the biologist blew up, in Limbadi, in the Vibonese, with a car bomb placed by the Mancuso clan for the Vinci-Scarpulla family's refusal to sell the their agricultural funds, bordering on those owned by the mafia family.

https://notizie.tiscali.it/cronaca/articoli/limbadi-chiesa-non-oppone-a-ndrangheta/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 04:37 PM

I answered to this question to you more than 3 times lol

Thatâ€™s right lol. Looking at your answer to me I do recall you telling me that. People really believe that they will be killed if they buy the house? Very valuable real estate. Then again Iâ€™m not sure about the real estate market in Italy.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 04:39 PM

I remember i read somewhere that Rosetta Cutolo the sister of Raffaele Cutolo bought a palace with 300 rooms that she and her members lived in.

I was told on here that Cutolo didnâ€™t have much money. But maybe his sister did. 300 rooms? Iâ€™d like to see that

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 07:35 PM

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Probably not killed,but u would have problems,threats, they would force you to sell it back to them. No one really wants any kind of problem with them

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/03/19 09:11 PM

Probably not killed,but u would have problems,threats, they would force you to sell it back to them. No one really wants any kind of problem with them

of course nobody would buy a property seized from the mafia in italy, in fact almost all are still in stand-by, except the ones converted into police stations etc.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/04/19 03:14 PM

A real drug axis between Sicily and Calabria that discovered by the police who, at the dawn of today, on behalf of the Catania District Attorney's Office, carried out a precautionary order against 21 people under investigation, for various reasons, for association crime aimed at trafficking and drug dealing.

The investigations of the Catania police station's police team have brought to light the existence of two criminal groups and discovered a "joint venture" of the underworld of Catania drug traffickers and exponents of the Calabrian 'ndrine, for the supply of cocaine, and with Palermo for the buying of marijuana.

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Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/19 10:40 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/19 10:43 AM

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, April 5 - A Calabrian nurse's assets worth some 5.5 million euros were seized in a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia probe on Friday.
The nurse, 61-year-old Annunziato Iamonte, works for the provincial health agency in Reggio Calabria.
He works at the hospital at Melito Porto Salvo.
Iamonte has previously been under police surveillance and has been linked to the Iamonte clan of 'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful mafia.
The Reggio Calabria provincial health agency was recently dissolved because of mafia infiltration and the presence of 'Ndrangheta-linked persons among staff.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/06/19 10:52 AM

Apr,6,2019
The first conviction for mafia operating in the Biella area was pronounced yesterday in the halls of the Biella Court, confirming and sanctioning the existence of the 'ndrangheta in this province. Epilogue of a long and complex investigative activity started in 2009, by the Biella Flying Squad led by Commissioner Marika Viscovo and from Turin, coordinated by the Turin Antimafia District Directorate. The Court of Biella pronounced a sentence against the defendants Antonio Raso, 77 years old, Angelo Di Corrado from 46 and Suvad Operta, a native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, all reported to the competent Judicial Authority, together with numerous other subjects, to the outcome of investigative activity aimed at combating 'Ndrangheta-type organized crime, with particular reference to the Piedmontese offshoots of the "Raso - Gullace - Albanese" by Cittanova and "Pesce - Bellocco" from Rosarno. In particular,Antonio Raso was sentenced to 14 years ' imprisonment for mafia-type criminal association, as head promoter of the Biella branch of the reference gang and the so-called "SanthiÃ ndrangheta club", as well as for three cases of extortion towards Biellese entrepreneurs, aggravated by the mafia mode. With regard to Raso, in addition to compensation for damages in favor of the established civil parties, including the Municipality of SanthiÃ , the confiscation of what was already the subject of the preventive seizure order issued by the Turin magistrate on June 16, 2016 was also ordered. relating to current accounts, movable and immovable assets.
Accountant Angelo Di Corrado was sentenced to 8 years ' imprisonment and 2,700 euro fine for external competition in mafia association, having acted while maintaining relative autonomy, with the awareness of thus contributing to the permanence and consolidation of the criminal association of Satin; for concurrence of persons in the possession and in the illegal port in a public place of a gun, with the aggravating circumstance of which in the art. 7 for having committed the fact in order to facilitate the 'Ndrangheta association of the Raso as well as for extortion aggravated by the Mafia modalities, perpetrated, together with members of the Raso gang, against local entrepreneurs.

The Bosnian citizen Suvad Operta , originally stolen from the execution of the precautionary measures arranged under the "Alto Piemonte" operation and arrested by investigators of the Flying Squad on 21 March 2017 on his return from Bosnia, was sentenced to the penalty years 7of imprisonment and â‚¬ 27,000 of fine, for illegal detention and port in the public place of two pistols, common weapons, with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act in order to facilitate the 'Ndrangheta association of the Raso; for aggravated robbery perpetrated, in competition with members of the Raso family, against the manager of a nightclub; for having, with more executive actions than the same criminal design, in competition with members of the Raso gang, illegally transferred on several occasions astounding substance of the cocaine type.

Already on October 15, 2018, the Court of Appeal of Turin had substantially confirmed the penalties inflicted on the outcome of the trial held shortly for the sons of Antonio Raso, all convicted of mafia association and a plurality of other crimes and currently limited in detention facilities, as well as against subjects considered adjoining to the Mafia association of the Raso: Diego Raso , 14 years and 2 months of imprisonment; Antonio Miccoli , 13 years and 2 months of imprisonment; Enrico Raso , 8 years and 8 months of imprisonment; Giovanni Raso (known as "Rocco") , years 8 and months 7 of imprisonment; Giovanni Raso , 6 years and 11 months of imprisonment; Cosimo Di Mauro, years 4 and 4 months of imprisonment; Giuseppe Avenoso , years 3 and 10 months of imprisonment.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/07/19 09:02 AM

After the investigation into the infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in the North-West, the 77-year-old boss Antonio Raso, of the locale in SanthiÃ , was sentenced to 14 years for mafia-type criminal association and for three episodes of extortion. Eight years is the sentence for Angelo Di Corrado, accountant and consultant, because he was considered the link between the Raso gang and the banking and business world. The Bosnian Suvad Operta, 39, considered an "operative arm" of the gang, was finally sentenced to seven years and a fine of 27 thousand euros.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/07/19 07:36 PM

If a lot of these countries with drug kingpins legalized drugs, what do you think they would move to in order to replace the drug trafficking income?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/09/19 03:06 PM

'Ndrangheta sweep nets over 30 people
'Piscopisani' clan tried to oust Mancusos say police

(ANSA) - Vibo Valentia, April 9 - A major police operation against the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia netted over 30 people across Italy Tuesday.
Charges included mafia association, extortion, damages and robbery, illegal possession of arms and explosives, GBH, fraudulent claiming of assets and drugs trafficking and distribution.
Over 200 police made the arrests at Vibo Valentia and in the provoinces of Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Rome, Bologna, L'Aquila, Prato, Livorno, Alessandria, Brescia, Nuoro, Milan and Udine.
The operation uncovered evidence that the so-called piscopisani clan wanted to oust the Mancuso clan, dominant in Vibo Valentia and surrounding areas, police said.
Police said the operational HQ of the piscopisanis was in Bologna.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini hailed the sweep.
"The State is stronger than the clans," he said.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia thanks to its control of the European cocaine market.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/19 02:21 PM

I may have asked this before but who controls Messina? Is it the mafia, ndrangheta or do they both rule together? I ask this because in the post above I see there was an ndrangheta sweep in Palermo

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/19 06:49 PM

I may have asked this before but who controls Messina? Is it the mafia, ndrangheta or do they both rule together? I ask this because in the post above I see there was an ndrangheta sweep in Palermo

The particular geographical position makes Messina interesting, Cosa Nostra Palermo, Cosa Nostra Catania and the 'ndrangheta all have influence over there.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/11/19 10:27 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/11/19 08:23 PM

https://www.lequotidien.lu/international/la-mafia-sinstalle-en-europe-de-lest/

Mafia settles in Eastern Europe

The mafia begins to spread its tentacles in Eastern Europe after gangrene the economic or social fabric in other European countries where it acts as cancer cells, says an expert.
The presence of the Italian mafia in Germany, France or Spain is known for a long time, but now it turns to the countries of Eastern Europe, members of the European Union, explained in a interview Colonel Carabinieri Cristiano Tomassi of the National Directorate of Anti-Mafia Investigations (DIA).

In early March, the Slovak police released seven Italians arrested after the murder of a journalist who was investigating corruption in connection with the Italian mafia. "They are going more and more to the countries of the East. A recent operation touched a clan that had invested in Romania, in construction companies, hundreds of apartments, Spa, a heritage of 250 million euros was seized, "says the expert in the fight against mafia .

"Mafiosos reason as economists: growth rates, development prospects, are certainly higher even than those of a prosperous Germany. Investigations in Slovakia (...) have shown the presence of the men of 'Ndrangheta', the mafia of Calabria, "whose objective was to take advantage of community contributions," he continues. The mafia brews incredible amounts of money because of the margins it has on drug trafficking and the various seizures give the measure. "During Operation Gambling (in Calabria in 2017) we sequestered a wealth of about two billion euros created in the field of illegal gambling, online games. This seizure included capital, companies, 1,500 betting rooms, many real estate, "said Colonel Tomassi.

These financial means then allow mafia to expand their territory. At the end of March, the Austrian and Italian police authorities dismantled a network of traffickers who supplied arms to a clique of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, while in December there were 90 mafia linked to the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, which were arrested in six different countries.

Being mafia, "it's forever"

Evoking the case of entire neighborhoods bought in various European cities by the mafia, but he has not identified, he explains in a pictorial way the danger represented by this phenomenon. "Why does it seem that in these neighborhoods nothing is happening, they are quiet? Because there is a strong mafia control but it is not a virtuous control, it is like a cancer that progresses and where there is a cancer there is no more life, "he explains. . Admittedly, petty crime no longer exists, "but the healthy economy either," adds the specialist.

In its latest semi-annual report on the mafia, the DIA stresses that the latter "pollutes the financial and credit circuits, disrupts competition and the smooth functioning of markets by using instruments that are foreign to the world of legal entrepreneurs. black and the subtraction of financial income from the tax levy ". When there is an economic crisis, as has been the case in recent years in Europe, the mafia succeeds in infiltrating even more easily.

"Mafiosos look for small entrepreneurs in difficulty, those who have problems getting a loan from a bank that asks for guarantees, etc. The mafia lends the money and from then on, the business is over, it sooner or later passes under the mafia who continues to climb into its capital (because of its usurious rates) until to oust the owner, "continues the senior officer. "No honest trader, Dutch, French, German, will ever be able to compete with such a force," warns the expert. "When you're a mafia, it's forever. It's a lifestyle choice, we decide to marry a lifestyle, an idea, and that's what makes the difference with simple organized crime. "

LQ / AFP

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/12/19 09:01 AM

Blitz against the Mancuso clan : police is conducting the operation " Fatal Error .
The leaders of the criminal group are under arrest, considered among the most influential of the Calabrian organized crime.
The details of the operation will be announced during a press conference to be held at the Vibo Valentia Police Headquarters, in the presence of the Procurator of the Republic of Catanzaro and head of the Dda, Nicola Gratteri.
The police are executing a detention order in custody against 4 people , held responsible for the attempted murder of Francesco Mancuso and the murder of Raffaele Fiamingo, which took place in Spilinga in July 2003 , and considered to be at the top of the 'Ndrangheta Vibonese. Nearly 50 men are performing arrests and searches in Vibo Valentia, Milan and Prato. From the surveys it emerged that the murder had matured due to contrasts in the management of criminal activities between the components of the Mancuso family, in particular the faction headed by Ciccio Mancuso alias Tabacco, and the one led by Cosmo Mancuso aka Michele.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/12/19 12:26 PM

https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-properties-italian-mafia

EUR 250 mln worth of Romanian properties confiscated from Italian mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/15/19 08:48 AM

In the vicinity of Ripoli, in the municipality of Mosciano Sant'Angelo Teramo, ex-justice collaborator Domenico Cera, 68, resident in Bellante, but of Calabrian origin, was found dead in his Skoda Felicia.
Now it will be the autopsy that establishes the causes of the death of Domenico Cera whose body was found inside his car ended up on a side of the provincial road 15 between Ripoli and Costa del Monte. To note the off-road car was a passing motorist, who immediately alerted the rescue.

According to the first investigations made by the police, the death of the man could date back to the previous night, perhaps attributable to an illness that consequently would have caused him to lose control of the car near the roundabout, while proceeding in the direction Teramo. To then go off the road by hitting an olive tree sideways and ending the race in the nearby agricultural field.

Death may have occurred due to natural causes. But given the nature of the relationship with the justice of the victim, the public prosecutor Laura Colica has prepared a case study. In fact Domenico Cera, in 2000, was one of the first pentiti of the 'ndrangheta.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/15/19 05:00 PM

Interesting video of an Ndrangheta â€œsit downâ€ in Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
The footage was part of operation â€œHelvetiaâ€ that started in 2014 against the Swiss locale. More individuals were arrested in March 2019.

https://www.rsi.ch/news/svizzera/Mafia-a-Frauenfeld-nove-condanne-11584567.html

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 04:59 AM

When it comes to the P2 lodge, is it true that they control and our more powerful than the mafia? If thatâ€™s the case, then wouldnâ€™t that devalue the overall status of being named a â€œbossâ€ in a mafia family?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 09:56 AM

They are/were more powerful than the mafia , but they are not mafia , so they can't be mafia boss. Its an ultimate goal for most mafiosi , to become "legal" businessman and still maintain connections to powerful people from mafia. Members of masonic lodges almost never go to prison.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 03:25 PM

Are there any mafiosi who were accepted into one of the Freemason lodges? The list I saw was comprised of mostly legitimate businessmen. Would the Freemasons ever be afraid that the mafia might eclipse them in power and wealth? The mafia does wield a lot of wealth and power and maybe even more so in the past. From what I read, the articles make the Freemason lodges our like theyâ€™re the Illuminati lmao

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 03:28 PM

So based on what youâ€™re saying, the goal sounds michael corleone-esque as he was very much a legit business mogul but he still had strong connections within the mafia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 07:12 PM

'Ndrangheta, a holding company with a turnover of 55 billion
80% of the business is developed in Northern Italy

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/lal...g-fatturato-55-miliardi-l80-affari-viene

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 07:19 PM

Are there any mafiosi who were accepted into one of the Freemason lodges? The list I saw was comprised of mostly legitimate businessmen.

yes, but they are into the occult lodges like p2, not the official ones, several bosses are also freemasons

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 07:27 PM

Are there any mafiosi who were accepted into one of the Freemason lodges?

Plenty..Stefano Bontade was probably the most famous. Natale L'Ala, boss of Campobello di Mazara, who was shot dead in May 1990, was also a member of a Masonic lodge in Trapani called Iside 2.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 07:49 PM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 09:25 PM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

What were they charged with?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 09:27 PM

Are there any mafiosi who were accepted into one of the Freemason lodges?

Plenty..Stefano Bontade was probably the most famous. Natale L'Ala, boss of Campobello di Mazara, who was shot dead in May 1990, was also a member of a Masonic lodge in Trapani called Iside 2.

His murder was mafia related only or did members of the his lodge have something to do with it? And do the lodges ever compete with one another?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 09:32 PM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

What were they charged with?

Police arrested 27 freemasons on charges of crimes of corruption, bribery, forgery, embezzlement, fraud, trafficking of illicit influences, disclosure of official secrecy, abetting, abuse of office.
Among the arrested the former president of the regional parliament, Francesco Cascio, the former mayor Felice Errante, his deputy Vincenzo Chiofalo, and Luciano Perricone, one of the former mayoral candidates for Castelvetrano, the former regional deputy Giovanni Lo Sciuto, the latter, who was also a member of the regional anti-mafia commission, would be the venerable master of the lodge, the current regional councilor for Education and former rector of the University of Palermo, Roberto Lagalla and 3 policemen, one of them member of the DIA

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/19 09:41 PM

These are mysteries we will never know. Italian magistrates believed that Stefano Bontade, Bernardo Provenzano and Matteo Messina Denaro belonged to a secret lodge that was an articulation in Sicily of Licio Gelli's P2.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/19 03:41 AM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

What were they charged with?

How were these men not disgraced after that? Money and power I would say.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/19 03:43 AM

If youâ€™re a member of a lodge like that, then is it somewhat like a fraternity of men who just do business with one another? But in this case itâ€™s some of the most powerful men in Italy(in some cases the world) in both the legitimate and illegitimate worlds.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/19 10:13 AM

How were these men not disgraced after that? Money and power I would say.

As i said you earlier, people like this almost never go to prison.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/19 07:45 PM

Recent events
On 7 November 2012, an investigation by the Catanzaro DDA revealed the alleged involvement of the cosca for reconstruction work after the earthquake in Abruzzo and the implementation in Rome of the fiber optic network for the Internet and the involvement with Paolo Coraci founder of a Masonic lodge that would have requested electoral support for D'Ambrosio in exchange for contracts in Lazio, Lombardy and Veneto. [11] In the same year the investigation Saggezza of the DDA of Reggio Calabria showed that the link with Italian Freemasonry would be very strong, to the point of constituting a way of infiltration to the most vertex sides of Italian politics and economy [12]
On 17 November 2013, the Grand Orient of Italy suspended a lodge for the first time in its history, in this case the Rocco Verducci lodge based in Gerace , and with the temple in Siderno for a possible involvement of irregularly connected criminals organized in Calabria. The choice of suspension was taken after the last judicial inquiry: the operation Saggezza , in which people affiliated to both the 'ndrangheta and the loggia were arrested [13] .
On January 4, 2016 , the operation Kyterion 2 concludes, directed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro which leads to the arrest of 16 alleged members of the Great Arrojes of Cutro , from the investigations it is possible to deduce presumed attempts to connect with representatives of the Vatican and of the Court of Cassation , as well as the intrusion into Masonic orders and knighthoods by the local leader Nicolino Grande Aracri [14] [15] .
From the Mammasantissima operation of the Ros of the Carabinieri concluded on 15 July 2016, the 2014 minutes of the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy Giuliano Di Bernardo ( 1990 - 1993 ), now Grand Master of the regular Grand Lodge of Italy , would emerge, who reported to the public prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo the confidences of Ettore Loizzo, at the time deputy of the Grand Master: Â«During a meeting of the Grand Orient Council, I urgently announced in '93 after the investigation of the Dr. Cordova on Freemasonry, to my specific request, said that he could state with certainty that in Calabria, out of 32 lodges, 28 were controlled by the 'Ndrangheta. I immediately told him: "And what do you want to do in the face of this disaster?" He replied: "Nothing". I, even more startled, asked why. He replied that he couldn't do anything because otherwise he and his family risked serious reprisals .... From July he began to talk about the relationship between Freemasonry and 'Ndrangheta also the repentant and Freemason Cosimo Virgiglio. He says that the highly politicized Freemasonry uses Calabrian crime to control electoral flows while it is for money laundering. According to the penitent, the loggia of Reggio Calabria would be divided into two parts: a clean and a hidden; the 'ndranghetisti' belong to the second. It also tells of the presence in the lodges of exponents of the Piromalli and the De Stefano. The mixture of criminal elements, with the dowry of the Saint and Masons in Masonic dialect, is called "passage" (referring to the Breccia di Porta Pia ); and technically it would be the Masonic world to enter the ranks of the '[18] [19] .
On January 31, 2017 at the hearing of the anti-mafia commission, former GOI master Giuliano Di Bernardo tells of the links between 'ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Freemasonry, and that the number 1 of the Calabrian Freemasonry told him that 28 Calabrian lodges out of 32 were infiltrated by the 'ndrangheta [20] [21] .
On May 23, 2018 in the B process enters a computer of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department where the repentant Cosimo Virgiglio and former Mason says that 'ndrina of MolÃ© through the former government minister Claudio Scajola wanted to get to Impregilo also .Racconta of the MolÃ¨ relations with the covered loggia of Ugolini Giacomo Maria aka Grande Oriente of San Marino [22] .

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/18/19 07:53 AM

The boss Pino Bonavita, 73, who has been detained since 14 July 2016 after being arrested in Prague leaves prison for house arrest.
It was the Catanzaro Review Court, accepting an instance of the lawyers Giovanni Vecchio and Giuseppe Bagnato, who decided to release him on the basis of the law providing for the prison for seventy-year-olds only in cases of exceptional gravity, not considered in the present case.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/18/19 08:27 AM

Some familiar family names for those who follow Canadian oc, have infiltrated the Milan premises.

In 2019 the anti-Mafia disqualifications affected nine activities, including a tattoo shop of "Gambino srl", the nursery of the "New Garden srl" in Sedriano, the "Flamingo" bar in Piazza XXV Aprile of the company "Quintet Ristorazione srl", the "CaffÃ¨ Belfiore" in the name of Rocco Musitano, 47-year-old son of the clan chief of Bareggio. Remaining in the field of the bars, in the list there is also "The corner of the cafe of Giuseppe Violi" in Via dei Mille in Buccinasco, considered the historic den of the Barbaro-Papalia. Everyone in the village knew him as the former Lyons, the 'ndrine office for 30 years. The Prefecture has decided to close it for contacts with Violi's organized crime, a nephew from his mother Anna of Francesco Barbaro, the forefather of the Pillaru family of Calabria, who died in 1998 with the title of "King of Aspromonte".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/20/19 08:29 AM

An Italian repentant has made statements about criminals in Amsterdam, reveals crime reporter Koen Voskuil in the Algemeen Dagblad .

Three investigations
Drug trader Giuseppe T. has made incriminating statements against Dutch, Italian, Albanian, Turkish and Colombian criminals in Amsterdam. His statements are now being used in three criminal investigations in the Netherlands. The man receives a reduction in punishment in Italy for his statements.

Colombia
T. was between 2003 and 2015 a transporter of large batches of cocaine for the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia in Calabria. He did business with countless leaders in the Amsterdam cocaine trade and was often in Colombia and Amsterdam.

2000 pounds per month
T. arranged for a batch of 2,000 kilos of cocaine to arrive every 3 to 4 months for different groups. The drugs were stored in apartments in Amsterdam and the surrounding area.

The national police unit set up a special anti-fraud team in 2017, which works closely with Italian investigation services.

The Dutch police will soon hear another Italian regret.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/20/19 03:31 PM

Giuseppe Tirintino, ex member of the Pesce clan based in Rosarno (Reggio Calabria).

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/22/19 03:16 PM

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/...pers_should_defy_the_court_#.XL3aJOhKhPY

Ban on the identity of someone with a mafia connection? Newspapers should defy the court

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 02:33 AM

If the families near the port have the most power(for obvious reasons) then where do the San Luca families get their power?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 04:40 AM

Iâ€™ve been looking for some more ndrangheta docs with English subtitles but havenâ€™t been successful.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 01:01 PM

If the families near the port have the most power(for obvious reasons) then where do the San Luca families get their power?

The clans have access to all ports in Italy, even Naples.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 05:09 PM

I found this article and the video. It states that the San Luca clans are very strong in drug trafficking.

Is it really true that the San Luca clans belong to the richest and most powerful clans of the Ndrangheta? What do you guys think?

From the minute 09:50.

https://www.france24.com/en/2013051...heta-calabria-drug-trafficking-france-24

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 05:52 PM

If the families near the port have the most power(for obvious reasons) then where do the San Luca families get their power?

the san luca clan is called 'mammasantissima' by the other clans and the annual meeting of all ndrangheta boss is attended near san luca, it's clear they are the most respected inside ndrangheta

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/23/19 07:43 PM

Yeah several Nirtas are also freemasons.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/24/19 03:42 AM

Yeah several Nirtas are also freemasons.

With the Nirtas being freemasons, that means that they have infiltrated both legitimate and illegitimate powers at be in Italy? Or at least have strong connections in both worlds?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/24/19 03:47 AM

If the families near the port have the most power(for obvious reasons) then where do the San Luca families get their power?

the san luca clan is called 'mammasantissima' by the other clans and the annual meeting of all ndrangheta boss is attended near san luca, it's clear they are the most respected inside ndrangheta

I believe Iâ€™ve had this conversation on here and some people said San Luca clans while others said the Piromaliâ€™s and Mole families. Pesce clan as well. I havenâ€™t gotten a sense of who really is the most powerful and wealthiest because not too many seizures have been done on individuals from articles Iâ€™ve read. Ones that have been done arenâ€™t in the hundreds of millions like Messina or other members of the Sicilians or Camorra have undergone. Could be because of their low profile.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/25/19 04:26 PM

The 'Ndrangheta created the NCO.

The magistrate Nicola Gratteri reconstructed the relationship between Raffaele Cutolo and the Ndrangheta, a few years ago.
"Mico Tripolo was killed in the Poggioreale prison by two killer prisoners hired by Cutolo, when he was not famous. Cutolo was important because he had money in prison.. He pays the two killers to kill Don Mico Tripodo because the De Stefanos give him the rules of the Ndrangheta in exchange for forming the Nuova Camorra Organizzataâ€.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/25/19 07:07 PM

The 'Ndrangheta created the NCO.

I always thought that Cutolo was more instrumental in the Ndrangheta than the other way around. And I believe he is credited for creating the puglia mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/25/19 08:07 PM

'Ndrangheta in Slovakia, scoop of Tg1 Tweet 25 April 2019 0.59
After the scoop of Maria Grazia Mazzola on Tg1, Slovak Prime Minister Pellegrini will ask Interior Minister Sakova and police chief Lucansky, why the information received by the Italian police about Antonino VadalÃ , linked to the 'ndrangheta, and extradited for drug trafficking, have been ignored. The scoop found that the Slovak authorities had known since 2013 that VadalÃ had created a 'ndrina in the country. The deputy Baranik hypothesizes that "VadalÃ has had impunity because of the relationship with the former premier Fico".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/19 01:30 AM

On 11 April 2008 it became known that the Piromalli gang was negotiating with a Sicilian politician the sale of 50,000 votes for â‚¬ 200,000 of Italians abroad (in South America ).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/19 08:25 AM

The ascent of Fuda to the office of mayor of Siderno dictated by the Commisso gang
BY ADMIN3 Â· APRIL 25TH 2019

The ascent of Fuda to the office of mayor of Siderno dictated by the Commisso gang

by Claudio Cordova - Center-right, in Forza Italia, then center-left, with small parties like the Democratic Center, regional politician, senator, mayor of Siderno, considered close to the Masonic circles and to the presumed leader of the 'ndrangheta, Paolo Romeo. This and much more would be Pietro Fuda, today no longer the first citizen of Siderno, but accused by the Dda of Reggio Calabria of external competition in mafia association.

http://www.comitato-antimafia-lt.or...di-siderno-dettata-dalla-cosca-commisso/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/19 08:48 AM

Yeah several Nirtas are also freemasons.

With the Nirtas being freemasons, that means that they have infiltrated both legitimate and illegitimate powers at be in Italy? Or at least have strong connections in both worlds?

ItÂ´s a little more complicated. Last month they released from prison the powerful Paolo Romeo, due to the expiry of the terms of pre-trial detention. The lawyer Paolo Romeo, now 72 years old, returns to freedom. Investigators say he is the head of the Masonic cupola of the 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/19 05:21 PM

'Ndrangheta: the repentant Moscato and the ties of the boss Razionale with the Vatican and Freemasonry

https://www.ilvibonese.it/cronaca/1...ale-roma-piscopisani-massoneria-vaticano

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/19 11:17 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 05:05 AM

Yeah several Nirtas are also freemasons.

With the Nirtas being freemasons, that means that they have infiltrated both legitimate and illegitimate powers at be in Italy? Or at least have strong connections in both worlds?

Is he Sebastiano Romeoâ€™s son?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 09:21 AM

IDK if he's related to San Luca's Romeos, but he's a powerhouse since the 70s. A defense lawyer of Prince Junio â€‹â€‹Valerio Borghese , involved in the attempted coup of 1970, his entry to the Freemasons dates back to the 80s.
Accused of ties to the 'ndrangheta many times, in July 1993 the judiciary requested authorization for arrest because Romeo was accused of being "leader" of a gang of the' Ndrangheta dedicated to murder, drug trafficking and control of public and private economic activities
In July 2016 he was again notified of an arrest warrant in the "mammasantissima" investigation, as, according to the prosecutor's office, Romeo, Senator Antonio Caridi and former regional councilor Alberto Sarra are at the top of the secret structure that governs the 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 01:46 PM

I read that Giorgio De Stefano was a cousin of the Paolo so I thought it was the same for the Romeos. How active are they despite being arrested multiple times?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 02:19 PM

Historically the Romeo are very powerful Sebastiano Romeo held the dote of Vangelo (the Gospel) and I wouldn't be surprised if one of them is Associazione one of the highest ranks. Only 7 people in whole Calabria hold that position among them Antonio Papalia.
In the 70s they created all these ranks to protect them when they deal with other secret organizations and institutions.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 02:34 PM

Thanks to Carmelo.

A reputed case of 'lupara bianca' in Calabria; Rosario and Salvatore Manfreda, father and son, disappeared from Petilia Policastro (Crotone) and their car was found burned. On October 2018 Massimo Vona, with criminal records disappeared from the same town. His cousin Valentino Vona was killed in an ambush in 2012. Police suspects a feud in the local 'ndrina.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 07:46 PM

With all of the power and money that the top families have, what would they go to war about? I am aware of the huge war over contracts but the top families like the Romeos, Pesces, De Stefanos appear to be so diplomatic with such political power that they wouldnâ€™t want to risk bad blood to hurt their current status. But theyâ€™ll always find a way to kill each other over something. Just the life of crime.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/19 10:30 PM

I agree in general murder would be the last resort. But their honor is what counts.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/28/19 11:38 AM

The collaborator of justice Antonio Valerio Friday, April 26th deposed for hours in the hall of the Court of Assizes of Reggio Emilia. With his statements at the trial Aemilia pushed the Antimafia Directorate to reopen the file on the season in which the 'ndrangheta "branded, with blood, the province, before dropping the silence"

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...liere-il-male-da-cutro-e-reggio/5139438/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/19 10:30 AM

It is in Lebanon, in the Bekaa valley, that the brokers of the 'Ndrangheta seem to have established relationships to obtain soft drugs at competitive prices. Drugs grown in the area in large numbers by local criminal groups that are suspected of financing through Hezbollah militias.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/19 08:24 PM

Iâ€™ve asked this before, but since we canâ€™t confirm that the ndrangheta supplies 80% of Europe, can anyone confirm that they at least supply most of Europe(more than 50%)?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/19 09:10 PM

Interesting turncoats say the the Aquinos of Marina di Gioiosa, the Commissos of Siderno and the Pelle â€œGambazzaâ€ of San Luca did not take kindly to the Mancusos of Limbadi.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ngheta-che-voleva-uccidere-i-magistrati/

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/29/19 10:57 PM

Iâ€™ve asked this before, but since we canâ€™t confirm that the ndrangheta supplies 80% of Europe, can anyone confirm that they at least supply most of Europe(more than 50%)?

Man, you keep asking same questions all over again,no one can answer you this.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/30/19 02:39 AM

Is the Ndrangheta any more territorial than the mafia or Camorra? I ask this because they are very diplomatic as well as the mafia. It has been explained to me that a large amount fin the Camorra clans are more like street gangs than mafia families so I would infer that they are more territorial.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/02/19 09:17 PM

In the morning today BC 43 years of Catanzaro and AS, 39 years, of Locri were captured respectively in Taverna (CZ) and in the German town of Moers, located near Duisburg.

The arrests are placed in the context of the massive inter-force police operation European 'Ndrangheta Connection "performed, in December last year, in Italy and in Northern Europe against over 90 people, with the coordination of Eurojust and the Europol Agency, which has affected, among others, many leading exponents of the mafia families of the Ionic district of the province of Reggio Calabria, revealing the interests of the gangs in intercontinental drug trafficking, money laundering and the re-use of illicit proceeds in the catering sector .

This operation was the fruit of years of intense investigative work carried out in the framework of the Joint Investigation Team set up on 18.10.2016, in The Hague (NL), at Eurojust between the Magistrature and Police Forces of Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/03/19 02:04 AM

Now the US is not comparable to Italy. But in New York there are 5 families and outside of that there are families all over the country. The power base for the mafia has always been in New York. Is there an equivalent to the 5 families in Calabria or Sicily? For instance, maybe in Palermo there are 3-4 separate families who are the most powerful and everybody in Sicily looks to them.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/03/19 02:10 AM

Historically there are a few families in Calabria who are still respected by everyone they were led by:

Antonio MacrÃ¬
Girolamo Piromalli
Paolo De Stefano
Giuseppe "u tiradrittu" Morabito
Pasquale "u supremu" Condello

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/03/19 10:03 AM

Bruno Catanzaro and Antonio Strangio were the ones arrested yesterday they were selling the good stuff dutch marijuana called "Amnesia", at a price of 3,000 euros per kg, and hashish, known as "Superpolline".

Amnesia, that's a classic right there

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/04/19 06:49 PM

Historically there are a few families in Calabria who are still respected by everyone they were led by:

Antonio MacrÃ¬
Girolamo Piromalli
Paolo De Stefano
Giuseppe "u tiradrittu" Morabito
Pasquale "u supremu" Condello

I see that most of those families are from Reggio Calabria. Safe to say that a lot of power is wielded around there. Is there a family that controls Scilla? Itâ€™s a huge tourist place.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/19 12:50 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/19 05:11 AM

Milan: corruption between politicians, civil servants, entrepreneurs and mafia. President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana investigated. The governor Fontana investigated for abuse of office after the rain of arrests in politics
Investigations continue into the maxi-investigation on bribes in procurement and corruption that led to the arrest of 28 people
The investigations, concerning alleged bribes and a round of corruption and illicit financing between Milan and Varese and alleged ties also with the 'Ndrangheta, involved ninety-five people, over forty precautionary measures executed including twenty-eight arrests.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/19 02:37 PM

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articl...spect-mafia-ties-to-be-extradited.709495

Italian man with suspect Mafia ties to be extradited
He had been arrested on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/19 02:39 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/10/19 10:57 PM

At the beginning of April, Rocco Morabito, 59 years old from Bovalino, Reggio Calabria, had been arrested by the Locri Carabinieri. in competition committed in mafia mode. Yesterday, another arrest in the Morabito family.

This time, after the son, it is the turn of Giovanni, brother of Giuseppe Morabito, 'u tiradrittu, boss of Africo who tackled business in Buccinasco with the other clan head, Antonio Papalia. During an anti-drug operation, in which the carabinieri, together with the soldiers of the Calabria hunter-assisted squadron, found a bag with about a kilo and a half of marijuana, the police of the Brancaleone and Africo Nuovo Stations arrested Giovanni Morabito, 69, of Africo Nuovo.

The brother of tiradrittu must serve 7 years for mafia association, as part of the proceeding following the Zagara operation conducted by the Milan Public Prosecutor. The 84-year-old tiradrittu, undisputed leader of the 'Ndrangheta, expert narcos and allied with the Bruzzaniti and Palamara clans, was arrested in 2004 after 12 years of inaction at Cardeto, in the Aspromonte mountains. The boss had asked to be able to leave prison (recluse on 41 bis) for serious health problems related to the pathologies he suffers from. The Milan Surveillance Court in 2017 had denied the request, but a year later the Cassation annulled the decision: it will be necessary to re-examine the request.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/19 10:24 AM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

What were they charged with?

You have anymore info on these arrest, or iside 2 in general?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/19 11:34 AM

@Cabrini

Time to understand - Politics Index of the
Section Time to understand - Politics
The "Iside 2" lodge

Last modification: 1/18/09

Notes, references, links Go

Case of "diverted masonry". It was an active lodge in Trapani between 1980, when it was founded by Gelli , the "venerable master" of the P2 lodge , and 1986, when it was discovered by the police.

Trapani is a small city (73,000 inhabitants) of old and consolidated mafia traditions. In such a city, among the middle class members (traders, professionals, entrepreneurs, public officials, etc.), everyone knows each other and everyone knows everything about everyone.

There were about a hundred members of the lodge (four times the average number in Italian Freemasonry ): this anomaly is also significant, and in fact there were six other lodges that had 15-16 members each: in tolale 200, let's say "Masons" on about 28,000 adult men.

This means 72 "Masons" for every 10,000 adult men. The Italian average is 14 per 10,000.

1986

Following a "tip-off", the police searched the Scontrino cultural center and confiscated the lists of members (about 200) from seven Masonic lodges. Investigators understand that there is also a "covered" lodge, with nearly 100 affiliates not appearing on any list. After a few weeks the first secret names emerge: entrepreneurs, public officials, traders, some mafia bosses.
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 3 December 1986)

1988

The day after the search at the Scontrino the leader of the flying squad Saverio Montalbano had been suspended by the quaestor Gonzales. Official reason: "improper use" of armored cars. Since the investigation was opened, four Quaestors and three leaders of the Flying Squad have changed. The magistrates issue 34 judicial communications that hypothesize the crime of constitution and belonging to a hidden Masonic association. The suspects, among others, the Regional Councilor for Local Authorities Francesco Canino (DC), the former Provincial Councilor for Public Education Salvatore Bambina (DC), the assistant chief assistant, Saverio Bonura, the first head of the prefecture, the commander of the urban police .
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 13 February 1988)

Relations with the Mafia, arms trafficking and drugs are discovered. The suspects reach one hundred and are all affiliated with Isis 2. Among them, the quaestor Giuseppe Varchi (who is enrolled in P2). The hypothesis that the Trapani loggia is a sort of "dome", a super committee that controls the city, takes shape.
(Republic, February 14, 1988)

In an armored cabinet there are secret lists of affiliates, confidential notes, agendas full of the names of fugitive bosses, recommendations, requests for transfers, practices on large contracts, etc.
(gc - Repubblica, 24 March 1988)

1989

Against 24 members of the Masonic lodge judicial communications are issued in which the crime of simple and mafia-type criminal association is hypothesized. According to the investigators, the aims of the association were to protect the mafia in difficulty and to "cover" various types of business (careers, contracts, political elections).
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 11 April 1989)

1993

The hypotheses of the magistracy are confirmed by two repents in the trial against the "teacher" of Isis 2.
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, March 21, 1993) .

The surveys revealed connections with other lodges (Camea, Ciullo d'Alcamo, Armando Diaz) which had become meeting points for politicians, magistrates, drug traffickers, entrepreneurs, mafia bosses, bankers and many professionals, especially notaries, lawyers and engineers .
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 15 April 1993)

Among other things, the lodge also controlled the airport of Trapani, where, according to a "repentant" in 1980, the year in which, according to the repentant Marino Mannoia, Andreotti would have landed on a private plane to meet with his Ignazio cousins and Nino Salvo (Cosa Nostra of Salemi).
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 23 April 1993)

For the first time in Italian judicial history, members of Masonic lodges are condemned for "management and organization of secret association". The sentence, issued by the court of Trapani, condemns the "master" Giovanni Grimaudo and his deputy, Natale Torregrossa.
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 6 June 1993

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/19 01:19 PM

Iside 2 is one of most powerful lodges in South Italy. Back in March some members of Iside 2 were arrested , but they are all released already.

What were they charged with?

You have anymore info on these arrest, or iside 2 in general?

I posted it under that, but in case you did not saw :

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/19 01:49 PM

33 years after the discovery of Iside 2 there are now in Trapani province 500 masons registered in 19 lodges. Being a Mason is not a crime itself. The town of Messina Denaro Castelvetrano is considered the capital of Freemasonry.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/12/19 01:36 PM

Police in Spain seize 2.7 tonnes of hashish
By Euronews
11/05/2019

A three-year joint operation by Spanish and Italian police has resulted in the seizure of 2.7 tonnes of hashish in the Spanish region of Andalusia.

Forty-four people have been arrested and more than 70,000 euros weres seized, along with illegal firearms.

Those arrested were mostly suspected members of the Italian 'Ndrangheta group and the Spanish "Los Castanas Clan".

They face several charges, including belonging to a criminal organisation, money laundering, bribery, possession of illegal weapons and possession of false documents.

Italian police have been cracking down on Mafia groups in recent years, claiming particular success against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eu...ice-in-spain-seize-2-7-tonnes-of-hashish

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/19 03:12 AM

How can the FBI trace how much money actually belongs to someone in a money laundering scheme? They said they traced 1.5 billion in assets to Matteo Denaro through a businessman but how do they know if most if not all of that even belongs to Denaro?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/19 11:29 PM

Police in Spain seize 2.7 tonnes of hashish
By Euronews
11/05/2019

A three-year joint operation by Spanish and Italian police has resulted in the seizure of 2.7 tonnes of hashish in the Spanish region of Andalusia.

Forty-four people have been arrested and more than 70,000 euros weres seized, along with illegal firearms.

Those arrested were mostly suspected members of the Italian 'Ndrangheta group and the Spanish "Los Castanas Clan".

They face several charges, including belonging to a criminal organisation, money laundering, bribery, possession of illegal weapons and possession of false documents.

Italian police have been cracking down on Mafia groups in recent years, claiming particular success against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eu...ice-in-spain-seize-2-7-tonnes-of-hashish

Spain must be a huge port for drugs even more so than Italy no?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/14/19 08:59 PM

Antonio Nicaso presents his new book "When the 'ndrangheta discovered America". â€‹ 1880 -1956

Once back in Calabria, it will be the Â«AmericansÂ» who impose the new criminal strategy (control of the territory and collusion with politics and institutions) on the organization, starting the process that, in a few decades, will make the 'ndrangheta one of the most powerful mafias and pervasive in the world. After a long research carried out on a vast amount of documents, mostly unpublished, Antonio Nicaso, Maria BarillÃ and Vittorio Amaddeo reconstruct the history of this criminal mutation of the 'ndrangheta on American soil.

https://eventi.mondadoristore.it/it...ndo-la-ndrangheta-scopri-lamerica-/8162/

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/19 05:15 PM

^^^^
I bought the e-book this morning. I'll post about the book in the Other Mob Films/Books/TV forum.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/19 10:13 PM

A professor at Bocconi, one of Italyâ€™s leading universities, has come under fire for alleged links to the local mafia, police sources have said.

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/8096

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/17/19 01:59 PM

A new TV movie about the Duisburg Massacre !
"Duisburg - Linea di sangue", directed by Enzo Monteleone, is scheduled for prime time on Rai1 on Wednesday 22 May. The film is the story of the evolution of the 'ndrangheta phenomenon and of the internal struggles for power regulated by bloody family feuds, feuds that can last for years, striking the victims always during the holidays, as tradition has it, so that the revenge will be unforgettable . But it is also the story of two policemen wishing for justice and social redemption who manage to flush out the criminals and cancel this bloodline, which like a red trail seems to mark a territory taken from the State.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/18/19 11:49 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/18/19 11:55 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/20/19 08:52 PM

Late yesterday evening, just before midnight, an ambush - with at least thirty shots fired - occurred at Nao di Ionadi, a town on the outskirts of Vibo Valentia. The target was Domenico Signoretta, 45 years old, considered by the investigators the armourer of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso, called "the Engineer", captured in Argentina in 2015 and since last June in an Italian prison after the declarations of his son Emanuele, a collaborator of justice. Domenico Signoretta, under house arrest, was in the courtyard of his home when at his address over thirty pistol and rifle shots were fired from which he miraculously emerged unscathed.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/21/19 11:35 PM

A mafia consortia was busted in Rome. 18 arrests for drugs and weapons linked to the Â´ndrangheta, SCU, Casamonicas and even a prominent figure among the ultras of SS Lazio.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/24/19 09:20 PM

The repentant Rocco Marando retracted the previous depositions at the appeal trial, underway in Turin, for a 'ndrangheta feud with four murders dating back to 1997/98. The man was heard today in the courtroom. Crimes, according to investigators, were part of the rivalry between two families involved in drug trafficking. The defendants are five. Judged by the judges there is the ambush aimed at the first of June 1997 to Antonio and Antonino Stefanelli and to their driver Francesco Mancuso (the bodies were never found) and the next one, of 30 January 1998, to Roberto Romeo.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/26/19 08:54 AM

Uncovered a 'ndrangheta bunker in Aspromonte: it opened with a mechanical device
In Aspromonte another bunker of the 'ndrangheta appears. The police found it in PlatÃ¬

https://video.repubblica.it/cronaca...n-un-dispositivo-meccanico/335510/336109

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/27/19 08:12 PM

In the port of Barcelona, â€‹â€‹the Spanish National Police seized 5,000 kilos of cocaine this week. The shipments were packed in three containers. Six people were arrested, all working in the port.
The first container contained 643 kilos of coke and the second 2,443 kilos. Follow-up research on the Spanish evacuation team yielded another link to a third container that contained 2,000 kilos.
According to the police, suspects who worked for a port company caused cocaine containers to be moved to less secure locations.
There have been searches in seven places where 27,370 euros in cash, six vehicles, pgp telephones and computers have been seized.
The â€œLivornoâ€ investigation started in January 2019 in collaboration with the Italian Guardia de Finanza and with the Colombian authorities, after information was received about setting up a major transport to Barcelona.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/28/19 05:53 PM

The Sicilians and ndrangheta have so many different families but are so organized. Why canâ€™t the Camorra follow their lead?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/28/19 06:59 PM

The Sicilians and ndrangheta have so many different families but are so organized. Why canâ€™t the Camorra follow their lead?

They donÂ´t need to, but through the years the Camorra has always passed through structural transformations.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/29/19 07:58 PM

Police arrested 35 members of the 'Ndrangheta 'locale' based in the town of San Leonardo di Cutro (Crotone) led by the boss Alfonso Mannolo on charges of mafia association, drug trafficking, extortions, loansharking and illegal possession of weapons.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/29/19 07:58 PM

The Sicilians and ndrangheta have so many different families but are so organized. Why canâ€™t the Camorra follow their lead?

They donÂ´t need to, but through the years the Camorra has always passed through structural transformations.

There are some families that are as organized as any other family. The casalesi, nuvolettas etc.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/19 08:24 AM

In 1992 Carmine Alfieri attempted to construct a unitary organization, according to Sicilian plan. He named that new organization
â€œNuova Mafia Campanaâ€ (New Campania Mafia).
According to the Anti-Mafia committee, â€œThe Nuova Mafia was more aspiration than realizationâ€.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/19 04:28 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/19 09:14 PM

What family is the gold standard in Sicily would it be the cuntrera-caruana? They clearly had a lot of money and power in both Italy and Venezuela. Had strong ties to the ndrangheta too.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/31/19 11:00 AM

Police arrested 28 people across Italy and Germany; the San Luca clans produced marijuana in the Aspromonte in order to sell it in the central region of Lazio, several plantantions worth million euros were seized. The organization had intensively and industrially structured the production of marijuana, creating irrigated fields, hidden by vegetation and monitored with video recording systems, to then take care of the transport and marketing.

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/31/19 02:44 PM

Mafia threats and sexting: Two Italian priests face trial over â€˜Ndrangheta claims http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...-two-italian-priests-face-trial-over-ndr

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/01/19 12:49 PM

Organogram of the Calabrian mafia based on Operazione Crimine 2010 and DIA 2012.

link

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/01/19 10:05 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/01/19 11:15 PM

You never hear about the families in Sinopoli and Delianuova except some of them in Canada.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 04:30 AM

Did Canada still answer back to the ndrangheta or were they completely independent?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 09:57 AM

Did Canada still answer back to the ndrangheta or were they completely independent?

I think the groups in Australia and Canada are more or less independent.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 10:14 AM

What did you think of the recent developments with the Piscopisani clan trying to oust the Mancusos from Vibo Valentia?

In particular, the fact that they had backing from the Commissos, the Aquinos, Tripodi and other clans.

I saw this, and was kinda surprised to see them exercise this level of influence DIRECTLY in Calabria....

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 01:40 PM

What did you think of the recent developments with the Piscopisani clan trying to oust the Mancusos from Vibo Valentia?

In particular, the fact that they had backing from the Commissos, the Aquinos, Tripodi and other clans.

I saw this, and was kinda surprised to see them exercise this level of influence DIRECTLY in Calabria....

Did not know this. I have heard from people on here that the Mancusos are one of the stronger families too so that is surprising to hear.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 07:12 PM

@Cabrini very interesting emerging group until 2018/2019 they flew pretty much under the radar. The Locale of Piscopio or Society of Piscopio, sometimes also called Clan of the piscopisani is a criminal organization belonging to the 'ndrangheta and born in 2009 or 2010 in the Piscopio fraction of Vibo Valentia and is operative in the Vibonese area in particular at Piscopio and Stefanaconi, in the province of Bologna and in the city of Palermo.
They established links with the international cocaine broker Vincenzo Barbieri, one of the leading cocaine importers in Europe from South America, killed in March 2011.
The group is mostly composed of young elements ready to take the crime scene in the province together with other clans, all united by the desire to oust from power the powerful family of Mancuso of Limbadi.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 09:22 PM

The Ndrangheta has clans that operate in Palermo?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 09:23 PM

https://youtu.be/-6tppkEkigk

I have been trying to watch this video but I canâ€™t find a way to translate the subtitles to English. Seems interesting.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/19 09:39 PM

The Ndrangheta has clans that operate in Palermo?

Probably only a couple of representatives who deal with cosa nostra, it seems these guys mainly focus on the drug trade.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:09 AM

The 'ndrangheta has "conquered" Germany
The German government considers it to be the largest mafia

Sun, 02/06/2019 - 19:01

There are between 800 and 1000 members of the Ndrangheta present and operating in Germany: the German government supports it in a response to a question presented to the Bundestag by the parliamentary group of the Greens, published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

According to the German government, it is assumed that there are between 18 and 20 active bases of the Calabrian criminal organization in the country. At the moment, the German security services have identified with certainty only 344 presumed affiliates of the Calabrian mafia, so "we must recognize that there are at least three times the number of members in local bases in Germany," said Irene Mihalic, spokesman for the Greens for internal politics "this is an enormous risk for the security of the country with respect to which we must revive the attention of the institutions". The Ndrangheta would be the largest Italian criminal group in Germany. Sicilian Cosa Nostra would be "represented" in the country with 123 members.

In addition there are the branches of the Camorra from Campania with 94 members and the clans of the SCU, which in Germany have 18 exponents. The Italian mafia, explains the German government, has "a high degree of organization and professionalism" compared to the other criminal groups present in the country. In order to hide, it has recently given up violent actions and concentrates their activities on the influence of political and economic exponents.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:31 AM

Lacnews24.it
Tuesday 9 April 2019 | 20:46
CHRONICLE
'Ndrangheta, Piscopisani on his knees: reconstructed the organization chart of the clan
Outlined the hierarchies within the mafia structure based in the hamlet of Vibo Valentia badly hit by the Rimpiazzo operation coordinated by the Dda of Catanzaro

by G. B.

Giovanni Battaglia, brother of Rosario, indicated as organizer of the clan. According to investigators, participating in the Mafia association based in Piscopio are also to be considered:

Giuseppe D'Angelo (aka "Pino Il Biricchino"), Francesco La Bella (aka "Campagna"), Giuseppe Brogna, Domenico D'Angelo ( called "Uncle Wolf", David Angelo (aka "Giotto"), Stefano Farfaglia (aka "Pugnetta"), Sacha Fortuna (aka "Personal"), Nazzareno Galati (aka "Fampulla"), Benito La Bella, Francesco Felice ( aka "Citolla"), Nazzareno Felice (aka "Il Capo") and Pasquale Fiorillo.

These last suspects are accused of having been part of the so-called "Minor Society" of Piscopio, with roles therefore lower than the promoters, but equally important. In particular, Giuseppe D'Angelo would have had the rank of "awl", with logistic / operational tasks.

Francesco La Bella and Giuseppe Brogna would have had the rank of "picciotto" taking an active part in the meetings in which the criminal strategies were decided. Francesco La Bella is also accused of having guarded and concealed the clan's weapons, handing them over to the associates to carry out the fire actions.

Domenico D'Angelo, with the rank of "picciotto", is accused of having taken part in the meetings in which the criminal strategies to be followed in order to combat the Mafia against the Patania clan of Stefanaconi were deceased, participating also in the preliminary stages of the attempted murder against Andrea Patania, finding the car that would have been used for the attack.

Stefano Farfaglia and Angelo David would have held the rank of "picciotto", but they would have been on the verge of receiving the rank of "sgarrista", participating in robberies and damages.

Sacha Fortuna, brother of Davide Fortuna (killed by the Patania clan on the beach of Vibo Marina in July 2012), is instead accused of being affiliated to the Piscopisani clan with the rank of "picciotto" but in the process of receiving the rank of "striker â€, With tasks in drug trafficking and in the procurement, custody and concealment of weapons and ammunition.

Nazzareno Galati, Benito La Bella and Francesco Felice are instead indicated as trusted men of Rosario Fiorillo, alias â€œPulcinoâ€, Nazzareno Felice would then have had the task of maintaining relations with the other clans active in the Vibonese, while Pasquale Fiorillo would have made its home available to the associates so that meetings could be held. The disputes cover a time span that goes from the period before 2009 to the present. The Piscopisan clan, as well as in Piscopio, would have operated in Longobardi, Bivona, Vibo Marina, Portosalvo.

The Piscopio clan would have maintained solid alliances with the Bonavota clan of Sant'Onofrio, Tripodi di Portosalvo, Commisso di Siderno, Aquino di Marina of Gioiosa Ionica, Catalano and D'Onofrio allocated to Turin.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:35 AM

This might be the first time I've seen an actual attempt at an ndrangheta organizational chart, complete with the ranks and fuctions.

I've never seen one for ANY other clan, so I thought this was VERY interesting..

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:41 AM

'Ndrangheta: the safe of the Piscopisan clan hidden in Rosario Fiorillo's bedroom

giuseppe baglivo
April 16, 2019 07:35
The illicit proceeds, according to the "Rimpiazzo" survey and the declarations of the repentant Moscato, also came from commercial activities managed directly by the cosca

chronicle
At the disposal of the Piscopisan clan there would have been a "basin" or a veritable safe where to merge the illicit proceeds. This is what emerges from the anti-mafia operation "Rimpiazzo", which hit the active clan in the Piscopio fraction of Vibo Valentia and in Vibo Marina, which reveals details that are completely new about the operating methods of the gang. In the long talk with the investigators the collaborator of justice, Raffaele Moscato , who in the clan had reached the dowry of the "gospel" and, therefore, aware of the most important secrets of the mafia coterie of belonging. The safe had beenplaced by Piscopisani directly in the bedroom of Rosario Fiorillo , 30, called "Pulcino" one of the leaders of the clan together with his cousin Rosario Battaglia, 35, both from Piscopio and both convicted at the first instance to life imprisonment for the murder of Stefanaconi's boss, Fortunato Patania, killed in his fuel station in September 2011. Custodian of the "basin" of the clan, Rosario Fiorillo - according to Moscato's story - he would have written down all the accounting on the notepads kept in a wall safe , installed in the bedroom of his apartment, located in via Fiume in Piscopio.

All this was also due to the fact that the real "accountant" of the clan, or his cousin Michele Fiorillo , aka "Zarrillo", was at the time detained for mafia association in the "Crime" investigation of the Reggio Calabria Dda . "Rosario Fiorillo - explains the collaborator Moscato - kept all the accounts of the amazing substance in his home in his bedroom on Via Fiume. A small room where however there is a picture and behind the picture there is a safe. There were kept notebooks with the money we had to receive, all the money we had put in, all the money we had spent, all the money that had come in and gone out. It was all that marked because Rosario Fiorillo also had to give Michele Fiorillo justification when he left the prison ".

According to Moscato, the main profits of the criminal activity carried out by the Piscopisans came from extortion, from robberies and from the management of drug trafficking , but also from the "management of some commercial activities that the associates managed in first person". The reference, according to the investigators, is: to the American Bar, located in piazza Municipio in Vibo Valentia, managed, personally, by Giovanni Battaglia , brother of Rosario, and also arrested in the "Rimpiazzo" operation.

As for this commercial activity (the fictitious heading of which is disputed with the investigation), the collaborator of justice Raffaele Moscato reported that the profits that derived from it ended up "the expenses of the prisoners"; then the reference to the restaurant-pub called Pequod, located in Vibo Valentia on Corso Vittorio Emanuele Ill, number 261, also managed, in first person, by Giovanni Battaglia; then the reference "to the tire shop located in Vena di Jonadi, attributable to Nazzareno Fiorillo and his son Michele Fiorillo"; the reference to the bar "Dolce vita" located in Vibo Valentia in Viale Affacciorun by a company by Pino Galati of Piscopio , arrested as "head of the" local " of 'Ndrangheta di Piscopio and already convicted of mafia association in the" Crime "trial; finally the reference to the bar located in Piscopio in Piazza San Michele and managed by Giovanni Battaglia.

As for the safe of the clan, effectively the judicial police on 5 April 2017, following a house search, found that in the place indicated by Moscato, hidden by a painting, there was a safe. The collaborator also told of a sort of "mutual aid" that intervened when the organization was short of cash and it was necessary to conclude business regarding the purchase of drugs. In this case it was financed, among others, by Salvatore Tripodi of Portosalvo (not investigated) and by Nazzareno Fiorillo(arrested as head of the "local" of Piscopio) with the proceeds of extortion money. READ ALSO: The drug trafficking of the Piscopisan clan among cocaine, hashish and marijuana

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:47 AM

One more....

CHRONICLES'Ndrangheta war, the "piscopisani" wanted to oust the Mancusis: 31 arrests all over Italy. There is also the delicate role of "sister omertÃ " which ...administrator Posted 2 months ago of the 9 April 2019 Of administrator

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The State Police of Vibo Valentia, at the conclusion of complex investigations conducted in collaboration with the Catanzaro Police Headquarters and with the Central Operational Service and with the coordination by the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, arrested 31 people accused of mafia-type criminal association and external competition in mafia association; extortion, damage and robbery, aggravated by the Mafia method; illegal possession and possession of weapons and explosives, long-term injuries, fictitious heading of goods, trafficking and drug dealing. The arrests were carried out in Vibo Valentia and in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Rome, Bologna, L'Aquila, Prato, Livorno, Alessandria, Brescia, Nuoro, Milan and Udine.

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The 'Ndrangheta thigh of the' piscopisani 'wanted to replace that of the Mancusos, historically dominant in the territory, in the control of illegal activities in a vast area comprising Vibo Valentia and some hamlets. This is what emerged from the investigation conducted by the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, directed by Nicola Gratteri, which led to the operation of the State Police, meaningly called "Rimpiazzo", in which 31 people were arrested. According to the investigation, conducted by the Vibo Valentia flying squad, the "piscopisani" wanted to take over the Mancuso gang in the management of criminal affairs throughout the Vibo Valentia area, including, in addition to the capital, the villages of Vibo Marina, Porto Salvo and Bivona. The attempt of the "piscopisani" to displace the Mancusos was the cause of a clash between the two groups that also caused some murders. Central is the role of a woman, Maria Concetta Fortuna, 61, of Piscopio, called by the affiliates "sister omertÃ ". This is what emerged from the investigation. "Sorella omertÃ " owes its name to the fact that it assisted the relatives of prisoners and fugitives, offering them support in various forms in times of difficulty.
"We believe we have documented the existence of a real" local "of 'ndrangheta, responsible for years of murder, extortion and damage, rebuilding the organization chart." This is what the Quaestor of Vibo Valentia, Andrea Grassi, declared to the Agi. "The fact that the organization placed drugs in Palermo confirms that the 'ndrangheta is the center of international drug trafficking."

Here are the photos and the names of the suspects

Michele Fiorillo , 33, aka "Zarrillo" (already sentenced to 8 years for the "Crime" operation of the Dda of Reggio Calabria), of Piscopio;
Benito La Bella , 31, of Piscopio;
Nicola Barba, known as "Cola" , 67, from Vibo Valentia, residing in Bivona;
Giuseppe Salvatore Galati, 55 anni, detto â€œPinoâ€ (giÃ condannato in â€œCrimineâ€), di Piscopio;
Salvatore Vita, 44 anni, di Vibo Marina (giÃ condannato per lâ€™operazione â€œLybraâ€);
Rosario Battaglia, 35 anni, uno dei vertici del locale di Piscopio;
Nazzareno Colace, 55 anni, di Portosalvo;
Angelo David, 36 anni, di Piscopio;
Ippolito Fortuna, 59 anni, di Vibo Marina (giÃ coinvolto nellâ€™operazione antidroga â€œStammer 2â€);
Francesco Tassone, 42 anni, imprenditore agricolo residente a Vibo;
Giovanni Battaglia, 36 anni, di Piscopio;
Francesco Dâ€™Ascoli, 48 anni, di Piscopio;
Stefano Farfaglia, 36 anni, di Piscopio;
Francesco Felice, 26 anni, di Piscopio;
Nazzareno Fiorillo, 54 anni, detto â€œU Tartaruâ€, di Piscopio;
Rosario Fiorillo, 30 anni, detto â€œPulcinoâ€, di Piscopio;
Francesco Fortuna, 25 anni, di Vibo Marina;
Maria Concetta Fortuna, 61 anni, di Piscopio;
Sacha Fortuna, 40 anni, di Vibo, residente nel Bolognese (fratello di Davide Fortuna, ucciso nel 2012 sulla spiaggia di Vibo Marina);
Nazzareno Fortuna, 30 anni, di Piscopio;
Giovanni Giardina, 41 anni;
Francesco La Bella, 46 anni, di Piscopio;
Mario Lo Iacono, 38 anni;
Cosmo Michele Mancuso, 70 anni, di Limbadi;
Pantaleone Mancuso, 58 anni, detto â€œScarpuniâ€, di Limbadi, residente a Nicotera Marina;
Nazzareno Pannace, 30 anni;
Francesco Popillo, 34 anni;
Francesco Romano, 33 anni;
Gaetano Rubino, 39 anni;
Pierluigi Sorrentino, 29 anni;
Michele Staropoli, 53 anni.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 09:48 AM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 12:50 PM

Fantastic article. The clan trying to overthrow sounds more like a street gang trying to pull off a coup.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/19 07:04 PM

http://www.lasiciliaweb.it/2019/06/02/la-germania-conta-i-mafiosi-sono-123/

Germany says between 800 and 1,000 mafiosi reside within its borders, â€™Ndrangheta members being most numerous.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/05/19 02:45 AM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/19 02:30 AM

Do the ndrangheta and the Camorra split the area that lies between Naples and Calabria?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/19 01:20 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/07/19 01:30 PM

Do the ndrangheta and the Camorra split the area that lies between Naples and Calabria?

The Camorra is dominant in all of Campania, Abruzzo, Molise and the north of Puglia even expanded to northern Calabria in the past. 'Ndrangheta in Basilicata and southern Puglia through the sacra corona unita.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/09/19 07:19 PM

Narco-ndrangheta: arrests in Ivory Coast
By Euronews â€¢ last update: 09/06/2019 - 16:46

There are also representatives of the Ndrangheta and the Camorra, among the 10 arrested in the context of an operation against drug trafficking conducted by the Ivory Coast police forces and which also involved police forces in France, Italy and Brasille. According to investigators, there would be this group behind the shipment of 1200 kilos of cocaine seized in September last year in the port of Santos, Brazil, and directed to Abdjan hidden in a container with construction equipment.

Later the cargo - bought in Latin America for 2.5 million euros but worth 250 million euros once it arrived in the drug markets - should have taken Europe's route and ended up in Calabria.

The operation, named "Spaghetti connection", was illustrated at a press conference at Abdjan. "The arrests were made last June 6," said Adorno Bonaventure, director of the Unit for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, "and involved 10 suspects: 6 Italians, one Franco-Turkish and three Ivorian citizens, among whom two women ". For Silvain CouÃ¨, a French liaison officer, "the stuff was destined for Ndrangheta and Camorra groups," with Italians residing in Ivory Coast for some time, at the origin of the traffic ".

This is the third major operation against drug trafficking completed in the Ivory Coast in less than three years. For at least 20 years, West African countries have become a privileged point of passage for cocaine loads departing from South America and heading for Europe.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/19 09:52 AM

On Sunday 9 June, the German Police, on the advice of the Carabinieri Station of Africo Nuovo (Rc), arrested the 28-year-old fugitive Rocco Stilo, adjoining the 'Morabito-Bruzzaniti-Palamara' gang of Africo, in execution of a mandate European arrest issued on 3 June by the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria. Stilo was located in Neuwied, in the Rhineland.
He was wanted for drug dealing and aggravated robbery, following which on 19 May the Reggio Calabria Public Prosecutor issued an execution order for imprisonment for a further year and 8 months of imprisonment, in addition to the 3 years already served.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/19 04:24 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/13/19 11:10 AM

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/13/19 02:01 PM

^^^^
La droga della â€˜ndrangheta reggina dal Sud America all'Italia e al Canada: 31 arresti

https://lacnews24.it/cronaca/droga-sud-america-ndrangheta-reggio-arresti_89981/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/13/19 08:52 PM

Linked to the San Luca and PlatÃ¬ families.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/14/19 04:33 PM

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-dive...se-arrete-a-macon-14-06-2019-8093013.php

A big capo of the Calabrian mafia arrested in MÃ¢con

Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of the Ndrangheta, was arrested Thursday by the police of the Central Office of fight against organized crime.
Nice trick of the investigators of the National Fugitive Research Brigade (BNRF). A member of the Calabrian mafia, the dreaded Ndrangheta, 53, is presented this Friday morning at the public prosecutor's office in Dijon (CÃ´te d'Or). Giuseppe Cortese was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant, which targeted 31 people, who are members of a network that specializes in the importation of Colombian cocaine.

Everything was done in the utmost secrecy to foil the informants of the mafia, which is infiltrating the police and the entire Italian society. On Tuesday, at 3 am, the Italian police transmit the order to arrest the man at the Central Office of fight against organized crime (OCLCO) in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and indicate that Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of this mafia association and specialized in traffic finance, just went to France to go to Switzerland. Thanks to a geolocation of his mobile, the suspect is spotted in Burgundy.

READ ALSO> Sicilian Mafia: After the death of Toto Riina, what remains of Cosa Nostra?

The investigators of the BNRF notify the judicial police of Dijon, who then locate his Porsche 911 on the side of MÃ¢con. A team of the research and intervention brigade goes to the parking lot of a modest hotel located in the industrial zone of the city and finds the car. "The officials have discreetly monitored the entrance of the establishment because the rule on the arrest of fugitives is not to attempt anything if we do not see them," said the Parisian source close to the file.

Given to the Italian authorities within 40 days
Thursday morning, Giuseppe Cortese, accompanied by another mafia, leaves the hotel. The police give him no chance and handcuff him. "He did not move at all and was very surprised to see us," said one close friend. When he was put in the car, he did not say a word. "In the next few hours, the mafia will be jailed and handed over to the Italian authorities in the next forty days.

Ndrangheta is one of the criminal organizations that controls a large proportion of cocaine imports into Europe. She is a major interlocutor for South American cartels. And traffickers often have to pay them a fee to work on the European continent.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/15/19 01:08 PM

Interesting I read that other cocaine traffickers pay the 'Ndrangheta a fee to work on the EU.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/15/19 01:29 PM

Interesting I read that other cocaine traffickers pay the 'Ndrangheta a fee to work on the EU.

I found it hard to believe , foreign groups in Italy pay for sure , and maybe some parts of EU where 'Ndrangheta have strong presence and control of ports.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/19 10:49 PM

Interesting I read that other cocaine traffickers pay the 'Ndrangheta a fee to work on the EU.

I found it hard to believe , foreign groups in Italy pay for sure , and maybe some parts of EU where 'Ndrangheta have strong presence and control of ports.

Germany for example where they do a lot of business with the bikers.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/19 11:14 PM

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/19 11:15 PM

This is some crazy stuff... Credits to Carmelo.

Three turncoats who had to testify at the 'Ndrangheta stragista trial, concerning the attack against the government of Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta clans, occult masonic lodges and secret services at the beginning of the 1990s, disappeared some months ago and both central service, police and lawyers can't find them; astonishingly the Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Graviano, a defendant in the trial, currently in the prison of Terni under 41-bis, told the prosecutor he knows where they could be. The turncoats who left the witness protection program some years ago and untraceable are Leonardo Messina (ex capodecina of San Cataldo crime family), Gioacchino Pennino (ex member of Brancaccio family and freemason) and Vincenzo Grimaldi, ex member of the 'Ndrangheta clan Piromalli-MolÃ¨.
The turncoat Marino Pulito, ex member of the Sacra Corona Unita, who testimonied in the same trial, is also untraceable since November 2018.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/19 09:44 AM

This is some crazy stuff... Credits to Carmelo.

4 turncoats disappeared and i never heard anything in the italian news lol what a joke they are

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/19 10:42 AM

You think its incompetence, or by design?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/19 05:39 PM

You think its incompetence, or by design?

by design imo

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/19/19 11:58 AM

Posted By: kickup

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/20/19 09:47 AM

'Ndrangheta mobster Giuseppe Cortese arrested in France. Cortese played a key role in helping the Calabrian's control the trafficking of cocaine into Europe.

Police targeting 'Ndrangheta mafia members. Over 84 members were swept in these coordinated raids across Europe. Most of them were big in cocaine trafficking.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/20/19 06:55 PM

How much business does the ndrangheta do with the Albanians? The Osmani brothers are extremely rich and I wonder if they have more power and money than the top ndrangheta bosses. The answer is probably no to both but they are big time.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/20/19 08:31 PM

they have links mostly because of drugs, ndrangheta sometimes supply albanians with cocaine and albanians sometimes ndrangheta with heroin and weed, at least in the past because the local production of weed increased very much in italy in the latest years, ndrangheta produces weed too nowadays
anyway top ndrangheta bosses are by far more powerful and richer than osmani brothers

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 09:46 AM

NDRANGHETA, ARRESTED, AT AGE 93, THE MOTHER OF THE BOSSES GALLICO (RC)
From The Editor - 21 June 2019

Lucia Giuseppa Morgante, 93, mother of the convicts Domenico and Giuseppe Gallico bosses of the 'Ndrangheta of Palmi, in the plain of Gioia Tauro, was arrested by the Carabinieri on the order of the General Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria and placed under house arrest until December 31 of this year.
The woman, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and mafia association with a final sentence in 2016 together with her two children, had enjoyed the suspension of the sentence for health reasons incompatible with the prison regime.
However, despite her state of health, according to the investigators, she continued in the support activity in the management
of the thigh commanded by her children, and was arrested.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 10:57 AM

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 10:57 AM

I think they are close...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 11:21 AM

Operation Pollina had the Pelle clan working closely with Albanians...

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 01:09 PM

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Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 02:47 PM

Operation Pollina had the Pelle clan working closely with Albanians...

Thank you Cabrini. Would you say he Ndranghetaâ€™s level of power and wealth is anywhere close to the Sicilians and Camorra at their respective peaks? And what point was the ndrahgheta at their peak?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 08:32 PM

Do any news outlets have an idea of who was behind the big drug shipment that was intercepted by law enforcement in Philadelphia?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 08:34 PM

Do any news outlets have an idea of who was behind the big drug shipment that was intercepted by law enforcement in Philadelphia?

Read this thread: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=973335#Post973335

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/19 09:30 PM

The Sacra Corona Unita has the closest links to Albania and Montenegro they were even involved in contract killings in Tirana it is a natural gateway for smuggling to Western Europe.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/22/19 04:05 AM

I donâ€™t hear much about the sacra corona. Could they be building up an empire in the shadows like the ndrangheta did for so many years or will they always be behind the other mafia organizations?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/22/19 09:35 AM

Problem for them is they don't control Puglia there are other groups active like the Foggia Society. The latter is seen as the most violent of all mafias. A prosecutor said that the Foggia mafia has some primitive features that recall the American gangsterism of the beginning of the last century.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/23/19 11:22 AM

https://theconversation.com/how-maf...-left-fans-with-a-crisis-of-faith-118136

How mafia and corruption scandals rocked Italian football and left fans with a crisis of faith

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/23/19 12:15 PM

Hollander posted it already in new thread. But thanks for sharing anyway! Keep posting articles , articles you post are always a good read

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/23/19 02:50 PM

Hollander posted it already in new thread. But thanks for sharing anyway! Keep posting articles , articles you post are always a good read

ItÂ´s a problem everywhere in football many soccer agents and fifa-uefa officials have shady links. I remember Joca Amsterdam owned several players.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/19 02:46 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...639f8ec-6977-48b8-8513-b1ca9fcebe4e.html

Ndrangheta boss breaks out of jail in Uruguay
Morabito was awaiting extradition to Italy

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/19 05:07 PM

It will take them years to catch him again.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/19 06:53 PM

Rocco Morabito: Italian mafia boss escapes prison in Uruguay
52-year-old, who had been on the run for more than 20 years before his arrest in 2017, managed to break out through a hole in the building's roof alongside three others

Will Kirby
2 hours ago

A mafia boss, who was once considered in the top five most dangerous Italian fugitives, has escaped from a Uruguayan prison, the country's interior ministry has confirmed.

Rocco Morabito, dubbed the 'cocaine king of Milan', had been the most wanted fugitive member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful organised crime group and one of the biggest importers of cocaine in Europe.

The 52-year-old broke out of the Central Prison in Montevideo alongside three other inmates, escaping "through a hole in the roof of the building" late on Sunday before robbing the owners of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement.

A nationwide police appeal for information on their whereabouts has been launched.

Morabito was awaiting extradition to Italy for international drug trafficking, having been arrested at a Montevideo hotel in 2017 after living in Uruguay under a false name for 13 years.

Until his arrest, he had been living in a luxurious mansion in a wealthy Punta del Este neighbourhood where he was considered a model citizen, who devoted himself to his work in the soybean business and selling rural properties.

He was discovered with a Brazilian passport in the name of Francisco Attilio Capelletto Souza, a soy trader and a resident of the coastal city of Punta del Este, as well as 13 mobile phones, 12 credit cards and a gun.

Morabito was initially arrested on charges of falsifying identity papers, but has been awaiting extradition on the more serious charges since September 2017.

The three other men who escaped with him were awaiting extradition to Brazil and Argentina, including one on charges of homicide.

"It is disconcerting and serious that a criminal like Rocco Morabito, boss of the 'Ndrangheta, managed to escape from a jail in Uruguay while he was waiting to be extradited to Italy," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said.

"I make two commitments, First: to shed light on evasion procedures, asking for immediate explanations from the Montevideo government. Second: we will continue to hunt down Morabito, wherever he is, to throw him in jail as he deserves."

Born in Africo in Italy's poor southern region of Calabria, Morabito moved to Milan in his early twenties and rapidly rose through the mafia ranks.

Investigators began tracking him and recorded him regularly delivering cash-filled suitcases to South American drug traffickers in the city centre.

Police attempted to arrest him in October 1994 but he managed to escape and fled the city. He was sentenced in absentia to 28 years in prison the following year, which was later increased to 30 years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ruguay-ndrangheta-calabria-a8972501.html

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/19 08:36 PM

It will take them years to catch him again.

Those mountains in Italy will keep a man hidden for decades it seems

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 10:37 AM

It will take them years to catch him again.

Those mountains in Italy will keep a man hidden for decades it seems

Hard terrain yea , but main thing is that they have almost complete control of territory and protection from police/masonic lodges/politicians. There is no way they can go on the run for 20+ years on small island as Sicily is.

Posted By: JoeTadaro

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 10:55 AM

So if he escaped from a prison in Uruguay Do you guys think that he will come to Sicily to hide or does he stay away?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 01:24 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...8e82ed0-5441-4d9f-9d9e-31faa3795eee.html

Ndrangheta arrests in Emilia Romagna
Grande Aracri clan members, head of Piacenza city council

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 01:53 PM

It will take them years to catch him again.

Those mountains in Italy will keep a man hidden for decades it seems

How long has Denaro been on the run for?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 01:54 PM

So if he escaped from a prison in Uruguay Do you guys think that he will come to Sicily to hide or does he stay away?

I was going to ask this too. I really donâ€™t know how it works but I can imagine that he has the connections to find a way back to Italy

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 02:11 PM

So if he escaped from a prison in Uruguay Do you guys think that he will come to Sicily to hide or does he stay away?

I was going to ask this too. I really donâ€™t know how it works but I can imagine that he has the connections to find a way back to Italy

he lived in uruguay several years and he has connections in brazil and colombia, i bet he remains in south america to manage cocaine shipments to europe

Posted By: JoeTadaro

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 02:50 PM

It seriously blows my mind that Denaro is still on the run after all this time. Goes to show how corrupt Italy is. Iâ€™m sure if they really wanted to find him they could.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 07:02 PM

How long has Denaro been on the run for?

Since '93 and since 2001 as the boss of Cosa Nostra in the province of Trapani.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 07:17 PM

It seriously blows my mind that Denaro is still on the run after all this time. Goes to show how corrupt Italy is. Iâ€™m sure if they really wanted to find him they could.

They do have massive manhunts for several years now with many arrests including his closest family and men. It's amazing how he evades his capture, it has been close a few times though.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 07:38 PM

His father was also a wanted man , but died from heart attack while still on the run , they never managed to capture him. Its not unusual for italian mafia members to be on the run for 20+ years.As i said complete control of south italy and protection from politicians and masonic lodges allow them to do so

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/19 10:47 PM

Yeah he probably bought himself out. This is power.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/19 11:37 AM

Ansa :Ndrangheta: fraud in Emilia, seized assets for 2.3 million June 26

Goods for 2 million 300 thousand euros have been seized by the Dia di Bologna to several people involved in a fraud with which the 'ndrangheta emiliana, in competition with members of the "Grande Aracri" gang of Cutro (Kr), has made a huge scam against the Ministry of the Economy and Finance ("Affido Oppido").

The operation is an investigative development of the Aemilia investigation against the branches of the Calabrian mafia in Emilia. Specifically, on the basis of a falsified sentence, attesting to a non-existent compensation right, the ministry accredited, in July 2010, a sum of over two million euros, to a company attributable to a family of Calabrian construction contractors, for years transplanted in the province of Reggio Emilia and contiguous to the Emilian Ndrangheta association. The fraudulent affair, devised by a Neapolitan lawyer salesman, was proposed to the 'Ndrangheta emiliana who had identified a company with suitable structural characteristics based on the considerable reimbursement that would have resulted from the fraud. The operation, rebuilt starting from the statements made by the collaborators of justice in the "Aemilia" process, involving several top exponents of the Emilian ndranghetistic association and the "Grande Aracri" clan of Cutro, with the complicity of professionals. The operations took place in the province of Reggio Emilia and in the regions of Lombardy, Lazio, Campania and Calabria and involved the personnel of the Dia of Bologna, Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Catanzaro.

At the end of the activities, also through a judicial police analysis aimed at revealing the existence of concealment operations of real estate and company shares (also through operations of "external appearance" in Ivory Coast and in England), was seized a patrimony consisting of movable and immovable assets for a total value of 2 million and 300 thousand euros, brought back to some of the suspects through patrimonial assessments carried out by the Dia of Bologna.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/19 12:26 PM

Jail-break 'Ndrangheta boss 'has left Uruguay' - media

(ANSA) - Rome, June 26 - An 'Ndrangheta boss who broke out of a Montevideo jail two days ago has probably left Uruguay for Brazil, the online edition of Uruguayan newspaper El Observador said Wednesday citing police sources.
Calabrian mafia boss Rocco Morabito broke out of the capital's central prison with three other inmates on Monday.
The interior ministry is yet to comment on the newspaper report.
El Observador said authorities had viewed CCTV footage of Montevideo streets and had seen Morabito and the others getting into a car that set off for Costa de Oro, east of the capital, heading for the Brazilian border.
They said the footage was shot only 8-9 hours after the jail break. Morabito, 53, was awaiting extradition to Italy after being arrested in a Montevideo hotel in 2017.
He had been a fugitive from Italian justice for 23 years.
In March a court approved his extradition to Italy.
Morabito, who has been sentenced in absentia to 30 years in jail in Italy, was in the prison's infirmary with his three accomplices.
They escaped through a tunnel they dug into the roof of the building, from which they let themselves down on ropes into an adjacent farm, where they stole money from the women owner, local sources said.
The boss had tried in various ways to evade extradition to Italy and had insulted the judge at a recent hearing to try to get the proceedings suspended.
Uruguayan authorities have sent out an all points bulletin and have given out a phone number for anyone with useful information.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Morabito's escape was "disconcerting and grave".
"I make two vows," he said. "First, to shed full light on how he escaped, asking for immediate explanation from the government in Montevideo.
"Second, we will continue to hunt Morabito, wherever he is, to bang him up in jail as he deserves".

Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...Cvkf1cbet0KxLzwsLDo1b_YNrwd_zaqZEA19eJs0

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/19 03:14 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/19 05:28 PM

With Denaro on the run, who is the most powerful in Sicily other than him? Someone from Palermo?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/19 11:45 AM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/19 07:46 PM

That was fast

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/19 09:22 PM

Yes but i dont think the will get Rocco Morabito anytime soon.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/19 10:05 PM

With Denaro on the run, who is the most powerful in Sicily other than him? Someone from Palermo?

some are giovanni motisi boss of pagliarelli is on the run since 1998, little is known about him but they say hes very powerful, nino lauricella controls the center of palermo (porta nuova, ballarÃ², kalsa and borgo vecchio) that is full of shops who pays the protection and joker poker/slot machines inside bars, giuseppe guttadauro is the boss of brancaccio, also very powerful, giulio caporrimo is the boss of san lorenzo and cosimo vernengo the boss of villagrazia, this in palermo city

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/19 10:35 PM

With Denaro on the run, who is the most powerful in Sicily other than him? Someone from Palermo?

Guttadauro's are very powerful family.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/19 03:36 PM

[quote=m2w]
Guttadauro's are very powerful family.

yes,they are related to messina denaro, very rich and powerful, they belong to multiple families... giuseppe 'the doctor' guttadauro is the boss of brancaccio, carlo guttadauro is a capodecina of bagheria family and filippo and francesco guttadauro members of castelvetrano family, they dominate the fish markets in half italy and involved in several other sectors constructions, waste disposal, on-line gambling, renewable energy

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/19 06:22 PM

[quote=m2w]
Guttadauro's are very powerful family.

Giuseppe "The Doctor" Guttadaruo is boss of Roccella family , the Brancaccio mandamento. And he is also probably a member of freemasonry.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/28/19 09:51 PM

probably, all the major bosses are freemasons or linked with them, messina denaro is sure member of some powerful occult lodge

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/19 01:23 PM

The Bologna prosecutor's office is investigating an import chain of Italian workers in Belgium. Masons and carpenters were exploited and racketed for the benefit of a mafia clan.

The Grande Aracri clan captured about a third of workers' wages. The chief leaders have been in detention since 25 June. On 25 June, the Italian carabinieri landed in several pavilions in the region of Emilia Romagna. Purpose of Operation Grimilde: To search and arrest several members of the Grande Aracri clan, a family already convicted in the past for belonging to 'Ndrangheta.

16 people were arrested in connection with an investigation of a whole range of illegal activities in towns south of the Po: Piacenza, Parma and Brescello.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/19 04:37 PM

With Denaro on the run, who is the most powerful in Sicily other than him? Someone from Palermo?

Guttadauro's are very powerful family.

How do they compare to the top brass of the Ndrangheta?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/19 09:24 PM

How do they compare to the top brass of the Ndrangheta?

the most powerful, de stefano-tegano, piromalli or nirta-strangio

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/19 10:27 PM

The `Ndrangheta is more widespread than the Sicilians they are active on all continents.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/29/19 11:11 PM

The `Ndrangheta is more widespread than the Sicilians they are active on all continents.

yes, but the de stefano-tegano for example are not so widepsread but they are very powerful because of links with freemasons, secret services etc. like the guttadauro's or messina denaro
i doubt anyway ndrangheta is active in asia, the only criminal groups active in all continents is nigerian mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/30/19 12:52 AM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/30/19 05:43 PM

Reggio, the "spy" of the 'ndrine has returned to freedom
of Fra. T. - 30 June 2019

Giovanni Zumbo was released (a few days ago), better known as "the spy" or "the mole" in the judicial circles of Reggio where he was investigated and definitively sentenced to 11 years in prison for his proximity to the 'ndrangheta.

After years of detention, and to date among the defendants of the trial for the mafia-political-business dome of Reggio, "Gotha", Giovanni Zumbo is a particularly controversial character for his ability to insert himself contextually in the Institutional and mafia environments.

The news of the release was anticipated, and commented with a vitriolic declaration, by the massmediologist Klaus Davi who has always been attentive to the facts of the reality of the province of Reggio: "Long live the State, when it comes to spies the penalties are suddenly halved".

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/30/19 06:07 PM

ah, ok, but it has not cells/locali etc.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/01/19 08:22 PM

How do they compare to the top brass of the Ndrangheta?

the most powerful, de stefano-tegano, piromalli or nirta-strangio

In San Luca, the Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Romeo families rule the land. Which one is more connected? They buy from the Colombians on credit so they are major players in drug trafficking but when you talk about connections to public sectors and Freemasons who is in the better position out of the two?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/01/19 09:25 PM

How do they compare to the top brass of the Ndrangheta?

the most powerful, de stefano-tegano, piromalli or nirta-strangio

the nirta 'la maggiore' are the most powerful (not the nirta-strangio, my fault), antonio nirta was strongly linked with both politicians, freemasons and secret services

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/19 10:28 AM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...f171a4c-37a2-4e52-ba5a-e292557c1c73.html

11 arrests in migrant non-profit probe
'Ndrangheta-linked group used fake docs to get public contracts

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/19 07:48 PM

How do they compare to the top brass of the Ndrangheta?

the most powerful, de stefano-tegano, piromalli or nirta-strangio

the nirta 'la maggiore' are the most powerful (not the nirta-strangio, my fault), antonio nirta was strongly linked with both politicians, freemasons and secret services

Was there a winner in the San Luca feud at all? Losing so many men, there really arenâ€™t winners but the Reggio Calabria feud had a winner and that was the Condellos

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/19 08:28 PM

And what is the difference between the nirta maggiore and the nirta-strangio? Do the Nirtas operate alone? I read that the Nirtas were not involved in the San Luca feud

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/19 08:54 PM

Was there a winner in the San Luca feud at all? Losing so many men, there really arenâ€™t winners but the Reggio Calabria feud had a winner and that was the Condellos

the nirta's 'la maggiore' acted as peacemakers for the feud of san luca between nirta-strangio and pelle-vottari like the sicilian mafia did for the feud of reggio calabria between de stefano-tegano and imerti-condello, neither of the two feuds ever had a real winner anyway

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/19 10:53 PM

'Ndrangheta stragista trial, the turncoat Stefano Carmelo Serpa, ex member of the De Stefano clan, said: "I'm afraid, these people are very dangerous. I speak neither of the "Ndrangheta nor of politicians, but of the secret services. And before talking about the relations between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra, I want serious assurances about my security. You don't know the submerged part of the 'Ndrangheta. It means that inside there are people who have even greater power than what Paolo De Stefano had. There are characters inside that at their command were worth and still worth more than him. But these are people you don't even know. They don't even have a fine."

Credits to Carmelo.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 02:54 AM

Was there a winner in the San Luca feud at all? Losing so many men, there really arenâ€™t winners but the Reggio Calabria feud had a winner and that was the Condellos

The Nirta Maggiore are completely separate from the Nirta-Strangio?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 10:53 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 04:20 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 08:01 PM

Was there a winner in the San Luca feud at all? Losing so many men, there really arenâ€™t winners but the Reggio Calabria feud had a winner and that was the Condellos

The Nirta Maggiore are completely separate from the Nirta-Strangio?

Yes two rival families, but both from San Luca, the Nirta Versu are powerful but Nirta La Maggiore are probably the most influential 'Ndrina of all time.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 10:29 PM

hollander do you know what clans are in the us ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/19 11:48 PM

hollander do you know what clans are in the us ?

Mazzaferro, Ursino, Aquino-Coluccio, Commisso are known, probably several others.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/19 12:02 AM

Members of the Ursino clan have been arrested all over the world in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Dominican Republic.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/19 10:13 AM

Blitz in Lombardy against the 'Ndrangheta locale active in Legnano, Malpensa and Lonate Pozzolo, 34 arrested on charges of mafia association, drug trafficking, extortions, illegal possession of weapons, frauds and money laundering; among the arrested the Sicilian boss Emanuele De Castro.
The former mayor of Lonate Pozzolo and another politician under investigation for vote buying.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/19 11:23 AM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/19 01:55 PM

Was there a winner in the San Luca feud at all? Losing so many men, there really arenâ€™t winners but the Reggio Calabria feud had a winner and that was the Condellos

The Nirta Maggiore are completely separate from the Nirta-Strangio?

Yes two rival families, but both from San Luca, the Nirta Versu are powerful but Nirta La Maggiore are probably the most influential 'Ndrina of all time.

I always thought that the Nirta Strangio family was the same as the Nirta La Maggiore. Confusing with the same name but they are totally different members. And Antonio Nirta belongs to the Nirta La Maggiore with no affiliation to the Nirta-Strangio family? As M2W said, he stepped in to mediate the San Luca feud.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/04/19 02:24 PM

Is the Antonio Pelle clan similar to the Nirta Maggiore or are they on a lower level? They are both in San Luca so that is why I ask.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 04:30 PM

Is the Antonio Pelle clan similar to the Nirta Maggiore or are they on a lower level? They are both in San Luca so that is why I ask.

nirta-strangio and pelle-vottari are on a lower level than nirta 'la maggiore', like i said they have connections at the highest levels with politicians/freemasons/secret services

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 06:45 PM

Wow thats something new, the nirta La maggiore thing. Never heard/read that before,, always thought it was the pelle, piromalli... Can u name some important guy from there? like Antonio pelle for the pelle clan for example

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 06:48 PM

Is the Antonio Pelle clan similar to the Nirta Maggiore or are they on a lower level? They are both in San Luca so that is why I ask.

nirta-strangio and pelle-vottari are on a lower level than nirta 'la maggiore', like i said they have connections at the highest levels with politicians/freemasons/secret services

So they are the big power in the Ndrangheta. Nirta must be a common last name in that area for them not to be related but that happens throughout Italy often. Whatâ€™s the backstory behind the 2017 murder of Giuseppe Nirta in Spain? No war broke out?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 06:51 PM

Iâ€™ve seen a little article on Antonio Nirta. I think the media gets Antonio Pelle confused a lot because I believe he has a son who bears the same name. When his son was arrested they talked about his brothers as if they were his sons.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 08:42 PM

Well the most powerful people are one that you never heard about,if you live outside of Italy,you probably only heard about Pelle,Priomalli and so on. I will just copy paste to what i wrote page before:

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/05/19 11:35 PM

Is he reffering to Ndrangheta bosses with this kind of power or secret service people?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 12:07 AM

Giuseppe Nirta was the most important boss he was killed in the 90s. Today the NirtaÂ´s have still a base here in Holland.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 12:48 AM

The Nirta-Strangio also have a base in Holland, Belgium and Germany.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 09:57 AM

The two other fugitives in Uruguay who escaped with Morabito have also been captured, so the only one missing is the European mobster.

http://www.radiomontecarlo.com.uy/a...c=articulos&id=58147&path=0.2308

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 10:04 AM

Is he reffering to Ndrangheta bosses with this kind of power or secret service people?

Secret service people , but also members of freemasonry. During this trial , 3 witnesses that are in protection program disappeared ,so i can see why he is so afraid to talk about them.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 10:28 AM

The car bomb attacks in Rome, Florence and Milan were not random terrorism, but the targets were chosen because they have a masonic history.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 01:12 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 01:41 PM

Is he reffering to Ndrangheta bosses with this kind of power or secret service people?

Secret service people , but also members of freemasonry. During this trial , 3 witnesses that are in protection program disappeared ,so i can see why he is so afraid to talk about them.

From what contributors tell me on here, the Ndrangheta has many members that are deeply rooted in the freemason circles either via connections or direct involvement in the Freemason circles themselves. I believe a top member of the De Stefanos is a lawyer and is in a Freemason lodge.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 09:10 PM

The 'ndrina Scriva-Mollica-Morabito of Africo (Reggio Calabria). The clan operates in the capital through Domenico Morabito, Antonio Placido Scriva, Salvatore Ligato and Giuseppe VelonÃ , leading exponents of the respective mafia families, together with Domenico Antonio Mollica, a prominent boss of the namesake Calabrian clan.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/06/19 09:29 PM

These $100 million plus seizures happen all the time but it looks like they are not doing anything to these clans

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/19 11:12 AM

yeah he was taking about the submerged ndrangheta, people who are both freemasons and mafia members and even secret services agents, there is a submerged part of cosa nostra too that is similar, most of these people are probably unknown to law

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/19 01:37 PM

According to the Calabrian pentito Costa after the massacres in the 90s the Corleonesi and the 'ndrangheta wanted to create a new structure to deal with the state called Cosa Nuova.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/19 06:12 PM

Has the Nirta Maggiore family ever gone to war? I see that they are always mediating wars

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/08/19 12:52 AM

How close are the Camorra clans to the top ndrangheta clans? Of course the ndrangheta and Sicilians are close like they always have been but I donâ€™t know if they are as close to the Camorra. I know they were in the NCO days.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/08/19 04:01 PM

Very important drug broker Nicola Assisi and his son Patrick have been captured in Brazil. Nicola was one of the 100 most wanted fugitives in Italy.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/08/19 09:02 PM

http://www.ansa.it/piemonte/notizie...37526a9-16d4-4398-9799-eb73935f5f02.html

'ndrangheta, Assisi boss taken in Brazil
Brazilian federal police operation with Carabinieri Turin

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/09/19 02:45 AM

Whenever someone involved in the Ndrangheta gets arrested they are identified as â€œthe head of the ndranghetaâ€ by the news outlet

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/09/19 12:31 PM

https://www.thelocal.it/20190709/me...ust-some-myths-about-the-calabrian-mafia

Meet the â€™Ndrangheta: It's time to bust some myths about the Calabrian mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/09/19 08:21 PM

Very important drug broker Nicola Assisi and his son Patrick have been captured in Brazil. Nicola was one of the 100 most wanted fugitives in Italy.

Brazilian police arrested on Monday two Italian mafiosi who are considered by European and American anti-drug authorities to be the worldâ€™s main cocaine brokers.

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...-two-of-the-world-s-main-cocaine-dealers

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/10/19 02:50 PM

So theyâ€™re saying that the Ndrangheta is more broken up and resembles the Camorra more than the Sicilians

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/10/19 11:52 PM

So theyâ€™re saying that the Ndrangheta is more broken up and resembles the Camorra more than the Sicilians

I dont think cosa nostra is the same as back under Riina you have Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento, Catania with their own top boss there will never be a boss of bosses again.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/19 01:45 AM

So theyâ€™re saying that the Ndrangheta is more broken up and resembles the Camorra more than the Sicilians

I dont think cosa nostra is the same as back under Riina you have Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento, Catania with their own top boss there will never be a boss of bosses again.

Good point. I have always heard that the ndrangheta and cosa have been so similar.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/19 04:37 AM

Did Riina have Denaro level of wealth before he was caught? Appears he did.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/19 09:16 AM

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/19 12:47 PM

'NDRANGHETA - NO NEWS ON THE FLIGHT OF THE BOSS MORABITO
10:01 - 11 July 2019 CALABRIA , Reggio Calabria

17 days after the escape of the 'Ndrangheta boss from the central prison in Montevideo, the Uruguayan authorities admitted that in fact the investigations carried out so far have not yielded results. The news portal "La Red21" of Montevideo reports.
Responding to questions from parliamentarians, the Uruguayan Interior Minister Eduardo Bonomi indicated that "it is assumed that Morabito's flight was malicious", in the sense that there may have been complicity on the part of the prison staff, who was subjected to "To various administrative procedures".
The 'cocaine boss', who was awaiting extradition to Italy, fled his cell around midnight on June 23 along with three other inmates, captured by the police in the following days. Of Morabito, however, the traces have been completely lost and it is not excluded that he may have moved to neighboring Brazil. Bonomi appeared yesterday together with the national police chief, Mario Layera, in front of the Senate Security Commission to answer questions about the escape and the state of the investigation.
The only element that emerged during this meeting is that the investigators follow the track of the participation of prison staff in the escape of Morabito and his accomplices. For this moment the director of the prison, Mary Gonzalez, has been suspended from service, and the director of the National Rehabilitation Institute, Alberto Gadea, has resigned.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/12/19 04:13 PM

Is the Russian mob active in as many areas as the ndrangheta?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/12/19 06:01 PM

Is the Russian mob active in as many areas as the ndrangheta?

No,Russian mob active in a lot of places , but 'Ndrangheta is most widespread criminal organization right now. Russians in US are more involved in white collar crimes. And in Russia they are literally working for the state, and they have protection from state/secret services.
In whole of eastern europe is same thing , same here in my country.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 04:29 AM

Is the Russian mob active in as many areas as the ndrangheta?

I should have been more specific. I really meant are the Russians active in as many areas of crime as the ndrangheta? For years I have heard about how the Russians are the strongest and control all of Eastern Europe, especially the Bratva. Was this over exaggerated and if not, when did the Ndrangheta supplant them as they are universally seen as the most powerful and richest criminal organization as of today.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 09:28 AM

Since the late 80s there have been meetings of Russian gangsters, the Colombian cocaine cartels, and the Sicilian Mafia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 09:49 AM

Emanuele Mancuso was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months of imprisonment, since June last year collaborator of justice and first repentant inside the powerful and homonymous family of 'ndrangheta of Limbadi and Nicotera.

In the same process the judge acquitted Massimo Vita accused of throwing a paper bomb in the garden of an entrepreneur for extortion. Emanuele Mancuso was instead convicted of criminal association for drug trafficking, aggravated theft of a jewelry store (precious stolen goods for one hundred thousand euros), illegal possession of weapons and shooting in public places.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 12:01 PM

That is not true at all, i am from Balkans , i personally know a lot of people that are involved in organized crime , they never dealt or heard of any russians around here. In this part of Europe the most powerful are Albanians(clans from Kosovo), Skaljarski & Kavacki clan which are from Montenegro and old zemunski clan from Serbia. Russian mafia bosses have some influence in ex countries of Soviet Union but that is far from control.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 07:16 PM

https://en.crimerussia.com/internat...n-uruguay-video-from-place-of-detention/

Italian mafia boss forced Russian to work for him in Uruguay. Video from place of detention

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/19 07:43 PM

The 'Ndrangheta has settled in Switzerland, according to a researcher

SWI/KEYSTONE / CARABINIERI OF REGGIO CALABRIA

(Sda-ats) July 13,2019
The Italian mafia does not spare Switzerland, where the Calabrian branch - the 'Ndrangheta - has established itself, says independent journalist Madeleine Rossi, who has dedicated a report of almost 100 pages to the phenomenon.

"Even if not seen, the 'Ndrangheta is still very present in Switzerland," explained the researcher and journalist in an interview that appeared today on Le Temps. The arrests of several members of the Frauenfeld (TG) cell in recent years are proof of this. And it is just a cell among others in Switzerland, particularly in Ticino.

The presence of the mafia is due to two main reasons: to be forgotten and to launder money. Some people can even get a B permit, as was the case of two mafiosi arrested in Upper Valais in 2016. "These people remain very discreet and live like everyone else," says Rossi.

Members are not at home and know that they risk more than in Italy. On the other hand, if they attract attention, they are punished by the parent company, explains the journalist.

Recycling

As for the activities of the 'Ndrangheta, recycling is increasingly difficult, but still possible in Switzerland. The big banks are increasingly punctilious in this regard, but others are less careful. Furthermore, the catering and hotel sectors also enable money laundering.

"In Ticino, several bars are empty all day, but they make an important turnover": even if it is not a test, it is an important clue, according to the journalist.

Current politicians

Politicians in Switzerland are very familiar with the subject, something that cannot be said of most of the population, continues Rossi. "But some important restrictions seem to prevent them from taking action."

The stakes at the financial level are very high and some professions widely represented in the Federal Parliament take advantage of this, says the mafia specialist. "Certain fiduciaries and some financial advisors earn large sums thanks to the presence of the mafia". Even the arms lobby has a lot to lose, according to Rossi.

The expansion of the 'Ndrangheta is increasing and this will also be the case in Switzerland, notes Rossi. But we must not fall into paranoia or stigmatize the entire Calabrese or Italian community.

The report "Italian Mafias in Switzerland, panorama, perception and legislative framework" by Madeleine Rossi was published in May in Italian.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/14/19 11:08 PM

Mogilevich is arguably the most powerful crime boss in the world though, so maybe thatâ€™s partially where I got my perception of the Russian mob from. As well as Putin. The Ndrangheta might have some bosses who can rival him but they are so private, we donâ€™t know who may or may not have money and resources like he does. Denaro if he wasnâ€™t in hiding could easily match or surpass any powerful crime figure. These people have so much political power and so many resources that they might have as much power as anyone in the world up to a point.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/15/19 11:44 AM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ns-Mafia-godfathers-raking-millions.html

Slave labourers living in death-trap shanty towns and Mafia godfathers raking in millions: The shocking cost of your tinned tomatoes

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/16/19 06:58 PM

Imprisonment demanded for Dutch nationals arrested during international action

It has not been shown that these suspects are involved in the narcotic drug trafficking of the Italian 'Ndrangheta. But they were themselves producing and selling synthetic drugs. If it is up to the Public Prosecutor of the National Public Prosecutor's Office, they go to jail for up to 6 years. Tuesday morning the court in Zwolle dealt with the cases against the first three suspects. The other two cases will be dealt with on Tuesday afternoon.
"Ndrangheta"
The five men, between 28 and 58 years old and from Velsen, Amsterdam, Zoetermeer and Germany, were arrested in December during an investigation by a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. The JIT conducted research into the international trade in cocaine, and the associated money laundering practices, of the Mafia-like organization 'Ndrangheta. Observation of Italian suspects living in the Netherlands led to the five Dutchmen and two working production laboratories of synthetic drugs in Amsterdam and Velsen.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/17/19 01:26 AM

What ndrangheta family is most active in the United States? And what family do they work closest with?

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/17/19 09:30 AM

22 fucking billion dollars a year! on fruits and shit. Thats more than the cartels make on drugs i think

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/17/19 07:44 PM

22 fucking billion dollars a year! on fruits and shit. Thats more than the cartels make on drugs i think

22 billion seems unbelievable. I donâ€™t know how much I believe that the Ndrangheta is seeing that annually but they very well could be.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/18/19 09:26 AM

Police arrested in Calabria and north Italy 14 members of the 'Ndrangheta (Muia' clan) from Siderno, close to the Commisso's, on charges of mafia association, frauds, loansharking and illegal possession of weapons. The clan had also a cell in Canada where it planned the strategies of the organization.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/18/19 09:59 AM

It emerges from the investigations that led to the operation of the "Canadian Ndrangheta connection".

According to the investigators, this is a structure directly connected to that of Siderno (the SocietÃ di Siderno) and, through this it maintains relations with the top structures that govern the organizational structures in Italy and abroad of the 'unitary Ndrangheta. It is the first time, the investigators stress, that it has been possible to broaden the horizons on the articulated structure of the 'Ndrangheta in a supranational context.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/18/19 12:36 PM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...d89e4ce-5f4c-4d10-9684-7ea6acab1aef.html

14 arrests in international 'Ndrangheta
Group linked to powerful Commisso clan hit

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/19/19 09:23 AM

Antonio Mancuso, patriarch of the Mancuso family was arrested yesterday. The leading member of the cosca is 81 years old.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/20/19 12:08 AM

'Ndrangheta boss goes on the lam
Ordered murder that triggered feud that led to Duisburg massacre

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(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, July 19 - 'Ndrangheta boss Francesco Pelle aka 'Pakistan Fatty' went on the lam Friday after the supreme Court of Cassation found him guilty of ordering a 2006 Christmas Eve hit that killed the wife of a rival boss and set off a feud that culminated in the 2007 Duisburg Massacre that killed six people in the German city.
Maria Strangio, wife of clan chief Giovanni Luca Nirta, was killed in the Calabrian town of San Luca, starting the San Luca Feud between the Pelle-Vottari clan on one side and the Nirta-Strangio clan on the other.
The mid-August Duisburg Massacre gained world headlines for the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/21/19 12:30 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/21/19 02:46 PM

In San Luca there is fear the feud continues, with Francesco Pelle on the run and his enemy Giovanni Luca Nirta, released from prison after having served a sentence.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/19 01:26 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/19 01:33 PM

https://globalist.it/politics/2019/...-e-parte-civile-al-processo-2044459.html

State traitors to favor the 'ndrangheta: the government is not a civil party to the trial

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/19 08:06 PM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...als-hes-evaded-police-nearly-DECADE.html

Australia's most wanted fugitive reveals how he's evaded police for nearly a DECADE in chilling handwritten notes found at his campsite

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/19 08:25 PM

Will the Nirta Maggiore have to step in again if the San Luca feud continues?

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/19 08:26 PM

Mariano, the boss is dead Saturday,Jul.20,2019

Salvatore Muscatello

He was 85 years old, he was considered the head of the local Mariano della 'ndrangheta

Salvatore Muscatello died at the age of 85, considered the 'ndrangheta boss in Mariano Comense.

Born on 2 April 1934 in Calabria, he moved to Brianza and over the years had become the undisputed leader of the local Mariano Comense. In 1994 he was arrested in the San Vito Flower Night operation and was subsequently involved in the Infinito investigation, with some convictions.

Lately he was at home, in Via Pollirolo, because of his illness.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/19 02:55 PM

Thanks to the poster Carmelo.

Pietro Greco, 39, and the businessman Francesco Romano, 44, both with criminal records were shot dead inside a car in the town of Corigliano Rossano (Cosenza).

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/19 11:10 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/19 11:20 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/19 11:28 PM

Perto Times: July 23, 2019

The Italian mafia gangs and Brazil allied with each other
According to Brazilian press, PCC, a very powerful mafia gang in Brazil, has set up a global cocaine transport alliance with 'Ndrangheta, a famous mafia gang in Italy.

News of the formation of the union between PCC and 'Ndrangheta is not surprising, said political scientist Guaracy Mingardi, a member of the Brazilian Police Forum.

"Over the years, 'Ndrangheta has received cocaine because PCC shipped from the Americas to Europe through the port of Santos. This is the largest port in South America, where records of record drug seizures take place. in recent months, â€explains Mingardi.

For his part, the police colonel in Sao Paulo city, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Public Security Minister of the Brazilian Federal Government, said that over the past 20 years, Brazilian mafia gangs have entered and re-entered. export about 50% of cocaine from neighboring countries.

"Crime groups, like the Italian mafia and other groups have centipedes in Brazil," the police officer said.

According to Cardoso, Brazil's border and road routes are poorly protected, thus facilitating domestic drug trafficking, but Brazilian criminal organizations cannot participate in the national flow of cocaine. and must rely on their "colleagues" abroad.

When asked about the possible impact of the mafia coalition on the safety of Brazilians, Cardoso said there is probably no reason to worry. "This coalition hardly affects people's daily lives and does not directly threaten the safety of the people, because it is sophisticated criminal organizations, including freight and Financial complexity, "Cardoso said.

According to the Brazilian Federal Police, with the help of PCC, 'Ndrangheta will control 40% of the world's cocaine transport lines.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/29/19 10:48 AM

(ANSA) - GENOA, 29 JULY - The Gdf of Genoa, in collaboration with the DEA of the USA, seized 368 kg of cocaine, over 953 thousand euros in cash and arrested three Italians for importing drugs from South America. Among the three there is an affiliate to the 'ndrangheta Alvaro di Sinopoli (Reggio Calabria) cosca.
The operation was aimed at contrasting the narco-mafias. Those arrested are accused of international drug trafficking with Mafia aggravating circumstances, huge amounts of drugs and transnationality. The drug seizure took place in the port of Genoa. The airport, as the police forces have long emphasized, remains a strategic point for drug trafficking. Since last November this is the fifth seizure of large quantities of drugs carried out in port. At the beginning of July there had been a seizure of 500 kg of cocaine and another 100 kg had been discovered last June. In January of this year, 2 tons of 'white powder' were taken off the market and last November 270 kg of heroin.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/19 01:08 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/31/19 10:08 AM

'Ndrangheta: police blitz against cosca Libri, 17 arrests
Investigators, politicians and entrepreneurs at the service of the clan

Police blitz against the cosca Libri of Reggio Calabria : dozens of agents from the Reggio and SCO mobile squad involved in the execution of 17 precautionary measures, 12 in prison and 5 under house arrest. Also a series of searches and seizures of companies and businesses. According to the findings of the investigations, several entrepreneurs and even politicians were completely at the service of the gang. "Established entrepreneurs and local and regional politicians - the investigators say - were totally subservient to the will of the Libri."

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/31/19 10:21 AM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...c147147-3450-4270-9757-f678596da074.html

Reggio Calabria politicians held in big 'Ndrangheta bust
PD regional assembly chief arrested,clan 'had role in 2014 vote'

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/01/19 02:21 AM

How does the ndrangheta sustain after all of these busts? Are they just a well oiled machine with leaders that can come and go like a revolving door? I have been reading about the De Stefano family and I can see that they have very educated people at the top of their family.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 10:58 AM

During the night the soldiers of the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the Helicopter Squadron " Cacciatori Calabria " arrested 10 members of the Cordi clan in Locri, held responsible, in various capacities, for mafia-type association, extortion, illicit competition with threat or violence, damage followed by fire and illegal possession of weapons, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 11:00 AM

Thanks to the poster Carmelo.

Pietro Greco, 39, and the businessman Francesco Romano, 44, both with criminal records were shot dead inside a car in the town of Corigliano Rossano (Cosenza).

According to investigators at least 3 men killed them with fifty AK-47 shots. The victims were lured in the countryside probably for a drug trade, Pietro Greco was an emergent criminal but he was no longer answering to the 'rule' of the 'Ndrangheta setting up on his own and for this he had to be eliminated.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 06:00 PM

Thanks to the poster Carmelo.

Pietro Greco, 39, and the businessman Francesco Romano, 44, both with criminal records were shot dead inside a car in the town of Corigliano Rossano (Cosenza).

Isnâ€™t there a Greco in the Ndrangheta who was a cousin of Michele Greco?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 08:46 PM

Isnâ€™t there a Greco in the Ndrangheta who was a cousin of Michele Greco?

no, i dont think so

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 09:02 PM

Greco is a common name, but here are some 'ndranghetisti.

Giuseppe Greco[16]
Peppino Greco[17]
Francesco Greco[18]
Carlo Greco[19]
Stefano Greco[20]
Nino Greco[21]
Saro Greco[22]
Adriano Greco[23]
Rocco Greco[24]

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 09:54 PM

The criminologist Angela Tibullo is arrested for favoring the Cacciola clan of Rosarno corrupting experts who had to certify existing incompatibility with the prison regime for the criminal group convicts.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/02/19 10:41 PM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/03/19 01:17 PM

Greco is a common name, but here are some 'ndranghetisti.

Giuseppe Greco[16]
Peppino Greco[17]
Francesco Greco[18]
Carlo Greco[19]
Stefano Greco[20]
Nino Greco[21]
Saro Greco[22]
Adriano Greco[23]
Rocco Greco[24]

there are several greco's in the sicilian mafia too, but i never heard they are related to calabrian ndranghetisti

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/03/19 02:32 PM

Greco is a common name, but here are some 'ndranghetisti.

Giuseppe Greco[16]
Peppino Greco[17]
Francesco Greco[18]
Carlo Greco[19]
Stefano Greco[20]
Nino Greco[21]
Saro Greco[22]
Adriano Greco[23]
Rocco Greco[24]

there are several greco's in the sicilian mafia too, but i never heard they are related to calabrian ndranghetisti

I only read this on wikipedia unfortunately without proper sources.

The Greco Mafia family (Italian pronunciation: [ËˆÉ¡rÉ›Ëko]) is a historic and one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, from the late 19th century. The extended family ruled both in Ciaculli and Croceverde Giardini, two south-eastern outskirts of Palermo in the citrus growing area and also rural areas of Calabria where they controlled the olive oil market.

The Greco clan lost its grip on the mandamento of Ciaculli, which was merged with Brancaccio and the leadership eventually was passed on, but its criminal presence emerged into Calabria in the late 1990s and with the turn of the new millennium, Interpol and FBI intel information showed that the reemergence of the Greco Clan was strongly evident in the United States and Australia, the Grecos were no longer part of the power structures of Cosa Nostra but restructured their organization to adapt to the new ways of organized crime.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/03/19 08:33 PM

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I only read this on wikipedia unfortunately without proper sources.

it seems just bullshit, the greco's from ciaculli/croceverde have not any relatives in calabria, they have sure connections with ndrangheta, but not relatives living there, let alone ndranghetisti

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/19 08:28 AM

The Dia of Genoa, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, is carrying out seizure orders on current accounts, movable assets, companies and buildings, in the provinces of Savona, Alessandria and Reggio Calabria, attributable to Carmelo Gullace as part of the operation "Alchemia ". The seizure amounts to around 15 million euros. For the prosecution, they are affiliated with the 'ndrangheta clans Raso-Gullace-Albanese and Parrello-Gagliostro.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/19 12:42 PM

https://www.citynow.it/nicola-gratteri-ndrangheta-bonifici-conflitti-fuoco/

Ndrangheta, Gratteri: "More bank transfers and banking operations than conflicts"

"The 'Ndrangheta no longer shoots, but buys everything". The words of the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri
The 'Ndrangheta makes more transfers and banking operations than firefights. This is supported by Catanzaro's chief prosecutor Nicola Gratteri , who has been living under escort since 1989, in an interview with the magazine "Famiglia Cristiana".

The magistrate took stock of the situation regarding the 'Ndrangheta, which today is the most powerful mafia , the most branched, a holding company capable of invoicing 50 billion euros a year, able to reinvest 75 percent of its earnings in the legal economy.
"With the proceeds of drug trafficking and other crimes the 'Ndrangheta is now buying as many businesses as it can from Rome upwards, in all European countries, Australia and New York: hotels, restaurants, pizzerias - he said - The 'Ndrangheta no longer shoots, but buys everything. "

During the interview the chief prosecutor explained why the guard dropped in the country :

"The 'Ndrangheta's way of acting does not include shootings, burned cars or murders. It does not create social alarm. Public opinion, in the North but not only, is convinced even today that there is no Mafia in its neighborhood. Now, however, even the South American mafias are buying in the North. The cartels, especially the Colombian ones, which carry cocaine in Europe, only for 9% of the amount they want to be paid in Europe, investing their proceeds here ".

In concluding, the magistrate said:

"The 'Ndrangheta made a great leap in quality in the seventies with the foundation of the' Saint ', a further hierarchical level of the organization that allowed the double affiliation to the' Ndrangheta and the diverted Freemasonry. This has involved ever closer contacts between the mafia and the cadres of the ruling class and institutions. Net of the good investigative results, the situation got out of hand a little for everyone: the police, the judiciary, educators, even the Church. It is a disturbing cultural sign â€.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/19 01:57 PM

Michele Zaza had a mansion in Beverly Hills. Was it common for members of the Sicilian mafia, Camorra and ndrangheta to buy lavish properties in such high profile areas in the United States?

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/19 03:22 PM

â€˜Ndrangheta in Greater Toronto Area hit but still too powerful â€" â€œThere are 9 (Mafia clans) of usâ€ http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...onto-area-canada-hit-but-still-too-power

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 08:48 AM

Blitz against the clans based in Siderno (Reggio Calabria), police arrested 28 members of the Commisso, Figliomeni and MuiÃ 'ndrine on charges of mafia association, illegal possession of weapons, frauds, loansharking and other crimes. The investigation followed the ' Canadian 'Ndrangheta Connection' one against the MuiÃ 'ndrina.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 09:11 AM

Any links availible?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 10:07 AM

Affected cosca Commisso: 28 arrests, ready to unleash war between clans
After the murder of Mino MuiÃ , killed on January 28, 2018. New strand of the inquiry "Canadian 'Ndrangheta Connection" which on July 18 brought 12 people in the Siderno gang

SIDERNO (Reggio Calabria) - New blow to the Commisso-MuiÃ -Figliomeni clan, of Siderno. The district prosecutor's office of Reggio Calabria issued 28 pre-trial detention orders (23 in jail, five under house arrest) against members of the 'ndrangheta association with ramifications also in Canada. This is the new trend of the Â«Canadian 'Ndrangheta ConnectionÂ» survey which on July 18 brought twelve people in jail linked to the powerful Siderno clan.

Second part of the investigation
The subjects involved in this second tranche of the investigation would be at the top of the three 'ndrine and are accused of transnational and armed mafia association, port and illegal possession of weapons, fraudulent transfer of values, abusive exercise of credit, usury and personal facilitation, committed with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. The arrests were carried out by the men of the Reggio Calabria State Police and by those of the Central Operative Service who carried out searches as well as in Calabria also in Liguria. The new investigation would have made it possible to outline even better the structures within the three gangs that belong to the 'drina madre, Commisso, whose transoceanic ramifications have been known for decades.

From Canada
The first investigation, that of last July, led to the seizure of millions of dollars in cash and the seizure of movable and immovable property, registered to the leaders of the organization residing in Canada. The enormous wealth accumulated by the Commisso gang in Canada embraces important sectors of the Canadian economy, ranging from casinos to building activity, passing through restaurants.

The murder
In Calabria the investigation was taken after the murder of Carmelo Â«MinoÂ» MuiÃ , killed by a killer on the evening of January 28, 2018. From that moment on, the brothers of the chief cosca began a real manhunt for identify those responsible and understand who the principal was. The "family" of Carmelo MuiÃ began to ask for information in Calabria and in Toronto where the "Commission" or "Control Chamber" set up and operating in the Siderno Crime is active and divided into three main "Mandamenti" and equipped with collegiate governing body, called "Province". A sort of "Cassation" of the 'ndrangheta where the most important decisions are taken. The MuiÃ brothers, to avenge the death of their relative, rallied their affiliates, they armed themselves and were ready to unleash a new feud in Siderno to honor the murder of their leader. The investigation "Canadian Ndrangheta Connection 2" avoided possible new clan war scenarios.

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19...e9-9682-c74c9096c983.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 10:47 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 11:11 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 11:13 AM

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...9108d30-6467-48c7-8621-25a14000815e.html

'Ndrangheta boss released, re-arrested
Mobster got out of Novara jail due to technicality

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 11:20 AM

https://www.imgpress.it/inchiesta/operazione-canadian-ndrangheta-connection-2/

Operation "Canadian 'ndrangheta Connection 2"

Operation "Canadian 'ndrangheta Connection 2" - The Central Operative Service of the State Police and the Flying Squad of the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters, under the direction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the District Attorney of the Republic of Reggio Calabria directed by the Prosecutor Giovanni BOMBARDIERI, with the coordination of the Assistant Prosecutor Giuseppe LOMBARDO and of the Substitutes Prosecutors Giovanni CALAMITA and Simona FERRAIUOLO, the investigators of the State Police have carried out an order of pre-trial detention, issued by the GIP at the Court of Reggio Calabria against 28 subjects held responsible for various reasons for the crimes of mafia association transnational and armed, port and illegal possession of weapons, fraudulent transfer of values, abusive exercise of credit, usury and personal facilitation,aggravated by the mafia mode.

The ruling of the GIP of Reggio Calabria renews the precautionary measures already issued by the competent GIP for the area on the validation of the Crime suspect arrest executed on July 18 by the State Police, on the order of the Reggio Calabria District Anti-Mafia Directorate, charged to 14 subjects in the Operation "Canadian 'Ndrangheta Connection", and at the same time have - in acceptance of a new precautionary request advanced by the DDA - other restrictive measures against another 14 subjects.

In particular, 14 precautionary measures in prison were issued against the following subjects - already subjected to detention of a suspect in the context of the Operation "Canadian 'ndrangheta connection" - as they were held responsible for the crimes indicated next to each of them :

ARCHINA 'Michelangelo, born in Toronto (Canada) on 6 October 1976 (custody in prison for detention and port in the public place of common firing weapons, with the aggravating circumstance of facilitating the mafia association called' ndrangheta);

CERISANO Domenico, born in Siderno (RC) on December 14, 1967 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the 'ndrina FIGLIOMENI of contrada Donisi di Siderno);

FILIPPONE Francesco, born in Siderno (RC) on 22 March 1981 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the 'Ndrangheta of Siderno);

FUTIA Cosimo, known as "Shuster", born in Siderno (RC) on 13 August 1977 (custody in jail for possession of weapons (mitra) even from war (grenades), with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta) ;

GREGORACI Giuseppe, known as "Pino", born in Siderno (RC) on 24 March 1968 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the 'ndrina Figliomeni of contrada Donisi di Siderno and abusive exercise of credit, with the aggravating circumstance to have facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

MACRI 'Giuseppe, born in Siderno (RC) on 2 August 1954 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the local' ndrangheta di Siderno);

MUIA 'Armando, born in Siderno (RC) on 19 September 1956 (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as a participant in the' ndrina MuiÃ );

MUIA 'Giuseppe, born in Siderno (RC) on 9 January 1944 (custody in prison, for mafia association as head, promoter and organizer of the' ndrina MUIA ');

MUIA 'Vincenzo, born in Siderno (RC) on 14 August 1972 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant of the' ndrina MUIA ');

MUIA 'Vincenzo, born in Siderno (RC) on 10 December 1968 (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as a participant of the' ndrina MUIA ');

MUIA 'Vincenzo, known as "il fontaniere", born in Siderno (RC) on 4 October 1969 (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the' ndrina MUIA ');

MUIA 'Vincenzo, born in Siderno (RC) on 6 November 1969 (custody in jail for mafia association, with the role of leader, organizer and promoter of the homonymous' ndrina of the Ferraro district; fictitious heading of assets, detention and port in public place of common firearm weapons, wear and personal aiding, with an aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

RUMBO Santo, born in Siderno (RC) on 7 October 1989 (custody in jail for mafia association, with high dowry in the 'ndrangheta of Siderno);

CARABETTA Michele, born in Siderno (RC) on November 28, 1957, residing in Canada (custody in prison, for association with the mafia, as a participant in the local 'Ndrangheta of Siderno and his projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area" );

Other 14 precautionary measures (of which 9 in prison and 5 under house arrest) have been arranged, as mentioned, on the basis of a new request made by the Reggio Calabria Anti-Mafia District Attorney towards the following subjects, held responsible for the crimes indicated alongside of each of them:

COMMISSO Francesco, alias â€œu SELECTâ€, born in Siderno (RC) on 3 October 1956, residing in Canada (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as head and organizer of the local 'Ndrangheta in Siderno and its projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area";

COMMISSION Rocco Remo, born in Siderno (RC) on 29 June 1946, residing in Canada (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as head and organizer of the 'Ndrangheta club in Siderno and his projection in Canada in the' Greater Toronto Area";

DE MARIA Giuseppe, known as "Joe", born in Canada on June 2, 1963, residing in Canada (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the local 'Ndrangheta of Siderno and his projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area");

FIGLIOMENI Angelo, known as "Angelino", born in Siderno (RC) on 30 September 1962, domiciled in Canada (custody in prison for mafia association, as head, organizer and promoter of the 'ndrangheta in Siderno and its projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area");

FIGLIOMENI Antonio, known as "'Ntoni e fredu", born in Siderno (RC) on 25 October 1961, residing in Canada (custody in jail for mafia association, as head, organizer and promoter of the' ndrangheta in Siderno and of his screening in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area";

FIGLIOMENI Cosimo, known as "Cosimino", born in Siderno (RC) on 6 February 1965, domiciled in Canada (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as head, organizer and promoter of the 'ndrangheta in Siderno and his projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area", an abusive exercise of credit, with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

FILIPPONE Bruno, born in Siderno (RC) on 8 July 1983, already detained for another reason (pre-trial detention for mafia association, as a participant in the 'ndrangheta operating in Siderno);

GALEA Antonio, born in Siderno on 31 July 1962, already detained for another reason (custody in jail for mafia association, as organizer and leader of the local Ndrangheta in Siderno, with the role of master of the day);

BISHOP Luigi, born in Canada on 8 July 1971, residing in Canada, (custody in jail for mafia association, as a participant in the local 'Ndrangheta of Siderno and his projection in Canada in the "Greater Toronto Area");

GRAVINA Marilena, born in Melito di Porto Salvo (RC) on December 25, 1972 (precautionary custody of house arrest for abetting personal aggravated by the circumstance of facilitating the 'ndrangheta);

FIGLIOMENI Emanuela, born in Locri (RC) on 7 November 1980 (precautionary custody of house arrest for fictitious entry of property aggravated by the circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

FIGLIOMENI Teresa, born in Locri (RC) on 24 September 1975 (precautionary custody of house arrest for fictitious entry of property aggravated by the circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

IERACI Pietro, born in Locri (RC) on 10 July 1976 (precautionary custody of house arrest for fictitious entry of property aggravated by the circumstance of having facilitated the 'ndrangheta);

MAMONE Antonio, born in Messina on 3 December 1977, residing in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica (RC) (precautionary custody of house arrest for fictitious entry of property aggravated by the circumstance of facilitating the 'ndrangheta).

Eight of the recipients of the precautionary measure in prison are in Canada.

RUMBO Santo was located in Luxembourg and was captured by the Enfast Team of the Luxembourg Police in collaboration with the homologous body of the Italian SCIP (International Police Cooperation Service), in execution of an MFA (European Arrest Warrant) issued by the competent judicial authority of Reggio Calabria.

The applicative order of precautionary measures issued by the GIP at the Court of Reggio Calabria fully validates the accusatory system proposed by the Reggio Calabria Anti-Mafia District Directorate against the above-mentioned 28 subjects considered top management, belonging to and belonging to the 'ndrine MUIÃ€ and FIGLIOMENI federate with the powerful cosca of 'ndrangheta COMMISSO di Siderno.

The investigative activities - conducted with the aid of sophisticated techniques of telephone and environmental interception - have brought to light the current criminal dynamics that characterize the 'ndrine MUIA' and FIGLIOMENI allied with the COMMISSO gang operating in Siderno (RC) and in Canada, where it is known as Siderno Group of Crime.

The investigations originated from the murder of MUIÃ€ Carmelo known as "Mino" [1] - murdered in Siderno (RC) by gunshots on 18 January 2018. He was considered the lieutenant of the boss COMMISSO Giuseppe alias il Mastro and it was located at the top of the homonymous Andrina in the Ferraro district of Siderno.

After the murder, in order to understand the reasons that had determined him, the brother of the killed, MUIA 'Vincenzo, carried out a series of close comparisons with subjects close to the' ndrangheta, maturing the conviction that the ambush was by bring back to a serious action of revenge put in place by the rival SALERNO Vincenzo [2], belonging to the homonymous family that, in the past, driven by ambitions of autonomy, had split from the motherboard of the COMMISSO.

Perspective that he considered in concrete terms, recalling in some intercepted conversations the reasons for a bitter armed conflict - to which the MUIA themselves would have taken part - during which SALERNO Salvatore [3] and Agostino [4], brothers of Vincenzo.

During a summit held in Siderno (RC) in the spring of 2018 MUIA 'Vincenzo called on a large handful of loyalists, to whom to entrust the execution of a plan aimed at curbing any violent intentions against his family.

At the same time, having taken over the command of the 'ndrina of the Ferraro district, also through the management of the commercial activities fictitiously managed by his brother, he started a decisive rearmament of the group, urging the owners of a resale to supply him with ammunition and trying some deadly weapons from war.

In this context, last April, MUIÃ€ Vincenzo - driven by the desire to know the real reasons that led to the murder of his brother - and the grateful GREGORACI Giuseppe went to Toronto, where they met the FIGLIOMENI brothers Cosimo [5] and FIGLIOMENI Angelo [6] known as "the brigands", both fugitives in Canada in relation to the operation of the Reggio Emilia "Acero-Krupi- Connection".

The investigations and investigative investigations carried out during the stay of the two detainees in Canada made it possible to verify a series of contacts with the FIGLIOMENI brothers aimed at obtaining a definite answer on the reasons and responsibilities of the murder of MUIA 'Carmelo, which they would actually have given, however, with a series of insufficient indications to attribute full responsibility for the crime.

From what has emerged it was possible to trace, in line with the acquisitions of other procedures defined by the Reggio Emilia DDA, the operation of intermediate structures with coordination and supervision functions, such as the Toronto "commission" or "control room", established and operating in the field of the Crime of Siderno, as an intermediate articulation of 'ndrangheta detached from the ionic province of Reggio in the macro area revolving around the Region of Ontario in Canada, but inextricably linked, in a sort of "criminal blockchain", to the province of Reggio Calabria.

In the course of the investigation, it was possible to see how the 'Nidrangheta sidernese, which has been established in Canada for many years, needs to resort to supranational command structures in order to better govern complex structures in territorial areas very distant from the mother house.

From the captured interviews it was, then, possible to reconstruct the composition of the "crime of Siderno" - to be understood as the maximum expression of the 'ndrangheta operating in Canada, to which is reserved a competence that in some cases, like the one in question, can extend to the occurrence of facts attributable to the local realities of Locride - currently commissioned by Francesco, alias â€œu chosenâ€, who is a fugitive in Canada in relation to the operations â€œLa falsa politicaâ€ and â€œAcero Krupy Connection; FIGLIOMENI Cosimo, quoted above; COMMISSION Rocco Remo quoted above and a subject named Filippo, not better identified.

These findings - of great importance as they broaden the horizon of current knowledge on the articulated structure of the 'Ndrangheta also in a supranational context - make it possible to ascertain, for the first time, that the territorial articulation operating in Canada, referable to the local of Siderno , is currently governed by a body ("Il Crime di Siderno") composed of a plurality of subjects (indicated above) that, in order to preserve its operativeness with respect to the problems connected with the notorious investigative pressure applied to the 'ndrangheta in the territory Italian, is authorized to meet and take decisions even on foreign territory.

Substantially it can be considered that the decision-making body operating in foreign territory is directly referable to the territorial structure operating in Siderno (the SocietÃ di Siderno) and, through this, to the top structures that govern the wide organizational structures, in Italy and abroad, of the whole 'ndrangheta.

This conclusion finds comfort in the results of the present investigation, and in particular in this perspective the trip to Canada of the MUIA 'Vincenzo must be interpreted (as stated by the same): therefore, results that confirm the competence of the aforementioned Canadian body in relation to to events of criminal relevance referable to the wider government of the territorial area of â€‹â€‹Siderno, whose notorious and stable foreign projections are no longer only managed in the area of â€‹â€‹origin but find a new, and more efficient, operational relocation to Canada: that is sections of a body with wide competencies, delegated by the parent company without rigid territorial constraints,it is derived from the fact that he is called upon to deal with both important facts (such as the murder of a 'ndrina chief such as Carmelo MUIÃ€) and apparently more banal events, such as shortcomings, to which the oral reproach to COMMISSO Francesco follows. understood "Ciccio di Grazia", â€‹â€‹an important element of the COMMISSO clan, a fugitive in Canada (operation "Maple-Krupi-Connection") which is disputed an excessive closeness, in that territory, to other 'ndrangheta clans distinct from the local Siderno Thus, the investigative findings allow, in other words, to state that the governing body of the Siderno branch no longer operates only in Calabria (sending orders abroad) but does so directly on Canadian territory, for the obvious purpose of making its structure is more and more efficient and the command action is effective.

The presence and operation of the 'Ndrangheta in Canada is also confirmed by a recent and innovative sentence issued by the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario on 28 February 2019, in the context of the investigation called "Project Ophenix", conducted by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CSFEU) of Toronto, with which, precisely, the 'ndrangheta has been recognized, for the first time, as a criminal organization fully operating in that territory. The aforementioned investigation, carried out thanks to the invaluable contribution of an infiltrated Police Agent, which in 2014 recorded numerous meetings with important representatives of Italian-Canadian crime, allowed us to gather valid evidence against URSINO Giuseppe, born in Gioiosa Ionica (RC) April 12, 1953,

The inquiry conducted by the Reggio Calabria Anti-Mafia District Directorate also takes into account the results of an effective international cooperation activity between State Police investigators (Reggio Calabria Flying Squad and Rome Central Operational Service) and Canadians (York Regional Police di Aurora), operating under the directives of the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria, in agreement with the York Region Attorney`s General, in order to monitor the projections and criminal dynamics of the 'ndrangheta gangs traditionally active in the State of North America.

As part of the investigation, thanks to the international cooperation activity, it was possible to document, with the coordination of the Reggio Calabria DDA magistrates - through targeted observation services carried out by Canadian and Italian investigators in the large US state and exchanges of information - important aspects of the operations of the 'ndrine di Siderno (RC) in the' Greater Toronto Area ', where last July 12, at the conclusion of investigations parallel to those carried out in Reggio Calabria, the Canadian Police arrested 10 subjects, including FIGLIOMENI Angelo class 1962 understood u briganti, a prominent element of the 'ndrangheta of Siderno (RC) - now affected by the order of custody in prison issued by the GIP of Regio Calabria for mafia association - and seized movable and immovable property,including some luxury cars and large sums of money, for a total value of about 23 million dollars, proceeds from criminal activities (money laundering, usury, gambling).

The results of the two Canadian and Italian surveys were particularly relevant and investigative in their effectiveness, which, started autonomously, in a completely separate manner from the different Judicial Authorities, each in the territories of its competence, subsequently found connection points and convergences such as push foreign investigators to spontaneously send some of their survey findings and initiate contacts with Italian investigators.

The investigations suggest that the gangs of 'Indrangheta of Siderno (RC) with their offshore offshoots are realizing diversified illicit activities in the Greater Toronto Area, thanks to the close link that unites the Canadian Chamber of Control to the Siderno Crime.

The operation "Canadian 'ndrangheta connection 2" represents a further and very important step in the action of countering the organized crime of Calabrian origin which, for some time now, has had its roots in various States and in particular in the rich Region of Ontario.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 11:29 AM

Joe De Maria brother of Jimmy?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 06:18 PM

Joe De Maria brother of Jimmy?

Is that the businessman from Canada?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 06:20 PM

I have been trying to find articles on Nirta Maggiore. Not much. I did see something about Giuseppe Nirta being killed not too long ago. I did not see anything about a war breaking out so I am going to guess that the murder was ordered internally.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/09/19 06:22 PM

Joe De Maria brother of Jimmy?

Is that the businessman from Canada?

Jimmy DeMaria is one of the top bosses in Canada, they said he was in conflict with Vito Rizzuto.

Posted By: Ciment

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/10/19 11:32 AM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/11/19 01:05 AM

Every time an ndrangheta member is arrested they are identified as a boss. But they are so secretive that nobody knows who the real bosses are.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/11/19 01:13 AM

Every time an ndrangheta member is arrested they are identified as a boss. But they are so secretive that nobody knows who the real bosses are.

Yeah you have many bosses and if one goes away his brother or son takes over.
In 2013 they were active in 30 countries with 400 gangs and 60 000 affiliates of which 40 000 in Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/11/19 11:38 AM

'Ndrangheta - 75-year-old boss Giuseppe MuiÃ arrested in Borgotaro in Emilia, serving already life imprisonment under house arrest for health reasons.

https://www.parmapress24.it/2019/08/11/ndrangheta-arrestato-a-borgotaro-boss-75enne/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/14/19 09:36 AM

Presumed mafioso arrested on Monday is co-manager of a Differdange business
Author: Joel Detaille (Radio)|Update: 13.08.2019 16:40

RTL research shows that the man arrested in Soleuvre on Friday actually co-managed a firm based in Differdange.

As reported Monday, a special police unit arrested the 29-year old man purported to have taken over the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia from his father in 2014. The police found him in his car in Soleuvre.

Arrest confirmed: Calabrian mafioso arrested in south-western Luxembourg on Friday

By all accounts, Santo Rumbo only recently arrived in Luxembourg, but the question as to why remains unclear. However, in order to have an answer to that question, we must await the process in Italy to come to an end. As it stands, the extradition of Rumbo is currently ongoing, as the Italian legal authorities issued the European arrest warrant.

What we do know, however, is that the leadership of the 'Ndrangheta mafia in Calabria is currently experiencing a power struggle, particularly taking place in Rumbo's hometown of Siderno. Italian media report that Rumbo's believed position as head of the clan is under threat. Whether the man was in Luxembourg because of the aforementioned power struggle is unknown.

However, the matter becomes interesting once you search Santo Rumbo in the national trade register. This reveals that the firm "I Bronzi" was founded in spring 2014 with its head office in Differdange. The register also cites the firm's purpose as selling alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks with food.

The initial address for the firm's bistro as per the register had been set as Avenue de la LibertÃ©, which changed in July 2019 to 135, Rue Emile Mark in Differdange. At the moment that the address changed, Rumbo officially took over the administrative management of "I Bronzi" with Armando Figliomeni, born in 1995. The two provided their official address as Rue de la Providence in Lamadelaine.

The name of Rumbo's colleague sparks interest, as six individuals with the surname Figliomeni were arrested in a large-scale police operation in Italy on Friday, including three men and two women. In total, 28 presumed members of the Calabrian mafia were taken into custody.

"I Bronzi" as a firm belongs to Giuseppe Commisso, an Italian man originating from Locri. Commisso's family is allegedly one of the clans making up the 'Ndrangheta mafia. Commisso owns 100% of the business's shares. On 1 July, the firm had an unusual general meeting, in which the management changed to Rumbo and Figliomeni. A further link between the three is that Friday's mafia bust saw two members of the Commisso family arrested.

The question that remains is what possible Calabrian mafiosos are doing running bars in Differdange, especially given the mafia's activities in Canada, namely drug trade, money laundering, blackmail, and weapons trafficking.

https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1389196.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/14/19 11:24 PM

Drug broker caught in Spain: he had ties to the Sicilian mafia and the 'ndrangheta [DETAILS]
Captured as a dangerous fugitive in Spain, he had ties to the Sicilian and Calabrian mafia and was wanted since 2017
14 August 2019 19:07 | Serena Guzzone

Captured dangerous criminal linked to the Sicilian and Calabrian mafia. This is Massimiliano Cornegliani, a fugitive from 2017 and wanted to expiate a sentence of nearly 7 years for extortion with death threats and violence, linked to drug trafficking events. The prosecutor's office of Lodi had issued a European arrest warrant for him. The man was captured in Valencia, thanks toInternational Police Cooperation, the SCIP - Interpol Division of DCPC - and the Carabinieri Company of Corsico which supported the Guardia Civil. The operation of the Spanish police called "Matrosso", concerns elements of local crime connected with Italian organized crime, in particular with affiliates of the 'Ndrangheta, who choose the area of â€‹â€‹the Valencian coast to create international connections and continue their anonymity lucrative trades.

Cornegliani was captured while he had some documents delivered with further false details, which he wanted to use to continue his inaction in Latin America.

Who is Massimiliano Cornegliani
Cornegliani is the brother-in-law of Antonino MusicÃ², a mafioso affiliated with the 'ndrangheta of Calabria. He has always been active in international drug trafficking and has maintained ties with members of the Mafia in Sicily. Growing up in Milan, he has always been in close contact with mafia organizations, reaching a certain criminal relevance, confirmed in various historical surveys on mafia and drug trafficking. In recent years, the man threatened to kill the DDA magistrate who carried out the investigations against him, a circumstance that led to the adoption of immediate measures to protect him. Even more recent legal proceedings link it to the families of the Ndrangheta platiota "Barbaro-Papalia-Trimboli", hegemons in the territory of Cesano Boscone - Corsico and Buccinasco.

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/2019/08/b...a-ndrangheta/882993/#7uf2L3FL1vbESjTt.99

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/18/19 12:24 AM

Davi is crazy, he also confronted Francesco Inzerillo earlier those guys were pretty upset.

'Ndrangheta: Face to face between Klaus Davi and Giovanni Luca Nirta
17 August 2019

Curious 'face to face' between Klaus Davi, journalist and mass-media specialist, working under Tgcom24 with the heading 'the Outlaws' and the alleged Ndrangheta boss Giovanni Luca Nirta. Yesterday evening the journalist who is also a municipal councilor of San Luca presented himself at the residence of the exponent of the homonymous clan in the Ferrigno district (San Luca) to try to interview him. To welcome him at the door, a relative of the Nirta who, after recognizing Klaus, introduced him to the alleged boss. "I don't do interviews - Nirta immediately clarified and his wife, Maria Strangio, was murdered on December 25, 2006 as part of the bloody feud of San Luca. As is known, the real goal of the killers was the same Nirta who, however, did not want to talk to Klaus about the affair. "If you settle, I'll make you a coffee." And so it was. Nirta accompanied Davi to the kitchen, on the first floor of the house, and made the coffee himself by dodging the journalist's questions. "I was polite but I don't want to talk," Nirta repeated on several occasions. "I found it fit and not at all proved by the long period of detention that interested him, said Davi, who did not give up" sooner or later I am sure something will tell me. "Nirta was dressed in an elegant amaranth t-shirt , a pair of jeans and sneakers on the feet â€.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/18/19 07:41 AM

klaus davi went to gioacchino piromalli too lol

https://youtu.be/FUQMvBLM334

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/19/19 01:12 AM

I dont know italian language so i dont know what they are saying but it seems he's bustin the mob bosses balls.. Try that in Mexico or Colombia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/19/19 10:49 AM

Narcotraffic, the 'ndrangheta focuses on Bitcoin and delocalization
by Domenico Latino - 19 August 2019
drug, ndrangheta, Calabria, Cronaca
The port of Gioia Tauro is still one of the favorite routes for international drug traffickers, but it has lost its primacy as a privileged stopover for the entry of cocaine from South America, giving way to other terminals on the Mediterranean and those in Northern Europe.

The analysis of the geo-criminal dynamics is of the Dia, as the Gazzetta del Sud on newsstands writes . The investigations in the field of drugs have made it possible to reveal that the Reggio cosche, make use of valid logistic bases located above all in Germany and the Netherlands.

Another important aspect that emerged from the investigations is the attempt by the Calabrians to pay the drug loads to the South American referents, in particular Brazilians, through the use of bitcoins, the cryptocurrency; operation failed due to the inability of South American narcos to use these innovative payment instruments.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/19/19 02:13 PM

I dont know italian language so i dont know what they are saying but it seems he's bustin the mob bosses balls.. Try that in Mexico or Colombia.

i think that a big boss like el chapo or pablo escobar would invite the journalist to take a coffee in their villa quietly and smiling... the mafia bosses are not usually hurt by these things, I would expect a violent action by a street gang member, a low-level thug boy, but not a mafia boss, piromalli was even more rude than usually, francesco inzerillo answered perfectly like you expect from a mafia boss, at least italian mafia one

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/19/19 04:31 PM

Exactly what mw2 said , anyone who is really high ranking wouldn't act like angry dog, el chapo even did interviews ,even recorded one by himself.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/19/19 08:31 PM

Exactly what mw2 said , anyone who is really high ranking wouldn't act like angry dog, el chapo even did interviews ,even recorded one by himself.

yeah, escobar was interviewed by a france tv in the 80s and he answered quietly, luciano liggio was interviewed by enzo biagi (an italian journalist) and he acted like you expect by a big boss (the mafia doesn't exist, i'm a victim of law etc.), raffaele cutolo the same... and we're talking of people who ordered hundreds murders

Posted By: doggystyle

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/20/19 02:08 AM

yes but i guess this klaus shows up at their door uninvited at first. I dont think that would sit well with escobar or chapo. And this guy is showing no respect at all obviously the piromalli guy snaps at him and he stands there not giving a flying fuck. Theres the difference, you think kate or sean penn would even said a word if chapo told the to fuck off ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/20/19 02:23 AM

Yes that is his style to suprise them. Pretty dangerous if you ask me.
Here is the one with Inzerillo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHakvp_kzgU

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/20/19 09:07 AM

Well they were both on the run , that is big difference , if you show up on the door with camera and whole crew and they are not on the run i guess it is indeed risky but they wouldn't do anything. Why bring unnecessary heat to yourself,but if you find someone who is on the run and come up to them with camera,well that wouldn't end well. Try going for Matteo Messina Denaro and somehow finding him for an interview...

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/22/19 12:36 AM

Have to admire him fighting the good fight. Very dangerous. I do wonder how he has not been at the very minimum beaten by some henchmen for his public display of disrespect. If he can walk to a boss, speak his mind with a camera in his face and disrespect him then that should give the community the courage to do so too.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/22/19 09:18 AM

klaus davi is crazy but very famous and under police protection hes not an ordinary guy nor a criminal who couldnt do what he can

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/22/19 09:22 AM

'Ndrangheta, blitz of the Carabinieri of ROS: arrested in Sicily, a fugitive from Calabria [NAME]
Calabria, blitz of the Carabinieri of ROS in the evening of yesterday: arrested fugitive, prominent exponent of the 'Ndrangheta
22 August 2019 07:14 | Filomena Fotia

The Carabinieri del Ros and the colleagues of the provincial Commands of Catanzaro and Messina - with a blitz in an apartment in Giardini Naxos (Messina) - arrested Francesco Riitano , leading figure of the 'Ndrangheta , of the Gallace di Guardavalle (Catanzaro) clan yesterday evening .

The man, wanted for international drug trafficking and others, was the recipient of a precautionary measure issued at the request of the Milan anti-Mafia district attorney.

Francesco Riitano, alias â€œCicciariello Andreacchioâ€, 39 years old, was having dinner with family members in a rented apartment in a tourist residence in Giardini Naxos: at the time of the raid he tried to improvise an escape, but was blocked by the military. He had a falsified Italian ID, driving license and passport.
An arrest warrant issued by the Court of Milan on 2 May 2017 was charged to Riitano for having " promoted, organized, constituted, financed, directed and participated in an association with a logistical base in Arluno (Milan) ".

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/2019/08/n...labrese-nome/885259/#5zjD3QVZcXjhSzyd.99

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/25/19 08:51 PM

'Ndrangheta, detainee attempts suicide in L'Aquila
Calabrese recluse to 41bis saved by the agents

Calabria
Sun, 08/25/2019 - 19:38
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He had tried to take his own life by hanging himself in a cell in the prison of L'Aquila and he would have succeeded had it not been for the timely and effective intervention before the prison police officers and then by the health personnel. According to the Uil Pa Polizia Penitenziaria Abruzzo, the prisoner, of Calabrian origin and restricted to the special 41bis regime, had almost died when the agents arrived and was saved in extremis: Â«The resuscitation work carried out by the personal intervened so much to be able to say that if a victim was not counted at the Costarelle prison it is due to the high professionalism possessed by the operators involved Â».

"The Uil - underlines the deputy secretary of the Abruzzese union Mauro Nardella - complimenting his colleagues he returns to denounce the condition in which the prison of the Aquila pays above all in order to the excessive presence of prisoners among the most dangerous of Italy. The prison of L'Aquila, in fact, holds the highest number of prisoners subjected to the 41 bis of Italy (160). However, it is not enough to see the attention given to it by the Ministry of Justice, especially with regard to the impossibility of guaranteeing a sufficient number of seats in the officers' barracks. Agents forced to stay overnight elsewhere and therefore unable to intervene if, as in the case in question, one feels the need to have to provide in case of absolute emergency Â».

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...tenta-suicidio-laquila-calabrese-recluso

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/27/19 07:47 AM

Germany hands over 'Ndrangheta member Antonio Strangio
Was arrested May 2 in Moers, Germany

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, August 26 - Antonio Strangio, a member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia who was arrested in Germany on May 2, arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Monday from Dusseldorf, accompanied by Italian police.
German police had arrested Strangio, 40, on a European arrest warrant issued by a judge in Reggio Calabria, as part of an operation in Italy and northern Europe that involved over 90 people.
The operation focused on stopping intercontinental drug trafficking and money laundering in commercial sectors such as the restaurant industry.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/29/19 11:44 AM

Melito, Giuseppe Iamonte died after falling off his bike: he was the son of the boss Natale
of GT - 28 August 2019
Seized by illness while riding a bicycle, he crashed his head hard on the asphalt. In very serious conditions, Giuseppe Iamonte, 70, was taken to the hospital in Reggio Calabria, where he was hospitalized in intensive care. Almost two days later he is dead.

The character's caliber, placed by the Dda and the police at the summit of the homonymous clan, triggered the ban on the public celebration of the funeral, which should have been held yesterday.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/30/19 04:53 PM

The character's caliber, placed by the Dda and the police at the summit of the homonymous clan, triggered the ban on the public celebration of the funeral, which should have been held yesterday.

Sad way to leave this world. Do the Iamontes still have strong ties to the Sicilians?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/31/19 10:19 AM

ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, SAFE HAVENS FOR ITALIAN MAFIA MONEY
2019-08-30
The need of Italian mafia networks to carry out vast money-laundering operations took them to Romania and Bulgaria. They set up companies that not only succeeded in flying under the radar but also won government contracts.

For several months, our grantees Catalin Prisacariu, Sorin Ozon and Stanimir Vangelov investigated how the two countries got more and more appealing for the consiglieri, who were looking for safe destinations for their "dirty money."

Located at the very border of the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria deal with internal rule of law and judiciary issues. They proved, however, to be a haven for Italian businessmen who have set up dozens of companies in order to introduce money, obtained through illegal means in Italy or elsewhere, into the financial system.

Some of the companies didn't even try to cover their tracks. In Romania, the team unveiled that many companies were set up by a single company based at the same address, a poor communist-era small apartment in a grey block of flats. The company was connected to Ndrangheta related Italian nationals, who were arrested, indicted and convicted in their home country.

They also found that some of those companies placed bids for public contracts in association or in competition, depending on the tender. They succeeded in flying under the radar and remaining undetected from Romanian authorities, who awarded them millions of euros in public contracts.

The team discovered that even though public contracting seems to be Ndrangheta's favorite modus operandi in Romania, front companies were also set up to control cigarettes' smuggling and build an illegal cigarettes factory. They even invested enormous amounts of money (at least on paper) in buildings that remain abandoned.

https://www.journalismfund.eu/mafia_money

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/01/19 11:16 AM

'Ndrangheta in Canada, so Toronto became a fief of Siderno: names and photos of those arrested

https://www.uk24.co/2019/08/ndrangh...-names-and-photos-of-those-arrested.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/02/19 10:26 AM

'Ndrangheta, closed the investigation of the Ionian gangs in Belgium, Holland and Germany
2 September 2019

By Vincenzo Imperitura

There were the cosche of San Luca (the Romeo and the Pelle-Vottari), those of Natile and those of Gioiosa (the Ursino): for years, blending with the mass migration that has always linked the southern coast of Reggio to northern Europe, they had settled between Holland, Belgium and the inevitable Germany, recreating the same dynamics of the "mother house" in Calabria, thousands of miles from home. A solid and well-branched network that had been discovered by the anti-mafia district of Reggio Calabria thanks to a long investigation carried out by police men in collaboration with colleagues from Belgium, Holland and Germany since 2016.

Now, a little less than a year after the maxi operation, the Strait district closed its investigations against sixty suspects who have to respond, in various ways, to mafia association, international drug trafficking and money laundering. According to investigators, the group was able to exploit the connections with the world of the central and southern American narcos to flood the Europe of cocaine that came from "friendly ports" in northern Europe. The settlement of the clans in the heart of the industrious northern Europe was made possible by the mountain of money coming from the illicit trafficking that was reinvested to infiltrate the clean economy (mainly, the restaurant sector) thanks to a series of compliant nominees. And if restaurants served to launder money, in the same way, investigators say, those same premises were used as logistic bases where to stow drugs waiting to be sold throughout Europe. An imposing organization that moved like a real holding company, capable of using foreign groups for the work of modifying the means with which to transport cocaine and Italian criminal groups linked to the Camorra and to cosa nostra to place it.

Calabria Editorial 7

https://calabria7.it/ndrangheta-chiuse-le-indagini-sulle-cosche-joniche-in-belgio-olanda-e-germania/

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/02/19 12:44 PM

Southern Italian organized crime syndicates planned their strategies in a mansion in Padenghe, on the shores of the Garda Lake (Lombardy).

by Valerio Morabito, 01.09.2019 Bresciaoggi

In a "camouflaged" villa, in a quiet neighborhood of vacation homes, exponents of the 'ndrangheta clans made agreements with members of the Sacra Corona Unita and supported fugitive boss Giuseppe Pesce of the Rosarno-based family of the same name. It is learned from the papers of a recent sentence of the Cassation, which confirms the disturbing rooting of the mafias on Lake Garda.

THE ROOTING of the mafias on Lake Garda and in particular in Valtenesi is "narrated" and certified in the reasons for the sentence of the Court of Cassation which confirmed the sentences to eight of the ten people accused in various capacities of being part of "a type association" ndranghetista aggravated by the availability of weapons ". The trial focused on interceptions made with a bug placed by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the Padenghe home.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...ava-il-vertice-delle-mafie-1.7594133/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...e-patto-di-sangue-sul-lago-1.7594047/amp

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/04/19 08:43 PM

He is the son-in-law of Domenico 'The Australian' Barbaro of Buccinasco known boss of the PlatÃ¬ clan who died in 2016.

'Ndrangheta fugitive caught in France
Mario Miceli, 62, on the run since January

(ANSA) - Milan, September 4 - A fugitive member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia was caught in France on Tuesday, police said Wednesday.
Mario Miceli, 62, is set to serve five and a half years for mafia association.
He had been on the run since January.
Miceli was arrested at Arzon.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/05/19 12:13 AM

Was the Ndrangheta as rich and powerful as the Camorra during the 70s or were they still building as an organization at that time? The 70s were a fruitful time for the Camorra with people like Michele Zaza, Carmine Alfieri, Antonio Bardellino and the Nuvoletta brothers at the head of the organization.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 09:07 AM

I don't know about their wealth at the time, but they were already powerful through their links with the Fascist right and secret services.

Posted By: Immortale

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 09:13 AM

Lo spietato is an interesting movie about the 'ndrangheta, available on netflix

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 11:50 AM

They were powerful but nothing major, it was mostly Sicilian Mafia and some Camorra clans back then. The money they got from kidnappings & later drugs was when they got power. Also the state was heavily focused on Sicilian mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 08:50 PM

Lo spietato is an interesting movie about the 'ndrangheta, available on netflix

Yes, based on the life of the playboy Saverio Morabito who became a police informant in the early 1990s.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 10:28 PM

Youâ€™re right, there were some Camorra clans that were as rich and powerful as some of the top Sicilian clans but as a whole they werenâ€™t.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 10:31 PM

I don't know about their wealth at the time, but they were already powerful through their links with the Fascist right and secret services.

I have heard many times that the Nirta clan is the most powerful in the ndrangheta. At what point did the Nirtas, De Stefanos, Piromallis, Condellos and other powerful ndrangheta clans become just as powerful as the top Sicilian and Camorra clans?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/19 11:52 PM

During the 70s they established links with the Colombians already working with the Sicilians.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/07/19 04:08 AM

During the 70s they established links with the Colombians already working with the Sicilians.

The Sicilians committed to heroin while Ndrangheta committed to cocaine. They saw it as more profitable. The Nirta clan formerly led bu Antonio is not related to the Nirta clan associated with the Strangio clan and San Luca Feud at all? To be from the same town and have the same last name while not even being related is quite the coincidence with such a distinct last name like that.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/08/19 10:28 AM

Giovanni Tersigni didn't make it. The 36-year-old from Crotone died in the hospital during the night, wounded in the legs and buttocks last night, in Piazza Albani, in the historic center of Crotone, from gunshots.

Tersigni was hit last night at around 7 pm in the "Ferriata" district behind Piazza Duomo. The shooting is still dark and the circumstances are still to be clarified.

The first to arrive at the place were the 118 health workers who in turn alerted the 113. The man had been transported in red code to the Emergency Room of San Giovanni di Dio, but initially he didn't seem in danger of life.

In the area of â€‹â€‹the Ferriata intervened the agents of the Flying Squad and the Mobile policemen who then went to the hospital to try to hear the wounded and rebuild dynamic and motive.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/10/19 06:31 PM

The top bosses of the Ndrangheta are not seen or heard. When bosses do get arrested, then how does anyone outside of the ndrangheta know if they are the real top bosses or not?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/10/19 11:04 PM

The top bosses of the Ndrangheta are not seen or heard. When bosses do get arrested, then how does anyone outside of the ndrangheta know if they are the real top bosses or not?

Turncoats and wiretaps otherwise the outside world doesn't know.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/12/19 07:54 PM

The top bosses of the Ndrangheta are not seen or heard. When bosses do get arrested, then how does anyone outside of the ndrangheta know if they are the real top bosses or not?

Turncoats and wiretaps otherwise the outside world doesn't know.

Based on those wiretaps, is Giorgio DeStefano still the top Don like many people believed him to be?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/15/19 10:17 PM

Drug baron AndrÃ© de Oliveira Macedo, aka AndrÃ© do Rap, arrested in Brazil, linked to the 'ndrangheta.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.le...e-la-drogue-lie-a-la-ndrangheta-20190915

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/19 06:53 PM

Detuvieron en Brasil a un lÃder de la sanguinaria banda PCC que se encargaba de enviar cocaÃna a Europa
Se trata de AndrÃ© de Oliveira Macedo, alias "AndrÃ© do Rap", capturado por la policÃa en una mansiÃ³n en la ciudad de Angra dos Reis. TenÃa vÃnculos con la mafia italiana 'Ndrangheta, a la que enviaba la droga desde el puerto de Santos

https://www.infobae.com/america/ame...se-encargaba-de-enviar-cocaina-a-europa/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/19 11:05 PM

'Ndrangheta, Cassation says "no" to special surveillance for the Papalia boss
16 September 2019
'ndrangheta, milano, Rocco Papalia, Reggio, Calabria, CronacaRocco Papalia
No special surveillance for Rocco Papalia , called the 'godfather' of Buccinasco (Milan), considered one of the most important leaders of the 'Ndrangheta in the
north and released in May 2017 after 26 years of detention.

This was confirmed by the Supreme Court declaring "inadmissible" an appeal by the Milan Public Prosecutor against a decision of the Milan Court of Appeal that had revoked the public safety prevention measure, for lack of social dangerousness.

In the meantime, in July 2018, the Supervisory Court of Milan ordered, for the boss, the security measure of the "work house", comparable to a prison, for two years.

In rejecting the appeal by the General Prosecutor, the Supreme Court explains that second instance judges correctly justified the no to special surveillance by clarifying that "the significant elements of the criminal caliber" of Papalia "date back to the early 2000s" and has already served a "detention more than twenty years".

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Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/21/19 12:52 AM

Will there ever be another war the size of the ndrangheta war between the De Stefanos and Condellos? I think it is too hard to get away with so many murders in Europe present day.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 12:44 AM

Interesting new book 'Quando la 'ndrangheta scoprÃ¬ l'America' by Antonio Nicaso ! How the Calabrian-Americans like Costello and Anastasia influenced the 'ndrangheta.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 10:50 AM

Allarme Dia: ''La 'Ndrangheta mira a conquistare i porti del Nord Europa''
Details
Published: 14 February 2019
container port c keystone
by Davide de Bari
In the Dia report, relations with local companies abroad and narcos in Mexico and Colombia

"Mexico continues to be an area of â€‹â€‹interest for Italian criminal organizations, representing, together with Colombia, one of the main areas of production and transit of cocaine destined to supply not only US and Canadian markets, but also European ones".

It is from this consideration that the last report of the first half of 2018 of the Dia (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate) starts, in dealing with the theme of the links between the 'Ndrangheta and the cartels of Mexican and Colombian narcos.

Analysts highlight how the "Gulf and Los Zetas cartel would have established alliances with representatives of Italian organized crime, in particular with the Calabrese one". Not only.

These relations would also extend to "forms of mutual assistance, to give refuge to fugitives".

The routes of drug trafficking affecting Mexico would be divided into three directions: from the Atlantic ports of Mexico towards some West African and European countries of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, from the Mexican ports of the Pacific towards, across the strait of Panama, of Europe (Poland, Baltic countries, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania) and from the Mexican ports of the Pacific directly to the countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia), following the Pacific route.

While the Colombian narcos, through "agreements", have "allowed" the "Ndrangheta to" take a leading role in trafficking to Europe ". The report, however, underlined the presence of "Cosa Nostra which, for some time, has been trying to recover a more important role in drug trafficking,

( Why people argue against this, is truly beyond my comprehension..)

With regard to North America, with particular reference to Canada, Dia highlighted "the pressure exerted by other organizations for the control of the territory, in particular of the 'Ndrangheta, which would be replacing Sicilian rivals in controlling traffic and drug dealing of drugs.

( Also, havent we been saying this same shit for YEARS now?)

At the same time, the 'Ndrangheta would be equally active in the recycling and re-employment of illicit capital ".

The organized crime in Calabria also in Canada has "replicated" the same "structure of the areas of origin" and for this "The Canadian locals would ensure, in fact, to the Calabrian gangs, functional support to the laundering of illicit proceeds and drug trafficking".

In addition to this, cocaine â€œproduced in Colombia would pass through Venezuela, for the subsequent passage to the USA and Canada ". Also in Australia, the 'Ndrangheta "is the main mafia organization of Italian origin present on that Continent".

Also in this case â€œthe association would have links with the Calabrian clans for the coordinated execution of criminal activities at an international level. Among the illicit sectors of interest, the import of drugs from Europe, China and South America, of synthetic drugs, precursors and cocaine, is prominent ".

The tentacles of the 'Ndrangheta in Europe
and to the geographical position of Germany, which borders with Holland, another point of support for drugs from South America â€.

The Netherlands is precisely one of the countries on which the attention of the investigators is concentrated, in particular with respect to the international port of Rotterdam, particularly exploited in drug trafficking.

Belgium is also in a strategic position and due to its port importance in Antwerp "it is also a strategic junction for numerous traditional illegal activities, including the narcotrafficio from South America".

In fact, the investigations conducted in Italy "have highlighted the strong propensity of the 'Ndrangheta to establish criminal contexts in the countries of Northern Europe, where for some time exponents of Ionian-Reggio have entered various economic sectors".

Furthermore, it confirms "the existence of a dense network of relationships in several European states, including Spain, identified by the 'Ndrangheta as an area of â€‹â€‹drug transit and for the reinvestment of illicit capital, as well as for the refuge of fugitives".

In France, on the other hand, the investigations "confirm the presence of a second generation of 'Ndranghetist criminals" and that "the considerable criminal interests of the' Ndrangheta would have led to the establishment of superordinate structures of coordination, between the peripheral units and the parent company of Reggio Emilia" .

According to the document, in Austria the gangs "using nominees who had moved into the territory" would have succeeded "in investing, even in this country, the proceeds of illegal activities". Not only.

The investigations indicate the presence of the 'Ndrangheta also "in the field of betting and online games". As for the Slovak Republic, thanks to the investigations on the report Jan Kuciak, killed on February 22 last, the "expansionist aims of the 'Ndrangheta became evident precisely in the semester" and "the interest of the gangs towards European funds was highlighted" for agriculture ".

Photo Â© Keystone

Dia: '' The 'Ndrangheta is the global mistress of drug trafficking' '

Dia warning: What is less compact, there is a "risk of new violence"

Dia report: Camorra between internal feuds, baby gangs and infiltrations in the central-north

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 11:15 AM

Will there ever be another war the size of the ndrangheta war between the De Stefanos and Condellos? I think it is too hard to get away with so many murders in Europe present day.

they wouldn't last 2 months nowadays if they became so violent again, it's not 1980 or early 90 anymore (and not mexico lol)

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 11:25 AM

There is a case from few years ago , where 'Ndrangheta ndrina in Milan stole from another 'ndrina cocaine thats worth 200,000$ , they made deal over it rather than going to war. Its in their best interest to stay under the radar and not attract any attention. Back in 80-90s there would be huge war over that much cocaine

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 03:20 PM

yeah, through the 1980s and the early 1990 some year in milan there were 100 organized crime-related murders and it's a northern city

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 03:37 PM

yeah, through the 1980s and the early 1990 some year in milan there were 100 organized crime-related murders and it's a northern city

They figured out more murders more turncoats like in New York.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 03:53 PM

Interesting new book 'Quando la 'ndrangheta scoprÃ¬ l'America' by Antonio Nicaso ! How the Calabrian-Americans like Costello and Anastasia influenced the 'ndrangheta.

Was there ever somewhat of a rivalry between mafiosi from south Calabria and northern Calabria? Costello was from north and Anastasia was from south. I think the mustache petes might have been more accepting of Anastasia than Costello because of that due to everything south of cosenza being more identifiable with Sicily than Naples. Being Americans, Anastasia and Costello got along well.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 03:54 PM

Will there ever be another war the size of the ndrangheta war between the De Stefanos and Condellos? I think it is too hard to get away with so many murders in Europe present day.

they wouldn't last 2 months nowadays if they became so violent again, it's not 1980 or early 90 anymore (and not mexico lol)

It might as well be the 1970s in Mexico lmao

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 03:57 PM

Could it also be a matter of $200,000 not meaning as much to them as it did in the 80s and 90s due to the Ndranghetaâ€™s growth in power and wealth since then?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/19 08:34 PM

'Ndrangheta stragista trial, the turncoat CalabrÃ² modified the declarations made when he began to collaborate and declared that he killed on his own the carabinieri Fava and Garofalo in 1994 and nobody ordered it. According to his previous version the murder was planned by both Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta bosses and it was part of an elaborate and far-reaching strategy to destabilize the nation.
The 'Ndrangheta stragista, Gotha and Trattativa Stato-Mafia trials, among whose defendants there are important politicians, freemasons and secret service agents, under the total national media's silence, are both coming to the final stage, and in the latest months four turncoats (Leonardo Messina, Gioacchino Pennino, Marino Pulito and Vincenzo Grimaldi) who had to testimony disappeared and cannot be found.

Credits to Carmelo for original post.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/24/19 12:03 AM

Is the Siderno group as powerful as the Nirta family from San Luca(not the one associated with the Strangio clan). They have many connections in different countries.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/25/19 04:13 AM

Does anyone know how influential the Nasone Ndrina is or not?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/25/19 10:34 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/25/19 11:35 PM

'Ndrangheta: trial' 'Zappa 2' ', requested 25 sentences
PRINTDetails Published: 24 September 2019

Surveys of cocaine emerged in Italy from South America and Hashish from Morocco
by AMDuemila
Yesterday, the prosecutor of the Dda Stefano Musolino, at the end of the indictment of the "Zappa 2" trial asked the sentence, with sentences of up to 24 years, for 25 members belonging to a criminal drug organization headed by the 'Ndrangheta clan of the' Maesano-Paviglianti-Pangallo 'of the districts of " Jonico " and " Tirrenico ". Under accusation there are narcos with ramifications in various regions of Italy " from Calabria to Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia Campania, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna". But also from abroad (France, Spain, Iraq, Ecuador and Morocco). The head of the organization was, according to the investigators, in Reggio Calabria but then it was in Milan that the network of illicit business resided in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador from where the cocaine arrived and in Morocco from where the hashish arrived. Organization members are accused of sending tons of cocaine from South America. " Each shipment - we learn - was made up of 150kg of drugs that arrived in Italy thanks to specially modified trucks to evade customs controls". The facts date back to about 15 years ago, between 2003 and 2004, investigators had managed to find out how the 'ndrangheta was able to launder huge sums of money and even set up and send a team of men abroad for the purpose of evading a big drug trafficker.

www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/rasse...rocesso-zappa-2-chieste-25-condanne.html

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/26/19 06:28 PM

I am surprised Scilla isnâ€™t as much of a ndrangheta stronghold as other areas of Reggio.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/19 12:03 PM

It emerges from the investigations that led to the operation of the "Canadian Ndrangheta connection".

'Ndrangheta, consegnato in Italia Santo Rumbo arrestato in Lussemburgo
https://www.reggiotoday.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-consegnato-italia-santo-rumbo-arrestato-.html

'Ndrangheta tra Reggio e Canada, consegnato in Italia Santo Rumbo arrestato in Lussemburgo
https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/ar...rgo-b879e209-7dab-4db0-aee2-20c749778882

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/19 01:05 PM

Value of sub-contracts allocated to different 'ndrangheta clans for the construction of the port of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria (1974-75)

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/19 01:17 PM

It emerges from the investigations that led to the operation of the "Canadian Ndrangheta connection".

'Ndrangheta, consegnato in Italia Santo Rumbo arrestato in Lussemburgo
https://www.reggiotoday.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-consegnato-italia-santo-rumbo-arrestato-.html

'Ndrangheta tra Reggio e Canada, consegnato in Italia Santo Rumbo arrestato in Lussemburgo
https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/ar...rgo-b879e209-7dab-4db0-aee2-20c749778882

So he's the son of Rumbo, currently detained in the 41 bis regime and considered the top element of the Commisso gang.

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Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/19 10:52 PM

Value of sub-contracts allocated to different 'ndrangheta clans for the construction of the port of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria (1974-75)

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The Piromalliâ€™s really received a lot more money than the other families. The total amount of Lire seems a little unbelievable though. Now this is in 1974 so how much would that be adjusted for inflation and in dollars? The lire put into a currency converter equals almost $1.5 billion but that is not adjusted for inflation. Thatâ€™s about $300 million in 1975. I may be incorrect.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/19 11:18 PM

What are you talking about? The amount that Piromallis received ~1,400,000,000 italian lire is around 800,000$.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/28/19 01:47 AM

What are you talking about? The amount that Piromallis received ~1,400,000,000 italian lire is around 800,000$.

Thatâ€™s where I was confused because it says values are in millions of lire under value of sub-contract. So I was looking at it as if the number was 6, then it would actually be 6 million lire. That is why I said the amount seemed oddly staggering.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/29/19 12:55 PM

In Vibo Valentia last night Salvatore Battaglia, 21, and Giovanni Zuliani, 23, were gunned down. Several gun shots fired with a 7.65 caliber pistol. To suffer the most serious consequences was Battaglia, reached by blows to the neck and abdomen, Zuliani, on the other hand, was injured in the legs. The two wounded, both known to the police, are both cousins â€‹â€‹of Rosario Battaglia and Rosario Fiorillo, currently detained because they are considered to be at the top of the local 'Ndrangheta di Piscopio. Giovanni Zuliani was sentenced in July 2018 for drug dealing. A brother is detained for murder.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/30/19 11:08 AM

Salvatore Battaglia died at the hospital due to injuries sustained in the ambush.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/19 08:53 AM

On the afternoon of last Sunday, Carmelo Giovanni Tripodo died, in the province of Latina, for decades considered the forefather of all the Calabrian 'ndrine in Rome.
The boss died in the hospital where he was hospitalized and the funeral, in a strictly private form, as requested by the Latina police station, took place yesterday afternoon in the Fondi cemetery, with the prohibition of a solemn ceremony, believing that the funeral could create risks to order and public safety.
His father Domenico was stabbed to death in prison on the request of the De Stefanoâ€™s with the help of Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo
Carmelo first moved to north Italy, later to Caserta in Campania, and finally in 1992 to Fondi in Lazio. He allied himself with the Calabrian Imerti-Condello clan, historical enemies of the De Stefanos. He was arrested on October 30, 1996, in Rome on charges of extortion and usury.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/19 09:29 AM

Salvatore Battaglia died at the hospital due to injuries sustained in the ambush.

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Do you think the clan will be able to oust the Mancusos?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/02/19 10:03 PM

According to Italian media, the Dutch entrepreneur and investor Marcel Boekhoorn is one of 51 suspects in a gambling and money laundering investigation that touches on the Calabrese branch of the Mafia: the 'Ndrangheta. The investigation is being conducted by the Guardia di Finanza from Reggio Calabria under the direction of the anti-mafia department of justice in Reggio.

The research is aimed at the Tegano family, which is said to have generated a turnover of 4.5 billion euros in the illegal (online) gambling sector in Italy and abroad. In cooperation with Eurojust there have been raids and seizures in Malta, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Isle of Man, the Netherlands, CuraÃ§ao, Serbia, Albania and Spain.

Boekhoorn may have to answer in court in Italy. Boekhoorn's Italian problems have been going on for some time. De Groene revealed the allegations about the Mafia investments.

Marcel Boekhoorn is one of the richest entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. He made his fortune with the purchase and sale of Telfort. Among other things, he owns Ouwehands Zoo and in 2018 he purchased the ailing HEMA retail chain. He is friends with prominent entrepreneurs and (former) politicians such as former Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende and Hans Wiegel.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/02/19 10:16 PM

Salvatore Battaglia died at the hospital due to injuries sustained in the ambush.

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Do you think the clan will be able to oust the Mancusos?

Yes because the Mancuso also deal with internal problems even fights between blood family and they are among the 'ndrine less inclined to accept the authority of Reggio Calabria, that's why the Piscopisani seek support in Commisso clan.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/19 02:20 AM

Why do they not accept authority from reggio?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/19 11:50 AM

Why do they not accept authority from reggio?

Despite all the power and connections the Mancuso have, the clan has been excluded from the unitary structure of the 'Ndrangheta Reggina.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/19 03:03 PM

Why do they not accept authority from reggio?

Despite all the power and connections the Mancuso have, the clan has been excluded from the unitary structure of the 'Ndrangheta Reggina.

It sounds like there is little to no chance that the powerful Reggio clans step in during this battle amongst them then.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/19 04:26 PM

It sounds like there is little to no chance that the powerful Reggio clans step in during this battle amongst them then.

There is high chance that powerful Reggio clans will step in to calm things down , remember after that massacre in Germany , they were ordered to stop the feud asap because it attracts too much attention.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/19 11:56 PM

It sounds like there is little to no chance that the powerful Reggio clans step in during this battle amongst them then.

I'm sure it was on the agenda last month at the meetings of the Crimine during Festival of the Madonna di Polsi in San Luca.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimine

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/04/19 03:10 AM

The Reggio families are so much more powerful than the Mancusos. Would any of them consider trying to take their territory and businesses during this internal battle?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/06/19 01:43 PM

The son of the 'ndrangheta boss: "So I convinced my father to repent"
5 OCTOBER 2019 - 16:16
of Editorial

From mafiosi to collaborators of justice: dad and son are unveiling the assets of the northern gangs

He is called Salvatore, he is 29 years old, and is the son of Emanuele De Castro, known as "the Sicilian", considered the boss of the ' Lombard Ndrangheta . Near the clan of Villagrazia of cosa nostra, Emanuele De Castro had become the deputy regent of the Calabrian cell of Legnano . Now both he and his son have become collaborators of justice.

Because they decided to collaborate
It was the son who pushed him to make this choice, who explained to the prosecutors: "I am tired of this lifestyle, especially that of my father - as Corriere.it writes - I myself induced him to do this choice".

He could not take it more than a life of continuous arrests and sentences, aware that he would come out of the 'ndrangheta either dead or collaborating with the State. And he chose this second option.

"I decided to cooperate because I don't want my son to do it as I did. Because I'm tired, it seems like an absurd life. I would like to live a quiet life with my partner and my child "explained the 'ndrangheta boss who, before collaborating, had sent two letters, from prison, directly to the deputy prosecutor Alessandra Dolci, head of the Milan Anti-Mafia District Directorate .

What did they tell the public prosecutors?
Dad and son are a flood. They have filled hundreds of pages of reports telling all they know, so what are the assets of the gangs in the North and also the alleged relations with politics, business and public administration.

Father and son, arrested as part of the same investigation, ran a parking lot near Malpensa , later seized by investigators.

"I was peddling drugs. I was never baptized, my father didn't want me to work for "them" - said Salvatore De Castro - He told me to stay out of it ". Â«I asked him about his travels in Calabria , why he attended Rispoli: everyone knew that without his consent here he could not move leaf. And he told me that he belonged to the 'ndrangheta, "he concluded.

https://www.open.online/2019/10/05/...a-cosi-ho-convinto-mio-padre-a-pentirsi/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/06/19 02:13 PM

The Reggio families are so much more powerful than the Mancusos. Would any of them consider trying to take their territory and businesses during this internal battle?

Not directly but they will back other clans in the province not only the piscopisani, also the Anello, the Fiumara, the Emanuele, the Vallelunga, the Tassone, the Mantella and the Bonavota.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/07/19 08:36 PM

The Reggio families are so much more powerful than the Mancusos. Would any of them consider trying to take their territory and businesses during this internal battle?

Not directly but they will back other clans in the province not only the piscopisani, also the Anello, the Fiumara, the Emanuele, the Vallelunga, the Tassone, the Mantella and the Bonavota.

Do you see a powerful family from outside of Reggio ceasing power? San Luca is seen as the true power of the Ndrangheta but I donâ€™t see how that is the case with the Piromallis, De Stefanos, Condellos and so on being outside of San Luca.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/08/19 07:35 AM

A few months old article, sorry if already posted:

Italian workers exploited by mafia clan in Belgium
Sarah Johansson - The Brussels Times - Saturday, 29 June 2019

The Bologna Prosecutorâ€™s office (Italy) is investigating an organisation that exploits Italian workers in Belgium.

Sixteen people were arrested in Italy in June. Le Soir reported that there may be a connection between the rise of a mafia clan in Belgium and economic activity between Brussels and Namur.

Construction workers are allegedly brought from Italy, working under exploitative conditions.

Le Soir got hold of a 261-page document detailing the proof against 76 people being investigated by the Instruction court.

Among them is Dilbeek resident Mario Timpano, who is suspected of being the link between Belgium and the Grande Aracri clan, who belong to the Calabrian mafia.

The judge said telephone bugs were able to expose an organisation that takes vulnerable workers to building sites in Brussels to exploit them for the clanâ€™s financial gain.

At the start of 2017, â€œDavid Gaspari and Salvatore Grande Aracri recruited workers and bought them to Belgium and subjected them to exploitative conditions. They used them for construction work in the Brussels region, to build 350 apartments for a local business,â€ magistrates said.

Eight victims (four masons and four carpenters) were identified in the first few months of 2017 alone. They may have only been paid salaries as low as 6.75 euros an hour.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-n...d-by-an-italian-mafia-family-in-belgium/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/08/19 07:44 AM

Maxi-operation of Police and Guardia di Finanza, which arrested 34 people in Lombardy and Calabria for tax offenses, extortion and improper use of payment cards. The complex system for the issue of false invoices through cooperative companies, in which subjects linked to the 'Ndrangheta were involved,. More than 13 million of assets have been seized, including homes referable to an accountant who holds accounting records for companies in the Piromalli clan.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/08/19 08:26 AM

More insightful Italian article on the Grande Aracri bust I posted above. They had connections in Emilia, where the workers were coming from, and Tuscany, where the construction firm was based.

Ndrangheta in Emilia, the caporalato of the clan: workers sent to Brussels. "Hunger pay and a third of the money ended up being the boss"

by Paolo Bonacini - 27 June 2019 - il Fatto quotidiano

The latest investigation against the Grande Aracri reconstructs the events linked to the intermediation of labor. They are a photocopy of what emerged in Aemilia on post-earthquake reconstruction activities in 2012. For Belgian canteries, where Albanian construction companies operated, dozens of unemployed and needy workers left, recruited in Emilia Romagna in 2017 and formally hired by a company of Florence that in reality was only a screen

The Grimilde inquiry is like an annex of Aemilia, the maxi-ndrangheta trial in Northern Italy. A branch that was based in Brescello, closed by the arrests obtained by the prosecutor of Bologna, Beatrice Ronchi. Seventy-six suspects (13 in Brescello alone), 16 pre-trial detention, 13 abused individuals of 416 bis, membership in a mafia-type criminal association. A family under indictment, that of Francesco Grande Aracri, his wife Santina Pucci, his sons Paolo, Rosita and Salvatore, known as Calamaro and true ruler of external activities after his father's reputation had been compromised by his conviction in Edilpiovra. The man who already according to Aemilia was the real owner of the two most "in" places of Reggio Emilia, some time ago, on the front of youth clubs: Los Angeles in Quattro Castella and Italghisa in the city. Carmelina, Salvatore's wife and with him resident in Brescello, is also under investigation, and with her four other members of the Passafaro family who live in Viadana.

They were, with illustrious companions in the adventure, to carry on the activities of 'ndrangheta from the Brescello annex after January 2015, with the usual kit of fictitious headings, threats and intimidation, fakes and scams, extortion and debt recovery, theft and exploitation of workers. Carpenters and masons in particular, recruited by the head of the family, Francesco Grande Aracri, who taught his son Salvatore how best to use the gangmaster and went personally to Brussels to manage the activities that crossed national borders.

The events related to labor brokering are a photocopy of what emerged in Aemilia on post-earthquake reconstruction activities in 2012. For Belgian canteries, where Albanian construction companies operated, dozens of unemployed and needy workers, recruited in Emilia Romagna, left in 2017 and formally hired by a company in Florence that was really just a screen. The connections with Belgium were guaranteed by Mario Timpano, a suspect residing in Dilbeek in the northern country, while Davide Gaspari, born in Germany and resident in Viadana of Mantua, was now awaiting housekeeping .

A third of the remuneration for the work done ended up in the pockets of the â€˜ndrangheta, while the carpenters and the masons obtained starvation payments. A case for all: the worker Francesco Sciano who worked for 100 hours receiving 675 euros in cash (6.75 euros an hour) without paycheck, without compensation, without contributions, paying himself the food in the weeks from March 25 to 13 April 2017. Worse than the Italian emigrants in the Belgian mines seventy years ago.

The set of crimes of Grimilde was committed between 2004 and 2018, with particular intensity of action in the last four years, when the free men of the cosca also covered the voids left by those in jail. When many in Reggio Emilia deluded themselves that everything was over. The most striking case is that concerning Giuseppe Caruso, an employee of the Piacenza Customs Office, accused of 416 bis together with his brother Albino and capable (to say the least) of moving seas and mountains for the interests of the gang. Giuseppe Caruso is also president of the Piacenza City Council, in quota of the Brothers of Italy: Giorgia Meloni announced yesterday the expulsion from the party of the arrested president.

Even the former president of the Parma City Council Giovanni Paolo Bernini (Forza Italia) was accused in Aemilia of a competition outside the mafia association, but the crime was retrained and extinguished due to a prescription. Even the leader of Forza Italia in the Reggio Emilia City Council, Giuseppe Pagliani, is still on trial in Aemilia, after the first instance absolution, the sentence in appeal and the Cassation's decision to postpone it to a new appeal. And finally, on 11 July next, in a few days, the Gup of Bologna will rule on the request for deferral I presented by the prosecutor's office against 11 people, including public officials of the State, accused of violence or threat to a political, administrative or judicial body, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method, in competition with the then Senator Pdl Carlo Giovanardi, former member of the anti-mafia parliamentary commission. All in the aftermath of the earthquake, to obtain readmission on the Bianchini Costruzioni srl white list. The esteemed company that - for the accusation - used labor provided by the "ndrangheta.

Another company that falls into the hands of the Grande Aracri of Brescello, with a role in this case also played by the chief of chiefs Nicolino, is the company Vigna Dogarina srl â€‹â€‹of Treviso, to which the Grande Aracri take away tons of wine for hundreds of thousands of euros that will never be paid, showing false credentials of false or real companies. In one case, they present the Dogarina with a three-million-euro guarantee that was apparently issued by Barclays Bank in 2013 and takes away a million bottles of prosecco. Too bad the surety was false.

Original (Italian) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.il...zo-dei-soldi-finiva-ai-boss/5284212/amp/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/09/19 04:00 PM

Who were the most powerful ndrangheta families who are now defunct?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/10/19 11:35 PM

In Calabria, wind power has often been at the center of mafia interests, it is sufficient to recall the inquiry "Gone with the wind", which only a few months ago revealed the interference of the gangs in every sector linked to wind energy.

Messina Denaro is also big in wind energy, it annoyed Toto Riina wiretaps in prison recorded.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/11/19 11:11 AM

Drugs and 'Ndrangheta in Marcon, 170 years of convictions of cocaine rivers in the crates of fruit and fish.

The organization imported the drug from South America to Veneto and Lombardy. 20-year penalty for the boss Violi, 10 years for his brother-in-law Sculli.

Very good article in english about the case: https://www.occrp.org/en/unfinishedlives/the-cocaine-cowboys

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/19 11:03 PM

There is not much info on the Nirta family from San Luca(not the one involved in the feud). If they are the real power of the ndrangheta then it is reasonable to believe that they are the perfect example of an ideal mafia family because they are not in the headlines and they very well could be the biggest earners in the mafia with political connections.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/13/19 01:01 AM

San Luca and PlatÃ¬ are the most important towns at least in the ceremonies of the 'ndrangheta, every locale needs permission from San Luca.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/13/19 02:26 AM

Has any locale tried to challenge them?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/13/19 04:11 AM

What constitutes the Nirta having that type of power over the rest of the ndrangheta families? Is it because they are such big players in the drug trade?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/14/19 08:07 PM

The 'ndrangheta is the most infiltrated in the North: which are the most "polluted" companies and why is it a brake on employment
Branched and exclusive presence in the North-West: from Emilia to Parma and Piacenza to all of Liguria, Piedmont, up to Brianza and the Varese area. In comparison, Cosa Nostra and Camorra appear to be more regional phenomena.

https://notizie.tiscali.it/politica/articoli/ndrangheta-infiltrata-nord-imprese-inquinate/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 03:31 AM

Does this mean more money or does it just point out that they are more spread out?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 09:24 PM

Does this mean more money or does it just point out that they are more spread out?

Both and more rooted.

Of the three large Italian criminal organizations, the Calabrian 'ndrangheta has infiltrated the legal economy of Northern Italy to a wider extent and deeper into control, says the Bank of Italy, thousands of companies and dozens of billions of turnover. With a precise territorial rooting. Mafia, camorra and 'ndrangheta, in fact, overlap substantially in large cities such as Milan, Rome, Bologna. But the Calabrians seem to have an almost capillary, branched and exclusive presence in the North-West: from the Emilia of Parma and Piacenza to the whole of Liguria, Piedmont, up to the Brianza and the Varesotto. In comparison, Cosa Nostra and the Camorra appear to be more regional phenomena and more linked to the South, as indeed results from their economic dynamics or - it would perhaps be more accurate to say - corporate. The 'ndrangheta, in fact, has, thanks also to its international projections in drug trafficking, a turnover (3.5 billion euros a year) almost double compared to the Sicilian mafia, but also much less linked to the territories of origin. The turnover of Cosa Nostra and the Camorra is 60 per cent linked to their activities in Sicily and Campania, respectively. For the 'ndrangheta, on the other hand, the quota originating in Calabria does not exceed 23 per cent.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 10:12 PM

If they make 3.5 billion from drugs, where is the rest of their money coming from? I know that nobody believes the 53 billion euro figure but if they are even close to that then where would the rest come from hypothetically?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 10:42 PM

Money laundering , arms trafficking , extortion , usury , racketeering , construction management , smuggling , counterfeiting , receiving stolen goods , theft , robbery , fraud , human trafficking , immigration , prostitution , tax evasion , public procurement , gambling , waste management , waste disposal toxic waste , kidnapping , corruption , murder , infiltration of the public administration.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 10:58 PM

The lion's share would be drugs and gambling though.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 11:12 PM

Thatâ€™s a lot of money from different rackets. Are they into wind power like Denaro?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/19 11:26 PM

Thatâ€™s a lot of money from different rackets. Are they into wind power like Denaro?

Yeah, because wind energy is a key sector for EU funding in particular now with the global climate debate.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 02:33 AM

Ndrangheta really seems to have their hands in everything. Now if one boss made a power play for every racket, he would be one of the richest and most powerful people in the world. A mafia don would compare to the financial giants of the world for the first time I think. But we know that would probably never happen.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 08:39 AM

The lion's share would be drugs and gambling though.

The immigrants are very lucrative business in last few years, Salvatore Buzzi was recorded saying "drug trafficking earns less." referring to migrant crisis in Europe.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 06:32 PM

The lion's share would be drugs and gambling though.

The immigrants are very lucrative business in last few years, Salvatore Buzzi was recorded saying "drug trafficking earns less." referring to migrant crisis in Europe.

I agree it is a hugely profitable business. But I would put it behind the two others. Pretty ironic they hate migrants but I guess they love money more.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 06:52 PM

The lion's share would be drugs and gambling though.

management of public works and monopoly over certain sectors even more (construction, waste disposal, food distribution, fruit/vegetable markets, fish market etc.)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 10:35 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/19 11:21 PM

Does anyone think there will ever be a boss who can sit at the table with some of the most powerful people in the world? Or has there been already? In America or Italy. The reason I ask is because when Getty was negotiating with them to get his grandson back, he might have looked at them as peasants who think that they are businessmen. When in reality, he felt they would never reach his level. I am sure that provided some kind of motivation for the ndrangheta. Much like how the early american mobsters wanted to be like the Rockefellers or JP Morgans of the world.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/17/19 05:12 PM

I agree it is a hugely profitable business. But I would put it behind the two others. Pretty ironic they hate migrants but I guess they love money more.

They love money more than anything, if you can earn off anything ,they will do it ,no matter what.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/18/19 10:33 AM

Assets for 20 million euros were seized by the financiers of the Vibo Valentia Economic and Financial Police Unit from the 78-year-old boss Giovanni Mancuso, known as "Billy", in execution of a provision issued by the Court of Catanzaro at the request of the Dda.

The operation, called "Terra nostra", involved 92 lands, 16 buildings, 9 cars, a tractor, 2 farms and 2 sole proprietorships. Surveys, coordinated by Catanzaro's prosecutor Nicola Gratteri,revealed procedures for the passage of goods, which, according to the accusation, apparently respect the canons of legality but that in reality they hide the perverse mechanisms of the mafia method.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/18/19 10:48 AM

The Court of Assizes of Cosenza has inflicted a life sentence on Franco Presta , 58 years old, considering him responsible for the murder, in July 1999 near the prison of the chief town Bruzio, of Francesco Bruni called "bella-bella" boss of the homonymous Cosentino clan.

Presta, a native of Roggiano Gravina, was part of the Mafia directory that ruled the northern area of â€‹â€‹Calabria.

Presta, captured by the police in Rende in 2012 after a period of inaction, is already serving another sentence to the maximum penalty imposed definitively for another murder consumed in the province of Cosenza in 2000.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/18/19 11:03 AM

The police of the provincial command of Vibo Valentia arrested a person in the context of the investigation into the murder of Carmelo Polito, shot to death in San Gregorio d'Ippona (Vv) in front of the 6-year-old son.
According to the indictment, it was Francesco Pannace, 32 years old from San Gregorio d'Ippona, who was already detained because he was involved in another heinous murder, that of Giuseppe Prostamo.

Polito was assassinated on March 1, 2011 in the town center with five 7.65 pistol shots before the eyes of his little son, who had miraculously escaped the ambush. The crime was immortalized by the video surveillance cameras installed in a nearby mechanical workshop.

Polito, according to investigators, was killed by the clan Fiare - to which the alleged killer would be tied as driver of the boss Rosario Fiare- an aggressive and violent person, already imprisoned in the psychiatric prison of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto for various crimes. He would have been "executed", in particular, for a slap given two years before to the uncle of the alleged killer.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/19 04:01 AM

The turncoat Alessandro "Sandrino" Covelli, 63, was wounded by gunshots in the back last night in Crotone.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/21/19 07:33 PM

A building contractor was killed yesterday evening in Reggio Calabria. The victim, Francesco Cuzzocrea, 61 years already known to the police, was on a piece of land in the north-east of the city when several shots were fired at him.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/21/19 09:20 PM

According to the investigators, Cuzzocrea was affiliated with the Ficara-Latella clan. Already known to the police, between the end of the 1980s (Olimpia Trial) and the beginning of the 90s (Operation Valanidi 1) he was charged in criminal proceedings and sentenced to three years in prison for mafia association. In 2007 he attended a meeting in a restaurant with several bosses and politicians including the senator Sergio De Gregorio.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/26/19 01:34 AM

On Friday seven leaders were sentenced by the highest court to life in prison.

Rocco and Francesco Cristello , aged 56 and 49,
Claudio Formica , 54,
Leonardo Prestia , 46,
Massimo Zanchin , 44,
Cristian Silvagna , 46
Sergio Sestito , 51,

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/19 08:19 PM

For the second time in 2 months, the boss of the 'Ndrangheta Domenico Paviglianiti is released from prison for an end of his sentence.

The man, captured in Spain in '96, in the last months the life sentence had been replaced with 30 years and in August he had been freed and, in less than 24 hours, arrested on the order of the Prosecutor of Bologna, for different counting of the sentence .

Now, on 18 October, a investigating judge received a request for defense, ordering his release. But the prosecutors have appealed.

In the eighties and nineties, Domenico Paviglianiti, 58, was considered a "boss of bosses" of the 'ndrangheta reggina.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/19 11:15 AM

NDRANGHETA, INCREASES THE NUMBER OF PENTITI IN CALABRIA
The 'ndrangheta is today the third criminal organization as a number of collaborators of justice, preceded by a Camorra with 504 and Cosa Nostra with 258, followed instead by the Apulian clans with 167.

The latest "Report on protective measures for collaborators of justice, their effectiveness and the general methods of application" presented to Parliament by the Ministry of the Interior certifies the increase in the collaboration of former members of 'ndrine and locali. Thus stated Giuseppe Lo Re, from the Gazzetta del sud.

In Calabria there are 177 Ndrangheta regrets and the figures are increasing

The snapshot is set at the end of 2018, so the numbers could be further changed in recent months thanks to some other "repentance" managed by the Dda of Reggio and Catanzaro, as well as by other anti-mafia prosecutors that penetrate criminal activities throughout Italy of the 'Ndrangheta , explained the reporter of the Gazzetta.

As for the criminal organization of 'ndrangheta, due to its peculiarities, it is less subject to the phenomenon of Pentitism but in recent years the phenomenon has increased.

The law on the figure of the Collaborator of Justice in Italy is issued in 1980, updated for the first time in 1991, and one last time in 2001. The list therefore starts from the year 1980.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/19 12:04 PM

It was an unprecedentedly large international anti-mafia operation last December, which began in three Dutch pizzerias.
During the coordinated action against the Italian 'Ndrangheta, 84 people were arrested in different countries.
The mafia clan from Calabria dominates drug trafficking to Europe.
61 suspects are now in court in southern Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/01/19 01:15 PM

'Ndrangheta: for Piana di Gioia Tauro there is a new collaborator of justice
Of Editorial board -31 October 2019

This is Massimiliano Santaiti, belonging to the homonymous' ndrina di Seminara. He would have chosen the path of collaboration
Within the 'ndrangheta, there is a new collaborator of justice in the plain of Gioia Tauro .

The news of his collaboration emerged officially during the "Grifone" appeal process , in which at first instance he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug trafficking and arms.

This is Massimiliano Santaiti , belonging to the homonymous clan of Seminara . At this moment involved in two trials brought by the Dda of Reggio Calabria , the first and the second tranche of "Grifone" .

And it was with the magistrates of the anti-mafia prosecutor's office that he started speaking since September 26th, when he signed the first report.

In the document the new collaborator admits that his family belongs to the 'ndrangheta. And he confirms the separation from the clan of his cousin Carmelo Santaiti after his arrest. A detail that allowed the latter's lawyers, lawyers Armando Veneto , Domenico Putrino and Vladimir Solano , to obtain the release from prison .

The process has been updated to November 13 and on this date it is likely that new details will emerge regarding Massimiliano Santaiti's statements .

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/05/19 11:01 AM

Dozens arrested in massive 'Ndrangheta operation
Blow to Calabrian-based mafia's offshoot in Turin area

(ANSA) - Turin, November 5 - Province of Turin Carabinieri police said on Tuesday that they had executed warrants for the arrest of 64 people suspected of belonging to, or being linked to, an offshoot of the Calabrian-based 'ndrangheta mafia in the northern region of Piedmont. The suspects are accused of crimes including mafia association and international drug trafficking.
Finance police informed six people that they are under investigation for allegedly money laundering and the fraudulent transfer of assets as part of the same operation.
Police also seized assets, including bank accounts and shares in companies.
The investigation stemmed from the testimony of a former mobster turned State witness, Domenico Agresta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/08/19 07:37 AM

Dozens arrested in massive 'Ndrangheta operation
Blow to Calabrian-based mafia's offshoot in Turin area

'Ndrangheta, the father against the son who collaborates with the magistrates: "I'm bastardazzo wanted to ruin us"
Saverio Agresta, a native of PlatÃ¬ (Reggio Calabria), unleashes himself with his daughter, Mimma. It is November 2, 2016 and comments on that shocking circumstance: on October 7, his son Domenico, 31, nicknamed Micu McDonald, had begun to collaborate with the justice while he was detained in the prison of Saluzzo (Cuneo). Investigators provided a lot of information learned directly from their father and many of his statements provided material for the "Cerbero" investigation that brought 57 people to prison

by Andrea Giambartolomei | 7 NOVEMBER 2019
"'I'm bastard bastard wanted to ruin us. "I'm bastard of shit ". The news of his son's repentance was not taken at all by his father, one of the leaders of the ' Ndrangheta in Volpiano, a village in the province of Turin. "I'm not sleeping at night. I think of all things. He couldn't do a thing of these. This is blind hatred ". And with those words Saverio Agresta , a native of PlatÃ¬ (Reggio Calabria), unleashes himself with his daughter, Mimma. It is November 2, 2016 and comments on that shocking circumstance: on October 7, his son Domenico, 31, nicknamed Micu McDonald, had begun to collaborate with the justice while he was detained in the prison of Saluzzo (Cuneo). Investigators provided a lot of information learned directly from their father and many of his statements provided material for the " Cerbero " investigation that brought 57 people to prison, while four are under house arrest. Many are linked to the local 'ndrangheta of Volpiano and San Giusto Canavese. "The reactions of the relatives to the news of the 'repentance' of Agresta Domenico are particularly significant - the investigating judge Luca Fidelio notes in the precautionary custody order - in which they reflect the previous insertion in organized crime and the concern for information that the collaborator could have revealed to the investigators ".

Despite his young age, Micu McDonald has been in prison for several years. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed in Borgiallo in 2008, a few months after his affiliation. In the cell he still climbs the degrees and becomes " godfather ". In 2011 he was arrested for the â€œ Minotauro operation", The one that revealed the heavy infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Turin and deals a penalty for mafia association. After a few years he began his journey in contrast with that of his family: his ancestors were prominent figures of the 'ndrangheta. And the father's outburst is very eloquent: "Because the jail didn't know how it is, 'I'm bastardazzo, before going to ruin, ah?" And then again: "He doesn't like jail, do you understand? First he combines the messes and then he doesn't like jail ... "I'm a bastard". Later he resumed the speech: "The jail unfortunately is not roses and flowers. He must have known it before he ruined himself that is not roses. First he gets drunk and then he messes. He went to make the mess that seemed to him that he could do what he wants. The jail seemed to him a walk ".

The boss hopes to make his regretful son change his mind. Otherwise, he has a solution: "Everyone knows me there and I just go, then send embassies." Among the acquaintances there would be some relatives: "If someone I know comes in, I tell them: 'See where it is'. Stop. Then once we know where he is, one goes to the prosecutor's office and says, "What are you doing?" But they deny you, they tell you it's not true ". There would also be a problem with the lawyer. The family lawyer would have been rejected because the repentant young man would have named a new one and no one knows who he is, so the family cannot approach him. The hope is that the investigators do not believe in the son and do not let him enter the protection program: "They keep him that way for fifteen days to see if he has said something that is true. If it is not true, they go there and tell him 'Listen, take the baubles and get out of where you came'. ISthey throw it as uncle Rocco threw it". That is Rocco Marando, another penitent of the homonymous clan, also very powerful, linked to the Agrestas. At that point there, the father would re-embrace the prodigal son: "It is not that one abandons him. A moment of despair can happen, isn't it? " His father also feels discouragement, saying he no longer sleeps at night from the thought of his repentant son: "This is blind hatred, Mimma, blind hate! But what hate do your parents have? " And again: "Who are you who allow yourself the luxury of doing this to us. Looks like we sent you to jail. If we sent you to jail you were right. But you went to ruin yourself ". And so, a few weeks later, the attitude changes. On December 15 Saverio Agresta was summoned by the carabinieri and spoke with his wife, Anna Marando, and came to a conclusion: "If he dissociated himself from us,

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/08/19 07:30 PM

The hands of the gangs on the restaurants of the North. The police in Milan carried out a precautionary custody order in Lombardy and Piedmont against nine people held responsible, in various capacities, for criminal association and fraudulent transfer of values.
The investigations shed light on the interests of subjects close to the 'Ndrangheta who reinvested money the result of illegal activities, with the release of large capitals in the large restaurant circuit in Northern Italy. Among the seizures, for over 10 million euros, the company shares of some restaurants of a well-known chain of pizzerias.
Among the seizures, the company shares of some restaurants belonging to the famous chain of "tour-pizza" TourlÃ©, attributable to Giuseppe Carvelli, multi-judged for drug trafficking "close" to the Calabrian gangs.
Calvelli has behind him a 22-year heap of penalties for international drug trafficking, known connections with the 'Ndrangheta of the Mancuso of Limbadi (Vibo Valentia) and of the Pesce of Rosarno (Reggio Calabria) but investments of millions of euros in a chain of restaurants extended throughout northern Italy. He was arrested in 2008 with 6 kilos of cocaine. Thanks to the award permits and probation in social services, in 2017 he left the prison and asked for an account of the investment, resuming the management of what later became a chain of premises.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/19 06:44 PM

The recent arrests in northern italy have been linked to the powerful drug broker Nicola Assisi, 61, and his son Patrick arrested in Brazil in July.

https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/11101-italy-71-ndrangheta-arrests-in-the-rich-north

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/19 12:32 PM

The Italian police have seized a record amount of cocaine. In the port of Gioia Tauro in the southern Italian region of Calabria, a batch of 1200 kilos of cocaine with a market value of more than 250 million euros has been seized. The drugs were hidden in banana boxes and came from South America, police said Thursday.

"It is one of the largest batches of drugs ever on our national territory," the statement said. The 1176 kilos of pure cocaine was discovered on Monday in 144 green packages in a cooled banana container. The drugs had Germany as their final destination.

The container port in Gioia Tauro is considered a notorious transit point for drugs for the Mafia. According to the police, more than 2.5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized there in the last twelve months.

The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta is considered the most powerful criminal organization in the global drug trade.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/19/19 07:29 PM

The finance guard, the carabinieri and the Dia in Reggio Calabria, with the coordination of the Dda, seized assests for a value of two hundred million euros attributable to four Reggio entrepreneurs. These are Michele and Giuseppe Surace, Andrea Giordano and Carmelo Ficara. The four entrepreneurs involved are suspected of "belonging" to the Tegano and De Stefano crime families.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/19 12:39 PM

The latest book by the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri and professor Antonio Nicaso entitled "The network of the invisibles" ( ed. Mondadori ) was presented last night.
The 'Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful mafias in the world that has been able to create an "invisible network" that connects drug trafficking, arms sales, toxic waste trafficking, recycling with entrepreneurship, freemasonry, finance and politics.
"The new bosses are uncensored, professionals above all suspicion and move the ranks of profits and are carriers of water at the well of the local chief- explained Nicola Gratteri during the La7 broadcast - They are in Calabria, but also in Milan, Turin, Reggio Emilia and Verona ". The book by Gratteri and Nicaso speaks of a 'Ndrangheta that, in the digital age, has all the technologies of high finance to invest, recycle all the proceeds coming from its activities, such as the use of crypto currencies. This is how the two authors wanted to unmask 'Ndrangheta who believes itself invisible within the world.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/19 01:23 PM

Brother of an alleged 'Ndrangheta boss wounded in an ambush in Milan. It would be Damiano Maiolo, brother of Cosimo, considered the "capo societÃ " of Pioltello, a native of Caulonia, one of the two people injured during a shootout in Milan on Saturday evening outside a club.
The other person, a 40-year-old Albanian, hit by a bullet in the abdomen is hospitalized in serious condition. The 40-year-old would instead be a relative of Augustin Leka, who in June 2007 was kneecapped by a commando of which Cosimo Maiolo would also have been a member.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/19 04:37 PM

Would love to read this book if itâ€™s translated to English.

Does anyone know if â€œMafia Exportâ€ has ever been translated to English yet?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/22/19 01:47 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/22/19 11:52 PM

Salvatore Condina, 51-year-old man, was shot dead in Bagnara Calabra, in the Reggio area. The body was found late Wednesday night near his home. According to the first findings, the man, was already known to the police for drug trafficking and other crimes.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/23/19 12:26 PM

'Ndrangheta, the nephew of the alleged boss Tegano reveals: "The police helped his inaction on several occasions"

22 November 2019
'Ndrangheta, the nephew of the alleged boss Tegano reveals: "The police helped his inaction on several occasions"Roberto Moio
"Unfaithful" law enforcement officers have warned the 80-year-old boss Giovanni Tegano of his imminent arrest, allowing him to escape.

This was stated by justice collaborator Roberto Moio, acquired nephew of the Tegano boss, captured on April 26th 2010 by the staff of the mobile team headed then by the current Palermo commissioner, Renato Cortese, during the hearing of the "Ndrangheta stragista" trial in course in front of the Court of Assizes of Reggio Calabria, presided by Ornella Pastore.

Moio, answering the questions of the deputy prosecutor of the Dda Giuseppe Lombardo, also reported that many 'Ndranghetists often stayed at the former Hotel Miramare without being registered, focusing on the "Tegano system" with the "infidels" servants of the State, made up of exchanging favors , such as hiring in municipalized companies - the 'Leonia' and the 'Multiservizi', already bankrupt - where the Ndrangheta of Archi imposed hiring and supply of goods and services.

But the collaborator also reported a mafia summit held at the home of the boss Tegano, stating that he met one of the leaders of the Sacred Crown in Puglia, Salvatore Annacondia, who also became a collaborator of justice. During that summit, we are in the early 90s, it would have been Annacondia to inform those present of the thesis of the boss Giovanni Brusca according to whom the murders of the judges Falcone and Borsellino represented a "phase of no return" with respect to the terrorist attack on the programmed State by Salvatore Riina, in search of a new "pact". Moio, with reference to the Mafia summit in the house of the Tegano, also stated that the meeting featured elements of the first 'ndrangheta, such as Domenico Paviglianiti, Pasquale Tegano,

"They asked those present what we were doing there - he said - but they didn't record anyone's documents". The boss of Melicucco, Rocco Santo Filippone, a trusted man of the Piromalli of Gioia Tauro, and the boss of the Brancaccio district Giuseppe Graviano are in the process accused.

https://www.lanuovacalabria.it/post...tarono-la-sua-latitanza-in-piu-occasioni

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/23/19 05:52 PM

Drug trafficking from Colombia to Italy: 16 people on trial
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International drug trafficking from Colombia to Italy: 16 people connected to the 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra.

For the international drug traffic coming from the Colombian cartels, the judges ordered the trial for as many as 16 people. All this is part of the "European 'ndrangheta connection" investigation, where people linked to the' Ndrangheta and the Camorra campanian environment are involved.

As reported by "Cronache della Campania", next January, before the tribunal of Locri, they will have to appear:

Serafino Rubino, a 39-year-old fugitive from Caserta
Antonio Barbaro, 41 years old from Locri;
Domenico Barbaro, 37, from Locri;
Giuseppe Campagna, a 46-year-old Neapolitan;
Maria Rosaria Campagna, 50 years old Neapolitan, companion of the mafia boss Salvatore Cappello known as Turi;
Luciano Camporesi, fugitive, 44 years old from Rimini;
Salvatore Santo Cappello, from Naples;
Roberto Esposito, 28 years of Gragnano;
Carmelo Vincenzo Gerasolo, 31 years of Locri;
Domenico Pelle, aka Micu i Mata, 69 years of San Luca;
Giuseppe Pelle, 38 years of Locri;
Antonio Pizzata, aka Piritinu, 31 years of Locri;
Vincenzo Salzano, 51 years old from Naples;
Angelo Sansottera, 70 years of Milan;
Giuseppe Strangio, 24 years old from Locri;
Giorgio Violi, 43 years old from Reggio Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/19 01:03 PM

Moments of terror this morning in Moncalieri, a town near Turin, an ambush in the street, perhaps due to a settlement of accounts. It happened in Via Sestriere, where a man was hit with three bullets and left on the ground in a pool of blood. The wounded man, about 45 years old, already known to the police was walking along the sidewalk of the Sangone river when a man approached him and shot him. At least three direct hits, which hit him in the legs, thus giving the impression of a punishment, without wanting to kill the offender.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/19 03:53 PM

There is a "logical and sufficient motivation in relation to the evaluation of the evidence" in the life sentence of Francesco Pelle, called "Ciccio Pakistan" for the Christmas massacre of 2006, which marked the resumption of the "Feud of San Luca ".

The reasons of the Cassation judges who confirmed the sentenceagainst the 42-year-old Pelle could be read in tomorrow's edition of the Gazzetta del Sud.

Francesco Pelle was injured during an ambush in July 2006 while he was in his home in Africo. After the sentence of cassation the 42-year-old Pelle took to flight and is currently wanted.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/27/19 08:51 PM

The 'Ndrangheta fugitive Giuseppe Mancuso, 30, was arrested, perhaps he was preparing an ambush. At the time of the Carabinieri's raid, a 9mm gun ready for use and a precision rifle capable of striking a kilometer away were in its lair in Zacchanopoli,
The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Vibo Valentia had been hunting him since September 2018, or since the day together with his father, Panteleone Mancuso, aka the engineer, they had decided to disappear from circulation. They had just heard of the repentance of one of their relatives, Emanuele Mancuso, now a collaborator of justice. His father was captured a year ago in Rome. Emanuele's brother was hiding inside a small villa on the outskirts of Zaccanopoli, the heart of the province of Vibo Valentia. To protect him was an unsuspected couple made up of a boy of just 19, Francesco Pugliese, and a citizen of the Dominican Republic, Luisa Maria Borrone, 40 years old. The two were arrested for aiding and abetting.
The deputy commander of the Investigative Unit Alessandro Bui explains: â€œAs always happens, the fugitive remains in his territory to maintain control. Through the analysis of the movements in his close relational circle we reached the home of Zaccanopoli but at the time of the raid we did not know who was in it . It was a surprise for them and, above all, for him who did not even have time to move."

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/02/19 10:41 PM

Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia that continues to threaten Europe
Nicola Gratteri and Antonio Nicaso analyze the evolution of one of the richest criminal groups in the world, well rooted in the Old Continent. From our correspondent in Italy Quentin Raverdy
Published on 02/12/2019 at 16:00 | The Point.fr

Heir to 18th century banditry in Calabria, one of the least developed regions of southern Italy , 'Ndrangheta is today a real multinational crime, generating tens of billions of euros in turnover thanks to its multiple activities (kidnapping, drug trafficking, financial investments, etc.). At his service: more than 140 clans and nearly 6,000 affiliates whose appetite has long since crossed the borders of Calabria and Italy to conquer Europe . On the Old Continent, the Calabrian mafia reinvests the lucrative income of its various trades in the legal economy, the nose and the beard of local authorities.

The 'Ndrangheta is today one of the most powerful mafia in the world, present on all continents, but also one of the least known. We are far from the image conveyed by her sisters Neapolitan (Camorra) or Sicilian (Cosa Nostra). An extreme discretion that is his strength, as his incredible ability to adapt to his time while keeping alive the rites and traditions that are the unity of families' ndranghetistes . Nicola Gratteri, a famous Calabrian prosecutor (for thirty years under police protection), and Antonio Nicaso *, a historian of criminal organizations, decipher for Le Point the empire of 'Ndrangheta.

How has ' Ndrangheta become one of the most powerful mafias in the world today?

Nicola Gratteri: From 1975, the 'Ndrangheta started a phase of kidnappings for ransoms. There were 250 in all. Kidnapping money was then invested in cocaine trafficking. While Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, had engaged in Stragismo (strategy of terror, Ed), the 'Ndrangheta, she sent men to South America to buy cocaine at the lowest price. This explains their power today: with these millions of euros, they were able to buy everything in Rome and beyond, not only in Italy but throughout Europe.
Antonio Nicaso: Today, the money of the 'Ndrangheta enters with an impressive facility in the circuits of the legal economy, there is no resistance. (...) She succeeds in establishing herself outside her territory because she always finds brokers, lawyers, accountants who will guarantee her money laundering and the reinvestment of her money.

Through your work, you show that 'Ndrangheta is not only a threat to Italy.

Nicola Gratteri: Exactly, it's a problem that concerns Europe. Today, while we are discussing, there are dozens of Ndrangheta cells in Germany but also in Switzerland , Spain or the Netherlands. But also in France , where, for example, the Stefano clan works on the CÃ´te d'Azur. The mafias buy everything that goes through their heads: hotels, restaurants, pizzerias, real estate. They also buy bits of newspapers or televisions, which can then affect people's thinking. It becomes very dangerous .

You explain that 'Ndrangheta has an incredible ability to adapt, immersing itself perfectly in the globalized economy.

N.G .: Yes, today, it offers opportunities to the market. That is to say, it succeeds, for example, in providing services at very advantageous prices by providing companies with cheap, hired and underpaid labor. It is like the Chinese when they produce at a low cost and compete with Europeans and Americans.

Read also Tomato sauce: mafia behind "red gold"?

A force of adaptation that she applies even within her organization?

A. N .: Ndrangheta becomes more and more post-Fordist in the management of resources. For example, we observe how this mafia now outsources some of its activities to minor groups. The Albanian clans have been dubbed by the 'Ndrangheta and are now busy organizing cocaine shipments from Latin America.

You advance in your last book that 'Ndrangheta is today less violent. Why ?

A. N .: Ndrangheta is now more in the control and management of territory than in subversive violence. She understood the mistake made in Duisburg (a violent settling of accounts between clans, in full street, in 2007, Ed). The people and legislators only notice the existence of mafias when they use violence. So the 'Ndrangheta seeks to' use less arms' not to create a social alarm, which eventually anesthetize the collective conscience against the mafia. Unlike what was done by Cosa Nostra in Sicily or the Camorra in Naples.

The Calabrian Mafia evolves permanently, also on questions of manners. You are addressing the issue of homosexuality, why?

A. N .: Let's say that before it was unthinkable to have a homosexual orientation because one of the conditions was precisely to show himself as "a man". Today, we have seen in our investigations some bosses assert their homosexuality even if they avoided revealing it to others for fear of being killed. Or the example of another arrested boss who has found love letters from one of his affiliates. This continues to be a taboo but this situation is starting to emerge. These elements show that, although it is slower than in society, 'Ndrangheta evolves.

Despite this permanent search for modernity, does' Ndrangheta draw its strength from tradition?

A. N .: Yes. One of its great strengths lies in its ability to combine new and old, tradition and innovation. The most powerful mafias in the world are those who do not neglect their traditions. In 'Ndrangheta, rookies initiation rites, symbols, founding myths are extremely strong elements of unity and identity.

In your opinion, could Europe do more against Calabrian crime?

N. G.: Yes. Because 'Ndrangheta takes advantage of the differences in legislation between the countries of Europe. Italian law against the mafia is the most advanced in the world. But, unfortunately, the tragedy is that other European countries are not equipped from the point of view of law to fight the mafias. And it would require greater awareness on the part of politicians. Unfortunately, our Europe is too weak.

A. N .: While 'Ndrangheta is globalizing, action against the Mafia is struggling to internationalize. It is not enough to fight the 'Ndrangheta in Italy or to hope in the repentance of some children of' ndranghetistes. What we would like is a global anti-'Ndrangheta fight.

In Italy, to fight against the Mafia, the repressive answer is it sufficient? The question of employment, especially in Calabria, is it not essential?

A. N .: It is clear that the 'Ndrangheta tries to somehow condition the territory but especially to guarantee the minimum welfare, which becomes a constraint, a submission. (...) So, when it comes to fighting the 'Ndrangheta, we must not only think about handcuffs and prison sentences, we must also think about school, about education. Also think about the possibility of finding a job, fighting unemployment, which often becomes a reservoir in which criminal organizations seek labor. (...) But this requires attention and a political will that unfortunately do not exist at the moment. The last elections in Italy showed one thing: the fight against the mafia was not part of the

* Authors of many books on 'Ndrangheta, they publish this month (in Italian) La Rete degli invisibili at Mondadori.

https://www.lepoint.fr/europe/la-nd...2626.php?Echobox=1575301712#xtor=CS1-32-[Echobox]

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/03/19 09:24 PM

ITALIAN CASSATION SENTENCE
In Frauenfeld it was not 'ndrangheta. And now?
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 2ND 2019 22.5002 DECEMBER 2019 - 22:50
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The images that made the Frauenfeld cell known.

(RSI-SWI)
The device of the sentence with which the Italian Court of Cassation on Friday declared that the organization discovered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, was not a 'ndrangheta cell was made public. The sentences to the presumed bosses Antonio Nesci and Raffaele Albanese have thus fallen. The TG of the RSI has spoken of it with the president of the Italian parliamentary anti-mafia Commission Nicola Morra.

"The judgments are respected", begins Morra, shifting the reflection on the methods of organized crime that change - with time, corruption has taken the place of intimidation - so as to fall more easily in the article of the Italian Criminal Code on mafia-type association (416 bis).

A video like the one shot in Frauenfeld, in which the suspects talk about weapons, drugs and extortion, is not enough: there is no evidence of the intimidating power exercised over the surrounding community.

In reality, as recalled by the head of the judicial chronicle of the CSR Francesco Lepori, the acquittal of Nesci and Albanese does not put an end to the story: the positions of nine defendants arrested in Switzerland, extradited and convicted at first instance in Italy remain open.

Meanwhile, questions are being asked about the strategy of the Swiss authorities to provide Italy with all the necessary elements so that the Calabrian investigators could guarantee a conviction. At present, Lepori estimates, it was the best feasible.

(1)Interview with Nicola Morra and analysis by Francesco Lepori after the Cassation sentence on the alleged Frauenfeld bosses

In the deepening of CSR, the interview with Nicola Morra and the analysis of Francesco Lepori

The fact

The first section of the Italian Court of Cassation canceled Friday, without postponement, the sentence to 14 of imprisonment issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria for the crime of mafia association against Antonio Nesci.

The seventy year old native of Fabrizia, Vibo Valentia, was accused of belonging to a 'ndrangheta cell discovered in Frauenfeld, Turgovia, as part of the' Helvetia 'operation conducted by the Reggio Calabria district anti-mafia division. The investigators had identified him as "head and promoter of the association". The 75-year-old Raffaele Albanese was also sentenced to 12 years.

As a result of the Cassation sentence, Nesci - who was detained under the 41-bis (hard prison) regime - was immediately released from prison. Albanese, who was under house arrest, is released again.
https://www.tvsvizzera.it/tvs/sente...eld-non-era--ndrangheta--e-ora-/45407622

I have only heard Nicaso bring up homosexuality in Ndrangheta, he mentions it in one of his books regarding the Woodbridge.

Doesnâ€™t sound like itâ€™s acceptable, is it? Also, havenâ€™t HA in Quebec also have had open homosexual members?

Gianni Versace was Calabrese, he wasnâ€™t Ndrangheta was he, sorry if that sounds dumb.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/19 01:32 AM

Antonio Rao, 67, a native of Reggio Calabria, who lived in Rivalta (Turin) and is considered "a member of the mafia" has been captured in Bolivia.

This was reported by the police chief of Sant Cruz, Miguel Mercado. Rao, Mercado added, "is a very dangerous individual, with a 25-year criminal career linked to drug trafficking and human trafficking". He had taken refuge in Bolivia, from a convicted wife to escape a final sentence of 10 years in prison for sexual violence against minors and drug dealing. The operation that led to his arrest was completed "in less than 12 hours" in collaboration with agents of the Italian section of Interpol who arrived in Santa Cruz last Monday.

They stopped him on Monday before he left for the escape: he already had a plane ticket to Madrid for yesterday, with a false name. Three people, a woman and two men living between Rivalta and Piossasco were investigated for aiding and abetting. They had helped him to go to Spain from which he then moved to Bolivia. They also sent him money to support himself.

Rao was arrested in the Rewind anti-drug operation of the Turin mobile team dating back to 2012. He was the link between Brazilian and Italian traffickers, and names of members of the 'Piedmontese ndrangheta' were also arrested in the blitz. Released, Rao had raped a Romanian minor forcing her to take cocaine.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/19 03:27 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/19 01:58 PM

A retired anti-mafia prosecutor Enzo MacrÃ¬ who spent almost 50 years fighting the Italian 'Ndrangheta has revealed how Australias mafia kings were linked to them. New breed of Ndrangheta bosses become police informants as threats to Australia remain, mafia members from prominent Calabrian 'Ndrangheta families in Italy are breaking their code of silence.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/19 02:12 PM

Iâ€™m always amazed by the attempts made by better off, wealthy first-world nations (such as Switzerland and Australia) to downplay and even brush off the Mafiaâ€™s influence and presence on their national soil.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/19 02:38 PM

I have only heard Nicaso bring up homosexuality in Ndrangheta, he mentions it in one of his books regarding the Woodbridge.

Doesnâ€™t sound like itâ€™s acceptable, is it? Also, havenâ€™t HA in Quebec also have had open homosexual members?

Gianni Versace was Calabrese, he wasnâ€™t Ndrangheta was he, sorry if that sounds dumb.

Italian mob open to gay members, as long as they donâ€™t â€˜parade it in publicâ€™

https://nypost.com/2019/12/07/itali...s-long-as-they-dont-parade-it-in-public/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/19 03:01 PM

In Holland we now do have a new police team who only work on the Italian mafias, but it consists of very few people. Working closely with the Italians and Interpol they have made some progress though.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/08/19 10:59 PM

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Italian cops also want Melbourne mafia boss Frank Madafferi deported from Australia.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/19 08:16 AM

^ thatâ€™ll be a though one. Australian authorities have proven to be extremely stubborn.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/10/19 09:25 PM

The Brescia anti-mafia district attorney has registered 27 people in the register of suspects in an investigation parallel to that of Reggio Calabria, which in recent weeks had led to the arrest of 40 people linked to the Bellocco clan.
According to the Giornale di Brescia under investigation, entrepreneurs, nominees and economic consultants between Brescia and Mantua ended up being challenged "for having favored the mafia clan". Some of the involved would have had direct relations with the members of the Bellocco clan among the most powerful of the 'Ndrangheta. In recent days, the Brescia public prosecutor's offices have been ordered house searches which have led to the seizure of material now being examined by the investigators.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/19 12:22 AM

Is the Ndrangheta getting stronger or weaker as time goes on? They have gotten so much publicity over the past few years.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/19 01:14 PM

Operations against the Trapasso and Mannolo in Crotone and Umbria, in the north: 27 arrests, and an operation against four top leaders and members of the Commisso of Siderno: those arrested include Cosimo Commisso, also known as "the quail" released in January. He was under house arrest in the Umbrian capital Perugia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/19 04:26 PM

Cosimo Commisso, of Siderno, 69; Francesco Commisso of Locri, 36 ; Antonio RodÃ of Bianco, 65; Giuseppe Minnici, of Caraffa del Bianco, 69.

Do you know what they were arrested for?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/19 06:01 PM

Do you know what they were arrested for?

The alleged crimes are, for various reasons, of mafia association, association aimed at drug trafficking, detention and concealment of clandestine weapons, threats, private violence, criminal association aimed at consuming a series of accounting or economic crimes financial instrumental to the systematic implementation of fraud against the banking system. The central figure is that of Cosimo Commisso, alias Â«U guagghiaÂ», released from prison last January. He was to manage the affairs of the mafia organization in Umbria, becoming a real point of reference not only for the gangs, but also for professionals and citizens who turned to the Calabrian mafia to overcome problems.

Among the finished reports at the center of the investigations, also those with Giuseppe Minnici, a reference businessman for the organization, especially in Umbria. The investigation started precisely from the monitoring of Commisso, who moved to Perugia in 2015 after a long detention, and from the constant coordination between the three proxies and the three mobile teams involved.

The business would be managed thanks to Commisso's relations with Antonio RodÃ , entrepreneurial referent in Umbria of the Crupi family. The 'ndrangheta bought in Umbria land to be used for vineyards for the production of wine to be marketed in Canada and, in the meantime, it was committed to find tricks that could prevent the seizure of goods. The Commissioner himself would have maintained constant contacts with the representatives of the Crotone gangs who ended up in the investigation, planning joint business initiatives.

Thanks, I was curious regarding Canada, specifically GTA. But guys like this are international, I have heard maybe you can help. That the Commisso was in Hamilton very early in its development, as well as Detroit. Also that that business never has ever ended, and is one of many wicks in that fire. They got hit hard in the arrest in the Woodbridge not that long ago.

As well as war with WolfPack over tow trucks or something, with family members murdered.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/12/19 11:57 PM

Is the Ndrangheta getting stronger or weaker as time goes on? They have gotten so much publicity over the past few years.

Not weaker, more international for example they hardly "invest" their illegal possessions in Italy now because the probability of confiscation is quite high. The dirty money is taken to other countries.

Posted By: Bobbybacala

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 07:44 AM

It's just Woodbridge bro not the Woodbridge lol

Sorry, my English as a second language is showing, haha. I will fix that moving forward. I do the same with the Facebook and the Google.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 08:06 PM

Valle D'Aosta governor in mafia probe
Suspected 'Ndrangheta involvement in 2018 election

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/pol...37648ac-226a-41db-b3e4-c7de06693343.html

13 December 2019

(ANSA) - Aosta, December 13 - Valle D'Aosta Governor Antonio Fosson has been placed under investigation for alleged vote-trading linked to a mafia group, sources said Friday.
The Turin-based probe is looking into alleged influence by the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta in the 2018 elections in the northwestern region. Other local and regional councillors have also been placed under investigation as part of the probe.

Ndrangheta, â€œpolitical earthquakeâ€ in the Aosta Valley. "The bosses dictate the line to the Region". Investigated president and councilors
by Enrico Marcoz
13 Dec 2019

https://www.corriere.it/cronache/19...ea-a6e9-db5db58fc7bb.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

The shocking report by the prosecutor Valerio Longi: conditioned the last elections of 2018, contacts of the clans with the last three former presidents. Governor Fosson disputed the exchange vote

The â€˜ndrangheta has conditioned the regional elections of 2018 in Valle dâ€™Aosta. To say the prosecutor Valerio Longi of the Dda of Turin, holder of the investigation Â«EgomniaÂ». In the 243 pages of an annotation produced in another trial on the mafia infiltrations at the foot of Mont Blanc (the operation Gehenna that last January led to 17 arrests including that of a regional councilor) describes the strategy of the mafia association, headed by brothers Marco and Roberto Di Donato, who supported some candidates of the autonomous forces in order to "enjoy a debt of gratitude" and "to have a greater number of faithful councilors in the regional assembly". The current president of the Region, Antonio Fosson, is under investigation for mafia political electoral exchange. In addition to this, the regional councilors Laurent Vie'rin (tourism and cultural heritage), former president of the Region, and Stefano Borrello (public works) and the regional councilor Luca Bianchi have also received a guarantee notice.

Posted By: Bobbybacala

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 08:09 PM

Oh didn't know I thought you were american

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 08:10 PM

Dia coordinated the arrest in France of Domenico Stanganelli, a fugitive since 2014 and recipient of a European arrest warrant for mafia-type association, smuggling, money laundering, port and illegal possession of weapons in the context of a investigation that hit the MolÃ¨ from Gioia Tauro and Mancuso from Nicotera. Stanganelli was arrested at the home of his in-laws in Vallauris, on the CÃ´te d'Azur, thanks to the cooperation between Dia and the Judicial Police of Marseille and Nice.

I live in America currently, my English is very good. Been speaking it for the majority of my life. Sometimes I type like I or others would talk, this will help moving forward. I didnâ€™t notice, haha, and of all the places.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 08:33 PM

Anti-'Ndrangheta operation in Cosenza, police arrested 18 members of two clans based in the city led by the bosses Roberto Porcaro and Luigi Abbruzzese, on charges of mafia-type association, murder, drug trafficking, extortion, arson and illegal possession of weapons.
Roberto Porcaro for the 'traditional Ndrangheta, the so-called "Italians" and the brothers Luigi, Marco, Nicola and Francesco Abbruzzese for nomadic crime, the so-called "gypsies".
The disputed crime is that of Luca Bruni which took place on January 3, 2012 in Rende; the victim was "regent" of the homonymous clan
Roberto Porcaro, in recent days, had been acquitted on appeal by the accusation of having concurred in the role of principal in the Bruni murder.
The confederate gangs, the "Italians" and the other "gypsies" had a common fund, the so-called "basin" into which the proceeds of drug trafficking and extortion activities flowed. Roberto Porcaro would have assumed the role of "leader" of the Italians after the final sentence to life imprisonment of the most significant elements of the Ndrangheta of Cosenza.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/13/19 10:32 PM

holla how many members the are in a normal clan ?
like the biggest one is the piromelli right ? they around 200 soldiers right ?
most of the clans i assume are somewhere between 20 - 50 guys right ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/19 12:38 AM

holla how many members the are in a normal clan ?
like the biggest one is the piromelli right ? they around 200 soldiers right ?
most of the clans i assume are somewhere between 20 - 50 guys right ?

The families differ some relatively small others very big, but you also have to know they form a locale, the main local organizational unit of the 'Ndrangheta with jurisdiction over criminal activities in an entire town or an area in a large urban center. A locale is usually made up by one clan (in the case of a small town) or several families.
Each locale has a boss, a capo locale. It has at least 49 members and besides the capo locale, there is the contabile (accountant) who handles the finances - commonly called la bacinella or la valigetta (briefcase) - and a crimine that oversees the illegal activity. All three form a triumvirate called the Copiata.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/19 12:50 AM

holla how many members the are in a normal clan ?
like the biggest one is the piromelli right ? they around 200 soldiers right ?
most of the clans i assume are somewhere between 20 - 50 guys right ?

wow these guys are so organized that's insane !
thanks buddy !!!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/15/19 01:19 PM

^ thatâ€™ll be a though one. Australian authorities have proven to be extremely stubborn.

Yeah and plenty of corruption. Francesco Madafferi fled Oppido Mamertina in 1989 to escape serious criminal charges related to violent Mafia and drug activity. When Australian police found out he was hiding out in Melbourne they sought his deportation in the early 2000s, Frank's brother, Tony Madafferi, launched a political donations and lobbying campaign to get his brother a visa.

In Oppido Mamertina there are the notorious families Madafferi, Polimenti, Mazzagatti, Ferraro, Gugliotta, Bonarrigo, and Lumbaca.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/16/19 01:24 AM

holla how many members the are in a normal clan ?
like the biggest one is the piromelli right ? they around 200 soldiers right ?
most of the clans i assume are somewhere between 20 - 50 guys right ?

Are the larger families typically the richest? I have heard so much about the Maggiore, De Stefanos and Piromallis the most whenever Iâ€™ve had the conversation of what ndrangheta family is the richest or strongest. I would gather that between those 3 families alone they profit billions of dollars annually.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/16/19 11:06 PM

There is a new 'ndrangheta pentito in Vibo Valentia. Bartolomeo Arena, 43, who has decided to collaborate with the Dda of Catanzaro a few months ago and helped the Carabinieri to shed light on the shooting in Piscopio in September in which Salvatore Battaglia was killed and Giovanni Zuliani wounded.
Six precautionary measures carried out today. Bartolomeo Arena, last May, had become untraceable together with Antonio Pardea, 33, also from Vibo Valentia. The two then returned to the city. Bartolomeo Arena, close to the Lo Bianco clan of Vibo Valentia and then to the Andrea Mantella group, who also became a collaborator of justice in 2016, began to collaborate fearing for his life. His statements could lead to a true "judicial earthquake" on the city of Vibo Valentia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/17/19 04:13 PM

'Ndrangheta, four hundred million euros confiscated from the entrepreneur Antonio Ricci (43). He worked in the virtual game world
He also ran three undercover Maltese companies. He is considered one of the 'ndrangheta's terminals in the world of online betting, but is still a free man thanks to the ruling of a Maltese court that denied extradition.

Hidden behind two trusts related to him, the investigators found current accounts, real estate in Italy and abroad, a financial portfolio of hundreds of millions of euros, plus three Maltese companies "Oia Services Limited", "Harvey Gaming Limited" (Already "Gvc New Ltd") and "Wls Limited".

All confiscated because Ricci's entire heritage is the result of illicit business, gained in the great world of gaming and online betting. A branch of business that the 'ndrangheta has been exploring for a long time and sees the most famous and ancient families of 'ndrangheta as the De Stefano-Tegano and the Pesce-Bellocco, who have found not only a gigantic washing machine of illicit capital, but also an extraordinary source of income. The system is simple and easy to hide in the web jungle, where the betting platforms certified by the National Games and Monopolies Agency are mixed with the clandestine ones.

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/17/19 04:41 PM

Thanks for the continual updates Hollander

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/18/19 07:20 PM

Calabria, the statue of the saint given by a clan of the 'Ndrangheta will be removed from the Municipality

The mayor was recorded saying if I remove it they will shoot me

https://www.news1.news/2019/12/cala...ll-be-removed-from-the-municipality.html

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 03:03 AM

great stuff
thanks holla

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 03:10 AM

seems like the lcn (today) are little girls with skirts compre to them...
well maybe except from the genovese family

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 10:56 AM

Wow !!!

Italian police arrest more than 300 people in major anti-Mafia operation
The police of the southern Italian region of Calabria have arrested 334 people in a major anti-Mafia operation. These are citizens who have ties with the 'Ndrangheta, the largest Mafia organization in Italy. Among the arrested are various lawyers, government officials and politicians. One of them is a former Member of Parliament who was part of Forza Italia, the party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 11:16 AM

Maxi-blitz against the 'Ndrangheta clans from the province of Vibo Valentia (Mancuso and others) on charges of mafia association, murder, extortion, drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and other crimes. A total of 416 suspects. Operation in progress from the night in Calabria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Sicily, Puglia, Campania and Basilicata. Some were arrested in Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 12:40 PM

They also found pizzini about the rituals.

"In the name of Gasparre-Melchiorre-Baldassarre and Charlemagne , who with his white horse destroyed all the enemies of his kingdom, with a cape on his shoulders and beside a sword they formed the Trequartino".

This is the text of the "pizzino", written with an approximate Italian, seized by the investigators to one of the 334 recipients of precautionary measures in the "Rinascita-Scott" operation of the carabinieri. The pizzino contains the promotion formula of the affiliates to the rank of "Trequartino", one of the highest in the 'Ndrangheta hierarchy.

The grade, in fact, is inferior only to those of Padrino and Quartino. Gasparre, Melchiorre and Baldassarre, in mafia mythology, are the three knights who gave birth to the three Italian mafias , mafia, camorra and 'ndrangheta.

Posted By: DanD

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 01:57 PM

^^^^^

Here's a Washington Post article about the massive raids today.

Italy: More than 300 mob arrests in four countries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...0-2250-11ea-b034-de7dc2b5199b_story.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 05:41 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/19/19 10:03 PM

Among the several bosses arrested the super boss Luigi Mancuso.

[Linked Image]

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/20/19 12:51 PM

Today, according to the Catanzaro Prosecutor's Office, the organization has more than 30,000 members in Calabria alone.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/20/19 09:40 PM

The Italian press made its front page this morning the wave of historic arrests against the 'Ndrangheta which took place yesterday in Italy. Il Fato Quotidiano talks about a mafia government.

Posted By: MegaMikejr

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/20/19 11:46 PM

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/19 01:52 AM

Itâ€™s always funny seeing the mug shots of the super bosses in the ndrangheta because they almost always look like average people based on their clothes. Thatâ€™s what makes them so successful.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/19 02:04 AM

LOL some take low profile to another level.Vincenzo Crupi is a powerful member of the Siderno Group and he would make long days working hard on the flower auction here in Holland another boss in northern Italy was a security guard working night shifts.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/21/19 02:23 PM

The ex freemason Cosimo Virgiglio now turncoat made some very interesting statements.
The members of the regular Lodges were all professionals, lawyers, doctors etc., while the Covered Lodges were made up of two strands: the first was that of" whispered in the ear ", people who held institutional positions and for this could not be included in the lists reported to the Prefecture; the second strand was that of the " sacrates on the sword ", subjects with various types of criminal records , including 'Ndranghetists, or the' respectful of the Gospel of John ', they consider themselves to be inflicted Angels of God.

Luigi Mancuso was initiated into the "sacrates on the sword".

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/22/19 01:34 AM

That is severe dedication lol. I understand that they want to stay in the shadows and appear as unassuming as possible, but do you think itâ€™s necessary to go that far with their sneakiness? Especially if they get caught in the end anyway.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/22/19 02:16 AM

Well working beats living in a bunker underground.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/22/19 04:35 PM

'Ndrangheta, Bruno Bossio attacks Gratteri: "Show to prevent Oliverio's candidacy". Pd: "It does not represent the thought of the party"

â€œNicola Gratteri arrests half of Calabria. Is it justice? No it's just a show ! Hit a thousand so as not to hit anyone. Indeed yes. Striking Oliverio 's chance to reapply â€. The words written by Enza Bruno Bossio on her Facebook page are no longer there, but the words written by the deputy of the Democratic Party wife of Nicola Adamo, hit by a prohibition of residence in the investigation that on December 19 led to the arrest of 330 people, cause the party's reaction: â€œBruno Bossio's thought does not represent that of the community of the Democratic Party of Calabria - affirm, in a note the regional commissioner Stefano Graziano and the head of the Mezzogiorno of the national secretariat Nicola Oddati- We thank Gratteri for the work he has done and for inflicting a heavy blow on the 'Ndrangheta â€.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/24/19 12:22 AM

Gay mafia hitman is murdered by his own cousin on the orders of the Calabrian mob as 'punishment' for living an openly homosexual lifestyle
Andrea Mantella said he had arranged the killing of Filippo Gangitano in 2002
Mafia waved away his protests and said homosexuality 'could not be tolerated'
Mantella's evidence was linked to a huge swoop in which 334 people were held

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7821681/Gay-mafia-hitman-murdered-cousin.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/19 06:16 PM

When Forza Italia was formed the boss Piromalli was the first Marcello Dell'Utri contacted in Calabria to inform about the plan.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/19 06:56 PM

holla are they have clans that work the lcn in states ?
i bet cali knew some of them

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/25/19 10:11 PM

holla are they have clans that work the lcn in states ?
i bet cali knew some of them

Yes Cali was close to Franco Lupoi who two years ago was sentenced in NY to 156 months on money laundering conspiracy and heroin trafficking conspiracy. Lupoiâ€™s father-in-law, Nicola Simonetta, is a member of the Ursino clan of the â€˜Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/19 03:13 AM

Frank Cali was linked several times to the Siderno Group.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/19 08:55 AM

Frank Cali was linked several times to the Siderno Group.

there is any news about him visiting canada ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/26/19 01:16 PM

Frank Cali was linked several times to the Siderno Group.

there is any news about him visiting canada ?

I did read somewhere he had meetings with the Canadians, but I can't remember more details.

New blow to the 'ndrangheta. The carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria carried out 8 arrests issued by the general prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, directed by the attorney general Bernardo Petralia, following the pronouncement of the Cassation, which confirmed the sentences of 2 to 10 years of imprisonment.
The convictions stem from the operation called "New Power", launched by the Arma after two bloody events in 2004, which led to the outlining of the structures of the two gangs of 'Ndrangheta, initially in violent opposition to each other, of the Pangallo-Maesano- Favasuli and the Zavettieri, who operated a territorial, political and economic dominance over the municipalities of Roghudi and Roccaforte del Greco, through extortion, control of contracts, fictitious registration of goods and trafficking in drugs.

They arrested Francesco Pangallo, 44, sentenced to over 10 years of imprisonment for mafia-type association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method and crimes in weapons matters; Domenico Carmelo Iaria, 44 years, sentenced to more than 6 years of imprisonment for mafia-type association, procured non-compliance with punishment aggravated by the mafia facilitation and arms offenses; Agostino Palamara, 46 years old, Domenico AttinÃ , 48 years old, Giovanni Pangallo, 56 years old, Filippo Stelitano, 41 years old, sentenced to almost 5 and a half years of imprisonment, for mafia-type association; Francesco Pangallo, 45 years old, sentenced to 4 years in prison for unlawful competition with threats or violence aggravated by the mafia facilitation. Andrea Pasquale Mesinao. 72 years, sentenced to over 2 and a half years of imprisonment for illicit competition with threats or violence aggravated by the mafia facilitation.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/27/19 12:38 PM

Â«The root of the 'ndrangheta is in Reggio Calabria, in San LucaÂ»
The repentant Tripodoro reveals the power relations within the 'ndrangheta: Â«The" Crime "derives from San Luca which is the symbol of all the marauders" marked "Â»

of Consulate Minniti December 26, 2019 17:09208 shares

Â« From the superior dowry to the Sgarro onwards theâ€œ Crime â€takes over, which is in Reggio Calabria , in San Luca. The root of the 'ndrangheta is there Â».

To establish the hierarchies of the 'ndrangheta in Calabria is one of the big pieces of the Cosenza underworld in the early 90s.

Pasquale Tripodoro , a collaborator of justice for over twenty years , has recently been heard again by the magistrates of the DDA of Catanzaro as part of the investigation "Scott Rebirth" .

Cirillo and the De Stefano
Tripodoro explains how relations with the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio were once held by Cyril who worked in the Sibari area.

He was in relations with the De Stefano. Â«At some point Cirillo was first arrested and then subjected to an obligatory stay.

We local leaders asked ourselves the problem of knowing from Cirillo with which representative of the 'ndrangheta of Reggio Calabria we had to speak in case of problems, since he was out. On this point he was evasive Â».

Tripodoro remembers how, given the underlying ambiguity of the relationships, they decided to go and speak directly with the representatives of Reggio Emilia.

Â«First we talked to Franco Pino about the problem, then we made contacts to go and talk in Reggio Calabria. Following meetings in Reggio with the Teganos, with Paolo De Stefano and his children, with the Tiradritto, with 'Ntoni Pelle, I learned that in reality we were not recognized as a local, neither Rossano, Corigliano or Sibari. Cyril had lied, perhaps because of his delusions of grandeur.

So we decided to get "right" in Reggio Calabria he decided to recognize us, and these places were recognized and as leaders I was identified in Rossano, Carelli in Corigliano, Marincola in CirÃ² .

Obviously we knew that this recognition was granted by Reggio thinking of receiving something in return, that is, a percentage of the proceeds from criminal activities. This was the rule. "

The role of the 'ndrangheta reggina
The collaborator of justice reveals that he is aware that "in the copied minor gifts there were no subjects from Reggio Calabria".

The explanation is clear: Â«The first degrees do not have a significant importance unlike the degrees of the Major Society, which refer directly to the crime of San Luca instead . In practice, until the Sgarro, in the copiers there are only subjects in the affiliate's area of â€‹â€‹belonging, because up to that level the need for an organization that protects and recognizes the local reality and its affiliates does not come into play. higher than the Sgarro onwards the "Crime" which is in Reggio Calabria, in San Luca Â».

And it is in this context that Tripodoro confirms a non-secondary fact: Â«The root of the 'ndrangheta is there. If needed, you could go to Reggio Calabria (for example, to the Teganos) and vice versa. In this way there was a greater possibility of solving problems and not being isolated, being "recognized" everywhere as men of honor, having more weight Â».

And who didn't have such recognition? "He only commanded at home." Tripodoro is sure: Â« The 'ndrangheta is a unique structure and the" Crime "derives from Reggio Calabria , or rather from San Luca, which in the end is a symbol, a place where all the marauders of Calabria are" marked ".

The "symphony" of death
According to the repentant, therefore, top -down Ndrangheta had to be talked about since 1994 , so much so that "two heads of companies in conflict with each other could not attend the meetings in Reggio.

These problems could be solved by calling attention to the subject who had made a mistake, if this had not adapted to the rules.

If there was an internal conflict or a conflict with subjects from other places that the head of the company was unable or unable to resolve on his own, then he turned to Crime and this intervened to find the solution. The subject who behaved badly could also be called to answer before other men of honor for his work and give justifications. But if he lied he was eliminated . "

For Tripodoro all this "symphony" serves to "know who to turn to in case of problems, to find a solution to the problem, to be authorized to eliminate the person who represents the problem, in a context of recognized rules".

https://lacnews24.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-cariche-omicidi-reggio-calabria_107067/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/19 12:16 AM

Summit of 'ndrangheta in Vibo Valentia.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/19 03:54 PM

'Ndrangheta, extradited Rocco Elia: arrested in French Guiana
The carabinieri and the local Gendarmerie had arrested Rocco Elia, 39, in French Guiana where he had chosen to live in hiding. He is considered to be affiliated with the Cacciola-Grasso clan from Rosarno and had escaped the "Ares" blitz.
To escape capture, he had chosen to flee to French Guiana. This is where the carabinieri located him after months of investigation. Elia, was arrested on 20 November 2018 by the local Gendarmerie in collaboration with the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro, while sunbathing in one of the villages on the Atlantic coast. He is under investigation for international drug trafficking by the Reggio Calabria prosecutor.
In recent days, the fugitive was extradited to Italy. His role within the criminal organization was to pack and market cocaine and hashish that arrived in Italy mixed with loads of fruit throughout the national territory. The investigations documented the relationship between the Cacciola-Grasso gang, the San Luca gangs in Colombia and criminal organizations on the Iberian Peninsula. During the operation 500 kilos of hashish, from Morocco, were seized, addressed to the market in Milan. The wholesalers were the Cacciola-Grasso and in particular Rocco Elia. It was not easy to locate the wanted person. He moved between Europe and South America using fake documents.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/19 08:11 PM

holla what clans are operating in the us ?

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/19 08:32 PM

holla what clans are operating in the us ?

Great question. I would like to know too. And how deeply rooted are they in the US?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/29/19 11:12 PM

We don't know if 'Ndrangheta clans are actually based in the USA, some activities over there have been controlled by cells based in Italy and Canada. Mostly in the Northeast, but 'ndrangheta activities have been documented in Los Angeles, Miami, Tampa, Baltimore and Wilmington.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/30/19 12:31 AM

What families in New York have ties to the Ndrangheta? I have read that the Ursino family has set up a faction.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/30/19 02:54 PM

2020 is the year of a global attack on the 'Ndrangheta
30 December 2019

â€œThe 'Ndrangheta is being established in several countries, where it finds unequipped legislation and markets that offer great development opportunities.
It does not do it in a military way, but silently infiltrating the economic, political and administrative fabric. Our plan is to develop awareness of the mafia threat in the world. For 2020, our goal is to launch a global attack on the 'Ndrangheta ". This is what the central director of the criminal police, Vittorio Rizzi, said during a press conference on the activities of the service for international police cooperation.

In 2019, according to Scip information, 61 fugitives were arrested at mafia criminal associations, led by the Camorra and ethnic mafia and followed by 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Apulian mafias, with 29 million euros of assets seized in 12 countries of the world .

Almost 1,600 (to be exact 1,595) fugitives arrested in 2019, an average of more than four per day: 747 "active", that is, wanted by the Italian judicial authorities and tracked in 42 countries around the world, and 848 "passive", wanted by foreign authorities and captured in Italy. This is the balance of one of the key sectors of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) activity outlined in a press conference at the Interior Ministry by the Central Director of the Criminal Police, Vittorio Rizzi. Almost 60% of the active fugitives were traced in five European countries (Romania, Spain, Germany, France, United Kingdom) while 50% of the fugitives arrested in Italy were sought by seven European judicial authorities (from Romania, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/01/20 05:43 PM

When Forza Italia was formed the boss Piromalli was the first Marcello Dell'Utri contacted in Calabria to inform about the plan.

The Piromalli are a Calabrian 'ndrina of Gioia Tauro. According to Dia, they are the largest and most influential gang in Western Europe, with more than 400 families and several thousand affiliates. They are among the founders of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta present in the area for more than a hundred years.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/01/20 05:56 PM

When Forza Italia was formed the boss Piromalli was the first Marcello Dell'Utri contacted in Calabria to inform about the plan.

wwwowww !!!
they are an army !!!!!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/02/20 03:38 PM

â€œCanadian 'ndrangheta connectionâ€ investigation: twenty requests for indictment
January 2 2020 14:50

There are 20 requests for indictment for mafia association, port and possession of weapons, fraudulent transfer of values, abusive exercise of credit, usury and personal support requested in the "Canadian ndrangheta connection" investigation, which last summer hit the MuiÃ of Siderno. On the other hand, 28 precautionary measures were issued, but 20 suspects were requested to be brought to trial.
The hearing before the GUP has already been set for January 28. The investigations began after the murder of Carmelo MuiÃ , killed on the evening of 18 January 2018 in Siderno and considered the lieutenant of the boss Giuseppe Commisso.
Some of MuiÃ 's family members would also have contributed, providing useful information for the reconstruction of the facts that led to the killing of MuiÃ : according to the reconstruction of the investigators, the motive for the murder would have been linked to a revenge by another sidernese ndrina, that of the Salerno, whose leader, Vincenzo, would in turn have been moved by the murders of the brothers, Salvatore and Agostino.
The investigations would then have taken some tracks ending up deepening the structures and the organization chart of the so-called Siderno group of crime, the Canadian stable cell of the association, able to manage business and criminal dynamics overseas and also to make decisions on what happened In Calabria.

Interesting, I have heard that thereâ€™s a disconnect in communication between the Ndragheta in Canada and Calabria. This would indicate that at least with Siderno not the case. Interesting stuff.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/02/20 04:26 PM

All the cells around the world are answering to Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/03/20 12:57 PM

The sentence that the 66-year-old boss Diego Mancuso from Limbadi will have to serve in prison goes from six to two years. The Catanzaro Court of Appeal has in fact accepted a request for a "continued" sentence between the "Genesis" trial and the "Dinasty" trial against the prisoner, who was arrested last May to serve a final sentence of 6 years for mafia association.
In the "Dinasty " trial, Diego Mancuso was recognized at the top of one of the branches into which the family had divided after the arrests for the "Tirreno" operation (1993) of the Dda of Reggio Calabria, of the bosses Luigi and Giuseppe Mancuso( cl. '49), respectively uncle and nephew. Diego Mancuso (brother of Giuseppe, aka Peppe 'Mbroggja ") together with his nephew Domenico Mancuso (son of Giuseppe Mancuso) for a given time span would have governed the clan headed by him, as opposed to the other branch of the family that saw at that time allies Cosmo Michele Mancuso and his nephew Pantaleone Mancuso, called "Scarpuni".
After serving the sentence for "Dinasty", at the time of release, Diego Mancuso had moved his residence to Santa Maria di Ricadi. Last May, therefore, the new arrest to serve the definitive sentence remedied in the "Genesis" trial now reduced to two years.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/05/20 01:35 PM

Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 12:44 pm
'Ndrangheta, 55 billion in turnover. Business in over thirty countries.

http://www.affaritaliani.it/cronach...-oltre-trenta-paesi-la-mappa-645377.html

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/20 12:01 AM

When Forza Italia was formed the boss Piromalli was the first Marcello Dell'Utri contacted in Calabria to inform about the plan.

The Piromalli family has 400 separate crews that answer to a boss? And I thought the Nirta family was the most influential and powerful?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/20 12:14 AM

Not crews but 400 blood families all intertwined with the Piromalli-Mole.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/07/20 11:05 AM

Thursday, January 9 for 16 defendants, bosses and wingmen, starts the maxiprocess born from the investigations called "European 'ndrangheta connection - Pollino" , taken in December 2018 between Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, in a joint action against the ndrangheta in Europe and South America, in the framework of an organic reconstruction of multiple criminal activities carried out, on the national territory and abroad, by various exponents of established families of Calabrian organized crime.

The 16 defendants who have been indicted before the Court of Locri are Antonio Barbaro, Domenico Barbaro, Giuseppe Campagna, Maria Rosaria Campagna, Luciano Camporesi, Salvatore Santo Cappello, Roberto Esposito, Carmelo Vincenzo Gerasolo, Domenico Pelle, Giuseppe Pelle, Antonio Pizzata , Serafino Rubino, Vincenzo Salzano, Angelo Sansoterra, Giuseppe Strangio, Giorgio Violi.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/08/20 09:29 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/09/20 02:03 PM

A review Tribunal in Reggio Calabria had cancelled the â€œmafia associationâ€ charge so Ricci now voluntarily accepts to return to Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/10/20 11:32 AM

The 'ndrangheta was preparing an attack in the Turin area with hand grenades: this is the reason why a 61-year-old Sicilian, after presenting himself as a former member of "Cosa Nostra", decided to collaborate with the DDA of Piedmont, making declarations then used in the Carminius investigation on the presence of the clans in Carmagnola (then linked to the arrest of the regional councilor Roberto Rosso for exchange vote).

"I knew - said the repentant at the beginning of 2018 - that people have got hand grenades to use for an attack and I don't like this thing and I want to avoid it". According to the 61-year-old, the bombs (six in all) had been brought in from Calabria "to use them against a person who created problems" .

In the meantime they had to be kept in Carmagnola. According to the repentant, in the area " 'ndrangheta and Cosa nostra they made a pact to work together without bothering each other".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/20 01:58 PM

The statements of superpentito Liuzzo on 'Ndrangheta, freemasonry and politics
PRINTDetails Published: 11 January 2020

In the minutes the relations with the Matacena
by Aaron Pettinari

A river in full. This could define the flow of consciousness of Pino Liuzzo , in the past boss-entrepreneur and today collaborator of justice. In recent days, the assistant prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Lombardo , has not obtained the reopening of the hearing to hear the repentant at the Breakfast trial (the procedure that among others sees the ex Interior Minister, Claudio Scajola ,accusedwith the Accusations of having helped the former parliamentarian of Forza Italy Amedeo Matacenato escape from prison following the final sentence for external competition), but the reports reveal the intertwining between 'Ndrangheta, freemasonry and institutions with that dense network of "invisibles". Entrepreneurs, professionals and politicians who find themselves managing an obscure system of power that starts from Reggio Calabria and probably influences the country's politics and economy.
"Liuzzo - Lombardo had represented to the Court last December - allows us to precisely frame the very close relationships between the Matacena family, and therefore the Cavaliere Matacena and Amedeo Jr, with the 'Ndrangheta reggina through the Rosmini family".
And reading the minutes it is clear why the repentant's statements are considered of great importance. Indeed, Liuzzo was a direct protagonist of numerous events.

The political project
The magistrates spoke of a real political project, with direct interests of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, behind the election in Parliament of Amedeo Matacena jr and also Mimmo Crea , definitively sentenced to 7 years and 6 months for competition outside in mafia association in the "Honored Health" procedure.
"Amedeo - reads the minutes - with Rome referents, he says they want to pull inside Crea" Reason?"They wanted Mimmo Crea to pass because he had a platoon of frightening votes. They tell us he was getting 4/5 thousand votes."
But according to Liuzzo there were other directors behind that operation. "One was Alfredo Biondi , then there was another who came, who always went down, but I don't remember now" he told the prosecutors to then name after a while. And it is one of the high-sounding ones: the former interior minister Claudio Scajola .
Matacena jr, for its part, would have kept contacts in the area. "He was not a luminary - says Liuzzo - but after so much school ... because Matacena taught people in Rome, by Alfredo Biondi, he was his companion, I mean, by people who specialize in studying ... people prepared to go to Parliament. "And then again, still referring to Matacena:" The father wanted to bring his son to make him honorable. Roman level. Yes, having a deputy in Rome. "
Liuzzo's statements were also filed at the Gotha trial where the dense network of invisibles ended up at the bar. Among the defendants there are figures such as Senator Antonio Caridi and lawyers Giorgio De Stefano and Paolo Romeo

The Phoenix and the covered loggias
Other collaborators of justice, such as Cosimo Virgiglio , have reported the existence of these very high relationships between entrepreneurs, Masons and politicians.They talked about the existence of covered loggias .
Heard at the Breakfast Virgiglio trial had told of the existence of the "Phoenix", connected to that of the "Two Worlds". And according to him also Matacena senior would have been part of it as "Whispered in the ear" that is "one of those people who for their public role prefer not to appear on the lists. Together with him there were politicians, before '93 also magistrates, then law enforcement. There was the lawyer Romeo, that Lombard who was a surgeon, the then commander of the municipal of Reggio, the owner of a restaurant, Baylik. These people here. The Phoenix had a parallelism with the obedience of Prince Alliata ".Those names had been learned directly from the Serene Grand Master, Francica, the only one who knew the complete list of names.
Today Liuzzo says that Matacena father was a "trusted person" who had made available his network of Masonic contacts.
A fact that he would have learned directly from Diego Rosmini, a leading figure of the Reggio clans at the time ( "He tells me you know they promised us in a few words, he says, it's not a question of money, it's a question, being that Santa Barbara is gone bad, being that the father of Amedeo Matacena , the knight I mean, is Freemason says he promised us guarantees " ). So Matacena senior would have promised to"to make lawyers available, who paid him" , and who "had friends in Rome and that the process made him go back".

Crociata Matacena
Returning to talk about the political project with Matacena protagonist he reported a real "crusade" that would have been made for the latter. And then again: "When he joined Forza Italia, he had a boom to be afraid of" . How was this possible? According to him, why it " would have been touched at 360 degrees".
Then he added: "The result of the vows between Matacena in 94 and Paolo Romeosupported, I mean, from a frightening array, I mean, you see, I mean, here's the strength, I mean the work that has been ".
And by the families of 'Ndrangheta the support was total " with all the families of the arches, Condellian, Rosminian, Serraino and company, the whole mountain, the good soul of Musolino and ... went to the Pelle, all Alvaro, Peppe Piromalli and Mammoliti. I mean: Matacena was their candidate, I mean. There was one thing, I mean, from the votes he then took. " Basically also the old families of 'Ndrangheta who had supported that candidacy also thanks to the peace reached after the Mafia war. " These alignments no longer exist- Liuzzo explained - By now they are all related ". A support that was somehow " returned " between business and millionaire contracts.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...su-ndrangheta-massoneria-e-politica.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/14/20 12:10 PM

For three days, the Assize Court of Bouches-du-RhÃ´ne will travel a bit, to grapple with what justice has considered a bridgehead of the Calabrian mafia in France.

Antonio Magnoli answers for his participation in an international drug trafficking. The sailboat "Relambi" was boarded on June 8, 2015, off the island of Saint-Martin, with 79 cocaine buns on board for a total weight of 89 kilos.

The goods were intended for criminals domiciled in the Alpes-Maritimes, Italy and Spain, in connection with the same mafia.

Antonio Magnoli, 60, a native of Antibes - his brother Rocco and his nephew have already been tried in Marseille -, had raised the incompetence of the Marseille court and asked to go to the assizes. Nothing says that his choice will be happier upon arrival. He will however be assisted by two renowned criminal lawyers, Me FrÃ©dÃ©ric Monneret and Me Jean-Marc Darrigade.

The Magnoli brothers are presented by French justice as "a team of seasoned criminals". They are reputed to be very established on the CÃ´te d'Azur, near Vallauris.

But for justice, Antonio Magnoli, even if he denied his belonging to the Calabrian mafia, was " particularly silent in his statements" and "gave no verifiable explanation, both on his movements and his associates ". Above all, the judge has so far considered that the project he says to be his import of fruit and vegetables from his native Calabria " is in no way supported".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/15/20 12:42 AM

The state police arrested in Reggio Calabria the alleged instigator and perpetrators of the murder of Bruno Ielo, tobacconist killed with a gunshot to the head on May 25, 2017. Francesco Mario Dattilo, indicated as the operational killer, Francesco Polimeni and Cosimo Scaramozzino.
The 66-year-old trader was killed on a mandate by an exponent of the 'Ndrangheta in a blatant manner with a pistol abandoned next to the corpse, because he had not wanted to bend to the diktat of the gang to close the tobacconist competing with that of the principal of the murder, a prominent element of the Tegano family.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/15/20 11:49 PM

Bank chief, doc arrested in 'Ndrangheta bust
Grande Aracri clan's influence on Cutro council uncovered

(ANSA) - Crotone, January 15 - The president of a local bank in Calabria, a leading Rome-based doctor and a prominent local businessman were arrested Wednesday in an operation against the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The operation focuses on how the 'Ndrangheta's Grande Aaracri clan influenced the business of the council of the town of Cutro.
Those arrested are Ottavio Rizzuto, president of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo del Crotonese, and former manager, from 2007 to 2015, of the Cutro council's technical area; Alfonso Sesito, a cardiologist at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli Hospital; and businessman Rosario Le Rose.
The trio are accused of mafia association, extortion, abuse of office, influence peddling, failing to report crimes by a public officer, illegal access to computer systems, all crimes aggravated by mafia methods.
Catanzaro prosecutors said "investigations have enabled us to state that over the years the 'Ndrangheta clan led by Nicola Grande Aracri exercised its influence on the council of Cutro, in fact managing extremely numerous contracts and deriving direct and conspicuous economic benefit from that.
It said Rizzuto, the bank chief and former council manager, was a "central figure in this criminal metastasis".
It said police carried out several raids of the local bank and council offices.
The probe enabled prosecutors to shed light on how Rizzuto favoured and helped the 'Ndrangheta clan in getting hold of council contracts.
It said Le Rose, the businessman, was another key figure.
Sesito, the cardiologist, also "exerted considerable influence" in the case, the investigators said.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/16/20 07:18 PM

REVIEW COURT
Syracuse, "Ndrangheta and Freemasonry": the domiciliaries for Elisabetta Lo Iacono arranged

For the 49-year-old accountant from Syracuse the mafia-type aggravating circumstance has fallen while the accusations of money laundering and circumvention of a preventive measure in favor of a suspect remain

House arrest for Elisabetta Lo Iacono, the 49-year-old accountant from Syracuse initially ended up in prison following the operation of the Catanzaro Prosecutor's Office "Rinascita - Scott" , together with 334 other people. An investigation that focuses on the alleged intertwining of "Ndrangheta, Freemasonry and politics".

In all, 416 suspects were accused in various capacities of mafia association, murder, extortion, usury, fictitious registration of property, money laundering and other crimes aggravated by mafia methods. Among these, in fact, also the accountant from Syracuse and comrade Antonio Delfino. Prison custody had been applied to both of them for the aggravating circumstance of having committed the fact in order to facilitate the activity of the "Ndrangheta" as well as making use of the conditions provided for by the Mafia-style association.

Specifically, the woman is being investigated for facilitating, in competition with others, the activities of a mafia-style association and self-laundering in competition. Elisabetta Lo Iacono, in partnership with Delfino, even if not formally, for investigators managed all the company policies and attended the meetings in the presence of the Calabrian boss Saverio Razionale.

Yesterday the 49-year-old was released from prison and disposed of at home, as the mafia was less aggravated for the Review while the charges of money laundering and circumvention of a preventive measure in favor of a suspect remain

January 16, 2020

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/19/20 02:40 PM

â€˜Ndrangheta, the businessman Antonio Ricci extradited from Malta arrives in Italy

January 18, 2020

Eventually the king of online betting on behalf of the â€˜ndrangheta will respond to Italian justice. He was extradited and arrived in Italy late yesterday evening 44-year-old Antonio Ricci, an entrepreneur active in the criminal gambling sector, arrested last December in Malta in execution of a European arrest warrant, after he had escaped to the capture in Operation Galaxy.
On that occasion, in 2018, at the end of an investigation by the DDA of Reggio Calabria, 18 people were arrested for a plurality of criminal associations operating throughout Italy active in the betting collection sector in relation to the main gangs of De Stefano-Tegano, Pesce-Bellocco and Piromalli.
Last December, the Court of Reggio, at the request of the DDA had ordered the seizure of the assets attributable to Ricci and the family, for 400 million euros.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/20 01:54 PM

Police arrested 21 people for the illicit trafficking of drugs, drug dealing and possession for the purpose of drug trafficking in competition, as well as attempted murder, in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Reggio Calabria, Viterbo and Frosinone.
Further searches are underway against 13 other suspects, whose conduct was found to be linked to the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances attributed to those arrested.
The investigations have made it possible to disarticulate a criminal organization dedicated to traffic, active in one of the most important trading squares in the Roman district of San Basilio.
Among those arrested there are several subjects close to the Marando from Plati, including Alfredo and Francesco Marando, nephews of the boss Pasquale Marando.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/20 06:54 PM

'Ndrangheta, the holding company to conquer the world. New levers and historical clans in Calabria

SAVERIO PUCCIO | 22 JAN. 2020 16:02 | 0 comments

CATANZARO - A "holding company that never misses an opportunity to get rich", managing to "contaminate any part of society left without a presence and pervade the whole national territory". The 'Ndrangheta conquers an increasingly pervasive power, managing to dialogue with anyone and taking root in the territory with a widespread presence, as shown by the maps that indicate the gangs active in the Calabrian territory. A growth that looks, however, outside the national territory.

READ THE COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF THE DIA ABOUT NDRANGHETA

To reconstruct the dynamics of organized crime was the head of the operational section of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate of Catanzaro, the deputy chief Giuseppe Maria Emiddio. Having recently arrived at the head of the section, the deputy commissioner met the journalists to take stock of the activity carried out and the results achieved which are contained in the traditional Dia report, with particular attention to the district of the Dda of Catanzaro led by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri.

"We have recorded the presence of" locals "in every region - he highlighted - even in those where until recently they were not even taken into considerationÂ». A very high infiltration capacity, to the point that the Dia report itself becomes "a cross-section in work in progress that must also take into account new crimes to earn more".

In the whirlwind business set up by the 'ndrangheta, Dia found an ability to' specialize to create a 'laundry' with false invoices, companies headed by nominees and all those elements that can be used to clean up the money resulting from illicit activities Â». Businesses that, according to what emerged in the various investigations, "are also carried out outside Italy, precisely because it is possible to make money disappear".

In a constantly evolving 'ndrangheta that is not only archaic traditions, women who take care of people in prison and carry out the affairs of the gang also play an important role. An expansion that obviously does not leave the public administration indifferent: "We find a link between criminal association and public administration - said Emiddio - which is not free from constraints".

To counter this continuing rise, the deputy chief reiterated the need for fruitful collaboration by the population: "There is no strong collaboration of citizenship - said Emiddio - as if there was a sort of habit that should be eradicated because otherwise the war cannot be won. One cannot think of delegating only the police force Â».

In the Dia report the dynamics concerning the provinces of Catanzaro, Crotone, Cosenza and Vibo Valentia were analyzed, examining the various gangs active in the area and the contrast operations carried out between January and June of last year.

New levers and balances in the Catanzaro area

As far as the province of Catanzaro is concerned, the investigations have made it possible to record "a sort of generational relay, a forced" regeneration ", caused by the loss of important leaders and affiliates decimated by the arrests". To add concern there is also a change in the balance: "To silently advance on the criminal scenario operating in the territory between the Ionian coast and the" mountain "of the Presila Catanzarese and Crotonese - says Dia - important surnames of the historical 'ndrangheta they seek to consolidate its presence by filling an apparent void Â». In the Lamezia Terme area, however, "the gangs have once again highlighted the ability to project their criminal interests even outside the region".

The power of the Mancusos in the Vibonese area

La Dia reported how the Vibonese continues to "constitute a reference territory" for the Mancuso family of Limbadi. The powerful gang, according to the report, "makes use of a series of trusted satellite consortiums, boasting solid and consolidated alliances with the gangs of Reggino, in particular those operating in the territory falling in the plain of Gioia Tauro".

In Cosenza Â« institutional collusions Â»

To achieve their objectives, the gangs active in the Cosentino "also resort to collusive actions with institutional subjects". This is the most critical passage of the report in the analysis of the province of Cosenza. "In particular, the capital - highlights Dia - is characterized by the presence and constant operation of the Lanzino - Pattucci, Perna - Cicero, Abbruzzese and Rango - Gingari gangs".

The Grande Aracri landmark in the Crotone area

In the period examined by the report, "the Crotone area did not show significant changes in the mapping of the 'Ndranghetista families, which sees the hegemony of the Grande Aracri gang confirmed, at the top of the local of Cutro, which has always been a point of reference for the other gangs Crotone and the neighboring provinces, although it can boast particularly fierce operational projections in Northern Italy ".

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...an-in-calabria?cli_action=1579719023.948

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/22/20 06:58 PM

Maps with all the gangs of the 'ndrangheta in Calabria

The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has published the new report on the activities carried out in the first half of 2019. Following all the maps with the names of the active gangs

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...e-le-cosche-della-ndrangheta-in-calabria

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/23/20 12:44 PM

Giuseppe Gregoraci, an important member of the Figliomeni clan of Siderno commits suicide ! He was arrested in July 2019 as part of the "Canadian 'ndrangheta connection" which hit the Canadian tentacles of Calabrian organized crime, was found hanged in the Voghera prison where he was detained.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/23/20 06:43 PM

Vincenzo MuiÃ and Giuseppe Gregoraci went to Toronto after the murder of Mino MuiÃ , believed to be the lieutenant of the boss Giuseppe Commisso, where they met the brothers Cosimo and Angelo Figliomeni, called "the brigands", both fugitives in Canada, in order to know the real reasons that led to the murder of the brother.

The interesting part about the Ndragheta in Woodbridge, is there are those that participate similar to the international community, consistency with Calabria. As, well as Ndragheta? that isnâ€™t always consistent with Calabria, meaning in communication. I believe the Commisso killed with women on purpose, opposed to Serrano missed and woman killed instead, is this.

Wolfpack??it has disappeared as quickly as it appeared??

Itâ€™s like a spilt Rome with Constantine, one is Real Rome, the other is just an illusion.

Interesting thing is itâ€™s the same shooters in Musitano as in Serrano, who knows if thatâ€™s it.

If the communication gap has been addressed, it could also be part of the stability that is being observed currently in Canada.

Posted By: VitoCahill

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/24/20 01:33 AM

i'm more curious who in the toronto 'ndrangheta was daniele ranieri working for after juan ramon fernandez's 2013 murder.
his name came up in the trial of giuseppe ursino for cocaine trafficking.

That is a great question, we know by now that nobody will get an answer out of Ranieri.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/20 01:33 PM

EUROPE
Italian Prosecutor Fights the Mafiaâ€"and Fears for His Life
Nicola Gratteri leads a massive battle in impoverished Calabria against the Western worldâ€™s richest crime syndicate, as heavy security protects him from threats

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-prosecutor-fights-the-mafiaand-fears-for-his-life-11579948200

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/20 10:23 PM

Italian arrested in Holland with 34 kilos of cocaine
He was wanted in Belgium
Category: News | VariousDate: 24.01.20| |

The Dutch police in a joint action by the Belgian police and the Royal MarÃ©chaussÃ©e, arrested a 33-year-old Italian on the A16 motorway near Breda. The man carried 34 kilos of cocaine, hidden in a secret compartment inside the vehicle, for an estimated value of 1.2 million euros. The Italian, of which no other details were disclosed, was arrested Thursday afternoon, in a joint action by the Dutch and Belgian police. During the investigation, the man will remain in prison. He was already wanted in Belgium, because he was held responsible for several crimes.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/20 09:39 AM

After the "Rebirth-Scott" operation, which broke the "wires" that connect 'Ndrangheta and diverted Freemasonry the enemy number one is now the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri. Precisely for this fact, the magistrate is facing an even higher risk than in the past. That's why for some days the prosecutor's escort has been strengthened.

Posted By: Rahmet

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/20 11:38 AM

Gratteri is doing some serious damage to the Ndrangheta, y'all think they are going to kill him?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/20 01:05 PM

Gratteri is doing some serious damage to the Ndrangheta, y'all think they are going to kill him?

Only if they become really desperate, but there will be a maxi process with hundreds of suspects similar to the maxi trials in Palermo in the 80s they hold Gratteri responsible for this.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/20 04:56 PM

murdering Gratteri would be like committing suicide...

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/20 10:36 PM

Mafia boss with ties to GTA arrests found dead in prison cell, Italian media reports | The Star

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...s-found-dead-in-italian-prison-cell.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/20 01:26 PM

In Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Valle d'Aosta and Calabria, an order issued by the Milan investigating magistrate, an operation today against 20 people accused, for various reasons, of a criminal association aimed at a tax fraud of over 160 million euros, extortion, usury.

In particular, 18 arrests and seizures were carried out for over 34 million euros. A criminal organization was also dismantled, also made up of subjects close to members of a 'Ndranghetista family rooted and operating in Lombardy for a long time and to a criminal group of Calabrian origin operating in the Lombard capital.

The investigations have allowed to discover a complex 'VAT carousel fraud in the telecommunications sector with the use of a dense network of' cartierÃ¨ and 'filtered companies, in EU and non-EU countries, registered as nominees with precedents also by association of mafia type and drug trafficking.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/20 01:55 PM

murdering Gratteri would be like committing suicide...

They really don't care about the consequences. According to the indiscretions of the local authorities, the most important gangs of 'Ndrangheta have already activated themselves by appointing a killer who should assassinate the prosecutor.
But who wants the death of the chief prosecutor of the DDA of Catanzaro? According to investigators, the suspicions would lead straight to that Mafia-Masonic "system" that Gratteri in Calabria wants to eliminate.
It is not the first time that the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro is the favorite target of the 'ndrine. In several interceptions, there were clear threats of an attack on the magistrate.

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/20 03:13 PM

â€˜Ndrangheta bust: Police arrest 18 Calabrian Mafia figures, charge them with â‚¬160 million fraud http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...rest-18-calabrian-mafia-figures-charge-t

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/20 04:25 PM

murdering Gratteri would be like committing suicide...

Exactly, state will go all over 'Ndrangheta and whole Mafia-Masonic "system", and more powerful masonic lodges from Rome will leave the ship as it sinks and leave calabrians to go down. Pretty much same thing that happened to Sicilian mafia and their freemasons back in 1990's

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/20 04:42 PM

The difference with Falcone is, he became isolated and had many enemies within Rome. Gratteri has a strong support among the people and the powers in Rome. However the threat against him has never been bigger because he now goes after the people who control Calabria, first they try other things to discredit him. But they now openly call him a walking dead.

The difference also should consider that Calabria is attached to main land Italy, while Sicily is an island to itself.

The shear tactics of both sides in their attack will vary for those reasons.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/20 02:57 AM

The difference also should consider that Calabria is attached to main land Italy, while Sicily is an island to itself.

The shear tactics of both sides in their attack will vary for those reasons.

Calabria and Sicily are very similar.

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/20 02:57 AM

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/20 07:10 AM

Never thought that they wouldnâ€™t love to kill him, or that they arenâ€™t capable of carrying it out, because of course they are. All Iâ€™m saying is that the consequences of such a major assassination in 2020 would be massively negative for anyone involved.

One of the reasons why Calabrians are well liked (crime-wise) by other organizations is their no-nonsense attitude. Make money no headlines. When you gotta be violent then be shockingly violent to scare possible rivals off, but always measure the pros and cons of your actions.

For instance, due to the Duisburg massacre you basically had two major â€˜ndrine being highly investigated and eventually decapitated. Not to mention that before that massacre nobody almost knew what the â€˜ Ndrangheta was. It was international news. Everything changed after that. For all ndrine not just the ones involved. The world, and especially Italy, started to focus on the Ndrangheta and address it on the public and political stage for the very first time.

I agree with you that they are similar in ideology, methods, practices, more than likely part of one system.

In attempting to kill a member of LE or arrest a fugitive, the island of Sicily, limits the escape routes. Which in theory should make either easier, arresting fugitives in Sicily has been hard, killing LE seemed easy for the Corleonesi. However, I doubt that it was accomplished without involvement for members spread out through Italy and World.

If the Ndragheta is successful, itâ€™s gonna involve the same mechanics, and type of people.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/20 06:59 PM

The Italian State is going after them now full force, but this 'war' on the 'Ndrangheta can not continue without some kind of response, the disregard for the government is already strong in Calabria. I'm not sure how the State could take control of Calabria anyway, sending more soldiers?

Today maxi blitz against the â€˜Ndrangheta of Reggio Calabria city, the powerful Labate gang â€œTi Mangiuâ€ beheaded, 14 arrests on charges of mafia-type association, extortion and money laundering. After the arrest of the boss Pietro Labate in 2012 the clan was led by his brother Antonino.

Has there ever been anything similar from the State like this, regarding Napoli??Camorra?

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/20 06:51 AM

Has there ever been anything similar from the State like this, regarding Napoli??Camorra?

Spartacus trial? Or are you referring to something else? I might have misunderstood your question

A similar scenario, like the one currently with the Ndragheta and LE, and Falcone/Borsellino and Cosa Nostra, but involving the Camorra?

I am unfamiliar with the Spartacus trial, I apologize.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/20 08:12 AM

'Ndrangheta, threats in prison to the repentant son of the boss Mancuso and Gratteri

| 29 JAN. 2020 16:02 |
CATANZARO - Threats and insults were addressed by some inmates, in the prison of Catanzaro, to the collaborator of justice Emanuele Mancuso and the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri, in the aftermath of the decision of the exponent of the homonymous clan of the 'ndrangheta of Limbadi to "empty the bag" with the anti-mafia magistrates ( READ THE NEWS ). This is what was told this morning, during the "Nemea" trial against the Soriano di Filandari clan, by the collaborator of justice connected in video conference with the bunker room of the new Court of Vibo Valentia.

READ: THE PRESSURE OF RELATIVES ON THE PENTITO, ARRESTED

In the prison of Siano, in Catanzaro, on 18 June 2018 Emanuele Mancuso was moved to an isolation cell, which had given certainty to the other inmates of the start of the collaboration with the justice of the son of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso, called " the Engineer ". On 19 June 2018, therefore, the screams, threats and insults of the detainees addressed to Emanuele Mancuso and the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri would start from the windows of the cells of the prison of Catanzaro.

LAWS: MANCUSO IN THE CLASSROOM TELLS REPENTANCE

Subsequently, in prison talks, Emanuele Mancuso's girlfriend, on behalf of the Mancuso family himself, would offer the repentant cash money and the possibility of opening a bar in Spain as long as he retracted all the charges. All useless, because Emanuele Mancuso has not interrupted the collaboration becoming the first repentant in the history of the Mancuso family, one of the most powerful clans of the whole 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/20 02:08 PM

Thing is, they can't focus on 'Ndrangheta with full force because that would allow Sicilian mafia to grow.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/20 02:11 PM

Italy and INTERPOL launch global project to combat 'Ndrangheta
30 January 2020

Focus will be enhancing the ability of law enforcement to identify their activities and dismantle one of the most extensive and powerful criminal organizations in the world

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy â€" Today saw the launch of the INTERPOL Cooperation Against â€˜Ndrangheta (I-CAN) project, a joint initiative with Italy to combat the increasingly insidious and global threat of mafia-type crime.

Funded by the Italian Department of Public Security, the project will focus on the 'Ndrangheta which is the most extensive and powerful criminal organization in the world.

Present in 32 Countries, 17 of which are European, the 'Ndrangheta is supported by its enormous financial power built mainly on drug trafficking, corruption and the diversion of public funds through fraud and rigged contracts.

"We need a global approach to counter a global threat. We have promoted a targeted project with INTERPOL for a global attack to eradicate it, involving the State Police, the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza,â€ said Prefect Vittorio Rizzi, Deputy Director General of Public Security.

Prefect Vittorio Rizzi, Deputy Director General of Public Security and Central Director of the Italian Criminal Police at the launch of the I-CAN project in Reggio Calabria.

Whilst the project will initially be focusing on specific countries, the ultimate goal of the I-CAN project is to enhance the ability of law enforcement worldwide to more effectively identify and combat mafia-type organizations.

I-CAN will be developed across three pillars;

Content â€" Building on Italyâ€™s direct experience and knowledge of the threat posed by Ndrangheta, its structure and how it operates.
Access - Making this vital policing information available to the targeted countries, in order to identify patterns, trends and potential targets for law enforcement.
Action - Coordination of joint investigations with national law enforcement to identify and arrest individuals wanted in connection with Ndrangheta-linked activities.
â€œThe Ndrangheta is among the richest and most powerful organized crime groups. It has repeatedly proven its skill in infiltrating political and economic environments, and a remarkable capacity for corruption,â€ said INTERPOL Secretary General JÃ¼rgen Stock.

â€œWhilst there have been successes at the bilateral level, the I-CAN project will see increased cooperation and operational activity between countries using INTERPOL as a global platform,â€ added the INTERPOL Chief.

INTERPOL Secretary General JÃ¼rgen Stock said the I-CAN project will see increased cooperation and operational activity between countries using INTERPOL as a global platform.

How the 'Ndrangheta works
Profits are reinvested using sophisticated money laundering techniques. In many countries what appears to be â€˜cleanâ€™ funding eventually has the effect of polluting, corrupting and strangling the economy as it changes the mechanisms of competition and drives honest entrepreneurs out of the market.

The control of public procurement does not usually involve violence or intimidation but is through the establishment of companies which use collusion and corruption.

The 'Ndrangheta has acquired direct or indirect control of companies operating across all areas of society including the construction, catering, import and export, transport, gaming and betting, waste collection and disposal businesses.

Taking advantage of advances in technology, the 'Ndrangheta also uses the deepweb and Darknet to carry out illicit commerce.

https://www.interpol.int/News-and-E...unch-global-project-to-combat-Ndrangheta

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/30/20 07:23 PM

'Ndrangheta: Cassation acquits, after 26 years in prison, the' boss of two worlds' Commisso
Published: 30 January 2020

Reggio Calabria. Cosimo Commisso, for the investigators, he was "the boss of the two worlds", the top of the homonymous' ndrangheta family of Siderno with tentacles extended to Canada. Two days ago, however, the Court of Cassation, confirming the appeal sentence issued a year ago and rejecting the appeal of the general prosecutor of Naples, acquitted him "for not having committed the fact" 27 years after the arrest and after 26 spent behind bars. To write it is the Gazzetta del Sud, which recalls that the "boss of two worlds", born in 1950, was believed to be the instigator of 5 murders and 3 attempted murders committed between May 1989 and July 1991 during the so-called " feud of Siderno ". Cosimo Commisso is currently detained because he is accused by a collaborator of justice in the context of the investigation "

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/20 05:22 AM

'Ndrangheta, Tamunga and Ciccio Pakistan, the wanted super bosses who disappeared from Milan
The 'Ndranghetists Rocco Morabito, who owes 30 years in prison for drug trafficking, and Francesco Pelle, with a final life sentence for the San Luca feud, both disappeared in June 2019

Both lived in Milan, although in very different periods.

https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/...b4ca-26f0f6d5d911.shtml?intcmp=exit_page

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/20 06:20 AM

Domenico Russo (37), from Corigliano Rossano, survived a murder attempt last night. The shooting took place shortly after 7 pm in the historic center of the Ausonic area of â€‹â€‹the new municipality in the province of Cosenza. The man was seriously injured. It would have been a settlement of accounts within the old Coriglianese clan. Russo was the driver of Pietro Longobucco, the boss killed and found dead, last year, aboard a van in the waters of the port of Schivonea.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/01/20 08:47 AM

Over 500 mafia members on the run, says Italian police
January 30, 2020

Rome â€" There are almost 500 members of Italian Mafia groups who are on the run from justice, Italian police data released on Thursday.

The deputy head of the Italian police, Vittorio Rizzi, said the total number of fugitives is 498, including 55 for whom international arrest warrants were issued via Interpol, and 134 who belong to the fearsome â€˜Ndrangheta Mafia.

The data was published in conjunction with an international police conference on the â€˜Ndrangheta called I-Can (Interpol Cooperation against `Ndrangheta).

â€œWe need a global approach to combat a worldwide threat,â€™â€™ Rizzi said about the â€˜Ndrangheta.

The conference is taking place in Reggio Calabria, the main city of Calabria, the impoverished southern region from which the â€˜Ndrangheta originates.

â€œThe Calabrian mob is the worldâ€™s most powerful crime group, operating in 32 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas and Oceania, and the main broker on the world drug market,â€™â€™ Italian police said.

Report says part of the â€˜Ndranghetaâ€™s strength comes from its highly secretive structure, with members bound by family ties.

â€œThis makes it particularly difficult to penetrate by law enforcement authorities.

â€œOut of almost 1,200 Mafia turncoats working with authorities, 42 per cent come from the Neapolitan Camorra, 22 per cent from Sicilyâ€™s Cosa Nostra, and only 15 per cent from the â€˜Ndrangheta,â€™â€™ police said.

They also said the top of the â€˜Ndranghetaâ€™s hierarchical structure is made up of the â€œSanta,â€ a secret committee whose members â€œare not known even to the bossesâ€ further down in the chain of command.

(dpa/NAN)

https://sundiatapost.com/over-500-mafia-members-on-the-run-says-italian-police/

Posted By: Revis_Knicks

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/20 01:32 AM

Would another country have to get involved to untangle the web between the mafia and the Freemasons(some of which are powerful members of the deep state)? The Sicilians and Calabrese are especially involved with Freemasons. Some Camorra families might be too.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/20 06:14 AM

You can only succeed when there's international cooperation, the INTERPOL Cooperation Against â€˜Ndrangheta (I-CAN) project, is a good first step. But there also has to be stronger laws against diverted freemasonry. A total ban on masonic lodges is not necessary, just go after the bad apples.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/20 08:16 AM

German reportage from Italy

The child soldiers of the 'Ndrangheta
Status: 02.02.2020 02:28 a.m.

Children who learn to shoot, work as drug couriers or dismember the dead: the Calabrian mafia grows up with criminal activities. Few adults do anything about it.

By Christian Gramstadt, SWR, and Patrizia Venditti

The Bonaventura-Vrenna family belongs to the powerful and internationally operating clans of the Calabrian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta. Luigi Bonaventura had a bloody feud at the age of ten. A few years later, he shot himself. At 35, he became a key witness to the Italian public prosecutor's office.

"Clan girls are already mafiosi at the age of 13. They are supposed to take care of the mafia morals in the family," he says. "Boys learn to use weapons from an early age. They are used to blood and violence during animal slaughter. It's a childhood like jihadists."

Large family clans also active in Germany
Luigi Bonaventura has broken with his family. In 2019, he reported a constant drill to violence: "In Africa (...) children are kidnapped, mostly drugged and brought to the battlefield as child soldiers with a gun. At 'Ndrangheta, the offspring are raised from childhood to crime and killing "he compares. "They are prisoners of their families and the archaic mafia mentality."

According to a study by the Italian research institute Demoskopita in 2016, the 'Ndrangheta is organized into almost 400 family clans with many children, who can rely on more than 50,000 followers worldwide. Almost 300 'Ndranghetists are said to be active in Germany.

"The Mafia Doesn't Care About Limits"
'Ndrangheta is internationally active, says mafia expert Sandro Mattioli in an interview with tagesschau.de. | more

Foster care is bearing fruit
An Italian law has been in place since 2013 that allows judges to preventively isolate acutely vulnerable girls, boys and mothers with their children from their mafia-like surroundings and to place them far away with foster families.

A legal milestone on which Roberto Di Bella sets his project "Liberi di scelgere" ("Free to choose"). Together with civil servants, educators and therapists, he tries to breathe life into the youth law: with communal tasks and games that are intended to convey a piece of carefree childhood to the children, and with a lesson that lets them feel that life is beyond "honor, blood" and violence "is quite normal and possible.

The Reggio Calabria Regional Youth Court has intervened 60 times since then. 70 minors were placed with foster parents in other provinces. 30 core families from 'Ndrangheta clans found a new home outside of Calabria.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel-ndrangheta-101.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/03/20 11:11 AM

The former boss Luigi Bonaventura also told a journalist:" When I was on the other side, I tried to surround myself with the major computer experts.. And to be the boss of ` ndrangheta, knowing how to shoot is not enough. First of all you have to "know how to think" and stay one step ahead of others ... the `Ndrangheta always points a token on new technologies".

In Europe, the police have ascertained the existence of the Ndrangheta (through the presence of the premises, the capture of fugitives or the seizure of assets) in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Monaco, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland.
Its presence in the world has been ascertained in Liberia, Morocco, Seichelles (for Africa), the Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guayana, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, USA (for the America) and Australia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/04/20 12:04 PM

'Ndrangheta fugitive Romeo arrested
40-year-old accused of drugs trafficking

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, February 4 - Carabinieri and finance police on Tuesday arrested Domenico Romeo, a 40-year-old fugitive of justice who is an alleged member of the 'Ndrangheta mafia. Romeo had been on the run since he eluded capture in a big burst staged by finance police in Genoa in July.
He is alleged member of the 'Ndrina degli Alvaro mafia clan, acting as an 'accountant' for its drugs trafficking.
He was tracked down in the town of Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte, in the southern region of Calabria.

Dozens arrested in drugs bust
Assets worth around one million euros seized

(ANSA) - Rome, February 4 - Province of Rome Carabinieri police on Tuesday were executing warrants to arrest 33 people in a massive drugs bust. The suspects are allegedly members of two organized-crime gangs, one linked to the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia and the other to the Campania-based Camorra syndicate.
These two gangs were allegedly involved in 'reciprocal assistance' in drugs trafficking.
The police were seizing around one million euros worth of assets as part of Tuesday's operation.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/06/20 07:58 PM

Interpenetrations between 'ndrangheta and deviated masonry
Thu, 02/06/2020 - 20:30
Judicial

Regarding the "interpenetration between 'ndrangheta and deviated masonry", the XXXIII Legislature by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the phenomenon of the Mafia and other similar criminal associations summarizes several of the concepts that emerged during a series of investigative findings, largely founded on the investigative results of investigations that took place in the Province of Reggio Calabria.
At the end of the 70s, minority sectors of the judiciary began to report hypotheses of hidden links between Calabrian organized crime and freemasonry, as worrying signs of a new form of insertion in the power circuits. But, beyond meager and rare procedural findings, it will be necessary to wait for the season of the collaborators to have reliable confirmations.
Only from 1992, and in particular in the documents of the so-called "Olimpia" operation of the DDA of Reggio Calabria, will an organic reconstruction of these relationships come also in light of the changes that occurred at the end of the 70s within the 'ndrangheta, changes that will result, in light of today's knowledge, functional precisely to the formation of those relationships and those connections with a part of masonry. It is the Commission's belief that the Calabrian masonry, which boasts an ancient and solid settlement and dates back to the dawn of the Italian Risorgimento, is not as a whole a deviated masonry.
In the second half of the '70s the' Ndrangheta found itself at a crossroads: either to continue being a criminal organization dedicated to extortion and kidnapping, or to make a qualitative leap and enter the circuits of power to transform itself into a 'mafia entrepreneur ", in an independent economic and political entity, capable of interacting with representatives of institutions, public administrations, parties, and offering their" services "in the procurement sector, in the collection of electoral consents, and so on. To do this the 'ndrangheta found itself in the need to create a new, elite structure, a new leadership, extraneous to the traditional hierarchies of the "locals", able to move in an unprejudiced way, without the limits of the old honored society and its subculture and especially, without the traditional prohibitions, established by the code of the 'Ndrangheta, of having contacts of any kind with the so-called "contrasts", that is, with all strangers to the old honored society. New rules replaced the traditional ones, which did not disappear completely, but which remained in force only for the basis of the 'ndrangheta, while a new organizational level was born, the prerogative of the top characters who acquired the possibility of moving freely between state apparatuses, services. secrets and subversive groups.
Thus was born the "Saint", and "santisti" are called its members, who constitute what can be called the "strategic direction" of the new 'ndrangheta. About the "Saint", there are many statements by collaborators of justice. They clearly outline the new structure and the characters that would be part of it. It is good to warn that it is not easy to find certain evidence, especially in relation to the people involved, about their belonging to "covered" Masonic lodges. And this is because they are not only two organizations that are subject and object of secrecy and confidentiality, but also because many Calabrians have chosen to enroll in Masonic lodges based in other parts of Italy. This evidently increases the degree of impenetrability. With the "Santa" the 'ndrangheta opens up to compromise with the deviated powers of the institutions. The "Saint" comes into contact with Freemasonry, or rather enters Freemasonry, through compliant lodges.
It would be a serious mistake to believe, however, that these references exhaust the links between the 'ndrangheta and the more or less deviated masonry, as if they were datable a few decades ago. For the 'ndrangheta the alliance went beyond a mere utilitarian relationship, to become a strategic alliance through which it achieved that invisibility and impunity which, on closer inspection, represent the essential characteristics through which it obtained the current position of supremacy and diffusion.

https://larivieraonline.com/compenetrazioni-tra-%E2%80%99ndrangheta-e-massoneria-deviata

This stuff is so interesting, whether Ndragheta, CN or Camorra. The involvement of the Mason, lends to the Mafioso, in the context of Machiavelli, the criminal= the prince. In the hardest of core, the mafiosa, the criminal=princess.

The Mafiosi=Prince & Princess or King & Queen. A marriage of sorts.

Examples that I was given, Matteo Messina= Prince

Salvatore Riina and Ninetta Bagarella = King & Queen

Not in a royal court, like England ðŸ´ó §ó ¢ó ¥ó ®ó §ó ¿. Rather, in a Sacred Royal Criminal Court.. IE. Roma itself...lives a Caesar does... type of things.

Denaro does have a Prince of Darkness, Machiavelli persona, as Diabolik. The marriage of Riina and Bagarella was put together by Leggio to start, who knows what it really meant to them.

I believe every Ndragheta at one point swear blood to the AA Michael, itâ€™s prevalent through the belief system. Is the Santa, St Michael?? Or is it something different??

Thanks for this info!!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/08/20 02:11 PM

Napoli coach, Gennaro Gattuso, has been linked to money laundering by the 'Ndrangheta clan of Desio, in Lombardy. However the accusations go towards a probable dismissal.

https://torino.repubblica.it/cronac...avese_imprenditore_condannato-248015014/

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/20 01:50 AM

Is Pasquale Claudio Locatelli considered an 'Ndrangheta member?

I remember reading in ZeroZeroZero about him, it mentioned that he didn't belong to a clan and was more of a broker & intermediary.

However, various articles mentioned that he's a Camorrista...? Was he of Neapolitan descent? Or a Camorra member? An 'Ndrangheta member? Or?

http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=357707&CategoryId=12395

https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-...alian-drug-lord-on-the-run-for-21-years/

(Also posting this in the Camorra thread)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/20 02:25 AM

Locatelli is one of those brokers, like Pannunzi, Assisi, Bruno Carbone, Paolo Lumia, Cornegliani, Fabrizio Fabietti, who work for several groups and are not made members, he was born in Almenno San Bartolomeo in the province of Bergamo. Locatelli also worked with the Montreal Mafia.

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/20 02:34 AM

That was my understand as well...curious what made those articles name him as a Camorrista? Just misinformation? Maybe the investigators thought he was in the Camorra at the time?

Thanks Hollander

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/20 12:29 PM

Important operation of the State Police carried out this morning in Cosenza. 45 arrests, people belonging to an armed association aimed at trafficking and dealing in drugs in the municipalities of the Esaro Valley headed by people linked to the 'ndrangheta cosentina.
At the head of the partnership, according to investigators, there are two cousins, Roberto and Antonio Presta, aged 58 and 43, close relatives of Franco Presta, considered the superboss of the 'Ndrangheta in the northern part of Calabria and detained in life imprisonment.
The Presta cousins â€‹â€‹would have dealt with the sale of cocaine, heroin and hashish purchased in the province of Reggio Calabria.

How powerful is the Pesce family of Rosarno & San Ferdinando these days? It seems that they suffered a lot of arrests in recent years, and had many assets confiscated by the State. Is it likely that other families affiliated with this 'ndrine, such as the Pantano's, have taken over the leading roles?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/13/20 11:39 AM

The teenager who was chained in a hole by the Italian mafia for 2.5 years
At the age of nineteen, Carlo was abducted by the 'Ndrangheta. "I cried and screamed as loud as I could, but nobody heard me."
By NiccolÃ² Carradori
February 13, 2020, 12:01 pm
ILLUSTRATION BY MASSIMILIANO MARZUCCO .

On January 25, 1988, nineteen-year-old Carlo Celadon was home alone in the evening. He lived in Arzignano, a village in northeastern Italy, and was eating alone. His father Candido, a successful entrepreneur, was on vacation with his sister, and his older brother was on a honeymoon. At one point, four armed men broke into the house. They tied Carlo, threw him in the trunk of their car and drove away. It was the start of the longest kidnapping ever in Italy.

The four men were members of the 'Ndrangheta, a powerful Mafia organization from the southern Calabria region. The 'Ndrangheta plays an important role in the global drug trade (especially in the field of cocaine), with an annual turnover estimated at 44 billion euros . Before they reached this position, they earned their money by abducting people from rich families and asking for ransom. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, they kidnapped nearly 700 people.

Italian journalist Pablo Trincia reconstructed Carlo's story for an episode of the Italian podcast Buio - that means "dark." "This period marked a turning point in the rise of Mafia organizations," Trincia says on the phone. "The 'Ndrangheta had developed an entire kidnapping system, with the proceeds invested in illegal activities that generated even more profit, such as real estate and drug smuggling."

After Carlo was kidnapped, the car drove for 17 hours without stopping to Aspromonte in Calabria, the home of the 'Ndrangheta. There he was chained and left in a small excavated hole in the ground, with only a bag of bread. Because Carlo was following the news, he knew that abductions like this could take six months because it takes a lot of time to negotiate and settle the payment. "I assumed a long agony awaited me," he recalls in the podcast.

Before Carlo was kidnapped, he sat watching the news with his father once in the evening, and a message came along about an abducted person who was released because ransom was paid. He asked his father if he would do the same if he were ever kidnapped, but he shook his head. No, his father would never pay that money. "I was afraid he would let me die," says Carlo.

In fact, his father immediately tore back home because he was willing to save his son. His family received fake phone calls for days from people pretending to have kidnapped Carlo. They waited three months in fear, until the real kidnappers finally made contact. A man who called himself Agip asked Carlo's five billion lire, which would now be 2.6 million euros.

Meanwhile, Carlo knew nothing. In the first months he was scared to death by the kidnappers, who tried to convince him that his father refused to pay. They had him write letters to his father, begging to help him, but they were never actually sent. When Candido asked if they could prove that Carlo was still alive, they gave a soundtrack on which his son accused him of leaving him, and he only cared about money.

After that first telephone conversation, the case came under the prosecutor Tonino De Silvestri. "There were two options," De Silvestri explains in the podcast. "Some felt that the family's ability should be frozen [to put pressure on the 'Ndrangheta to withdraw their claim], and that all contact should be avoided. Others suggested leaving it to the family. â€They opted for a middle way: the assets were frozen, but the family would negotiate with the kidnappers. If they paid the money, the police would arrest them.

Months passed and all the while Carlo remained signed in the gap. "Mice came for the food, so I pulled back in a corner," he says in the podcast. â€œI put a piece of cheese under a glass, and when a mouse came in, I squeezed its head off. Snakes have also come in twice. If they would bite me and I get infected, my kidnappers would never have taken me to a hospital. "I cried and screamed as loud as I could, but nobody heard me."

At one point, Candido and Agip made an appointment to pay the money. Candido followed his instructions and brought the agreed amount, but Carlo was nowhere in sight. The police followed the men who had picked up the money to a small house, and arrested five people there. But there was no trace of either the money or Carlo.

Shortly before that, the kidnappers had moved him to a cave in the forest, and from that moment the communication stopped for seven months. Carlo's family feared he was no longer alive. After a while, Agip contacted them again and asked for another five billion lire. His tone became coarser. "If you don't want to pay, just say it," he told Candido. "Then we'll just give you his head."

Months later an appointment was made again. Candido had managed to get the amount down to two billion lire (around one million euros). On the morning of May 4, 1990, 831 days after his abduction, Carlo was finally released . "They took me to a highway and put me down on the ground," he said. A driver saw him and called the police. Carlo had lost 30 kilos and was unable to get up. He refused to talk to his father on the phone because he still thought he had been detained for so long because he had not wanted to pay anything.

"What particularly touched me about Carlo Celadon's story is that he didn't even go completely crazy," says Trincia. â€œHe spent two and a half years there, while he could only count how many seconds passed. And all the while he thought his family had left him to his fate, and that he could be killed any time. "

According to the Italian scientific journal for criminology, abductions for organized crime groups are not only a source of income, but also a way to scare people and make the authorities look helpless. Because the 'Ndrangheta distributes part of its revenue among poor villages in Aspromonte, it has a loyal network, which makes it very difficult to expose the members.

Trincia says the authorities succeeded in arresting Agip a few years after Carlo's release. â€œWhen the police listened to telephone conversations, his voice was recognized. It was pure luck, and he turned out to be just one of many intermediaries. â€The other kidnappers have never heard of anything again, and the same goes for the billions of lira they have put in their pockets.

This article originally appeared at VICE Italy .

https://www.vice.com/nl/article/d3a...anse-maffia-in-een-gat-werd-vastgeketend

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/20 02:17 AM

Interests of the 'ndrangheta in Umbria, investigations concluded for 96 people
February 19, 2020

96 people to whom the DDA of Catanzaro notified the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations in the context of the "Infectio" investigation which on 12 December last led to the execution of 23 arrests, twenty in prison and three to house arrest , and the seizure of assets for 10 million euros.

The charges contested by the suspects are, for various reasons, mafia association, criminal association aimed at trafficking drugs, possession and concealment of illegal weapons, extortion, threats, private violence and criminal association aimed at the commission of a series of crimes of accounting or economic-financial nature which had as their objective fraud against the banking system.

The notice of conclusion of the investigations, signed by the deputy prosecutors Domenico Guarascio, Paolo Sirleo, Antonio De Bernardo and Andrea Giuseppe Buzzelli, explores what emerged in May 2019 on the occasion of the " Malapianta " operation regarding the illegal activities of the gangs of ' ndrangheta of San Leonardo di Cutro (Mannolo, Zoffreo and Trapazzo) and their projection in Umbria, where they would have implanted a lucrative drug traffic even with the complicity of exponents of Albanian crime, altering, through extortion, free competition in execution of construction works.

The gangs were also active in favor of candidates for local administrative consultations. The alleged criminal activities would have been agreed with the Grande Aracri di Cutro gang, on which the San Leonardo faction depends.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/21/20 11:40 AM

'Ndrangheta, the boss Condello's lawyer: "The Ros offered me 10 billion for his capture"
by Francesco Tiziano - February 21 2020

Ten billion lire to get to the capture of Pasquale Condello "the supreme", the boss of the 'Ndrangheta Reggina considered among the absolute top of the "City" mandamento.

A proposal put forward by one of the Carabinieri del Ros, the leading intelligence of the Arma who actually on the evening of February 18, 2008 found the impregnable in a villa on the outskirts of Pellaro. A proposal received - and never taken into consideration - by the lawyer Antonio Marra, the criminal lawyer from Reggio Calabria who is accused in the "Gotha" trial.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/20 10:21 PM

In 2014 Dutch authorities started to notice 'strange movements' of Italian nationals of Calabrian origin, who on the borders with Germany had opened a growing number of businesses such as bars and cafes. Linked to the San Luca families.

The alliance to stop the clans in Germany and Holland

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...evano-il-caffe-nel-bar-della-ndrangheta/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/20 10:45 PM

The operation is called "European 'Ndrangheta Connection" and the investigations are still going on.

"The advantage of this investigation - according to the chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giovanni Bombardieri. - is that there has been coordination, collaboration between different authorities and judicial police in different European countries". The investigation under the aegis of Eurojust allowed to obtain great results never achieved before at European level, with numerous arrests and seizures of large quantities of drugs.

The suspects are of different nationalities: Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Moroccan and German. The various origins of those arrested also make us understand that in Germany the 'Ndrangheta is now a fully operational international criminal organization. "The 'ndrangheta - underlines Bombardieri -, as it happened many years ago in Northern Italy, presented itself with financial investments. The danger of this criminal organization was not felt because it did not present its completely illegal face. Today the 'ndrangheta has its full danger because it is delocalizing its criminal activities ".

According to Bombardieri the 'Ndrangheta now operates more in Germany than in Italy also because German legislation is still very lacking in the fight against the mafias.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/20 12:08 PM

'Ndrangheta, Alvaro clan also commanded in Australia: police operation in Reggio Calabria, 65 arrests !!

The investigations of the mobile team revealed that the top representatives of the Santâ€™Eufemia dâ€™Aspromonte venue sat at the tables where important decisions were made regarding the Australian venue. Some of them had even gone to Australia in the past to resolve disputes related to the stripping of a member who was sanctioned for a neglect but not expelled from the ranks of the â€˜Ndrangheta. The investigation allowed investigators, led by Francesco RattÃ , to monitor some summits during which the suspects referred to the positions and grades of the â€˜ndrangheta (such as the â€œsaintâ€, â€œCamorraâ€, â€œevangelistâ€, â€œSgarristaâ€, â€œlocal chiefâ€, â€œaccountantâ€), at ceremonies, the formation of a new egg, the creation of a new place in Santâ€™Eufemia dâ€™Aspromonte with the hoped for legitimization of the Polsi crime and independence from the Alvaro who, however, continue to control the neighboring country.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/27/20 10:05 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/28/20 10:19 AM

Request for indictment of the DDA of Catanzaro for 57 people involved in the anti-mafia investigation "Rimpiazzo" against the Piscopisani clan , with operational base in the hamlet of Piscopio di Vibo Valentia. The main one of the disputed charges is that of mafia association.

The Piscopisani clan would be governed by the "families" Fiorillo, Galati and Battaglia and would have become protagonists of extortion, robberies, attempted murders, drug trafficking and fictitious registration of goods. The request for indictment also affects members of the Mancuso clan of Limbadi and Nicotera.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/20 09:55 AM

Italian court names Australian businessmen Tony Madafferi and Danny Luppino as leaders of the â€˜Ndrangheta.

https://aboutthemafia.com/italian-court-names-two-australians-as-mafia-leaders

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/01/20 11:01 AM

Heavy sentence - 10 years imprisonment + 4,000 euro fine in addition to damages in favor of the civil parties Metropolitan City of Reggio and Municipality of Siderno - for Giuseppe Commisso better known as "u mastru", considered by investigators to be one of the leaders of the 'namesake family of' Ndrangheta that operates in Siderno.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/20 09:13 PM

Mafia princess reunites with â€˜godfatherâ€™ dad for her 50th birthday - in Lancashire

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mafia-princess-reunites-godfather-dad-21604531

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/04/20 12:00 PM

Drug Pact between Messina and Calabria, the repentant speak: 19 arrests
A criminal pact that united the two sides of the Strait, with a vast drug trafficking center. This was revealed by the Messina carabinieri, who at today's dawn carried out an order for pre-trial detention which led to 19 arrests.

The names of the arrested: Angelo Albarino, Giovanni Albarino, Stellario BrigandÃ¬, Fortunato CalabrÃ², Santo Chiara, Rinaldo Chierici, Roberto Cipriano, Giuseppe Coco, Alessandro Duca, Costantino Favasuli, Salvatore Favasuli, Adriano Fileti, Stefano Marchese, Gianpaolo Milazzo, Giovanni Morabito, Francesco Spadaro, Maria Visalli, Marcello Viscuso. Under house arrest: Orazio Famulari.

On the Calabrian side, the gang that was once ruled by the boss of the 'Ndrangheta Giuseppe Morabito, called the â€œTiradrittoâ€, and on the Messina side by a criminal group "autonomous".

The interception, search and seizure activities that followed, "strengthened" by the statements of some collaborators of justice (including the head of the "messinese faction" of the organization) allowed the investigators to reconstruct a detailed picture.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/20 02:29 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/06/20 07:25 PM

Cold Case: Anti-mafia police in Cosenza on Friday arrested two men considered "important figures in organised crime" in the area, in connection with a murder that took place nearly 40 years ago. Mario Pranno, 64, and Francesco Cicero, 59, are suspected of involvement in the November 1981 murder of business owner Santo Nigro, who was killed in his shop. Investigators said Nigro's killing was ordered by the heads of the Perna-Pranno clan of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, for refusing to pay extortion.

Mario Pranno is a historical figure of the organized crime of Cosenza . He was sentenced with a final sentence for the murder of a child, Pasqualino Perri, 11 years old, which took place in a restaurant in Rende in 1978 and for the double murder of the brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo in 1991. The Bartolomeo were barred in a fishmonger and then buried in Sila. Their bodies have never been found.

Francesco Cicero is the brother of the boss Domenico serving a life sentence, currently detained at 41 bis.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/07/20 11:39 AM

The 'ndrangheta in the premises of the Milanese nightlife, the businessman Scarcella arrested: he has to serve 5 years and a month.
Flavio Scarcella, the 48-year-old entrepreneur is the link between the gangs and the security activity in the nightlife clubs. Scarcella, who at the time was free pending the appeal court's decision, was taken yesterday to his apartment by the agents of the mobile team.
Among the 11 defendants (all on trial with abbreviated rite), three had to answer for mafia association. In addition to Scarcella there were Agostino Catanzariti (sentenced to 14 years) and his son Saverio (8 years). Scarcella was head of the company SCF Security which was responsible for providing security personnel for some Milanese discos to which, according to the magistrates, "full-field protection" was provided through "a sort of extortion-bribe".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/08/20 01:38 PM

'Ndrangheta and drug trafficking, the "coca road" from Ecuador to Europe
Huge drug shipments organized by the Calabrian ' ndrangheta which, in South America, boasts direct contacts with coca producers..

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...strada-della-coca-dallecuador-alleuropa/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/11/20 02:19 PM

Ndrangheta and Coronavirus, the alleged Trimboli boss quarantined in Casorate
March 11, 2020

Among the many people who have returned to Calabria in recent days, there would also be the alleged boss of the 'ndrangheta Giuseppe Trimboli, who left his home in Casorate Primo on Monday to take refuge in his town of origin, PlatÃ¬.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/14/20 10:02 AM

Fugitive â€˜Ndrangheta Mafia boss busted while taking a smoke during Coronavirus lockdown http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...-boss-busted-while-taking-a-smoke-during (with photo of boss and video of hideout)

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/14/20 02:10 PM

lol i wonder if they nab even messina denaro because of this

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/20 02:09 AM

This crisis is also hurting their business like sports betting and even their drugs trafficking.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/15/20 03:41 AM

He is the son of the capobastone Antonio "The accountant" CordÃ¬, he died of cancer in 2005.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/20 09:00 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/16/20 11:15 PM

Police in Buccinasco (Milan) arrested Agostino Catanzariti (72) of Plati. He must serve a residual sentence for mafia association, extortion, false testimony and drug dealing. Catanzariti was for decades the right arm of the Papalia, always present in the criminal organizations of the 'ndrina.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/19/20 02:03 PM

The Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria arrested the boss Cosimo Borghetto , 66, operating in the city of Reggio Calabria, for failure to comply with the requirements imposed by the special surveillance measure with residence obligation to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Borghetto was placed under house arrest.

The district magistrate of Catanzaro released Nazzareno FranzÃ¨ , 58, who ended up in prison in December. It is one of the first release in Italy motivated due to the coronavirus emergency. He is indicated by the investigating magistrate as top representative of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan of Vibo Valentia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/25/20 03:01 AM

This crisis is also hurting their business like sports betting and even their drugs trafficking.

Cocaine & Corona: How the Pandemic is Squeezing Italian Crime Groups

https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/11905...ndemic-is-squeezing-italian-crime-groups

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/26/20 01:30 AM

Three arrests for the murder of Antonio De Pietro, of Nicotera, in the Vibonese area. The blood event took place near the cemetery of Piscopio (fraction of Vibo Valentia) on April 11, 2005.

Michele Fiorillo, 36 years old, aka "Zarrillo" and Rosario Battaglia, 36 years old, aka Â«SarinoÂ», since they are held accountable, together with Rosario Fiorillo, 31, aka Â«PulcinoÂ» (at the time he was fifteen-year-old), all from Piscopio and all already detained for other crimes and to be held at the top of the Piscopisani clan.

The arrested allegedly acted in revenge, as the victim was believed to be "guilty" of having an extramarital affair with Rosario Fiorillo's mother, because of which the woman was squandering the family assets. This relationship would have been strongly opposed by Rosario Fiorillo, believed to be the material perpetrator of the crime. The statements of the Vibonese collaborators of justice, Raffaele Moscato and Andrea Mantella are fundamental for the investigation.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/28/20 06:42 PM

Police of Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria) arrested Rocco MolÃ¨, 25, son of the boss Girolamo, for drug trafficking. His father serves a life sentence. 537 kilograms of cocaine and over 24 kilograms of marijuana were seized.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/20 07:25 PM

How active are clans like the Condellos and Teganos? There doesnâ€™t seem to be much information on them but law enforcement notes that the arrests of Pasquale Condello and Giovanni Tegano were very significant as they were two of the most powerful bosses. They even called Condello a super boss.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/20 09:37 PM

Still very active in the city of Reggio Calabria.

The northern zone of the city is run by Condello-Saraceno-Imerti-Fontana
The central zone De Stefano-Tegano-Libri
The southern zone Latella-Ficara.
Sbarre and Gebbione districts by Labate

Some interesting info specifically about the Ndragheta, quick listen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2XsI1wCLI&list=WL&index=39&t=183s

This one is a little longer and specifically focused on Siderno, includes Toronto mostly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7wwRCGTqo

This one is about the International scope..Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56rw0uCq89Y&list=WL&index=43&t=0s

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/01/20 10:32 AM

The level of security against Catanzaro's attorney Nicola Gratteri has been raised from second to first degree. The provincial committees for order and public safety of Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria established it, which met on several occasions to establish the measures to be taken to safeguard the magistrate following warnings of a possible attack against him that emerged after the maxi-operation "Rinascita-Scott" of 18 December against the Vibonese gangs. "In addition to assigning me two armored off-road vehicles, resistant to explosives, a series of safeguards have been adopted to prevent attacks on the journey that I travel daily from home to the office and vice versa," writes the same prosecutor.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/01/20 10:23 PM

Coronavirus, the archbishop's appeal to Reggio Calabria: "Never give in to the 'ndrangheta"
April 01, 2020

The Church in Reggio against usury . Among the social effects that arise from the coronavirus pandemic there is an aspect that concerns those who are unable to make ends meet: mostly shopkeepers, entangled in the running costs of their often family-run business, which can give in to the temptation to ask for support to the 'ndrine .

"A possibility that pains" the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova who, through the archbishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, addresses "a heartfelt appeal to these people in desperation".

Anyone see that documentary on these guys based out of Australia a few years back? I think it was about a chap called manfredi and barbarito and their families are also big in Calabria. Good documentary and would highly recommend it

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/02/20 07:44 AM

^ madafferi and barbaro

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/04/20 05:19 AM

Still very active in the city of Reggio Calabria.

The northern zone of the city is run by Condello-Saraceno-Imerti-Fontana
The central zone De Stefano-Tegano-Libri
The southern zone Latella-Ficara.
Sbarre and Gebbione districts by Labate

What family runs Scilla? Would that be Latella-Ficara? And it seems as though the De Stefano family is the powerhouse in the city of Reggio. Perhaps the whole Ndrangheta too. The De Stefanos, Nirtas and Piromallis seem to be the three strongest and possibly richest Ndrangheta clans from everything Iâ€™ve read online.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/09/20 07:39 PM

The Court of Freedom of Reggio Calabria has granted house arrest to Antonino Creazzo , an investigator of the district anti-mafia directorate of Reggio "Eyphemos" who hit the political-mafia axis hard in the towns of the Tyrrhenian province of Reggina, Sant'Eufemia in Aspromonte, Sinopoli and San Procopio.

Antonino Creazzo is the brother of Domenico, the mayor of Sant'Eufemia and regional councilor of Calabria (who had been elected in the election of 26 January) also involved, and under house arrest, in the same operation and therefore suspended from the prestigious institutional position.

Creazzo is accused of political-mafia electoral exchange for having worked with some strands of the powerful mafia dynasty of the Alvaros, the historic hegemonic gang of Sinopoli, to convey to the brother candidate at Palazzo Campanella the preferences of the circuits' ndranghetistici in exchange for favors and utility.

Creazzo is the husband of Ivana Fava, daughter of the Carabinieri brigadier Antonino Fava killed in the early 1990s in the dramatic phase of the continental massacres on the Reggio-Palermo axis.

Ivana Fava (also in the Carabinieri with a non-operational role) is not however investigated in the "Eyphemos" operation.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/09/20 08:06 PM

And it seems as though the De Stefano family is the powerhouse in the city of Reggio. Perhaps the whole Ndrangheta too. The De Stefanos, Nirtas and Piromallis seem to be the three strongest and possibly richest Ndrangheta clans from everything Iâ€™ve read online.

Morabito is also one of the most powerful and wealhiest underworld families in Calabria. The country of origin is Africo in Locride , from which business and offenses are managed in northern Italy and also abroad. In Milan the main allies of the Morabito are the Bruzzanites and the Palamara , clans originating from Africo . But they can count on links with the Pansera, Versace , Zappia, Mollica, Criaco and Scriva. They are also located in the provinces of Varese , Como and Monza and Brianza. In Rome they are reported in the Flaminio district.The Morabito gang has ramifications in South America, Europe and Africa.

In the 80s 'ndrangheta war more than 50 people were killed in Africo .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/20 09:55 PM

At risk of infection from Coronavirus, Melicucco boss from prison to house arrest
April 10, 2020

The Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria, at the request of the lawyers Guido Contestabile and Angelo Sorace, granted house arrest for health reasons to the alleged boss of the 'ndrangheta of Melicucco, center of the Plain of Gioia Tauro, Rocco Santo Filippone , 72 years old .

Filippone, a trusted man of the Piromalli clan, is accused in the Court of Assizes in the '' Ndrangheta massacre 'trial, with the ex-chief of command of Brancaccio of Palermo Giuseppe Graviano, following an investigation into the ' Ndrangheta-Cosa Nostra ' relationship in the massacre strategy of the early 90s coordinated by the deputy attorney of the Dda of Reggio Giuseppe Lombardo.

The provision, which will be in force until the Coronavirus emergency persists - the lawyers say - was necessary for the "particularly risky conditions" of their client who is suffering from serious cardio-vascular diseases, as also attested by sanitary facilities of the Turin prison of the 'Vallette' where Filippone was restricted.

Rocco Santo Filippone, whom the investigators of the Reggio Calabria District Prosecutor identify as "the ambassador for private affairs" of the Piromalli gang, and nicknamed "the monk" for his confidentiality, is called to answer for mafia association and to have coordinated the double murder of the carabinieri Antonino Fava and Vincenzo Garofalo on 18 January 1994 near the Scilla motorway junction, in the more general framework of the attempt to disarticulate the state.

The double murder, according to the testimony of the collaborator of justice Consolato Villani, was carried out by Giuseppe CalabrÃ², nephew of Filippone, known in the 'ndrangheta as a ruthless killer and feared for his propensity to carry out particularly serious criminal actions. Rocco Santo Filippone was assigned to house arrest at his son's home in Rivoli, in the province of Turin.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/12/20 10:47 AM

Antonio Ribecco, 59, died in prison. He was a boss of the Calabrian gangs held in the Voghera prison and was considered the referent of the 'ndrangheta in Umbria. Ribecco died in a hospital in Milan where he had been hospitalized for about a week for Covid-19 and other pathologies.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/20 01:16 PM

April 24, 2020, 2:58 p.m.
Crime - Duisburg
fight against Mafia: 14 men accused of cocaine trafficking
Germany

Duisburg (dpa / lnw) - In the fight against the international cocaine trade of the mafia organization `Ngdrangheta, the Duisburg public prosecutor has brought charges against 14 men. The accused between 30 and 56 years of age are accused of participating in the year-long trade in a total of around 680 kg of cocaine, as the Duisburg regional court announced on Friday. It is said that more than 400 kilograms of cocaine were actually transported, and a further 280 kilograms were "concrete negotiations". Eight suspects are in custody, a spokeswoman said.

The indictment also suggests that some of the men are suspected: education and support for a foreign criminal organization, commercial money laundering and fraud, tax evasion and violations of the Arms Act.

The accused are accused - in different offenses - of having traded in cocaine or supported the trade between January 2014 and December 2018. In individual cases, this involved quantities of up to 220 kilograms per crime. The purchase price is said to have been up to 36,000 euros per kilo of cocaine.

Prosecutors assume that drug trafficking in 16 of the accused cases was financed and organized by members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. It is the most powerful mafia organization in the world and controls the international cocaine trade. In Germany it has a firm foothold, is particularly active in NRW.

Five accused men are members of the 'Ndrangheta, according to the indictment. Six are said to have supported the association. The court spokeswoman added that among the three other men were those who, according to the indictment, were working in the background and were supposed to have provided bug-proof cell phones.

The pattern of the crime presumably looked like this: The narcotics are said to have come regularly from South America to Europe - for example to the Netherlands or to Belgium - and then been distributed within Europe. In advance, suppliers agreed on prices and logistics, so-called "brokers" had clarified the desired amount of cocaine with the families of 'Ndrangheta. The drugs are said to have been imported into Europe by air or sea. With a partially sophisticated camouflage: According to the indictment, companies were sometimes founded that officially ordered legal goods such as bananas or wood, in order to then camouflage the cocaine in a joint transport.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/26/20 01:39 PM

Membership
Barbaro 'ndrina â€" led by Domenico "Aussie" Barbaro (arrested in 2008); originally from PlatÃ¬
Sergi 'ndrina â€" led by Paolo Sergi; originally from PlatÃ¬
Papalia 'ndrina â€" led by Domenico Papalia; originally from PlatÃ¬
Trimboli 'ndrina (anglicised in Trimbole) â€" led by Rocco Trimboli (imprisoned in 2012); originally from PlatÃ¬
Arena 'ndrina - led by Francesco (Frank) Arena; originally from San Luca
Italiano 'ndrina - led by Domenico Italiano; originally from Palmi
Strangio 'ndrina â€" led by Domenico Nirta; originally from San Luca
Romeo 'ndrina â€" led by Unknown; originally from San Luca
Morabito 'ndrina â€" led by Unknown; originally from Africo
Alvaro 'ndrina â€" led by Giuseppe Alvaro; originally from Sinopoli

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/20 10:49 AM

Rivers of drugs from Gioia Tauro, the relations between the Calabrian 'ndrine and the Brazilians
by Arcangelo Badolati - April 27, 2020
'ndrangheta, cocaine, drugs, joy tauro, Calabria, ChronicleGilberto Aparecido dos Santos
The port of Santos. One of the most important and popular ports of Latin America with cargo ships that shuttle from every corner of the world. Ships leaving for Antwerp, Algeciras, Rotterdam, Marseille, Sidney, Melbourne, Genoa and ... Gioia Tauro.

It is precisely among those docks crowded with men and goods that the most powerful drug traffickers on the land of Samba - those of Primeiro Comando da Capital - and the brokers of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta organize shipments to Europe and Australia.

It is from the heart of Brazil, in fact, that hundreds of kilos of cocaine produced and processed in Bolivia have been shipped to Italy. "Stuff" of first quality landed in part, in recent years, in the port of Gioia Tauro.

The city of the State of Sao Paulo, made famous on the planet by the coffee trade and by the great Pele who played for Santos, has become for the Calabrian mafia what was once the BogotÃ of "Don Pablo" Escobar Gaviria. It is there, in fact, that our local bosses send their emissaries to deal with the CCP's "cronies".

The last shipment destined for Gioia Tauro was blocked and seized last November by the Brazilian federal police before it left the Paulista port. 200 kilos of "white powder" were crammed into a container. And in a residence in San Paolo, in July 2019, the superboss Nicola Assisi and his son, Patrick, originally from Grimaldi, a small town in the Cosentino area, but operating in Piedmont, were arrested.

The two, long fugitives, have been found in possession of money, drugs and punches useful to seal naval containers. On the following September 16, however, he was arrested by agents of the South American federal police Andre de Oliveira Macedo, called "Andre do Rap", discovered in a villa in Angra dos Reis, a well-known seaside resort about 150 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro.

"According to information from international intelligence agencies, the man was in charge of the CCP group in charge of sending drugs from the port of Santos to Calabria , and from there to the rest of Europe," said the Brazilian commissioner after arrest Fabio Pinheiro Lopes. The intercontinental network of drug trafficking, set up by Calabrian and South American fugitives, has lost another important shirt in recent days. Yes, because thanks to the American Goddess, the Brazilian police arrested in Maputo, Mozambique, Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, better known as "Fuminho", one of the best known narcos in the country and historic leader of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (CCP).

The man was extradited after a few hours to Brazil aboard a plane of the South American Armed Forces with a dozen police officers on board. The Maputo authorities had arrested, after twenty years of hiding, the boss who now seemed impregnable, contesting that he had illegally entered the country.

"Fuminho" like "Andre do Rap" could tell a lot of things about the relationship his organization had with the Calabrians. Will talk? Difficult to answer. It will depend on the offer that will be made in exchange for a possible collaboration. In the marketing of cocaine, in the last thirty years, the 'ndrangheta, as well as with the Brazilians, has flirted with the Colombian cartels of Cali and Medellin, the Autodefendas Unidas de Colombia, the Usuga clan, the Norte del Valle group and of "La Officina"; and with the Mexicans from the Gulf cartel, Sinaloa and Los Zetas.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/01/20 10:08 AM

The designer Gianni Versace met the boss Franco Coco Trovato in Lecco, immediately after the Adduara attack. This was stated by Nino Fiume, a former affiliate of the 'Ndrangheta, in a statement that emerged during the interrogation of the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo as part of the "'Ndrangheta massacre" trial. This was announced by Klaus Davi, who posted on his profile the audio passage that refers to the episode mentioned by the repentant during his deposition in Reggio Calabria. "The interrogation concerned the relationship between Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta," explains Davi.
The repentant Fiume (ex boyfriend of Giorgia De Stefano and son-in-law of Paolo De Stefano, killed in 1985 in Archi) rebuilds the relationship between the two mafia associations. Here is the statement: â€œI think we are talking about the summer of the Addaura attack. As a reference I have that of Pierino Liandri - right arm of the boss Jimmy Mianio (killed in 1992, ed) - and that of the meeting of the stylist Gianni Versace with the boss Franco Coco, which took place in Lecco at that time ". Nino Fiume has been defined by the PM Giuseppe Lombardo as a 'key' figure to unhinge the mafia power of the powerful De Stefano clan.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/20 01:55 AM

Cutro's powerful 'Ndrangheta boss, Nicolino Grande Aracri, has also asked to be released for the danger of contracting the Coronavirus in the Milanese prison of Opera in which he is held under 41 bis.

Nicolino Grande Aracri ( 1959 ), called Il professore or Mano di gomma , capobastone arrested with dowry of " International crime " received by Antonio Pelle and referent for the Crotone, successor to Antonio CiampÃ , as well as crime chief of central-northern Calabria. Sentenced to life imprisonment by the court of cassation in the Kyterion trial on 6 June 2019 for the murder of Antonio Dragone in 2004 during the Cutro feud.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/20 11:24 AM

During the night, the carabinieri of the ROS of Vibo Valentia and of the Heliborne Squadron Cacciatori di Calabria arrested the fugitive Gregorio GiofrÃ¨, 57 years old.
The man was wanted since December 19, 2019, following the precautionary order issued by the investigating judge of Catanzaro, as part of the Rinascita-Scott operation, that led to the custodial measure against 334 people, responsible, for various reasons, for mafia association, murder, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and other serious crimes.
GiofrÃ¨ would be a top representative of the club San Gregorio d'Ippona (VV), related to Rosario FiarÃ¨, historical local chief, currently under house arrest.
After the capture of Saverio Razionale and Gregorio Gasparro he had remained the most important exponent of the mafia structure in freedom. The club of San Gregorio d'Ippona, since the 1980s, has been faithful to the Mancusos of Limbadi and its most influential members have been central to allow the Mancusis themselves to manage the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta together.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/20 11:23 AM

The Quaestor of Reggio Calabria, Maurizio Vallone, banned the funeral in public and solemn form for the ex-boss Giuseppe Perre, 83 years old, already under special surveillance, accused in the "Mandamento Jonico" trial . The ceremony was therefore held in the early hours of today, in the cemetery of PlatÃ¬ (RC), in a strictly private form. The man had died yesterday from natural causes in his home.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/20 02:21 PM

May 5 2020 - undisclosed location in Calabria.
Brief video footage of a carabinieri raid on a fugitive member of the â€˜Ndrangheta.

https://m.ilgiornale.it/video/cronache/ndrangheta-cos-i-carabinieri-stanano-latitante-1860503.html

Itâ€˜s odd seeing Italian cops all suited up military-style. Iâ€™m not denying that mobsters are dangerous, but it ainâ€™t Mexico. Possible PR stunt.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/20 04:27 PM

In Calabria they always use The Hunters squadron, the Carabinieri are military police anyway.

Posted By: LuanKuci

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/20 05:12 PM

Yeah well, then itâ€™s the first time I see the â€œCacciatori di Calabriaâ€ wearing Kevlar helmets matched with camouflaged gear. Iâ€™ve always seen footage of them wearing berets and regolar non-foreign war attire. During the recent prison riots, after some mobsters managed to escape, the â€œCacciatoriâ€ were on it and none looked like they were about to go on patrol in Kandahar.

Iâ€™m not against it, the safer they are the better.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/20 10:24 PM

Yeah they wear the famous red berets more often, but sometimes it's necessary to wear full gear in particular during the night.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/07/20 10:10 PM

There is also the name of Francesco Ventrici on the list of 376 prisoners released for the Covid emergency and sent to house arrest because they have pathologies that would have endangered their life in case of coronavirus infection. Ventrici, 48 year old from San Calogero, Vibo Valentia, is one of the main cocaine brokers in Europe.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/20 04:09 PM

Carmine Alvaro (Sinopoli), Sebastiano Giorgi (San Luca), Rocco Morabito (Africo) and Demetrio Serraino (Reggio Calabria) have also been released.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/10/20 11:10 AM

The video that frames the boss of the 'ndrangheta: the exchange of pizzini to command from prison
Pizzini passed to the children during the interviews, meetings with other bosses of the 'ndrangheta taking advantage of the visits of family members in prison, messages sent outside: here are the videos that frame Antonio Agresta of Volpiano, boss of the' ndrangheta in the North and detained under Â«High SecurityÂ» in Turin.

https://video.lastampa.it/torino/il...per-comandare-dal-carcere/114337/114354?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/11/20 10:52 AM

COSCHE IN CRISIS
In Calabria the 'ndrangheta bosses trapped by "traitor" children
by Arcangelo Badolati - May 10, 2020

The "traitor" children. Never in the 'Ndrangheta would anyone have imagined that children would deny their fathers. That the offspring grown on bread and lead would have emptied the sack causing brothers, cousins, uncles and aunts to get in trouble, violating the inviolable principle of mafia silence that has always governed the things of organized crime in Calabria. And instead, in recent years, it has happened several times. Historical gangs of the most powerful mafia of the Old Continent entered into crisis discovering that the designated heir of the capobastone was incredibly emptying the sack with the magistrates and that his "cantatas" did not spare even the "august" parent.

The last to launch into the arms of the state is Dante Mannolo, male descendant of Alfonso Mannolo, charismatic character of the 'ndrina di San Leonardo di Cutro. Finished behind bars, the son of the feared and respected "Don Alfonso" did not hesitate to break the delivery of silence and tell all he knew just to leave that hell of bars, gates and chains in which the Dda di Catanzaro, directed from Nicola Gratteri, he had sent it. Trafficking, crimes, extortion, relations with politics and even "adjustments" of processes: Dante spoke about everything with the anti-mafia prosecutors Paolo Sirleo and Domenico Guarascio. Nobody in the "kingdom" that was of Nicolino Grande Aracri would have imagined such a catastrophe. Before him, a few kilometers away, two years ago, another "son of art" had started to make the "infamous": Francesco Farao,

As he, on the other side of the region, would have done, a year later, Emanuele Mancuso, of Limbadi, heir of Pantaleone Mancuso, first-rate star of Vibonese crime and known by all as "the engineer". None of the Mancusos had ever "betrayed" the family led by "Zi Luigi", who has recently been re-arrested as part of the extraordinary "Rinascita-Scott" maxi investigation. The last three singing "scions" went to keep company with Giuseppe GiampÃ , from Lamezia Terme, son of Francesco GiampÃ , intended as "the professor", superboss of the central area of â€‹â€‹Calabria. Joseph has been repentant for five years now and is guilty of many blood events. In Cosenza, last year, the son of one of the historical leaders of nomadic crime has also chosen to collaborate with justice: his name is Celestino Abbruzese and everyone has always called him "kitten". His father, Fioravante, is serving final convictions for murder.

In the past, however, it was Pino Scriva, in the 1980s, who left the world of 'Ndrangheta, putting aside the history of his family which, on the other hand, he had long counted in the Plain of Gioia Tauro. After him, in the 1990s, it was Antonio Zagari, son of the Varese boss, Giacomo (originally from Rosarno) who revealed the secrets of the 'ndrine in Lombardy to the magistrates of the DDA of Milan. Then came a woman, Giusy Pesce, becoming the first repentant of a family never touched by direct "collaborations" with the robes.

Posted By: Machin1

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/20 03:01 PM

Dear Friends,
here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TiQsmtGmEgqzlwjjsCYU13ThbrmXB4bK

to my last, unpublished paper, title: â€œâ€˜Ndrangheta in Great Toronto Area: the latest developments of its governing bodyâ€.
It's the continuation of my previous one, published here:

https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profi...onto-area-canada-hit-but-still-too-power

I hope of your interest.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/20 07:21 PM

There's always something with the Barbaro's, since their grandfather became a turncoat an was shot dead in 1990.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/14/20 09:30 AM

Drug deals between Naples and Calabria, the role of the 'ndrangheta in the fratricidal war of the Camorra

https://calabria.gazzettadelsud.it/...ra-ba0d4c91-6e49-4085-b5bc-ba678c92b5fc/

There's always something with the Barbaro's, since their grandfather became a turncoat an was shot dead in 1990.

They caught him!

https://aboutthemafia.com/ricardo-barbaro-arrested-after-a-10-day-manhunt

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/20 04:18 PM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/20 05:12 PM

according to what he said it seems to open a ndrangheta locale is by far easier than a cosa nostra family

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/16/20 02:36 AM

41 bis to the boss of Legnano Vincenzo Rispoli. The hard prison order was notified to the head of the Leganese 'locale'. Rispoli from Livorno, who is in the prison of Tolmezzo in Friuli Venezia Giulia has been the subject of numerous investigations into the 'Ndrangheta for years . Investigations which revealed his role as the boss of the 'ndrangheta.
A leader who would have been recognized as such not only by the 'ndrine of the area, but also and above all at the regional and interregional level. Bad Boys, Inifinito, Crime and Krimisa are the names of the main operations of the police that have seen the fifty-seven year old involved in the last eleven years. Eight of whom spent in prison. In 2017 Rispoli had returned to freedom in Legnano,where he also opened a fruit and vegetable shop. But where he had also begun, according to investigators, to make his power felt in the violent ways that would have distinguished him.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/16/20 02:44 AM

Carmine Alvaro, a leading expression of the Sinopoli clan of the same name, is back in prison, among the 498 prisoners for mafia and serious crimes ended up at home since the coronavirus emergency began. Sixty-one years old, but suffering from various pathologies, he had been considered among the subjects statistically at risk in case of contagion by Covid19, for this reason on April 21 last the judges had sent him back to "his" Sinopoli, with the absolute ban on having contacts with anyone who was not one of the cohabiting family members. Not even twenty-four hours later, Alvaro was caught violating the prescriptions.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/17/20 04:12 PM

Contracts rigged in Reggio, agreement between bosses, entrepreneurs and public managers: 19 suspects

External competition in association of the mafia type, criminal association aimed at disrupting the auction, as well as fictitious header - aggravated by the mafia method - corruption, environmental crimes and abuse of office. These are the crimes contested by 19 suspects in Reggio Calabria who received the provision of "Notice of conclusion of preliminary investigations".

The police operation - called "Rupes" - is based on the results of the investigations conducted by the Gico GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria, against "colluded" entrepreneurs with representatives of the city gangs and corrupt public officials who, by associating between them, they determined favorably - between 2009 and 2013 - for companies attributable to subjects contiguous to the families "Condello", "Libri", "Tegano", as well as "Paviglianiti" of San Lorenzo and "Iamonte" of Melito di Porto Salvo , the results of various tenders for public works.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/18/20 04:54 PM

Carmine Il Grande , 61 years old, alleged boss of Parghelia, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for mafia association in the process born from the "Costa Pulita" operation of the DDA of Catanzaro, returns in total freedom. Il Grande is considered one of the main exponents of the Vibonese 'ndrangheta and one of the main condemned in the Costa Pulita trial.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/20/20 09:23 AM

There are 101 exponents of the 'ndrangheta, organic to the major gangs of the province of Reggio Calabria, with different hierarchical roles within them, who have requested and obtained the citizenship income.

Among them, also prominent exponents of the best known families of 'ndrangheta operating in the plain of Gioia Tauro or the powerful ndrine of the Tegano and Serraino families. Others, on the other hand, are capibastone of the major gangs of Locride, including the 'ndrina Commisso-Rumbo-Figliomeni of Siderno, the' ndrina CordÃ¬ of Locri, the 'ndrina Manno-Maiolo of Caulonia and the' ndrina D'Agostino di Canolo.

Even the children of the "Italian Pablo Escobar", known to the "cronies" of the 'ndrangheta as "Baby", Roberto Pannunzi , unanimously considered by Italian and American investigators as one of the world's largest cocaine brokers and who boasted of weigh the money instead of counting it, they are among the undue earners of the measure.

One of them, the eldest son Alessandro, in addition to being married to the daughter of one of the world's largest Colombian cocaine producers, was also definitively condemned for the importation of several tons of narcotic drug into Italy.

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/22/20 10:03 AM

Operation Mala Civitas shows over 100 â€˜Ndrangheta bosses and members collected welfare cheques http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ows-over-100-ndrangheta-bosses-and-membe

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/28/20 12:24 PM

Dozens arrested in 'Ndrangheta contract-rigging case
'Criminal cartel' of businessmen, public officials across Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, May 28 - Italian police on Thursday carried out dozens of arrests across Italy against a "criminal cartel" composed of businessmen and public officials that allegedly rigged contracts in favour of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia. The probe targeted "the business and entrepreneurial profiles" of the Piromallis, a clan operating in the Piana di Gioia Tauro. Finance guards also seized assets and companies worth some 103 million euros.
Some 500 finance guards sprang into action in Calabria, in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Cosenza and Vibo Valentia, in Sicily between Messina, Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento, in Campania - at Benevento and Avellino - in Milan and Brescia in Lombardy, as well as in Alessandria, Gorizia, Pisa, Bologna and Rome.
'Operation Waterfront' netted functionaries of the motorway maintenance group ANAS and municipal technicians, who were among those who steered contracts worth over 100 million euros into the hands of the Piromallis.
An MP for the opposition League party, Domenico Furgiuele, was placed under investigation for suspected complicity in bid rigging in the probe.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, controlling the European cocaine trade.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/31/20 12:22 PM

Three indictments for an "excellent" ambush that on 9 July 2003 risked disrupting, more than they were at the time, the internal structures of the powerful Mancuso gang in Limbadi and sowing chaos.

For the attempted murder of the boss Ciccio Mancuso (aka Tabacco), 63 years of Limbadi and for the murder of his lieutenant Raffaele Fiamingo, 44 years of Rombiolo (known as Lele the Viking), next 14 July - as ordered by the gup District - the 71-year-old boss Cosmo Mancuso (called Michelina or Cannuni) must appear before the judges of the Assize Court of Catanzaro ; Antonio Prenesti (aka Yo-yo), 54 years of Nicotera, and Domenico Salvatore Polito , 56 years of Vibo.

Cosmo Mancuso would have come into conflict with his nephew Ciccio Mancuso and hence the decision to ambush him while he was in the company of his "shoulder guard" Raffaele Fiammingo.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/04/20 06:37 AM

'Ndrangheta in Veneto, the hands of the Arena-Nicoscia gang on Verona: 23 arrests for mafia association, fraud, money laundering, extortion, drug trafficking, corruption and other crimes. An autonomous structure but attributable to the Arena-Nicoscia gang in Isola Capo Rizzuto, in the province of Crotone.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/20 08:10 AM

A supercosca made up of nomadic criminals - the so-called mafia clan of the "gypsies" - and Ndranghetists attributable to the traditional partnerships of the Calabrian mafia active in Sibaritide , would be responsible for the bloody events and the repeated intimidations and incendiary attacks carried out in the last two years against agricultural entrepreneurs, tourist structures, construction and construction companies, commercial and catering companies.

The criminal group would also be behind the ambush with AK-47s of Francesco Elia on Wednesday. He was a reputed member of the 'Ndrangheta clan Forastefano. His father the boss Alfredo Elia was also murdered decades ago.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/06/20 10:24 PM

^^^^
The group is suspected of 6 other murders since 2018 to present.Leonardo Portoraro, Pietro Longobucco, Antonio Sanfilippo, Vito Sposato, Pietro Greco and Salvatore Romano.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/10/20 04:22 PM

Police arrested 20 members of a 'Ndrangheta branch based in Trentino-Alto Adige in the north-east of Italy linked with the Italiano-Papalia clan of Delianuova, on charges of mafia-type association, extortions, kidnapping, drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, fraudulent bankruptcy and counterfeiting documents.

Posted By: Machin1

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/20 01:02 PM

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https://www.cosanostranews.com/2020/06/latest-developments-of-ndrangheta.html

"... in-depth analysis of the â€˜Ndrangheta in the Greater Toronto Area ..."

Not all of them are linked to the Italiano-Papalia Clan, but are members of other clans as well. I am still under the impression that Bolzano is still an open city since the end of the Second Ndrangheta War.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/14/20 12:15 AM

Criminal synergy and mutual favors between Calabrian bosses and top of Cosa Nostra. An ancient agreement that re-emerged yesterday in the Court of Assizes in Reggio Calabria in the "'Ndrangheta massacre" trial from the words of the collaborator of justice, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, the Catania man who has always affirmed the iron pact between the Palermo mafia and the in the years of the continental massacres, of the bombs detonated in Rome, Florence and Milan on the order of TotÃ² Riina to blackmail the state that did not intend to move back on hard prison and confiscations of property.

Answering the questions of the deputy attorney of the DDA of Reggio, Giuseppe Lombardo, the collaborator of justice remarked: "Yes, the 'Ndrangheta was part of the massacre strategy wanted by Riina".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/15/20 10:51 AM

Neofascists and Ndrangheta united by business: the investigation that reveals the traffics in the North
The maxi-investigation of Verona reveals the ever closer relationships between the ultra-right and the mafia environments. Who get rich at the expense of the state by taking advantage of the complicity of politics

"In the Mafia network there is no lack of "invisible" masonry, as in Calabria. When Professor Vallone boasts of being "master of the Mediterranean loggia of Crotone", Toffanin replies that the Calabrians have also opened "a loggia in Verona, in Borgo Trento", the neighborhood-good. And to act as a Masonic "temple guardian", who "has been controlling access for years", is a "marshal of the carabinieri", still unknown. The investigations would instead have identified another carabiniere, already in service to the anti-mafia, who warned Toffanin of the first stalking of the boss Antonio Giardino, even passing him a photo of him taken by the police. The same vigilante, in June 2016, had allowed the entire Mafia family to escape the first arrests for extortion and usury: they all ran away the night before."

https://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2020/06/15/news/verona-ndrangheta-neofascisti-1.349936

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/15/20 03:24 PM

At the top, a 60 year old native of Reggio, Mario Sergi, from Delianuova but transplanted for years to Bolzano, who according to the accusations directed and commanded the 'ndrina, also maintaining contacts with the local underworld. Another prominent figure is that of Francesco Perre, 59 year old from PlatÃ¬, considered the founder of the 'ndrina of Bolzano in the 90s, now residing in Calabria, would have agreed with Mario Sergi the supplies of cocaine to be sent to Bolzano.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/20 10:00 AM

Cocaine from South America managed by the 'ndrangheta, 9 arrests: searches in Reggio and Messina.
9 precautionary measures and 12 searches between the provinces of Bologna, Florence, Reggio Calabria, Messina and Viterbo for traffic, detention and drug dealing, and header fictitious goods. Linked to some of the most well-known families of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, active in the import of significant quantities of drugs, especially cocaine, from South America and intended for the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscan markets.
The suspects, according to the reconstruction of the investigators, used the most modern communication devices, made available by qualified Albanian contacts.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/20 10:14 AM

'Ndrangheta, 21 arrests in Reggio: blow to bosses and wingmen of the De Stefano-Tegano and Libri gangs. The accusations, for various reasons, are of mafia association, several extortions, illegal possession and port of arms, aggravated by the mafia method and facilitation. The name of the operation is "Malefix" and has led to searches and arrests, in addition to Reggio Calabria, also in Milan, Como, Naples, Pesaro Urbino and Rome.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/20 10:37 AM

One of the arrested is Giorgio De Stefano (born Giorgio Confello Fibio) is the illegitimate child of the powerful boss Don Paolino De Stefano, killed in 1985. Over the years, he had managed to mend relations with his half brothers, taking the bossâ€™s surname and entering the family criminal organization.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/20 02:48 PM

Police arrested 21 members of the Perna-Pranno clan of the 'Ndrangheta based in Cosenza on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, theft and illegal possession of weapons. Including Gianfranco Sganga, 50 years old, and Alfonsino Falbo, 51, son-in-law of Franco Perna, historical leader of the Cosenza mafia. Sganga, who was released from prison in 2016 after a conviction for mafia association, quickly got back in charge of the gang. The headquarters of the group's criminal activities was the San Vito area and the historic center of Cosenza.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/20 12:54 PM

Canada joins global bid to stop Mafia clans from exploiting COVID-19 economic collapse

https://o.canada.com/news/canada-jo...wcm/23f8d049-a255-4d8a-8090-254762dfd992

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/20 01:17 AM

Three murders in the popular Gallico district of the extreme northern suburbs of Reggio Calabria were part of the frictions between Gino Molinetti and Carmine De Stefano. The tension that arose had taken on worrying levels for the balance of the mafia of the city Reggio Calabria. The first murder dates back to the evening of February 15, 2018, when Pasquale Chindemi, the 53-year-old regent of the Condello family in the area, was shot dead, the second murder occurred on February 14, 2019 (a year later) when the 50-year-old Francesco Catalano was killed while he was returning home to the ArghillÃ district; the third is the innocent Fortunata "Donatella" Fortugno, the woman who lost her life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time because she secluded herself in the company of a prominent character, Demetrio Logiudice, he miraculously remained unharmed by the pistols. The group from Archi is "connected" to the ambitions of Gino Molinetti to obtain the regency of the Gallico club.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/20 12:32 PM

In the early hours of June 30, over 200 Carabinieri and Police officers arrested 12 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta in Piedmont, after a long and complex investigation conducted by the Italian authorities with the support of Europol and the law enforcement authorities of Croatia, France and Germany. The operation, called "Altan", began in 2017 towards the Alvaro clan, operating in Calabria and rooted in several cities in the country. This clan was active not only in Italy, but also in other EU states. The criminal group was involved in international drug trafficking (cannabis and cocaine) and trafficking in firearms. The investigations led the police to carry out 30 house searches and seized a rifle and some narcotics.

(source Europol)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/09/20 08:50 AM

A vast operation of the State Police is underway from the early hours of this morning, aimed at the execution of 12 arrests [11 in prison and 1 under house arrest] issued against top elements, lieutenants and affiliated to the powerful gangs of the 'Ndrangheta SERRAINO and LIBRI operating in the city of Reggio Calabria, all held responsible for mafia association and, in various capacities, for extortion, fictitious registration of assets, damage, port and illegal possession of firearms, corruption for acts contrary to official duties, illegal competition with violence or threat, fire, aggravated by the circumstance of the mafia method and facilitation.
The investigation has made it possible to ascertain how the top of the SERRAINO gang is currently represented by Maurizio Cortese, son-in-law of Paolo Pitasi, formerly trusted man of Francesco Serraino, the "mountain boss", assassinated during the second war of 'Ndrangheta. Over the years Cortese - captured as a fugitive in 2017 by the Mobile Squad and the Carabinieri - has acquired increasing importance within the mafia groups.
The investigation revealed several elements that demonstrate how the chief cosca had a cell phone available in prison - found on 9 April 2019 by the Prison Police - with which he was able to communicate confidentially with the outside world and to issue instructions to his wife who lent herself to act as a postman and to other associates, with the use of cryptic language but pertaining to the dynamics and criminal activities of the gang of which he continued to hold the reins despite the state of restriction.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/20 06:59 AM

Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta united in a "One Thing" to destabilize the institutions. Twenty-six years after the deadly ambush to two carabinieri - Antonino Fava and Giuseppe Garofalo (killed in Scilla on 18 January 1994) - prosecutors Giovanni Bombardieri and Giuseppe Lombardo asked for life imprisonment for Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Filippone, man of the Piromalli of Gioia Tauro, considered the instigators of the murders and the injury of two other soldiers.

The Calabrian aid to TotÃ² Riina
The massacre design implemented between 1990 and 1994, according to the will of TotÃ² Riina, according to the Reggio Prosecutor's Office was not only the work of Cosa Nostra. The 'Ndrangheta also joined the project with a decision made by seven heads of families, who gathered in a cottage in Nicotera. The bombs and ambushes should have made it clear to the government of the time that there was an agreement with the Mafias that had to be respected and that "nobody could have done without them". Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo in his five-day indictment explained that the ambush committed by the Consulate Villani and Giuseppe CalabrÃ² to the two carabinieri was "A terrorist-mafia act". It was claimed with the acronym "Falange Armata" to divert investigations and to remove suspicions from the 'Ndrangheta which, otherwise, could have lost strength and consensus.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/11/20 11:37 PM

'Ndrangheta in the North, the repentant: "The Nirta commanded in Aosta"
July 11, 2020
The drug trafficking routes discovered in Operation Gehenna
The existence of a local of the 'Ndrangheta in Aosta , where "the Nirta commanded", was confirmed by Domenico Agresta, one of the most important collaborators of justice of the Turin DDA, questioned today - by videoconference - at the Gehenna trial.

Agresta, 31, regretted it in 2016. In the interrogations rendered that year he had not spoken of the 'ndrangheta's activity in Aosta. Today he explained that "in our environment certain things are known, they are implied, and so, when I met Giuseppe Nirta , I did not need to specifically ask him that he was an affiliate and he was on Aosta: just as he knew that I was from Volpiano ".

Agresta also explained that "my uncle, Domenico Marando, told me that our families had always been united". Compared to the interrogations of 2016 he also added that a "Di Donato", of which he did not name, belongs to the local Aosta: but he did not recognize him in the photographs that were shown to him. Among the people involved in the investigation Geenna is Roberto Alex Di Donato, tried with the abbreviated rite, who today made use of the right not to answer.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/14/20 12:41 PM

The notorious and powerful 'Ndrangheta from the southern Italian region of Calabria has pocketed $ 45,000 from the Italian government that was intended for emergency relief to businesses because of Covid-19.

The Milan tax police have found the case and arrested eight people. They are suspected of participating in a criminal organization, made worse by the use of mafia methods, possession of weapons, money laundering, fictitious registration of goods and false invoices.

The 'Ndrangheta clan was associated with mob boss Lino Greco. The clan comes from the province of Crotone (in Calabria), but is also very active in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. Police conducted searches across Italy.

Four detainees were immediately sent to prison pending trial. The other four are under house arrest pending trial. The Italian police came across false invoices and front men during the investigation, and confiscated money and goods worth EUR 7.5 million.

Among those arrested is also a Chinese resident in the Tuscany region who helped launder large sums of money sent to China. Large amounts were also channeled to accounts in England and Bulgaria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/15/20 07:17 AM

Cosche di 'ndrangheta in Veneto: 33 arrests and over 100 suspects. The affairs of the 'Ndrangheta increasingly moved to the regions of northern Italy. In Veneto in particular where the carabinieri arrested 33 people for mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, robbery, usury, receiving stolen goods, money laundering and other crimes.
The arrests were carried out in Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Calabria.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/21/20 09:05 AM

'Ndrangheta: blitz between Italy and Switzerland, 75 arrests. 158 suspects. Today's operation was conducted by the Guardia di Finanza and the Swiss police. 75 people arrested accused of being linked to gangs of the 'Ndrangheta.
A total of 158 suspects have been involved in the crime of mafia association, association dedicated to the international trafficking of drugs, money laundering, fictitious registration of goods, corruption and other crimes, all aggravated by the mafia methods.
Calabrian organized crime families are in check, operating mainly in the territory that connects Lamezia Terme to the province of Vibo Valentia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/22/20 07:04 AM

Light on the Commisso di Siderno clan, "dirty" affairs from Calabria to Umbria: 8 suspects
by Rocco Muscari - July 22, 2020

The Reggio District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office closed preliminary investigations relating to the "Core business" investigation , which took place in December last year between Calabria and Umbria. There are 8 suspects by the DDA - in particular by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, by the adjunct Giuseppe Lombardo and by the substitutes Simona Ferraiuolo and Giovanni Calamita - which disputes various crimes in various capacities and in different ways, including participation in an association for crime of mafia type, the fictitious header of goods and more.

The main suspect is Cosimo Commisso born in 1950, in the role of head and organizer of the association, as "subject to the top of the Siderno company ". The investigation revealed the interests of the Commisso family both in the safeguarding of assets attributable to the Crupi family, partly involved in the "Maple" operation, and in investments on land in the Perugia area to be used for vineyards for the production of wine to be marketed in Canada.

The other suspects are: Francesco Commisso, Antonio RodÃ , Giuseppe Minnici, Vincenzo Crupi, Rocco Natale Crupi, Giuseppe Crupi and Loriana RodÃ .

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/20 08:34 AM

Drug trafficking managed by the San Luca 'ndrangheta, 14 arrests. The State police has completed a vast operation aimed at executing various orders of pre-trial detention in prison issued against prominent elements of the Mammoliti and Giorgi families of San Luca and other individuals from Locride and the Piana di Gioia Tauro, believed to be responsible for criminal association aimed at cocaine trafficking.

The investigators of the Siderno police station and of the mobile team of the Reggio Calabria police headquarter also carried out numerous searches. Bunkers were discovered in the homes of some arrested. About 100 State Police officers employed.

The investigations conducted by the Siderno police station began with the capture of the ex-fugitive Rocco Mammoliti, arrested in the Netherlands on June 9, 2016 and extradited to Italy on August 18 of the same year. The DDA managed to identify the logistical bases of the traffickers who, in Benestare, in Locride, used a shed as their headquarters. The drug ended up in Puglia and Sicily while the counterpart was paid to the bosses in a butchery owned by Domenico Pellegrino. In a single day, three suspects delivered on behalf of the brothers Giovanni and Giuseppe Giorgi quantities of cocaine for a value of 340 thousand euros in banknotes of various denominations. Money, divided into bundles,

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/20 09:57 AM

The Molinetti and the Mallardo's (camorra) held numerous meeting to negotiate large drug shipments from Holland (Rotterdam).

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...o-di-coca-lungo-lasse-molinetti-coletta/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/24/20 09:42 AM

Six fugitives believed to belong to or contiguous to the gangs of 'ndrangheta have been arrested in Argentina, Costa Rica and Albania as part of the "I can" project (Interpol cooperation against' ndrangheta), the initiative coordinated by Criminalpol which has as its objective the hunt to the fugitives and the property of the gangs all over the world.

The six are all connected to an investigation conducted by the Scico of Rome and by the men of the Gico of the Reggio Calabria finance guard who at the end of November 2019 led to the issuance of 45 precautionary measures and allowed to defeat the gang related to the Bellocco di Rosarno and its articulations in Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Lombardy.

In Buenos Aires three ended up in handcuffs: Ferdinando SaragÃ² , considered by investigators courier and a trusted man of the 'Ndrangheta, shuttled between South America and Calabria and the gangs turned to him for operational needs and the transport of secret documents . Giovanni Di Pietro who, according to the investigators of the Reggio Calabria prosecutor's office led by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, was the front office between the Italian gangs and the South American drug suppliers and was directly involved in the export of narcotic substances.

Fabio Pompetti , privileged interlocutor of two of the arrested in the November operation: he was the man who, thanks to his network of relationships and operational indications, allowed to circumvent the anti-money laundering systems and to evade customs controls. For years he has been, investigators say, the 'spokesman' of South American suppliers to the 'Ndrangheta.

In Costa Rica, Franco D'Agapiti , owner of the Amapola casino hotel in San JosÃ©, was considered the point of reference for the members of the gang. His task was to facilitate the entry of cocaine into Italy and offer hospitality and logistical support to the 'Ndranghetists. In Albania, finally, Bujar Sejdinaj ended up behind bars nicknamed his uncle, Bellocco's referent for the Balkan area. Adrian Cekini , an Albanian too, was added to the five fugitives connected to the investigation of the Finance and arrested in the last hours , but he had already been arrested last May 26 in Elbasan.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/24/20 11:24 AM

Detectives seize Â£2m of dirty mafia money laundered through fake London business by Italian crime gang
The 'Ndrangheta mafia laundered Â£2million through fake accounts in London
Crime group now been forced to hand over the cash from the front businesses
Police found bank accounts held a Â£1,723,706 and Euro 356,043 respectively

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-London-business-Italian-crime-gang.html

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/25/20 10:46 AM

Interpol arrests 6 â€˜Ndrangheta fugitives in investigation spanning the globe, showcasing Mafiaâ€™s global reach http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...heta-fugitives-in-investigation-spanning

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/28/20 12:08 PM

An organization dedicated to facilitating the hiding of 'ndrangheta bosses has been disarticulated by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria who arrested 14 people held responsible, in various capacities , trafficking and association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic or psychotropic substances, personal support of fugitives, possession and port of common and war firearms. The operation, called Gear, was carried out between Reggio Calabria, Teramo and Benevento.
The organization had established its nerve base in an aggregate quarry located in Gioia Tauro identified thanks to investigations conducted by the Operative Section of the Carabinieri Company of Gioia Tauro and follows the arrests of fugitives Antonino Pesce, Salvatore Etzi and Salvatore Palumbo.
The monitoring of fugitives' wives, girlfriends, relatives and supporters had brought out the centrality of the extraction site which then turned out to be a real hub of the criminal activities. Monitoring of the quarry also allowed the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro to capture, on April 14, 2018, a fourth fugitive, Vincenzo Di Marte, included in the "list of dangerous fugitives" and considered a prominent element of the Pesce gang.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/20 08:07 AM

The DDA of Catanzaro has filed a request for indictment against the more than 400 suspects involved in the maxi-investigation Scott-Rinascita , which resulted in the historic blitz against the 'Ndrangheta, which hit the Vibonese "crime" and the microcosm of 'ndrine that revolves around it.

The request - which bears the signature of the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and the substitutes Andrea Mancuso, Antonio De Bernardo and Annamaria Frustaci - concerns 456 compared to the 479 suspects of the conclusion of the investigations. From what emerged 23 positions were removed, while 438 are the disputed charges. Large numbers, for a large investigation whose prosecution could see 224 offended parties become civil parties, if the Municipalities of Vibonese, the Province, the Region, the Prefecture of Vibo, the Ministry of Justice and the dozens and dozens of harassed entrepreneurs decide to do it.

The DDA, therefore, calls for the trial for 'Ndranghetists of the Vibonese gangs, starting with the Mancuso of Limbadi led by Luigi Mancuso "Il Supremo" , in excellent relations with the De Stefano of Reggio Calabria and the Pyromalli of Gioia Tauro and at the head of the crime of the province of Vibo Valentia with liaison duties with the province of Reggio and the crime of Polsi, absolute summit of the unitary 'ndrangheta.

But also for politicians, professionals and unfaithful representatives of the institutions, in many cases linked together by the glue of the deviated masonry. The request also includes the 60 suspects involved in an anti-drug operation conducted last June between Calabria and Tuscany. Excellent suspects appear in Scott Rinascita, such as lawyer Giancarlo Pittelli, criminal lawyer and former MP of Forza Italia , who later moved to Fdi in 2017, accused of external competition. A central figure in the accusatory castle.

On the one hand the lawyer who defends and advises the "mammasantissima" of the gangs, on the other the politician who organizes meetings and dinners in which everyone participated, including members of the police and magistrates.

Posted By: MeyerLansky

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/20 12:37 PM

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all of the work you put in here...
It's amazing !!!
Thanks !!!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/20 11:23 PM

Thanks Meyer.

A 49-year-old man was the victim of an ambush last night in Vibo Valentia near the Vibo Center shopping center: unknown fired several shots that reached him in the ear, right forearm and legs. The 49-year-old himself - as reported by Ansa - called for help: an ambulance arrived on the scene and transported him in red code to the hospital; it would not be life threatening. The dynamic is not yet clear.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/31/20 01:34 PM

Arrested by the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria, coordinated by the DDA, 6 people linked to the Labate clan. They are accused of extortion, possession of weapons of war, common firing and clandestine and fraudulent transfer of values. In the Carabinieri "Cassa continua" operation, the suspension for 12 months from the exercise of public official was notified to an employee of the Municipality of Reggio. The shares and assets of the funeral company "Croce Amaranto" were seized.
The investigations started on June 16, 2017, after an arrest and a huge load of weapons of all kinds. A load that thanks to telephone and environmental interceptions, led to identify a larger group of people inserted in the Labate gang also known as "TiMangiu" which controls the Gebbione area of â€‹â€‹Reggio Calabria. Specialized in extortion and arms trafficking.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/01/20 08:26 PM

https://www.unionesarda.it/video/vi...intercettato-ad-hannover-52-1045431.html

Francesco Modaffari, a fugitive linked to the 'Ndrangheta arrested in Germany through an international police operation called "Eyphemos", will arrive in Italy today. His brother Domenico was repatriated a month ago.

The investigation coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Reggio Calabria Prosecutor and conducted by the SCO - Central Operational Service - with the Reggio Calabria Mobile Team and the Palmi Commissariat, in February led to the execution of 65 precautionary measures for criminal association Mafia-style, international drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, extortion, aiding and abetting private violence, electoral violations aggravated by the use of the mafia method and the purpose of facilitating the 'Ndrangheta, as well as for mafia political electoral exchange.

The ex-fugitive was spotted in Hanover, where the two brothers lived and worked. The investigations had documented the existence in Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte, in the Reggino region, of an association structure under the control of the more established local 'ndrangheta of Sinopoli and neighboring territories belonging to the Alvaro gang.

The criminal group, with a wide availability of weapons also from war, has made itself responsible in the past for several murders, drug trafficking and extortion also in Lombardy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/03/20 07:30 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/04/20 08:48 AM

A 44-year-old man, Antonio Pupo, was shot dead last night in an ambush in Rosarno (Reggio Calabria). According to what emerged from the first reconstructions, the man was near the sports field of the town of Piana when he was approached by one or more hit men who fired.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/20 12:35 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/06/20 07:29 PM

Carabinieri arrested the boss Domenico Bonavota in Sant'Onofrio. He was hiding in the house of an unsuspected family where the soldiers assisted by the Hunters Squadron, broke in yesterday evening.
He had been on the run for about two years and an imprisonment order was hanging over him after being sentenced to life in the Conquest process.
Domenico Bonavota, considered the head of the military wing of the powerful Sant'Onofrio family, was also the recipient of an order for pre-trial detention in prison as part of the maxi investigation Scott-Rinascita.
Having escaped arrest with his brother Pasquale (who remains on the run and actively wanted), the boss did not offer resistance when the police broke into the house in the center of Sant'Onofrio where he allegedly hid from the start of the hiding place.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/08/20 09:08 AM

The number of local authorities currently commissioned for mafia infiltration in Calabria rises to 23, after the Council of Ministers, last night, decided to put an end to the administrative experiences of the Municipalities of Cutro (Crotone) and Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte ( Reggio Calabria) .

These bodies include two provincial health authorities affected by similar measures: the general management bodies of the Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro ASP have in fact been dissolved. In Calabria, mafia infiltrations represent half of the cases that have led to an early termination of the council legislature, confirming the strong mafia pervasiveness.

The latest half-yearly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate dedicated an analysis to the commissioners for mafia infiltration approved in 2019 and in the first months of 2020 and the reasons behind the strong interest of criminal organizations in local authorities.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/12/20 08:59 PM

Antonino Filocamo member of the Serraino clan is the latest pentito in Reggio Calabria. He is close to the boss Cortese.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...gio-e-un-collaboratore-del-boss-cortese/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/14/20 11:54 AM

Tonino Filocamo and Cortese are still pretty young.

CORTESE Maurizio, nato a Reggio Calabria il 18.4.1980, ... FILOCAMO Antonino, nato a Reggio Calabria 1'11.2.1988,

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/18/20 10:31 PM

When the mafia becomes a credit bank

This has little in common with the lurid image of a cinema â€œgodfatherâ€ like Don Vito Corleone from the past; it is more about the type of bank manager with an interest calculator.

https://www.time24.news/2020/08/when-the-mafia-becomes-a-credit-bank.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/20/20 11:33 AM

Pope Francis wants to end the questionable Mary worship by members of the Mafia.
It is about liberating the use of certain dubious rites, structures and deviations that do not correspond to Biblical values â€‹â€‹such as justice, freedom, honesty and solidarity, he writes in a letter from which the Italian magazine 'Maria con te' quoted yesterday. The Pope is explicitly behind an initiative to free the Virgin from abuse by mafioso organizations.

The Pope is working on this together with a new working group of the International Marian Pontifical Academy, in which representatives of the church and police, as well as other experts, will develop strategies against the Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Sacra Corona. Among other things, they want to prohibit the so-called tribute during religious processions, such as kneeling, bowing or striking a sign of the cross near statues of the Virgin Mary or caves in front of the houses of Mafia bosses.

If they can get that accomplished, it should be considered a miracle of the Madonna!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/23/20 01:30 AM

Haha it's impossible, but this pope knows the corruption in the Church is huge.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/24/20 07:33 PM

Cosenza, Manzini: "The 'Ndrangheta uses religion to control the territory and the people"

https://cosenza.gazzettadelsud.it/a...te-15bd8bac-4bca-4c88-8172-d93a06621e9d/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/20 02:44 PM

The former warden of Reggio Calabria prison, Maria Carmela Longo, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of external conspiracy for mafia association.
Longo was placed under house arrest.
Prosecutors said they had found "systematic violation of the norms of penitentiary regulations and circulars from the penitentiary administration" in order to favour organised crime.
A preliminary investigations judge said Longo had "handed over Panzera Prison to mafia inmates".
Longo is currently director of the women's section of Rome's Rebibbia jail.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/28/20 12:09 AM

'Sons of Honour' (2020). The 'ndrangheta, or the Calabrian mafia is the main subject of this Dutch-Italian co-production, a traditional criminal organization born of poverty, in which skittish young men are forced to do the dirty work for the bosses. Those young men are Pierpaolo, Simone, Bader and Reda, and documentary maker Sophia LuvarÃ won their trust.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/02/20 12:43 AM

Last weekend, in Africo, the Hunters arrested 5 people, because they were caught cultivating a large marijuana plantation located in an inaccessible Aspromonte area near the old center of Africo.

Launched last July, the investigation made it possible to find and seize 7,500 marijuana plants as well as almost a kilo of the same drug already dried.

With long stalking and video shooting on the plantation identified, it was possible to identify the growers, including several subjects close, due to family ties, to the ' Ndrangheta clan â€œSPERANZA â€" PALAMARA â€" SCRIVAâ€ of Africo.

- VERSACE Domenico Antoni or, born in Locri (RC) on 05.11.1983, resident in Africo;

- STRANGIO Francesco , born in Locri on 11.15.1976, resident in San Luca (RC);

- MOLLICA Arcangelo , born in Bova Marina (RC) on 22.07.1962, residing in Africo;

- MOLLICA Leo , born in Melito Di Porto Salvo (RC) on 03.10.1962, resident in Africo;

- MORABITO Rocco , born in Locri (RC) on 03.01.1983, resident in Africo.

Posted By: Andragathia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/02/20 01:01 AM

I've been to Africo Nouva and surrounding areas. In the mountains mostly Zingari squatters. They either tipped someone off or the police got real lucky finding whatever you say they did.

See the name of Francesco Strangio in there. Strangio-Nirta is a well known clan from San Luca. They're active all over Western Europe.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/02/20 11:17 PM

See the name of Francesco Strangio in there. Strangio-Nirta is a well known clan from San Luca. They're active all over Western Europe.

Yes, they are very similar to groups of Roma and Traveller origins. Gioacchino Bonarrigo, arrested in Holland three years ago, was known as â€œthe gypsyâ€ to his friends.

See the name of Francesco Strangio in there. Strangio-Nirta is a well known clan from San Luca. They're active all over Western Europe.

Yes, they are very similar to groups of Roma and Traveller origins. Gioacchino Bonarrigo, arrested in Holland three years ago, was known as â€œthe gypsyâ€ to his friends.

The Strangio-Nirta clan members themselves are not Romani, as far as I know.
There was another clan over here active who were originally from Torano Castello, which is Abbruzzese/Rango-Zingari territory (a clan of Roma origin).

It's a bit difficult to determine who's Romani and who's not in Calabria. They seem to be very integrated over there and regard themselves as Calabrian first and foremost.

Posted By: Machin1

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/04/20 01:04 PM

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/04/20 01:28 PM

Italian police on Thursday arrested 11 suspected members of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in an operation spanning Milan and Reggio Calabria.
The arrests were made in the provinces of Milan, Varese, Pavia and Reggio Calabria.
Milan's anti-crime unit was backed by special units, sniffer dogs and helicopters.
The 11 have been charge with corruption, extortion, robbery, drug pushing, illegal possession of weapons that had been altered, including a large explosive device, aggravated threats, arson, and aiding and abetting mafia activities.
These activities were aimed at boosting the 'locale' (chapter) of Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo near Milan, police said.
Thursday's operation was the culmination of a probe that began in April 2017 and led to 43 arrests in July last year, police said.
Several 'locali' had managed to penetrate the local economy and infiltrate local elections in the area north of Milan, police said.
A consultant for the local prosecutor's office helped the locali, police said.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/06/20 12:46 PM

Can Italy Defeat Its Most Powerful Crime Syndicate?
A prosecutor takes hundreds of mobsters to court.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/italian-mafia-ndrangheta/615466/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/07/20 09:38 AM

Drugs in Reggio and the agreements with the 'Ndrangheta, two gangs stopped: 17 arrests

Raid at dawn between the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Milan and Verona. Operation of the carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio, in execution of precautionary custody measures against numerous people accused, for various reasons, of being part of two associations aimed at illicit drug trafficking, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated personal injury, attempted extortion, illegal possession and carrying of weapons, receiving stolen goods.

The organizations, based in the Sbarre district of Reggio Calabria , had started a thriving business of dealing, also with branches in Veneto, and with connections with the local 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/08/20 05:00 PM

On wiretaps two guys arrested yesterday were heard talking about Toto Riina. They wanted to turn Sbarre in a Corleone and from there take over the whole city of Reggio Calabria, like Riina in Palermo. "he was just 5 feet 2 and had 100 killed he killed top judges, he was a true 'Ndranghetista!" they said.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/11/20 11:48 PM

Scott Rinascita, the maxi trial against the 'Ndrangheta has begun: 200 people in the courtroom
11 September 2020

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Just before noon, in the Rebibbia prison in Rome, the preliminary hearing against the 452 suspects involved in the maxi-blitz Scott Rinascita launched last December against the 'Ndrangheta Vibonese and which exposed the relations between the clan and White collars.

Over two hundred people present in the bunker hall of the Roman prison where they tried, but without much success, to respect the distancing, practically zero. Discomfort also due to the absence of air conditioning.

Ten hearings scheduled in the Roman penitentiary, waiting for the construction of a bunker room in Lamezia Terme.

In the courtroom also the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri: "The fault lies with all of us men of the institutions who have not taken with due seriousness and rigor what has happened before our eyes for decades".

Gratteri also referred to the precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge of Salerno against the former president of the Court of Assizes of Catanzaro, Marco Petrini, a magistrate under investigation for corruption in judicial acts, (he would have joined a Masonic lodge and allegedly revealed confidential information): "I saw what the Salerno prosecutor is doing: it is a signal that is grafted on to today's trial and with the others already celebrated", underlined Gratteri, given that Rinascita-Scott is the process of 'Ndrangheta with "the highest percentage of unfaithful white-collar and state men".

The prosecutor of Catanzaro also rejected the accusations of "manettaro" that someone made to him: "This delegitimization campaign against the Catanzaro prosecutor's office is perfectly clear, because they have perfectly understood that I am only the advanced point of a great team that has broad shoulders and nerves of steel and that certainly won't make reaction fouls ", he concluded.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/13/20 07:37 PM

Ambush in Lombardy against two Calabrian brothers, one dead and one wounded
By editorial staff 13 September 2020
At the base of the murder there could have been a dispute with the wounding of a young man which took place last night in the center of Lecco where the victim resided

Far West scenes in the heart of Northern Italy, to be exact in the Santa Maria hamlet in Olginate, in the province of Lecco. Two brothers were shot at just before 2pm today. To fall under the blows of the killer Salvatore De Fazio, 47, a native of Belcastro but living in Lombardy for years.

In the shooting, his brother Alfredo was also slightly injured, who found refuge in a building and from there he called for help, then arrived to provide first aid to both. He is hospitalized.

From the first rumors it seems that the aggression matured following a dispute that took place last night and culminated in the wounding of a 25-year-old, who ended up in hospital for a head injury.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/14/20 02:02 PM

Two new repentants among the Vibonese clans emerged at the maxi-trial. The official status is still missing but according to rumors they have already started to collaborate. According to what was leaked, these would be two exponents of the Vibonese 'ndrine who in recent months and years have already registered the defections with the start of the collaboration of characters of the criminal caliber of Andrea Mantella and Bartolomeo Arena.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/15/20 05:58 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/15/20 08:55 PM

The have a strong foothold on the French Riviera's property sector. Several locali based in southern france in Toulon, Marseille, Nice, Clermont Ferrand.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/17/20 04:51 PM

The have a strong foothold on the French Riviera's property sector. Several locali based in southern france in Toulon, Marseille, Nice, Clermont Ferrand.

they probably have links also with corsican mob, in the blitz there are 'french gangsters' involved but no names

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/17/20 07:48 PM

The have a strong foothold on the French Riviera's property sector. Several locali based in southern france in Toulon, Marseille, Nice, Clermont Ferrand.

they probably have links also with corsican mob, in the blitz there are 'french gangsters' involved but no names

Yeah, the 'ndrangheta turncoat Giovanni GullÃ said the Italians have been located in southern France since the 1970s, so they have longstanding links to autochthonous groups. The now mentioned Magnoli family is a great example very influential on the Riviera.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/18/20 09:25 AM

Scott Rinascita, a repentant: "The suspects knew in advance of the blitz"

Gaetano Antonio CannatÃ , 46, alias Sapituttu , already involved in the â€œInsomniaâ€ operation on a usury circuit , also appears on the scene of the new Vibonese repentants . Arrested in the context of the maxblitz Scotti Rinascita of last December 19 CannatÃ in the Tolmezzo prison would have learned news about the operation of the Vibonese 'ndrine, confirming the reports of some members of the clans with unfaithful representatives of the state ,
With his statements, moreover, CannatÃ reinforces the thesis of a war between clans ready to break out in the Vibonese, but stopped by the Scott Rinascita operation. Triggering the fuse and then trying to set fire to the powders - dusting off an old project of the repentant former boss Andrea Mantella - would have been the expansionist aims of the Ranisi aimed at a "progressive emancipation from the 'Ndrangheta of Vibo from the hegemony of the Mancuso" .

Sapituttu

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/18/20 10:01 AM

â€™Ndrangheta drug trafficking network operating in France and Italy busted, 46 people arrested http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ng-network-operating-in-france-and-italy via @Europol #Europol #Ndrangheta #Mafia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/20/20 09:51 PM

The have a strong foothold on the French Riviera's property sector. Several locali based in southern france in Toulon, Marseille, Nice, Clermont Ferrand.

they probably have links also with corsican mob, in the blitz there are 'french gangsters' involved but no names

According to the first half-yearly report of 2017 of the DIA, the following crime families are recorded at :

Antibes : the Palumbo , the Italiano
Cannes ; the Stanganelli
Grasse : the MolÃ¨, the Piromalli
Menton : the Pellegrino
Nice : Pesce - Bellocco , Italiano- Papalia -Palumbo
Ollioules : the Morabitos
PÃ©gomas : Pesce
La Seyne-sur-Mer : the Morabito family

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/20 09:41 PM

According to the first half-yearly report of 2017 of the DIA, the following crime families are recorded at :

the ndrangheta boss pasquale nucera was member of a masonic lodge based in nice

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/22/20 11:29 PM

Italian prosecutor: â€˜Ndrangheta is top crime group in West

The Associated Press

September 22, 2020, 3:18 PM

ROME (AP) â€" Italyâ€™s top anti-mafia prosecutor said Tuesday the countryâ€™s â€˜Ndrangheta mob was â€œthe most important criminal organization in the Western world,â€ as preliminary hearings in the biggest ever trial against the group resumed.

The hearings at the bunker room of the Rebibbia prison, which are expected to last until the end of October, are preliminary procedures against 452 suspects from the Calabrian-based â€™Ndrangheta.

The suspects face charges such as involvement with mafia-type organizations, international drug trafficking, usury, extortion and money laundering.

At an unrelated briefing with the foreign press Tuesday, Giuseppe Governale, Italyâ€™s chief anti-mafia prosecutor, said the group was â€œunderestimatedâ€ and particularly dangerous because of its ability to proliferate across nations and infiltrate them.

â€œThey are like water,â€ he said. â€œUnlike Cosa Nostra and Camorra, which go abroad (just) to make quick money, â€˜Ndrangheta does go there, yes, to make money, but also to exploit the local communities,â€ he said. The Cosa Nostra is the Sicilian-based mob whereas the Camorraâ€™s stronghold is in the Naples area.

The hearings in Rome could lead to the opening of the second biggest mafia trial ever, after the famous â€˜maxi trialâ€™ against Cosa Nostra in 1986 in Palermo. The investigation was being headed by Calabriaâ€™s prominent anti-mafia prosecutor, Nicola Gratteri.

The Calabrian â€™Ndrangheta has increasingly eclipsed Sicilyâ€™s Cosa Nostra in power and wealth, infiltrating all sectors of Italian economic and political life and extending far from its southern base.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/26/20 10:58 AM

Another severe blow to the " Facchineri " clan of Cittanova: after the arrest of two fugitives, Giuseppe Facchineri in 2017 and Girolamo Facchineri in 2018 (the latter identified in a cottage hidden in the thick vegetation of the Aspromonte) in recent days, the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria has requested very high sentences, including life imprisonment for Giuseppe Facchinieri, today two other members of the family are taken to prison by the Carabinieri of the Company of Taurianova.

This is Luigi Facchineri cl. 1994 and Domenico Facchineri cl. 1992 , children of the former fugitive Girolamo Facchineri, who was also already imprisoned, to whom the Carabinieri of the Company of Taurianova notified the execution order for imprisonment issued by the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria , in how definitively convicted for the crimes of aiding and abetting Giuseppe Crea cl 1978 and Giuseppe Ferraro cl. 1968, then leaders and organizers of the feared ' Ndrangheta gangs Crea and Ferraro-Mazzagati, now in prison.

According to the accusatory hypothesis of the Reggio Calabria Public Prosecutor's Office, the two young Facchineri, until 2016, had done their utmost to provide logistical support to the inaction of the two amounts and elderly leaders of the ' Ndrangheta .

A long-term inaction ended only in January 2016, when the two feared bosses were captured in a bunker in the hinterland of Maropati, and made possible by the support provided by other ' Ndrangheta families, including the Facchineri.

Domenico and Luigi Facchineri were then taken to the prison of Reggio Calabria by the Reggio Calabria Carabinieri where they will serve the remaining sentence of 3 years and 6 months.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/27/20 11:18 PM

The statue donated by the boss, the Municipality of Guardavalle risks dissolution
The statue, depicting the patron saint Sant'Agazio martyr was donated by the Gallace family, attributable to the powerful homonymous clan of 'Ndrangheta , the municipal council of Guardavalle risks dissolution .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/29/20 09:26 AM

Reggio Calabria, â€œEyphemos IIâ€ operation: 9 arrests, well-known restaurant in Bagnara seized.
The investigation " EyfhÃ©mos " had revealed the existence and operation of a locale of the 'Ndrangheta in Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte, headed by the clan "ALVARO" operated in Sinopoli, San Procopio, Cosoleto, Sant'Eufemia d' Aspromonte, Delianuova and neighboring areas. In particular, those investigations had revealed how - within the Euphemian venue - at least three factions coexisted: including that referable to Domenico LAURENDI, who - between the end of 2017 and throughout 2018 - was the protagonist of a rift. internal. In fact, the figure of Domenico LAURENDI (meaning " Rocchellina"), Who - under the aegis of the" ALVARO "clan of which the aforementioned was a trusted man - had promoted the creation of a so-called" new bank ", through the affiliation of new subjects and the consolidation of roles of those already affiliated, through the conferral of new skills and positions . Not only that, Domenico LAURENDI had acquired an even higher rank, having also been able to interface with national, regional and local politicians.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/20 11:07 AM

'Ndrangheta of Filandari, asked for 174 years in prison for 14 members of the Soriano clan.

A good 29 years in prison have been requested for Leone Soriano, considered the promoter of the homonymous clan; 24 years of imprisonment the sentence requested for his nephew Giuseppe Soriano; 20 years for Graziella Silipigni (mother of Giuseppe); 20 years for Caterina Soriano (sister of Giuseppe); 4 years for Rosetta Lopreiato, wife of Leone Soriano.

At the opening of the hearing, Leone Soriano connected by videoconference verbally lashed out against the judges and the prosecutor.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/03/20 12:47 AM

Life imprisonment for the superboss Nicolino Grande Aracri , the other three accused Angelo Greco, Antonio Lerose and Antonio CiampÃ acquitted "for not having committed the crime". This is the sentence issued a little while ago by the Court of Assizes of the court of Reggio Emilia for the 'Aemilia 1992' trial, one of the strands of the maxi- trial at the Emilian 'Ndrangheta . The four were accused of voluntary, premeditated and aggravated murder of the mafia method against Nicola
Vasapollo, 33, from Cutro, murdered on September 21, 1992 in Reggio Emilia, and Giuseppe Ruggiero, a 35 year old from Cutro, killed by four men disguised as carabinieri on October 22. '92 in Brescello, also in Reggiano.
Grande Aracri listened to the pronunciation in audio-video link from the Opera prison in Milan where he is imprisoned at 41 bis.
At the center of the process that began on 11 February 2019, in fact, there was the feud between the rival gangs Vasapollo-Ruggiero and Dragone-Grande Aracri-CiampÃ -Arena, for the hegemony of organized crime especially as regards drug trafficking between Emilia -Romagna, Calabria and Lombardy.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/05/20 03:41 AM

'Ndrangheta: Pasquale Zagari arrested for attempted extortion.

Pasquale ZAGARI, already sentenced to life imprisonment for mafia association, murders, arms crimes, corpse concealment and more, was arrested by the carabinieri of Taurianova for attempted extortion against a local businessman.

One of the most violent protagonists of the feud that raged in Taurianova between the 80s and 90s, during which the death of his father, Rocco Zagari, killed in a barber shop, represented the triggering event of the "massacre of Black Friday" of Taurianova, in which four people were killed in revenge, one of whom with a severed head, in the city center, had recently returned to freedom, after in 2015 life imprisonment was reduced to 30 years .

Following some information acquisition that indicated the man as intent on imposing extortion on some local traders and entrepreneurs, the Carabinieri of Taurianova intervened. The man was blocked after yet another visit to a local entrepreneur, on whom he wanted to illegitimately impose his will, just relying on his criminal caliber and reputation, and then arrested in flagrant for attempted aggravated extortion.

Zagari, whose dangerousness is demonstrated by a violent escape attempt in 2009, when he had no qualms about firing a firearm at the escort police during a transport, is now restricted to the Palmi Prison.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/09/20 11:12 PM

The Police Commissioner of Reggio Calabria, Bruno Megale, has banned the funeral in public and solemn form for Francesco Alvaro, aged 81, who died in the Great Metropolitan Hospital, considered - it is said in a press release from the Police Headquarters - a top element of the homonymous gang di 'Ndrangheta, operating in Sinopoli and in the neighboring municipalities .

Alvaro's body was moved from the hospital in Reggio Calabria directly to the cemetery of Sinopoli, where a religious function was held in the presence only of close relatives .

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/11/20 11:52 PM

A dangerous fugitive was arrested in Barcelona thanks to the collaboration between the police and the Spanish Policia Nazional. It is Vittorio Raso, 41, nicknamed "Exhausted", a leading figure in the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta rooted in Turin. The 41-year-old boss holds the position of "Gospel", inserted in the coterie of the Crea family, which governs the crime of the Piedmontese capital. He had been a fugitive since 2018 following a 20-year first-degree sentence for international drug trafficking.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/20 10:06 PM

The 'Ndrangheta is a deeply ritualistic organization compartmentalized into different stages of power. Raso held the rank of Vangelo : an intermediate stage of the structure, but superior to that of the mere Ndranghetists and those of La Santa - the organization that was later created to accommodate those who were engaged in higher-level business - receiving his name from the act of swearing the office by hand in a gospel. Those who have that rank can be part of the commission where major decisions are made for an organization that, without being pyramidal like Cosa Nostra, does agree on its international strategies.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/20 10:16 PM

Mafia trial in DÃ¼sseldorf interrupted
One of the largest Mafia lawsuits in Germany had to be interrupted. The mother of a defendant tested positive for the corona virus, so it will not continue in DÃ¼sseldorf until Friday at the earliest.

The defendant is currently not in prison and is said to have had contact with his mother. The man is in quarantine at home, his own test result is still pending.

Even if it should be negative, the Duisburg district court does not yet know whether the man will still have to remain isolated for the time being. It is therefore not yet certain whether the process can continue as planned on Friday.

Accusation: Members or supporters of the Calabrian mafia
14 alleged members or supporters of ' Ndrangheta are indicted before the Duisburg Regional Court . For security reasons, the trial has not taken place in Duisburg since Monday , but in the so-called " terror bunker ", a specially protected area of â€‹â€‹the DÃ¼sseldorf Higher Regional Court.

The defendants come from Duisburg, MÃ¶nchengladbach and DÃ¼sseldorf , among others . Some of them are accused of forming and supporting a foreign criminal organization and drug trafficking in a gang. Others have to answer for commercial money laundering and violations of gun law.

Trigger: drug discovery in the Netherlands
Dutch customs officers found 80 kilograms of pure cocaine in an overseas container - addressed to a recipient in North Rhine-Westphalia. This was followed by an international investigation and finally the simultaneous storming of special units on shops and restaurants in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Four tons of cocaine were seized on the so-called " Joint Action Day " in 2018, and 84 people were arrested. The money laundering is said to have taken place via " fake companies " in Germany.

The Italian defendants have so far been silent on the allegations. A total of 91 days of negotiations are scheduled for the process in DÃ¼sseldorf.

Status: October 12, 2020, 1:39 pm
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/mafia-prozess-duesseldorf-start-100.html

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/20 11:19 PM

He is only 41 and already ranked so high and member of La Santa ? Never heard of him

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/20 11:56 PM

He is only 41 and already ranked so high and member of La Santa ? Never heard of him

His position is Vangelo they are a degree higher than the Santists and lower than the quatrains. To be an evangelist one must obtain the Gospel merit.
The evangelist also has the task of keeping the rules of the 'Ndrangheta, the Gospel, to be used in the rites of affiliation and promotion.
Who is an evangelist can be part of La Provincia, a Commission in which the most important decisions of the organization are taken.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/20 11:28 AM

Maxi blitz against the powerful Serraino clan, 24 arrests. Among them Nino Serraino, born in Cardeto [RC] on 19.2.1980, resident in Reggio Calabria, current regent of the homonymous clan of 'Ndrangheta, son of the deceased Domenico Serraino [cl. '45, known as â€œ Mico â€] and nephew of the late Serraino Francesco, born in 1929, aka â€œthe boss of the mountainsâ€.
His role at the top within the gang was also outlined by the collaborators of Justice who indicate him as a leading exponent of the mafia association with a more reserved profile than that of his brother Alessandro, but equally strategic and of top rank , particularly aimed at the care of the crucial aspects related to infiltrations in the economy and relations with politics and institutions.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/20 10:16 AM

The clan was also operating in the far-northern city of Trento near the Austrian border. Police said the operation showed that 'Ndrangheta, which has long expanded from its southern Italian base, had also put down roots in Trento.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/19/20 03:09 PM

The boss Nino Cerra, alias "the old man", died at the age of 72 in the Parma prison, where he was detained under the 41bis regime. Cerra, who died of natural causes, had been sentenced as part of the "Chimera" and "Dionysus" operations (13 years and 4 months in the first case, 14 years in the second). The boss, who had left Lamezia Terme in the '70s choosing Milan as the base for his crimes, was considered a leading figure in the Calabrian 'ndrine, linked to the powerful clans established in the Locride area. According to what emerged in the "Chimera" investigation, Cerra was at the top of the Cerra-Torcasio-Gualtieri clan that dominates Nicastro (Cz).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/20 02:57 PM

'Ndrangheta, maxi operation "Domingo" in Rome and Reggio Calabria: 21 arrests for drug trafficking, Calabrians and Romans collaborated with the Peruvians. A person in the Dominican Republic acted as an intermediary for the purchase and financing of large quantities of cocaine.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/26/20 02:32 PM

Italian Mafia 'ndrangheta bought weapons in Brazil
The mafia group 'ndrangheta, considered one of the largest of its kind in Italy, would have negotiated the purchase of arms in Brazil, showed an article published by the portal "UOL". Criminals would have connections with the First Capital Command (PCC) in the country, as well as other groups across South America.

The disclosure of arms trafficking, in addition to drugs, is among the more than 13,500 pages of the â€œRinascita-Scottâ€ (â€œRenascimento-Scottâ€) trial - which began in September in Rome after an investigation of the District Antimafia Department (DDA) of Catanzaro.

In December last year, Italian authorities arrested 334 people, including politicians, lawyers and civil servants, in the outbreak of the action. In all, 416 people are investigated in the case for numerous crimes, such as mafia association, homicide, extortion, trafficking and money laundering.

According to the Brazilian portal, the purchase would have been organized by Bruno Fuduli, who committed suicide in November last year, and by two heads of clans of the 'ndrangheta: Giuseppe Accorinti and Antonio Vacatello. In a telephone tap from one of the defendants in the case, Gregorio Niglia, those involved spoke of a plan to â€œtransport some containersâ€ in 2016 with an undefined number of weapons.

Fuduli volunteered as a spy for the Italian authorities after being contacted by mobsters to work with the international cocaine trafficking and, thinking he did not receive enough â€œrecognitionâ€ from the government for his help in catching criminals, he became one of Italy's most famous drug dealers.

Among the countless accusations against the Italian, is that of â€œinternational trade in firearms and clandestine weaponsâ€ between the European country and South America. Just like the one mentioned in the â€œUOLâ€ report, the weapons would leave GoiÃ¡s for Italian ports.

According to â€œLa Câ€, they were hidden in marble blocks and followed the method already used by 'ndrangheta in other operations dismantled by the Italians. Fuduli then followed the plan to import the stones, transport them on freight trains and did this by third-party companies that were unaware of the international trafficking scheme, as a way to circumvent customs bureaucracy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/20 02:46 AM

An Iranian businessman shot dead near Rome last week, reportedly in a dispute over money, was an international arms dealer with ties to the Calabrian mafia, Russian arms traffickers and the Iranian regime, Italian police confirmed.

According to court papers published by Il Messaggero newspaper, Said Ansary Firouz, 68, ran a lucrative business selling and renting vintage cars to celebrities and football players.

He was also an arms dealer who procured military items for Tehran and had been under investigation for the last three years.

The son of an ambassador to Italy at the time of the shah in the 1970s, Firouz was shot three times last week in the chest at his office in Formello, on the outskirts of Rome not far from the AS Roma football club training facilities.

Police said the killer, Foloty Kave, 47, was a fellow Iranian and a former employee. Il Messaggero reported that Kave killed himself after shooting Firouz.

A few days before he was murdered, Firouz and nine other suspects had received notification of the conclusion of an investigation into them for alleged illegal arms dealing.

Il Messaggero reported that in 2016 Firouz met in London with Safarian Nasab Esmail, who is under investigation in Rome for international terrorism.

A source in the Carabinieri, Italyâ€™s military police, told Arab News that Firouz â€œwas often present at negotiations for the purchase of war weapons.â€

The anti-terrorism section of the Carabinieri last year stopped a weapons sale that Firouz had tried to set up between representatives of the Iranian regime and two consortiums of Italian arms dealers, despite the UN arms embargo against Iran at the time.

The sale, which included drones, machine guns, Kalashnikov rifles and precision rifles, was worth more than â‚¬300 million ($354.7 million).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/20 04:56 PM

50 mn seized from 'Ndrangheta-linked businessmen
Operation targets property across Italy
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(ANSA) - REGGIO CALABRIA, OCT 29 - Italian police on Thursday seized 50 million euros in goods and property from three businessmen in Reggio Calabria believed to have ties to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Antonino Scimone, 45, Antonino MordÃ (51) and Pietro Canale (41) are suspected of close links to noted Calabrian clans, police said.
The three were among 27 people arrested in February 2018 in a major operation against usury and fraud that seized 51 companies, 18 pieces of real estate, and froze accounts worth some 100 million euros.
The latest property seizures took place across Italy and involved police in Milan, Brescia, Mantua, Varese, Pavia, La Spezia, Vicenza, Lecce and Sassari.
The criminal organization was based in Bianco in Calabria and had offshoots across Italy and abroad, police said.
Among the clans were the Nirtas from San Luca and the Barbaros from PlatÃ¬.
Among the goods seized were deluxe watches, companies and prized real estate, police said.
Reggio Calabria Chief Prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri said the "Clean Energy" probe and the "Martingale" operation had dealt a major blow to 'Ndrangheta assets.
Separately, Italian Criminapol chiefs and Interpol directors sent a 10-point questionnaire to 10 other countries to try to get a picture of 'Ndrangheta operations there.
The 10 countries are part of the 'I Can' (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta) project.
They are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay and USA. (ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/30/20 12:42 AM

'Ndrangheta in Rosarno, 54 convictions: the investigation into the feud for the drug monopoly

Struck to the heart in 2018 by the maxi operation "Ares", signed by the Dda of Reggio and the Carabinieri, now the verdict has arrived, 54 sentences inflicted on the leaders and wingmen of the 'ndrine Grasso and Cacciola.
First allies to conquer Rosarno, which has always been in the hands of the historic Pesce and Bellocco families, then bitter rivals for the dispute over the drug market in the port city. The emerging gangs of Cacciola and Grasso ended up starting from 2013 to engage in an internal feud for the management of illicit business. The investigators ascertained the organizational capacity of the clans to import cocaine from South America and hashish from Spain and Morocco: tons of drugs that arrived in Italy (often not using the port of Gioia Tauro) and ended in the shopping squares in Lombardy, Piedmont and Sicily.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/01/20 12:34 AM

When Dutch journalist Sanne de Boer moves to an idyllic village in southern Italy, she first comes into contact with the mafia from Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta. Her interest is aroused and what follows is a years-long search for the mysterious' Ndrangheta, who has also gained a firm foothold in the Netherlands. In her recently published book Mafiopoli, De Boer paints a shocking picture of the Calabrian mafia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/02/20 11:15 PM

'Ndrangheta and money laundering with the Lotto: the Carabinieri of Brescia arrested 14 people. They laundered money through Lotto winnings thanks to the connivance of bar, tobacconist and betting shop managers. Seized from the suspects movable and immovable assets for over 25 million euros , including current accounts, luxury homes with gold handles and swimming pools.
The reference point was identified in Francesco Mura, entrepreneur in the television sector. He, his father Mario, Maria Alda Dizioli, Elisa Salerno and Gabriella Corsini, must also answer for the Mafia association for having facilitated the locale of the 'Ndrangheta Barbaro-Papalia. The entrepreneur Mura would be director of the recycling operations through lottery winnings.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/20 04:07 PM

The investigations describe the 40-year-old Giuseppe Pangallo as the most important element for the economic investments of the Barbaro-Papalia clan. Pangallo (who is not under investigation) is the husband of Rosanna Papalia, the daughter of the boss Rocco Papalia, released in 2017 after 26 years in prison, and brother of the capos Antonio and Domenico. Mura, intercepted by police, defines it as "the largest family of 'Ndranghetists historically in Lombardy".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/06/20 09:31 AM

Italian police seize tons of pure cocaine
Yesterday at 12:10 PM | Source: BELGA \

Italian police announced on Thursday that they had seized 932 kg of pure cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria. The drugs were hidden in a container of frozen mussels from Chile.
The cocaine has a street value of "about 186 million euros," police said in a statement. She was in a container of frozen mussels from Chile, packed in 800 packages, hidden in 37 bags, according to the same source.

The port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, the land of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, has been under special surveillance by Italian customs and law enforcement for years, as it is one of the main entry points for drugs on the peninsula.

The seizure was carried out after "a risk analysis" on more than 2,200 containers from the Americas and using special scanners, the statement said.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/08/20 11:30 PM

They reveal new secrets behind the Italian 'Pablo Escobar', the capo who posed as a tourist in Colombia and has committed crimes since he was nine

Alonso Ãlvaro, alias 'Carlo', is said to be the second man of the Ndrangheta

https://www.infobae.com/america/col...lombia-y-delinquia-desde-los-nueve-anos/

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/09/20 12:06 AM

Is this man from the Alvaro ndrina?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/09/20 11:04 AM

I think so because they talk about a powerful family, has to be the Alvaro's from Sinopoli with about 2000 affiliates.

Commercial activities, properties, cars and financial resources were seized, for a total value of approximately 1.7 million euros, attributable to Cosimo Damiano Tassone , born in 1969, a Calabrian drug trafficker operating in the capital at the head of an important international network of drug traffickers.

His figure had emerged in the investigations conducted as part of the 'Crazy Hill' operation, conducted by the II Group of the yellow flames and coordinated by the DDA, which, in 2015, had made it possible to defeat a powerful criminal association based in Rome and contacts operating in Germany, Holland, Spain and England, able to organize shipments by container or by air of large quantities of cocaine from South America (Colombia, Argentina and Brazil).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 01:45 AM

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 01:46 AM

Domenico Oppedisano will be a free man very soon, in December he turns 90. He was informally chosen as Chief Criminal, the ceremonial head of the 'Ndrangheta, at a marriage of two children of bosses attended by 2,000 people. The marriage was between Elisa Pelle, daughter of Giuseppe Pelle, and granddaughter of Antonio Pelle of San Luca, known as Gambazza, former crime chief, and of Giuseppe Barbaro, head of the homonymous' ndrina of PlatÃ¬. 'Ndrangheta is so secretive that the replacement for Oppedisano is not known.

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 08:45 AM

Who else is known to have held the rank of â€œChief Criminal?â€

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 11:26 AM

Only two former chiefs criminal (capo crimine) are known Antonio MacrÃ¬ from Siderno and Antonio Pelle of San Luca, known as Gambazza.

The Chief Criminal is the one who has the role of peacemaker in the event of a feud between the locals and the 'ndrine as well as, in case there is no possibility of sanctioning the opening of the feud. The head of crime decides in a collegial manner together with the most important crimini of the 'Ndrangheta : the crimini of Africo, CirÃ² marina, Gioiosa Jonica, PlatÃ¬, Rosarno and Sinopoli who has the last chance to decide on the murder against an affiliate, a member of the Cosa Nostra , the Camorra or the Sacra Corona Unita and members of the police and the judiciary.

Posted By: Balaclava777

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 06:04 PM

Only two former chiefs criminal (capo crimine) are known Antonio MacrÃ¬ from Siderno and Antonio Pelle of San Luca, known as Gambazza.

Is it the most powerful position within the entire organization? If that position is known, what is it called?

Thanks as always for the expertise Hollander

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 10:17 PM

Wow

Wow is that even true ?
I thought something between 10,000 - 12,000 members

I also found that somewhat exaggerated. I know they have been expanding faster than other mafia's but to reach 60k is far fetched.

I know this is a very old post but I have to say I don`t think 60000 affiliates sounds far fetched. I think FBI wrote in their 2004 report that Italian organized crime has more than 200000 affiliates worldwide, maybe this number isn`t accurate but Ndrangheta has a few thousand full members, meaning there should be a lot more associates, just like the American mob.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 10:42 PM

Well they have around 5000-6000 'made' members, we can't really know exact numbers of associates because 'Ndrangheta is structured differently than sicilian mafia. But could be very high , if we count in Calabria+ worldwide

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 10:45 PM

Is it the most powerful position within the entire organization? If that position is known, what is it called?
Thanks as always for the expertise Hollander

'Ndrangheta is separated into 2 societies, Minor society and Major society.

Minor society

1. Giovane dâ€™onore - It's not a real rank but it is assigned to babies born in 'Ndrangheta families,one day they can become full members.

2.Contrasto - trusted associate

3.Contrasto Onorato - literally means honored associate

4.Picciotto d'Onore - Lowest rank , just someone who is running around executing orders.

5.Camorrista - same like number 4,but with more trust and experience, and they are given orders/tasks that 4. cannot perform.

6.Sgarrista or Camorrista of Sgarro - Camorrista with important position,last rank in Minor society.

Major society

1.Santista - first and lowest rank of Major society

2.Vangelo - Also called "Evangelist",these are members that complete initiation, they swore allegiance to 'Ndrnagheta by putting his hand on a photo of the gospel.

3.Quartino

4.Trequartino

5.Padrino o Quintino - highest rank of 'Ndrangheta meaning "The Godfather".

There are some more ranks discovered in 2010,regarding highest members of 'La Santa'. Politicians , freemasonry members,secret service members can become part of 'La Santa'.

Crociata

Stella

Bartolo

Mammasantissima

Infinito

Conte Ugolino

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 10:55 PM

Only two former chiefs criminal (capo crimine) are known Antonio MacrÃ¬ from Siderno and Antonio Pelle of San Luca, known as Gambazza.

Is it the most powerful position within the entire organization? If that position is known, what is it called?

Thanks as always for the expertise Hollander

The governing body of the 'Ndrangheta is the Crimine (Crime), supervised by the capo crimine. But his power is limited, more a ceremonial title.

For example police said the power behind Oppedisano was Vincenzo Pesce, the head of the Pesce 'ndrina in Rosarno.

The election of Oppedisano had not been easy. Giuseppe Pelle aspired to replace his ailing father Antonio Gambazza Pelle as capo crimine and keep the title in San Luca at the risk of triggering a conflict between clans. However, Vincenzo Pesce felt that the nomination of Pelle would distort the equilibrium in the 'Ndrangheta and threatened to form a separate organization taking some 30 locali with him. As a result, Oppedisano became the capo crimine instead of Pelle.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/10/20 11:14 PM

Crociata

Stella

Bartolo

Mammasantissima

Infinito

Conte Ugolino

These are pure masonic symbolism.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/20 11:52 AM

Sebastiano Nirta was sentenced to life in prison on a definitive basis for the charge of six murders and possession and ports of common firearms in competition in the context of the Duisburg massacre, which marked, as claimed by the investigators, the apex of the San Luca feud between the opposing factions of Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Vottari.

The second criminal section of the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal presented by the defenders of Sebastiano Nirta (cl. 1971).

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/20 01:25 PM

Which mafia organization is the strongest currently in Canada? Is it Commisso 'ndrina?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/20 11:06 PM

Although the origin of mammasantissima is interesting I read it was also used by Camorra for example Nuova Famiglia leader Pasquale Galasso also hold that rank.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/12/20 11:16 AM

Wow..

'Ndrangheta boss starts collaborating with police
Maurizio Cortese helping probes of Calabria-based Mob

(ANSA) - REGGIO CALABRIA, NOV 11 - The acting boss of one of the most powerful clans in Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta, has started collaborating with police from his prison cell, police said Wednesday.
This is a major breakthrough as he is the first 'Ndrangheta boss to help police.
The Calabrian organisation's rule of silence or 'omertÃ ' is even tighter than that of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, its older but less powerful cousin.
Maurizio Cortese, considered to be the 'regent' of the Serraino clan, has decided to become a confidential informant, judicial sources said.
Police said they hoped his turning state's evidence will help them fight 'Ndrangheta, which controls the European cocaine trade and has infiltrated the economies of Italy and many other countries. (ANSA).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/20 12:30 AM

The soldiers of the provincial commands of Reggio Calabria of the Guardia di Finanza and of the Carabinieri carried out a judicial police operation which ended with the capture of Domenico Bellocco , a fugitive from 'Ndrangheta and a leading exponent of the homonymous gang of Rosarno, one of the associations the most powerful mafia criminals of the Tyrrhenian area, with ramifications throughout Italy and Europe.

The fugitive was located and captured in a cottage in a rural area in the municipality of Mongiana (Vibo Valentia).

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/20 11:29 AM

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/20 01:17 PM

This Bellocco was arrested in Vibo Valentia. In this area the Mancuso ndrina is powerful, or? Do you think both clans have ties to each other? Relatives or just business?

Is it true that the Mancuso clan is one of the richest clans of all and they are big in the cocaine trade?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/20 01:36 PM

This Bellocco was arrested in Vibo Valentia. In this area the Mancuso ndrina is powerful, or? Do you think both clans have ties to each other? Relatives or just business?

Is it true that the Mancuso clan is one of the richest clans of all and they are big in the cocaine trade?

It's all intertwined, but the Mancuso and associates are now fighting in the Maxi trial at the bunker room of the Rebibbia prison in Rome. The formal legal process against more than 470 people is under way. The trial will eventually move from Rome to a large courthouse being prepared for the occasion in Calabria in order to accommodate all the defendants and their lawyers.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/14/20 04:55 PM

This Bellocco is the son of Carmelo Bellocco and grandson of super boss Umberto Bellocco.
His cousin, also named Domenico, is the rapper Glock 21.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 02:48 AM

Does anyone know the Nirta Clan/ ndrina? In the internet you can read in many places that they are the most powerful clan of the Ndrangheta. Do you think that's right? You hardly hear or read anything about this ndrina in the news.

https://larivieraonline.com/ndrangheta-colpo-al-cuore-degli-scalzone-ucciso-giuseppe-nirta

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrina_La_Maggiore

https://www.wikimafia.it/wiki/index.php?title=Nirta_(%27ndrina)

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 11:35 AM

'Ndrina La Maggiore is probably the most influential 'ndrina of all time

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 01:18 PM

'Ndrina La Maggiore is probably the most influential 'ndrina of all time

They are called the "Mamma", mother of all clans.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 07:35 PM

'Ndrina La Maggiore is probably the most influential 'ndrina of all time

They are called the "Mamma", mother of all clans.

I heard that term in Gomorrah, I thought its a person, like the boss of all bosses. So its actually referring to the most powerful clan? Did any other clan have this title before them? Or are they the only one?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 07:36 PM

Mamma is also a nickname and there is a rank called 'Mammasantissima'

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 07:47 PM

Yes it can be both the San Luca family or a person Antonio Pelle was known as la mamma.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/15/20 08:27 PM

So Antonio Pelle was the boss of San Luca at the time? How can that be when the Nirta Clan, as one reads, is the most powerful ndrina of all? It all seems very complicated in San Luca. You hardly hear anything from this Nirta La Maggiore clan. In which countries is the clan active? The other San Luca clans are mainly active in Europe, Germany, etc. Perhaps the Pelle ndrina has become stronger and more powerful than the Nirta ndrina in the course of time? Really an interesting subject.

Disgusting to see Calabrians producing such degenerate gangsta rap videos. You would think theyâ€™d have more dignity. Straight outta Growing Up Gotti.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/17/20 01:34 AM

Disgusting to see Calabrians producing such degenerate gangsta rap videos. You would think theyâ€™d have more dignity. Straight outta Growing Up Gotti.

True, it's a sign of these times I guess. In the clip he attacks law enforcement agencies defined as 'dogs' and 'cops to fuck off'.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/17/20 01:43 AM

There are two Nirta families in San Luca the Nirta-Strangio had the infamous feud with Pelle-Vottari and the Nirta La Maggiore were mediators to bring the peace.

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/17/20 10:02 AM

Yes i read and know this. But I often read that Antonio Pelle and Giuseppe Pelle are the highest in San Luca. So I wonder why the Nirta La maggiore clan is the most powerful ndrina of the Ndrangheta?

The head of the Ndrangheta was Antonio Pelle or not?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/17/20 03:31 PM

COVID: Major 'Ndrangheta trials threatened by virus
Trouble setting up videolinks with jailed asymptomatic mafiosi

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...43125f7-1d61-41c4-9d97-b3dc0d0d7ada.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/19/20 01:42 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/20 01:31 AM

Yes i read and know this. But I often read that Antonio Pelle and Giuseppe Pelle are the highest in San Luca. So I wonder why the Nirta La maggiore clan is the most powerful ndrina of the Ndrangheta?

The head of the Ndrangheta was Antonio Pelle or not?

Antonio Pelle gambazza was the most important boss for many decades. He was the patriarch of the San Luca locale and the 'Ndrangheta capo crimine. He reached the rank of vangelo, at the time the highest rank in the organisation.

The Nirta's on the other hand were formed by the brothers Giuseppe , Antonio , Francesco, Sebastiano and Domenico Nirta, maybe even more powerful 'ndrina very close to the Corleonesi.

The Nirta's did lose two important leaders.
On 24 January 2013 , the son-in-law of Giuseppe Nirta , Vincenzo Femia , was killed in Rome .
On 7 June 2017 Giuseppe Nirta, 52 years old son of the late boss Sebastiano, is killed. The murder took place in Spain, in the Murcia region.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/20 02:03 AM

An ambush in agricultural land, a 72-year-old in Reggino is serious
By editorial staff November 19, 2020
The carabinieri investigate the serious episode in order to trace the matrix of the fact of blood. Meanwhile, the man was taken by helicopter rescue to Reggio Calabria

A 72-year-old was shot and wounded on agricultural land in the small town of Galatro in Reggino. The man, ML, would be from Giffone. Rescued and taken by ambulance to the emergency room of the Polistena hospital, the man was then transferred in helicopter rescue to the Reggio Calabria hospital given his condition immediately appeared critical, also considering that the blows would have also reached him in the head.

The carabinieri are now investigating to try to reconstruct the dynamics and trace the perpetrators of the ambush.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/20 12:06 PM

The boss of Limbadi Diego Mancuso, 66, one of the undisputed leaders of the homonymous consortium of the 'Ndrangheta of the Vibonese, leaves the prison and returns in total freedom. He had been arrested in May last year to serve a final sentence of 6 years for mafia association remedied in the trial born from the "Genesis" operation. Last January, however, the Court of Appeal accepted the request for continued penalties between the sentences arising from the Genesis and Dynasty operations (also here for mafia association with a sentence already served) thus reducing the sentence to be served from 6 to 2 years.

Today, therefore, also thanks to an additional penalty for "good behavior" in prison , Diego Mancuso is back in total freedom. Diego Mancuso is the brother of Rosaria Mancuso, detained for the Limbadi car bomb that cost the life of the biologist Matteo Vinci, as well as brother of the bosses Giuseppe, Francesco and Pantaleone. (Agi)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/20 12:39 PM

Klaus Davi is again provoking 'ndrangheta, cosa nostra and camorra lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAfVn-WkEA&feature=emb_logo

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/22/20 01:10 PM

Which mafia organization is the strongest currently in Canada? Is it Commisso 'ndrina?

You should ask antimafia, he has the most information about the GTA. Commisso def have strong links to Calabria for example Frank (The Chosen) Commisso has residences in both Ontario and Siderno.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/20 11:29 AM

'Ndrangheta: Piscopisani clan, 21 sentences requested for a total of almost 200 years in prison
In addition to the leaders of the clan of Piscopio, among the defendants also the boss Cosmo Michele Mancuso of Limbadi. The investigation coordinated by the DDA and conducted by the Vibo Mobile Squad.

13 years and 8 months for Nazzareno Fiorillo , 54, called â€œU Tartaruâ€, from Piscopio, indicated as the head of the 'ndrangheta locale in Piscopio.

[Linked Image]

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/20 10:31 PM

Two million euros worth of assets were seized by the Dia from Vincenzo Pesce, 67 from Rosarno (Reggio Calabria), considered a leading exponent of the hegemonic gang of the same name, together with that of the Bellocco family, in the municipality of Reggino . Pesce reported 2 final convictions for crimes of simple and mafia conspiracy committed in the years 1980 and 1989 and following which he had already been subjected to the measure of special surveillance for a period of three years.
The man was involved in the "'Ndrangheta Banking" Operation, conducted in June 2014 by the Dia which had led to the discovery of a parallel credit system through which the Calabrian gangs granted loans at usurious rates to Calabrian and Lombard entrepreneurs in difficulty.
Pesce was sentenced to 4 years in prison for the crime of fictitious registration of assets with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the 'Ndrangheta.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/27/20 12:12 AM

Polycephalous â€˜ndrangheta: Crimes, behaviours and organisation of the Calabrian mafia in Australia

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004865818782573

Great article by Anna Sergi.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/04/20 11:38 AM

A judge on Thursday indicted 444 suspected members of the â€˜Ndrangheta mafia on an array of charges, including murder, attempted murder, extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking, a judicial source said.

The trial of 355 of the defendants will start on Jan. 13 and will be one of the largest cases to target organised crime in Italy since the so-called maxiprocesso that severely weakened Sicilyâ€™s more storied Cosa Nostra mafia group in the 1980s.

https://www.metro.us/judge-orders-mass-trial/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/10/20 12:52 PM

On Wednesday morning, the carabinieri of the Sesto San Giovanni Company carried out three arrests requested by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against as many affected Italian subjects, of Calabrian origin and residing in the Milan area.

They are accused of extortion, attempted extortion and robbery, all aggravated by the mafia method to the detriment of a Cormano trader in the period between the months of May and September.

According to the investigators, the three are linked to the Flachi clan, which emerged in the northern area of â€‹â€‹Milan and neighboring municipalities of the alliance headed by the notorious Giuseppe Flachi known as PepÃ¨.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/14/20 08:03 AM

Coronavirus, the brother of the head of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy dies in prison
By editorial staff 13 December 2020
At the age of 71 Mario Coco Trova died, imprisoned in the Tolmezzo prison. He was in prison for mafia association

Mario Coco Trova died today at the age of 71 in the Tolmezzo prison for Covid. Klaus Davi makes it known. Mario Coco was in jail for mafia association, extortion and other crimes since 2014, younger brother of Franco Coco Trova, historical undisputed leader of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy and currently detained in Rebibbia, where he recently obtained his doctorate in Law.

The Coco Trovatos are related to the De Stefano clan of Reggio Calabria, considered among the most powerful of the 'Ndrangheta, as Carmine De Stefano married Franco Coco Trova's daughter. The name of Mario Coco Trova was obviously linked with that of his brother, a key figure in â€œWall Street,â€ the first major investigation into the infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy. A native of Marcedusa, in the province of Catanzaro, he has long been considered the heir of the life-sentence boss.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/18/20 02:06 AM

Ambush in Cutro, the ex of the boss's niece shoots her new partner with a rifle.
She is niece of Nicolino Grande Aracri, a daughter of the lawyer Domenico Grande Aracri, recently involved in the Farma Business investigation.
It happened the other night, while the predestined target of a fortunately unsuccessful shotgun shot returned with his car to Petilia presumably after having taken the girl, a 24-year-old law student back home.The ambush materialize near the villa of the lawyer Grande Aracri. The young man was unharmed.
From what it has been possible to learn, the motive would be of a passionate type or in any case attributable to conflicts of a private nature.

Posted By: Machin1

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/22/20 09:46 PM

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/23/20 12:17 PM

Here is a interesting Link. You guys think the Ndrangheta in Germany is the most Powerful of the World, outside Italy? More powerful than in Canada and other countries?

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/lal...eten-vede-solo-la-mafiosita-degli-altri/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/02/21 06:55 AM

The mafia turns social media influencer to reinforce its brand
Southern Italyâ€™s mob bosses embrace digital platforms as a way to spread their message
Miles Johnson in Rome 2 HOURS AGO

To the casual observer it was just another Facebook page dispensing inspirational messages â€" and the occasional threat â€" to its 18,000 followers. In fact â€œHonour and Dignityâ€, was a social media branding exercise for an Italian mafia boss whose frequent posts came to an abrupt end after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Before his incarceration in 2017, Vincenzo Torcasio, a boss of a clan of the Calabrian â€™Ndrangheta, Italyâ€™s most powerful mafia, spent five years building up a sizeable online following. His digital offering provided an unlikely mix of kitsch images of roses and hearts, quotes from the writer Paulo Coelho, and occasional nuggets of grizzled gangster wisdom.

Read full article: https://www.ft.com/content/285732c9-e962-4896-83c2-ce31e09003e6

I love that he was into Paulo Coelho

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/04/21 02:15 AM

Yes I agree with Nicaso from what I have gathered, the top 3 would be Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/04/21 06:58 PM

Yes I agree with Nicaso from what I have gathered, the top 3 would be Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands.

i don't think netherlands above australia

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/21 09:51 AM

'Ndrangheta, the revelations of a repentant on the disappearance of Maria Chindamo.
A collaborator of justice Antonio Cossidente reports to the Dda of Catanzaro the confidences received from Emanuele Mancuso on how and why the entrepreneur was eliminated.
She disappeared on May 1, 2016 while on her farm in Limbadi, in the Vibonese area. There are new revelations about Maria Chindamo, an entrepreneur from Laureana di Borrello, in the province of Reggio Calabria, thanks to the statements made by the collaborator of justice Antonio Cossidente, 55 years of Potenza, to the Dda of Catanzaro, who is investigating the case.
Cossidente shared his detention in prison with Emanuele Mancuso , founder of the homonymous Limbadi clan, one of the most influential of the 'Ndrangheta, with whom he established a strong bond. From the latter he would have learned that Maria Chindamo would have been killed and torn to pieces with a tractor or fed to the pigs because of her refusal to sell her land in Limbadi to the neighboring Salvatore Ascone, believed to be linked to the Mancuso clan and already arrested for the crime but later released from the Review Court.
At the moment the DDA led by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri has examined Cossidente's statements. According to the collaborator of justice, Chindamo's body was made to disappear on May 6, 2016 - the same day the woman's ex-husband took his own life - to sidetrack the investigation and make the suspicions of the crime fall on the family of the 'ex husband.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/06/21 10:26 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/09/21 02:37 AM

Yes I agree with Nicaso from what I have gathered, the top 3 would be Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands.

i don't think netherlands above australia

In terms of manpower you're right, both Canada and Australia are above Netherlands. But you have to take into account when you look at power the role the Dutch play in the global drug trade, that why most of the Italians operating in the Netherlands are high up the food chain.

Posted By: NYMafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/09/21 02:43 AM

I have a question for your Hollander. As far as Cosa Nostra, or even an N'drangheta presence in the City of Brussels, Belgium. I know there is a small section of Brussels that has a Little Italy of sorts.

What do you know of it. And who are the members, their names per se, in that city?

For that matter, how about the presence of French, or Corsican racketeers in Brussels?

Posted By: Blackmobs

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/09/21 02:38 PM

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.vic...lations-and-blood-rituals-0000504-v21n11

One enters the upper house of the local, the SocietÃ Maggiore, as a santista (the name refers to his being part of the SocietÃ Santa). A rung above him is the vangelo (gospel), so called because he swore loyalty to the 'Ndrangheta with one hand on the Bible (a tattooed cross marks his left shoulder). Next is the trequartino (three quarters), who has privileged access to three quarters of the organization (he has a cross on his right shoulder and an emerald rose under his foot).

This article talk about a cross tattoos and a rose under the foot.
Does it means the ndrangheta has special tattoos with specific meanings?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/09/21 05:26 PM

What do you know of it. And who are the members, their names per se, in that city?

For that matter, how about the presence of French, or Corsican racketeers in Brussels?

I will look into that.
In Brussels there are members of Cosa Nostra from Favara (Agrigento) and of the powerful Rinzivillo family from Caltanissetta.
'Ndrangheta members came mostly from Rosarno (Reggio Calabria), Bellocco and Ascone families.
Also Camorra members from the Secondigliano families.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/11/21 02:41 AM

Just before Christmas, the collaborator of justice Giovanbattista Fracapane , assassin of the Tegano clan of Reggio Calabria died. The news, anticipated by Klaus Davi - was confirmed to Ansa. The death, according to what has been learned, occurred on December 16 last due to natural causes and no investigations have been started. Fracapane was a protagonist of the second mafia war that bloodied the city from 1985 to 1991 with hundreds of deaths. Responsible for many murders that took place during that period, the former killer was a fugitive for years. In 2004 he began to collaborate with justice. He told the prosecutors some background of the clash between the De Stefano-Tegano and the Condello clan, shedding light on many murders consumed in the eighties and nineties. But he also spoke of the political sympathies of the 'Ndrangheta. Finally, he recently made statements to shed light on the murder of Giuseppe Cartisano,

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/21 12:28 AM

Such a HUGE trial, I can't imagine the work and time the prosecutors put into it. Also security has to be significant for all people involved almost like a war situation.

'Ndrangheta: Italy prepares for mafia 'maxi-trial' with 355 defendants

https://www.thelocal.it/20210111/italy-prepares-for-mafia-maxi-trial-with-355-defendants

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/21 10:30 AM

Is this biggest mafia trial in Italy since sicilians mafia maxi trial ?

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/21 10:55 AM

Is this biggest mafia trial in Italy since sicilians mafia maxi trial ?

Yep. And it primarily focuses on the Mancuso clan.... I was just asking about......

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/21 11:32 AM

The trial will focus on mob activity in the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia, an area dominated by the Mancuso clan. The defendants will be locked in cages.

More than 900 witnesses will give evidence at the trial, which starts on Wednesday, and investigators will produce 24,000 wiretaps and bugged conversations to back up charges of murder, extortion and drug dealing.

The hearings promise to rival the 1986 â€œMaxiâ€ trial in Palermo.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/12/21 11:52 AM

'Ndrangheta, offensive writings against the parish priest of the sanctuary of Polsi
Denigrating and offensive sentences were written by unknown persons against Tonino Saraco , rector of the sanctuary of Polsi and parish priest in Ardore (RC). Someone read them on a wall along a provincial road and reported it to the religious who, upon hearing the news, went to the local carabinieri station where he filed a complaint for defamation. The incident was announced in a press release by Monsignor Francesco Oliva , bishop of Locri-Gerace, who, in his name and in the name of the diocesan church, expressed "full trust, closeness and solidarity" to Don Tonino.

The sanctuary of Polsi, located in the heart of the Aspromonte , is a symbolic role both from a religious point of view and for the meaning assumed over time for the 'Ndrangheta. Every year, in summer, on the occasion of the feast of the Madonna to which it is dedicated, the sanctuary becomes the destination of thousands of pilgrims from the province of Reggio Calabria and Sicily, but also the leaders of the clans who outline their strategies and renew their covenants.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/13/21 06:41 AM

Is this biggest mafia trial in Italy since sicilians mafia maxi trial ?

"You should not compare this trial with the Palermo Maxi Trial," prosecutor Gratteri repeats in interviews. "This is a cornerstone of the dividing wall we are building between the 'ndrangheta and public life."

Now less big names are on trial - although Luigi Mancuso is internationally notorious. Moreover, it now mainly concerns the network in the Calabrese province of Vibo Valentia, while elsewhere in Calabria other 'ndrangheta families are active. The maxi process in Palermo at the time covered all of Sicily.

According to 'ndrangheta expert Enzo Ciconte, an important element of this process is â€œthe key role of Masonic lodgesâ€. The popularity of the Masonic brotherhoods in Italy is a historical legacy, Ciconte says, and goes back to the conspiracies of people who strived for the unification of Italy in the early 1800s.

Since the scandal of the secret lodge Propaganda Due in the eighties of the last century, stricter regulations have been imposed on lodges, to which official Freemasonry adheres. But justice in Calabria has discovered a large number of clandestine, unregistered lodges in that region where members or representatives of the 'ndrangheta liaise with local dignitaries and arrange all sorts of things, from multi-million dollar contracts to wage increases for friendly relations.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/13/21 07:19 AM

They call him the "Supreme" or "Uncle Luigi". Luigi Mancuso, 66, is the head of the leaders of the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta. Mancuso's â€œpacifistâ€ strategy was on a collision course with the â€œnew generationâ€ of Vibo.
Mancuso is the boss of the bosses who - according to the prosecution - directs and organizes everything, making the most relevant decisions, "issuing orders or imposing sanctions on other associates subordinate to him, taking care of relations with the other branches of the association and the relative leaders, settling internal and external conflicts in the association he headed, commissioning or consuming extortion directly, continuing to carry out his functions as head even during detention, both within the prison , both outside ". He is the undisputed leader of the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta with solid relationships with exponents of other branches including the Reggio area, in particular with the De Stefano and Piromalli gangs, and with the â€œwhite collarâ€ (professionals, entrepreneurs, politicians, belonging to the Freemasons).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/14/21 01:12 AM

Former boss of Italy's Mafia-style 'ndrangheta to testify
A key witness in the trial against the organized crime group 'ndrangheta in Italy is Luigi Bonaventura, who began cooperating with investigators in 2006.

https://www.dw.com/en/former-boss-of-italys-mafia-style-ndrangheta-to-testify/a-56214596

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/14/21 01:14 AM

Judges seek recusal as major Italian mafia trial kicks off
https://reut.rs/2LuYRl

Heavily guarded prosecutor takes on Italy's mob powerhouse
https://reut.rs/3nHdO14

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/14/21 11:35 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/16/21 06:01 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/16/21 06:02 PM

They also placed â‚¬1 million bounty on his head.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/18/21 08:43 AM

'Ndrangheta, 49 between arrests and orders: there is also the mayor of Rosarno

The operation involved the Pisano clan of the 'Ndrangheta Share January 18, 2021 There is the mayor of Rosarno, Giuseppe IdÃ , among those arrested in the "Faust" carabinieri operation. The operation involved the Pisano clan of the 'Ndrangheta which, according to investigations coordinated by the Reggio Calabria prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri and the adjunct Gaetano Paci, allegedly supported IdÃ , elected mayor in 2016. This morning, at the first light

http://www.tellerreport.com/news/2021-01-18-%0A----ndrangheta--49-between-arrests-and-orders--there-is-also-the-mayor-of-rosarno%0A--.rkLtyrTzJ_.html

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/21 03:01 PM

Another bust this time in the province of Crotone, the poorest region of Italy.

The Italian police have once again hit the Calabrese â€˜ndrangheta, the most powerful mafia organization in the world. During a major operation called Basso Profilo (â€˜Inconspicuousâ€™) at least 48 people were arrested. 35 of them are allowed to remain under house arrest.

At least 200 agents, four dog units and a helicopter were deployed throughout the country in the action. Most of the suspects are mafiosi, but entrepreneurs and politicians are also part of the investigation. They are suspected of illegally moving funds worth roughly EUR 300 million. During searches, cars, bank accounts, furniture, mail and household effects were seized.

The home of national party leader of the center-democratic UDP and former MEP Lorenzo Cesa has also been searched. He says he is innocent, but has resigned as leader of his party. A party member in Calabria who is chief of finance in the region is under house arrest.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/21/21 11:41 PM

The â€œLow profileâ€ operation, taken this morning, is an important operation against the major exponents of the most important 'ndrine of Crotone."Fears were recorded by the members of the organization both towards the declarations of the collaborators of justice, from whose choice to collaborate they were distanced, and towards the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri defined by the same members of the organization as a serious person who was uncovering the 'cauldron' even if in an exaggerated way, according to themâ€œ.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/25/21 05:06 PM

Italian police on Monday arrested 12 suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta in and around the Calabrian city of Crotone.
They have been charged with 'Ndrangheta-style mafia association, murder, extortion, usury, weapons offences, robbery and thefts, and arson, all aggravated by using mafia methods.
Catanzaro Chief Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, Italy's no.1 anti-Ndrangheta magistrate, said the operation had thwarted another murder.
"They had dug up their weapons and were gearing to use them to carry out a murder," he said.
"We just couldn't wait".
Some of those arrested have been charged with the 'lupara bianca' ('disappearing') of farm hand Massimo Vona, 44, who went missing on October 30 2018 and is believed to have been the victim of the so-called 'white shotgun' after falling foul of the Calabrian Mob.
Vona's cousin Valentino Vona, 25, was killed by 'Ndrangheta in 2012.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/26/21 08:17 AM

Until now it had only been talked about in the newspapers, now the case of Teresa Merante, a Calabrian singer-songwriter, ends up in the hands of the judiciary. To announce exposures to the judiciary are trade unions and politicians . The woman is under accusation for the content of some texts that, according to her detractors, would praise the leaders of the Calabrian and Sicilian mafia . She defends herself and replies by stating that those songs are part of the cultural repertoire. Yesterday evening she released a video on Facebook in which
she talks about a "huge media fuss".

The piece Â«U fugitivesÂ» , she says, was not written by me, but has already been performed in the past by other folk singers. The same reconstruction also for a song on New Year's Eve, "aimed at all Calabrians who live outside", while the text of the song on TotÃ² Riina "was written by me - she says - taking a cue from TV fiction".

Merante denies being the singer of the underworld, arguing that her family â€œhas never had anything to do with organized crime. I do not accept being labeled as the singer of the underworld in Calabria. My interpretations in music have been songs of love, of aggregation, of joy on the beauties of Calabria and also on the underworld song that has been part of the Calabrian popular traction since the seventies.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/21 07:08 AM

Albanian Entrepreneur Denies Association with Ndrangheta Wiretaps
From: Exit Staff 4 hrs ago
Albanian Entrepreneur Denies Association with Ndrangheta Wiretaps
Entrepreneur Besnik Halili, whose name was mentioned in the media as â€˜Nikuâ€™ in Ndrangheta wiretaps, has denied his involvement in the scandal.

In a statement to MCN TV, Halili admitted that he knew the Calabrian entrepreneur Antonio Gallo, but never cooperated with him:

â€œMy business relationship with Mr. Gallo has been zero. There is no activity with the company I run and Mr. Galloâ€™s business. I have had offers regarding the products that Mr. Gallo traded, but they were not realized. â€œ

Halili is the sole owner of the company â€˜GTS-Gazra Teknike Shqiptare shpkâ€™ and president of the group â€˜Solâ€™. The company trades gases and other hospital supplies.

Asked about his connections with the Municipality of Tirana and construction, Mr. Halili said that he has never been involved in construction and has not had a business relationship with the Municipality of Tirana.

In the wiretaps uncovered as part of the file investigated by the Italian anti-mafia for the entrepreneur Gallo, the name â€˜Nikâ€™ and the â€˜Sol companyâ€™ are mentioned in at least one conversation.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/21 07:02 PM

Assets worth 124 mn euros seized in 'Ndrangheta case
Companies, properties and land among confiscated assets

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/20...48ec534-e2d4-4aec-9124-b1bb835b1949.html

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/27/21 09:56 PM

Many big blows to the 'ndrangheta, looks like they have now less power in Calabria.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/28/21 02:43 PM

Many big blows to the 'ndrangheta, looks like they have now less power in Calabria.

We will see , with seized assets its always tricky , because they go on public auction and people are afraid to buy them , so they are often bought by mafia again. But definitely a lot of big blows on 'Ndrangheta last few months.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 01/29/21 07:55 PM

'Ndrangheta boss Domenico Cracolici arrested: captured in a cottage after 13 months on the run
He had escaped the maxi-operation "Rinascita-Scott" and also the precautionary custody order of last July: his escape ended last night, when the carabinieri surprised him in his sleep inside his hiding place in the countryside of Maida . He was included in the list of the 100 most dangerous wanted men in Italy

by Lucio Musolino | JANUARY 29, 2021
On 19 December 2019 he had escaped the maxi-operation " Rinascita-Scott " against the Mancuso clan and the other 'Ndrangheta families of Vibo Valentia . On July 21, he also avoided the precautionary custody order issued against him as part of the â€œ Taxation â€ operation. After 13 months, the hiding of Domenico Cracolici , 39 years old and boss of the homonymous gang that controls the territory of Maierato and Filogaso , in the Vibonese area , ended tonight . Coordinated by the district management of Catanzaro, the carabinieri of the company of Serra San Bruno, of the investigative unit of Vibo and of the Hunters Helicopter Squadron have captured him in an isolated cottage in the countryside of Maida .

Domenico Cracolici was a fugitive on the list of the 100 most dangerous wanted men in Italy. The investigations, led by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and his prosecutors, made it possible to trace him and identify an area within which the investigators considered probable the presence of Cracolici, considered the clan leader who had the "responsibility for managing relations and the balance with the other 'Ndrangheta groups in the area â€. Together with his cousin, Francesco Cracolici , in fact, according to the magistrates, the fugitive maintained "contacts with the other components of the 'Ndrangheta and with the members of his own family".

Basically, according to the investigators, the fugitive arrested tonight and his cousin had taken the place of their parents, the bosses Alfredo and Raffaele Cracolici , victims in the feud against the Bonavota . In fact, between 2002 and 2004, Domenico and Francesco Cracolici "organized the armed reaction " against the opposing clan with which relations were then recomposed . Of the fugitive, the collaborator of justice Bartolomeo Arena said that he is a â€œsubject engaged in illegal activities, drug trafficking and has maintained links with criminals who were linked to his father. He is to be considered the referent of the Maierato area. The Cracolici are historically linked to Mancuso , especially Peppe 'Mbroglia' and maintain relationships with Bonavota facade, which they really hate because they killed their parents. "

According to the DDA, the search for the fugitive was difficult due to the extreme mobility of Cracolici who, throughout 2020, managed to move on an area he knew well, covering his tracks and engaging the investigators in an exhausting hunt. to man. In recent months, however, there has been a turning point in the investigation. Carabinieri and anti-mafia pool had identified the area in which he was moving and in the last hours they had found the hiding place where Domenico Cracolici was surprised in his sleep, only to be accompanied to the prison of Vibo Valentia .

Justice de facto - Get the dossiers and the most important information to always be informed about everything that happens in the field of Justice

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/21 01:11 PM

Some important recent investigations have shown that some politicians do not hesitate to turn to gangs of 'Ndrangheta to acquire electoral consensus, which is indispensable for his own success, in full awareness and willingness to make himself available subsequently where elected. Recent collaborators of justice confirm the phenomenon of the search for the 'Ndrangheta contact for electoral support by the politician and no longer, as in the past, the courtship by the' Ndrangheta of the candidate.

I just watched an interview with Gratteri, that is basically what he says is the real threat from the Ndrangheta in his opinion.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/02/21 07:33 PM

I just watched an interview with Gratteri, that is basically what he says is the real threat from the Ndrangheta in his opinion.

Similar to the beginning of modern OC in the US when political bosses in NYC and Chicago turned to the Mob.

I just watched an interview with Gratteri, that is basically what he says is the real threat from the Ndrangheta in his opinion.

Similar to the beginning of modern OC in the US when political bosses in NYC and Chicago turned to the Mob.

Fair enough, I've heard many people across the world warn other countries and Governments of the Octopus, like Germany and Canada. I believe at one point in the P2 investigations, there were documents discovered that indicated elites in Government, Finance and Military in other countries outside of Italy, this all seems to be in harmony with that.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/07/21 12:27 PM

Authorities in Albania announced on Thursday that an official investigation has been launched for the wiretaps published by the Italian Prosecutorâ€™s Office and by the Italian media regarding links of the Italian mafia group â€œNdranghetaâ€ with some important figures in the country.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/08/21 11:48 AM

Inside the trial against the 'Ndrangheta, Italy's biggest mafia syndicate

Guardian journalists Lorenzo Tondo and Clare Longrigg discuss the trial against the â€˜Ndrangheta, the largest mafia trial in three decades. At the centre is Emanuele Mancuso, son of boss Luni Mancuso, who has been revealing the clanâ€™s secrets after accepting police protection

https://www.theguardian.com/news/au...drangheta-italys-biggest-mafia-syndicate

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/21 06:39 PM

18 arrests for illicit waste trafficking
'Ndrangheta boss Vallelonga nabbed, radioactive waste seized

(ANSA) - MILAN, FEB 9 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 18 people on suspicion of trafficking in illicit waste including toxic and radioactive substances in northern Italy.
Some 10 people were taken into custody in jail and eight more were placed under house arrest, police said.
Prosecutors said they had reconstructed the activities of a mafia waste trafficking gang near Lecco north of Milan allegedly led by a top member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, Italy's richest and most powerful crime outfit, Cosimo Vallelonga.
Those arrested have been charged with mafia association, conspiracy to traffic illegal waste, tax fraud, money laundering, usury and extortion.
Lecco police carried out sweeps in Lombardy, Liguria and Emilia Romagna.
They seized a consignment of radioactive waste, (ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/09/21 06:55 PM

Rebirth-Scott: the boss Luigi Mancuso and the No to the massacre strategy of Cosa Nostra
The collaborator Umile Arturi told of the 1992 'ndrangheta meeting in Nicotera Marina to discuss the requests of the Corleonesi

Collaborator of justice since 1996, Umile Arturi of Cosenza was deposed today in the Rinascita-Scott maxi-trial before the Collegial Court Arturi explained that he was part of the clan headed by Franco Pino , an ally of Antonio Sena and deployed against the Perna-Pranno-Vitelli clan. â€œ Franco Pino had high 'Ndrangheta skills and I was two steps below him as I had the degree of the Gospel. At the end of the mafia war at the end of the 80s we divided the territory of Cosenza with the Perna-Pranno-Vitelli clan â€

Umile Arturi then confirmed the deposition of collaborator Franco Pino in the account of the meeting in 1992, in a village of Nicotera Marina, to examine the proposal of the Corleonesi of TotÃ² Riina and of the Santapaola to join the massacre strategy after the attack D'Amelio in Palermo cost the life of judge Paolo Borsellino and the men of the escort.

Compared to Franco Pino's deposition, however, Umile Arturi indicated among the participants in the meeting three names that had not been mentioned by the first collaborator who had indeed underlined its absence: Pino Piromalli from Gioia Tauro, Peppe Pesce from Rosarno and Giuseppe Farao from CirÃ². Franco Pino had instead spoken of the presence of Nino Pesce and Silvio Farao accompanied by Cataldo Marincola (the latter name also made by Umile Arturi).

Among the others - according to the two collaborators - were present at the meeting, the "landlord" Luigi Mancuso of Limbadi and Franco Coco Trova of Marcedusa, resident in Lombardy and related to the De Stefano family of Reggio Calabria. â€œLuigi Mancuso - said Arturi - explained the Sicilians' proposal but clearly said he was against it as if we had adhered to the Sicilian massacre strategy we would have transferred the mess that happened in Sicily to Calabria as well and this was not convenient for the 'Ndrangheta , in addition to the fact that Mancuso supported the opposition to the killing of innocent people , including magistrates â€.

Umile Arturi then recalled the exchanges of favors between the clan of Cosenza and the Santapaolas of Catania, with the Sicilian firms reported to the Calabrians for â€œfavorâ€ treatments on the occasion of public works in Calabria . Finally, the admission by Umile Arturi that he had committed murders in the 1980s on behalf of the De Stefano clan, while the project of death inside the prison against the boss Franco Perna entrusted to a lifer, would then be skipped after the transfer of the prisoner.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/21 10:58 AM

A 212 million euro treasure confiscated by the finance police of Reggio Calabria and by Scico from the Calabrian entrepreneur Domenico Gallo, 65, accused of being close to the Piromalli and Zagari-Fazzalari 'ndrangheta gangs.

In addition to various financial resources, the confiscation concerns 13 joint-stock companies with their company assets, the shares of another company, 11 properties, including land and buildings and a prestigious villa, a car and 12 luxury watches.

Gallo, defined by a collaborator of justice as "bitumen billionaire" , managed to create, within a few years, that amalgamation with exponents of the 'Ndrangheta, men of the public administration and fixers that allowed him to grab the execution of great public works, confirming what has been highlighted by the investigations since 1985, when Gallo was indicated as a prominent emerging element of the new alliance between mafia entrepreneurship and the political-administrative world at local and national level.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/11/21 11:35 PM

18 arrests for illicit waste trafficking
'Ndrangheta boss Vallelonga nabbed, radioactive waste seized

He returned to Italy in the afternoon today, around 16, with a flight from Morocco, but the police were waiting for him at Malpensa: Paolo Valsecchi, from Calolzio, was therefore arrested , the last one missing to the appeal among the arrested of the alleged criminal group at the center of the latest investigation against the 'Ndrangheta in the Lecco area.

For the investigators Valsecchi was the 'armed wing' of the group headed by Cosimo Vallelonga , the trusted man of the new boss.
In addition to Vallelonga, Vincenzo Marchio, Luciano Mannarino, Danilo Monti, Alessandro Malacorda, Vincenzo Pace, Claudio Gentile, Fabrizio Motta, Benedetto Parisi and now Paolo Valsecchi ended up in prison .

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An image of Paolo Valsecchi

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/12/21 11:02 AM

The collaborator of justice Diego Zappia was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment for criminal association of a mafia type. The sentence was issued at the conclusion of the trial with an abbreviated procedure before the judge of Reggio Calabria, Francesco Campagna. The trial against Zappia resulted from an investigation by the deputy prosecutor of the Dda Sara Amerio following the statements made by the repentant himself after his arrest for the murder of Giuseppe Canale, the boss of Gallico di Reggio Calabria killed on 12 August of 2011. Zappia, for the murder of Canale, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Regarding the mafia association, Zappia had been acquitted in the â€œErinniâ€ trial, but his statements led to new accusations against him. In front of the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and the prosecutor Amerio, in fact, the repentant admitted that he was "affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta" and that he was "formally baptized between 2008 and 2009".
Furthermore, in his lands of Castellace, Oppido Mamertina and Lubrichi, Zappia, between 2010 and 2011, allegedly hosted, according to the accusation against him by the Dda of Reggio, "meetings of 'Ndrangheta aimed at planning and planning the murder of Giuseppe Canale" .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/15/21 02:44 AM

Relations between the 'Ndrangheta and other criminal organizations
Compared to other criminal realities, the 'Ndrangheta developed later, but despite this, a relationship of mutual respect and equality was generally had with the other mafias, even now that it is considered one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Europe and in the world and the most powerful in Italy. It has never taken sides in the wars of other organizations. Throughout history, however, there has been a strong collaboration for the trafficking of cigarettes, drugs and all the various illicit activities. In June 2018, during the 'Ndrangheta massacre trial, Salvatore Annacondia, a prominent criminal in the Bari area and close to Cosa Nostra, deposes that: "The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta is everyone's mother", it embraced all groups in Italy: Camorra, Cosa Nostra and Puglia.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/21 09:28 AM

Secret Mafia Commission in Germany
With the gradual expansion of the 'Ndrangheta into northern Italy and abroad, further such control bodies have emerged, which are subordinate to the Crimine di Polsi. They are a kind of commissions or bodies that are supposed to ensure that business runs smoothly and, above all, to prevent bloody massacres like Duisburg. What was previously unknown to the public: There is also such a secret commission in Germany.

According to joint research by MDR and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ), a Crimine di Germania has been in existence for more than ten years. According to confidential documents, this control body, also known as the "Camera di Controllo", is said to have been founded after the Mafia murders in Duisburg. The seat is presumed to be in Duisburg itself. Nine men from all over Germany - all allegedly high-ranking 'Ndrangheta members and most of them active as Italian restaurateurs - are said to be on this secret commission. Your task: You should ensure business peace, a balance of interests and compliance with the rules. It appears that your job is not to interfere in direct criminal operations.

A map of Germany showing where the nine members of the Crimine di Germania are based. One member is the "Erfurt Group".
Politics in secret: The Crimine di Germania regulates peace and interests of the Mafia clans in Germany.

The special thing about the Crimine di Germania is that it is the only governing body of its kind in Europe outside of Italy. In response to an MDR / FAZ request, the Federal Criminal Police Office officially confirmed for the first time that the existence of the Crimine di Germania was known.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/22/21 10:00 AM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/21 12:04 PM

'NDRANGHETA IN CROTONE: 12 ARRESTS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POSSESSION OF WEAPONS. CLANS HIT
Shot by the anti-mafia prosecutor of Catanzaro against the Vrenna-Corigliano-Bonaventura clans of Crotone and Megna di Papanice.
12 people ( 9 in prison and 3 in house arrest) are accused, in various capacities, of armed association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances (in particular heroin, cocaine and marijuana), receiving stolen goods, possession of weapons of war. Two of them must answer for the 'Ndrangheta association.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/21 12:47 PM

In Germania â€˜ndrangheta ha comitato controllo locale, organizzata con â€œCapo crimineâ€

https://www.calabrianews.it/in-germ...llo-locale-organizzata-con-capo-crimine/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/21 09:48 PM

Confiscation of 20 million from Giovanni "Billy" Mancuso, a leading exponent of the 'Ndrangheta Vibonese, movable property, real estate, farms, sole proprietorships and bank current accounts for an estimated value of about 20 million euros attributable to Giovanni Mancuso (cl. 41), known as "Billy", a well-known multi-judge, exponent prominent of the homonymous clan of 'Ndrangheta , already subjected to house arrest.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/21 10:39 PM

When they use the "homonymous" in these articles, what do they actually mean to convey with that word? I never understand the meaning of the word, or sentence its used in.

And what is the U.S. currency equivalent to 20 million "Euros" ?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/24/21 10:48 PM

When they use the "homonymous" in these articles, what do they actually mean to convey with that word? I never understand the meaning of the word, or sentence its used in.

And what is the U.S. currency equivalent to 20 million "Euros" ?

Over 24 million dollars. Homonymous means with the same name so this guy Billy Mancuso is a member of the homonymous clan Mancuso.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/21 12:04 PM

Dimitri De Stefano was sentenced on appeal to 10 years and 8 months of imprisonment for mafia association, instead of 13 years and 4 months of the first degree. The judges of the Reggio Calabria Court of Appeal issued the sentence late in the evening, dismissing his role as a participant, and not as head promoter as in the first instance.
Dimitri is a son of the deceased boss Don Paolino De Stefano.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/21 01:15 PM

The Secret Luxembourg Base of Italyâ€™s â€™Ndrangheta Mafia
by Cecilia Anesi (IrpiMedia), Giulio Rubino (IrpiMedia), Luc Caregari (Woxx), JÃ©rÃ©mie Baruch (Le Monde)
15 February 2021

By the time Santo Rumbo turned up in Luxembourg, he was already deeply enmeshed in the world of the Italian mafia.

At just 31 years old, heâ€™d allegedly risen to one of the highest ranks of the â€™Ndrangheta, the vicious Calabrian crime group that is responsible for a good chunk of Europeâ€™s cocaine trade.

So Italian police were more than a little concerned to learn he had moved to the tiny northwestern European nation, where he got involved in a restaurant business along with a group of young migrants from an impoverished Italian village near his hometown of Siderno, in the â€™Ndranghetaâ€™s heartland.

The intensely hierarchical and clannish â€™Ndrangheta have fanned out across the world from their home base in southern Italy, often using family-based chain migration to get footholds in new markets.

But the town of Siderno, on the sunny Ionian coast, is still the capital of their global narco-empire. There, the mighty Commisso clan rules over a number of â€™Ndrangheta families that are so powerful that their decisions can affect global cocaine prices.

Santo Rumboâ€™s father, Riccardo, was one of these family leaders, heading the Rumbo-Figliomeni â€˜ndrina subgroup.

Read More: https://www.occrp.org/en/openlux/revealed-the-secret-luxembourg-base-of-italys-ndrangheta-mafia

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/21 01:25 PM

Prosecutors in Reggio Calabria only learned about Santo Rumboâ€™s high ranking by chance, when they overheard two â€™Ndrangheta bosses in Canada talking about him on a wiretap. One mentioned that Rumbo was given a higher dote than his brother, whoâ€™d held the Vangelo until he died.

If Rumbo did hold a ranking of Trequartino before the age of 30, this would have been an extraordinarily rapid rise through the mafia ranks.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/21 06:17 PM

Top article Mammola under Siderno didn't know that! OCCRP very good investigative journalism.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/25/21 08:31 PM

Top article Mammola under Siderno didn't know that! OCCRP very good investigative journalism.

OCCRP is one of the best investigative journalism in EU in my opinion.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/26/21 10:10 PM

'Ndrangheta, the boss Mazzagatti died: in 2014 he received the "bow" of the Madonna
February 26, 2021
The leader of Oppido Mamertina was seriously ill and died in Taurianova in his home

The 89-year-old boss Giuseppe Mazzagatti died tonight of natural causes . The leader of Oppido Mamertina was seriously ill and died in his home in Taurianova. Mazzagatti, sentenced to life imprisonment for mafia association and murder, was under house arrest in 2014 because his conditions were incompatible with the prison regime.

In that year he rose to the headlines for the famous " bow " of the Madonna delle Grazie in front of his home on the occasion of the traditional religious procession. A few months after that episode, the boss was taken back to prison. In August 2016, however, he returned to house arrest.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 02/27/21 12:04 PM

GOTHA PROCESS
'Ndrangheta in Reggio, the repentant Cortese: "Romeo and De Stefano belonged to a higher power"
February 26, 2021
The statements of the collaborator of justice in the context of the Gotha trial

Â«When I left the prison, Paolo Romeo passed into my cell. Romeo had arrived in Tolmezzo a few months earlier. I knew who he was and he knew my caliber and my criminal role. Pietro Labate told me that I had to respect Paolo Romeo and Giorgio De Stefano Â». To say it was the collaborator of justice Maurizio Cortese who for the first time deposed in a public hearing. He did so this morning, connected by videoconference with the bunker hall of Reggio Calabria, in the hearing of the "Gotha" trial which is being celebrated with the
ordinary rite and which sees, as the main defendant, the lawyer and former parliamentarian of the PSdi Paolo Romeo, considered the thinking head of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio.

Romeo and the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano, according to the former boss, "were not part of the 'Ndrangheta" old model ".
Rather, he added, they were part" of a system of power superior to that of the traditional' Ndrangheta ".

After Cortese, the collaborator Maurizio De Carlo , former accountant of the De Stefano clan, was heard talking about politics and, referring to Nino Fiume, now a collaborator of justice but until 2002 killer of the "arcoti", said: "He made a strong election campaign for the former president of the Calabria region Giuseppe Scopelliti. I know Antonio Caridi, he too was supported by the De Stefano family. He was sponsored by the De Stefano clan and above all by Franco Chirico ".

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/21 05:51 AM

â€œCanadian 'ndrangheta connectionâ€ investigation: twenty requests for indictment
January 2 2020 14:50

Operazione Canadian 'ndrangheta a Siderno, le prime condanne al Clan MuiÃ

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/fo...ia-7af714a5-b4ba-4709-b632-49e1d0a2398a/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/02/21 11:44 AM

â€œCanadian 'ndrangheta connectionâ€ investigation: twenty requests for indictment
January 2 2020 14:50

Operazione Canadian 'ndrangheta a Siderno, le prime condanne al Clan MuiÃ

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/fo...ia-7af714a5-b4ba-4709-b632-49e1d0a2398a/

So Santo Rumbo was acquitted, interesting.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/21 04:01 AM

Here is the structural organization chart of the 'Ndrangheta that wants to take Northern Italy
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Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Veneto, Valle d'Aosta and Trentino Alto Adige: here is the map of the expansion of the 'Ndrangheta outside the Calabrian parent company. A map from which, as the Dia investigators write in their report presented to Parliament, "the image of a highly pervasive 'Ndrangheta emerges strongly even in extra-regional dynamics and increasingly inserted into relational plots with illustrious personalities from the political and business world" .

A "structural organization chart" of the gangs outside the region that has important numbers, emblematic of the expansionist capacity of the gangs, of the ability of the bosses to reproduce their power according to the typical pattern of Calabrian structures even far from the "mother". In total, 46 locales emerged, of which 25 in Lombardy, 15 in Piedmont, 3 in Liguria, 1 in Veneto, 1 in Valle d'Aosta and 1 in Trentino Alto Adige.

But the expansionist aims of the Calabrian families of 'Ndrangheta have already crossed national borders for some time. Even abroad, in fact, the 'Ndrangheta organizations are able to exploit above all the opportunities offered by the different regulatory systems, favoring the establishment in states that are "not cooperative from the point of view of judicial assistance, which have those large meshes appropriately exploited by the 'Ndrangheta for the reinvestment of illicit capital â€.

For Dia, then, "The current legislative inhomogeneity existing among the various European countries favors the infiltration into the world of economy and finance of the mafias already considerably benefited from the integration of the markets, the liberalization of capital movements, the potential offered by telematic networks, as well as by the development of financial intermediation, among other things, also through alternative circuits. This regulatory misalignment, on the other hand, makes it very difficult to seize mafia assets outside the national territory ".

As for the 'Ndrangheta structures located across the border, as stated by the Central Anti-Crime Director, Prefect Francesco Messina, "The current information framework appears to converge towards a progressive recovery of relations between the clans of the Ionian-Reggio side and the homologous associations traditionally allocated in Canada, in the Ontario region. In this regard, the illicit relations of top members of the 'Ndrangheta with the members of the so-called Toronto Control Chamber, who are held responsible, in that country, for various illegal activities, with particular reference to the gaming and betting, drug trafficking, as well as the re-use of huge profits ".

The criminal growth of the 'Ndrangheta, then, was facilitated by the important diplomatic action carried out by the Calabrian bosses who, over the years, have been able to weave solid relationships of interest with the other criminal organizations operating in Italy. â€œSignificant recent investigative findings - reads the report - confirm the tendency of Calabrian criminal groups to establish forms of utilitarian collaboration with groups of different mafia matrix, in particular with Cosa Nostra. This cooperation tends to appear motivated by specific contingencies rather than by consolidated forms of interaction governed by a sharing of common criminal objectives ".

'Ndrangheta, Dia report: "Mafia groups rooted in Piedmont"
The report of the Minister of the Interior to Parliament on the results achieved by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate in the first half of 2020
Dia - archive photo
Ndrangheta, Dia report: "Mafia groups rooted in Piedmont"

" The roots of mafia groups in Piedmont are confirmed, notably the
'Ndrangheta, which over time has established premises similar to those in their respective areas of origin ". It is one of the passages reported in the report by the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese to Parliament on the results achieved by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department in the first half of 2020 .

" The historical presence of these clans - we read - was once again highlighted by the sentence pronounced on February 19, 2020 by the Court of Cassation, which sentenced an exponent of the Belfiore-Ursino clan to life imprisonment for having committed in the Piedmontese capital, in 1983, the murder of the then chief prosecutor of Turin ( Bruno Caccia, ed). These are associations mainly dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and usurious actions often aimed at the acquisition of entrepreneurial activities, but which have recently privileged inclusion in the public procurement sector, through corrupt practices ".

The report also refers to the â€œCarminius / Bellavita 416 bisâ€ operation, which in February 2020 led to the indictment of the regional councilor Roberto Rosso . " The investigation had shed light on the attempts of a 'Ndrangheta association to acquire some public works launched by a municipality in the Turin province, in the face of the promise of obtaining electoral consensus during administrative consultations in that local context. of the public administration which often takes place with the contribution provided by professionals able to build complex corporate networks useful for shielding the origin of capital ".

It is also highlighted as "some important investigations in recent years have contributed not only to the reconstruction of the 'Ndrangheta organizational charts, but have revealed the stable presence in the Region of structured Calabrian groups. These are criminal aggregations with a marked business-entrepreneurial propensity, which make use, where appropriate, of the typical mafia violent behavior always committed in synergy with the Reggio head office. Furthermore, there has been evidence, once again, of how the most typical Calabrian mafia expressions continue to manifest themselves even outside the lands of origin through the rituals of affiliation, the strict respect for roles and internal hierarchy, affiliates to bear the economic expenses of other affiliates held and the maintenance of a common fund".

The document also notes that " in Piedmont, for some time now, some Mafia families have managed to enter the construction and earthmoving sectors, as well as in the management of activities related to gaming and betting ". Dia's concern is not only the 'Ndrangheta. In fact, some delinquent groups of foreign origin operate in the territory. " The criminal groups of African origin (especially Nigerian), Albanian and Romanian - reads the report - confirm the criminal dynamism in the Piedmont area ".

In conclusion, the report observes that " in the region there are no symptomatic signs of a criminal downsizing of the 'Ndrangheta which, instead, is believed to continue to play a leading role in the Piedmontese criminal scenario. This is also due to the repeatedly emphasized conformation and capillarity, as well as for the strategy of peaceful coexistence that the Calabrian factions have planned in recent times in Piedmont, as well as in various other areas of the Italian territory, towards the associations of different matrix present there and well inserted in their respective delinquent contexts of reference ".

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/03/21 04:05 AM

â€œCanadian 'ndrangheta connectionâ€ investigation: twenty requests for indictment
January 2 2020 14:50

Operazione Canadian 'ndrangheta a Siderno, le prime condanne al Clan MuiÃ

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/fo...ia-7af714a5-b4ba-4709-b632-49e1d0a2398a/

So Santo Rumbo was acquitted, interesting.

â€œCanadian â€˜ndrangheta connectionâ€, 7 condanne e unâ€™assoluzione in abbreviato

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-condanne-e-unassoluzione-in-abbreviato/

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/05/21 12:50 AM

Toronto-born Mafia figure sentenced in Italian case dubbed â€˜The Canadian Connectionâ€™

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...case-dubbed-the-canadian-connection.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/09/21 12:08 PM

'Ndrangheta in Reggio, 19 sentences to the "Gypsy clan". Brawl and management of nightlife bouncers

Over a century in prison. The heaviest penalties were imposed on Cosimo and Andrea Morelli sentenced to 15 years, 7 months and 10 days and 14 years of imprisonment respectively.
The Reggio Court of Appeal has inflicted 19 sentences for over a century in prison against a criminal group hit in the Heracles operation.
Both, for the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, would be at the top of the Roma clan that operated alongside and in harmony with the powerful Ndrangheta gangs of Reggio city and Archi. Among the accusations stands out the mafia and violent management of the bouncer service in the clubs of the summer nightlife, the Lidos on the Lungomare at the center in recent years of a series of violent fights and attacks on managers and customers.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/10/21 06:27 PM

The company that runs ferries between Sicily and the Italian mainland has been placed under judicial administration due to mafia infiltration.
The six-month penalty was applied to the 'Caronte & Tourist' ferry company for favouring the interests of the 'Ndrangheta
Caronte & Tourist is a well-known operator in Italy, which holds a de-facto monopoly on ferry connections over the Strait of Messina, which separate Sicily and Calabria.
According to Italy's anti-mafia police, the company farmed out lucrative catering, cleaning, and ticket booking services to 'Ndrangheta-controlled companies.
Authorities seized assets worth 800,000 euros (962,000 dollars) from Massimo Buda. He was described as the son of a jailed Ndrangheta clan leader.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/12/21 09:09 PM

Most-wanted 'Ndrangheta fugitive arrested in Spain
Lamorgese hails 'determination' of Italy police

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - A member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta who had been on the run since 2018 and was on the list of Italy's most dangerous fugitives was arrested in Barcelona on Friday.
Giuseppe Romeo, a key player in the Calabrian Mob's domination of the European cocaine trade, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail on mafia and drug trafficking charges.
Romeo, 35, from the 'Ndrangheta fief of San Luca, was arrested by the Guardia Civil with the help of Italian prosecutors.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said the arrest "rewards the work and the great determination of state police investigators, coordinated by the anti-mafia directorate of Reggio Calabria".
She said it was a "hard blow" to 'Ndrangheta's narcotics trafficking activities.
She said the Italian police had shown "dedication, professionalism and great ability to cooperate with authorities in other countries".
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, outstripping Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Camorra in Naples.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/21 02:16 AM

Seems like everywhere you look in Italy's economy, you find the Mafia. Trucks don't move, goods aren't delivered, without them getting paid first.

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/21 07:21 PM

Wanted â€˜Ndrangheta Mafia member caught in Spain â€" Listed as one of Italyâ€™s most dangerous fugitives http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ember-caught-in-spain-listed-as-one-of-i

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/13/21 09:24 PM

The Romeo's are a force. Paolo Romeo is a lawyer, according to the repentant Filippo Barreca for the family he kept in touch with Cosa Nostra, as a Freemason he was part of Gladio.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/24/21 07:17 PM

2 arrested in 28-yr-old 'Ndrangheta cold case murder
Businessman killed because thought linked to clan member murder

(ANSA) - VIBO VALENTIA, MAR 24 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested two members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia for murdering a Calabrian businessman in a cold case stretching back 28 years, to 1993.
Vibo Valentia businessman Filippo Piccione was allegedly murdered on February 21 1993 on the orders of the Lo Bianco clan after they decided he had had something to do with the murder of a clan member and relative, Leoluca Lo Bianco, on Piccione's property.
Police have now arrested Salvatore and Rosario Lo Bianco on charges of premeditated murder and acting to favour the illicit activities of the Lo Bianco-Barba 'ndrina (chapter).
Leoluca Lo Bianco had been murdered in the fields outside Vibo on February 1, 1993.
As well as the two Lo Biancos, police served warrants of investigation on another eight people: Michele Lo Bianco, 73 , from Vibo, aka "U ciucciu" (The Donkey); Domenico Lo Bianco (79), from Vibo; Leoluca Lo Bianco (62), from Vibo, aka "U Rozzu" The Rude Guy); Filippo Catania (70), from Vibo; Antonino FranzÃ© (66), from Vibo; Vincenzo Barba (69), fdrom Vibo; Alfredo Calafati (59), from Cessaniti; and Paolino Lo Bianco (58), from Vibo. (ANSA).

Hi all
new to the forum, with a keen interest (and a loooooot of research) on the 'ndrangheta in various places (not just the ndrangheta but mostly!) I am italian/calabrian and in Italy currently, so I am reading this thread with a lot of interest - hope to be able to contribute to it!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/26/21 10:23 AM

Welcome!

The fugitive Marc Feren Claude Biart was arrested in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, hit by an order of custody in prison
issued in 2014 by the investigating judge of the Court of Reggio Calabria, for criminal association aimed at international drug trafficking drugs in favor of the Cacciola clan of Rosarno (RC). The capture was carried out by the I CAN (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta) pool, with the collaboration of Interpol of the Dominican Republic and the work of the Italian security expert in Santo Domingo.
Biart, born in Rome on August 5, 1967, was involved in the "Mauser" operation that vanquished the Cacciola clan in the summer of 2014.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/26/21 11:07 AM

Welcome! Nice to see others who are also interested in Italian OC.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/27/21 12:16 PM

The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia , ordered the regime of hard prison (41 bis of the penitentiary system) against Domenico MacrÃ¬, 37, alias "Mommo" , considered at the top of the 'ndrina of the Pardea (called "Ranisi" ) of Vibo Valentia .

Domenico MacrÃ¬ remained involved in the Scott-Rinascita operation, opting for an abbreviated judgment. The DDA of Catanzaro has already asked for him to be sentenced to 20 years in prison for mafia association, extortion, illegal possession of weapons, attempted murder and other crimes. In the past MacrÃ¬ was already convicted in the trial born from the anti-mafia operation "Goodfellas" for having been part of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan and in particular of the group directed by Andrea Mantella (current collaborator of justice). With respect to the provision that imposes severe restrictions on prison life, Domenico MacrÃ¬ - defended by lawyers Francesco Sabatino and Salvatore Sorbilli - will have twenty days to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Court.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/28/21 10:10 AM

37 years old and already in 41 bis , damn.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/28/21 01:39 PM

I wonder if 41-bis is as strict as they say it is. I'm sure it started out that way when the assassination of high-ranking public officials was still fresh on everyone's minds. But there have been cases where bosses were still able to run their affairs. Some of those anti-Mafia officials even feared Toto Riina could get orders out. The only thing is, who would listen? The Mafia was probably angry at him and was repairing their relationship with the State.

41bis is strict but as anything it depends on the overall regime of the prison which is always a give and take - it cannot be any other way. After all mafia members, some of them, bring â€œorderâ€ to prison when they are treated with respect inside, so there is a trade off, at times, to make for authorities. There is an interesting article I read recently but it is in Italian...

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/28/21 05:09 PM

The system was essentially intended to cut inmates off completely from their original milieu and to separate them from their former criminal associates. Measures normally include bans on:

the use of the telephone;
all association or correspondence with other prisoners;
meetings with third parties;
receiving or sending sums of money over a set amount;
receiving parcels (other than those containing linen) from the outside;
organising cultural, recreational or sporting activities;
voting or standing in elections for prisoner representatives; and
taking part in arts-and-crafts activities, etc.,
as well as restrictions on visits from members of the family (once per month and visitors are only allowed to communicate by intercom through thick glass).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/21 07:07 PM

'Ndrangheta boss arrested in Lisbon
Francesco Pelle caught while being treated for COVID in clinic

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 29 - Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia boss Francesco Pelle was arrested in Lisbon Monday after 14 years on the run.
Pelle, 43, was caught by Carabinieri in a clinic in the Portuguese capital where he was being treated fro COVID-19.
He had gone on the lam in 2007.
'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, controls the European cocaine trade. (ANSA).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/21 07:21 PM

Lisbon - Francesco Pelle , 44, boss of the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Lisbon. Unavailable since 2007, he was found by the carabinieri in a clinic in the Portuguese capital where he was being treated for Covid. Originally from Locri and nicknamed 'Ciccio Pakistan', he was wanted (even abroad) in Milan since June 2019 where he had to sign. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for criminal association of the mafia type and murder because he was held among those responsible for the murder of Giovanni Nirta, head of the rival 'ndrina, who however survived the ambush, during which Maria Strangio was killed ,wife of Nirta. The revenge of the Nirta came in 2007 with the Duisburg massacre . On 19 July 2019 'Ciccio Pakistan', who was in Milan with the obligation to stay, lost track after the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal against the sentence to life imprisonment as the instigator of the 2006 Christmas massacre, which was followed by the slaughter of Duisburg on August 15th of the following year in which six people were killed.

The feud that pitted his family against rivals Nirta-Strangio was born to impose its dominance in San Luca , considered the cradle of the 'Ndrangheta . In this context, the epilogue - which also marked the end of the feud - starts from the ambush suffered by Pelle himself. It was July 31, 2006 and that day Pelle was looking out on the balcony of his house holding his first born son in his arms. One shot injured his spine, forcing him into a wheelchair . To quench his thirst for revenge he would have ordered the murder of his historical rival, Giovanni Luca Nirta.By organizing it on Christmas Day 2006. The designated target, however, escaped the hit men. His wife, Maria Strangio, fell under the blows, while a child and three other people were injured. This was the triggering episode that led to the ambush in front of the "da Bruno" restaurant in Duisburg on August 15th .

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/29/21 08:20 PM

You Guys think the San Luca Clans are stronger and more Powerful than other ndrina like the Piromalli, Pesce, Commisso and other?

In The ndrangheta some clans among which those you just mentioned are all at the same level but they have different significance. San Luca clans are those who are closer to the â€œtablesâ€ of the ndrangheta, the old rituals of Polsi, so they are believed to be the â€œmotherâ€ clans, the most respected, among the oldest, the heart of the ndrangheta, even if in practice their economic power and criminal reach is not more than those of others

In addition to Hollanderâ€™s post above

Francesco â€œCiccioâ€ Pelle aka Pakistan fugitive since the San Luca feud in Calabria and arrested in Lisbon, where he was in hiding and had COVID

https://www.barrons.com/news/top-italian-mafia-fugitive-arrested-in-portugal-01617043509

Plus Marc Biart a trafficker for the Cacciola ndrangheta clan in Rosarno who used to work in the Netherlands has been arrested in Santo Domingo because he showed off too much of his tattoos in a YouTube cooking video!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...laude-biart-caught-youtube-cooking-video

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/21 09:02 AM

I have often read that the Piromallis are the richest and most powerful Ndrina. But it is also said about the Ndrina Nirta Scalzone (La Maggiore) they are the most powerful. There is almost nothing to read about the Nirta Ndrina on the Internet. One also reads often the Piromalli have many connections to Freemasons and politics. The San Luca Clans are more in the drug trade and not with this big Politic Connenctions or is that wrong?

I have no idea, maybe you know more about this Ndrinas.

Yup, they are my 'expertise' I guess As I said, there is no-one more than others in the ndrangheta, especially not between Piromalli and Nirta. The clans in San Luca, as I said, are the gatekeepers of tradition and they have been connected to a series of feuds, including the Duisburg massacre one. They are also historically the ones that help create new clans, so they hold historical and representative power. The Nirtas were Capo-Crimine at various stages, which means they were recognised as having a lot of weight. They are in drug trade but not only, a lot of what they do is 'legal' businesses. The Piromalli are big entrepreneurs, they are involved in public contracts and they have been the ones with double affiliations to Cosa Nostra during the period of terror, they are more into big economics and of course they meet freemasons in that, as they are particularly good at laundering money and investing in public money as said, so they need connections

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/21 05:56 PM

'Ndrangheta, in Reggio there is a new repentant: he is the son-in-law of the boss Barreca. This is Francesco Labate, 40 years old known as Â«CheccoÂ», involved in the past few weeks in the Â«MetameriaÂ» operation . Labate has already been questioned several times by the deputy prosecutor of the DDA Walter Ignazitto. This morning the prosecutor Stefano Musolino filed some of his minutes at the Court of Review where the position of the main suspect was discussed, the boss Filippo Barreca father-in-law of Labate who married his daughter.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/30/21 11:25 PM

Also last week.

'Ndrangheta, arrests in Gioia Tauro for international drug trafficking: 19 precautionary measures.

Thanks to the investigative activity, the Marina district and the Gioia Tauro waterfront were monitored for over two years, allowing us to reconstruct the organization chart of the 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte and demonstrate, in fact, that both places had been elected to " headquarters "and" enclave "of the mafia faction, because it is an ideal place to entertain private meetings between members of the association, to receive bosses, followers and important personalities from other 'Ndrangheta articulations, even in broad daylight .

Key character and starting point of the investigations was the 64-year-old Pasquale De Maio believed to be boss of the mafia group.

The 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte had the availability of a large quantity of weapons and trafficked permanently in the narcotics sector, dealing with cocaine, hashish and cannabis. In the meeting sites the exponents of the 'ndrina received the members of other' ndrine of the Piana di Gioia Tauro, thus certifying the recognition of the latter by the historical clans of the 'ndrangheta : the Alvaro of Sinopoli, the Pesce, the Cacciola and the Bellocco of Rosarno, so much so that all have sent their emissaries to Gioia Tauro.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/31/21 07:15 PM

Reggio Calabria, is hunting the accomplices of "Ciccio Pakistan"
After the capture of Francesco Pelle in Lisbon, the investigations of the Reggio DDA continue

Thanks to the help provided by at least half a dozen faithful friends, the now former fugitive from Sanlucho Francesco Pelle , 44, known as "Ciccio Pakistan", despite being now forced to live in a wheelchair, would have come aboard equipped vehicles preceded by auto-owl in Portugal, in Lisbon, where he was found and arrested while he was hospitalized in a private hospital for problems related to Covid.

After his departure from Milan, in view of the sure confirmation of life imprisonment, after one or two stops in the South of France and wearing false documents, he would have managed, even changing the car, to be led by his trusted drivers in Portugal, where, in fact, to spend with less risk and eyes on the fugitive.

The investigators, awaiting the extradition of the former fugitive to Italy, are now focused on one aspect in particular: giving a name and a face to the various supporters who in these two years of fugitive Italy and to hide abroad, but they also protected and shielded him, also providing him with "coverings" of all kinds and help on a logistical, health and economic level.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 03/31/21 11:04 PM

Thanks.
The Italians adapt anywhere in the world like the Chinese, it's a brand "Made in Italy".

I think Sinaloa might also be present on every continent, which is interesting since both are the pinnacle of cocaine.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/01/21 09:23 PM

Luana Barreca distances herself from her husband collaborator of justice. The daughter of the boss Filippo Barreca is not there and does not accept Francesco Labate's decision to take the plunge and speak with the judges of the Dda Reggio . The woman, defended by the lawyer Lorenzo Gatto, makes it known through a typewritten letter, where she explains that "the choice of a collaborative path of Mr. Labate Francesco, concerns only and exclusively his person ".

Barreca's daughter has no doubts: " It is not my intention and my children to follow or approve the choices made by Mr. Labate."

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/04/21 01:29 PM

'Ndrangheta, bosses De Stefano and Barreca remain in prison: Review confirms ordinances
Saturday, 03 April 2021 18:03

Reggio Calabria - The Reggio Calabria Review Court confirmed the precautionary custody order in prison against the boss Paolo Rosario De Stefano arrested at the end of February in the "Nuovo Corso" operation against the homonymous Archi clan. The investigation, coordinated by the Dda of Reggio Calabria, was conducted by the mobile team and shed light on a series of extortions suffered by the Reggio entrepreneur Francesco Siclari. According to the investigations of the prosecutors Stefano Musolino and Walter Ignazitto, between 2015 and 2018, the victim would have paid "by way of protection money", and in several installments, the sum of 80 thousand euros, corresponding to 2% of the value of the renovations of the very central Corso Garibaldi. A second Siclari extortion it would have undergone for the redevelopment works of Piazza Duomo. The life-sentence boss of Pellaro, Filippo Barreca and Giandomenico Condello also remain in prison, involved, however, in the "Metameria" operation. For them too, the Review Court confirmed the precautionary custody order as it had done in recent days for the suspects Marcello Bellini and Domenico CalabrÃ².

With the "Metameria" operation, the DDA led by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri crushed the attempt of the boss Barreca to reorganize the ranks of his clan despite being under house arrest. Back in Pellaro, according to the prosecutors, Barreca claimed the territory of his competence through extortion activities, the use of violence and the criminal indications provided to his associates. Even when Barreca went to the hospital for treatment, he took advantage of those moments to organize meetings with the leaders of the other Mafia families and talk about the criminal dynamics that saw him as a protagonist.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/05/21 11:48 AM

Among the many accusations "Checco" Labate dwelt seriously on Filippo Barreca: "My father-in-law Filippo Barreca after his return to Reggio rebuilt the Barreca clan together with other subjects loyal to him, who recognize in him the head of the association ". Adding: Â«In order to regain control of the territory, he had a relationship with Carmine De Stefano. My father-in-law had turned to Carmine De Stefano because also thanks to his relations with Giuseppe De Stefano he had made a pact with the De Stefano family which he intended to get executed in order to regain control of the territory. It was my father-in-law who set the amounts and timing of the payments that entrepreneurs subjected to extortion had to make. My father-in-law gave me indications in this regard and I reported them to Domenico CalabrÃ² who was responsible for implementing his directives Â».

Giandomenico Condello also remains in prison, also involved in the "Metameria" operation, albeit in the investigative tranche that struck the De Stefano clan. Giandomenico Condello was the owner of a construction company even if for the district anti-mafia prosecutor he was instead one of the new faces of the leaders in jail, of Pasquale and Domenico Condello.

The Review Court also confirmed the precautionary custody order in prison against the boss Paolo Rosario De Stefano , son of the deceased capobastone Giorgio De Stefano and at that time referent of the Archi family that still dominates every scenario in the district "Centro ".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/08/21 10:51 AM

Mafia and fraud on petroleum products, 70 arrests throughout Italy and seized assets for a billion
08 April 2021

A one billion assets seizure and about seventy arrests . These are the numbers of the operation of the financial police of the provincial commands of Naples, Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, of the financiers of the Scico and of the carabinieri of the Ros.

The accusations are of mafia-type association, money laundering and tax fraud of petroleum products. At the same time, seizures of properties, companies and cash are underway for a value of approximately one billion.

The operation is the result of 4 different investigations, coordinated by the various Anti-Mafia Prosecutors of Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Naples and Rome and by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate. The investigations merged into the maxi operation in light of the fact that they concerned the same criminal dynamics even if with different subjects involved.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/08/21 11:12 AM

Groups targeted are the powerful MOCCIA Camorra clan, in Vibo Valentia BONAVOTA of S. Onofrio, group of San Gregorio, ANELLO of Filadelfia and PISCOPISANI and of the â€œRegginoâ€ PIROMALLI clan, ITALIANO clan of Delianuova, PELLE clan of San Luca.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/08/21 11:23 PM

Oil heiress among dozens arrested as Italian police disrupt mafia fuel fraud
Anna Bettozzi was found with â‚¬300,000 in cash when her Rolls-Royce was pulled over in 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ted-as-italian-police-disrupt-mafia-fuel

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/21 11:32 AM

Petrholmfie, so the 'Ndrangheta was ready with a group from Kazakhstan to compete with Eni and Lukoil
In the operation that led to over 70 arrests in recent days, the prosecutor of Catanzaro tells of the deal, which later failed, between the Mancuso clan and Rompetrol, a giant in the sector to create a large fuel distribution network. And in a lunch there is also talk of the export of the Amaro del Capo: "They are close to us"

by Antonio Fraschilla
09 APRIL 2021

They thought big, the men of the 'Ndrangheta belonging to the clan of Luigi Mancuso. They aimed to build an empire in the distribution of diesel and petrol such as to compete with giants such as Eni and Lukoil. Bringing a piece of the former Eastern Empire to Italy, the Rompetrol now belonging to a Kazakh group and building a pier with a buoy in the port of Vibo Valentia to allow the tankers to attack. A business worth hundreds of millions of euros, with brokers and white-collar workers who, aware that they are dealing with one of the most powerful Calabrian clans, acted as intermediaries with a manager from Kazakhstan.

The start of the deal

This story of meetings and major projects, then suspended because they smelled the smell of burning from the East and because one of the intermediaries was arrested on suspicion of murder, begins at the end of 2018. When the Milanese brokers Francesco Mazzani, son of a well-known politician of the Christian Democrats right arm of the former minister Vittorino Colombo, and Francesco Porretta begin to work to bring together the owners of a Calabrian fuel storage company, the Dr Service of the brothers Giuseppe and Antonio D'Amico, with the manager of Rompetrol Arman Magzumov. Intercepted in Milan, Mazzani talks to Porretta about the upcoming mission to Vibo Valentia and "informs the interlocutor of the successful outcome of the meeting he had with this Arman and added that there would also be the possibility of creating a" partnership in Italy ",

To welcome the two intermediaries in Calabria there are first of all the D'Amico brothers, Giuseppe and Antonio, patron of Dr Service, a company that already manages fuel depots. Who are the two Calabrian brothers? On Giuseppe D'Amico the investigators write a long paragraph: "Entrepreneur of reference of the organization and formally affiliated (with the dowry of the" saint "), already in the past linked - for reasons of territorial and family origin - to the clan of" Piscopisani "And more recently a trusted man of the Mancuso clan of Limbadi and of Luigi Mancuso in particular (with whom he was in close and direct contact), owner of activities financed also with money coming from various' Ndrangheta factions (Piscopisani, Mancuso, Alvaro , Piromalli), inserted in a tested mafia control system of public and private works based on the imposition on construction sites of compliant or contiguous companies. At the disposal of the organization and in excellent relations, as well as with the Mancusos, also with other branches of the 'Ndrangheta, both Vibonese and the â€œReggioâ€ (Piromalli gang) Â».

Giuseppe D'Amico knows the fuel sector well. Speaking with Luigi Mancuso's niece, Silvana, and the intermediary Porretta, he boasted of transactions made in the past also with the family of the former undersecretary Nicola Cosentino: "D'Amico then, also listing all the opportunities deriving from the sale of of petroleum products, he reported to Porretta as for a period, taking advantage of the fact that gas supplies from Russia had been interrupted, he had managed to sell LPG to a company in Casal di Principe "which is the brother of Minister Cosentino (undersecretary , ed)â€¦ we have no problems because we know them Â».

Mazzani, Porretta and D'Amico speak of possible investments in fuel depots on the coast of the Vibo Marina. The evening before the meeting with the Kazakhs, Porretta calls his companion Irina Paduret and tells her that "at the lunch scheduled for the following day in the presence of" Arman "," the uncle "(Luigi Mancuso) would also have participated": "So Porretta reported that he had learned from Mazzani that the Kazakhs could not formally appear in any commercial transaction, which is why Mazzani and Porretta themselves would have held - on behalf of the Kazakhs - the shares of the nascent company Â».

The working lunch with Luigi Mancuso and the plans of the Kazakhs

The next day, January 18, 2019, Arman Magzumov and his wife arrive in Calabria and a business lunch is organized in a restaurant in Vibo Valentia. The clan leader himself, Luigi Mancuso, shows up at the appointment. That to the Kazakhs, before entering into the merits of the fuel deal, he also proposes other activities, such as the marketing of the Amaro del Capo produced by the "Distelleria Caffo" of Limbadi: "D'Amico and Luigi Mancuso returned the marketing of the liqueur "Amaro del Capo" asserting that the owner "is a person close to us", to the point that Mancuso himself proposed to go to the establishment to make it known to Kazakh guests: "[..] and you can go even with them ... "Â». Immediately afterwards Magzumov explains, according to the ordinance, "the strategy that Rompetrol would like to implement in Italy, similar to the projects implemented in our country by Lukoilâ€¦ and which had planned to build a series of refueling stations in Italy that would represent the Rimpetrol-branded distribution network on the territory, on the Lukoil model. For this need, Mazzani, translating Magzumov's speech into English for the Calabrians, clarified that the guidelines for the creation of service stations according to the commercial criteria of the Romanian oil group were already ready Â». But the Calabrians thought big and were ready to transform the port of Vibo Valentia into a hub for the oil trade in the Mediterranean, without touching Gioia Tauro under the protection of other 'ndrine. While talking, Giuseppe D'Amico explained to Porretta "of the possibility of buying a land of 10 hectares (owned by a person from Catanzaro, ed.), to have you build a coastal fuel depot connected to a rotating buoy to be installed off the coast (1.5 km), where you can allow large tonnage ships (from 25,000 tons upwards) to unload the product, channeled to the depot via submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor Â». channeled them to the depot by submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor Â». channeled them to the depot by submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor Â».

But then the deal gets stuck. Perhaps the Kazakhs smell something, so much so that Magzumov never lets his boss, the president of Rompetrol, arrive in Calabria. Formally for Â«the problem inherent in the business documentation of the DD Service which, among the sectors in which it operates, there is also that of transport as well as the construction one. The aforementioned situation could probably constitute an obstacle to the good progress of the negotiations with Rompetrol which instead, as we have seen, was looking for referenced companies with which to negotiate and thus groped the expansion of its petroleum products on the Italian market ", write the investigators. , who intercepting another dialogue between intermediaries, add: Â«The dialogue in question also made it possible to learn information that has not yet emerged regarding the non-participation of the president of the Rompetrol company in the negotiations that took place in Vibo Valentia the week before. In fact, as we have been able to ascertain, the presence of the latter, initially foreseen, was then in fact skipped due to unspecified work commitments. Instead it was Antonio Prenesti (called "Mussustortu" and affiliated with the Mancuso clan, ed) who brought the D'amico to the attention of the fact that the president of Rompetrol, already present in Rome, had been warned not to go to Calabria by Mazgumov himself, and this evidently due to the fact that the latter had detected the criticalities relating to the company Dr Service Â». But the deal also jumps because the collector between the Milanese brokers and the Mancusos, Antonio Prenesti,

For the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, the Kazakh affair demonstrates the power of the 'Ndrangheta and its way of thinking big: "One thing about this investigation struck me - said Gratteri - the meeting that took place in Vibo in January 2019 Valentia in the Da Roberto tavern. Here the entrepreneur D'Amico, who has a large fuel depot in Maierato, on that occasion had a meeting with a representative of KMG from Kazakhstan, the largest oil and gas extraction industry Â». Mancuso said in a dialogue that he could even have Eni withdraw the licenses in a warehouse that could be competing. "" It is not a problem "said Luigi Mancuso - Gratteri says -" I make him withdraw the Eni licenses from the local authorities and so we will also use the Eni licenses ".

https://espresso.repubblica.it/inch...angheta_kazakistan_eni_lukoil-295736229/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/10/21 11:44 AM

The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
The meeting between the emissaries of the Mancuso and Mazzei clans at Villa San Giovanni. The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato to use the Locri deposit. Thus the "mafia united" makes business pacts. M ...
Published on: 04/09/2021 - 20:43
by Pablo Petrasso
The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
CATANZARO The embrace between Giuseppe D'Amico and Sergio Leonardi, at Villa San Giovanni, is for the anti-mafia magistrates of Catanzaro the seal on the agreement between the clans of Vibo Valentia and those of Catania. 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra united in the oil business thanks to the handshake between two "clean" emissaries. The Ros soldiers follow that meeting and record the words of the entrepreneurs. They consider them proof of their insertion in the criminal circuits, at the service of the gangs.

The emissary of the Cosa Nostra from Catania
The D'Amico brothers ( we told you about it here) are considered to belong to the Mancuso clan of Limbadi; Leonardi, on the other hand, "is a subject linked to the Cosa Nostra in Catania, primarily by virtue of the relationships of affinity acquired through his wife", the investigators point out in the decree that led to the arrest of 16 people. The woman is "exempt from criminal and police proceedings" but "belongs to the Sciuto family, historically leader" of the Sciuto-Tigna clan, active in Catania "with an autonomous caliber of mafia organization since the mid-1980s". Leonardi's father-in-law is the "head and founder" of the mafia family. And the Sicilian clan can also exhibit a kinship with a subject "belonging to the Mazzei clan of Cosa Nostra". Leonardi himself, in January 2020, was arrested in the "Vento di Scirocco" investigation,

A story of blood
On the afternoon of 9 July 2019, D'Amico and Leonardi meet at Villa San Giovanni. For about an hour, according to what the investigators note, they discuss the "illicit traffic in fuel in which they were involved." Towards the end of the meeting, the conversation turns to family matters. Leonardi recalls "the episode of the murder of his father-in-law Giuseppe Sciuto, murdered on the morning of 29 December 1992 with nine gunshots to the back and head". Executing him, in front of his wife and children, had been assassins whom he himself had brought into the house. D'Amico shows solidarity, and observes Â«that such episodes happen" when certain rules are lost "Â». To this degenerate model of mafia dynamics, D'Amico contrasts "his diplomatic vision of the" just man "who defuses any conflicts without resorting to violent methods, modus operandi characterizing Luigi Mancuso", considered a "man of peace", capable of smoothing out differences. According to Leonardi, the murder of Sciuto is linked "to conflicts that have arisen in the context of internal wars within the clan he belongs to." Someone wanted to "subvert the criminal hierarchy." A behavior that Leonardi summarizes in a few words: "The world is like this (...) nobody wants to stay second (...) the colonel wants to be a general (...) the general wants to be a king". In fact, the murder of Sciuto, aka Pippo Tigna, arises from the clash with the powerful Laudani clan. Two months before the ambush consumed in front of the boss's family, in fact, Gaetano Laudani, son of the chieftain Sebastiano, had been murdered. And the adversaries had decided to consume revenge. In Tigna, released from prison in November 1992, they had asked for the head of the killer Giuseppe Ferone but, one month after that request, still unexecuted, the death plan had been implemented by overwhelming the head of the clan who had not respected the pacts .

In the mafia "everyone has their own step"
This story provokes a response from D'Amico that the magistrates of the DDA of Catanzaro consider "of crucial investigative scope": "But - says the entrepreneur close to the Mancuso clan - we made a choice that ... of a scale ... so we must know that everyone has their own stepâ€¦ understood Â». For prosecutors D'Amico, "with these words", he "unequivocally" sculpted his own and interlocutor's belonging to "hierarchically organized criminal structures, within which" everyone has their own step ", and to which the two they had chosen to belong â€. It is (also) in the light of this sentence that the magistrates consider that meeting as the embrace between two mafias. And it is no coincidence that the bearers of this embrace are the D'Amico, "Protagonists - reads the arrest decree - in the birth of a very flourishing (and illegal) commercial link between some Campania wholesalers and some Catania traders". Precisely the people of Catania "will be allowed to procure petroleum products in the Italpetroli tax warehouse in Locri".

The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato

The cars arrive at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato
The investigation documents a summit with Catania and Sanlucoti at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato, another company involved in the â€œPetrolmafie Spaâ€ operation. The meeting at the company headquarters would be "aimed at reaching a criminal agreement for the management of a fuel depot in Locri". In addition to D'Amico, Roberto AguÃ¬ is present, considered Â«a subject with documented connections with various members of the Pelle di San Luca clanÂ». AguÃ¬, involved in the Mandamento Jonico investigation, was sentenced on 22 June 2020 to 13 years and 6 months of imprisonment Â». From Catania, in addition to Sergio Leonardi, two "offenders from Catania belonging to the Pillera mafia clan of Catania" and a man "burdened with various precedents for crimes committed in the energy products sector" also arrive. That the topic of the meeting is oil trafficking is a fact that emerges from D'Amico's words. It is he who points out that "Leonardi was part of a criminal association that marketed hundreds of tankers of petroleum products a day, inside which, at a given moment, some cracks had been created".

"Here they have to do as we say"
The people of Reggio recall an old commercial relationship that had been established in the past between the Sicilians and a tax warehouse in Locri belonging to the Camastra family, a group of entrepreneurs considered close to the Ionica clans. That same area, over the years, has passed to the Italpetroli company, and would be characterized by "criminal management". A fact known to all the participants in what the Catanzaro DDA considers a real summit. On the Calabrian side there is a "criminal syntony", a "commonality of purpose" that leads the interlocutors (the D'Amico and the Sanlucoti) to set up "the conversation on a contrasting scheme between two interest groups, distinguishing a" we "(In which they brought together the Calabrian subjects present) and a" they "(the Sicilian interlocutors) separated, according to them, by unbridgeable distancesÂ».
In the past, relations between the two shores of the Strait had been interrupted by the manner of the Sicilians, "considered excessive, and because of their unreliability". "The war" was born precisely for certain behaviors. "I told him at the time - explains one of the intercepted men - that they shouldn't have come with flashy cars ... and they came with two Porsche Cayenne". The Locrians are not convinced to return to business with the people of Catania. But D'Amico supports them (Â«here as we say we must doÂ») and at the same time guarantees that things will change. Because "the Calabrians - the prosecutors write - had to act as a single front". "It's all the same thing - D'Amico ruling - they must understand that we are one way". Because the hugs between the mafias always rest on a (very) subtle balance.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...heta-e-cosa-nostra-in-nome-degli-affari/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/11/21 10:22 PM

Antonino Belnome, the repentant Lombard boss tells himself: â€œSo the 'Ndrangheta takes away your freedomâ€. The documentary of Swiss TV
by FQ | APRIL 11, 2021
Antonino Belnome is one of the most important repentants of the Lombard 'Ndrangheta . From a Calabrian family, but born and raised in Giussano, in Brianza , where he climbed the ranks of the organization until he was not yet forty years old, the rank of godfather. Identified by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate as one of the killers of the boss Carmelo Novella , killed at the tables of a bar, in broad daylight, in San Vittore Olona in 2008, ten years ago he admitted his responsibilities and began to collaborate with the justice system , revealing unsolved crimes, buried corpses, dirty deals between weapons, drugs and corruption in Northern Italy.

In the first months of his collaboration, Belnome wrote a dense diary in which he told, through the eyes of a young man who grew up in the heart of Lombardy, the real daily life of a boss of the 'Ndrangheta: money, power and luxury, of course, but also the blind obedience to higher orders, the obtuse pervasiveness of 'Ndrangheta rites and hierarchies, the constant danger of betrayals and double games, which end up ruining your existence and making you â€œlose your freedomâ€. The diary therefore appeals to young Lombard people not to give in to the sirens of a criminal organization that promises easy money, but ends up taking possession of every aspect of your life, even private.

Ten years after the start of the collaboration, Antonino Belnome comes to terms with his past in the documentary The Godfather and the Writer , made by Marco Tagliabue for the transmission "Stories" of the Swiss public TV Rsi La1 , broadcast tonight, Sunday 11 April, at 20.40. His testimony is collected by the writer Camillo Costa , engaged in writing a book about him. The coordinator of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Alessandra Dolci , the Ticino public prosecutor Paolo Bernasconi and the witness of justice Gaetano Saffioti will present the work in the studio.

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...-documentario-della-tv-svizzera/6161765/

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/12/21 11:12 AM

37 arrests (20 Italians and 17 foreigners, 27 in prison and 10 under house arrest) are the result of a maxi operation against drug trafficking conducted by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Milan between the provinces of Milan, Alessandria, Bergamo, Genoa, Monza, Padua, Pavia, Rome, Varese, Vibo Valentia and Vicenza: the arrested are held responsible - for various reasons - for an association aimed at the production, trafficking and dealing of drugs , with the aggravating circumstances of transnationality and the availability of weapons.

One of the groups, according to the reconstruction, is made up of Italians - among them some exponents of Calabrian origin - two of whom were found to maintain strong relations with the leaders and emissaries of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio. The other groups, on the other hand, refer to nuclei of Eritrean and South American origin, as well as to some cells, of various nationalities, independent of each other, which have however shown a marked transnational operation .

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...aina_gestita_dalla_ndrangheta-296534788/

clan Gullace from Catanzaro, active with brokers in Germany/Holland/Spain and cocaine from Colombia and other areas of Latin America into ports of Livorno, Genova, Antwerp, Rotterdam. a lot of cocaine in the years.......

THIS IS POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE
Nicolino Grande Aracri is the first boss of such a high ranking that decides to talk. Boss of the province of Crotone, he is rich and very very powerful.

https://www.lacnews24.it/cronaca/si...OI380mE8EHoRtkT4F91vsYHHXmPYGJDNFNi_Lq_s

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 09:20 AM

Wow..
The superboss Nicolino Grande Aracri repents: the 'Ndrangheta, Freemasonry and politics are shaking
"Hand of rubber", mammasantissima of Cutro, is considered among the most powerful mafia in the world. Weakened by life sentences, he decided to take the plunge

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 10:13 AM

What a wanker

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 11:11 AM

They are already call him the "Buscetta" of the 'Ndrangheta.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 12:32 PM

Cosa Nostra killed nearly 2 dozen of Buscetta's relatives, what's this guy's excuse?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 07:22 PM

He knows a lot of shit, from freemasonry to high level white collar criminals. Lets see how much he is willing to reveal

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/16/21 11:53 PM

He knows a lot of shit, from freemasonry to high level white collar criminals. Lets see how much he is willing to reveal

Yep in particular those in the gray area including the government in Rome. Don Nicolino could boast entries in palaces that matter: including the Vatican and the Court of Cassation.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/21 01:24 AM

Anna Sergi twitted he is considered the No2 of 'ndrangheta (in theory) also with links to the Knights of Malta. The same order Joe Bonanno belonged to.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/21 07:44 AM

Yep in particular those in the gray area including the government in Rome. Don Nicolino could boast entries in palaces that matter: including the Vatican and the Court of Cassation.

Whats with his family? If he is willing to talk,that are very sensitive stuff, he would be putting everyone close to him in huge danger. Remember disappearance of witnesses from witness protection program during Stato-Mafia trials.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/21 11:55 AM

His brother Antonio was convicted in 2007 for mafia conspiracy.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/17/21 12:47 PM

Interesting he held the dowry of " International Crime " received from Antonio Pelle of San Luca. Never heard of this rank before.

If he talks he might say who actually heads the Reggio clans, who is the Crimine in Reggio - I think this is why he is the no2 according to many - he was the crimine of Crotone, he actually created the Province of Crotone - not sure why he talks though, the news don't say it.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/18/21 03:22 PM

Well i think he already 'flipped'. Lets just wait and see how much he is willing to reveal

And also how much of that is 'valuable' to the prosecutors!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/20/21 01:47 PM

Major operation against the Pesce clan of Rosarno, 53 arrests throughout Italy.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/20/21 08:48 PM

Major operation against the Pesce clan of Rosarno, 53 arrests throughout Italy.

Today's investigations have made it possible to document the existence of close criminal relations between the PESCE clan and a Sicilian entrepreneurial group active in the management of supermarkets and with expansionist aims also in Calabria where, to obtain economic advantages, it did not hesitate to enter into collusive agreements with the 'Ndrangheta, thus taking advantage of the mafia power exercised by the clans in the area. That agreement provided that PESCE would monopolistically manage the storage and the entire road transport sector of goods intended to supply the group's retail outlets.

And very interesting extortion and public contract manipulation through a professional in the port of Gioia Tauro (also for cocaine trade)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/21/21 09:26 AM

The Gallace clan, had entangled in countries such as Costa Rica and Brazil and activated a whole network of relations at an international level , with contacts at the highest levels and with the ability to speak directly with drug suppliers in South America and with their contacts in Europe, in particular the drug destination ports. The intention of the Gallace clan to "organize a drug trafficking also with Oceania"

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/21/21 05:43 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/22/21 11:14 AM

'Ndrangheta, the hands of the Arena and Grande Aracri clans in transport: 13 arrests in the Bergamo area. Those arrested are accused in various ways of extortion, usury, illegal possession of firearms, money laundering and self-laundering as well as fraudulent bankruptcy. The procedure in question, which had already seen the execution of 4 suspects of crime and dozens of searches on 10 February , made it possible to ascertain the existence of a group of subjects, some originating in the province of Bergamo, others of that of Crotone , which had set up a system of extortion in the field of transport of goods as well as creating a mechanism of false company acquisitions, fraudulent bankruptcies, provision of usurious loans and reuse of illicit capital.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/27/21 09:58 AM

A criminal organization linked to 'Ndrangheta gangs: 15 arrests in the Milanese area
April 27, 2021
Eleven in prison and four under house arrest: the clan was dedicated to importing cocaine from South America
'Ndrangheta, drugs, Sicily, Chronicle
Fifteen precautionary custody orders, of which eleven in prison and four under house arrest in the metropolitan area of â€‹â€‹Milan, in the neighboring provinces of Pavia, Monza Brianza and Rome: they were carried out, from the first light of dawn, by about eighty Guardia financiers of Finance of Pavia, with the collaboration of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service (Scico). This was ordered by the Gip of the Court of Milan against members of a criminal organization, with links to gangs of the 'Ndrangheta , dedicated to the importation of cocaine from South America.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/28/21 11:05 AM

'Ndrangheta mobsters used the City of London as its investment and money-laundering base, flushing billions of pounds through the capital, huge mafia trial will hear
Several defendants in maxi trial will be questioned over establishing businesses in the UK for the alleged purpose of money-laundering
Mafia's ability to infiltrate UK financial system has been underestimated, say investigators
Italy's largest mafia trial in decades is under way in Lamezia Terme, Calabria
More than 350 members of the 'Ndrangheta criminal network and their alleged associates are defendants in the case

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...undering-base-huge-mafia-trial-hear.html

To be honest though only a few of the people on trial are believed to have a few businesses in the UK, the article makes it look like it was the main thing!

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/28/21 09:18 PM

To be honest though only a few of the people on trial are believed to have a few businesses in the UK, the article makes it look like it was the main thing!

They are just one of the criminal groups who use the banks in London, Frankfurt, Switzerland or Hong Kong peanuts compared to some Russian oligarchs war lords dictators etc..

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 04/28/21 11:04 PM

Russian oligarchs and dictators are all part of the established order, their exploits are not as impressive to me as a purely criminal outlaw organization like the Mafia, Ndrangheta, and Camorra which have all been declared enemies of the State. I tell this to people all the time who constantly bring up how much more money and power governments and corporations have and the fact that they get away with it. I already know that stuff but who cares it's boring ðŸ˜´. Plus, we can actually go back and forth about the Mafia's dealings without being called conspiracy theorists, yay!

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/03/21 10:54 PM

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/04/21 10:17 PM

^^^^
â€˜Ndrangheta Siderno: processo â€œCanadianâ€, due condanne e 6 assoluzioni. Procedimento originato da operazione Dda Reggio del luglio 2019

https://www.telemia.it/2021/05/ndra...a-operazione-dda-reggio-del-luglio-2019/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/21 08:47 AM

Europe-Wide Police Operation Against Italian â€˜Ndrangheta
5th May 2021
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A police operation against the â€˜Ndrangheta is underway in various European countries in an operation coordinated by the Turin Public Prosecutorâ€™s Office.

Over two hundred women and men from the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate and about a hundred police, carabinieri and financial police units took part in the operation which apart from Italy, included the participation of security forces in Germany, Spain and Romania.

The operation, called â€˜Platinum-Dia, dealt, according to the investigators, â€œa hard blowâ€ to theâ€™ Ndrangheta.

There are numerous precautionary custody measures and searches, issued by the Court of Turin at the request of the Piedmontese DDA and coordinated by DNA, in Italy and Germany, against subjects deemed to be affiliated with the â€˜Ndrangheta. These are subjects active in the â€œlocalâ€ of Volpiano (Turin), considered the economic terminal of the Agresta family of PlatÃ¬ (RC), as well as towards exponents of the Giorgi family, called â€œBovicianiâ€, of San Luca (RC), held responsible of international drug trafficking and active in Piedmont, Calabria, Sardinia and, in Germany, in the Land of Baden Wuerttemberg, in the tourist resorts of Lake Constance.

In addition to the execution of various precautionary measures, the â€˜Platinum-Diaâ€™ operation led to numerous preventive seizures of assets consisting of cooperative and construction companies, real estate, cars, bank and postal current accounts, corresponding to a value of many millions of EUR.

The measure includes five companies operating in the catering sector, in particular the CaffÃ¨ Millechicchi company and the VIPâ€™S bar in Turin, a tobacco shop in via Volpiano, also in the Piedmontese capital; in the real estate sector GP Immobiliare and, in the building sector, the company General Construction, companies based in Turin.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/05/21 12:38 PM

NEW ACTION AT EU LEVEL AGAINST â€˜NDRANGHETA IN ITALY AND GERMANY

press release

During a period of at least several years, the OCG is suspected of having organised the trade in cocaine between Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain using encrypted EncroChat and Sky ECC communication tools.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/06/21 10:14 AM

You mostly only hear about the Italian Mafia groups smuggling dope into Italy. My question is, they don't sell to anyone else, only their own people?

No they do sell to others in other countries (including Albanian groups or Dutch) but of course their main market remains Italy

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/07/21 05:16 PM

Between fiction and reality, from the set with lots of shots, chases and special effects to the seals affixed yesterday by the Guardia di Finanza. This is the parable of the Calbin di Simeri Crichi company, the aggregate plant of the Lobello business group .

For the investigators of the DDA of Catanzaro, the family holding would have chosen the 'Ndrangheta as an entrepreneurial ally, thus obtaining a dominant position on the market, not only by winning dozens of public contracts but by imposing the supply of concrete to other companies.

In the summer of 2019 the Lobello quarry was chosen for some shooting of the Calibro 9 film with important actors such as Michele Placido, Marco Bocci, Ksenia Rappoport, Barbara Bouchet and Alessio Boni and directed by Toni D'Angelo. The plot of the film focuses on Calabrian organized crime and its illicit trafficking. There are the 'ndrine at war, a brave policeman, infiltrations in Northern Italy but there is also the gray area, those unsuspected professionals, entrepreneurs and lawyers who represent the link between the criminal world and the institutional level.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/21 08:04 AM

'Ndrangheta, FBI investigators on a mission in Calabria
May 7, 2021
First Interpol, now the FBI. In March, an Interpol operational summit was in Italy for three days between Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, where they met, among others, the prosecutors of the Dda of Catanzaro and Reggio, respectively Nicola Gratteri and Giovanni Bombardieri, in a little less than a year after the launch of 'I-Can' which allowed the arrest of Marc Feren Claude Biart, a fugitive considered close to the Cacciola di Rosarno clan on 29 March. In the field a project involving the Italian police forces and those of 10 other countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA) which, like Italy, have set up dedicated operational units to the fight against the 'Ndrangheta. These days, however, the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States of America sent its men to Calabria. The contents of the meetings between the FBI and the Police Forces are not known, on which absolute confidentiality is maintained, but it is certain that these are not simple courtesy visits: synergies in progress at an operational level on investigations that cannot regardless of the assistance of the FBI.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/21 05:06 PM

That's an alright film, imagine Martin Scorsese doing an Ndrangheta or even a Cosa Nostra movie back in his prime. Oh the lost opportunities ðŸ˜•

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/21 10:51 PM

Martin Scorsese is a fan of the Gomorrah movie.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/08/21 11:40 PM

Gomorrah movie was good, but the Gomorrah TV series was even better.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/09/21 12:17 PM

Another important maxi-trial is coming up in Reggio. The preliminary hearing has been set for 31 May next, during which the Gup will have to decide on the request for indictment of 75 people.

Among the defendants of the new maxi-trial are the bosses Carmine, Orazio, Paolo Rosario and Giorgino De Stefano known by the nickname of "Malefix". But also the brothers Alfonso and Gino Molinetti known as "the beast", Demetrio Condello, Giandomenico Condello, Demetrio Canzonieri, Antonio Libri, Filippo Barreca and Edoardo Mangiola. All were arrested in the three investigations coordinated by the Reggio prosecutor's office and are considered the heads of their respective 'Ndrangheta families.

The indictment was also requested for other members of organized crime such as Antonio Serio known as "Totuccio", Antonino Latella and the boss Giovanni Rugolino, considered the local head of Catona.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/10/21 10:23 PM

Mafia boss with ties to GTA arrests found dead in prison cell, Italian media reports | The Star

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...s-found-dead-in-italian-prison-cell.html

Pino Gregoraci â€œnon câ€™entrava con la â€˜ndrinaâ€/ Suicidio in carcere, era innocente

https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/...icidio-in-carcere-era-innocente/2167850/

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/10/21 11:06 PM

Did he commit suicide? I thought these were tough Men of Honor.

The whole case in Canaidan Connection operation collapsed in fact, they were all absolved of mafia charges...

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/13/21 11:32 AM

The 76-year-old boss Giuseppe Piromalli , known as "the face" or "the scarred" , was released from prison after 22 years of imprisonment at 41 bis.

The repentant of â€˜Ndrangheta Antonino Filocamo was found dead early May. The body was found in the Lecce apartment, where he was staying as part of the protection program for justice collaborators by the police, alarmed by family members, who had not heard from him for a few hours. The most accredited hypothesis is suicide.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/14/21 02:28 PM

Giuseppe De Stefano , boss of the homonymous clan of Reggio Calabria, was traveling aboard an ambulance when he had to return to Reggio during the period in which he spent his inaction on the Vibonese coast. The vehicle was made available by the same gangs of Vibo together with two armed men and with the "escort" of a car with two other armed men. This was told by the collaborator of justice Andrea Mantella , 49 - former armed wing of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan of Vibo and then at the head of an autonomous group - during his deposition in the Rinascita Scott maxi trial, underway in Lamezia Terme. De Stefano would have been a guest of the Bonavota clan of Sant'Onofrio in the resort of the Stillitani entrepreneurs.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/21 10:51 AM

'Ndrangheta, returned from Spain fugitive arrested last March

The fugitive from 'Ndrangheta Giuseppe Romeo, born in 1986, has returned from Spain, landing in Fiumicino, escorted by staff of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) of the Central Criminal Police Department. Romeo, originally from San Luca (Rc), was arrested in Barcelona on 11 March, on the basis of a European arrest warrant. From Germany, Romeo managed drug trafficking throughout Europe.

Oh the fact that Piromalli is out..it0s going to be interesting potentially.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/15/21 11:09 PM

Oh the fact that Piromalli is out..it0s going to be interesting potentially.

Giuseppe Piromalli is a legend in their circles they control the port of Gioia Tauro.

Together with the brothers Gioacchino senior and Antonio called "Nino" he maintained the leadership of the homonymous clan for many years inheriting the scepter that belonged to his paternal uncles Mommo who died in 1979 and Peppino who died in 2003. The Piromalli clan, one of the most powerful in the 'ndrangheta, has conditioned, directed and directed, in alliance with the De Stefano of Reggio Calabria, the Alvaro of Sinopoli or the Mancuso of Limbadi, the changes within the organization, starting with the creation of the new dowry of the "Saint" whose forerunner was Mommo Piromalli.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/16/21 01:57 AM

Piromalli !

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/16/21 11:42 AM

Mafia families "took the carabinieri or policemen and raised them" . This was said to the Dda of Reggio Calabria Maurizio Cortese , the former regent of the Serraino clan who in recent months has chosen to collaborate with the justice system .

To the deputy prosecutor Stefano Musolino, the repentant Cortese described the figure of Mimmo Morabito , one of the defendants in the "Pedigree" trial. Speaking of him, the former boss has no doubts and in fact, already in the minutes of last August 25, to the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri and to the prosecutor Musolino: Â« He is a Mason Mimmo . I saw the booklet, I saw the booklet myself, do you understand? Â». "In each family they had certain people - as reported by the interrogation of 28 September 2020 -, certain people like Morabito, even worse, that is, who practically had these relations with the police . Basically they took the carabinieri or policemen and raised them. They made them grow Â».

To prosecutors Stefano Musolino and Walter Ignazitto, the collaborator also names the lawyers Paolo Romeo and Giorgio De Stefano , the main defendants in the "Gotha" trial: Â«They are no longer at the level of the 'Ndrangheta. They - he says - are not part, they do not have to do with me to say or withâ€¦ they only have to do with characters that I cannot have understood, of the third level Â».

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/18/21 09:30 PM

Organized crime in Germany
:
When the mafia boss unpacks
Nicolino Grande Aracri is in a prison in Milan. (Photo: Eatalyano / CC BY - SA 4.0)
With Nicolino Grande Aracri, one of the really big names of the 'Ndrangheta is said to have decided to cooperate with the Italian judiciary as a key witness. The authorities in Germany could also benefit from his statements.

By Florian Fuchs , Oliver Meiler and Christian Wernicke

The man, whose words could be worth so damn much in the near future, is sitting in a Milan prison, murder, life imprisonment. Nicolino Grande Aracri, his full name, was considered the right hand man of Antonio Dragone, the boss of the ' Ndrangheta from Calabria in southern Italy. Then he is said to have killed him, in 2004 that was.

Today Aracri, 62, who comes from the small town of Cutro not far from the Ionian coast of Calabria, is himself one of the big names of the 'Ndrangheta, even if he is in prison. A modern super boss who has made a significant contribution to the internationalization of the Calabrian mafia in recent years. And it is a medium sensation in the history of organized crime in Italy that "Don Nicola", as he is also known, has now decided to work as a key witness with the judiciary . So far, no boss of the 'Ndrangheta had taken this step. The Calabrian cartel has always been considered impenetrable and is known to operate in secret.

Police and fire brigade in Munich Mafia meeting at the Oktoberfest

After the 'Ndrangheta visit the Oktoberfest, investigators set their sights on the mafiosi - and come across a network with offshoots in Germany. There were now 33 arrest warrants and searches in more than 80 locations. â€‚
By Francesca Polistina
The interrogations in Milan have an echo - as far away as Dusseldorf, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on it first. The North Rhine-Westphalian State Criminal Police Office has also been investigating the 'Ndrangheta for decades. Aracri lived in MÃ¼nster and Warendorf for several years. Thomas Jungbluth, the responsible LKA department head, emphasizes in an interview with the SZ that up to now there is no knowledge of "what the key witness may have said and about whom". But when it comes to "criminal offenses in NRW, then we want to know". They are cooperating within the framework of an Italian-German task force and will "apply in due course to question the man". Hope rings through - hope for insights.

Aracri is currently being interrogated in Italy by Nicola Gratteri, the public prosecutor of Catanzaro and an expert on the 'Ndrangheta. Apparently the talks have been going on for a long time without their content being made public. Neither has any of this flowed into ongoing proceedings against the clans. And so one wonders in Italy whether Grande Aracri tells anything essential about the nature and interdependencies of the most powerful and richest Italian mafia of the moment. Or whether he's just hoping for relief from prison.

Nevertheless, the Italian media are already comparing Grande Aracri's encounter with Gratteri with that of Tommaso Buscetta, a repentant boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, with the great mafia hunter Giovanni Falcone in the 1980s. This should mark a turning point in the state's fight against organized crime. If Grande Aracri unpacks, as Buscetta did, many of the characters at the dim interface between the upper and the underworld would have to tremble.

"Nicolino Grande Aracri can make statements that none of the previous key witnesses can make," says Sandro Mattioli. As chairman of the "Mafia? No thanks!" from Berlin he tries to educate people about the activities of the Italian Mafia in Germany. The association also reports on Grande Aracri on its blog. Should the mafia boss really speak, "an earthquake" could be imminent. As a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta, his testimony is presumably not that interesting for solving individual crimes like cocaine deals, says Mattioli. In return, he has the best insight into the structures of the Mafia in Germany and into more complex issues such as investments. "If you want to explain how the 'Ndrangheta is organized in Germany, he could provide important input."

Active in the cocaine business
Federal German criminalists classify the 'Ndrangheta together with the Camorra (from the Naples area) and the Cosa Nostra (Sicily) under a common code: IOK, "Italian Organized CrimeAccording to the investigators' findings, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta association has secured the benefices in the lucrative cocaine trade for years. "According to the Italian authorities, the' Ndrangheta as the internationally dominant group of the IOC is responsible for up to 80 percent of cocaine imports to Europe ", confirmed the federal government in March of this year when it answered a request from the Greens in the Bundestag. The officials of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer describe the extent of the criminal energy of the 'Ndrangheta in the Federal Republic as follows:" Germany is one of the most important for the' Ndrangheta Action, investment and retreat areas outside of Italy. "

And that has been going on for years. In contrast to Turkish-Arab family clans or rocker bands, the mafia does its business silently. According to Thomas Jungbluth from the LKA-NRW, their criminal sales and profits in Germany cannot be reliably quantified. However, the Italian mafia and the Turkish-Arab clans have one thing in common: "Both create their parallel worlds - one open, the other concealed." Jungbluth answers the question of who is acting more threateningly, like Bertolt Brecht once did when comparing Haifisch (with teeth in his face) and Mackie Messer (whose weapon you can't see): "The ones you can't see are usually more dangerous."

Nevertheless, sometimes the violence of the 'Ndrangheta also explodes, after all, up to 50 billion euros in drug sales across Europe: 14 years ago, in August 2007, a mafia-like bloodlust shook North Rhine-Westphalia when two warring' Ndrangheta families in Duisburg six people were shot dead on the street. Allegedly, according to insiders, the Calabrian mafia has therefore established its own supervisory and arbitration body in Germany, the so-called Crimine di Germania. "Germany is big, very rich," said Nicola Gratteri of this dubious novelty of an 'Ndrangheta Council abroad in February of the FAZ and the MDR, saying that it is more difficult to "keep the dispute within the local cells under control."

Mammoth trial at the Duisburg Regional Court
As early as 2018, the Federal Criminal Police Office counted 344 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany. Business is rampant, the number of Mafiosi is growing, also in North Rhine-Westphalia: In 2015 there were 101 alleged Mafiosi in the Rhine and Ruhr areas, and in 2018 as many as 117. The WAZ confirmed to Jungbluth that in 2018 more than half (67) of them belonged to the 'Ndrangheta.

The land on the Rhine and Ruhr is particularly exposed. Because the drugs from South America mostly come to Germany via Antwerp and Rotterdam. Mafia behavior is currently being examined in a mammoth trial before the Duisburg Regional Court: First the Dutch police discovered 95 kilos of cocaine in 2015 between wooden slats from Guyana, three years later the investigators arrested 84 suspects in the Europe-wide "Pollino" campaign - plus four tons of cocaine and two million euros in cash.

Bavarian investigators could also benefit from possible Aracri statements. Grande Aracri's brother was registered in Augsburg. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office assumes that there are around 100 members of Italian Mafia organizations in the Free State. According to the LKA, an insight into the structures would be "worth gold". Augsburg, Munich and Nuremberg as metropolitan areas are focal points of the mafia investigations in the Free State. Besides the cocaine trade and money laundering, the investigations concentrate more and more on the phenomenon of the "agromafia" - how the clans control Italian food production and thus also the export of products to Germany.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/mafia-ndrangheta-aracri-1.5296751

It is actually not confirmed that it is Gratteri that is speaking with NCG. Plus, it is not a given at all that NCG knows anything about Germany and of course if he says something German police is bound to talk to him.

Buscetta was a low level criminal compared to NCG, the parallel is ridiculous - it's just that they are two different criminal organisations so Buscetta could know a lot more because of that. The 'ndrangheta's first pentito, Pino Scriva was the first Buscetta maybe. Bah.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/20/21 12:31 AM

Pretty funny they held a meeting in Munich at the Oktoberfest. They must have been pretty drunk haha..

https://www.dw.com/en/italian-mafia-boss-arrested-in-brazil-after-escaping-prison/a-57649654

Italy's most wanted no.2 narcotrafficker 'ndrangheta member Rocco Morabito has been arrested after two years searches in Brazil.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/25/21 10:18 PM

With the collaboration of DEA, FBI and the US Department of Justice. Morabito, wanted since 1994, was included in the list of the 10 most dangerous fugitives of the Italian Interior Ministry.

Vincenzo Pasquino, a fugitive originally from Turin, also included in the list of dangerous fugitives, was also arrested with Morabito.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/26/21 09:12 PM

Nicola Acri, Rossano's boss and bloodthirsty killer, repented
After 10 years of hard prison he began to collaborate with the DDA of Catanzaro. He has already made statements on various bloody facts

Nicola Acri, 42, boss of Rossano, known as "eyes of ice", has taken the plunge, considered one of the most bloodthirsty Calabrian killers and already listed as one of the 100 most dangerous fugitives. A criminal career that began when he was just 21 years old and was considered to be the head of the Rossano clan. For three years, before being captured in 2010 in Bologna, he was a fugitive and was included among the 100 most dangerous fugitives in Italy.

After ten years of hard prison he decided to collaborate and speak with the Dda of Catanzaro, led by Nicola Gratteri. A very recent collaboration during which Acri made statements on serious bloody events that saw him as a protagonist. The circumstance was learned today due to the hearing that saw him summoned before Calabrian judges. Acri is a piece of the nineties of the new 'Ndrangheta of the central-northern Ionian area of â€‹â€‹Calabria and has risen to the headlines for having carried out a series of murders in the Sibaritide between 1999 and 2001.

Sentenced to life imprisonment with final sentence, he was serving his sentence under the 41 bis regime. The carabinieri captured him on the outskirts of Bologna in November 2010. Even in Emilia he had been busy trying to impose a brand of ground coffee on a series of public establishments. His role as godfather of Rossano was conferred on him by the leader of the nomadic crime of Cassano, Franco Abbruzese, known as "Dentuzzo", also a life sentence and his companions in murderous raids.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/26/21 09:28 PM

Aww, tough guy couldn't take "hard prison" anymore

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/21 11:36 AM

In the municipality of Rizziconi , inside a rural house, the Reggio mobile squad located and captured the local fugitive, born in 1965, Giuseppe Crea. He had evaded arrest: he would have had to serve 8 years in prison following a conviction reported for a series of crimes committed in 2008.

The fugitive captured at the first light of dawn is the nephew of Teodoro Crea born in 1939, considered a top member of the 'Ndrangheta, currently in prison. Therefore, he is the first cousin of the children of the elderly boss, Giuseppe and Domenico Crea, currently detained, arrested after many years as fugitives.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/21 06:13 PM

A massive Mafia trial is underway in the Calabrian region of southern Italy, but people there say only a cultural shift will free them from the clansâ€™ stranglehold.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/calabria-mafia-trial

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 05/30/21 06:53 PM

There probably won't be a cultural shift, most people realize that the State is worse.

The lawyer of Nicolino Grande Aracri - powerful ndrangheta boss of Crotone who, according to news a few weeks ago, apparently started talking to prosecutors - has not only not been told that his client has repented but also he has not been told that his services are no longer needed - once someone enters officially the collaboration agreement they have to change lawyers. So basically so far he has not repented really.

https://www.lacnews24.it/cronaca/gr...el-boss-nel-format-lac-rinascita_137324/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/02/21 06:00 PM

Romanian woman accused of executing her Italian boyfriend in Spain,
the son of a mafia boss from 'Ndrangheta, risks 26 years in prison
02.06.2021 14:31

A Romanian woman risks 26 years in prison in Spain, being accused of executing her Italian boyfriend, the son of a Calabrian mafia boss, 'Ndrangheta.

Prosecutors demanded that the woman, Cristina Elena T., be sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder and 2 years for illegal possession of firearms, according to La Razon .

The Romanian woman is accused of killing her boyfriend, Giuseppe Nirta, in Ãguilas, Murcia region, in 2017, then claiming that he was executed by a stranger who was waiting for him in the yard of their house. Subsequently, all the evidence gathered indicated her, and the woman was arrested. She spent a year and a half in pre-trial detention, after which she was released.

In addition to the 26 years in prison, the prosecutor's office demands that the woman pay the court costs and compensation of 200,000 euros for the mother of the deceased. In turn, the Nirta family is demanding 500,000 euros in compensation.

At the time of the murder, Cristina Elena T. said that an unknown person was waiting for them in the yard of the house, and when they got out of the car, her partner was shot from behind, several times, while she managed to escape.

But all the evidence contradicted her, and after the reconstruction the forensic scientists said that, given the position in which the body was found, Giuseppe Nirta was taken by surprise and did not have the impulse to flee, as would have happened. if he was targeted by an assassin. Moreover, after the murder, Cristina called the victim's phone to an acquaintance and announced that Giuseppe had been killed, and not the Police, as any person in such a situation would have instinctively done.

Following forensic examinations, traces of gunpowder were identified on the clothes the woman wore on the day of the murder. However, she still claims she is innocent.

To rule out any suspicion, the Forensic Service used state-of-the-art techniques, according to the quoted source.

Giuseppe Nirta's father is a prominent member of the Ndrangheta mafia clan, who was arrested in Italy in 2008 for murder.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/21 03:24 PM

Ndrangheta connection??

Torched car found with body inside near Turin
Charred corpse found in countryside at Gassino

(ANSA) - TURIN, JUN 3 - Italian police on Thursday found a burned-out car containing a charred body in open fields at Gassino near Turin.
Police are trying to establish what caused the car, a Fiat Panda, to catch fire.
But they think it was set alight.
The person inside has yet to be identified.
An autopsy has been ordered. (ANSA)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/03/21 04:48 PM

Rocco Femia, 54, was also found charred, also in Gassino, inside a burned-out car in 2007.

Torched car found with body inside near Turin
Charred corpse found in countryside at Gassino

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/04/21 01:31 AM

Most guys of Siderno group are free again, Commisso, Crupi, Coluccio.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/05/21 12:44 PM

Gassino, perhaps it was suicide: the man was still alive while the car was burning
It should be Pietro Valora, a small building contractor domiciled in Chivasso who had debt problems

04 June 2021
TURIN. The body found burnt yesterday in the car set on fire in an orchard in Strada Gassino in Bardassano di Gassino had traces of smoke ashes in the trachea. So he would still be alive while the car burned. This was established this morning by the examination by the coroner Roberto Testi.
Now, samples will be taken from the remains for DNA examination. But it should be Pietro Valora, a small building contractor domiciled in Chivasso. For the Prosecutor of Ivrea it would be a suicide due to debts, but to make a more in-depth investigation, the prosecutor Alessandro Gallo has opened a case for murder, but against unknown persons.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/05/21 01:36 PM

Gassino, perhaps it was suicide: the man was still alive while the car was burning
It should be Pietro Valora, a small building contractor domiciled in Chivasso who had debt problems

Suicide by setting himself on fire inside a car? Strange way to commit suicide

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/05/21 04:42 PM

No way it was suicide doesn't make sense like you said strax, Valora is originally from Gela, Sicily.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 03:34 AM

Gela, located in the Caltanisetta province of Sicily. The Emmanuello and Rinzivillo clans of Cosa Nostra are there as well as the Stidda.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 07:22 AM

Gela, located in the Caltanisetta province of Sicily. The Emmanuello and Rinzivillo clans of Cosa Nostra are there as well as the Stidda.

I don't know Stidda is relevant, today they are reduced to very small numbers.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 09:36 AM

Stidda is very relevant today, recent operation called Operation Leonessa where 35 Stiddari were rounded up and over $100 million in assets seized. And the boss was talking about going to war with Cosa Nostra.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:29 AM

I agree here. I recently read an Italian article about Cosa Nostra recognizing the Stidda clans, even saying they were more than on par with the LCN families in the area, I'll look for it now. ....

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:34 AM

I agree here. I recently read an Italian article about Cosa Nostra recognizing the Stidda clans, even saying they were more than on par with the LCN families in the area, I'll look for it now. ....

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...ita-la-sicilia-per-maxi-riciclaggio.html

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:35 AM

I think it was actually Operation Stella Cadente, which was being undertaken at the same time as Operation Leonessa. Man I wish we had a Gangland News Italy that could explain exactly what's going on in plain English, Italian to English translated articles suck.

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:37 AM

I agree here. I recently read an Italian article about Cosa Nostra recognizing the Stidda clans, even saying they were more than on par with the LCN families in the area, I'll look for it now. ....

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...ita-la-sicilia-per-maxi-riciclaggio.html

Lol, sorry, wrong one..

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:41 AM

I agree here. I recently read an Italian article about Cosa Nostra recognizing the Stidda clans, even saying they were more than on par with the LCN families in the area, I'll look for it now. ....

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...ita-la-sicilia-per-maxi-riciclaggio.html

Lol, sorry, wrong one..

Here we go......

https://www.quotidianodiragusa.it/2...-il-mandante-dellomicidio-livatino/79879

Posted By: CabriniGreen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/08/21 11:47 AM

Ragusa newspaperTuesday 08 June 2021Deco Pozzallo

Stidda CanicattÃ¬, the names of the 23 stills.

Even the instigator of the murder LivatinoAnti-mafia operation in Sicily: Stidda beheaded. With the long shadow of Matteo Messina DenaroClear BottleFebruary 02, 2021 6:03 pm
Stidda CanicattÃ¬, the names of the 23 stills. Even the instigator of the murder Livatino

Operation Xydi.

They had been meeting for two years in the office of a lawyer, for real mafia summits with prominent members of the clan. A hard blow for the stidda and the mafia families of the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani and in particular of the mafia district of CanicattÃ¬.

The investigation by the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate led to the arrest of 22 people including the boss Antonio Galleabelieved to be the instigator of the murder of Judge Rosario Livatino which took place on 21 September 1990. After 25 years in prison, Gallea obtained semi-release in 2015 and was reorganizing the stidda to return to infiltrate the Sicilian economy.

It was he, along with another life prisoner in semi-liberty, the point of reference around which the Stidda was being rebuilt. The two were re-establishing relations with the Cosa Nostra, pieces of a pax mafia between the two organizations functional to the affairs of the clans in the area. Thanks to the telephone and environmental wiretapping of the Carabinieri del Ros, an inspector, an assistant police chief and a lawyer Angela Porcello also got into troublewho had assumed a leadership role in the clan. The suspects respond in various ways to mafia, extortion and aggravated aiding and abetting. Among the recipients of the arrest order also the super boss Matteo Messina Denaro fugitive for 28 years still recognized as the only real boss of Cosa Nostra.

The names of the suspects
The suspects during the Xydi anti-mafia operation they are: the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, known as U Sicccu, 58 years old Castelvetrano (Tp);
Giuseppe Falsone, 50 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag);
Giancarlo Bugea, 50 years old, Palermo; Luigi Boncori, 68 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Luigi Carmina, 57 years old Caltanissetta; Simone Castello, 71 years old, Villabate (Pa); Antonino Chiazza, 51 years old, Agrigento; Diego Emanuele Cigna, 21 years old, CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Giuseppe D'Andrea, 49 years old, Agrigento; Calogero Di Caro, 74 years old, CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Pietro Fazio, 48 years old, CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Gianfranco Roberto Gaetani, 53 years old, Naro (Ag); Antonio Gallea, 63 years old, CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Giuseppe Giuliana, 55, France; Gaetano Lombardo, 64 years old, Ravanusa (Ag); Gregorio Lombardo, 66 years old, Favara (Ag); Antonino Oliveri, 36 years old CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Calogero Paceco, 56 years old, Naro (Ag); Giuseppe Pirrera, 61 years old, Favara (Ag); Filippo Pitruzzella, 60 years old, Campobello di Licata (Ag); Angela Porcella, 50 years old, Agrigento; Santo Rinallo. 60 years old, CanicattÃ¬ (Ag); Giuseppe Sicilia, 41 years old Agrigento.

Nicolino Grande Aracri has been declared not credible nor trustworthy, his testimony not leading anywhere, by the Antimafia prosecutors; there are even doubts that his collaboration could actually be a criminal plan in itself.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...rande-aracri-e-un-pentito-inattendibile/

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/09/21 08:07 PM

there are even doubts that his collaboration could actually be a criminal plan in itself.

He still has his lawyer, i knew there was something odd about this. It was probably a plan all along , maybe to feed them false information or conflicting information.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/09/21 09:56 PM

The forgotten fugitive. Edgardo Greco, 56, from Cosenza, has to serve a life sentence for double murder. Since 2006, however, he has managed to escape the police force. He is the last important Calabrian â€œfugitiveâ€ left in circulation: some believe he is hiding in Germany, other â€œsourcesâ€ indicate that he is well camouflaged in Calabria. Strangely, his name does not appear among those of the most dangerous fugitives although for three decades he has managed to evade searches.

I thought the same - he probably wanted to say something about someone else

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/12/21 11:28 PM

Many people in power are relieved now Don Nicolino would have hurt them.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/13/21 03:21 AM

Cosa Nostra is still number one in Sicily but Stidda is rebuilding and they had few turncoats five I think.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/14/21 10:16 PM

Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri in a recent interview spoke about the tax havens in which the mafias have been pouring their illicit capital for years, pointing out that "The real tax havens today are Austria, Holland, the City of London, the United States ... A criminal has an easy game to deposit 5 million euros in a branch in the Cayman Islands, then take a flight to New York and get a $ 500,000 credit line from the local branch of the same bank. And it is not that this is not known: investigations by the American judiciary have shown it. Nonetheless, do you think any executives ended up in jail? They limited themselves to fining the banks involved with a penalty equal to 2% of the laundered sum â€.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/16/21 07:57 AM

'Ndrangheta fugitive caught
Agostino Papaianni, 70, 'in good shape thanks to home gym'

(ANSA) - CATANZARO, JUN 15 - Italian police on Tuesday captured an 'Ndrangheta boss who had evaded capture in a big round up of Calabrian mafia members in the Vibo Valentia area of the southern Italian region in December 2019.
Police said Agostino Papaianni, 70, was in good physical shape having been using a small gym he had in his hideout.
Papaianni is also wanted in the Black Money laundering probe, for mafia association, police said.
His hideout was in an "impervious" hilly area surrounded by narrow alleyways, a green area and a gully, police told a press conference.
He had started renting it with false documents in April, police said.
Papaianni did not resist arrest and told police who he was.
He is one of the historic clan leaders in the Vibo area, police said. (ANSA).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/21 02:36 AM

Agostino Papaianni was hiding in a B & B in the JanÃ² district of Catanzaro LOL, the owner of the apartment had a photo of an identity document that was found to be false. Papaianni was very trusted by superboss Luigi Mancuso.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/17/21 08:55 PM

The Catanzaro DDA asked for the indictment of 78 people involved in the "Low profile" investigation conducted against the 'Ndrangheta clans of the Crotone area and the network of interests interwoven with politicians, entrepreneurs, public administrators.

Among the people for whom the trial was requested is the regional councilor for the budget Francesco Talarico, of the UDC, accused of criminal association aggravated by the mafia method and political-mafia electoral exchange. On the other hand, there is no UDC leader Lorenzo Cesa , reached last May by a notice of conclusion of investigations on charges of criminal association aggravated by the mafia method.

The Prosecutors led by Nicola Gratteri asked for the indictment, among others, the former president of Confindustria Giovani of Crotone Glenda Giglio, for the notary of Catanzaro Rocco Guglielmo, for the former municipal councilor of Catanzaro Tommaso Brutto, and for the former financier Ercole D'Alessandro. Talarico, according to the indictment, as a candidate in the 2018 political elections, would have offered his support, "in exchange for a substantial package of votes, to introduce two entrepreneurs into national political-institutional environments", also presented to Cesa.

In addition, Talarico is also charged with the crime of political-mafia electoral exchange always in relation to the
candidacy for the 2018 policies. On that occasion, for the accusation, he met with some Reggio representatives of the entrepreneur Antonio Gallo - considered entrepreneur reference point of the Crotonese clans - "admittedly close to former senator Antonio Caridi", "in particular Natale Errigo (also investigated, ed) -
related to members of the De Stefano-Tegano di Archi clan".

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/21/21 09:44 AM

â€œEuropean 'ndrangheta connectionâ€, new confirmation of the strength of the clans
by Rocco Muscari - June 21, 2021
The motivations of the gup of Reggio who inflicted 34 sentences. Business from San Luca to Northern Europe, drugs remain the main business
Reggio, Chronicle
"The investigation has revealed, in particular, once again how organized crime in the Ionian belt of the province of Reggio manages, in Italy and abroad (Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands), consistent and lucrative illicit business, making use of a dense network of associates constituted, for the most part, by the members of the same families of 'Ndrangheta Â». This is what the gup of Reggio Calabria Vincenzo Quaranta writes in the reasons for the sentence of the maxi-trial, which took place with the abbreviated procedure, born from the investigations called "European 'ndrangheta connection - Pollino", which ended last November with 34 convictions for a total of 411 years of imprisonment and 8 acquittals confirming the accusatory system represented by the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor,
The motivation highlights that "the investigations made it possible to ascertain the current operation of the Pelle-Vottari clan, historically hegemonic in the territory of San Luca, which thanks to the joint interests with other associations attributable to the Jonic Mandamento of the 'Ndrangheta, and with the contribution also of Camorra clans operating in Campania, makes international drug trafficking its main criminal activity, a source of very high illicit income, to be laundered in economic activities, both in Italy and abroad Â».

Read the full article on the print edition of Gazzetta del Sud - Calabria

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/24/21 11:25 AM

THE HEARING
'Ndrangheta massacre, the repentant: "Paolo De Stefano had to have money from" Milano 2 ""
In Fiume's testimony, the plots behind the Lombard contracts that he reported to Silvio Berlusconi. Graviano: "He realized the project also thanks to the money of the 'Ndrangheta"
Published on: 06/24/2021 - 11:22

REGGIO CALABRIA The boss Paolo De Stefano Â«must have had money fromâ€œ Milano 2 â€, which had invested it at the time of BontateÂ». This is what the repentant Nino Fiume, former killer of the De Stefano family claims, has been a collaborator of justice since 2002 and has made statements in the 'Ndrangheta massacre trial. This was reported by ilfattoquotidiano which specifies how the circumstances reported by him are for the time being unsubstantiated. Also in the newspaper, last June 23, he reported the news of the interrogation of Giovanni Brusca, a collaborator of justice formerly belonging to the Cosa Nostra, who has recently returned to freedom.
Fiume's statements are in some way linked to those of the boss Giuseppe Graviano, who in 2020, again in the same process, had spoken of the money that his grandfather would have given to the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, for the first construction sites of the Milanese work, in the 70s.
Also in this case there is no evidence on the declarations, if not a further circumstance.
According to the reconstruction offered to the judges by the repentant Fiume, the â€œMilano 2â€ project was allegedly carried out by Berlusconi also thanks to the money of the 'Ndrangheta and in particular of the De Stefano clan of Reggio Calabria.
In July 2020, in the Reggio line of 'Ndrangheta massacre, the sentence to life imprisonment was reached for Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Santo Filippone, accused of the double murder of the Carabinieri Fava and Garofalo, in 1994.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-stefano-doveva-avere-soldi-da-milano-2/

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/21 10:23 PM

Disney is making a documentary on the 'Ndrangheta for it's international streaming service Star.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/25/21 11:52 PM

Disney is making a documentary on the 'Ndrangheta for it's international streaming service Star.

Do you know when its going to be out ?

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 09:14 PM

Outside of Calabria itself, which other regions of Italy have heavy Ndrangheta presence? I know they have operations in many cities but not sure if they have branches/territories outside their Clabarian hometown. If so do the cells operate independently from Calabria or are they usually affiliated with a certain Ndrina? thanks.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 10:11 PM

In Italy they all answer to Calabria. 'Ndrangheta is only criminal organization that is present on every continent, they are extremely powerful in Canada & Australia. They also have strong presence in Germany and Switzerland. In Germany they gained a lot of heat after Duisburg massacre.

'Ndrangheta has biggest presence in Rome, they are very powerful there , Sicilians also have huge presence in Rome , one of most powerful organized crime figures in Rome is Sicilian , Giovanni "The Billionaire" De Carlo.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 10:32 PM

Thanks for the info Strax, I am currently watching Suburra, in the show it seems Gypsy and Romani gangs are the ones that actually control the territories in Rome, do you know which Ndrina has the biggest presence over there?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 10:48 PM

In Rome you have really powerful gypsy clans(Spinelli,Spada,Casamonica,Di Silvio,Di Gugliemo,Di Rocco) , they do have control of some territory but i wouldn't say they control Rome. No one really controls Rome , you have a lot of organized crime groups present, Massimo Carminati also known as "King of Rome" is also very powerful ,together with Salvatore Buzzi and others from mafia capitale. Police seized 27 million euros from Carminati and Buzzi few years ago. But out of the big organized crime groups 'Ndrangheta have biggest present in Rome as i already said , while Sicilians have biggest presence in Milan.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 10:51 PM

do you know which Ndrina has the biggest presence over there?

Pelle and Morabito for sure. Followed by Piromalli and Alvaro

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 10:58 PM

Are people from mafia capitale not connected to any of the major mafia groups from the south? Another thing I`m curious about is that are Ndragheta, Cosa Nostra or Camorra members/associates in Rome and Milan actually from the south? Or were they born locally but recruited by the southern clans?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 11:23 PM

They were connected and worked together with all of them , but mostly 'Ndrangheta and Sicilian mafia.Salvatore Buzzi brought votes to the former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno during 2014 European elections with the help of the 'Ndrina Mancuso, also governor of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti was connected to mafia capitale thru Giovanni De Carlo , Sicilian mafia 'representative' in Rome.

The Church is the biggest player in Rome lol, pretty sure that Leggio was the initial contact in Milan, I believe that that is how Burlesconi began his ascent.

Silvio Burlesconi is Milanese and Emilio Fede might be Sicilian, also, P2 has been linked to the church, the State and the Mafiosi, as long as Caesar to Rome.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/26/21 11:58 PM

Other politicians who were arrested for connections with mafia capitale were president of Rome city council, the head of the city public-housing division and the former president of Ostia. And to answer your previous question , there are some members who are from Rome , but high ranking people and trusted people are all from south.

There is so much to read about the ndrangheta mobility....sigh...

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/21 09:03 AM

Thank you Strax

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/21 12:31 PM

Rome's mafias are ever more like the Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Campania and the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria, according to a 2018 report from the National Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate. The six-monthly report, issued the day after a major mafia bust in the capital against the Casamonica clan which was allied to the 'Ndrangheta for drug pushing, said "organisations similar for MOs to mafia associations like those in Sicily, Calabria and Campania are ever more evident in Rome".
In some areas of the capital there are criminal groups which, "based on close family ties, ever more show the modus operandi of groups of mafia associations", the report said.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/27/21 03:19 PM

True, but they are all under heavy influence from 'Ndrangheta or Sicilian mafia.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/30/21 10:50 PM

Disney is making a documentary on the 'Ndrangheta for it's international streaming service Star.

Do you know when its going to be out ?

Probably next year. The Disney documentary will be broadcast on its new on demand channel (Disney +), directed by Jacques Charmelot a French journalist.
Also a six-part drama series based on a true story will be on Disney +. Good Mothers tells the true story of how three brave women within the infamous Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia teamed up with newly minted female prosecutor, Alessandra Cerreti, to bring down the criminal empire.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 06/30/21 10:56 PM

It might turn out to be good, but honestly it sounds like your typical mob documentary, where they only talk about the pitfalls of the life, how "brave" people are who fight with the State, and how they brought them down even though we know the Ndrangheta is not even close to being brought down.

To me a good Ndrangheta documentary would start from the very very beginning with its humble origins all the way to the present day, naming all the important clans across Calabria and around the world with awesome footage and photos. But that's just me.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/01/21 02:48 PM

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/01/21 10:22 PM

The Mafia from the mountains: Fighting Italy's most ruthless and secretive clans

The CBC's Italy correspondent, Megan Williams, takes us into the heart of Calabria and the stronghold of the 'ndrangheta mafia group, where a "maxi-processo" â€" an Italian anti-Mafia trial â€" involving 355 defendants is underway.
Aired: June 1, 2021

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radi...fighting-italys-ruthless-secretive-clans

The Rome mafia groups are not necessarily under the influence of the 'ndrangheta - they are quite a different breed, more urban, some of them are gypsies, like the Casamonica. Watch Suburra on Netflix, quite good and it's on the Casamonica/Fasciani/Di Silvio clans!

The Disney program is based on the Good Mothers, a (not so great) book by an English journalist about women of the mafia. Not holding my breathe. A good movie is Black Souls - Anime Nere (2014) on the 'ndrangheta. Very good.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/21 09:29 PM

I think Magliana neighborhood near the airport renowned for the Magliana Gang is still mobbed-up. Interested about them check Romanzo criminale.
Yes Black Souls is great, gritty and some real mobsters in it.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/21 09:38 PM

I think Magliana neighborhood near the airport renowned for the Magliana Gang is still mobbed-up. Interested about them check Romanzo criminale.

Romanzo Criminale was great! I loved that show.

'not necessarily' bur more often then not , you even see Rome groups often ask 'Ndrangheta/Sicilians for help. Nowhere in Italy you can reach high level organized crime without support of major groups from South.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/21 11:14 PM

I think Magliana neighborhood near the airport renowned for the Magliana Gang is still mobbed-up. Interested about them check Romanzo criminale.

Romanzo Criminale was great! I loved that show.

Did you know strax, Massimo Carminati is the basis of the character of "Il Nero" in the book Romanzo Criminale. He had ties to Sicilian mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti. He also inspired the character of Samurai in the book Suburra.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/21 11:40 PM

For 'Il Nero' i knew its based od Massimo Carminati, figured that out pretty quickly. But i had no idea about Samurai in Suburra. Doesn't Samurai get killed in Suburra pretty quickly ?

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/02/21 11:50 PM

You guys are just babbling on about nothing, your comments are sedative.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/21 12:09 AM

No Samurai was the big bad in the TV series as well as the movie. Although they did give him a lame ending.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/03/21 12:10 AM

So is Ndrangheta also the largest group by membership and affiliates? Or is Camorra or Cosa Nostra larger in pure number?

Ndrangheta documentary about the current Maxi Trial, about half way through. So far so good lol. Itâ€™s in English btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb_dBYkVVCI

They state that the Ndrangheta can buy a kilo of blow of 1k Euro and flipped for 70 or 80xs, thatâ€™s a massive return lol.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/21 12:29 PM

Reggio Calabria, the boss of 'Ndrangheta Giovanni Tegano has died
The mammasantissima was for decades at the head of the homonymous clan. He was arrested in 2010 and called a "man of peace".

Giovanni Tegano, 81, was for many years at the top of the homonymous gang operating in the Archi district of Reggio Calabria , a true stronghold of the most powerful mafia families in the city of the Strait.

Among the main protagonists of the second war of 'Ndrangheta, Giovanni Tegano managed to remain a fugitive from 1993 until 2010, despite a life sentence. A period of long silence, during which, however, the boss remained firmly in command of the clan, continuing to issue orders and directions and manage business.

Recently, in 2019, the prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo had entered him in the register of suspects for the murder of judge Scopelliti.

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/07/21 10:17 PM

^^^^
Anna Sergiâ€™s tweet from earlier today:

#ndrangheta today Giovanni Tegano died. He is one of the most important ndranghetisti in Reggio Calabria and one of the founders of the Santa. History tells us how Tegano has been as violent as he was strategically clever. With him will die many secrets.

https://twitter.com/annasergi/status/1412792595667984391?s=20

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/08/21 12:25 PM

The capture of Tegano in 2010.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/10/21 09:20 PM

'Ndrangheta and drug trafficking, an inseparable link
Piero Innocenti July 10, 2021
Much of the cocaine seized every year in the ports of Gioia Tauro and in the other ports is imported by the Calabrian mafia which, for years, has also controlled some points of arrival of goods from South American countries, in Germany, Belgium and Holland.
Business is extraordinarily good judging by the quantities of seizures carried out in 2020 by the Italian police forces (13.4 tons, an absolute record, over 6 tons in these first six months of 2021 and about 40 tons in the ports of Hamburg, one of the most important in Europe and Antwerp).
To recall the dominant role of the 'Ndrangheta in the management of the international drug trafficking of cocaine towards Europe was, last June, the DCSA on the occasion of the presentation of the annual report 2021(2020 data) on the activities carried out and the results achieved in the fight against drug trafficking.
Confirmed in 2020 the stability of the current clans in the various "districts" (Ionian, central, Tyrrhenian), in the capitals of Crotone, Catanzaro, Vibonese and Cosentino, the DCSA highlights the connections of the 'Ndrangheta "... functional to the management of drug trafficking , with members of the Cosa Nostra, of the Camorra, of the Apulian criminal organizations, as well as with foreign criminal groups â€ also recalling a recent hearing (April 29, 2021) of the Chief of Police before the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission.
The reality is that the Calabrian mafia is the "master" of the cocaine trade all over the world and if already in 2008 the US decided to put it on the "black list" of drug trafficking to try to prevent the pollution of the American economic and financial system, more recently (September 2020) Europol â€œhas evaluated the threat of the 'Ndrangheta as the most relevant, indicating it among the most qualified criminal organizations in the worldâ€.
The Calabrian mafia is particularly rooted in Holland, Belgium and Germany "... where through direct territorial desecrations, it manages the arrival, storage and distribution of cocaine".
In Germany, in particular, it has been noted for years "... the pervasive presence of the Calabrian criminal structure in the cities of Duisburg(remember the 2007 Duisburg massacre, ed ) , Erfurt, Munchen, Leipzig, Neurkirchen-Vluyn, Dizisau, Bous and Bochum â€. The German Interior Minister himself, in response to a parliamentary question (published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 2020), supported an active presence throughout the national territory of about twenty Calabrian criminal structures (with about 800 / 1,000 affiliates in total) , faithful reproduction of the structure of origin with which they maintain consolidated connections.
The increased information exchange of recent times (finally!) In the context of the "Italy-Germany" task force and investigative acquisitions have also made it possible to detect the existence of"... relational reciprocity between the leaders of the" Balkan cartel " , also settled in Germany, and leading exponents of the Calabrian gangs, who have consolidated profitable channels of criminal collaboration, creating a large-scale joint venture".
A general criminal situation that will have to face investigative and judicial apparatuses also struggling with many problems connected to an increasingly violent predatory crime.
(July 5, 2021)

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/13/21 11:03 AM

Twelve people believed to be linked to the Piromalli clan were arrested this morning by the carabinieri as part of an operation, called "Geolja", coordinated by the Reggio Calabria anti-mafia district directorate. The blitz started at dawn between Gioia Tauro and Milan where the military of the provincial command carried out a precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri and the adjunct Gaetano Paci.

The suspects - ten in prison and two under house arrest - are accused, in various capacities and in concurrence with each other, of criminal association of the mafia type, fraudulent transfer of values â€‹â€‹and illegal competition with threats or violence with the aggravating circumstance of the use of the mafia method.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/15/21 09:16 PM

The Court of Palmi sentenced the former mayor of Delianuova Francesco Rossi , accused of mafia association, to 12 years in prison . The "Iris" trial against the Alvaro clan ended in the first instance and with the ordinary rite. Overall, judge Francesco Jacinto issued 9 sentences and 14 acquittals .

According to the DDA, the former mayor Rossi was at the complete disposal of the Sinopoli mafia family. The heaviest sentence, 24 years in prison, was imposed on the boss Raffaele Alvaro known as "Pagghiazza". Carmine Alvaro known as "u limbici" (14 years of imprisonment), Carmine Alvaro known as "u bruzzise" (12 years).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/16/21 10:29 AM

Reggio Calabria, 19 arrests for drug trafficking. But the clan also aimed at tenders and public works
The group, led by Angelo Carina and his operative arm Carmelo Cimarosa, also planned to kidnap the mayor of Scilla in order to obtain bathing concessions

Nineteen people - 15 in prison and four under house arrest - were arrested by the carabinieri of Reggio Calabria and Villa San Giovanni between Scilla, Sinopoli, Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte, but also in the provinces of Messina, Milan, Rome and Terni.
Led by Angelo Carina and his operative arm Carmelo Cimarosa , the group was a sort of minor branch of the historic Scilla Nasone - Gaietti clan but dreamed of climbing the criminal ranks in the area. "They are jealous - confided Cimarosa intercepted, referring to the most noble cousins â€‹â€‹- but we don't care because we are young and they are going to grow old. And in another twenty years in Scilla they must all give an account to us, even in an eternal father. There is nothing else. We are there, do you know what they are? Coglionazzi ". Sufficient reasons, according to the proclamations of the young boss, to ask for authorization to found an independent clan "Do you know what I will tell him? - he announces intercepted - I want my family, I will tell him, the Cimarosa Carina. I am my family apart. "

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/21 12:02 AM

A Dutch arms dealer, whose daughter got into a relationship with 'Ndrangheta boss and later pentito Emilio Di Giovine , delivered those thirty bazookas.

Di Giovine: "With heroin I had taken all of Milan"
19 July 2019 - 06:00
The boss of Piazza Prealpi then repented tells of the bad eighties and the mother who ruled the neighborhood

Luca Fazzo

He was, even behind the bars of a courtroom, brilliant, witty, in his own way likeable. Now he is an old man who is moved when he thinks of his four and a half year old son, "I don't know if I'll have time to give him a future." In between, thirteen years in which Emilio Di Giovine had time to repent, to leave his cell, to rebuild a life. And now to tell the TV cameras of Cose Nostre the story of how he came to reign over the city: Â«I took Milan with heroinÂ».

Last night the long interview with Di Giovine was broadcast on Rai 3. For the first time, not the ever-identical chronology of the crimes of the Eighties is being told live, but the raw mentality behind it. And it is impressive because it is not a semi-illiterate killer who tells them but a viveur, one who during the trials told a reporter why the mafia disgusted him: "The mafia have a crazy life, full of rules: and don't do this, and do that. I am a crazy head, an adventurer Â».

Its base was piazza Prealpi. His mother was Maria Serraino, the only real female boss that Milan has known. â€œMy mother wasn't tender, she was the boss of everything. She was semi-illiterate but she did the math better than me, she was an absolute cunning, no one could do it up. She decided quickly: a problem was born and tac! She solved it. It was awful, it had some kind of animal instinct. And I'm talking about the years in which bags of heroin money came to the house all the time, we had full refrigerators, we didn't know where to put them anymore. "

To the masses of deaths that the heroin market sowed in those years in Milan, the old boss does not even dedicate a simulacrum of respect. At least it's sincere. And he is sincere when he dedicates resentful words to his sister Rita, who was the first in the family to repent: â€œThey took her with a thousand pills of ecstasy she stole from my brother. She repented and had my mother given a life sentence and had three generations arrested for a thousand pills that she was out in three days. She is humanly not justifiable, she never made her mother put an end to her sentence. I would go to jail at the cost of not going out anymore Â».

Maria, the old boss, died a few years ago: and on the walls near Piazza Prealpi there are still the murals that pay homage to her; on the other hand, at the funeral, as the very Milanese salami maker in the square tells us, "we all went there". "Because my mother - says Emilio - kept the neighborhood in order, did not allow extortion to be done".

Not only. Â«From life - says Di Giovine - I had everything I wanted as a child, when I grew up in Calabria learning to shoot, and competing with my peers to see who ate raw chillies without crying. I wanted money, cars, women. And I had them Â».

Women, especially. Beautiful to die for. And you get in trouble because of him. "All the women who have been with me have had a bitter fate: the maximum of good and the maximum of evil." The worst of all was "Lele" who was pregnant with him at the age of 17: "We were at the restaurant with Vittorio Bosisio and his wife: they went in to kill Vittorio. I was not armed, I could not answer. I threw myself under the table with Lele. When the shooting stopped, I had her foot in my hands. She was dead. '

To his credit, Di Giovine has one of the most spectacular escapes that he remembers, the one from the basement of the Fatebenefratelli where he had been taken for a visit and where his boys burst in, dressed as doctors and nurses, with sticks and stunners. He had arrived there by bribing a guard: Â«Corruption ... I would say exchange of favors. I always followed this line because money allowed me to. I had a power out of the ordinary. I was at my best, I had men waiting outside, money, a beautiful woman, what was I doing in prison? I said to my lawyer: you have a budget of two billion to get me out of jail, I don't even want to know how you spend it, the important thing is that I get out Â».

Meanwhile, in Calabria war broke out between the clans, an interminable massacre between families. And from Milan, Emilio gives his relatives the weapons that will close the game, thirty bazookas arrived directly from Switzerland, capable of piercing armored cars like tin can. The favor is returned to him. "My uncle told me what you need up in Milan, how many men do you need ?. They sent up the boys, potential hit men. With them I conquered Milan. I've never killed anyone, but I've had them killed. When I tell you you have to do this and you don't, the third time I get bad and you have to die. I was uncontrollable, I didn't listen to anyone, â€says Di Giovine.

"He acted even before he had thought, and this was what made him dangerous," recalls Maurizio Romanelli, the prosecutor who had him arrested. "Now I have a diploma as a cook and I pay my bills regularly," he says: all that is needed is "and I'll go to bed early." To repent, he explains, "I had to kill myself that I was before, otherwise I would have been too proud to do so." The episode should perhaps be shown in schools, especially in the finale. "I threw my life away."

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/23/21 10:51 AM

Among the assets seized: 36 lots of farmland used as vineyards for the production of wine that was to be sold in Canada.

Confisca di beni per 30 milioni alla famiglia Crupi legata alla cosca dei Commisso https://www.latinatoday.it/cronaca/latina-confisca-beni.crupi-22-luglio-2021

Posted By: antimafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/21 04:20 AM

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/21 12:28 PM

Do you guys think the recent prosecutions will severely cripple the Ndrangheta?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/27/21 10:06 PM

Do you guys think the recent prosecutions will severely cripple the Ndrangheta?

Prosecutions of mobsters alone is not enough.

Sensitive to luxury and lifestyle, but above all with a flawed moral and practical compass are major problems. The lack of compassion and the inability to estimate the impact of one's own actions are fixed characteristics.

They will have to go the long way to create work and perspective for these groups. It concerns tens of thousands of young people, who form an inexhaustible arsenal.

If nothing else follows the trials ndrangheta clans will just adapt and move to different ways. As with cosa nostra, for long down the radar, now very much back in business

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/29/21 09:30 PM

After about 28 years of imprisonment , last week the boss Antonino Imerti, 72 years old brother-in-law of the boss Domenico Condello known as "u pacciu", was released. Imerti, known as the 'ferocious dwarf ', was the splinter leader in the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio that started the armed clash against the former allies De Stefano-Tegano-Libri. A rebellion born from a failed attack against him carried out with a car bomb in Villa San Giovanni, which the boss attributed to Paolo De Stefano as principal.

Imerti's reaction against the former ally at the time - on 10 October 1985 - was extremely violent. Paolo De Stefano, a fugitive, was murdered along with a bodyguard, while he was passing aboard a motorbike in via Mercatello, in the heart of the Reggio district of Archi. From that moment the violent "war of 'Ndrangheta" broke out, in Reggio Calabria and in the province, which in five years caused almost a thousand murders. Antonino Imerti was placed under probation.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/29/21 11:30 PM

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/29/21 11:46 PM

His own lawyer was a police informant and shot dead after being exposed, this is some movie script-level story lol.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/30/21 10:00 PM

'Ndrangheta, 15 convictions in the Gotha trial of the' cupola': 25 years to former parliamentarian Paolo Romeo. Former senator of Fi Caridi acquitted

The Court of Reggio Calabria , chaired by Judge Silvia Capone, sentenced Paolo Romeo , the lawyer and former PSDI parliamentarian, considered one of the two " thinking heads" of the 'Ndrangheta, to 25 years in prison. The freemason Romeo is considered one of the most poweful guys in Reggio.

The priest of San Luca Don Pino Strangio (9 years and 4 months in prison) and the lawyer Antonio Marra (and 17 years of imprisonment), considered Paolo Romeo's trusted man, were also sentenced.

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Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 07/31/21 11:18 PM

Paolo Romeo !

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/04/21 10:15 PM

"Ndrangheta manipulated contracts about mouth masks"
Italian police say nine people were arrested on Monday suspected of tampering with contracts with public health organizations. The suspects belong to a clan of the southern Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia.

Financial police in Reggio Calabria say the suspects also stole or misappropriated masks and other protective equipment from doctors and nurses during the pandemic. The provincial health authority is headed by special anti-mafia commissioners. Yet that governing body has once again been infiltrated by the mafia.

Lucrative contracts are said to have been awarded to companies associated with the mafia. False invoices are also alleged to have been submitted and there are allegations of extortion and other frauds.

Under average
One of the suspects is the health authority's finance director and another is a regional councilor whose election campaign was allegedly funded by some of the suspects, police said. A value of 12 million euros has been seized.

In the past decade, the health authority has been disbanded twice over ties to the 'Ndrangheta.

Calabria is the region where the 'Ndrangheta takes root. For years, the local health care system has struggled with infiltration by the crime syndicate. At the same time, the health system is underperforming. Hospitals operate without sufficient staff, equipment and other basic facilities.

Posted By: GangstersInc

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/05/21 03:32 PM

Domenico Paviglianiti, the fugitive â€˜Ndrangheta Mafia boss who keeps getting arrested in Spain https://gangstersinc.ning.com/blog/domenico-paviglianiti-the-fugitive-ndrangheta-mafia-boss-who-keep via @Gangsters Inc

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/07/21 11:30 AM

In 1991 he was involved in the murder of Roberto Cutolo , son of Raffaele Cutolo after his death was decreed in a meeting in Milan between Franco Coco Trovato , Antonio Papalia and elements of the Cosa Nostra , Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita as told by the pentito Nino Fiume.

The Paviglianites are a 'ndrina of Reggio Calabria , Bagaladi and Condofuri.During the Second 'Ndrangheta War they were alongside the De Stefano.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/13/21 01:43 AM

Part II

In his younger years, the Italian drug trafficker Giuseppe Romeo, known as â€œMaluferru,â€ was fascinated with Mexican narcos.

In particular, police sources familiar with the trafficker say, he admired Los Zetas, the hyper-violent cartel known for beheadings, bombings, and brazen attacks on Mexican government troops.

But in real life, Maluferru and his brothers â€" all of whom worked with southern Italyâ€™s â€™Ndrangheta syndicate, the clan-based crime group which has grown to become the countryâ€™s most powerful in recent decades â€" showed no fear of Mexican narcos.

In one incident breathlessly recalled by underworld figures in 2016, his gang had a shootout with a Mexican gang on the streets of an unnamed European city, scaring them off.

https://www.occrp.org/en/ndrangheta...ghetas-intercontinental-cocaine-pipeline

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/20/21 10:59 PM

Why Italian mafias are setting up home in Spain
Experts say the countryâ€™s strategic position, cultural similarities with Italy and more lenient prison system are among the reasons why criminal groups are laying down roots

https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-08-19/why-italian-mafias-are-setting-up-home-in-spain.html

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/25/21 01:50 PM

Italian Mafia groups, particularly 'Ndrangheta, the country's strongest and most powerful criminal syndicate, are growing more and more attuned to modern tools like cryptocurrency and the deep web, the Italian Anti-Mafia Directorate (DIA) said in their latest report covering the first half of 2020.

Posted By: NYMafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/25/21 03:03 PM

If thats true then thats how Italian organized crime will continue to thrive and grow.

Generally speaking they were never 'computer savvy' but I guess as with everything else in life, if they adapt they'll survive.

Speaking of crypto currency ????, if you take the research further, the Difi money system will be a loan shark/bookies dream.

No banks, no taxes, peer to peer lending that can be done via a phone, how can't someone get you your money ???? lol

Bitcoin was the beta for the peer to peer, Bitcoin Cash seems to be it now, plus all the countries down south of the border, are looking to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

It's the trend of money, gangster are always positioned for those trends and moves, no different than the fashion in Italia.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/21 09:23 AM

The Italian Mafia is an entirely different animal from La Cosa Nostra in America, they have lawyers, doctors, and businessmen among its members.

Posted By: NYMafia

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/21 09:31 AM

The Italian Mafia is an entirely different animal from La Cosa Nostra in America, they have lawyers, doctors, and businessmen among its members.

So did (and does) Cosa Nostra in Sicily. And I'd imagine Camorra also to a much lesser degree.

And the American crews had guys in those positions as well years back. Don't kid yourself

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/21 07:58 PM

So did (and does) Cosa Nostra in Sicily. And I'd imagine Camorra also to a much lesser degree.

And the American crews had guys in those positions as well years back. Don't kid yourself

I think he meant on Sicilian mafia , not the American mafia. And yes Sicilian mafia have doctors,lawyer and so on. Some of them are bosses too.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/21 10:20 PM

Bitcoins has become standard currency in drug trafficking like pgp and the deep web in particular synthetic drugs. But it's also a world of intelligence agencies.

Posted By: Kese123

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/26/21 11:01 PM

Bitcoins has become standard currency in drug trafficking like pgp and the deep web in particular synthetic drugs. But it's also a world of intelligence agencies.

criminals are moving away from bitcoin because its now traceable. The smart criminals have moved onto monero

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/27/21 09:54 PM

In Germany over 770 mobsters
The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta counts on over 505 affiliates, the mafia on 109 members, while the Camorra on 101
by @Ansa - @Ats
The three main Italian mafia organizations in Germany count on 770 alleged affiliates. This is what the German government has announced in response to a question from the Greens, which the Faz newspaper has read.

The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta counts on over 505 affiliates, the mafia on 109 members, while the Camorra on 101, and 16 are members of the Apulian organized crime.

The 'Ndrangheta is considered by German security officials to be the most dangerous organization and is mainly represented in North Rhine Westphalia, Bavaria and Hesse. In 2016, the investigating authorities had a total of 550 affiliates, over 200 fewer.

This does not mean, according to the Berlin government, that the influence of organized crime has necessarily grown, but rather that the knowledge and mapping of Italian criminal groups in the host country has increased. "The increasing numbers are probably not yet the point of arrival, and we must do everything possible to shed more light on a field that is still obscure," says Irene Mihalic, spokesperson for the internal politics of the parliamentary group of the Greens in the Bundestag.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/28/21 01:24 AM

The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta counts on over 505 affiliates, the mafia on 109 members, while the Camorra on 101, and 16 are members of the Apulian organized crime.

But what do they mean when they say "affiliates"? In Italy I believe this word usually implies the official members, like the baptized members of Ndrangheta and made men of Cosa Nostra, I`m not so sure in Camorra they have a status that can even be compared to the former two since they do not have an initiation ceremony. This kind of number really confuses me, like do they count only those who are made or do they count everyone who`s connected to/working for the clans? How do they even approach the "membership" of Camorra?

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/28/21 01:15 PM

i think german police means people connected it doesn't care if made members or associates

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/28/21 02:32 PM

i think german police means people connected it doesn't care if made members or associates

They really don't know who are made or not, but they do know about the important people and even the capo's. However some members are still under the radar.

Posted By: SimonChen

Re: Ndrangheta News - 08/28/21 07:53 PM

https://www.dw.com/en/italian-mafia-sees-german-justice-system-as-a-joke/a-55285412
"Five are suspected members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta syndicate and all 14 reside in Germany's most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Their passports reveal NRW's 'Ndrangheta as an international employer: Italian, German, Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan, Portuguese. Translators from Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey are on hand in court."

The case mentioned in this article is quite interesting, it seems Ndrangheta in Germany has associates of a lot of different nationalities, it shows you that although they only baptize family members these people have no problem at all working with non-Italians, unlike some articles suggested. This makes a lot of sense since the Ndrangheta has been really great at networking and I can`t imagine it happening if they are really a bunch of close-minded criminals who "only trust other Calabrians".

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/11/21 12:44 PM

Calabria The Bulgarian boss' king of cocaine 'in business with the' ndrangheta has been arrested
Evelin Banev brought into Italy from South America, mainly by sea, an average of 40 tons of drugs per year

Published 5 hours ago the 11 September 2021Written by SM

The cocaine boss, the Bulgarian Evelin Banev known as 'Brendo ', former head of a Bulgarian-Italian criminal gang active in international drug trafficking, was arrested in Ukraine . The man, 56, was arrested in Kiev. His gang had been vanquished in late May 2012 in Bulgaria, as part of an operation called 'The kings of cocaine', carried out by the Bulgarian and Italian special services with the assistance of Interpol

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/11/21 12:54 PM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/11/21 04:01 PM

Mario Scarriglia, 45, owner of a funeral home, was shot dead in an ambush in the center of Crotone

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/13/21 10:49 AM

Innocent victim or affiliate?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/13/21 07:51 PM

From Calabria to Lausanne, how the 'ndrangheta deploys its tentacles

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The property of Mafia boss Rocco Santo Filippone in Calabria. tvsvizzera

No Swiss canton is spared by the Italian mafias. This is the case for Vaud and its capital, Lausanne, where close relatives of a boss of the 'ndrangheta live. Report in Calabria, on the land of the most powerful mafia in Italy and Europe.

This content was published on September 13, 2021 - 11:10September 13, 2021 - 11:10 AM
Madeleine Rossi

We are in a village of barely 5,000 inhabitants, somewhere in the province of Reggio Calabria. It is there that take us, from Catanzaro, an investigator and a rifle officer who knows this micro-region perfectly. The officer, who prefers to remain anonymous, immediately announces the color: "Ah, you are Swiss? from Lausanne? There are beautiful people in your home… and they come from here ".

Because this village and the two neighboring localities are the domain of an important boss of the 'ndrangheta, Rocco Santo Filippone. The man was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2020 by the Assize Court of Reggio Calabria for his participation in numerous attacks committed in the mid-1990s by Cosa Nostra and the so-called "stragista" 'ndrangheta (terrorist ), which caused many victims throughout Italy, including several riflemen.

In Switzerland, there are too few specialists able to understand and fight against Italian organized crime and the federalist system can complicate the completion of certain investigations. But the basic problem is the almost zero perception of the phenomenon, the result of a vicious circle: political disinterest, hence media disinterest, in favor of more visible and more promising forms of crime, and public ignorance.

Fine knowledge of the territory
However, if we want to fight the mafia, or at least hinder it, observation and knowledge of the territory, without forgetting intelligence at the local level, remain basic tools. Italy can, for example, count on a network of rifle posts even in the smallest villages, and thus ensures the presence of a local police force in contact with the inhabitants. Their mission consists essentially of traveling the territory, seeing and knowing, like the country priests who know nothing about the life and customs of their flock.

monumento a rifle
Monument in honor of Carmine Tripodi, rifleman killed in 1985 in San Luca by the 'ndrangheta. tvsvizzera
These "field" riflemen are the eyes and ears of their fellow investigators, sometimes based at the other end of the Peninsula, to whom it is enough to make a phone call to obtain information on a suspected individual, at random, of 'be linked to the Mafia.

Our discreet field investigation continues through discussions, always quiet, with the many retirees returning to the country after years spent in Switzerland, some in Lausanne and in the canton of Vaud, others in Basel, and who know how to pretty much everything. These meetings at the corner of a street or in front of a cafe come to shatter the myth of the so-called omertà: in Calabria, if we know how to do it, people talk. Sometimes between the lines, but most often "in the clear", even if it means doing it in a low voice and with a detached air.

Lausanne, the Mecca of the Calabrian mafia?
In all, it is about fifty names which come out, those of presumed mafia installed in the region of Basel or Davos, and up to a restaurant at the gates of Geneva. But the most interesting are those of two very close relatives of the boss Rocco Santo Filippone, settled for a long time in Lausanne. And that of another man, FM, suspected by the Italian authorities of being the head of the "locale" (the base cell of the 'ndrangheta) in Basel, linked to the "locale" in Singen, Germany. However, FM was seen in Calabria in June of this year, at one of Filippone's sons, and another Calabrian judicial source tells us that this same FM organized a "mangiata" in Basel, "the fall or l 'last winter'. A "mangiata", in other words a hangout?

More than a convivial moment around a table, it is a gathering of mafia, a rite that is part of the life of the honorable society, serves to define the relations between each other, to integrate the new , and above all makes it possible to show who is in charge and to ensure the loyalty of affiliates.

As for Lausanne, it was discussed spontaneously, and on many occasions during this morning in the Calabrian countryside, with a recurring sentence: "Everyone is trafficking between Basel and Lausanne". Without further details, which obviously remain difficult to obtain. In any case, without being a real bastion of the 'ndrangheta in Switzerland as Frauenfeld was and as Ticino still is, Lausanne seems to be an important junction point between the "locale" of Basel and Davos, this municipality. being considered in Italy as a hotbed of money laundering and drug trafficking.

An (almost) always discreet presence
Family is the essence of 'ndrangheta, and blood ties not only condition membership in this mafia, but also clan relationships, actions and obligations on both sides of the border. Kinship is therefore one of those "weak signals" that must be detected and which must be taken into account, because it involves various possible forms of complicity: from money laundering to arms and narcotics trafficking. through logistical support to the "latitanti", these mafia convicted in Italy and refugees in Switzerland.

Several of these fugitives have also been caught in the cantons of Valais and Bern over the past five years, curiously all beneficiaries of a B permit that they should never have obtained. Another recent example, that of the sister of Rocco Anello, the boss targeted by the Italian-Swiss operation "Imponimento" of July 2020, which led to several arrests and criminal proceedings in Switzerland. Devoted to her family, the lady was responsible for laundering a good part of the clan's money in Switzerland.

To end this tour of the territory, the rifleman officer offers us a detour in the open countryside to show us "one last thing": the property of Rocco Filippone, pretentious residence as befits any mafia leader, surrounded by a high barrier wrought iron. When we say goodbye, a long handshake, thanks and these words from our two guides: "What you do is important, you have to talk about the 'ndrangheta at home, you have to talk about it in books, in the media, so keep writing… ".

Discreet allusion to the fact that contrary to the popular belief that the presence of the Mafia is accompanied by violent acts, the fact is that outside Calabria the 'ndrangheta has every interest in not attracting attention if it wants to feel safe and infiltrate the social and economic fabric. This does not exclude bloody events such as the Duisburg massacre (Germany) in 2007, and its six deaths.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/de-la-calabre-%C3%A0-lausanne--comment-la--ndrangheta-d%C3%A9ploie-ses-tentacules-/46937762

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/14/21 08:24 AM

'Ndrangheta: international cocaine trafficking, 57 arrests
Seizure of assets for 3.7 million euros, gang members involved

From the first light of dawn, an operation conducted by the military of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro and of the central organized crime investigation service of the Guardia di Finanza of Rome is underway, coordinated and directed by the Dda of Reggio Calabria for the execution , in various regions of Italy, of 57 precautionary measures against members of a criminal organization dedicated to the importation of cocaine from Northern Europe and Spain. Seizures of assets for over € 3.7 million are underway.

Among those arrested are members of clans of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggino.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/14/21 05:39 PM

'Ndrangheta: international cocaine trafficking, 57 arrests
Seizure of assets for 3.7 million euros, gang members involved

Among those arrested are members of clans of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggino.

Ecco, infine, i nomi dei 57 arrestati all'alba di oggi
In carcere

Humberto Alexander Alcantara (1976);

Giuseppe Battaglia (1972);

Gianfranco Benzi (1945);

Giuseppe Cacciola (1989);

Francesco Cambria (1984);

Francesco Cavarra (1960);

Domenico Certo (1987);

Nicola Certo (1987);

Orazio Coco (1978);

Rocco Antonio Fedele (1972);

Salvatore Fedele (1974);

Antonio Gullace (1981);

Carmelo Liistro (1980);

Alessandro Marigliano (1981);

Alessio Martello (1990);

Andrea Mazzei (1984);

Matteo Mero (1984);

Walter Modeo (1975);

Marco Paladino (1985);

Antonio Paletta (1984);

Gennaro Paletta (1990);

Giampiero Pati (1980);

William Pati (1980);

Antonio Marco Penza (1983);

Santo Pitarà (1971);

Giulio Pizzo (1990);

Maurizio Pizzo (1964);

Roberto Porcaro (1984);

Bruno Pronestì (1979);

Alessandro Raso (1972);

Vincenzo Raso (1981);

Alessandro Scalise (1992);

Antonio Stelitano (1982);

Lorenzo Stelitano (1986);

Francesco Suriano (1979);

Domenico Tedesco (1959);

Giuseppe Trombetta (1993);

Francesco Varone (1987);

Gianfranco Viola (1971);

Fabio Vitale (1974);

Franco Vitale (1977);

Giuseppe Vitale (1969);

Rosario Zagame (1972).

Ai domiciliari:

Rocco Cacciola (1995);

Michele Chindamo (1991);

Paolo Cirelli (1946);

Pasquale Giovinazzo (1964);

Massimiliano Guerra (1969);

Giorgio La Pietra (1978);

Massimiliano Mazzanti (1972);

Ivan Meo (1988);

Stefano Montagono (1988);

Marialuisa Nasso (1985);

Giuseppe Pescetto (1973);

Simone Pronestì (1992);

Alessandro Talarico (1965);

Alessandro Villani (1978).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/14/21 06:37 PM

Innocent victim or affiliate?

Scarriglia is a surname known in Fondo Gesù, a Crotone district often at the center of criminal plots. But the victim, unlike some of his relatives, was always far from certain collateral environments to the local clans. The 45-year-old, with the exception of a previous gambling conviction, had never had problems with justice.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/21 09:32 AM

He had been a fugitive for 3 years, Giuseppe Nacci was arrested linked to the 'Ndrangheta of the North
September 15, 2021
A lover of the good life, of flashy companies and luxury cars, Nacci, despite not having social media, left behind a trail of worldliness that in the end betrayed him

Giuseppe Nacci , 39 years old internationally wanted for a 11-year sentence for fraudulent bankruptcy, attempted extortion and criminal association, was arrested in Milan after 3 years of inaction . According to what was communicated by the carabinieri, the man was in business with the Flachi family, leading exponents of the 'Ndrangheta in the North.

Nacci was taken by the capturing team of the carabinieri of the provincial command of Milan, who have followed his traces left around the world in recent years. A lover of the good life, of flashy companies and luxury cars, Nacci, despite not having social media, left behind a trail of worldliness that in the end betrayed him. He is accused of having devised a refined system to cause the bankruptcy of his companies active in the disposal of ferrous waste, a field that put him in contact with the Flachi.

In 2018 he was stopped by the authorities in Monte Carlo, where he was riding in his own Lamborghini. Despite the heavy accusations he was released for a technical quibble linked to extradition and once outside the police offices he had lost track again. Until last Monday, when the military arrested him in Corso Sempione, where his company is based.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/21 01:09 PM

'Ndrangheta: international cocaine trafficking, 57 arrests
Seizure of assets for 3.7 million euros, gang members involved

Among those arrested are members of clans of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggino.

Ecco, infine, i nomi dei 57 arrestati all'alba di oggi
In carcere

Humberto Alexander Alcantara (1976);

Giuseppe Battaglia (1972);

Gianfranco Benzi (1945);

Giuseppe Cacciola (1989);

Francesco Cambria (1984);

Francesco Cavarra (1960);

Domenico Certo (1987);

Nicola Certo (1987);

Orazio Coco (1978);

Rocco Antonio Fedele (1972);

Salvatore Fedele (1974);

Antonio Gullace (1981);

Carmelo Liistro (1980);

Alessandro Marigliano (1981);

Alessio Martello (1990);

Andrea Mazzei (1984);

Matteo Mero (1984);

Walter Modeo (1975);

Marco Paladino (1985);

Antonio Paletta (1984);

Gennaro Paletta (1990);

Giampiero Pati (1980);

William Pati (1980);

Antonio Marco Penza (1983);

Santo Pitarà (1971);

Giulio Pizzo (1990);

Maurizio Pizzo (1964);

Roberto Porcaro (1984);

Bruno Pronestì (1979);

Alessandro Raso (1972);

Vincenzo Raso (1981);

Alessandro Scalise (1992);

Antonio Stelitano (1982);

Lorenzo Stelitano (1986);

Francesco Suriano (1979);

Domenico Tedesco (1959);

Giuseppe Trombetta (1993);

Francesco Varone (1987);

Gianfranco Viola (1971);

Fabio Vitale (1974);

Franco Vitale (1977);

Giuseppe Vitale (1969);

Rosario Zagame (1972).

Ai domiciliari:

Rocco Cacciola (1995);

Michele Chindamo (1991);

Paolo Cirelli (1946);

Pasquale Giovinazzo (1964);

Massimiliano Guerra (1969);

Giorgio La Pietra (1978);

Massimiliano Mazzanti (1972);

Ivan Meo (1988);

Stefano Montagono (1988);

Marialuisa Nasso (1985);

Giuseppe Pescetto (1973);

Simone Pronestì (1992);

Alessandro Talarico (1965);

Alessandro Villani (1978).

Alcantara is a dominican middleman between ndrangheta and colombian cartels

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/16/21 10:09 PM

Alcantara is a dominican middleman between ndrangheta and colombian cartels

The Dominican Republic is a big hub for cocaine trafficking.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/18/21 09:11 AM

Milan, boss of the 'Ndrangheta at gay marriage: "I'm curious to see what they do"

September 17, 2021
He participated in a gay wedding in Milan in 2018, violating the rules of the special surveillance he was subjected to. The protagonist of the curious story is Filippo Barreca , one of the most important and dangerous bosses of the 'Ndrangheta. Invited by a professor at Bocconi University, this engineer Gianni, as Reggino reports , the boss was so intrigued that in the end he decided to participate in the event.

The news was revealed by Klaus Davi , who is preparing - for the Fatti e Misfatti programby Mediaset - an investigation into organized crime and, in particular, the presence of the Barreca clans in Milan. The journalist also published Barreca's own statements. In 2018 the boss, called "Peppi", subsequently arrested for extortion and mafia association crimes, was in Milan for some medical treatment and was invited to a homosexual wedding, as he himself revealed on February 3 to his daughter Luana, in a phone call intercepted and put on record by the investigators: "What are you doing, are you giving yourself mad joy?" asks the daughter. To which he replies: "Listen, then, in the afternoon I'm invited to a gay wedding (laughing, ed)". "But ... What are you saying?", Luana replies. " I'm curious to see what they do, " Barreca comments.

After attending the wedding, in a phone call on February 4, 2018 with his brother Santo, intercepted by investigators, he says: "Listen, Santo! Yesterday they didn't let us take pictures, otherwise I would have sent you those homosexuals" . And then: "We ate the cake, champagne, things ... We also gave him our best wishes to the newlyweds! ". Barreca then also told about many homosexuals "dressed as women" and described in great detail a guest who had him " impressed ".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/19/21 08:20 PM

The 'Ndrangheta wanted to kill Gratteri's son: "The clans feared he would become Minister of Justice"
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 - 08:52
by Editorial staff

The facts date back to 2013: then the appointment of Gratteri as Minister of Justice vanished. But in 2016 there was a second attempt: some individuals sneaked into the building where the prosecutor's son lived in Messina

The 'Ndrangheta della Locride wanted to kill one of the sons of the procurator of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri . They had decided that in prison. They had to make it look like a car accident. It was 2013. This is now reported by a new justice collaborator, Antonio Cataldo, 57, a member of the homonymous clan from Locri, as reported by Corriere della Sera . Cataldo is giving interesting details to the prosecutors, filling pages with minutes. On Wednesday, among other things, he could be heard by the magistrates in the hearing of the maxi-trial "Ransom - One Thousand and One Nights". In January 2016, another repentant, Maurizio Maviglia, had also spoken of an attempt to kill one of Gratteri's sons or to kidnap him.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/19/21 08:24 PM

'Ndrangheta, more than 20 cells in Switzerland
This is confirmed by Nicola Gratteri, according to the magistrate, Switzerland would also need more means to carry out investigations against the mafia
Last modified: September 19, 2021 9:05 pm

"Switzerland needs a more penetrating system to fight the mafia. It must equip itself with more effective means to conduct investigations ". Thus the Italian anti-mafia magistrate Nicola Gratteri - guest of the Endorfine Festival in Lugano - spoke to our microphones.

The fight against the 'Ndrangheta is increasingly difficult, as it is no longer alone in the private sector. The alarm was raised by Nicoletta della Valle, director of the federal police, according to which the 'Ndrangheta has infiltrated the Swiss public administration, as confirmed by Gratteri himself: "Yes, and more generally it must be said that the mafias vote and do vote. They are never in opposition and always try to position themselves anywhere with the winning horse; also in the administration, as happens in other states, for example in Germany, or in Canada. "

"More than 20 clubs in Switzerland"

The federal police had also stated that in our country there are twenty local 'Ndrangheta (ie an organized structure of gangs, which has at least 49 affiliates). However, Gratteri goes beyond this figure: "Twenty is said because we are talking about those already ascertained on the judicial level, but if twenty locales are ascertained on the judicial level, one can easily multiply the number of substantive, factual and historical points of view".

An upward figure, therefore, according to Gratteri. And even if the collaboration with Switzerland, according to the magistrate, has improved compared to the past, something more can be done: "We should have the courage to create a more meaningful system corresponding to reality. Above all, we must stop reciting the story that here the mafia does not kill people, does not burn shutters and cars. These are speeches from 30 years ago ". Finally, on new possible inquiries concerning Switzerland, he does not say too much: "I am not talking about the future, it would be a crime".

Mattia Pacella
Published on: September 19, 2021, 8:54 pm Last modified on: September 19, 2021, 9:05 pm

https://www.rsi.ch/news/ticino-e-grigioni-e-insubria/%E2%80%98Ndrangheta-pi%C3%B9-di-20-cellule-in-Svizzera-14732277.html

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/v...-court-documents-drugs-ndrangheta.901631
Cocaine hidden in cars: Italian court papers expose Italy-Malta drug ring
Drug runners linked to 'Ndrangheta allegedly used Sicily ferry to bring drugs in

Still from Operation Crypto

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 09/23/21 10:47 PM

Francesco Pelle returned to Italy and ordered the Christmas massacre
BREAKING NEWS Deborah World about 3 hours ago REPORT
Francesco Pelle returned to Italy and ordered the Christmas massacreFrancesco Pelle returned to Italy and ordered the Christmas massacre
AGI – Francesco Pelle, 44, returned from Portugal with a plane that took him to the Rome airport of Ciampino until a few months ago. fugitive from the 'Ndranghetto. According to Italian justice, he is the instigator of the Christmas massacre in which Maria Strangio, wife of the boss Giovanni Luca Nirta, the real target of the homicidal commando, died. The attack, 8 months later, had an even more tragic sequel with the massacre of Duisburg, Germany, in which 6 people believed to be close to the Pelle-Vottari clan died. It was the response of the enemy clan to the ambush of December 25, 2006, one of the bloody chapters of the feud in San Luca (Reggio Calabria) between the Vottari-Pelle-Romeo and Strangio-Nirta clans. A war that began on 10 February 1991 following a Carnival joke, when a group of young people linked to the Strangio-Nirta clan threw eggs towards a recreational club run by one of the Pelle, called "Gambazza", also dirtying the car. of a Vottari. A disgrace, according to the rules of the 'ndrine, to be washed with blood. And blood has been shed since that day. Leather was brought back to Italy by the men of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) of the central direction of the Criminal Police, led by the Prefect Vittorio Rizzi

The arrest in Lisbon
The boss of San Luca (RC) was arrested in Lisbon on March 29 last, on the basis of a European arrest warrant, executed by the National Antiterrorism Unit of the Portuguese Judiciary Police, as part of an operation made possible by the cooperation provided by the Operational Department of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria and by the Carabinieri Group of Locri, under the aegis of the Dda of Reggio Calabria. The arrest and return to Italy of the fugitive, the investigators commented, represents an important result of the I-Can (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta) project against the' Ndrangheta, promoted by Italy together with Interpol, which involves State Police, Arma of the Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza and the police forces of 11 other countries in the world: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA.

Pelle, known as "Ciccio Pakistan", was included in the list of the 30 most dangerous wanted men in Italy. Traces of him had been lost on July 19, 2019, shortly before the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, definitively condemning him to life imprisonment as the instigator of the "Christmas massacre". The Carabinieri found him in a Lisbon clinic where he was hospitalized because he was positive for Covid.

The Christmas massacre was the response to the attempted murder of Francesco Pelle, which took place on 31 July 2006 when Ciccio Pakistan was wounded in the back and definitively lost the use of his legs. The wheelchair in which he is forced to live has not prevented him from becoming a boss, organizing the retaliation against the Nirta-Strangio clan and, above all, from running away twice.

The first was interrupted in 2008 by a blitz of the Ros of Reggio Calabria. While everyone was chasing him, "Ciccio Pakistan" was hospitalized under a false name in Pavia, in the neuro-rehabilitation department of the Maugeri Foundation Clinic. Pelle was treated at the expense of the NHS and from his room in the hospital he communicated via Skype with the men of the clan left free after the Fehida operation, coordinated by Nicola Gratteri, now chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, then serving in Reggio Calabria.

Escape ended in Portugal
In September 2017 Pelle had returned free due to the expiry of the terms of the trial phase of the gangs of San Luca. His conviction had been canceled and postponed by the Supreme Court. For two years he had been subjected to the obligation of residence in Milan pending the final sentence, but when the Supreme Court confirmed the life imprisonment, Ciccio Pakistan, he was no longer there. Again fugitive despite the serious handicap. This time the escape lasted less than two years and ended abroad, in Portugal, where, according to the Carabinieri, Pelle would have enjoyed a safety net that allowed him not only to leave the country undisturbed, but also to seek treatment in a clinic after discovering that you are positive for coronavirus.

The I-Can project, under the aegis of Interpol, has facilitated international cooperation between the police forces of different states, allowing today the capture abroad of 20 fugitives of 'Ndrangheta, among which, in addition to that of Pelle, the arrests of Giuseppe Romeo, Vincenzo Pasquino, Rocco Morabito, quest last second only to Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most dangerous fugitives included in the wanted list. Arrests which, according to investigators, confirm the ramification of Italian crime and its capacity for pervasion and international diffusion.

The Duisburg massacre was the spy of the expansion of the Calabrian mafia abroad, making known to the world the terrifying power of the 'ndrine. In the night between 14 and 15 August 2007, in the small town of western Germany, Tommaso Venturi, 18 years old, died; Francesco and Marco Pergola 22 and 20 years old; Francesco Giorgi, 17 years old; Marco Marmo, 25, and Sebastiano Strangio, 39. They were killed with machine gun shots in front of the restaurant-pizzeria 'Da Bruno' owned by the Strangio family, originally from San Luca. And the German giant also trembled.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/01/21 07:10 PM

Disney + announces the original Italian four-part docuseries 'Ndrangheta, World Wide Mafia. Produced by Disney, IBC Movie and Sunset Press and based on real events, written and directed by Jacques Charmelot and François Chayé, it tells the story of the criminal organization in the form of docuseries for the first time.

Four episodes that reconstruct the stages of the war carried out by the public prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri against one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. The docuseries will also tell the historical maxi-trial opened in January 2021 in Lamezia Terme, Calabria, led by Gratteri against more than 350 defendants: a trial whose fate will also have consequences on the international drug trafficking.

In recent years, Gratteri has received multiple death threats and has been living under guard for more than thirty years. Viewers will discover his personal history and the daily reality of his struggle, will follow his work as the "commander in chief" of an investigation involving secret services, police, military units and special forces.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/02/21 09:01 AM

FIGHT AGAINST THE MAFIA
'Ndrangheta, the boss Domenico Paviglianiti has returned to Italy: he was arrested in Spain in August

Considered a leading exponent of organized crime in Reggio, he landed today in Fiumicino. He was caught last summer after a fugitive that had been going on since 2019

by Editorial staff 1 October 2021 17:15

Domenico Paviglianiti , 60, considered a leading exponent of the Reggio 'Ndrangheta, returned to Italy today from Spain, where he was arrested in August . He was known as the "boss of bosses" and had been a fugitive since 2019. Paviglianiti has yet to serve 11 years, 18 months and 15 days , for crimes of mafia-type association, murder and association aimed at drug trafficking.

Upon arrival at Rome Fiumicino airport, he was escorted by the staff of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) of the Central Police Directorate. Paviglianiti was arrested in Madrid on 3 August by the Iberian police as part of an operation resulting from the cooperation between the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Bologna, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Bologna, Eurojust and the International Police Cooperation Service.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/02/21 10:30 AM

Brit gangs team up with Mafia and South American cartels to up UK cocaine supply
British gangsters have partnered with Italian mafia and South American cartels to help turn drug smuggling of Class A drugs into the UK into an entire industry

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/brit-gangs-team-up-mafia-25029200

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/04/21 07:11 PM

4 'Ndrangheta men arrested in informant brother murder
Allegedly killed Marcello Bruzzese in Marche on Xmas Day 2018

(ANSA) - REGGIO CALABRIA, OCT 4 - Italian police on Monday arrested four suspected members of he Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia on suspicion of murdering the brother of a former mafioso turned informant on Christmas Day 2018, judicial sources said.
The alleged clan members waited for Marcello Bruzzese, brother of informant Girolamo, outside his police-protected home in the historic centre of Pesaro in Marche and unloaded a caliber-9 pistol into him, police said.
The vendetta killing was carried out for the Crea clan of Rizziconi in the Gioia Tauro plan in Calabria, police said.
As well as suspected homicide, the four have been charged with illegal weapons possession and mafia association, judicial sources said.
The arrest warrants were issued by anti-mafia prosecutors in Ancona and Reggio Calabria.
Police from Ancona, Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Brescia, Naples, Turin, Pesaro, and Vibo Valentia took part in the operation.
(ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/08/21 10:05 AM

Fugitive 'Ndrangheta boss caught in bunker
Damiano Gallace, 60, living in secret flat with partner, 34

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 7 - A fugitive Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia boss was caught in a secret bunker in a flat carved out of a cement factory near Catanzaro on Thursday.
The bunker was built behind a false bedroom wall, police said.
It could only be opened by turning a secret handle in a cupboard, they said.
Damiano Gallace, 60, has been on the run for a year after being sentenced to 14 years in jail for mafia association.
The boss, believed to be the acting head of his Gallace clan, was discovered by police at Isca sullo Ionio.
Police in helicopters helped Carabinieri GIS police from Catanzaro find the hideout.
Also in the lfat at the time of his arrest were his 34-year-old partner and their four-year-old daughter.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia thanks to its control of the European cocaine trade.
Many 'Ndrangheta bosses hide out for years in secret underground bunkers. (ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/10/21 10:04 AM

New arrest for ndrangheta in Reggio. In the investigation a weapon found in Parma

In handcuffs, the 47-year-old Salvatore Procopio is accused of criminal association of a mafia type and illegal possession of firearms
09 OCTOBER 2021
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The Reggio Emilia State Police arrested the 47-year-old Salvatore Procopio, considered by the investigators to be a member of the Emilian 'Ndrangheta.

The man is accused of criminal association of a mafia type and illegal possession of firearms.

The precautionary custody measure in prison was carried out by the mobile team of the Reggio police headquarters, ordered by the investigating judge of the Bologna court, Alberto Ziroldi at the request of the chief prosecutor of the DDA, Giuseppe Amato and by the prosecutor Beatrice Ronchi as part of the Perseverance operation.

The investigation had already brought several leading exponents of the association in handcuffs including Giuseppe Sarcone Grande, Salvatore Muto (born in 1985, brother of Luigi and Antonio already sentenced on appeal even in the Aemilia maxi trial), Domenico Cordua, 44 years old, and Giuseppe Friyio, 43, cousin of Procopio, for mafia association and attempted extortion aggravated by the mafia method and facilitation.

On the occasion, an extortion activity for two million euros of illicit origin was documented and a weapon with abraded and illegally detained serial number was seized.

The weapon, a 7.35 caliber Beretta pistol, according to investigators sold to Cordua by Procopio, was found by the carabinieri in May 2020 during the search of the apartment that Cordua and Friyio shared in Parma.

Procopio is considered by the suspects, who in the course of the captures exalted his criminal status, and unanimously by the collaborators of justice, a "shareholder", that is a member of the 'Ndrangheta faction capable of carrying out criminal acts, even violent.

During the investigations, Procopio was found to intervene on multiple occasions, using his own authority as a 'Ndranghetista, to settle disputes between his associates or to resolve conflicts concerning his associates, as well as to favor the Muto family of Gualteri (already affected by the Aemilia operations and Grimilde)

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/11/21 11:40 PM

Wow they killed the important drug broker Salvaggio !

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A 60-year-old man was shot dead in Buccinasco, a town a few kilometers from Milan. The man was injured in the head, face and shoulder and was transported under cardio-circulatory arrest to the hospital in Rozzano. The shooting took place shortly after 10 in via della Costituzione, at the intersection with via Rodolfo Morandi.

This is Paolo Salvaggio, of Sicilian origin , considered a drug trafficking broker and involved in several anti-drug operations. The man, who died shortly after being transported to the Rozzano hospital, was under house arrest with an exit permit for two hours a day and was on his bike when he was hit by some bullets exploded by a scooter on which two people were traveling.

The Milan carabinieri investigate the matter and the Milan prosecutor on duty Carlo Scalas arrived in via della Costituzione in Buccinasco (Milan) for an inspection of the area

Salvaggio could go out for two hours a day and in those two hours, in the middle of the morning, he was killed not far from home, "I imagine as professionals - explains Mayor Rino Piuri - arrived by scooter, who shot him one last time when he was on the ground blow to the head ».

The mayor offered condolences to the ex-wife who was in tears and was talking to the carabinieri. Salvaggio had a history of drugs since 1992, and had relations with the 'Ndrangheta and apparently also with other Mafia families.

"Criminals and mafia families have been living here for decades. We have been saying this for decades. The proportion of premises seized from the mafias that we have here is higher than in Reggio Calabria, one for every thousand inhabitants, "he added. But until now the "business" of organized crime had remained under the radar: "The last person killed dates back to the end of the 1980s."

Salvaggio was, he explains, a sort of "bridge between the 'Ndrangheta and other mafia families" , hence the fear that, once the balance is blown, a sort of war for power will start

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/21 09:45 AM

From the first investigations it would seem that Paolo Salvaggio was linked to the Papalia clan or a family of 'Ndrangheta which has long been present in the territory of Buccinasco and Corsico. But there is more: the victim, nicknamed "Dum Dum", was among the suspects of the 2013 South Park anti-mafia operation. The investigations then revealed that he was doing business with Colombian narcos to get drugs. Once in possession of drugs, his contacts were mainly with the bosses of the clan of 'Ndrangheta Barbaro-Papalia di Platì and with the members of the Magrini clan of the Sacra Corona Unita .

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/21 10:14 AM

He was Sicilian, but he had no links to Cosa Nostra? I doubt it.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/12/21 05:35 PM

He was from Pietraperzia (Enna) , one of the most important and "reliable" drug traffickers in Milan. But he would have died anyway. Because he had a late stage lung cancer that had led him to house arrest.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/14/21 09:43 AM

'Ndrangheta: assets confiscated for 10 million euros
Between the province of Savona and Reggio Calabria

(ANSA) - GENOA, 14 OCT - The Anti-Mafia Investigation Department, at the disposal of the Court of Reggio Calabria, has carried out an order for the confiscation of assets against Carmelo Gullace, an entrepreneur originally from Cittanova (Reggio Calabria) and his spouse.
The confiscation affected the entire share capital and corporate assets of 4 companies, 14 buildings and 41 land located in the province of Savona and Reggio Calabria, current accounts, movable assets and financial positions for approximately 10 million euros.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/21 11:04 AM

Operation anti 'Ndrangheta, 28 affiliated to the gangs had citizenship income
The criminals had to declare the existence of impedimental convictions (also mafia-type association) or personal precautionary measures. 212 thousand euros seized

Reggio Calabria - They had requested and obtained citizenship income from the INPS , failing to declare the existence of impedimental convictions, even for mafia-type associations, or personal precautionary measures. For this reason, the Public Prosecutor of Vibo Valentia, Camillo Falvo , asked the GIP to issue a preventive seizure decree of sums for about 212,000 euros against 28 subjects, among which also prominent exponents and affiliates of the clans of 'Ndrangheta Vibonesi, already involved in the operations "Costa Pulita", "Ossessione", "Cerbero" and "Rebirth Scott".

The soldiers of the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Vibo Valentia, in collaboration with the INPS, have launched checks aimed at countering the conduct of undue request , receipt or use of subsidized social benefits, with specific reference to citizenship income. Citizenship income cannot be paid to families whose members are subjected to precautionary measures or convicted of serious crimes . The investigations by the judicial police, carried out in the last period by the Fiamme Gialle of the Tenenza di Tropea, had allowed several people to be reported to the prosecutor. Following the issuance of the provision, the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza, in these days, have implemented the decree safeguarding the money deposited in current accounts

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/15/21 11:19 AM

Bazooka and explosives to avenge the bosses: "The gang wanted attacks on targets under guard." Possible victims and budget: "150 thousand euros"
'Ndrangheta - The investigation by the Ancona and Reggio Calabria prosecutors on the ambush projects of the Crea clan has reconstructed stalking and inspections of two hit men, with cloned plates and false documents. The investigation started with the murder of a collaborator of justice in Pesaro which took place on Christmas day 2018. On the phone there were those who said: "I have to give my brother a gift for Christmas if I can"

"We find a solution for this job that gives us 150 thousand euros ". The amount would have been paid by the Crea clan . The work, on the other hand, would have consisted in an attack that the men of the Rizziconi boss were ready to carry out with weapons of war and explosives to blow up targets under guard . This is what emerges from the investigations by the Ancona and Reggio Calabria prosecutors who on 4 October carried out some arrests for mafia association and for the murder of Marcello Bruzzese , the brother of the collaborator of justice Girolamo Bruzzesekilled in Pesaro on Christmas day 2018 . One of the two killers, according to the investigators, was Michelangelo Tripodi who together with Francesco Candiloro exploded 20 gunshots against the victim while the latter parked his car outside the house in the center of the Marche city.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/16/21 09:54 AM

THE COMMEMORATION
Locri remembers Francesco Fortugno killed by the 'Ndrangheta sixteen years ago
For the National Anti-Mafia Directorate it was "one of the most serious political-mafia crimes in the history of Italy". His wife Maria Grazia Laganà: "October 16 is a symbolic and extremely significant date for this territory and for the whole of Calabria"

by Ilario Balì October 16, 2021 10:50

It was October 16, 2005 when the vice president of the Regional Council of Calabria Francesco Fortugno was assassinated by the 'Ndrangheta in the entrance hall of Palazzo Nieddu in Locri , seat of the Union primaries . 16 years after that excellent crime that stirred the conscience of everyone, the family and institutions wanted to remember the figure of the Locrese doctor and politician with a sober and restricted ceremony but with a high symbolic value . First the laying of a wreath at the murder site. Then a mass of suffrage officiated by Bishop Francesco Olivain the chapel of the episcopal seminary. Then the usual moment of meditation in the chapel of the cemetery of Locri, where the remains of Franco Fortugno rest.

Furthermore, the first real mass mobilization in Calabria against the 'Ndrangheta is linked to his story by the young people of Locride who in thousands made their voices heard throughout the country, taking to the streets in the aftermath of a definite murder by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate " one of the most serious political-mafia crimes in the history of Italy ".

"For the second consecutive year - said Maria Grazia Laganà , widow of Francesco Fortugno - due to the health emergency that the country is facing, together with my children, I intended to organize this moment with sobriety and without gathering opportunities for young people which have always represented the soul and vital energy of this anniversary. In any case, October 16 remains a symbolic and extremely significant date for this territory and for the whole of Calabria , as an opportunity to relaunch and promote with renewed commitment those ideals of democracy, legality and civil coexistence that have permeated all of existence. of my husband. Feeding the flame of memory means honoring Franco's life and contribute to giving hope of change and redemption to the young people and all the children of this land who do not want to surrender to the suffocating presence of the 'Ndrangheta ».

Also present in Locri the prefect of Reggio Calabria Massimo Mariani : "Compared to those years, progress has been made in the fight against organized crime - he said -. Remembering Fortugno means remembering the main victim of that tragedy, which is this land of Calabria . The territory has paid a terrible price. The presence of the 'Ndrangheta hinders development and it is the task of each of us to ensure that in this land we can live and work well. It is a great challenge, we will always try to do our best ».

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/17/21 10:48 PM

Police carrying out a drugs raid on a cannabis farm in southern Italy have seized a stash of 235 frozen dormice - said to be a mafia delicacy. After discovering more than 700 cannabis plants, police searched outbuildings and found cages of dormice and freezers filled with carcasses. Wildlife groups say baked dormice are served to honour high-ranking gangsters at banquets.

'Ndrangheta and dormice hunting, the meaning of an ancestral rite. Here is where it is practiced in Calabria
October 16, 2021
The Lav estimates that in the municipality of Guardavalle alone 20 thousand animals are captured a year, sold for 5 euros each

Dormouse hunting has distant origins and has ancestral meanings in the 'Ndrangheta culture . The use of eating it, boiled in sauce or roasted, dates back to the Roman legionaries, who carried with them containers in which they raised rodents to have food available for times of need.
In the province of Reggio , where the carabinieri seized 200 frozen animals, the consumption of the dormouse is a sort of celebration of a symbol of power. Bringing dishes based on dormice to meetings organized to exchange favors means binding others with a pact that is difficult to escape. Several times in the interceptions of the Locride underworld there is talk of pacifying dinners based on dormice between opposing gangs.
Dormouse hunting is widespread throughout Calabria: in Cosentino on the Ionian side ( Rossano ), on the Sila plateau ( San Giovanni in Fiore ) and on the Tyrrhenian side ( Orsomarso ). In the province of Crotone in the area of Castelsilano (Sila Piccola). But it is in the "Serre", where the provinces of Catanzaro, Vibo Valentia and Reggio Calabria meet, that the most rooted tradition is found, in the territory of Guardavalle , Santa Cristina dello Ionio , Nardodipace , Serra San Bruno , Stilo and Bivongi . Lav estimates that only in the municipality of Guardavalle 20 thousand animals are captured a year, sold for 5 euros each.

The German documentary of a few months back is now in English, on mafia, actually 'ndrangheta in Germany https://t.co/eU6ezpcDKE?amp=1 - Hidden Mafia machinations in Germany's former East | DW Documentary

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/19/21 09:47 AM

OCTOBER 19, 2021
07:56
'Ndrangheta and illicit waste trafficking, 29 arrests: also the former senator of Forza Italia Pittelli
Twenty-nine people were reached by precautionary measures and five companies seized as part of the "Mala Pagna" operation signed by the Reggio Calabria DDA. The various accusations are of mafia-type criminal association, illicit trafficking of waste and other environmental crimes. Among those arrested there is also the former senator of Forza Italia Giancarlo Pittelli.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/21 01:35 AM

I read in the Mafia, when someone is marked for death, that person cannot be allowed to die of natural causes.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/21 01:54 AM

I read about the city in Sicily where he was from, Pietraperzia in the province of Enna, it's definitely Mafia-infested. I'm sure he had Cosa Nostra links as well. If I remember correctly the Pietraperzia clan in Sicily has Ndrangheta connections, could be wrong though.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/21 08:36 AM

Half of towns in Sicily are mafia infested, Calabria is no better.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/20/21 06:33 PM

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It emerged the most influential boss is Rocco Delfino, alias "u rizzu" of the Molè-Piromalli.

Over the years, "u rizzu" has created a real empire by monopolizing the sector in Calabria, managing to obtain supply contracts with the major steel industries in the country and opening the doors of a structural and strategic industrial sector to the 'Ndrangheta with marked proportions in the international arena. All the collaborators of justice investigated (among others Russo, Mesiani, Fondacaro, Trunfio, Virgiglio) have recognized him a leading role in the field of organized crime in Gioia Tauro, rebuilding the very close relationships at first with exponents of the Molè clan, federated with that of Piromalli, up to the murder of Rocco Molè on February 1st 2008 and, after this crime that upset the internal equilibrium of the Gioiesi gangs, binding himself as a man of extreme trust of the Piromalli.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/21 10:32 AM

Mafia Luxury Car Gang Smashed in String of Raids Across Europe
Police descended on 46 properties in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria during an investigation into an £11 million luxury car tax racket run by the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxd...smashed-in-string-of-raids-across-europe

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/22/21 11:04 AM

"Not the Ndrangheta. They're so efficient that it is likely billions of euros of their holdings are legal at this point."

That's what I'm talking about, fuck the government.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/21 08:51 PM

15 held in 'Ndrangheta extortion case in Lombardy, Marche, Calabria
Reggio Calabria boss 'led mafia group in Brescia'

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - Italian police on Monday arrested 15 people in connection with extortion by the 'Ndrangheta Calabria-based mafia in Lombardy, Marche and Calabria, judicial sources said.
Police said Vincenzo Facchineri, a member of a historic 'ndrina (branch) in Reggio Calabria, had set up a solid network in Brescia and had penetrated the province's economic fabric through loan sharking, threats and violence.
He had previously worked with the historic Rome crime group the Magliana gang and the Veneto crime outfit the Mala di Brenta, police said.
Separately, 16 suspected members of the Neapolitan Camorra were placed under investigation Monday for suspected extortion and drug trafficking. (ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/25/21 10:10 PM

The Facchineri are a historical 'ndrina that has been operating in Cittanova since the end of the nineteenth century. In 1916 20 people belonging to Giuseppe Facchineri's group were tried at the Gran Corte delle Calabrie.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/26/21 10:23 PM

Two killers would have been hired by a boss linked to the 'Ndrangheta to physically eliminate Sigfrido Ranucci , deputy director of Rai3 and presenter of Report : the journalist, already under guardianship for years, has seen his escort level "H24" raised .
The investigations started in July and in mid-August , when investigators better identified the sender of the message forwarded to the hit men, it was decided to intensify the escort . «My home is already under surveillance, now it is also guarded at night. In fact - explains the journalist and deputy director of Rai3 - I cannot move freely without two people following me in my movements, I have cars under the house and I cannot take anyone with me ». But for what reason this purpose of revenge? "We talked about it in transmission on more than one occasion." And how were the two foreign killers identified? "They are perhaps two Albanians, so I was told, but there is no certainty, they must have feedback, there is an investigation." And the joker? "It seems once he ordered to hit a lawyer, he was saved by a miracle by the release of a bullet, which did not touch vital organs."
Ranucci had received several death threats over the years , such as those reported by his own program last January. In the episode of January 4, the convicted Francesco Pennino had revealed that Ranucci had already been the target of threats in 2010 from circles close to the boss Beppe Madonia, after the publication of the book "Il Patto", written with Nicola Biondo on the alleged State-Mafia negotiation.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/27/21 10:04 PM

Maxi operation against the 'Ndrangheta in Brussels, a thousand policemen on the field to find the clans
27/10/2021

Other interventions have been implemented in recent days in Liège and Antwerp, which is one of the main doors for the entry of cocaine into Europe.
The country is "at high risk of mafia infiltration" and is used as a hub for processing and sending drugs to other nations

Over a thousand policemen were employed in Brussels in a massive raid against the Ndrangheta and the Albanian mafia, in an operation of a magnitude that has not been seen for some time. Belgium is one of the gateways for cocaine to Europe and the nation, considered "at high risk of mafia infiltration" by the Italian anti-mafia directorate general, and Calabrian organized crime is now rooted in a large part of the country's economic sphere, especially in the provinces of Hainaut, Liège and Limburg.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/21 03:15 PM

Does any of you know whether the Piromalli ndrina are family related to the Alvaro ndrina?

Or are there just business relationships?

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/29/21 04:08 PM

Does any of you know whether the Piromalli ndrina are family related to the Alvaro ndrina?

Or are there just business relationships?

It's just business.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/30/21 11:32 PM

Speaking of Piromalli, many women enrolled in the Italian Army, able to fly warplanes and handle heavy weapons. Among them, 8 women from Piromalli family all with degrees in economics and commerce.

Among the collaborators of Justice is Cosimo Li Causi the pig farmer to whom they handed over their rivals to feed them to the pigs.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/30/21 11:55 PM

You sure there's even someone named Cosimo Li Causi? Can't find him anywhere.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/21 10:55 AM

You sure there's even someone named Cosimo Li Causi? Can't find him anywhere.

He looks pretty obscure I came across his name just one time.

On 14 December 2014 in Vittoria , in the Province of Ragusa , Michele Brandimarte was killed in the center [42] . From 2016 onwards; after the death of Joseph Di Girolamo, (19.07. 1951 -29.05. 2016 ) at the top of the "pyramid" of the "family" Piromalli, there would be Maddalena Piromalli and her husband: Jhonny Di Girolamo (born 79), son of Joseph, the former "advisors of Don Peppino Piromalli. According to the latest collaborators of Justice, including Cosimo Li Causi the pig farmer to whom they handed over their rivals to feed them to the pigs, the top of the" dome "of the very powerful Calabrian family , it would consist only of close relatives, among which, precisely the couple with Maddalena Piromalli and Jhonny Di Girolamo (husband and wife); By Roberto Piromalli and Cristina Lo jodice (also husband and wife ), as well as the couple Denny and Jasmine Piromalli (brother and sister).

Maddalena Piromalli ( Gioia Tauro , 28 July 1994 ) is an Italian mafia . She was the head of the 'ndrina dei Piromalli of the Piana di Gioia Tauro , in which she had taken over as head of Antonio Piromalli .

Criminal activity
In the nineties the port of Gioia Tauro became the largest commercial port in the Mediterranean (it moved over 2 million containers in 1998 ). In 1994 Contship Containerlines rented the port area to start its transport business and the Medcenter Container Terminal was created, thanks to 128 billion lire of state funding; the Piromalli forced the two companies, through the vice president Walter Lugli of Medcenter and the president Enrico Ravano of Contship, to pay $ 1.5 for each container transported, which corresponded to half of the profit earned by the two companies [1] [2] .

Antonio has been in prison since he was arrested in Operation One Hundred Years of History in July 2008 [3] . Maddalena and Jhonny Di Girolamo ( 2016 ) are at the top of the "pyramid" after the death of Joseph Di Girolamo (19.07. 1951 ) [4] .

Posted By: Marcow

Re: Ndrangheta News - 10/31/21 11:05 PM

Does any of you know whether the Piromalli ndrina are family related to the Alvaro ndrina?

Or are there just business relationships?

It's just business.

Ok thank you. Is the Mole ndrina the only ndrina with Family relationship to the Piromallis? Or have the Piromalli ndrina also Family relationships to other ndrinas?

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/01/21 06:28 PM

Does any of you know whether the Piromalli ndrina are family related to the Alvaro ndrina?

Or are there just business relationships?

It's just business.

Ok thank you. Is the Mole ndrina the only ndrina with Family relationship to the Piromallis? Or have the Piromalli ndrina also Family relationships to other ndrinas?

In the 80s the Piromalli-Molé-Stillitano and Copelli were considered one "Family". Clones of the Piromalli's have been found all over Italy, but also in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Argentina.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/02/21 10:47 PM

This month the hearing for the trial against the drug trafficking of the powerful Gallace clan.

According to the indictment, the defendants had put in place a ramified transactional criminal organization capable of planning large imports of cocaine from South America (Colombia, but also Brazil) and "placing" it in Europe (Spain, Holland, England and Slovenia), New Zealand and Australia.

The Gallace clan had taken hold in the Ionian belt between the provinces of Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, with branches in the Lazio, Tuscan and Lombardy hinterland.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/03/21 09:53 PM

ON APPEAL
'Ndrangheta in Switzerland, "Helvetia" investigation. Nine suspects acquitted

All the defendants in the trial born from a branch of the "Helvetia" investigation , coordinated by the Reggio Calabria DDA , on a mafia-type criminal association operating in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld, were all acquitted on appeal . At first instance, the Locri Court had sentenced nine people to sentences of between 10 and 13 years in prison. Everyone was accused of having been part of a criminal group linked to the "Crime of Polsi" and in contact with the "society of Rosarno" and the "local" of Fabrizia, the country of origin of most of the defendants.

After the second degree trial, the Reggio Calabria Court of Appeal overturned the sentence of the Locri Court. With the formula "because the fact does not exist" were acquitted Rocco Antonio Cirillo, Brunello Nesci respectively considered local head of Frauenfeld and member of the "major company" and "day master".

The charges also fell against the alleged participants in the mafia association: Angelo Rullo, Cosimo Laporta, Giovanni Manno, Giovanni De Masi, Sandro Iacopetta, Francesco Lombardo and Giulio Nesci.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/04/21 12:01 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/04/21 12:18 PM

Stumbling upon places and cultures: An involuntary ethnography in researching the Australian 'ndrangheta
Anna Sergi First Published August 31, 2021 Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076211040604
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Abstract
In the past decade, the attention to the Calabrian mafia, the 'ndrangheta, has been rekindled everywhere in the world. On the one hand, Italian attention to the phenomenon has increased; on the other hand, the mobility of the Calabrian clans has been the object of scrutiny in view of the clan's wealth and ability to commit transnational criminal activities. This has also fed the presumption that (alleged) offenders of Calabrian origins around the world must belong to, and replicate the structure of, the 'ndrangheta clans, also down under. This contribution will be a reflection on the difficulties and the complexities of a journey into researching the 'ndrangheta in Australia from a criminological–anthropological perspective, in consideration of—but in contrast with—the mythical figures associated with the Calabrian mafia and its illicit global markets. Some of the difficulties, as well as some of the mistakes that I have made in this research, because of the involuntary (and disorganized) nature of the ethnography, directly question the narrative of the illegal global reach of this mafia and provide methodological reflections and lessons for criminological ethnographies.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/07/21 11:30 AM

Mega-trial against Italian mafia: first 70 verdicts pronounced
Italian justice dealt a heavy blow on Saturday to the 'ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful mafia group. She convicted 70 members and others with ties to the crime syndicate.

Foreign editors 07-11-21, 07:22 Last update: 07:32
Judge Claudio Paris read the sentences against 91 suspects in the huge courtroom in the city of Lamezia Terme (Calabria) where the largest mafia trial since the late 1980s is taking place. No fewer than 355 suspects are on trial. It concerns members of the 'ndrangheta, but also politicians and entrepreneurs.

The suspects convicted Saturday had to answer in particular for membership of a mafia organization, attempted murder, money laundering, drug trafficking, extortion and illegal possession of weapons. They had opted for a quick process, behind closed doors. This allowed them to reduce their sentence by a third if convicted.

Noted mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri - who had to live under police protection for over 30 years for his efforts to defeat the 'ndrangheta - said everything went "very well" on Saturday. "Of the 91 accused, 70 people have been convicted," he told the Italian news agency AdnKronos, adding that the 21 acquitted were minors.

Six suspects were given the maximum sentence of 20 years demanded by Gratteri. Among them Domenico Macri of the military branch of the 'ndrangheta, Pasquale Gallone (62), the right-hand man of the alleged mob boss Luigi Mancuso whose trial is still pending, and Gregorio Niglia who was mainly concerned with obtaining weapons and extortion. Gallone helped his boss avoid the police for three years from 2014 onwards. About a third of the suspects were sentenced to ten years or more in prison.

The main suspects opted for a normal trial. These are 67-year-old Luigi Mancuso alias 'the uncle', considered to be the head of the 'ndrangheta families that controlled the province of Vibo Valentia, and the former senator and lawyer Giancarlo Pittelli (68).

The 'ndrangheta controls most of the cocaine flow entering Europe in Calabria, Italy's poorest region. This network of about 150 families competing for positions within the organization has, according to experts, at least 6,000 members and supporters in Calabria and thousands of others who support the organization worldwide.

Although the 'ndrangheta operates internationally and invests its income in the legal economy, its ability to infiltrate almost every segment of public administration in Calabria has enabled it to win lucrative contracts and consolidate its power.

More than 900 witnesses
The mega-trial takes place in a huge courtroom that can accommodate hundreds of lawyers and more than 900 witnesses for the prosecution (called by the prosecution) and 58 for the prosecution (called by the lawyers of the defendants).

This process is the culmination of an investigation that began in May 2016 with the statements of some regretful optants. Based on those statements, three anti-mafia units followed and wiretapped hundreds of suspects. The file contains the transcripts of about 24 thousand conversations. The research shows the enormous intertwining between the 'ndrangheta, the business world and politics in Calabria.

The legendary mega-trial against the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, in 1986 and 1987, dealt a heavy blow to that mafia organization with 338 convictions.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/09/21 01:29 PM

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/11/21 11:50 AM

'Ndrangheta. The collaborator of justice Francesco Labate was constituted in prison
The collaborator of justice Francesco Labate, known as "Checco", surrendered himself in the prison of San Pietro in Reggio Calabria. There had been no traces of him for about five days, since he practically left the protected location where he was without notifying the Central Protection Service.
The repentant, arrested as part of the "Metameria" operation, is believed to be the right arm of the boss Filippo Barreca. In the
investigative circles, the news of his estrangement given by Klaus Davi had been confirmed while investigations are underway regarding the alleged video that Labate would have sent to his wife before disappearing, letting her know that he would have retracted his statements about the father-in-law and the gang. operating in the Pellaro area.
Now the prosecutors will have to check if the choice to move away from the protected location was voluntary or if there is something more complex behind it.
11-11-2021 02:56

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/16/21 04:33 PM

100 'Ndrangheta arrests in three Italian regions
Clan's infiltration of Calabrian, Tuscan and Lombard life mapped

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 16 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested over 100 people in connection with a probe into the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in the three regions of Calabria, Tuscany and Lombardy.
The arrests were against alleged members of the Molè clan, one of the oldest and most powerful families in what is Italy's richest and most powerful mafias.
The arrests were made on warrants from prosecutors in Milan, Florence and Reggio Calabria.
Police said they had mapped the ramifications of the Piana di Gioia Tauro clan in central-northern Italy as well as abroad.
Those arrested have been charged with mafia association, extortion, illegal arms possession, drug trafficking, the production and sale of narcotics, usury, fraudulent bankruptcy, tax fraud and corruption.
Among those placed under investigation in the Lombardy part of the probe is the former mayor of Lomazzo near Como, Marino Carugati, and a former town councillorthere, on suspicion of helping the Molè clan.
Prosecutor Riccardo Targetti said the clan had forced businessmen to become their accomplices, boasting "we arrive at their homes as punctually as registered letters", according to a wiretap cited.
Targetti appealed to Italian society not to "play with fire" by flirting with 'Ndrangheta clans, saying they were capable of "taking control" of society.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese voiced "satisfaction" at what she called a "vast operation".
'Ndrangheta (from a Greek word meaning 'heroism' or 'virtue') once lived in the twin shadow of Cosa Nostra in Sicily and the Camorra in Naples.
While those two syndicates, notably the Sicilians, were feeding off the transatlantic heroin trade through operations like the infamous 'French connection', 'Ndrangheta was only just emerging from its traditional stock-in-trade of kidnappings in the Calabrian highlands.
It has since become a highly sophisticated global network with a chokehold on the European cocaine trade and control over swathes of its home turf where police fear to tread, Italian officials say.
As well as being the richest, 'Ndrangheta is also regarded as the most impenetrable of Italy's mafias, with its close-knit family-based organisation outdoing the Sicilian mafia in its ability to defeat police efforts to turn members into State witnesses.
The European law enforcement agency Europol has identified the 'Ndrangheta mafia as one of the "most threatening" organized crime groups on the global level, due to its "enormous financial might" and "immense corruptive power," with a presence in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, USA, Colombia and Australia, where 'Ndrangheta turf wars have gained headlines.
In Europe, 'Ndrangheta really only came into the public eye in 2007, when six clan members were gunned down on the midsummer Ferragosto holiday in the German city of Duisburg in a feud that began as a wedding spat in a small Calabrian coastal town, San Luca, in 1991.
A string of 'Ndrangheta-linked businesses have been seized in the last few years all over northern Italy, and especially in the affluent Lombard belt around Milan, and a Lombardy regional councillor was placed under investigation for buying votes from transplanted clans.
On the Italian Riviera, the town councils of Bordighera and Ventimiglia were dissolved for 'Ndrangheta infiltration in 2011 and 2012, the first non-Calabrian municipalities to be wound up because of such penetration.
In Rome, the Calabrian Mob has laundered money in a string of plum properties, as attested to by recent seizures police say are only the tip of the iceberg.
More recently, gangsters involved in a hitherto-unknown Rome crime organisation that allegedly had fingers in a web of business and political operations were said to have links to other mafias including 'Ndrangheta.
The biggest ever 'Ndrangheta trial got under way at Lamezia Terme in January.
The trial delves into the activities of the 'Ndrangheta clans in Vibo Valentia and their links to the political, institutional, economic and rogue Masonic worlds controlling all aspects of local life in Calabria.
It is the biggest mafia trial in Italy since the so-called 'maxi-trial' of Cosa Nostra in Sicily from 1986 to 1992.
The trial, which is expected to last around three years, has over 300 defendants who are facing over 400 charges.
The defendants include local politicians, businessmen, police and other institutional figures accused of helping 'Ndrangheta hold sway over Calabrian life.
That trial handed down its first sentences on Calabrian mobsters and their clients earlier this month.
In January 2015 police arrested more than 160 people in the biggest-ever operation against a northern business arm of 'Ndrangheta.
The op showed how far the one-time southern kidnapping gangs had infiltrated the economy of Italy's most affluent regions, including the thriving economy of Reggio Emilia around Bologna.
Other probes have shown the increasing 'Ndrangheta infiltration in the region around Milan, Lombardy, the region around Genoa, Liguria, and the region around Turin, Piedmont.
In February 2014 a major Italian-FBI bust showed that 'Ndrangheta was muscling in on the drug operations of one of Cosa Nostra's historic five families in New York, the Gambinos.
Before that, in July 2010, a massive police operation netted the head of the 'Ndrangheta and 300 others.
Domenico Oppedisano, 80, anointed the equivalent of the 'boss of bosses' in Cosa Nostra at a Calabrian shrine to the Madonna a year previously, was caught along with their reputed head in Lombardy, Pino Neri.
'Ndrangheta is so secretive that the replacement for Oppedisano is still not known. (ANSA).

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/16/21 04:38 PM

Major police action in the middle of the night
Italy picks up 100 'Ndrangheta: sights on the infamous Molè family
Updated Today, 11:22
Today, 10:48
in ABROAD

This is reported by Italian media, including the ANSA news agency.

The arrests took place during coordinated raids on Milan, Florence, Livorno and Reggio Calabria. Police have shared images of several raids.

Justice does not see the suspects as sweethearts. They are suspected of membership of a mafia organization, extortion, illegal possession of weapons, money laundering, tax fraud, corruption and drug trafficking.

A large amount of cocaine from South America was seized in the raids, more than a ton, according to ANSA.

Molè family
The investigation mainly dismantled the Gioia Tauro clan, a syndicate in the eponymous port city at the southern tip of Italy's 'boot', with ramifications in Lombardy and Tuscany, ANSA said. They are groups with 'a certain autonomy', but they operate in 'close synergy', according to the news agency.

The Molè family is central to the research. The well-known criminal Girolamo Molè (60) is serving several life sentences, while his father Antonio Molè is seen as a historical leader of the Gioia Tauro clan.

Fratricide
The Molé clan long operated in tandem with the Piromalli clan, creating family connections. Often they were mentioned in the same breath (Piromalli-Molè clan) and together the two families have gained an iron grip on the local economy. "The Molè family is the military branch of the Piromalli clan," said former Italian anti-mafia committee chairman Francesco Forgione.

An argument over a contract for transport in the port escalated and Rocco Molè, brother of the grumbling Girolamo, was shot dead.

The third brother, Domenico, wanted to take revenge and kill all members of the rival Piromalli clan, but Girolamo was more careful. He wanted peaceful negotiations. "We have a hundred years of history and family ties, we can't erase that," he told his brother from prison.

The Rocco Molè murder is still shrouded in mystery. Since then, the death of a cousin of the Piromalli family has been linked to the revenge from the Molè camp. It is not entirely clear how the families are now in contact, but the relations would never have gone back to the way they were.

'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta is located in Calabria, a region in the south of Italy, but is active worldwide. The organization is considered one of the largest players in the international drug trade and consists of numerous departments that interact, often along family lines.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/16/21 06:17 PM

At the center of the police investigation coordinated by three prosecutors is the young Roccuzzo Molè. Nephew of the murdered boss Rocco. He was one of the "Free to Choose" kids, but he decided to go back to clan activities. Business and traffic between Piana di Gioia Tauro, Livorno and Milan.
The chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giovanni Bombardieri: "They called themselves the New European Narcos".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/17/21 12:59 PM

The 'Cavalli di race' operation of the Milan, Reggio Calabria and Florence prosecutors "is the plastic representation of what the Ndrangheta is today: a mix of archaicity and absolute modernity that projects the organization into the future". This was stated by the deputy prosecutor with delegation to the Dda of Milan Alessandra Dolci during a press conference in which the details of the investigation were illustrated that only in Lombardy led to the arrest of 54 people under investigation for various reasons of 'Ndrangheta-style associations, extortion, drug trafficking, bankruptcy and tax crimes.

On the one hand - the anti-mafia prosecutor observed - "the initiation rites" and "eat them" remain, on the other hand there is a " 'Ndrangheta 2.0 which exploits entrepreneurs to acquire their know-how" so as to "replace the bribes with the proceeds of tax evasion ".

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/21 04:43 AM

'Ndrangheta: proceedings against Lorenzo Cesa filed
November 20, 2021

The investigating judge of the Court of Catanzaro, Valeria Isabella Valenzi, accepted the archiving request that had been presented by the DDA against the former UDC secretary Lorenzo Cesa, investigated in the context of the "Low Profile" investigation focused on alleged offenses relations between some 'Ndrangheta gangs in the Crotone area with entrepreneurs and representatives of the public administration.

Cesa was accused of criminal association aggravated by the mafia method. At the time of the events, dating back to 2017, Cesa was a member of the European Parliament.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/21 04:50 AM

Domenico F., a member of the 'Ndrangheta, one of the most dangerous mafia crime organizations in the world, was detained in Krakow, said inspector Mariusz Ciarka, a spokesman for the Police Headquarters. This was made possible by the European Police Cooperation Network ENFAST.
In mid-November, the Italian police carried out a police operation, which resulted in the arrest of over a hundred of the most dangerous criminals belonging to the Italian mafia structures. The criminals stayed not only in Italy, but also in other European Union countries, including Poland, the spokesman of the Police Headquarters explained.
The KGP spokesman added that Domenico F. will be brought to a court that will decide on his extradition to Italy.
ENFAST is a European police cooperation network dedicated to the search for the most dangerous criminals in Europe.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/21 09:03 AM

I had no idea there are 'Ndrangheta members in Eastern Europe , very rare.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/20/21 12:28 PM

I had no idea there are 'Ndrangheta members in Eastern Europe , very rare.

Yes, we did see their presence in Slovakia, but Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria are also interesting countries for them also because of their closeness to Germany. There's an article and docu online about the 'ndrangheta in the former GDR.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/21 12:58 AM

The 'Ndrangheta does not do business in Calabria, because it is a poor region. It invests everywhere in Europe, but only in rich regions ». Like the Côte d'Azur , where "it sells cocaine and, with the money, invests in restaurants". Charlie Hebdo magazine abandons satirical tones in the interview with Nicola Gratteri , accompanied by a cartoon depicting the Catanzaro prosecutor immersed in documents in his office.

Gratteri recalls the decades under protection and the threats received: «The more the investigations go on, the more the dangers increase. There have already been several attempts at attacks against me, all foiled in time. The last one dates back to less than a month ago ». The interview then highlights the changes within the clans. «Today the 'Ndrangheta - says the magistrate - is more open to women. We find more and more of them: they are in drug trafficking, or in the trafficking racket. There are a dozen women accused in this trial (Scott speaks of Rebirth, ed). On the contrary, we also see women leaving their Mafia husbands, which was unthinkable until a few years ago ».

The French magazine wonders why so many white-collar workers are involved in the Renaissance: «If the 'Ndrangheta exists it is also because the centers of power use violence, threats and fear. This is why the mafia, present in the area 365 days a year, are needed, "Gratteri replies.

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/21/21 11:30 AM

How the Molè Clan of the Calabrian Mafia established a cocaine empire with Navy divers and corrupt politicians https://gangstersinc.org/blog/how-the-mole-clan-of-the-calabrian-mafia-established-a-cocaine-em

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/21 11:17 AM

Lea Garofalo, the true story of the woman who challenged the 'Ndrangheta

https://www.italy24news.com/entertainment/news/amp/99262

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/21 12:21 PM

It's funny how they keep pounding away at how much more powerful the Ndrangheta is than the Camorra and Cosa Nostra, but even those organizations' decline have been greatly exaggerated. How come every major round-up is hailed as the final blow, when you can literally find similar roundups in any past decade, just pick one.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/21 03:45 PM

A lot of informants claim that Cosa Nostra is highest authority, well that is classic with newspaper ,every time someone who is high ranking gets arrested he is 'boss' and every arrest is final blow and then another month they publish article saying how 'Ndrangheta is most powerful organized crime group in the world.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/24/21 11:06 PM

Main difference the Camorra is still killing bosses, while Cosa Nostra and 'ndrangheta keep a low profile.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/27/21 10:14 AM

They actually think they're going to destroy these organizations that's been around since the 1860s or 1880s, just think about that for a second.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/28/21 10:46 PM

There were 1,320 mafia-related murders in Calabria from 1983 to 2018, according to the authorities. Suspects in five murders, including a 'Ndrangheta member killed in 2002 because of his homosexuality, are in the dock in the maxi-trial against 355 defendants. In the past 30 years, 110 city councils in Calabria have been dissolved over mafia infiltration, including in Lamezia Terme where the trial is being held. The defendants include police, court workers, mayors and officials - some of whom allegedly met the mafia in illegal Masonic lodges.
"They waited for them in Piazza Morelli, invited them to eat ricotta at the farm... and then they killed, burned and melted them," testified one criminal-turned-witness, Andrea Mantella, describing a 1988 revenge killing of two brothers.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/28/21 10:57 PM

There were 1,320 mafia-related murders in Calabria from 1983 to 2018

I am sure that number of murders from 1983 to 2000 is at least x2 than number of murders from 2000 to 2018.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/29/21 05:56 PM

Trade unionist led 'armed wing' of 'Ndrangheta clan
37 arrested for drug trafficking, other mafia crimes

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 29 - A trade unionist constituted the "armed wing" of an 'Ndrangheta clan in Potenza, police said after smashing the Calabrian mafia unit on Monday.
The unionist, who has been suspended by his UILTUCS union, was one of 37 people arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and other mafia crimes Monday.
The man, Rocco Della Luna, coerced the region's biggest hospital into taking on a Mob-linked cleaning firm, police said.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese hailed the "vast and articulated operation that dealt a hard blow to the clan" in Potenza.
The clan, led by Renato Martorano and Dorino Stefanutti, two of those arrested, had become a leading player among mafia clans in Lucania, Sicily and Puglia, police said. (ANSA).

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 11/29/21 06:14 PM

Links with the 'Ndrangheta and the Sicilian mafia

The investigations, - reads a note from the DDA of Potenza - during which documents were acquired containing real affiliation rites, rules, organization charts and top roles of the gangs of the '' Ndrangheta, revealed the existence of solid ties maintained and consolidated over the years by the Lucanian association with some of the most accredited clans on the national territory, such as that of the "Pesce-Bellocco" of Rosarno (RC) and that of the Grande Aracri of Cutro(Kr), with whom a consistent and lasting relationship of criminal collaboration has been built up over the years.

Other extraterritorial criminal projections appear to involve exponents of both the Sicilian mafia, linked to the association of the Santapaola of Catania, and of associations and operating companies in Puglia and Basilicata.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/01/21 08:14 PM

'Ndrangheta: the boss Pasquale Bonavota has been included in the list of Italian fugitives of maximum danger.
Pasquale Bonavota born in Vibo Valentia on 10/01/1974 has been wanted since 28 November 2018 for "mafia-type association" and "aggravated murder in competition".
The capture of his brother Domenico brings the house of Sant'Onofrio to its knees but does not destroy it. The prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and the carabinieri have been looking for him for years: he is the very mammasantissima who also took Rome!
"the head of the company" of a cartel that had opposed the Mancusos, for lustful undisputed masters of the entire province of Vibo Valentia.
Already capobastone at 46, the "respect" from those who did not give it to him, he had taken it.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/21 11:09 PM

Switzerland confirms Italian mafia boss entry ban

The Federal Court has confirmed that a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia boss, who was extradited to Italy in 2017, cannot enter Switzerland for 20 years.

This content was published on December 6, 2021 - 12:13

The Italian justice system says Leo Caridi is head of a Reggio Calabria 'Ndrangheta mafia gang. He was sentenced to nine years and six months in prison in Italy for belonging to an organised crime group.

In a decree published on Monday, the Swiss court reaffirmed a 20-year entry ban against Caridi handed down by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court and proposed by the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol).

These agencies were correct to determine that the appellant "represented a serious threat for Switzerland's internal and external security", it wrote.

The judges pointed out that Caridi had lived temporarily in canton Valais in 2016 and 2017 and had worked for a real estate firm. Fedpol believes the mafia boss may have come to Switzerland to infiltrate politics and business.

It is of legitimate public interest to keep at distance such an individual who has been "heavily sentenced and enjoys major influence among organised crime groups in his region". To tolerate his presence would represent a threat for Switzerland and a source of tension with Italy it added.

The mafia phenomenon remains difficult to pin down in Switzerland but is thought to date back over 40 years.

In 2020, federal police said there were around 400 Italian mafia members, belonging to 20 different cells, living in Switzerland. This figure was revised upwards from the 100 mafia members, mostly of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, but also of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Neapolitan Camorra, previously thought to be operating in the alpine country.

Fedpol talks about multiple forms of crime: arms trafficking, human trafficking, drugs, counterfeit money, receiving stolen goods and money laundering.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switze...edium=display&utm_source=swissinfoch

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Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/06/21 11:21 PM

Lol they can't keep these guys out they can obtain fraudulent documents, passports, etc. plus people can always be bribed.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/07/21 01:24 AM

'Ndrangheta cocaine for Sardinia: seven arrests
Four Sardinians in handcuffs between Borore, Uras, Arborea and Fonni. The links with the Calabrian clans

A very strong bond, even family, between Sardinia and Calabria capable of delivering five kilos of pure cocaine to the island every month. An intense traffic went on between 2019 and 2020 vanquished this morning at dawn by the carabinieri dei Ros who carried out seven precautionary custody orders, four in the island (in the Oristano and in the Nuorese) and three in the Calabrian municipality of San Luca.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/21 01:04 PM

Wow the notorious Nino Imerti gave an interview!

'Ndrangheta. Boss Nino Imerti: "I tell young people to choose another path"
The boss Nino Imerti, nicknamed "Nano Fieroce", gave an interview to Klaus Davi. In the long conversation, the protagonist of the bloodiest wars of 'Ndrangheta that have bloodied Calabria talks about the events that sadly saw him as a protagonist. First of all, the attack which he miraculously escaped and in which three bodyguards died: "On that story once I will tell you what I think. The attack was not carried out by those who have inferred to be the culprits. But one day I will give you an answer on this point. If it was Paolo De Stefano (the boss who is supposed to have placed the bombs) I don't know. Someone did, but I will show that I had nothing to do with it ". Imerti also claimed that the 'Ndrangheta wars were a mistake: "All wars are a mistake, even those in Afghanistan and the Middle East, where innocents and children die. It was better to stay calm at home. "" I say to young people: choose another path, you will earn more, "said Imerti, who did not even shy away from questions about politics:" Berlusconi and Dell'Utri did not never met, not even Licio Gelli. I'm an ordinary person, I've never had any connection with politics ".
08-12-2021 14:30

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/21 01:07 PM

He didn't say much lol.

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/21 01:34 PM

You have to question the future of Italian organized crime though, when you have guys talking about telling the youth to choose a different path, like they're planning on becoming preachers or something. Here you have a hugely notorious Ndrangheta chief with that soppy preachy bullshit, I don't think these organizations are going to be around much longer. Toto Riina has to be turning in his grave, that guy was a true boss, unapologetic to the end.

Posted By: Hollander

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/21 03:15 PM

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/09/21 05:35 PM

nino imerti was released, i didnt know it

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/21 08:41 PM

He would have laundered 500 billions for the clans

The "consultant" responds to the accusations of the DDA in an interview with the Rai program: "Let's pretend it's true, but if I'm from Calabria, can't I commit a crime in my name?"

Officially - and until proven otherwise - he is an IT entrepreneur capable of creating a giant of management technology applied to public administrations. For the magistrates of the Reggio Calabria District Anti-Mafia Directorate, however, he would be one of the largest launderers in history on behalf of ' Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Camorra , capable of handling dirty money for about 500 billion euros.

He is Roberto Recordare , owner of Golem software. We had already dealt with its history almost a year ago, after a report from the Reggio Calabria mobile squad, filed in the " Eyphemos " trial, had brought to light the story of the money laundered - writes the prosecutor - which proceeds from illicit trafficking in arms and drugs, without excluding extortion, usury and more.

Posted By: Strax

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/21 10:24 PM

He would have laundered 500 billions for the clans

500 billions? This has to be exaggeration.

Posted By: m2w

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/21 10:48 PM

He would have laundered 500 billions for the clans

500 billions? This has to be exaggeration.

I thought so too but he talks about it in the wiretapping

Posted By: DillyDolly

Re: Ndrangheta News - 12/11/21 11:28 PM

I think they got the figures wrong it definitely warrants deeper research. However, if he's laundering money for the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, and Ndrangheta then the figures still have to be very high.

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