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.