Bunch of hypocritical government scumbags desperately searching for someone who's not any worse than themselves.

Although he is the head of Trapani and Agrigento Settimo Mineo is said to be the new head of the Sicilian Mafia Commission after the death of Riina. He was elected in 2018.

The prosecutor of Palermo has asked for the conviction of thirteen alleged aiding and abetting of the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, involved in the "Annozero" blitzof April 2018, executed by carabinieri, police and Dia. The request was made by the prosecutor Francesca Dessì, to the judges of the Court of Marsala, at the end of an indictment that lasted over five hours, during which she reconstructed the accusations against the defendants. Among these is Gaspare Como, brother-in-law of the fugitive from Castelvetrano, for whom the sentence of 25 years in prison was sought, while for his alleged 'right arm, Vittorio Signorello, 23 years of imprisonment were requested. 25 years were also required for Dario Messina, presumed head of the Mazara del Vallo district, who ended up in wiretapping, recalled during the indictment.

The Palermo anti-mafia district management investigates alleged mafia infiltrations in the Torre Macauda tourist village in Sciacca .
On Tuesday 8 arrests. At the center of the investigation is the old boss Salvatore Di Gangi, 79, who would not have stopped looking after his business, despite being in prison. Also involved was the son of the mafia boss, Alessandro, 42 years old.

Blow to the assets of the Corleonese mafia: assets for a total value of more than 4 million euros were confiscated and seized from some subjects who favored the inaction of the boss Bernardo Provenzano, asserting their power over the territory. These are confiscations for three and a half million euros and a seizure for 600 thousand euros.

Three measures issued by the Court of Palermo, resulting from the investigations of the soldiers of the Special Operational Group and the Provincial Command of Palermo. The Ros carried out a confiscation of three and a half million euros against Mario Salvatore Grizzaffi (ordered in 1st instance by the Court of Palermo) and Gaetano Riina (ordered in 2nd instance by the Court of Appeal of Palermo), respectively nephew and brother of the well-known Mafia boss Totò Riina, as well as of Rosario Salvatore Lo Bue , nicknamed “Saro Chiummino” and of his son Leoluca .

The confiscation concerns homes, current accounts, savings books, land and company assets, and affects individuals already burdened with numerous criminal records and links with the mafia. In particular, Rosario Salvatore Lo Bue has historically had an active role as a "man of honor" and top member of the Corleone family, over the years in contact with leading exponents Salvatore Riina and Leoluca Bagarella.

Carabinieri of the Investigative nucleus of the provincial command of Catania have seized assets for an estimated total value of over 500 thousand euros, believed to be attributable to Santo Strano, 54 years old, a top member of the Cappello clan detained under maximum security. "the numerous convictions, some of which are irrevocable, for mafia-type association and participation in an association aimed at drug trafficking". Among the assets seized by the carabinieri an apartment and an individual retail business of roasted coffee in Catania, in the name of his wife, bank accounts, nine watches and two diamond bracelets.

Ex-traffic police head probed in Mafia op
10 arrested at San Giuseppe Jato near palermo

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - The former head of the traffic police in San Giuseppe Jato near Palermo was placed under investigation Monday in a probe into a Sicilian Mafia group.
Police arrested 10 people on suspicion of mafia association, extortion aggravated by mafia methods, distributing narcotics and illegal access to information systems.
Six of those arrested belonged to the San Giuseppe Jato Mafia family, police said.
The probe, which began in 2017, stems from the arrest of San Giuseppe Jato Mafia chief Ignazio Bruno and his driver and consigliere Vincenzo Simonetti, police said.. (ANSA).

Mafia: investigation of the '93 massacres, searches underway
Family recipients and alleged Graviano supporters

(ANSA) - FLORENCE, OCTOBER 27 - Searches are allegedly underway against relatives and alleged supporters of the Graviano as part of the investigation into the 1993 massacres in Florence, Milan and Rome coordinated by the Dda of Florence and conducted by the Dia Fiorentina.

Based on what has been learned, the searches are in progress in Palermo, Rome and Rovigo.

The investigation into the 1993 massacres has been opened and closed several times since the 1990s, again involving Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri, previously investigated and archived in the past. The new checks began almost two years ago after Giuseppe Graviano, head of the Brancaccio district of Palermo, spoke before the Assize court of Reggio Calabria, in the so-called '' Ndrangheta massacre '' trial in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Graviano brothers were put away for life decades ago, what on earth are they searching for exactly?

Dozens arrested in massive Palermo drugs operation
Narcotics gang that operated in Sperone district broken up

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - Carabinieri police arrested dozens of people on Tuesday in an operation targetting a gang that allegedly managed drug dealing in the Sperone district on the eastern outskirts of Palermo.
The police took 37 people to jail while another 20 were put under house arrest. (ANSA).

The empire of over one hundred million euros of Antonino and Carmelo Paratore ends up under seizure

The value of assets seized by the Catania Anti-Mafia Investigation Department from entrepreneurs believed to be attributable to the Santapaola-Ercolano clan amounts to one hundred million euros. The decree was issued by the Prevention Measures section of the Court on the joint proposal of the Public Prosecutor of Catania and the Director of Dia against three subjects, one of whom, a historical exponent of the Santapaola-Ercolano clan, is currently being held under a hard prison regime. following the recent life sentence for the murder of Luigi Ilardo, killed in Catania in 1996, shortly before entering the protection program reserved for collaborators of justice.

https://www.italy24news.com/News/249692.html

Crazy how they can be so wealthy yet no pics anywhere.

This is why they're not killing so much anymore, they're focused on making the big bucks as well as deep political and business infiltration.

The Graviano, the misdirection and the strategies of the Cosa Nostra bosses

ARS ANTI-MAFIA COMMISSION
November 11, 2021 • 06:30
Updated, November 10, 2021 • 12:10 pm
Why call into question the Gravianos in this investigation into the misdirection of via D'Amelio? Because the fate of Totò Riina and his subversive strategy, much more complex than a simple mafia revenge, are intimately linked to that massacre. But there is more: the capture of Riina, what preceded him (the arrest of Balduccio Di Maggio) and the tips collected and sorted to those in charge.

29 years after the season of the massacres - Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano having died, held in prison at 41 bis, considered the organizers of the campaign on behalf of Cosa Nostra; Matteo Messina Denaro having been a fugitive for 25 years, the last representative of the “Corleonese era”, the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano have emerged for ten years as the main custodians of the secrets of that historical period.

Their story is quite unusual. Mentioned only marginally by the great repentants of the Eighties (Buscetta, Contorno, Marino Mannoia) we begin to talk about them towards the end of the century (for example Nino Giuffrè indicates them as notoriously linked to the Services) and for the revelations of Gaspare Spatuzza.

The Graviano, it turns out, belong to an ancient and very rich mafia family, and they control the Brancaccio district, known as the “industrial zone” of Palermo, where they have made important building investments. The head of the family Michele Graviano (owner, head of many economic activities of great value, from the trade of fruit and vegetables, to construction, to international exports, owner of share packages) was killed in 1982, at the beginning of the mafia war that he contrasts Bontade-Inzerillo with Riina and his Corleonesi.

Italian article here: https://www.editorialedomani.it/fat...iano-strategie-boss-cosa-nostra-f9kwhi5n

Money laundering: blitz between Italy and Albania, arrests
Francesco Zummo, a 90-year-old entrepreneur from Palermo, a multi-suspect and partner of the former mafia mayor Vito Ciancimino, ended up under house arrest with charges of money laundering and self-laundering aggravated by transnationality in the context of an investigation by the Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office
The accountant Fabio Petruzzella, brother of a Palermo magistrate, was also arrested: longa manus of the builder, he allegedly helped him to disappear, removing them from confiscation, 19 million moved to a bank account in Tirana.
The investigation also involves a group of Albanians who allegedly helped Zummo and his accomplices in their financial operations
Zummo was also investigated by judge Giovanni Falcone and was sentenced in the first instance to 5 years for aiding and abetting and then acquitted on appeal. In 2001, assets worth around 150 million euros were seized. Dozens of repentants - continues the Ansa - accused him of having moved large sums of money of illicit origin to credit institutions abroad and in particular in Switzerland, of having laundered the treasure of Ciancimino and of the building "sack" of Palermo and to have been "available" to Cosa Nostra in the past

Italians and Albanians work together, all this stupid talk about this big rivalry and Albanians forcing the Italians out is just that, talk.

There was never rivalry there , 10 years ago or so , Italians used Albanians for some heavy work but now more and more they are working together

Sicilian Mafia | Sicily Mafia Wars | (1992)

Drugs from abroad, arrests in Catania: everything revolved around ‘Spaccatello’

https://www.italy24news.com/local/265821.html

Apparently there are over a hundred different Mafia clans spread out across Sicily. I'd like a rundown on all of them, from who founded each one, from first boss to the present just like we have on Mafia families in America.

It is very hard to find info on sicilians. I doubt it there is a complete list of them. I will try to find one and post it here

Illegal online betting in business with the mafia, blitz in Palermo: 12 arrests in half of Sicily
November 18, 2021
mafia, Sicily, Chronicle
Illegal online betting and fictitious title of assets. These are the accusations against 12 people investigated by the Palermo police as part of the Game Over II operation.

From the early hours of dawn, 150 agents employed in the provinces of Palermo, Ragusa, Messina, Agrigento and Trapani to execute the order for the application of precautionary measures issued by the judge for the preliminary investigations of Palermo, at the request of the "Palermo Section" of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office.

The 12 people are under investigation, for various reasons, for simple criminal association, illegal online betting and fictitious registration of assets.

"For having associated with each other - reads the ordinance - in order to proceed on the national territory to an organized activity aimed at accepting and collecting, also electronically, bets of various kinds illegally on websites belonging to Maltese companies without concessions in Italy by State Monopolies, reiterating crimes of abusive exercise of gaming and betting activities pursuant to art. 4 paragraph 4 bis Law no. 401/89 ", with the aggravating circumstance, for five suspects, of art. 416 bis 1 of the Italian Criminal Code, for having committed the fact by making use of the intimidation force of Cosa Nostra.

There are the hands of Cosa Nostra in some of the Maltese online gambling companies, which are used as washing machines for money laundering. The suspicion was recently confirmed by the Italian police operation Game Over II which last week led to the arrest of 12 people in the provinces of Palermo, Ragusa, Messina, Agrigento and Trapani. Among those arrested, according to reports from MaltaToday, two Italians residing in Malta (Angelo Repoli, 45, from Sant'Agata di Militello, and Sergio Moltisanti, 50, from Ragusa) who had opened two Maltese companies for online gaming, respectively Pinpoint Ltd. and Quantum Leap Ltd.

The two companies were operational between 2016 and 2018 when the license was revoked following the results of the first Game Over operation, which led to the arrest of the 'king of slot machines' Ninni Bacchi. But according to what was discovered by the Times of Malta on the basis of documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Project Italy, at least one of these (with the LB Casino brand) continued to be active at least until May of this year managed by a person from Palermo, nicknamed 'Jonathan', close to the families of Partinico and Mazara del Vallo and with ties to the same super-fledgling Matteo Messina Denaro.

The turnover of the two companies was estimated at around 14 million euros per month, sums that were passed through the online gaming companies by hundreds of players recruited in Italy to whom we were provided with the money and credentials for the dummy accounts, all with the password 'Ita12345!'. The Mga (Malta Gaming Authority), the authority that regulates the sector that is the protagonist of the island's economic boom, has contacted the Italian magistrates to identify any other companies connected to organized crime.

Former Italy forward Miccoli jailed for ‘Mafia’ extortion
Italy’s former international Fabrizio Miccoli has been sentenced to prison for his role in the extortion of a nightclub owner along with a son of a reputed Sicilian Mafia boss. (Reuters)

Updated 24 November 2021
AFP
November 24, 2021
19:23
Italy's highest court of appeal confirmed to AFP that Miccoli's initial 2017 conviction and sentence had been upheld
Miccoli's sentence relates to an affair that dates back to 2010

Italy’s highest court of appeal confirmed to AFP that Miccoli’s initial 2017 conviction and sentence had been upheld, meaning three years and six months in prison for trying to help a friend recover a 12,000 euro (today $13,442) debt by using a “Mafia method.”
The Gazzetta Dello Sport reports that Miccoli has handed himself in at Rovigo prison, around 60 kilometers from Venice.
Miccoli’s sentence — already upheld in an initial appeal in January last year — relates to an affair that dates back to 2010.
The court ruled that the then-captain of Palermo contacted Mauro Lauricella, son of alleged mob boss Antonino Lauricella, to try to reclaim the owed money from the owner of a club located outside Palermo.
The pair were judged to have used violence and threats in order to recover the debt for Giorgio Gasparini, a former physio at Palermo.
Lauricella junior was sentenced last month to seven years in prison for his role in the crime by the same appeals court.
Around the time the accusations came to light in 2013, Italian daily La Repubblica revealed wiretapped conversations in which Miccoli called murdered anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone “filth.”
Falcone, a national hero in Italy for the way he and long-time friend Paolo Borsellino fought the Sicilian Mafia, was killed along with his wife and three police escorts in a massive bomb blast in Capaci, outside Palermo in 1992.
He and Borsellino, who was also assassinated by the Mafia in another bomb attack only a few weeks later, convicted over 300 mobsters in Italy’s first “Maxi Trial,” which ended in early 1992.
Striker Miccoli, now 42, is Palermo’s all-time top goalscorer and also played for Juventus and Fiorentina in Serie A.
He played 10 times for Italy between 2003 and 2004, netting twice.

Palermo, another night of drug arrests: 31 people involved
A millionaire turnover behind which, according to investigators, there is the direction of the Cosa Nostra.


https://www.italy24news.com/local/291011.html

Gladio had links to the underworld all over Europe and Turkey.

Mafia, massacres and 007: "The armed Falange as a dowry to Totò Riina"
by Alessia Candito
Totò Riina
The new revelations of the repentant to the public prosecutor of Reggio on the attacks of '92 -93
03 DECEMBER 2021
2 MINUTES OF READING
New repentants. New acts. New documents. And a new scheme that places the history of the Sicilian and continental massacres in a broader context and with a new player on the board. It is Gladio, or rather its most secret nucleus, Falange Armata.

Until now it was considered only the mysterious symbol used from the nineties onwards to sign murders and attacks, more recently returned to order the superboss Totò Riina, who was talking too much, "shut the damn mouth". Instead, reveals the anti-mafia prosecutor of Reggio Calabria directed by Giovanni Bombardieri, it is - or at least it was - a Gladio structure that received selected elements of the services and that for decades with the mafia has shed blood and forfeited money, trying to bend the history of the country.

It is all written and documented in an information that "Repubblica" has had the opportunity to read, filed in the proceedings of the investigation by the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, "'Ndrangheta massacre". The one that in the first degree cost the seventh life sentence to the boss of Brancaccio, Giuseppe Graviano, and the first to the most holy Calabrian mammasantissima, Rocco Santo Filippone. The one that for the first time showed that the 'Ndrangheta had a role and killed in the season of the continental attacks. An investigative trace that fights in Reggio Calabria, as in Florence, Caltanissetta and Palermo, the prosecutors who still work on the massacres, those who carried out them, those who covered them. And now they have new material. Starting from the declarations of repentants such as Vittorio Foschini, who revealed how the prison educator Umberto Mormile, the first victim of the Falange, was killed in the 1990s because he had discovered the relationship between the superboss of 'Ndrangheta Domenico Papalia and the services "who, giving the authorization to the murder, recommended to claim him with an initials terrorist that they themselves pointed out ". Or those of collaborator Antonio Schettini, who explains how the kidnapping season ended, during which "the kidnappers took 500, the other 500 these apparatuses", Falange Armata was born "to compensate for this lack of income". But behind, he warns "there is a whole series of pieces of the state that move because of this acronym, so we have grants, funding, we have the establishment of new working groups, new sectors to channel".

And Falange Armata - says Filippo Malvagna - becomes an inheritance that arrives in the hands of Totò Riina, who in Enna orders to use it "to make a little confusion" because "it was not necessary to understand where all this earthquake came from". The assassination of Salvo Lima, that of Giuliano Guazzelli, the massacre of Capaci, just to name a few. A hinge signature, like some figures, able to sew the world of Gladio and those of the mafias. Like General Francesco Delfino, "brother of one of the three brains of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria", says the former repentant Annunziatino Romeo, but above all a man of clans and services. "A recruiter" specifies another repentant, Giacomo Ubaldo Lauro, who tells how the Calabrian clans came from

The same general who on January 8, 1993 arrested Balduccio Di Maggio, Totò Riina's driver, and made him speak, from whom he snatched the information necessary to arrive at the arrest of the boss a week later. At least officially. But there are the carabinieri of Palermo, who tell how Delfino never allowed them to speak with Di Maggio. And the repentant Tullio Canella, according to whom Riina was "sold" to the carabinieri by Bernardo Provenzano, "who had relations with them" and Delfino was "the contact man between the Cosa Nostra and the services". Patterns and characters that are repeated from North to South and today - it is the new investigative track - offer an unprecedented and unitary interpretation.

https://palermo.repubblica.it/crona..._armata_in_dote_a_toto_riina_-328758254/

It is well known Riina was "sold" to the carabinieri by Bernardo Provenzano.

There was much more people involved in that , not just Provenzano , even Riina's son called out Provenzano once in court .

Hollander do you know anything about the huge Moroccan population in Sicily? I imagine the Moroccans and Sicilians make a ton of money together.