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'Ndrangheta and drug trafficking, Assisi's orders from Brazil: recover half a ton of cocaine from the “Gordo”
A shipment of “500 pieces” escaped the Brazilian Federal Police and was claimed by the prisoner. Messages to his wife and the commitment of his mother
Published: 09/01/2025 – 7:00
TURIN «…tell BXX to recover all the money and everything you have to sell and he will sell it to me…» , translated: «Tell BXX to recover all the money and everything you have to sell and he will sell it to me» . This is the content of a letter that Patrick Assisi allegedly sent to his partner Paula Simoes Assisi (on the list of suspects) from prison. The investigators of the Turin DDA apparently managed to recover it from a photo acquired from the i-Cloud violated by the Brazilian federal police and used by a powerful drug trafficker known as “ BXX ”. This is one of the details that emerged from the “Samba” investigation by the Turin anti-mafia led by prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri. Just in these hours Rosalia Falletta and Rita Siria Assisi , respectively wife and daughter of Nicola Assisi and therefore mother and sister of Patrick, have returned to Italy, handing themselves over to the authorities . According to investigators, after the arrest in July 2019 of Nicola and Patrick Assisi (father and son), the two women were delegated to manage the business "on behalf of the family".
The Drugs That “Escaped” the Brazilian Police
In the circumstances reconstructed by the investigators, Patrick Assisi's (class of '83) intentions would have been to recover the credits resulting from the alleged illicit activities. The investigators of the Turin DDA are convinced of this and have reconstructed, once again, the tasks assigned to Rosalia Falletta. Furthermore, according to the investigators, Assisi's instructions would have been dictated by the need to reorganize - given his absence - the balance of the criminal organization. And, above all, they would demonstrate that the group led by the Assisi had access to a quantity of drugs that had escaped the Brazilian Federal Police.
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500 kg in the hands of the “Gorda”
Quantity of drugs – already purchased by the Assisi – remained in the possession of a certain “Gorda” or “the fat one” (or fattie) , as repeatedly indicated by the suspects themselves. The investigators intuited it from the chats detected on the Sky ECC platform by the user used by Patrick Assisi’s wife (pin 6B0005). And the quantity would have been enormous: half a ton of cocaine. During the chat, Assisi’s wife spoke of a friend of her husband in possession of 500 kg of goods but also of the need to find the person who bought them. And she explained that she had spoken with a “professor” and a “kitchen”: for the investigators a possible reference to belonging to “the first link” of the international drug trafficking chain which is the production of cocaine.
The “cuisine” in Bolivia of Assisi
From the analysis of further decrypted Sky ECC chats, the investigators would have recovered further details, starting with the “Professor” . The latter, in fact, would have explained to another user how “Sony”, that is Patrick Assisi, worked for some criminal groups – even rivals – while they would also have built a “kitchen” in Bolivia to independently proceed with the production of cocaine. From the chat, therefore, “Professor” seemed well informed and would have clarified, much more importantly, that the drug was kept by a man called “Gorda”, speaking precisely of 500 pieces already paid for.
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The ties with the Assisi, the absence of Vincenzo Pasquino
As emerged from the investigation of the Turin DDA, therefore, both “ Professor ” and “ BXX ”, both unidentified, would have been very close to the Assisi family and, in particular, to Patrick and it is for this reason that both would have agreed to help the family to recover the half ton of cocaine already paid for, doing their utmost to help the wife who – again according to the prosecution – would have also been supported by her husband’s family in Italy, represented mostly by Nicola De Carne, thus continuing the drug trafficking operations, after the arrest of her husband, and without the help of a historic collaborator of the Assisi family: Vincenzo Pasquino. Acting as “glue” – again according to what emerged from the analysis of the decrypted chats – was a certain “Mumu” ??who, upon request, would have confirmed the possession of the “500 pieces”. The recovery of the enormous load will soon become a problem since “Gorda” would then disappear. The matter will evidently remain close to Nicola Assisi's heart who, during a prison conversation dating back to June 21, 2024, in the presence of his daughter, asked his partner Rosalia Falletta if she had met the "fat guy", obtaining a cryptic and dry answer, for a matter yet to be defined. ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )
