New report by Italian intelligence confirms the predominant role of the Calabrian mafia ´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/

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

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/

Madrid? Is there a European country that the Ndrangheta hasn’t infiltrated? It’s like they’re everywhere

How prevelant are they in America?

ndrangheta is stronger in europe than americas

Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina.

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.

Why do you think they haven’t had much success in America? Not enough connections? I know they have connections in Canada but the Canadian families haven’t been as successful as the top American families.

A Camera di Controllo (board of control) exists in Canada, how successful this is hard to say.

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.

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.

I see a lot of reports about mafia members being arrested. Yet it doesn’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?

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.

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.

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/

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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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.

What is he being charged with?

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.

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.

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/brazil-port-natal-netherlands-cocaine/

Brazil’s Port of Natal New Link in Netherlands Cocaine Chain

His son Emanuele Mancuso.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/soSc9HJXCZY/hqdefault.jpg

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

According to the survey, the relations between the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta are still very solid today.

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.

How badly does that hurt the ndrangheta if at all? I thought they had been suspects in that murder since it happened.

I don´t think too much it was done as a favor to Cosa Nostra they probably didn´t want to upset Riina/Bagarella.

'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