Italian police on Thursday seized assets worth 20 million euros (about 21 million dollars) from the Mallardo Camorra clan in the cities of Caserta, Naples and Rome. Police uncovered what they called "a criminal holding company" that "accumulated enormous wealth" by laundering the Mallardo clan’s illicit gains, mostly via the construction sector.The Mallardo clan plays a key role in the criminal balance of power in the region, according to a 2016 report by the DIA.
4 convicted for Naples prosecutor bomb plot Inc. arms trafficker Amilcare Monti Condesnitt
(ANSA) - Bari, February 28 - A judge on Tuesday convicted four people for planning a Camorra Neapolitan mafia bomb attack on Naples chief prosecutor Giovanni Colangelo. The four, including noted arms trafficker Amilcare Monti Condesnitt, were sentenced to terms ranging from five years and four months to four years and eight months for possessing half a tonne of TNT. Colangelo recently said "I'll continue my work" despite death threats from the Casalesi clan of the Camorra - the clan that has forced writer Roberto Saviano into a police protection programme.
New arrest order for Rosaria 'Zi' Pagano, sister of the boss Cesare Pagano and sister-in-law of former boss Raffaele Amato. She is considered the new ruler of the clan. Pagano will have to serve her sentence of 2 years and 11 months in prison because of the offense of money laundering, committed in May 2003 in Naples.
Politicians among 69 Camorra arrests Entrepreneurs also implicated over alleged corruption
(ANSA) - Naples, March 15 - Naples finance police on Wednesday executed 69 arrest warrants in relation to a probe into the Zagaria faction of the infamous Casalesi clan of the Camorra mafia. Politicians and entrepreneurs were among the people arrested. They are accused of crimes including corruption, bid rigging and external participation in mafia association.
30 Camorra arrests in Naples area (2) Structure of Orlando clan reconstructed
(ANSA) - Naples, April 18 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 30 people north of Naples suspected of belonging to the local Camorra mafia. The 30 are suspected of mafia conspiracy, extortion, drug trafficking and possessing war-grade weapons, police said. The investigation, police said, led them to reconstruct the structure of the infamous Orlando clan, led by a fugitive, and showed them the provenance of the clan's money.
Two men killed near Naples (3) Hit on father and son in bar-tobacconist's at Giugliano
(ANSA) - Naples, May 25 - Two men, a father and son, were killed by one or more hitmen while playing on slot machines in a bar and tobacconist's in the historic centre of Giugliano near Naples Thursday, police sources said. The victims were named as Vincenzo and Emanuele Staderini, originally from Naples, who had lived in Giugliano for more than 10 years.
Murder in the night in Torre Annunziata, in the Naples area. The victim's name was Alberto Benvenuto Musto, 32, already known to the police. The man, while traveling on board a Lancia in the company of a 33 year old, was approached by two persons riding a scooter with their faces hidden by helmets. The two began to fire at Musto, without giving him a chance. The police have found 10 9mm shell casings.
Marco Di Lauro spent his 13th birthday on the run. He turned 37, his latest track leads to the Vesuvius area. Number two on the most wanted list after MMD.
The Camorra turns to teenagers to enforce its rule of organised crime
Print edition | Europe Jun 22nd 2017 | NAPLES LESS than a hundred yards away, Via San Biagio dei Librai in the centre of Naples bustles with activity. Tourists buy souvenirs and munch pizza, oblivious to the meaning of the coded graffiti on the street’s peeling walls. But in a side alley, all is solemn hush. Beyond a door, in a courtyard, stands a tall metal cabinet displaying a ceramic bust of a young man, surrounded by fresh white roses. If not for his hipster beard and haircut, it could be the shrine of a long-dead saint.
The building that surrounds the courtyard is the redoubt of one of the many warring clans of Italy’s oldest yet least-cohesive mafia, the Camorra. The young man to whom the shrine is dedicated is Emanuele Sibillo, the archetype of a new breed of Neapolitan gangster. He was murdered in 2015 at the age of 19 in a nearby street that forms part of the territory of a rival crew.
Naples has seldom been free of turf wars. But recent months have seen a surge in violence. In 11 days, between May 25th and June 4th, eight people were shot dead in the city and its surrounding province. The police sent reinforcements to the area, even though the army had already been deployed. Much of the recent violence is the work of clans like the one led by Emanuele Sibillo and his brother. Some of these so-called “baby gangs” have members as young as 12. On May 24th the Carabinieri, Italy’s semi-militarised police, arrested an alleged “baby boss” who is only 16. The son of a jailed Camorra chief, the boy is accused of killing two of his subordinates last year. They had reportedly demanded a bigger share of the proceeds from drug-trafficking, which is the Camorra’s lifeblood.
As the head of the Italian state police, Franco Gabrielli, acknowledged, the baby gangs are a perverse result of successful policing. The courts have locked up so many veteran clan bosses in recent years that the task of holding Naples in thrall to the Camorra has fallen to ever-younger, more reckless affiliates. (If they are under 14, they cannot be held criminally liable for their misdeeds.)
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Their favourite technique for asserting dominance is the stesa, a term that comes from stendere (“to stretch out”): the baby gang erupts into a crowded square, riding mopeds and firing at random, usually in the air. People dive for cover or prostrate themselves in fear of their lives. In a piazza in the Sanità area, a monument has been erected to another young Neapolitan. Genny Cesarano, aged 17, was fatally shot during a stesa in the piazza in 2015. After a recent spate of such shooting parties, the police blanketed the district with patrols and roadblocks. But there have been three more since. Carmela Manco, a volunteer social worker since the 1980s, recalls with a wistful smile the days when the Camorra would alert her in time to get children off the streets: “They rang us. A voice would say, ‘Attenzione, che piove’ [‘Watch out. It’s going to rain’]. Ms Manco runs L’Oasi, a sports and cultural centre in the San Giovanni a Teduccio district intended for children of camorristi and others close to the underworld. “We have kids here who can’t read or write, but sing Stravinsky,” she says. The aim is to keep the children off the streets so they do not drift into theft, drug-peddling or other routes to jail or an early death. The families are not always helpful. At one point the father of one of her charges murdered the father of another. San Giovanni a Teduccio has so far been free of baby gangs. But Father Gaetano Romano, the parish priest, wonders for how long. The dominant local clan has lately clashed with the Sibillo crew and its allies. “My fear is that there will be repercussions here,” he says. Underpinning the Camorra’s grip on the young is its ability to offer extremely lucrative work in a region where the employment rate among 15- to 24-year-olds is under 12%. A frequent complaint is that the Camorra provides the jobs that the state fails to. But, argues Francesco Grillo, a Neapolitan economist, Italian governments have invested heavily in Naples over the years. The only effect has been to sustain a ruling class all too often complicit with the Camorra.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Young blood"
The State Police have arrested the baby boss Alessio Angrisano, 20, sought since last January. A fugitive believed by investigators to head the clan of Vanella Grassi, also called the "shot" of Scampia: Angrisano was tracked down and captured by agents of Scampia police and the crime prevention unit in Villaricca (Naples).
A young man of 15 years was wounded in the left buttock by a gunshot fired during an ambush in Naples against a former associate justice. The boy was playing football with friends. The target, unharmed, fled in the police station of Marianella.
14 ARRESTED IN SPAIN IN EU OPERATION AGAINST CAMORRA GANG
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish police have arrested 14 people in the northeastern city of Barcelona as part of a European operation against the Camorra organized crime gang.
The State prosecutors' office said there were also arrests in Italy and Germany in the Europol-coordinated operation Wednesday against drug-trafficking and money laundering.
Civil Guard police said 10 Italians, a Chilean, a Colombian, a Spaniard and a Venezuelan were arrested in Barcelona.
Police in Barcelona said several premises, including store rooms and restaurants, were being raided.
Officers arrested 18 suspects in Italy, 12 in Spain and three in Germany. Spain was their “strategic” location because they think they can go “about their business under less scrutiny”.
Salvatore Polverino aka "Toratto", son of the fugitive boss Antonio, was arrested along with a contractor, Antonio Visconti, for fictitious interposition of goods aggravated by the mafia method. His father has been sentenced to 25 years.
Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
turncoat walking around like that in Italy ? Well...
Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
turncoat walking around like that in Italy ? Well...
Many turncoats get tired of the wpp after a while and go back to their old lifestyle despite the danger. His brother, Luciano, had also repented. He started to rebuild the cartel that tried to take the place of the clan D'Alessandro in Castellammare.
The Carabinieri in the hinterland north of Naples arrested 10 suspects believed linked to the Camorra clans of "Orlando" and "Nuvoletta-Lubrano". The charges, for various reasons, are mafia-type association and extortion by mafia purposes. They discovered an arsenal with four Kalashnikovs, a machine gun, a rifle, 3 semi-automatic and about 600 cartridges found in a garage.
Great post Hollander. Crazy to think about kids as young as 12-15 being involved.
According to Saviano the greatest change in the Camorra is related to the generations. The heads today are delegating to very young people who control the territory. They give power to kids who are 15 to 20 years-old.
The 22-year-old Moroccan Enis Mahmoudi was shot dead friday night in Giugliano. The young man was believed to be close to the Paparella group and may have been eliminated on the order of the historic leg of the Secondigliano Alliance to stop the rise of the new group.
In Salerno a 35 year old was killed while on board his scooter. Ciro D'Onofrio, was approached by one or more killers, the ambush was late Sunday evening while there were several people on the street. Investigators look at different trails, including drug trafficking.
Arrested in Italy, a leader of the Neapolitan Camorra Giuseppe Simioli, head of the 'Polverino clan', lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain
Efe / Madrid 28.08.2017 | 11:27 Agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Carabinieri Weapon have arrested in Italy the leader of the "clan Polverino" of the Neapolitan camorra, Giuseppe Simioli, alias "Peruociolo", in search and capture since 2010 and that Lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain.
According to the Directorate General of the Civil Guard, the arrested had four arrest warrants and faces in Italy requests for 24 years in prison for crimes of illicit association, drug trafficking and arms trafficking .
The first investigations against the clan began in the year 2009, when the Benemérita began to look for its clan leaders who lived between Spain and Italy.
After the arrest in 2012 of the leader of the band, Giuseppe Polverino, the agents focused their investigation on Giuseppe Simioli, who was suspected that had taken the reins of this clan of the camorra.
In order to obtain information about their whereabouts, the investigators focused the monitoring and control work on residents or temporary visitors in Spain who could maintain some kind of relationship with Simioli.
In this way, a woman who had a relationship with him was located and discovered that she alternated a month of residence in Spain with three in Italy and that she adopted several measures of security during her travels, such as constantly changing vehicles.
The same method continued in May of this year to travel from Barcelona to a locality to the south of Rome, where it was stopped thanks to the collaboration between the agents of the UCO and the Carabinieri.
Since 2008, the UCO has detained in Spain more than 100 members of Italian organizations - Camorra, "Cosa Nostra", l'Ndrangueta - and collaborates with the Italian security forces, who have detained more than 400 members of these Clans.
Two men shot dead in the center of Napels. The victims are Salvatore Dragonetti and Edoardo Amoruso, the latter brother-in-law of the Giuliano brothers, former bosses of the Forcella district.
Francesco Avolio, 43-year-old from Scampia called 'Tyson', was arrested for the murder of Gennaro De Roberto, an exponent of the Bellofiore-Sebastiano clan, that took place in Naples on 25 September 1996. Avolio was driving the motorbike that carried the killer who materially fired against the victim. He was at the time part of the so-called Secondigliano Alliance, a clan formed by the families Contini, Mallardo, Licciardi and Moccia.
The Camorra returns to Naples. An ambush in the night killed Nicola Notturno, 21, who was killed with numerous gunshots in via Ghisleri.
Known to law enforcement officers, Nicola was the son of Raffaele Notturno, a prominent feature of Scampia's scissionists. Above all, he was the nephew of Gennaro Notturno, known with the nickname of 'o sarracino, the boss repented less than a month ago and is rebuilding the "origins of evil" before the magistrates of the Dda of Naples.
Another murder Gennaro Verrano, 38, was shot dead in the Spanish Quarter. A real escalation of violence is what the capital of Campania has seen in recent months. In particular, in the Spanish Quarter is a clash between the various families once united with the powerful Mariano clan.
Blitz of law enforcement against the clan Lo Russo: 43 arrests Identified retailers of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and hashish in the districts of Miano, Piscinola, Marianella and Chiaiano and in the Don Guanella district. Among the arrested are Damiano Pecorelli and Salvatore Angelo Miraglia, defined by the collaborators of justice, traffickers of great thickness with important contacts in South America.
The Secondigliano Penitentiary Police Operations Unit arrested today in the Spanish Quarter Salvatore Melotti, 27, sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for drug trafficking and possession of false documents. Melotti is the son of Umberto Melotti, lieutenant of the Mariano clan who was killed in an ambush in 2005.
Five tons of smuggled cigarettes - "Marlboro" and "Chesterfield", all with foreign state monopoly marks, have been seized in Palma Campania (Naples) by the Guardia di Finanza, which also detained four people. The estimated value of "blondes" is about 2 million euros. They would have been sold on the clandestine markets of Napels, about 3 euros per packet.
Blitz anti-Camorra in the Ponticelli district in Naples, against 23 people allegedly responsible for a variety of breach of criminal association mafia, homicide, extortion, detention and illegal harboring of weapons, reception and fire with the aggravating of the mafia method.
The investigations, coordinated by the DDA in Naples, allowed to rebuild the rise of the De Micco clan, once the rib of the clan Cuccaro, which by the end of 2012 was imposed in the district of Ponticelli. For investigators, this is an autonomous organization, with all the features of a Camorra-style association, such as hierarchical structure, territorial control, squatting squares and extraterritorial activities.
Theinvestigations have allowed to reconstruct the criminal context in which the murder of Salvatore Solla and the attempted murder of Giovanni Ardu occurred on December 23, 2016, identifying the perpetrators and the material authors.
The episode is part of the war between the De Micco clan and Salvatore Solla, a former affiliate of the Sarno clan.
An ambush on Sunday carried out against Antonio Iorio, 55, in Afragola is likely part of a feud with the old leadership of the Moccia clan. Tonino was injured, but survived.
Some groups do, it's just a little step beyond the traditional tattoos of the Camorra with the guns, knives and knuckledusters intertwined with votive rosaries and other religious imagery.
A so-called Stesa in Naples. A random drive-by shooting by the Rinaldi clan in a show of strength against the new young leader of the Mazzarellas. Their enemies prefer black fashion so they are the blacks.
Ambush of the camorra in Massa di Somma, in Viale Cortiello, at 1.00 pm. A man was killed by three gunshots under his home. The local carabinieri investigate the case. The victim is Vincenzo Provvisiero, 58, considered close to the Vollaro clan.
Camorra, arrested in Caserta the boss called "O ghost"
Carlo Avallone, 30, would have organized intimidation and ambushes in Naples to control drug trafficking. He is accused of murder attempts, raids on the fish market, shooting against a betting room, a supermarket and a car wash. He is also accused of organizing homicide attempts and drug control and extortion. He wanted to create a new clan, between Monteruscello and Licola, in the province of Naples. The territory, after the dismantling of the Longobardi-Beneduce clan and the arrest of Regent Gennaro Longobardi, would have become appealing for Carlo Avallone, together with a group of young people, he would try violently to take control of the squares and the extortion, wanting to create a new clan. The man was captured in a villa in Pescopagano, fraction of Mondragone (Caserta). "O ghost" was inside a house with a man considered his right arm; he did not resist, nor tried to escape, letting himself be handcuffed. Six other people were arrested (3 men and 3 women) and a minor was reported: they will have to answer for personal aid.
In Bagnoli the boss's wife's car was attacked. The woman was injured in a shoulder but is not in serious condition. The ambush took place near Piazza Seneca. The victim of the incident is the wife of a man, formerly affiliated to the Cavalcanti clan and today - according to investigative sources - considered close to the clan Soprendente.
Gunshots were fired last night in Portici. The Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Torre del Greco intervened in via Cellini, where three holes were found on the entrance door of a building on the ground floor and on the glass of the porter's lodge. In the building lives a 38-year-old special security guard, considered the current regent of the Vollaro clan. Investigations are ongoing.
Filippo Ronga, member of the Ranucci clan, was arrested last night in Formia (Latina) after a fire fight with the Carabinieri, he was wanted for five years. He was in the company of a man and a woman and was walking. Stopped by the military he resisted. A fight began during which Ronga aimed a gun against a carabiniere. Another soldier, seeing the danger, shot him three times, striking Ronga in the chest and leg; he is now hospitalized and arrested for attempted homicide. Ronga was wanted for robbery.
A killer commando killed Annamaria Palmieri, 55, a woman-boss with several criminal records for criminal association, drugs and property crimes. The victim's body was found with her face turned to the ground. The woman was executed with three blows to the face. Some of the woman's relatives warned the police. The area San Giovanni a Teduccio in Naples has long been the scene of a Camorra feud.
A woman was found dead in the San Giovanni a Teduccio neighbourhood of Naples, Monday night, in a brutal killing bearing the hallmarks of the Camorra clan warfare.
Police arrested 45 members of the infamous Moccia clan active in the province of Naples and the region of Lazio. Among them the boss Luigi Moccia, who lives in Rome.
Vegas Mikey please delete that thread asap . Season 3 hasn't started yet in the US and that post just about fucks the entire season 3 up for everyone . Come on man you know better then that
Vegas Mikey please delete that thread asap . Season 3 hasn't started yet in the US and that post just about fucks the entire season 3 up for everyone . Come on man you know better then that
Armando Schiavone: arrested accountant of the Casalesi January 26, 2018 Armando Schiavone will have to serve a sentence of over 9 years imprisonment Armando Schiavone was arrested by agents of the Caserta Mobile Squad. Since last November, his tracks had been lost. Now, he will have to serve a sentence of nine years and three months imprisonment for mafia-type criminal association. Not only. In fact, the other charges that hang on his head are the criminal association aimed at the abusive exercise of gambling and betting activities, illicit competition with violence and threats and money laundering. In addition, there is the aggravating circumstance of having favored the Casalesi clan .
Schiavone was arrested in Cercola, in the province of Naples. But it does not end here. In fact, at the time of the arrest, the man was in the company of two subjects. Both were reported to the judicial authority for personal aid aggravated by the mafia purpose.
Strax if you read parts of Antonio Iovine's testimony you will see that the Casalesi were on the same level as the Sicilians. It was Iovine who killed Ciro Nuvoletta.
Iovine has also told prosecutors that the Camorra was able to build a lucrative criminal empire with the collusion of corrupt politicians across the political spectrum, but now he wants to create a new life.
“I began co-operating so I could have a better future, to turn my life around,†Iovine said during four hours of video evidence on Friday.
The former boss recounted details of corrupt politicians from the Left and Right, including a former local mayor, Enrico Fabozzi, from the centre-left Democratic party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Mr Fabozzi is accused of having colluded with the mafia
I think Hollander was talking about 2000-2010 period,not the 1980's. If we are talking about that period, i agree they were on same level as Sicilians,Casalesi are more like Sicilian Mafia family ,rather than a camorra clan.
I don't know how powerful they are nowadays,but they are for sure one of most powerful in Naples.
I remember reading Roberto Savianos book Gomorrah. He said the Corleonesi didnt want any war with Casalesi cause they were to powerful. Dont know if thats bullshit or not but thats his word.
Strax if you read parts of Antonio Iovine's testimony you will see that the Casalesi were on the same level as the Sicilians. It was Iovine who killed Ciro Nuvoletta.
Iovine has also told prosecutors that the Camorra was able to build a lucrative criminal empire with the collusion of corrupt politicians across the political spectrum, but now he wants to create a new life.
“I began co-operating so I could have a better future, to turn my life around,†Iovine said during four hours of video evidence on Friday.
The former boss recounted details of corrupt politicians from the Left and Right, including a former local mayor, Enrico Fabozzi, from the centre-left Democratic party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Mr Fabozzi is accused of having colluded with the mafia
I remember reading Roberto Savianos book Gomorrah. He said the Corleonesi didnt want any war with Casalesi cause they were to powerful. Dont know if thats bullshit or not but thats his word.
If he meant on Corleonesi from 1980's with Toto Riina,Bagarella etc. ,that is total bullshit , they went to war with everyone who didn't obey their rules.
I remember reading Roberto Savianos book Gomorrah. He said the Corleonesi didnt want any war with Casalesi cause they were to powerful. Dont know if thats bullshit or not but thats his word.
If he meant on Corleonesi from 1980's with Toto Riina,Bagarella etc. ,that is total bullshit , they went to war with everyone who didn't obey their rules.
But wasnt it Rafaele Cutolo who didnt obey Toto's rules. Better yet he pissed on his shoes when Toto pulled a gun to his head.
I remember reading Roberto Savianos book Gomorrah. He said the Corleonesi didnt want any war with Casalesi cause they were to powerful. Dont know if thats bullshit or not but thats his word.
If he meant on Corleonesi from 1980's with Toto Riina,Bagarella etc. ,that is total bullshit , they went to war with everyone who didn't obey their rules.
But wasnt it Rafaele Cutolo who didnt obey Toto's rules. Better yet he pissed on his shoes when Toto pulled a gun to his head.
If i remember correctly that story is backed only by Raffaele Cutolo himself and he is crazy , like totally insane.
I never read that story was backed by someone else rather then Cutolo, i don't believe him for a bit. Toto Riina didnt give a shit for anyone,im sure he would shot him without thinking for a second.
I remember reading Roberto Savianos book Gomorrah. He said the Corleonesi didnt want any war with Casalesi cause they were to powerful. Dont know if thats bullshit or not but thats his word.
Cosa nostra tried to kill Antonio Bardellino a few times, but failed each time. Anyway the Corleonesi and Casalesi are still close.
Hollander do you believe Antonio Bardellino is alive? According to some witnesses he is alive in South America. And since his body was never found,i am very sceptical
Doggystyle i never managed to find whole testimony only parts from various newspaper articles.
Hollander do you believe Antonio Bardellino is alive? According to some witnesses he is alive in South America. And since his body was never found,i am very sceptical
Doggystyle i never managed to find whole testimony only parts from various newspaper articles.
No idea if he's alive, the Bardellino family still has some influence it may be a family secret. Maybe some day they talk about it on wiretaps. Angelo Bardellino, son of Ernesto and nephew of Antonio, was sentenced last year to seven years.
You're right you need to google it to read what Iovine testified.
The statements of the former boss of Casalesi have contributed to shed light on the murder of the traffic policeman Antonio Diana, killed at 30 in San Cipriano d'Aversa (Caserta) 11 February 1989. Eliminated because considered a traitor. Seven people were arrested for the murder in 2016.
Also you have to remember Bidognetti's nephew Gaetano Cerci was close to "Il Puparo" Licio Gelli, head of P2. Michele Bidognetti now leads the faction of his brother, but was arrested in 2016.
If he meant on Corleonesi from 1980's with Toto Riina,Bagarella etc. ,that is total bullshit , they went to war with everyone who didn't obey their rules.
saviano is sometimes a bullshitter, if he thinks cutolo or casalesi were even close to sicilian mafia in the 1980s lol totò riina declared war even to italian government casalesi were part of cosa nostra and they obeyed to riina like the others
How big is the Camorra when it comes to Counterfeiting. Can they come close to the Asian crime groups? I know when it comes to fashion they are pretty big but in everything else?
Vegas Mikey please delete that thread asap . Season 3 hasn't started yet in the US and that post just about fucks the entire season 3 up for everyone . Come on man you know better then that
i was super pissed about this mess Vegas mike pulled!!!!!!!!!! the mods should pull it
Vegas Mikey please delete that thread asap . Season 3 hasn't started yet in the US and that post just about fucks the entire season 3 up for everyone . Come on man you know better then that
i was super pissed about this mess Vegas mike pulled!!!!!!!!!! the mods should pull it
What r u 5 yrs. old??..dont read it if it upsets u..cmon..
I've posted this a dozen times, are you saying this was bullshit?
“The Nuvolettas are the only family outside Sicily that sits in the cupola, the high command of Cosa Nostra. Not simply allies or affiliates, they are one of the most powerful groups in the bosom of the Mafia, with structural ties to the Corleones. So powerful—according to pentito Giovanni Brusca—that when in the late 1990s the Sicilians decided to plant bombs all over Italy, they asked the Marano clan for advice and cooperation.
The Nuvolettas thought the idea was crazy, a strategy that had more to do with political favors than military results.
They refused to participate in the attacks or provide logistical support, a refusal expressed without any hint of reprisal.
Totò Riina personally implored the boss Angelo Nuvoletta to corrupt the judges in his first mass trial, but here too the Marano clan refused to help the military wing of the Corleone family.
During the feuds within La Nuova Famiglia, after their victory over Cutolo, the Nuvolettas sent for Giovanni Brusca, the boss of San Giovanni Jato and the murderer of Judge Giovanni Falcone.* They wanted Brusca to eliminate five people in Campania and dissolve two of them in acid. They called him the way[…]â€
Also, I'm sure you seen this before, about the three mafias working together, not everyone doing the bidding of the Sicilians? Seriously, where are you getting this?
“The Casalesi cartel’s strength has always been its ability to handle large drug lots without needing to feed an internal market. They are “present on Rome’s vast drug market, but more significant is their role in the sale of huge consignments.
The 2006 acts of the Anti-Mafia Commission indicate that the Casalesi were supplying the Palermo families with drugs.
( This, I believe is or was true, because of what we saw with Old Bridge in 2008. Sicilian Mafiosi traveling across the Atlantic to meet with high level Gambinos, who were large scale Narcotics traffickers since at least the 70s, maybe more like the 50s. All of them with connections to the Cupola in Sicily. They likely were tired of going through Camorra middlemen. The Gambinos had interest in Venuezuela, I've recently read the Piromallis are there too, probably in partnership with those old school Gambinos and the Caruana Clan...)
Alliances with Nigerian and Albanian clans meant they no longer had to be involved in direct peddling and narcotrafficking operations. Pacts with clans in Lagos and Benin City, alliances with Mafia families in PriÅtina and Tirana, and agreements with Ukrainian Mafiosi in Lviv and Kiev liberated the Casalesi from bottom-rung criminal activities. At the same time the Casalesi received privileged treatment in investments in Eastern Europe and in the purchase of cocaine from Nigeria-based international traffickers.....
So, yeah I think for a time they were stronger than the mafia as far as their ability to generate liquidity. By their own account, they don't share the same philosophy with the Sicilians. It seems to me the politicians have less power in Naples than in Sicily. Naples has always been about the black markets, like moving product, more than extortion in collusion with corrupt politicians.
Put it this way, to my eyes the Sicilian mafia has been the strongest when it operated like the Naples gangs, family controlled narcotics syndicates.( Both the French and Pizza connections seem to be like Golden Ages during those time periods. Hell, throw the Calabrian coke avalanche in there too. The only other comparable times to me were the sack of Palermo, all that concrete money. And the old Citrus wars between the Grecos). It seems that's when they make the most money.
How would you rate the counterfeit business vs the extortion business? Equal? More for extortion? Very curious.....
A lot of this stuff reminds of the sack of Palermo, this was big money.....
“Current investigations reveal that construction companies connected to the Casalesi clan have infiltrated the TAV or high-speed-train works in the north, just as they have done in the south. A July 1995 investigation coordinated by Judge Franco Imposimato revealed that the large companies that had won bids for the Naples-Rome leg of the TAV then subcontracted the work to Edilsud, a company connected to none other than Michele Zagaria, as well as to dozens of other companies linked with the Casalese cartel. A deal that yielded about 5 billion euros.
“Investigations show that the Zagaria clan had already reached an agreement with the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta about their firms’ participation in the bidding in the “the event that the TAV were to get as far south as Reggio Calabria.
“Officially there are 517 construction companies in Casal di Principe. A great many of them are direct emanations of the clans, and there are hundreds more in the area, an army ready to cement over anything. The clans have not blocked development in the area, but rather rerouted the benefits into their pockets. In the past five years, veritable commercial thrones of cement have been built in just a few square miles: one of the largest movie theater complexes in Italy in Marcianise; the largest shopping center in southern Italy in Teverola; and the largest shopping center in Europe in Marcianise—all within a region with extremely high unemployment that is continually hemorrhaging emigrants. Enormous commercial complexesâ€
“Just the real estate assets seized by the Naples DDA in the last few years amount to 750 million euros. The lists are frightening. In the Spartacus trial alone, 199 buildings, 52 pieces of property, 14 companies, 12 automobiles, and 3 boats were confiscated. Over the years, according to a 1996 trial, Schiavone and his trusted men have seen the seizure of assets worth 230 million euros: companies, villas, lands, buildings, and powerful automobiles, including the Jaguar in which Sandokan was found at the time of his first arrest. Confiscations that would have destroyed any company, losses that would have ruined any businessman, economic blows that would have capsized any firm. Anyone but the Casalesi cartel. Every time I read about the seizure of property, every time I see the lists of assets the DDA has confiscated from the bosses, I feel depressed and exhausted; everywhere I turn, everything seems to be theirs. Everything. Land, buffalos, farms, quarries, garages, dairies, hotels, and restaurants. A sort of Camorra omnipotence. I can’t see anything that doesn’t belong to them.
This doesn't strike me as disorganized. I think what you guys mean is that they don't have as many Masonic connections and ties to corrupt politicians. (Also they are horizontal, not vertical like the other two.) But they seem to not really care about politicians favors as being able to make deals with them.
And they do marriages, rather than initiations, since it's based on family. Everyone else is like hired employees, maybe not even actual clan members. To my eyes it's very similar to Mexican cartel federations......
A 41-year-old from San Cipriano d'Aversa, Salvatore Lionetti, was arrested by the police for an attempted extortion of one million euro against an entrepreneur in the province of Modena. Lionetti, called 'O Zingarone, ended up in handcuffs with a 59-year-old AS, considered the principal, and with a third person, considered the mediator. Lionetti, a resident of Castelfranco for some years, is an old acquaintance of law enforcement. On November 30, 2007 he was injured in a leg in a shooting in the center of Castelfranco.. In October 2015, Lionetti was sentenced in first instance to 5 years and 4 months for the Camorra crimes committed in 2010, as part of the investigation into a group in which the leading figures were Alfonso Perrone called 'O Pazzo and his right-hand man Sigismondo Di Puorto, boss of the Casalesi.
CabriniGreen if you look the assets seized to sicilian mafia are even bigger than camorra, sicilian mafia in sicily owns hotels, construction firms, garbage enterprises, supermarkets, bet agencies, slot and video poker machines, countryside lands, discoteques, restaurants, every sort of shops etc. saviano doesn't know so much about sicilian mafia, he only focus on camorra and a bit of ndrangheta the fact that camorra sometimes supplied sicilians with cocaine it doesn't mean it was stronger also the fact tha casalesi and nuvoletta are members of cosa nostra shows like sicilian mafia had a big influence in campania and not the opposite sicilian mafia is more linked with politician and freemasons camorra have people scattered abroad but not whole crime families like the sicilians i don't know who generates more money between counterfeit goods and extortions anyway
Iovine has begun to talk and no one knows when he will stop while in Naples as in Rome many are worried about the new revelations. The new contributor said, among other things, that he managed the clan cash register until 2008 "that every month Casalesi could count on about 350 thousand euro of income without counting the personal income that each boss could get." Iovine recalled: "I managed to raise all my business between 130 and 140 thousand euros a month, I had the burden of paying at least 60 thousand for salaries but at least 70 thousand remained for me a month."
I dont understand.. Here we're reading about the billions these bosses make etc but still the boss of bosses Antonio Iovine says he got 130-140 thousand euros a month, of which he only got 70 thousands for himself.
you should understand that the billionaire earnings of mafia bosses is usually bullshit, ant this applies to italian mafia, russian oc, mexican cartels, chinese triads or whoever the bosses who really earns very much are few, people like pablo escobar, el chapo or matteo messina denaro, the others much less than people use to think
That what i am talking to him for a long time , i said numbers of times that what media reports billions and billions are total bullshit. Probably Matteo Messina Denaro is one of top bosses by $ in Italy or even Europe
I know mostly about Albanian crime figures because i have a lot of albanian friends who lives in that life and some of them has cousins who plays in the big league of Albanian organized crime and some of them are quite big players themselves. I know for a fact the Osmani brothers in Hamburg are easily worth a billion dollar. People who have worked for them and with them has told me that they have a legitimate buisness thats worth about 3-400 million euros but thats nothing compared to the money they make owning Casinos and St Pauli, Reepeerbahn.
So i believe there is many bosses who has big money like 1 billion and over but not on their name. Because every Albanian i've met who got a name in the life, they tell me the Italians are on another level, not on violence part but on the money part.
That what i am talking to him for a long time , i said numbers of times that what media reports billions and billions are total bullshit. Probably Matteo Messina Denaro is one of top bosses by $ in Italy or even Europe
The organizations make billions and spreading it around, not the bosses.
That what i am talking to him for a long time , i said numbers of times that what media reports billions and billions are total bullshit. Probably Matteo Messina Denaro is one of top bosses by $ in Italy or even Europe
The organizations make billions and spreading it around, not the bosses.
Indeed,i meant on individuals in organized crime. But i still think the figures some media reports like 100 billion + for 'Ndrangheta is bullshit. Some of them reports 10-15 billions , some around 40(mostly saw this one) and again i saw some reports saying 150 billion which is absurd. I dont think all 4 italian mafia groups pull that much money
matteo messina denaro is really worth to billions, police seized almost 1 billion in assets from him but the bosses with so much money are few i didn't know the osmani brothers were so rich
Antonio Mele, 57, and Biagio Palumbo, 53 , were shot dead in a car in Naples Wednesday in an apparent Camorra hit. The ambush took place in the Miano quarter, local sources said.
I never heard osmani brothers are worth that much, so far i heard its around 300-400 millions.
Their legitimate buisnesses is worth that, their casinos, construction companies etc. But they also own all the red light districts in Hamburg and are heavily involved in drugs. One of the brothers runs a Shipping company(i wonder for what).
And still i dont think they are on the same level as Camorra/Ndrangheta bosses for example
In May 2011 Italian police seized more than a billion euros in suspected Polverino clan assets "including construction companies, luxury villas and cars, vast tracts of land, shell companies, bank accounts and even butchers and bakeries"
more than a billion dollars seized from the Polverino clan and i dont belive these assets are divided into all of the members in the clan but only a few.. And thats only what the police have seized there was probably much more PLUS its the Polverinos, they are nowhere near the Zagarias,Iovines,Di Lauros etc.
Camorra boss 'depressed' by tough jail regime (3) Casalesi chieftain Zagaria 'suffering from 41 bis'
(ANSA) - Caserta, February 9 - Michele Zagaria, a top boss in the Casalesi clan of the Naples Camorra mafia, has been diagnosed with severe depression due to the tough '41-bis' prison regime for Italian mafiosi, one of his lawyers said Friday. "It's really too hard for him," said Angelo Raucci of Zagaria's alleged mental problems brought on by the jail regime. "As a protest Zagaria has revoked me and my colleague from some trials, obviously for some proceedings in which he has decided not to defend himself any more," said Raucci. Zagaria, 59, is one of the main bosses of the Casalesi clan from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta northwest of Naples. He is nicknamed Capastorta, which translates to wrong-head, because of his violent reputation. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the interior from 1995 until his arrest in 2011, for Camorra association, murder, extortion, robbery and other crimes. The Casalesi clan are the ones who have forced anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano into round-the-clock police protection.
Camorra boss 'depressed' by tough jail regime (3) Casalesi chieftain Zagaria 'suffering from 41 bis'
(ANSA) - Caserta, February 9 - Michele Zagaria, a top boss in the Casalesi clan of the Naples Camorra mafia, has been diagnosed with severe depression due to the tough '41-bis' prison regime for Italian mafiosi, one of his lawyers said Friday. "It's really too hard for him," said Angelo Raucci of Zagaria's alleged mental problems brought on by the jail regime. "As a protest Zagaria has revoked me and my colleague from some trials, obviously for some proceedings in which he has decided not to defend himself any more," said Raucci. Zagaria, 59, is one of the main bosses of the Casalesi clan from Casal di Principe in the province of Caserta northwest of Naples. He is nicknamed Capastorta, which translates to wrong-head, because of his violent reputation. He was on the "most wanted list" of the Italian ministry of the interior from 1995 until his arrest in 2011, for Camorra association, murder, extortion, robbery and other crimes. The Casalesi clan are the ones who have forced anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano into round-the-clock police protection.
The 41 bis regime prisons in Italy, are they similar to the Supermax prisons in USA? I find it wierd that in Italy where there is so much corruption and the Mafia has such power these prisons exist.
Read about Paolo Di lauro and i must say that he is a fucking badass.. His answer to the tough 41 bis regime was that he himself wanted no contact with his family nor his lawyers just to show the Italian state that he dont give a fuck.
That's precisely what I mean.... These are usually hard numbers, and assets you can TOUCH. I don't think these numbers are made up. And you see it pretty regularly with these drug clans.
Like the Polverinos from what I understand were a cadet branch of the Nuvolettas, kinda how DiLauro started as a lieutenant for another boss, LaMonica, I think. And they are saying they took a BILLION off of em. These people were the most sophisticated street traffickers I've heard about. They let the COMMUNITY, like regular people invest in cocaine like a STOCK,(!!!!) and they paid out. So they always had a ready source of capital to make large buys, it's like skimming a union with no Union.
I don't get the less organized thing, honestly.....
(Also, These clans in their prime, I'm not talking about 2018, were running huge retail operations that were serving, ALL OF EUROPE, they came from all over....they were making really big money...)
“The Nuvolettas, in cooperation with the Nettuno and Polverino subclans, also altered narcotraffic investment strategies, creating a popular shareholding system for cocaine. A 2004 Naples DDA investigation revealed that the clan was allowing everyone to participate in the acquisition of cocaine via intermediaries. Retirees, workers, and small businessmen would hand over money to agents, who then invested it in drug lots. If you invested your pension of 600 euros in cocaine, you’d double your money in a month. The only guarantee was the middleman’s word, but the investment proved regularly advantageous. The profit far outweighed the risk, especially compared with what one would have made in bank interest. The only disadvantage was organizational: small investors were often required to stash pats of cocaine—a way to distribute the supply and make it practically impossible to confiscate. By involving the lower-middle class, who were far removed from criminal activity but tired of trusting the banks with their assets, the Camorra clans increased the amount of capital available for investment. The Nuvoletta-Polverino group also metamorphosed retail distribution, making barbers and tanning centers the new cocaine retailers.
The 41 bis regime prisons in Italy, are they similar to the Supermax prisons in USA? I find it wierd that in Italy where there is so much corruption and the Mafia has such power these prisons exist.
The prisoners are kept in isolation for 22 hours a day,  except one hour in the open air in a cage and another one for limited contacts with three others selected prisoners. They have a right to a one-hour-long family visit per month behind a glass partition or, alternatively, to a 10-minute phone-call. Communication with legal advisers is also restricted.
In Holland we have one extra secure prison with a similar regime.
Antonio Mele, 57, and Biagio Palumbo, 53 , were shot dead in a car in Naples Wednesday in an apparent Camorra hit. The ambush took place in the Miano quarter, local sources said.
Palumbo was Carlo Lo Russo right hand man in the golden age of the Lo Russos and Antonio Mele the strategist of the clan. Both were released a few months ago after many years of detention and currently considered close to the boss Pasquale Angellotti, also returned free for a long time. The Lo Russo brothers turned state's evidence.
" Gomorra? It is not educational. In front of those terrible scenes, I turned off the television and I did not watch fiction anymore. Today children dress up as protagonists of the series: all this is unheard of "
The judiciary is investigating the Casalesi clan and the alliance with the Albanian mafia for the control of Northern Italy.
they mean only the province of modena (emilia romagna), not the north as a whole casalesi are strong in emilia romagna and lazio, in the rest of the north not so wealthy, ndrangheta is by far stronger and also sicilian mafia in certain areas
23 million confiscated from the Casalesi clan in Rome. The Gdf had ascertained the existence of a real joint-venture in the field of slot machines between members of the Casalesi (Iovine group) and Roman organized crime figures (Guarnera group), in turn in contact with members of the Banda della Magliana.
I wonder one thing, does the Iovine family still have power now that Antonio has snithed.. I mean when a boss turns informant dont the whole crew go down in the other bosses eyes?
I wonder one thing, does the Iovine family still have power now that Antonio has snithed.. I mean when a boss turns informant dont the whole crew go down in the other bosses eyes?
Drugs from Colombia and the Netherlands directly to Naples, to supply the capital of Naples but also Tuscany and Lazio. This is the criminal network dismantled by the police, on investigations coordinated by the DDA, which led to the arrest of 16 members of a group active in the international traffic of cocaine, hashish and maijuana connected in business dealings with the Camorra clans of the eastern area of ​​Naples. During the investigation, also seized an arsenal with guns and machine guns. Relations with Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands were stable, where agreements were signed for the purchase and transport of drugs in Italy. Once arrived on the national territory, the drugs were destined to feed the squares of Neapolitan drug market.
Do they still come from all over Europe to mainland Italy to buy the cheap drugs off the street?
I was always under the impression that the Naples gangs had the biggest and best open air drug markets on the streets of Italy. Combined with the counterfeit markets, giving them a high level of liquidity on the streets. The Sicilians had access to NYC and are the most entrenched in Italian politics, whereas the Calabrians are the biggest in Northern Italy (the financial center) have the best relations with South America ( Colombia) as well as overall controlling the most territory.. ( Canada, Australia, north Italy, Germany....)
I see the three syndicates as having different strengths and weaknesses.
Camorra probably have biggest open air drug market in whole of Europe. In some regions in North Italy , the sicilian mafia is more powerful than 'Ndrangheta,about infiltration into politics i think we can say 'Ndrangheta reached same level as sicilian mafia,both organizations are heavily involved in politics , buying votes etc. For instance Gianni Alemanno the mayor of Rome was involved in buying votes with help of mafia capitale and Mancuso 'Ndrina
Raffaele Russo, his son Antonio and his nephew Vincenzo Cimmino are three Neapolitans who disappeared in Tecalitlan, 700 km from Mexico City, from last January 31st. The three were in Mexico to sell Chinese products purchased in Naples. The latest news that relatives have of the three Neapolitan traders date back to December 31 when, through audio notes, the three made known that they were escorted by the police and did not know where they were going. Since then there is no more news and the authorities have been activated in the searches. Meanwhile, the Mexican Public Prosecutor has asked the Italian authorities for the criminal record of the three "We have asked for the criminal record from Italy, both the disappeared and the three people who were with them," said prosecutor Raul Sanchez Jimenez in a interview with the press.
22 mn seized from Camorra-linked man Operation regarded vehicles, properties, land, companies
(ANSA) - Rome, March 2 - Investigators on Friday executed a warrant to seize around 22 million euros worth of assets from Vincenzo Zangrillo, a businessman considered close to the Casalesi clan of the Campania mafia, the Camorra, sources said. Around 200 vehicles, 150 properties, 21 hectares of land, six companies and 21 bank accounts were among the assets seized in the provinces of Latina, Frosinone, Naples and Isernia, the sources said.
Camorra: operation of the Health Department, 18 arrests Arrested some alleged members and men close to the Vastarella Camorra clan ATS NAPLES - There are 18 arrests made by the State Police in the blitz taken this morning in the Sanità district in Naples between alleged affiliates and men close to the Camorra Vastarella clan who in recent years has affirmed his leadership in the district frequently resorting to the use of force .
In particular, the clan would force the exponents of rival criminal organizations to abandon their homes, also performing armed raids inside the populous district of Naples, at any time of day or night.
The carabinieri of the station of Torre del Greco arrested Antonietta Papale, 31, daughter of the head of the homonymous clan operating in Torre del Greco and Ercolano. The woman will have to expiate 6 years, 10 months and one day of imprisonment for mafia-type association committed from 2007 to 2014.
Waiting for the "superpentito" of the Genovese clan, Gianluca Moscatiello. Tomorrow he will appear in the courtroom as a witness in the trial for the attempted murder in charge of Luigo Viesto, represented by the lawyer Rolando Iorio. Viesto is accused of the failed ambush that preceded the execution of Walter De Cristofaro. Shot dead in front of the Tiglio bar, in San Biagio di Serino, on 12 July 2000. De Cristofaro had been shot by two gunmen with balaclava. They had turned away in a Seat Ibiza with the third accomplice. For that crime, Raffaele Spiniello, heard in the last hearing, and Pasqualino Bianco were charged. A firing squad that, as Spiniello said, acted on behalf of the two bosses Modestino and Amedeo Genovese.
Camorra, feud Schiavone-Nuvoletta, three arrests for the 1991 murder in Pastorano of Stefano Izzo, guardian of a Pignataro Maggiore farm owned by the "Nuvoletta" clan of Marano. The three members of the Schiavone faction of the Casalesi clan - Walter Schiavone , 57, Enrico Martinelli , 54, and Antonio Mezzero , 56 - are already imprisoned in Parma's jails, Opera and Voghera.
Walter Schiavone is the one who build the Scarface villa, brother of Sandokan.
New Camorra victim in Naples. A 29-year-old, Salvatore D'Orsi, already known to law enforcement officers, died this morning following gunshot wounds. Yesterday, the man had been hit by a few bullets in an ambush in Ponticelli which occurred around 11 pm. According to the first reconstruction the man was able to walk to his house despite the injuries reported.
Confiscation of one hundred million euros from the 73-year-old entrepreneur of Casal di Principe (Caserta) Alfonso Letizia, considered by the anti-mafia prosecutor as one of the economic operators of reference of the Casalesi clan, even since the late 80s, in the production and sale of concrete. Letizia was sentenced in 2017 to three years after the outcome of the so-called "Il Principe e la Card Ballerina" trial, which showed the conditioning by the clan of some elections in Casal di Principe; among the condemned also the former Economy undersecretary Nicola Cosentino (5 years in prison), involved in relation to the story of the Shopping Center "The Prince", wanted by the Casalesi but never realized.
Giovanni Salomone, 50-year-old brother-in-law of the boss brothers D'Amico (Gennaro, Salvatore and Luigi) and also a leading exponent of the clan, survived a liquidation attempt in via Nuova Villa. The assassins of the Rinaldi-Reale clan would have shot to kill and only for the great readiness of the victim's reflexes they did not succeed. The man was centered in the arm by a bullet in and out. He got off well because 7 bullets were fired at him, but the killers fell off the motorbike and took refuge in a nearby building. Twenty minutes or so after the ambush there were shots in the Villa district. For the investigators there is no doubt that it was the "answers" of D'Amico, historically allies of the Mazzarella clan with a base in San Giovanni a Teduccio.
Italian with businesses of millions of euros in Romania, arrested on charges of money laundering for the Camorra Romanian and Italian prosecutors have collected hundreds of phone and environmental recordings and thousands of bank documents. The prosecutors have seized 400 apartments in Pitesti belonging to Nicola Inquieto’s companies.
The 'unfaithful carabiniere' driver of the boss. Lazzaro Cioffi, the Casagiove carabiniere finished in handcuffs with his wife Emilia D'Albenzio of Maddaloni in the context of the investigation of the DDA on an articulated criminal association dedicated to drug dealing in the Neapolitan hinterland. According to the DDA iinquiry, Cioffi would have the role of "driver" of Pasquale Fucito, boss of the Ciccarelli clan and manager of drug trafficking from Holland to Caivano.
why is there so many killings back and forth? is there a on going feud??
i just dont understand why so much killing is going on in this day and age
It's just part of daily life in the slums of Naples and people are coming from all over the south of Italy to buy drugs there, the drugs market is huge.
Filippo Sabatino (33) was shot dead while he was driving his car in Pimonte. The man, who has old precedents for attempted murder and personal injury, seems to be in relationships with people orbiting in the Afeltra-Di Martino clan.
After the release of superboss Ciro Mariano the alleys of Naples tremble. The criminal situation in the Spanish Quarters is strictly controlled by the police, especially following the freedom of Enzo Romano who dominated the area with Ciro in the 1990s. With the return to the streets of Ciro 'o Picuozzo' the district could relive days of tension.
40 arrests in maxi anti-drug operation against the Belforte clan in the early morning hours in the provinces of Caserta, Reggio Emilia, Mantua and Turin. The Carabinieri are executing 40 precautionary measures issued by the Court of Naples at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against subjects deemed responsible for trafficking in narcotics with the aggravating factor of the Mafia method.
Fugitive Marco Di Lauro, son of Paolo, at the top of the list of law enforcement agencies, is still a ghost. Many hypotheses about his hiding place, but as reported this morning by Il Mattino, a new hypothesis emerged from the investigators: Marco di Lauro could be in Dubai. He has no definitive sentence to life imprisonment. If he were arrested today, he would have to serve a little over eight years in prison, on the basis of a definitive sentence - the only one - for Camorra association and drugs.
In the course of the night in the Traiano quarter in Naples, Angelo Ranieri, 38, was gunned down, he was taken to the nearby San Paolo hospital but died shortly after due to the severity of the wounds.
Two Dutch Italians from a Groningen hospitality family are suspects in an Italian investigation into coke smuggling through a branch of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. Stefano Bianco (31) in Italy is now serving a sentence for smuggling 7.5 kilos of cocaine. The judge saw him as a courier for the Camorra and gave him eight years in prison. In November he was arrested at a petrol station just outside Rome. the cocaine was hidden in the dashboard of his Fiat Doblo. He has not made a statement. He is detained in the Roman Rebibbia prison in a heavy department. His 35-year-old brother Raffaele is suspect in an ongoing investigation by the Italian carabinieri and the judiciary. The Bianco's are sons of the Groningen restaurant owner Luigi "Gigi" Bianco (62), he lives in the Netherlands for 42 years. He has three children and a Dutch woman. They have both Italian and Dutch nationality.
Camorra drug broker extradited to Italy. Pasquale Fiorente, aged 40 and resident in Torre Annunziata (NA), was arrested in Chile in 2016 on charges of international drug trafficking, aimed at exporting cocaine to Europe from Latin America. According to the investigators, Fiorente would lead a "cartel " capable of connecting the major drug-producing countries such as Colombia and Mexico with Italy, creating a channel to supply all the main drug markets, linked to the main organized crime groups present in the peninsula, especially in Campania.
There is a "ghost" that wanders in the area of ​​Case Nuove al Mercato and that fires on a large-displacement scooter holding two machine guns. It looks like a scene from a movie, but it is what is reported on the pages of The Vesuvian a Fact. According to what was rebuilt, the man, belonging to the so-called "santisti" of Raffaele Cutolo, and after having served in prison his debt with justice by Camorra association, would be trying to climb positions in the neighborhood. The ghost, or rather "the killer" would usually shoot very often in the middle of the night. Spread to demonstrate power.
Ambush against the son of the boss Mazzarella in front of a bar, injured a client. The clan men are unharmed. In front of the Hollywood Cafè there were some people, including Salvatore Mazzarella, son of the boss Renato, at the top of one of the most powerful clans in the capital of Campania. Two, with their faces covered in helmets, aboard a scooter, arrived and started shooting at the group. The son of the capoclan and the others took refuge in the bar. The passenger went down and continued to shoot at the business, shattering the window. A sliver of glass hurt one of the customers, other bullets stuck inside a Smart parked outside.
In San Cipriano d'Aversa (Caserta), the carabinieri of Casal di Principe on Friday have intercepted and blocked, after a brief chase, a Fiat Panda with on board - seated on the passenger side - the fugitive Corrado De Luca, 51, sought after by last May because accused of mafia-type association, extortion, private violence aggravated by having facilitated a mafia association. The fugitive, historically affiliated to the Iovine faction of the Casalesi clan, now held in the orbit of the Schiavone faction of the same clan, had escaped capture in an operation taken on May 7 that led to the arrest of another 6 people for the same crimes of which De Luca is accused. The driver of the car, Giovanni Lucariello, was also arrested.
Beatrice Zagaria, 62, sister of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, has been send to prison. Two days ago, in fact, the Court of Naples sentenced her to 6 years and 8 months of imprisonment for mafia-type criminal association: according to the judges, the woman, for a long time, collected and distributed to her brothers and sisters, free and detainees, and to people close to the clan, part of the proceeds deriving from the Casalesi cash desk.
The Camorra raised its head: 182 clans and over 4 thousand affiliates Data in the six-monthly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate by Fabio Postiglione
The Neapolitan Camorra has an army of boys ready to do anything to conquer an alley, a square and an entire district. "Nighttime excursions, shootings, patrolling the territory," as in a war. Impressive numbers that the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has enclosed in the semi-annual report sent to Parliament, which photographs the state of organized crime throughout Italy.
And Naples, with its province, beats every possible record: number of arrests, seizures, investigative initiatives, inspections, investigations. There are 182 clans, 100 of which only in the city and over 4 thousand between bosses and affiliates. "We are witnessing the fragmentation of organized crime" typical of the city center that registers districts with hardly beatable records. They are the ones with the greatest presence and Camorra infiltration with respect to the population density. Between the Quartieri Spagnoli and the Sanità district, passing through Forcella and the Decumani, there are 26 Camorra groups, more or less aggressive, which are opposed to the search for space to do business. But changing the area does not change the numbers. Between Secondigliano and Scampia there are 11 clans that divide the millionaire collections of drug trafficking. A total and devastating fragmentation of the Neapolitan camorra that recruits young and very young among their ranks to do business. "There is a generational discomfort that affects young people, for whom the criminal models proposed by the clan continue to exert a strong attraction, representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth. Precisely these young people represent an inexhaustible catchment area for criminal organizations, where they recruit manpower to be used for drug dealing, extortion and, in some cases, even for the consumption of homicides. representing an easy tool for the conquest of power and wealth.
To this plethora of aspiring camorristi, is added the ranks of boys who belong to mafia families and are started, by the same parents, to criminal activities, still children, "writes Dia. In the province the fracture of the big gangs that took place in Naples has not registered in a striking way and so rooted in the territory continue to do business in total silence, strong of a large chunk of people who do not report. The Moccia in Afragola, the Mallardo in Giugliano, the Polverino in Marano, the Amato-Pagano in Melito.
Wow..Nicola Schiavone turned State witness, Nicola is a son of Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone. Having been the head of the clan for a decade after the arrest of his father, Nicola Schiavone knows many secrets about the clan's business dealings and its riches.
Wow..Nicola Schiavone turned State witness, Nicola is a son of Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone. Having been the head of the clan for a decade after the arrest of his father, Nicola Schiavone knows many secrets about the clan's business dealings and its riches.
Walter Schiavone follows his brother! The other brothers, Ivanhoe, Emanuele Libero and Carmine have instead rejected the possibility of relying on the protective wing of the State.The repentance of Nicola Schiavone, created a real earthquake in the Casalesi clan and in particular in the boss family.
Even in prison for many years the super boss Mario Fabbrocino would maintain close ties with powerful clans of Naples.Fabbrocino is one of the promoters of the so-called Nuova Famiglia, the criminal organization born at the end of the 70s in antithesis to the NCO of Raffaele Cutolo. He is also a cousin of Carmine Alfieri the most important camorra turncoat. The latest wars in Naples and in the province between baby gangs and old families could entice old rags of the caliber of Fabbrocino to reconstitute the pyramid of the Nuova Famiglia, thus monopolizing the control of illicit affairs on a large part not only of the Neapolitan hinterland but of the whole Region.
Pietro La Torre, an 88-year-old uncle of Augusto La Torre, considered by the investigators to be one of the leaders of the Caserta Camorra and known as the "psychologist boss" for having obtained his degree in prison, commits suicide. The incident occurred in Mondragone, a town in the Caserta coast where the La Torre live. The elder, prejudiced for crimes of Camorra and considered organic to the clan founded by his brother Tiberio, father of Augusto, shot himself in his house in via San Francesco d'Assisi with a Beretta. Pietro La Torre was arrested the last time in 2015 together with his son Luciano for the crime of wear and tear, an autopsy will be performed on the body of the 88-year-old who seems to suffer from depression.
Anti-mafia operation of the Carabinieri in Fondi in central Italy, the Camorra controlled the fruit and vegetable market, the investigation unveiled the D'Alterio family system. D'Alterio family has deep-rooted links with the Camorra clans from Caserta. In particular, the investigations have made it possible to ascertain that the family group headed by Giuseppe D'Alterio aka "Peppe the Moroccan" exercised an intimidating power of the mafia type in order to monopolize transport and also imposing its own "Tax" for the movements carried out by the other companies. The 62-year-old native of Minturno and the two sons, the 38 year old Luigi and the 35 year old Armando are now in prison.
This morning the news of a night of fear took place in the Neapolitan area between Frattamaggiore and Afragola . In the night, around 2 o'clock, a powerful explosion destroyed the window of the restaurant "Eat to Eat" which is located along the Provincial Road, a roar so strong that it would also be felt in the adjacent municipalities. According to today's edition of Il Mattino , before the night explosion occurred an armed raid against a mobile phone shop in Afragola. At the moment the two criminal actions have not been linked, but could be traced to a single direction that manages extortion and racket in the territory.
On this day in 1985 the Camorra killed the journalist Giancarlo Siani
On September 23, 1985, the journalist Giancarlo Siani was killed in Naples. "Mattino" chronicler Siani had denounced the commingling between organized crime and local politics and the Camorra infiltration in contracts for reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake. It took over 10 years to capture his killers.
Terrorist tried to buy kalashnikovs off mafia (2) Mobster said he 'didn't want to give those people the weapons'
(ANSA) - Naples, September 26 - A Tunisian sentenced to eight years for Islamist terrorism had tried unsuccessfully to buy five kalashnikov rifles from a former member of the notorious Casalesi clan of the Campanian Camorra mafia, judges said in their June sentence which was published Wednesday. Mohamed Kamel Edine Khemiri didn't get the arms because, as mafioso Salvatore Orabona told judges, "I didn't want to give the weapons to those people". Orabona has since become a state's witness and informant on the Casalesi, the ruthless clan who have forced Gomorrah writer Roberto Saviano into a police protection programme.
Raffaele Perinelli, amateur football player, died at the hospital in Naples at 21 after being stabbed during a fight. Raffaele was the son of a Camorrista, killed in an ambush in June 2003, but he had not followed in his father's footsteps. For himself he dreamed of a normal life, or rather a footballer's future.
Camorra ambush in Tirana. Sentenced to life imprisonment Salvatore Letizia The decision of the Albanian judges
MARCIANISE - The Court of Tirana has sentenced to life imprisonment Salvatore Letizia , 38, originally from Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
It is an exponent of the Quaqquaroni, considered, therefore, linked to the Camorra and material executor of the crime of murder.
Letizia was found guilty of taking part on May 28, 2015, to an ambush against an Albanian criminal group ending with three deaths, including Mentor Lufi. The Albanian Besnik Sulku, the man who had hired the Italian killer affiliated to the Camorra organization of the Piccolo di Marcianise.
Salvatore Letizia is related to the man considered the regent of the Piccolo clan in Marcianise.
Camorra and drugs, maxi blitz in progress: 50 arrests throughout Campania ! In the operation, in Naples, Avellino and Caserta, 300 carabinieri are engaged. The recipients are suspected of belonging to several Camorra clans , and - according to the investigators - responsible for various purposes of association aimed at the illicit trafficking of drugs and possession for the purpose of drug dealing.
Italy: Naples Arrests 72 Suspected Mafiosi for Drug Dealing
Hundreds of officers of Italy’s military police force arrested 72 alleged Naples mafia members who are suspected of having sold cocaine all over the Naples area, mainly near churches, schools and arcades, Napoli Today reported on Monday.
Prosecutors say the suspects belong to various clans of the Napoli-based Camorra and were involved in the production, trafficking, possession and sale of drugs — mostly cocaine and its crystal form crack.
The detention warrants for “Operation Whitestone†were issued by the court of Naples at the request of the local antimafia prosecutor’s office and carried out in Naples and the nearby provinces of Avellino and Caserta.
Following the demise of the Fava clan in 2013, various crime groups from around Naples started taking over drug-dealing areas that were up for grabs.
The drug hotspots were near churches, schools, main squares, town halls, recreational clubs and arcades, Caserta News reported.
The investigation into the drug organizations, clans, and subgroups started in February 2015 and took two years to complete, using turncoats, telephone taps and spy cameras.
A central event in the investigation was a “punitive assignment†against one of the suspects who was accused by his associates of having kept a large amount of drugs for himself.
While the retaliation had been planned in full detail, prominent members of the Vollaro clan from Naples’ Vesuvius area intervened and the mafioso was spared.
The wiretapped phone conversations show a complex code language and wide array of nicknames to prevent identification such as “la Signora,†“the Viking,†“the Mexican,†"the Surveyor,†“Diablo†and “Pistola.â€
When referring to drugs, the suspects used culinary terms — including Napolitan specialties — such as aperitivo, pastiera, sfogliatelle, oranges and grappa barricata.
In order to request drugs, the dealers would ask to “set the table,†"prepare the crib,†or “put on children’s shoes†and when discussing the quality and quantity of drugs, the mafiosi talked about “10 euro stamps,†the “A series,†“the fireplace being good,†and “how many guests to bring.â€
In Caserta a man was shot dead in a car. Nicola Picone, 26 years old, would be affiliated to the Casalesi clan. As reported by Il Mattino, he is a loyalist of the son of Sandokan, Carmine, detained since 1998. The Carabinieri of Aversa intervened after being informed by the owners of the distributor Agip that, at the opening, they noticed the car parked and the corpse inside. The investigation is coordinated by the DDA of Naples. The Neapolitan newspaper speculates that behind the murder there is a strong tension in the criminal board of Agro-Aversano, also due to the recent repentance of one of the sons of the boss Sandokan, the first son Nicola Schiavone. There are other reasons for friction: from the release of several affiliates to the various factions of the Casalesi clan. But it is early to establish whether the murder is the preamble of a new Camorra war in the Casertano.
The former boss of the Casalesi clan, Michele Zagaria, has been involved in incidents of violence and threats in prison even to the director of the detention facility of Milan Opera, as well as to some psychiatrists. During an interview with a doctor the former boss said: "The director is like a garbage bag and I throw it out." Zagaria is also accused of having slapped an agent, causing injuries, and to have destroyed the cameras that kept him in check in the cell. A few months later, Zagaria was transferred to another prison, together with another inmate chosen to start a social path with him.
In the early hours of the morning the Carabinieri of Mondragone, in the provinces of Caserta, Naples and Benevento, as part of an articulated survey coordinated by the Naples Public Prosecutor arrested 15 people. Among the recipients of the measures Francesco Tiberio La Torre, son of the boss Augusto. The suspects are held accountable, for various reasons, of association aimed at the trafficking of drugs, possession and sale of drugs, recycling and personal aiding.
New ambush in San Giovanni a Teduccio in Naples. Two men were shot in an ambush on Corso San Giovanni, in front of the church of San Giovanni Battista. Salvatore Soropago, 37 died. The other man was injured. A week ago, again in the San Giovanni neighborhood in Teduccio, another ambush ended with two wounded, outside a betting room.
It has often been said that the Camorra did not take part in the massacre season, those organized by the mafia and completed in 1992-1993. Objectives of Cosa Nostra were considered pieces of the State, as were the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Yet, despite the Camorra (for several reasons) was excluded from participation even in the early stages of the negotiation between State and Mafia, were several meetings that, according to some collaborators of justice, took place in prison. Meetings in which the Campania criminal organizations participated. Among the others, Pasquale Galasso, who in 1992, before his repentance, was transferred from the Salerno prison to the one in Spoleto. Here concentrated the top of the Campania and Sicilian underworld. Guys like Michele D'Alessandro, Valentino Gionta, but also Pippo Calò.
Angelo Orlando was arrested in Maremma, he's the brother of the fugitive Antonio Orlando, aka "Mazzolino", head of the powerful criminal organization operating in the area north of Naples. The Camorra clan Orlando are associated with Nuvoletta and Polverino, today hegemonic on the territory of Marano (Naples),
A collaborator of justice close to Cosa Nostra, Fabio Lanzafame, a Syracusan entrepreneur, will be heard in the trial in Aversa of Nicola Inquieto, the entrepreneur who according to the DDA of Naples recycled in Romania the money of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, creating a real estate empire worth tens of millions of euro. Lanzafame, considered to be linked to the Catanese clan of the Santapaola and the Siracusan gangs, will have to report the alleged contacts with Inquieto for investments to be made in Romania, and the contrasts arose with the entrepreneur, who would bring a close representative of the Caserta boss to go to Pitesti, a city in Romania where Inquieto lives and works, to smooth the conflict.
Earlier this month Vincenzo Mazzarella died in prison two months after his brother Ciro.they were nephews of the famous Michele Zaza. The clan is close to cosa nostra
There was a deafening, surreal silence in Marano after the arrest of the last great boss Antonio Orlando , for all Mazzolino, regent of the homonymous clan. While the local and national press was committed to spreading all the details of that clamorous arrest, to which the Dda Neapolitan and the Carabinieri of the Provincial Nucleo have worked for years, the rest of the city was silent.
Not a word from the new mayor Rodolfo Visconti and his administration, no applause to the weapon by the mayoral candidates who until a month ago declared for the law now and always, silence also from that more extreme left that he made the fight against the Camorra one of its flags. The only ones to underline the importance of yesterday's operation, which inflicted a very hard blow - yet another - to the Orlando clan, were the 5-star Andrea Caso, and the mayor of Quarto.
The same politicians who two days ago shouted with posts, videos, press releases, their initiatives No to violence against women, today on the violence of the Camorra had nothing to say. Only silence, so subtle and yet so tangible. Almost as if there had been a mourning or a tragedy. Why this silence? Fear, fear, not wanting to expose? No. Behind this silence there is probably only silence. Despite the dozens of arrests, the investigations on crime and politics - which often went hand in hand - the dismantling of entire criminal families, Marano still exceeds the desire, desire, even the hope of a ransom. We prefer silence, not exposing ourselves, turning away from the other side, looking only at our own interests, rather than taking a clear, clear position against the Camorra.
And as long as you Marano there will be this blanket of silence and silence, they will also be able to arrest all the Orlando, Polverino and Nuvoletta underworld in this city, but things will never change. And from tomorrow, while the Orlando clan will return to reorganize itself, we will return to talk about the holes in the asphalt, the waste, to pay the extortion, to greet respectfully the Guappo on duty. In silence
The agents of the Mobile Squad of Naples and of the police station of Castellammare di Stabia arrested 14 people as part of an investigation into a series of extortions in the years 2013-2016 against entrepreneurs, commercial operators and professionals operating in the territories of Castellammare di Stabia, Pompeii, Gragnano, Pimonte and Agerola.
The investigation revealed the existence of a real criminal cartel between the historic Camorra organizations (the D'Alessandro and Cesarano clans operating, respectively, in the hilly and in the "dabbasso" area of ​​Castellamare, with ramifications in Pompeii; Di Martino clan, hegemon in Gragnano, and the Afeltra clan operating in Pimonte and Agerola), substantially allied, each of which continued to constantly impose the lace in the territories of their respective competences, making use of their own intimidation power.
Among those arrested are Teresa Martone, widow of the boss Michele D'Alessandro, and some entrepreneurs, including Adolfo Greco, considered in the past a man of confidence of Raffaele Cutolo.
An inmate who had just been transferred to Turin from the Parma prison died of a cardiac arrest. The boss Michele Pepe, 48, a leading exponent of the Camorra, was in the regime of 41 bis. The man had recently been discharged from the hospital in Parma and died in an ambulance just arrived in Turin. He was originally from Caivano.
Andrea Teano, considered a member of the Cimmino-Caiazzo clan in the Vomero district of Naples, was arrested by the Carabinieri. The man, a fugitive, was hiding in a house in Pianura, a district on the western outskirts of the city, where the Carabinieri found and seized money and numerous "pizzini". Teano is accused of trying to impose a bribe of 3 thousand euros a month to the holder of an association that deals with the transportation of sick people. The 36 year old had escaped a blitz last October 16th.
NAPLES. Ambush in San Pietro a Patierno. A man, Giuseppe F., was wounded with a gunshot to the back of the head. he is in serious condition at the San Giovanni Bosco hospital. F. was in a carwash in Via Delle Cave.
During the Liverpool-Napoli match, killers entered into action between San Pietro a Patierno and Scampia, mortally striking Giuseppe Santangelo, 29, already known to the police and considered close to the Amato-Pagano clan. Fabio De Luca, also known to the police, was wounded in the attack. Santangelo would have been very close to Ciro Mauriello, one of Rosaria Pagano's most influential colonels. The name of Santangelo emerged in the course of interceptions related to the war that a few years ago was fought between the faction of Mauriello and that of Pietro Caiazza and his son Pasquale.
Carmine Chierchia, 41, with a drug background, was shot and injured in Torre Annunziata. Carabinieri of Torre Annunziata are interrogating the victim and listening to witnesses. Chierchia, with several precedents for drugs but he has no affiliation to the warring clans in the area to contend for illegal activities. Law enforcement agencies hypothesize that the raid can be developed in the context of drug dealing, even though other tracks are not excluded at the moment. The man is not in serious condition even if he remains in the hospital of Boscotrecase.
A Mafia boss of the infamous Neapolitan Camorra will complain for a while that he organized a Christmas dinner for his friends and family yesterday. The man was arrested in his hiding place by the police. That reports the local newspaper Il Mattino. Twenty or so agents fell into a house in Castellammare di Stabia, a coastal town near Pompeii, yesterday evening and picked up Gentile. The 34-year-old Giovanni Gentile is suspected of being the boss of the clan in the Agerola region, which is part of the agglomeration of Naples.
Murders dropped in Napels in 2018, only 6 related to organized crime, police captured 20 fugitives, the last of whom was Antonio Orlando. However the Camorra is not defeated, it remains strong, it is a group of flexible companies that often invest capital in all economic sectors. There have been important investigative results but the phenomenon is not eradicated. The Camorra remains strong and must be resisted even in its ability to infiltrate the public administration.
Nicola Schiavone comes down like a tsunami on the Casalesi clan A real tsunami that in 2018 hit the Casalesi clan with the beginning of the collaboration with the justice of Nicola Schiavone, son of the chief Francesco Sandokan, who since last July has been speaking with the magistrates of the Antimafia.
Man i would like to see these trials or read them of these super snitches. Antonio Iovine would be nice to read about. I would love to hear what he says about the business etc.
Assets worth four million euros were seized from Alberto Bova, 44, a drug broker considered affiliated to the boss Maurizio Garofalo, of the Camorra clan "Falanga" active in Torre del Greco.
One of the Capos of the Neapolitan Camorra, the number two from the Mariglianesi clan, has been detained in the south of Gran Canaria, where he worked as an employee at a commercial establishment in the municipality of Mogan, the Superior Police Head of the Canary Islands reported.
The detainee, 40, of Italian nationality, has numerous police records and was challenged by the Italian authorities for crimes against people, against public order and against the security of the state, as the body says in a statement.
The arreste was located on January 1, and due to its danger, a police device was established that allowed him to arrest him and bring him to justice.
Camorra. Blitz at dawn, arrested Gianluca Troise: killer of the Orlando-Polverino clan The carabinieri of the provincial command of Naples arrested Gianluca Troise, 40, considered by the magistrates of the District Directorate of Naples as a leading element of the Polverino and Orlando clans, hegemons in the municipalities of Marano, Calvizzano and Quarto. From this morning the 40 year old has returned to prison. Troise was sentenced at first instance a few years ago to life imprisonment for the murder of Luigi Felaco, alias Ginetto Nazzaro, killed in a dairy on the border between Marano and Calvizzano, and acquitted on appeal in March 2017.. Gianluca Troise, who was subject to the signature obligation, is now held in prison and is awaiting the validation hearing.
The journalist Giancarlo Tommasone of the magazine Stylo24 has reconstructed in his article a story that linked the terrorist Cesare Battisti to Luigi Moccia, boss of the homonymous clan operating in the northern area of ​​Naples. On October 4, 1981, the two escaped from the prison in Frosinone where they were detained: "With the help of some accomplices armed with guns. The two prisoners are Cesare Battisti, 26, and Luigi Moccia, 24. "
Cesare Battisti, a former leftwing guerrilla fighter wanted for four murders, was extradited from Bolivia.
Ambush in the Spanish Quarters of Napels. A 58-year-old man, Vincenzo Errichiello was shot in front of the entrance of the Vecchio Pellegrini hospital and is in serious condition. The man, who boasts several precedents and is known in circles with the nickname 'Ignezzillo', was on probation and in the past he was close to the Mariano clan.
According to turncoats Massimo Perrone is a leader (with the endorsement of Michele Bidognetti) of the New Hierarchy of the Casalesi clan. He was sentenced in January to 18 years in prison. Bidognetti received 12 years.
Ambush in the Spanish Quarters of Napels. A 58-year-old man, Vincenzo Errichiello was shot in front of the entrance of the Vecchio Pellegrini hospital and is in serious condition. The man, who boasts several precedents and is known in circles with the nickname 'Ignezzillo', was on probation and in the past he was close to the Mariano clan.
The real target was the notorious boss Ciro Mariano, recently released from prison. Mariano would have miraculously escaped the ambush.
Life imprisonment for Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria. This is the sentence imposed by the judge Provitera of the Court of Assizes of Naples for the two murders of Antonio Bamundo, which took place in 2000 in San Marcellino, and Michele Iovine, which took place in Casagiove in 2008, of which Capastorta was the instigator.
Camorra Naples: checkmate "Moccia" clan, seven arrests. Among the accusations extortion and recycling and re-utilization of assets. The manager of a garage that is transformed into an operational base, framed as a promoter, organizer and director of illegal activities and together with his brother also dealt with the clan's accounting, including financial support to members, both free and detained as well as payment of defenders . Other detainees participated in the various criminal activities and, in particular, in the extortion of business owners and businesses in the area.
There were a lot of people in the street tonight in Mugnano (Naples) where Giovanni Pianese, a 63-year-old street vendor of fish products, was killed. The murder took place not far from the victim's home: a man approached Pianese at the intersection of via Mercato and via Aldo Moro and shot him. The man died instantly, terror in the crowd. The city is shocked for what happened because an episode like this on the territory of Mugnano has not been happening for a long time.If it was a Camorra murder - at least according to the way it was performed - it would be particularly worrying.
On Sunday Vincenzo Mariniello, believed to be the head of the homonymous clan, was shot dead in Acerra. The 46-year-old boss was killed near his home in Via Nenni in Acerra while he was on board his Mercedes. The man is the son of the boss Gennaro Mariniello, who was murdered in March 2000.
Operation against the Casalesi clan in the northeastern region of Veneto. Police arrested 50 people on charges of various crimes, the clan had infiltrated heavily the politics and economy of the region. It is the biggest probe against organized crime in Venice.
Two "Sequino" clan members have been captured by the Carabinieri in London. The carabinieri located and arrested Sebastiano Capobianco, 26, and Gennaro Esposito, 36, both of Rione Sanità and believed to be affiliated to the "Sequino" Camorra clan. They were executed in the order for custody in prison for mafia-type association, association aimed at trafficking and drug dealing with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia. The two arrested are in an English penitentiary pending extradition.
Murder in Basiglio (Milan): mafia-style ambush, dead man after shooting
Giuseppe Giuliano was 64 years old, he was of Neapolitan origins but had long lived in the north, in Binasco. He was married, father of two daughters and already known to law enforcement for some criminal records for criminal association and stolen cigarettes. Old stories, from the 90s.
Also on Monday afternoon, a few kilometers away from the spot where Giuliano was killed, another man, a 63-year-old Italian, Antonio Crisanti, was killed. The killer shot him behind the Il Gigante supermarket in Rozzano. It is still unclear whether the two episodes can be connected to each other.
A 36-year-old man, Pasquale Dello Iacolo, considered close to the Longobardi-Beneduce clan, was shot and injured near the parking lot of a disco in Via Campana by two men on a motorcycle.Injured also a young man who was going to the disco.
Iacolo was arrested in November 2016 during the operation "Iron Men", which brought to prison 46 members of the three groups that for years have acted under the sign of the "Longobardi-Beneduce" of Pozzuoli, and sentenced in first instance to 10 years in prison.
Giovanni Nuvoletta, son of the late godfather Lorenzo, who died in Marano in 1994, was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment. Nuvoletta had been arrested four years ago as part of an investigation by the Milanese Dda, later transmitted to that of Naples. The 50-year-old, who moved to Lombardy with his family, had started several businesses in the agricultural and dairy sector. He was accused of criminal association of mafia type, international drug trafficking, re-use of illicit capital and fraudulent transfer of values. Giovanni Nuvoletta's sons, Ciro, Lorenzo and Angelo, investigated at the time of the facts, were acquitted.
Camorra, arms from Austria to supply the Neapolitan clans: 15 arrests. The two suppliers met the clan's emissaries across the border to establish the cargo to be sent to Naples. Eduard Lassnig senior and Eduard Lassnig junior, residing in Völkermarkt (Austria), admitted their responsibilities in the international arms trade, including Kalashnikovs and Skorpion machine guns, to Domenico Boccia, a native of Terzigno.
They suspended the presentation of a film on the Camorra. The film is produced by Angelo Bardellino, grandson of the boss Antonio Bardellino and himself involved in bad news, and written by Antonella D'Agostino, ex wife of Renato Vallanzasca already arrested in an anti-Camorra operation.
Casalesi clan boss Michele Zagaria was transferred from the prison of L'Aquila, where he was detained, to the Tolmezzo prison, in the province of Udine. This is the sixth transfer, since 2011, for the boss of the powerful Camorra union condemned to three life sentences and subjected to the 41 bis regime. Zagaria had arrived in the Abruzzo prison not even a year ago from the Milanese Opera one. The Milan Public Prosecutor had transferred him because he had objected to several episodes of violence and threats against the director and some officers of the Penitentiary Police of the Milanese prison.
The reasons that led the magistrates of the Prison Administration Department to take the decision to transfer Michele Zagaria from the Abruzzo prison to the Friuli one have not yet been announced. Pasquale, Beatrice and Elvira Zagaria, like Michele, are all in jail. Carmine Zagaria, another of the brothers of the Casalesi boss, has instead recently returned to freedom: he has never been convicted of bloodshed, he has served his sentence of 8 years in prison for mafia association and he has been released from prison .
The court of Riesame acquitted Francesco and Giuseppe Mallardo, defendants for the murder of Luigi Maisto. However, the two remain in prison for other crimes. Luigi Maisto was killed October 22, 1979 in Piazza Matteotti in Giugliano. According to investigators, the brutal assassination of Maisto is enshrined in the Camorra feud between the Mallardos and the Maistos.
In Marcianise police arrested 30 people, linked to the Piccolo-Letizia clan. Pasquale Piccolo known as "Rockfeller", was also arrested.
The Piccolo clan has been fighting for years with the other clan of Marcianise, the Belforte, for the control of illicit affairs in the area, from extortion to drugs to the management of public tenders.
Ambush in San Giovanni a Teduccio (Napels), killed a man. Injured son. The victim is Luigi Mignano. His son Pasquale was wounded in the ambush. Dozens of bullets on the asphalt that suggest at least two killers in action. The police is on the spot.
Mignano, 57, was killed in front of his grandson, his 32-year-old son is injured. There were mothers and children, it was the entrance to kindergarten. The State send reinforcements. The area is a theater of war, the feud for the squares between the Mazzarella clan and the Rinaldi clan to which Mignano was apparently linked.
A sensational arrest in a supermarket in Acerra, where a camorra fugitive has been traced. The Carabinieri of the Catturandi section of Naples have located and captured Ciro Grassia, a 55-year-old from Ponticelli already known to the police and believed to be an exponent of the "Rinaldi", the Camorra clan active in the eastern area of ​​Naples where in recent times they are episodes of violence have been perpetrated due to the clash with the rivals of the “Mazzarella†clan to gain control of illicit affairs.
Three people were hurt, one critically, in a shootout in Naples on Friday. The critically injured person is Salvatore Nurcaro, 32, with a criminal record, police said. The other two hurt are a three-year-old girl and her 50-year-old grandmother, the sources said. The incident took place on the eastern outskirts of the southern Italian port city.
Camorra shooting: 4-year old in critical condition INSIDER NEWSDESK | 5 MAY 2019
NAPLES – A four-year old girl remains in critical condition after surgery, having been struck by a bullet in a Camorra raid earlier this week.
In a statement released by the Santobono Hospital, the girl’s condition was described as “extremely serious†after she underwent major surgery Saturday night to remove a projectile which had passed through both of her lungs.
She is suffering from “severe respiratory failure resulting from damage to her lungs,†according to the hospital. She is currently in a medically induced coma on life support machine.
The child was injured along with her grandmother Immacolata Molino when the pair emerged Friday from a nearby building during an ambush on Salvatore Nurcaro, a local mafia boss with links to the Rinaldi clan.
The raid took place close to the Piazza Nazionale, in central Naples. Arriving at Santobono around 17:30, she was immediately moved to intensive care. Surgeons drained the blood from her lungs and removed the air from between her lungs and chest, a condition known as pneumothorax, on her arrival on Friday.
Nurcaro is in a serious condition in the Loreto Mare hospital, having been shot six times. It is understood that Molino with recover within a few days.
The mayor of Naples Luidi de Magistris wrote the following Facebook Sunday morning: “Today, like yesterday, I have cancelled all my public obligations to express my absolute support for Napoli’s little daughter, who is fighting for her life. I am following hour by hour the medical situation at the Santobono Hospital.â€
Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe was more forthright in demanding action. “Innocent blood cries out for revenge before the presence of God,†he said in a religious service at Naples’ cathedral. “Lord, forgive also our shortcomings,†he added.
Camorra, son boss: I love my father but I don't respect him
06 May 2019 "I love my father but I don't esteem him. We must dissociate ourselves from the Camorra". Thus, Antonio Piccirillo, son of the boss Rosario, interviewed, after yesterday's demonstration in Naples. "I dislike that subculture - he explains - the camorra is to be thrown away and crushed, even if my father was one of them. And now he's been in prison for years". "I love him - he insists - but it will never be a total love. He knows it. He understood. He even says that this change of mine gave a meaning to his life thrown away". Then he explains why he took to the streets. "Because I don't want others to end this, I don't want others to be ruined anymore." "I have seen my father for a long time with dead eyes, with death inside. And I miss the money to visit him he left me. They are all called bosses, but some get rich and still make a shitty life, while others burn the money for lawyers, fugitives, and trouble ". - See more at: http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/ar...4e612b4-0575-47ed-b0e0-41e20b6204a2.html
Crime Down 15 Percent Under Salvini Interior Ministry
salvini should fight mafia/camorra/ndrangheta seriously instead to always talk about migrants who are involved in petty crimes only and mostly in northern cities, he probably doesn't even understand that it' is a favour to italian oc to distract attention from the worst problem
Crime Down 15 Percent Under Salvini Interior Ministry
salvini should fight mafia/camorra/ndrangheta seriously instead to always talk about migrants who are involved in petty crimes only and mostly in northern cities, he probably doesn't even understand that it' is a favour to italian oc to distract attention from the worst problem
Seems like the Nigerians are the talk of the moment in Italy when it comes to crime fighting these days.
Seems like the Nigerians are the talk of the moment in Italy when it comes to crime fighting these days.
yes, they are always in the news when talking about foreign groups, no doubt the nigerian mafia is strong worldwide and the strongest among foreign groups in italy, but they highly inflated it for political reasons and stuff like that and in italy they are involved in petty crimes only like prostitution and street drug dealing at most
Seems like the Nigerians are the talk of the moment in Italy when it comes to crime fighting these days.
yes, they are always in the news when talking about foreign groups, no doubt the nigerian mafia is strong worldwide and the strongest among foreign groups in italy, but they highly inflated it for political reasons and stuff like that and in italy they are involved in petty crimes only like prostitution and street drug dealing at most
Over here it's the same. Most of Nigerian crime consists of pimping out Nigerian girls for 5 bucks as well as a bit of drug pushing at a few bars.
Well its same everywhere, almost every country in Europe have well established domestic criminal groups that are very close to local politicians and so on. They are going to get crushed if they try anything bigger than petty street crime.
Captured by the Carabinieri Armando Del Re, accused of the ambush that took place in Naples on Friday 3 May in which little Noemi , her grandmother and a man, Salvatore Nurcaro, the real target of the killer, were injured. Another man, his brother, was also arrested. He was an accomplice and was taken to the barracks.
Shock after shooting in Naples hospital Assailant failed to hit intended target
(ANSA) - Naples, May 17 - A young gunman wearing a helmet opened fire in the courtyard of Naples' Vecchio Pellegrini hospital overnight, sources said on Friday. The intended target appears to have been a 22-year-old man from the city's Arenella who had gone to the hospital with leg injuries caused by a firearm shortly before the attack. The shots fired in the hospital, however, failed to hit the target, the sources said.
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Naples: Camorra mafia's grip hard to fight, says prosecutor By Le Figaro with AFP published the 07/06/2019 at 15:29
The Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra , is very powerful and its grip on Naples is difficult to fight, lamented this Friday Giovanni Melillo, the prosecutor of this city in southern Italy. The Camorra is so powerful that it manages to destabilize power: "Mafiosos turn violence into a real political power," said Giovanni Melillo before the foreign press in Rome. The parquet floor of Naples is the largest in Italy with 106 magistrates. However, Giovanni Melillo seems disillusioned by saying that "the issue of crime in Naples is not very present in the national public debate".
Born in the early 30's, the Camorra then gradually gains in power and its peak in the 90s. "The Camorra has a very sophisticated structure (...) and it has an excellent background in entrepreneurship," he said. assured the prosecutor. "In general, the Camorra offers illegal services, such as narcotics, or legal but with illegal conditions," continued Giovanni Melillo.
In addition, "she knows the techniques, the meanders (...) of the public administration. The mafia finds new customers there. For example, if you can not get a building permit, the Camorra is there and it is immediately very effective, "explains Giovanni Melillo. According to experts, several hundred mafia families and gangs are present in Naples and its region.
Luigi Torino, 41, was shot Thursday night in Miano, in the Rione San Gaetano area, a northern suburb of Napels. The victim, who has a criminal record, was led to the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital, he was assisted by doctors and is currently hospitalized for observation. It is not life threatening.
Luigi Torino, 41, was shot Thursday night in Miano, in the Rione San Gaetano area, a northern suburb of Napels. The victim, who has a criminal record, was led to the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital, he was assisted by doctors and is currently hospitalized for observation. It is not life threatening.
Luigi is the son of the ex boss Salvatore Torino who for over ten years is a collaborator of justice.
Is the Alfieri family still active? I know carmine was the top boss in the Camorra for some time before his arrest. It was even said that he was a billionaire by his own account I believe. I do not know if I believe that at that time a Camorra boss was richer than a top Sicilian boss but we don’t really know. I read somewhere that Michele Zaza was worth hundreds of millions. I might believe that because of the seizures by law enforcement that could back it up.
Iovine has begun to talk and no one knows when he will stop while in Naples as in Rome many are worried about the new revelations. The new contributor said, among other things, that he managed the clan cash register until 2008 "that every month Casalesi could count on about 350 thousand euro of income without counting the personal income that each boss could get." Iovine recalled: "I managed to raise all my business between 130 and 140 thousand euros a month, I had the burden of paying at least 60 thousand for salaries but at least 70 thousand remained for me a month."
I dont understand.. Here we're reading about the billions these bosses make etc but still the boss of bosses Antonio Iovine says he got 130-140 thousand euros a month, of which he only got 70 thousands for himself.
Was looking back at the thread and I saw this. I know it was talked about but for a â€kingpinâ€, this number seems extremely low. Maybe he doesn’t want the rest of his unknown assets seized. But if not then there have been bosses within the casalesi like Schiavone who have had way more in personal assets seized.
Iovine has begun to talk and no one knows when he will stop while in Naples as in Rome many are worried about the new revelations. The new contributor said, among other things, that he managed the clan cash register until 2008 "that every month Casalesi could count on about 350 thousand euro of income without counting the personal income that each boss could get." Iovine recalled: "I managed to raise all my business between 130 and 140 thousand euros a month, I had the burden of paying at least 60 thousand for salaries but at least 70 thousand remained for me a month."
I dont understand.. Here we're reading about the billions these bosses make etc but still the boss of bosses Antonio Iovine says he got 130-140 thousand euros a month, of which he only got 70 thousands for himself.
Was looking back at the thread and I saw this. I know it was talked about but for a â€kingpinâ€, this number seems extremely low. Maybe he doesn’t want the rest of his unknown assets seized. But if not then there have been bosses within the casalesi like Schiavone who have had way more in personal assets seized.
Its a joke these numbers. I truly believe he wanted make it look like he was not so big shot.
Iovine has begun to talk and no one knows when he will stop while in Naples as in Rome many are worried about the new revelations. The new contributor said, among other things, that he managed the clan cash register until 2008 "that every month Casalesi could count on about 350 thousand euro of income without counting the personal income that each boss could get." Iovine recalled: "I managed to raise all my business between 130 and 140 thousand euros a month, I had the burden of paying at least 60 thousand for salaries but at least 70 thousand remained for me a month."
I dont understand.. Here we're reading about the billions these bosses make etc but still the boss of bosses Antonio Iovine says he got 130-140 thousand euros a month, of which he only got 70 thousands for himself.
Was looking back at the thread and I saw this. I know it was talked about but for a â€kingpinâ€, this number seems extremely low. Maybe he doesn’t want the rest of his unknown assets seized. But if not then there have been bosses within the casalesi like Schiavone who have had way more in personal assets seized.
Its a joke these numbers. I truly believe he wanted make it look like he was not so big shot.
You are probably right. It’s a sick joke if law enforcement even believed that. I bet they were just happy he was cooperating so they tolerated some fabrications like that.
They are one of the several Camorra clans who operate in Holland since the 80s.
Augusto La Torre for years has been able to count on the great help of Raffaele Barbato , nicknamed Rockefeller . He is a trusted man of the boss, a person who runs business in the Netherlands , who deals with drugs with Venezuelan traffickers and who has interests in the United States and knowledge of Italian-American mobsters. La Torre decided to expand also to Rome , trying to dominate the market square of the capital.
They are one of the several Camorra clans who operate in Holland since the 80s.
Augusto La Torre for years has been able to count on the great help of Raffaele Barbato , nicknamed Rockefeller . He is a trusted man of the boss, a person who runs business in the Netherlands , who deals with drugs with Venezuelan traffickers and who has interests in the United States and knowledge of Italian-American mobsters. La Torre decided to expand also to Rome , trying to dominate the market square of the capital.
They sound just as sophisticated as the casalesi. I read that one of the La Torre brothers is a multi billionaire.
“Before clan affiliates started turning state’s witness, no one would have imagined the vast scope of Mondragone dealings. One of Rockefeller’s friends was a certain Raffaele Acconcia. Like Rockefeller, he was born in Mondragone but moved to Holland, where he owned a restaurant chain and, according to pentito Stefano Piccirillo, was an important international drug trafficker. The La Torre treasure is still hidden somewhere in Holland, perhaps in a bank—millions of euros the magistrates have never been able to locate, taken in through mediation and commerce. In Mondragone this alleged stash in a Dutch bank has become a symbol of absolute wealth, trumping all other references to international riches. People no longer say, “He thought I was the Bank of Italy,†but, “He thought I was the Bank of Holland.†With backing in South America and Holland, the La Torre clan planned to take over cocaine traffic in Rome. All Caserta families consider the capital city an extension of their province, and Rome has become the number one spot for drugs and real estate investments. The La Torres counted on the supply routes along the Domitian “coast; the villas there were essential for contraband cigarettes and all sorts of merchandise. The actor Nino Manfredi had a villa there. Clan representatives went and asked him to sell it. Manfredi resisted in every way he could, but clan pressure intensified; his house was located on a strategic point for mooring the motorboats. They stopped asking him to sell and forced him to hand it over at a price they set. Manfredi even appealed to a Cosa Nostra boss, disclosing the story to Radio News 1 in January 1994, but no Sicilian stepped in to mediate against the powerful Mondragonesi. Only by going on TV and attracting national media attention was he able to make known the pressure the Camorra applied for the sake of strategic interests. Drug traffic followed on the heels of other commercial routes. Enzo Boccolato, a cousin of the La Torres’ and owner of a restaurant in Germany, decided to export clothing. Together with Antonio La Torre and a Lebanese businessman, he purchased clothing in Puglia—the Campania garment industry was already monopolized by the Secondigliano clans—and resold them in Venezuela through a middleman, a certain Alfredo, who investigations indicated was one of the most important diamond traffickers in Germany. Thanks to Campania Camorra clans, diamonds—which have significant price fluctuations but always maintain a nominal value—quickly became the asset of choice for money laundering. Enzo Boccolato was known in the Venezuela and Frankfurt airports, where he had protectors among the merchandise inspectorsâ€
“Before clan affiliates started turning state’s witness, no one would have imagined the vast scope of Mondragone dealings. One of Rockefeller’s friends was a certain Raffaele Acconcia. Like Rockefeller, he was born in Mondragone but moved to Holland, where he owned a restaurant chain and, according to pentito Stefano Piccirillo, was an important international drug trafficker. The La Torre treasure is still hidden somewhere in Holland, perhaps in a bank—millions of euros the magistrates have never been able to locate, taken in through mediation and commerce. In Mondragone this alleged stash in a Dutch bank has become a symbol of absolute wealth, trumping all other references to international riches. People no longer say, “He thought I was the Bank of Italy,†but, “He thought I was the Bank of Holland.†With backing in South America and Holland, the La Torre clan planned to take over cocaine traffic in Rome. All Caserta families consider the capital city an extension of their province, and Rome has become the number one spot for drugs and real estate investments. The La Torres counted on the supply routes along the Domitian “coast; the villas there were essential for contraband cigarettes and all sorts of merchandise. The actor Nino Manfredi had a villa there. Clan representatives went and asked him to sell it. Manfredi resisted in every way he could, but clan pressure intensified; his house was located on a strategic point for mooring the motorboats. They stopped asking him to sell and forced him to hand it over at a price they set. Manfredi even appealed to a Cosa Nostra boss, disclosing the story to Radio News 1 in January 1994, but no Sicilian stepped in to mediate against the powerful Mondragonesi. Only by going on TV and attracting national media attention was he able to make known the pressure the Camorra applied for the sake of strategic interests. Drug traffic followed on the heels of other commercial routes. Enzo Boccolato, a cousin of the La Torres’ and owner of a restaurant in Germany, decided to export clothing. Together with Antonio La Torre and a Lebanese businessman, he purchased clothing in Puglia—the Campania garment industry was already monopolized by the Secondigliano clans—and resold them in Venezuela through a middleman, a certain Alfredo, who investigations indicated was one of the most important diamond traffickers in Germany. Thanks to Campania Camorra clans, diamonds—which have significant price fluctuations but always maintain a nominal value—quickly became the asset of choice for money laundering. Enzo Boccolato was known in the Venezuela and Frankfurt airports, where he had protectors among the merchandise inspectorsâ€
I would like to the read this book. Does Saviano dedicate a chapter to Zaza at all? I know he was a big player.
They are one of the several Camorra clans who operate in Holland since the 80s.
Augusto La Torre for years has been able to count on the great help of Raffaele Barbato , nicknamed Rockefeller . He is a trusted man of the boss, a person who runs business in the Netherlands , who deals with drugs with Venezuelan traffickers and who has interests in the United States and knowledge of Italian-American mobsters. La Torre decided to expand also to Rome , trying to dominate the market square of the capital.
I read about the classless killing Barbato. How did the La Torres react to this?
They are one of the several Camorra clans who operate in Holland since the 80s.
Augusto La Torre for years has been able to count on the great help of Raffaele Barbato , nicknamed Rockefeller . He is a trusted man of the boss, a person who runs business in the Netherlands , who deals with drugs with Venezuelan traffickers and who has interests in the United States and knowledge of Italian-American mobsters. La Torre decided to expand also to Rome , trying to dominate the market square of the capital.
They sound just as sophisticated as the casalesi. I read that one of the La Torre brothers is a multi billionaire.
I read the part about Antonio La Torre being a billionaire real estate investor on wiki. Don’t see any other site that backs that up so it’s safe to say that it’s grossly exaggerated. What clan is the most powerful in the Camorra present day? The Contini?
That is a huge operation, in total 126 people have been arrested across Italy and abroad. Among the arrested the boss Francesco Mallardo (who was under house arrests), Maria Licciardi (sister of the boss Gennaro) is currently fugitive.
Is it safe to say that the clans in secondigliano are the power base of the Camorra?
You can say that however the Mallardos are from Giugliano north of the city and are considered to be in the orbit of the Casalesi clan and for this reason they are considered very powerful and dangerous.
Is it safe to say that the clans in secondigliano are the power base of the Camorra?
You can say that however the Mallardos are from Giugliano north of the city and are considered to be in the orbit of the Casalesi clan and for this reason they are considered very powerful and dangerous.
Are the Casalesi more powerful than any other clan in the Camorra then? If the Mallardos are in a way under the casalesi clan. I have read that the contini family is one of the most powerful too. I thought the Nuvolettas and Zazas were the most powerful but under Bardellino and later Schiavone the casalesi were probably one of the most powerful crime families in the world. I have also been told on here thatthe clans like the Di Lauros and Licciardis are more like street gangs than mafia families like the Casalesi
The Camorra is for a part urban like inner city gangs in the US or Latin America, but there´s also a more powerful camorra entrepreneurs who deal with the politicians, freemasons etc..
Yes the Casalesi are the most powerful they are the Corleonesi of Campania.
Were the Levantes based on the Casalesi in season 4 of Gomorrah? How do the La Torres compare to the Casalesi if they both dominate Caserta are they even in the same ballpark?
Yes the Casalesi are the most powerful they are the Corleonesi of Campania.
Were the Levantes based on the Casalesi in season 4 of Gomorrah? How do the La Torres compare to the Casalesi if they both dominate Caserta are they even in the same ballpark?
The la torre clan operated in the city of Mondragone the Casalesi throughout Caserta and they have five factions so many more people. The LA torre clan is now defunct also but the heirs of the clan signed an alliance with cosa nostra.
Naples, the son of the former repentant boss wounded in an ambush in Miano two weeks ago ends up in jail Of The Editor - 30 June 2019 Naples. Two weeks ago he was seriously injured in an ambush and yesterday after returning home from the hospital he was arrested for failure to comply with the obligations of special surveillance. This is Luigi Torino, the 41-year-old son of the former penitent boss of the Sanità district, Salvatore Torino, known as o 'gassusaro, protagonist of the bloody feud with the Misso-Pirozzi. Torino was arrested at the disposal of the judges of the Review because a few months he had been caught in another municipality (he lives in Melito) in the company of others affected by violation so the legal obligations imposed on him for release from prison. On June 15, Torino was shot and wounded in an ambush consumed in Miano. He told investigators that he had been the victim of a robbery attempt. Version to which no credit was given. The investigators instead believe that the wounding is instead due to the new clash taking place in the area of ​​Miano between the veterans of the Lo Russo and the emerging clan of the Cifrone-Balzano.
Nicola Schiavone accused Michele Zagaria of treason. "When I realized that Michele Zagaria no longer honored the pacts in relation to the amount he had to pay to the common fund, I began to consider killing him". We are in September of 2008. Schiavone jr is on the loose, Zagaria has been a fugitive for more than a decade. A man of Zagaria who came into conflict, Giacomo Capoluongo, decides to help him. "Giacomo Capoluongo worked with me to try to find the house where Zagaria was hiding and gave me the names of the spouses who hid him". They can't find it. Zagaria will be arrested later. The spouses were actually hosting him and one of them eventually cheats on the boss.
ROME – A Naples Tribunal judge is among five suspects arrested in Rome for crimes relating to corruption, in a police investigation that has uncovered links to the Camorra Mafia clan.
The preliminary investigation judge of Ischia, Alberto Capuano, 60, has been arrested along with Bagnoli (Naples) District Councilor Antonio di Dio, businessman Valentino Cassini and convicted felon Giuseppe Liccardo, held by investigators near the Mallardo Mafia clan base in Giugliano, north of Naples. Under house arrest was Elio Bonaiuto, a lawyer from the Naples Tribunal.
The suspects are accused of corruption in the exercise of their duties; corruption related to an action contrary to official duties; corruption in judicial proceedings; trafficking in illicit influence; making false claims; attempted extortion; and aiding and abetting.
Mr Capuano had previously been investigated by Rome’s Public Prosecutor for alleged benefits collected in exchange for ‘soft’ management of the assets of the Ragosta brothers, reported Il Mattino of Naples.
The operation involved two years of investigations and at least three months of wiretapping in the former judge’s office in Naples before moving to Ischia.
Pasquale Marigliano, a prominent member of the "Secondigliano Alliance", was arrested in Naples. A fugitive from 2011, a detention order was executed against him by the Attorney General's Office of Appeal. He had to serve a year and 11 months for a mafia association and two years for a work house. The 58-year-old tried to escape but was blocked.
The Guardia di Finanza of Naples seized assets worth 300 million euros from an entrepreneur near some clans, operating in the real estate sector. The investigative activities as well as the statements of various collaborators of justice, have allowed us to reconstruct the operations of a complex criminal group linked to several Camorra clans (MALLARDO clan, DI LAURO clan, SCISSIONIST clan, PUCA clan, AVERSANO clan, VERDE clan and PERFETTO clan).
The organization, operating in various Italian regions - such as Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Abruzzo, Umbria, Sardinia, Lombardy - but with a prevalent base in Campania, was active in various illicit sectors, such as insurance frauds and the abusive exercise of credit , real estate investments and the fictitious title of assets, thus carrying out a systematic reuse of enormous sums of money of illicit origin.
The sister of the Zagaria brothers Beatrice Zagaria was acquitted of mafia association and sentenced to three years only for receiving money from the Casalesi clan. In first instance she was sentenced to six years.
10 May 2010 - 08:18 Rain of arrests Fruit, the alliance between Casalesi and Catania
The heads of the 'Casalesi', of the Mallardo clans of Giugliano, Licciardi of Secondigliano and of the Sicilian mafia families of the Santapaola-Ercolano of Catania are beheaded. The Rome Dia and the Caserta mobile team, who signed the operation coordinated by the Naples anti-Mafia district attorney, carried out dozens of arrests. The dismantled criminal organization imposed the monopoly of road transport on traders and truckers of fruit and vegetable products throughout the Central South, with the consequent rise in fruit prices.
The heads of the Camorra and Mafia organizations met in a transport company in the Caserta area to decide on strategies and alliances. During the investigation, real arsenals of weapons from Bosnia were seized.
In the operation over sixty arrests were carried out by the men of the Mobile Squad of Caserta and of the Dia of Rome, and involved men from the Casalesi clan, the 'Schiavone' group, the Sicilian mafia families of the Santapaola-Ercolano of Catania, and the clans Mallardo di Giugliano and the Licciardi of Secondigliano. These are precautionary custody orders issued by the magistrate of Naples.
"It is a great operation against the Casalesi clan but not only". Thus the Interior Ministry, Roberto Maroni, commented on the anti-mafia operation of the Dia that allowed the arrest of members of the Casalesi and Cosa Nostra clans. "With this operation - explained Maroni - an operational connection between the Casalesi and Cosa Nostra in the fruit transport sector is ascertained". "It is another major operation of the Police - he concluded - against the crime system that is hit hard every day".
The investigation into the control of fruit and vegetables by an alliance between gangs of different regions has revealed the existence of a "mafia federalism": said the national anti-mafia prosecutor, Pietro Grasso, who participated in the press conference held in the Naples prosecutor's office.
Thanks to the alliances with other clans of Campania, Calabria and Sicily, Grasso clarified, the Casalesi have obtained the monopoly of the transport of fruit and vegetables in most of Italy. The result is what the national prosecutor has called "unthinkable things": for example, to be packed, strawberries are sent from Vittoria, in Sicily, to Fondi in the lower Lazio; from there they are then distributed throughout southern Italy and Milan: the consequences on prices are enormous.
Grasso also highlighted the arrest of some Sicilian entrepreneurs including Antonio and Massimo Sfraga linked to the fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro and Giuseppe and Vincenzo Ercolano, related to the Santapaola family.
Thanks to the ties with them, the Casalesi managed to control the fruit and vegetable markets of Western Sicily and Eastern Sicily respectively. The investigations coordinated by prosecutors Cesare Sirignano, Francesco Curcio and Ivana Fulco also availed themselves of the collaboration of two collaborators of justice: Felice Graziano, head of the big clan of Quindici (Avellino) and of Carmine Barbieri, already "man of honor" of the Madonia family of Gela and defined by the investigators of "very high". related to the Santapaola family.
There are 68 pre-trial detention orders issued in the Naples Dda investigation into the control of fruit and vegetable transport carried out by a cartel of the Camorra, the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta.
A decree was issued this morning for the preventive seizure of a considerable amount of assets, estimated at around 90 million euros, consisting of dozens of companies in the sector, apartments, land, bank accounts and a fleet of commercial vehicles of over 100 units. The seizures were carried out in Campania, Lazio and Sicily.
There are also the boss of Cosa Nostra Giuseppe Ercolano, 75 years old, and his son Vincenzo, aged 40, among the recipients of the precautionary custody order issued against 68 suspects in the investigation by the Naples Dda on the control of fruit and vegetable transport carried out by a cartel of the Camorra clan , of the mafia and the 'ndrangheta.
They were arrested by the Dia and the Catania mobile squad together with Nunzio Di Bella, 47, Nunzio Scibilia, 48, and Orazio Fichera, 54, of Acireale.
Giuseppe Ercolano is the brother-in-law of the life imprisoner Benedetto Santapaola and has been indicated in the past by investigators as a prominent element of Cosa nostra in Catania.
He had been arrested on 31 January 2005 as part of the 'Storm' operation and released on February 24 of the same year by the review court which annulled the order of custody in prison issued against him by the magistrate Francesco D 'Arrigo.
The Dda of the Public Prosecutor's Office had challenged him for an extortion carried out by an entrepreneur from Catania from members of the ex-cosca Pulvirenti, who would have asked the alleged boss to authorize him to act, then paying him in exchange for a percentage of the collected 'lace' .
Giuseppe Ercolano, arrested in December 1992, had returned to liberty on 22 January 2004, when he left the prison of Lanciano (Chieti) after having finished serving a sentence of 12 years in prison for a mafia association that had been imposed on him in trials called 'Alleruzzo' and 'Orsa Maggiore'.
The new Sicilian Commission had led to "co-management between Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta but also between Cosa Nostra and the Camorra, especially for the traffic of cocaine" and "On waste, for example".
Clan Contini, the half match of counterfeit "colored" money The test (failed) to conquer the Dutch market and the favors of the 'Ndrangheta: the back of the 20-euro tickets left "blank" by the ineligible counterfeiter A batch of 20 thousand euros of counterfeit banknotes, a "sample" to be tested, entering it on the Dutch market. Addressee of the shipment of counterfeit money, Vincenzo Crupi, 56, of Siderno (Reggio Calabria), "intraneo", the investigators believe, to the cosca di 'Ndrangheta, Commisso. The link between the Camorra, Contini bank, and the Calabrian mafia, is represented by Felice Barra, "an element inserted in a context of drug trafficking of vast proportions", noted the investigating judge Roberto D'Auria in the order concerning the recent operation interforces against the ' Alliance of Secondigliano (over 120 measures performed, 214 suspects).
It is, among other things, Barra who, in 2013, organized a meeting between Antonio Aieta (brother-in-law of the bosses Edoardo Contini , Francesco Mallardo and Patrizio Bosti ) and Vincenzo Crupi. The production of banknotes is entrusted to Salvatore Acanfora, known as Savio, brother-in-law of Alfredo De Feo (also known to the police to operate in the segment of the false currency).
How powerful was the Giuliano clan in comparison to the Sicilian allied Camorra families?
Pretty powerful in the city because they were allied with the Stolder clan. A partnership cemented with marriages (Amalia, the sister of Raffaele Stolder sr, married Carmine Giuliano), who from the 1970s marked the "management" of the territory in the center of Naples.
Avellino, Graziano clan planned massacre: ambush to wife and son of the boss Cava
Five alleged affiliates of the Graziano di Quindici (Avellino) clan were arrested by the carabinieri: the criminal group planned an attack against the rivals of the Cava clan, killing the wife and son of the deceased boss Biagio Cava. The operation carried out between Vallo di Lauro and Verona, among the arrested the children of the boss Graziano.
How powerful was the Giuliano clan in comparison to the Sicilian allied Camorra families?
Pretty powerful in the city because they were allied with the Stolder clan. A partnership cemented with marriages (Amalia, the sister of Raffaele Stolder sr, married Carmine Giuliano), who from the 1970s marked the "management" of the territory in the center of Naples.
I was reading about the Giuliano family’s ties to Maradona
How powerful was the Giuliano clan in comparison to the Sicilian allied Camorra families?
Pretty powerful in the city because they were allied with the Stolder clan. A partnership cemented with marriages (Amalia, the sister of Raffaele Stolder sr, married Carmine Giuliano), who from the 1970s marked the "management" of the territory in the center of Naples.
I was reading about the Giuliano family’s ties to Maradona
It was the only way Maradona he could live in Naples with all the madness going on the people worshiped him as their God they wouldn't leave him alone so the camorra acted as his security.
Were the Camorra members more successful than him at the time? Or were they just protecting him because they wanted something from him?
It's no secret he was bought by Napoli with camorra money. His connection with them starts innocently. In exchange for protection, he cuts some ribbons at new stores that are controlled by the camorra. A few years later, he is in trouble. After a newspaper has revealed that the hot-tempered Maradona has been caught using cocaine - he is a frequent user - his mafia friends drop him quickly.
Were the Camorra members more successful than him at the time? Or were they just protecting him because they wanted something from him?
It's no secret he was bought by Napoli with camorra money. His connection with them starts innocently. In exchange for protection, he cuts some ribbons at new stores that are controlled by the camorra. A few years later, he is in trouble. After a newspaper has revealed that the hot-tempered Maradona has been caught using cocaine - he is a frequent user - his mafia friends drop him quickly.
Was it exclusively the giulanos who provided protection or were multiple clans involved?
napoli football team (and maradona) lost 1988 premier league/scudetto because the camorra forced them to lose the latest matches for illegal bets market
napoli football team (and maradona) lost 1988 premier league/scudetto because the camorra forced them to lose the latest matches for illegal bets market
How was he not banned from the sport? I’m not much of a soccer fan myself.
napoli football team (and maradona) lost 1988 premier league/scudetto because the camorra forced them to lose the latest matches for illegal bets market
How was he not banned from the sport? I’m not much of a soccer fan myself.
napoli football team (and maradona) lost 1988 premier league/scudetto because the camorra forced them to lose the latest matches for illegal bets market
How was he not banned from the sport? I’m not much of a soccer fan myself.
After boxing soccer is the most corrupt sport.
I never understood how people could riot over soccer. Maybe because in America it’s not a big sport so I don’t see it the same way that other people from other countries do.
Just how deadly was the NCO war? So many casualties. So many big names involved. You would think everyone was afraid to walk out the door. But it is not talked about the same way that the corleonesi war is talked about. It’s always surprised me that there could be hundreds of murders between both sides in a mob war like the Riina one, NCO, and Ndrangheta wars yet they all still have more than enough men to keep going.
napoli football team (and maradona) lost 1988 premier league/scudetto because the camorra forced them to lose the latest matches for illegal bets market
How was he not banned from the sport? I’m not much of a soccer fan myself.
After boxing soccer is the most corrupt sport.
I never understood how people could riot over soccer. Maybe because in America it’s not a big sport so I don’t see it the same way that other people from other countries do.
Hooliganism has been associated with the sport since the beginning..
Now I am older I agree, but in the 80s/90s it was fun. It's a subculture.
That’s fair. I’m sure soccer fans might look at the most popular American sports like football, basketball, baseball or hockey fans antics and feel the same way that I feel about soccer fans antics.
The entrepreneur Francesco Zagaria , a native of Casapesenna, known as "Ciccio 'e Brezza": has decided to repent and tell the magistrates of the DDA the secrets of the Casalesi clan and the pacts of Michele Zagaria with politicians. The first statements have already been filed, Zagaria is involved in the investigation that led to the arrest of Carmine Antropoli, former mayor of Capua, now under house arrest in Abruzzo.
An entrepreneur active both in the construction sector and in the dairy branch, Zagari was also indicated as a manager of a gambling den in Grazzanise where the illicit money from the gang was cleaned up. He was accused of mafia-type criminal association, but shortly after he was released from prison.
A young man of 29 years, recently released after 6 years in prison, was shot to death in Mondragone, in the province of Caserta, around 9.30pm on 4 September. Francesco Longobardi was the nephew of a man considered close to the boss Augusto La Torre. The investigations focus on the drug control feud.
Dead on the Asse Mediano , at the Sant'Antimo Casandrino exit , before the junction for Acerra . On site at least three patrols of the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Giugliano led by captain Andrea Coratza for the findings of the case.
Traffic towards Naples has gone haywire . There are slowdowns and queues. Motorists report the presence of a white cloth that covers the lifeless body on the driver's side of a side-by-side car. It would be an ambush. The driver of the car would have been killed during a shooting.
The killers would have blocked the car and fired the gunshots at the victim, then disappeared in another vehicle whose tracks were lost. Start investigations immediately by the police. Further updates coming soon.
Body found in car trunk in Naples sparks fears of mafia war Victim 'dealer, involved with Camorra clan'
(ANSA) - Naples, September 9 - A body found inside a car trunk of a car in the crime-ridden district of Scampia in Naples has sparked fears of a new Camorra mafia war to control criminal activities, in particular drug dealing, in the residential area of 'le Vele', investigators said Monday. The victim, identified as Domenico Gargiulo, 30, had survived a number of attempted killings, the same sources said. Police and DDA anti-mafia investigators are following the case. The body of the man, who was known to police as a drug dealer involved with a local criminal clan, was wrapped in a blanket and his face was covered by a towel, investigative sources said.
Nine people ended up in prison while two others were notified of the ban on staying in Campania as part of an investigation into extortion and drug dealing in the area of ​​Stabia and Vesuvius, in the province of Naples. The investigation began in 2015 when a leading exponent of the hegemonic family in the Savorito district, that of Imparato (also known as the Paglialoni, supporters of the D'Alessandro clan), approached the owner of a business to impose the supply of goods. The investigative activity made it possible to ascertain the extortion activity carried out by some of the suspects who, belonging to the Imparato family, carried out, on behalf of third parties, the recovery of unpaid debts even from subjects deemed to belong to other clans.
In the Marano blitz yesterday police arrested Luigi Esposito, aka 'Celeste', regent of the Orlando clan. Esposito, a historic affiliate of the Nuvoletta clan, the financial mind of the powerful criminal organization, had served a nine-year prison sentence. He was released a year and a half ago. He was arrested with six other people believed to be close to the Orlando-Polverino-Nuvoletta clan. They would be responsible for three extortion claims against owners of a veterinary pharmacy that would have earned 72 thousand euros.
Why is Caserta the power base of the Camorra with the casalesi when Naples is a big city with so much opportunity to make money and political connections?
Why is Caserta the power base of the Camorra with the casalesi when Naples is a big city with so much opportunity to make money and political connections?
The Casalesi are a different kind of camorra more rural and they have about 8000 members that's huge more than in the city of Napels.
Why is Caserta the power base of the Camorra with the casalesi when Naples is a big city with so much opportunity to make money and political connections?
The Casalesi are a different kind of camorra more rural and they have about 8000 members that's huge more than in the city of Napels.
Casalesi having 8000 members? No way, i highly doubt that , from where u got that info?
Why is Caserta the power base of the Camorra with the casalesi when Naples is a big city with so much opportunity to make money and political connections?
The Casalesi are a different kind of camorra more rural and they have about 8000 members that's huge more than in the city of Napels.
Casalesi having 8000 members? No way, i highly doubt that , from where u got that info?
Only in one town Casal di Principe 3000 people were kept under police surveillance because of prior convictions or known affiliation with the clan.
How do they avoid internal conflict with so many different zone leaders? At one point Bardellino was the only boss but at what point did they break their family into different factions?
Why is Caserta the power base of the Camorra with the casalesi when Naples is a big city with so much opportunity to make money and political connections?
The Casalesi are a different kind of camorra more rural and they have about 8000 members that's huge more than in the city of Napels.
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
the alleanza di secondigliano (contini/licciardi/mallardo) are very powerful
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
the alleanza di secondigliano (contini/licciardi/mallardo) are very powerful
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
the alleanza di secondigliano (contini/licciardi/mallardo) are very powerful
Are they still more like street gangs?
You have the street punks and the baby gangs but in the background you have crime families that are part of the system. This 'systema' pervades much of life in Naples.
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
the alleanza di secondigliano (contini/licciardi/mallardo) are very powerful
Is the Secondigliano alliance still operational? I've been wondering about the Licciardi for years. The Way Saviano described them they were more powerful than the DiLauros, and they were in the fruit business with the Casalesi and Santapaolo clans...
Vittorio Barruffo's body, dismembered and unrecognizable, was found by a hunter in a grove in France. It has been identified by the DNA. Barruffo was born in Naples, he was 44 years old, and in the south of France, in the Isere region, right on the border with Italy, he arrived two years ago to start over.
How does the Casalesi make most of their money? Is it drugs? There are only a few Camorra clans within Naples that can compare to the casalesi throughout history. Nuvolettas, Zazas are two examples.
the alleanza di secondigliano (contini/licciardi/mallardo) are very powerful
Is the Secondigliano alliance still operational? I've been wondering about the Licciardi for years. The Way Saviano described them they were more powerful than the DiLauros, and they were in the fruit business with the Casalesi and Santapaolo clans...
I answered my own question and found MANY Italuan news articles.... I'll post some.
Blitz against the "Alliance", the attack of the former boss Misso: "Licciardi more dangerous than Messina Denaro" The Madrina alias' a Piccerella, also known as Lady Camorra, escaped the maxi operation called "Cartagena" which caused 126 arrests JUNE 28, 2019 19:24 BY ANDREA AVERSA
When the police appeared in the night at her home, Maria Licciardi was not there. ' Piccerella has fled and is now a fugitive. The judicial authority raised even more the lid of the Pandora's box from which many details related to the illicit affairs of the cartel known as the Alligliano of the Secondigliano came out but failed to put the handcuffs on the wrists of his Godmother .
The powerful association, which includes the Contini , Licciardi and Mallardo clans , all linked by family ties, was at war with another Camorra cartel from the past. The one formed by the Mazzarella , Misso and Sarno families .
( This would have the Licciardi having defeated the supposedly stronger LCN clan of Zaza-Mazzarella)
The contention of the conflict was the control of the center of Naples . The winner was the Alliance , whose intimidating and financial strength is explained within the judicial papers.
MISSO AGAINST MARY LICCIARDI - But the old disagreements never ended, so Giuseppe Misso said 'o Nasone - former boss of the Sanità district - said that Licciardi is one of the most powerful and influential bosses in the criminal history of Italy . Even for Misso , 'a Piccerella , would today be the most dangerous and sought-after fugitive even compared to Mattia Messina Denaro , the famous mafia chief "disappeared" 26 years ago.
But there are many arguments taken up by Misso , such as the alleged infiltration by the Alliance within the regional health system. A topic that saw its peak at the San Giovanni Bosco hospital .
WHO IS MARIA LICCIARDI - The " Madrina ", " Lady Camorra ", " Bloody Mary " (" Maria Sanguinaria "), these are the other nicknames of 'a Piccerella . Maria Licciardi is considered to be at the top of the Camorra. She would take the reins of the Alliance as the sister of the founders of the cartel. And always she to be held responsible for about 100 murders for which she was never investigated.
Maria Licciardi was already a fugitive, it was 1998 but after a few months she was found and arrested. Then the detention took place, almost 10 years in prison where ' Piccerella served them all in hard prison, the regime known as the 41bis . On that occasion, as reported by Il Mattino , he made the acquaintance of a Red Brigades member, Nadia Desdemona Lioce .
Maria Licciardi could be compared to one of the female characters protagonists of one of the most successful TV series in the history of cinema: Il Trono di Spade . 'A Piccerella is like one of those queens who administer everything of their court: the rules, the business, the relationships between affiliates, the love affairs of his "courtiers". For her there is a code that must always be respected and pursued. Woe to break it. Also for this reason the Alliance is a criminal organization that in the last resort resorts to murder.
Moreover, Maria Licciardi , like all the "queens", is married. Also 'a Piccerella has its king. His name is Antonio Techemie called ' James o' Tartufon . But for Maria Licciardi , the latter, as for the rulers of the TV series, is only the consort, the companion of life. All decisions are made by Piccerella to take them.
UPDATE - The order for precautionary custody against Maria Licciardi has been canceled. The woman is free and therefore no longer a fugitive.
THE WORDS OF MISSO 'OR NASONE -
" THIS BOSS IS CALLED BY MARIA LICCIARDI (LOSS AT THE BLITZ AGAINST THE ALLIANCE OF SECONDIGLIANO ...) IT IS MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN MATTEO MESSINA DENARO "
Agreement between Nuvoletta and Matteo Messina Denaro: the agreement on online games signed in Giugliano
internapoli.it Home chronicle chronicleLocal chronicle Agreement between Nuvoletta and Matteo Messina Denaro: the agreement on online games signed in Giugliano Of Silvio Russo -22 November 2018
The pact between the Mafia and the Camorra is still strong. The Maranese, always close to the thighs of Cosa Nostra, after a period of cooling of the relations, would have strengthened the relations with the Sicilian "mala" and in particular with the fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
The last agreement signed between the parties would have been ratified in Giugliano and would have seen the participation of emissaries arrived in the city under the criminal control of the Mallards, directly from Catania, it is learned from an article appeared this morning in the newspaper Cronache di Napoli.
Some of these were even stopped and controlled by the agents of the police station of via Antica Giardini who reported the anomalous presence that, after some time, allowed the circle to be closed on the exchanges between Marano, in particular from the Nuvoletta family, and Sicily.
No more drug trafficking, but online betting management. This is the new configuration of the relations between Maranesi and Sicilians that over the years have experienced ups and downs: ups and downs from the "pact of cannoli", with exchanges of courtesies between the two "families", passing through a cooling of contacts and, now, to a new pact based on a new market to be exploited.
Contacts between some suspects of the group of Lineri Mistebianco (Catania) of the Santapaola clan and subjects considered 'close' to the super-fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro , including the latter's nephew, Francesco Guttadauro , as well as with people related to the Camorra family of Nuvoletta di Marano (Naples) have emerged as part of the 'Revolutionbet 2' investigation by the Catania prosecutor's office on mafia and online betting.
During the operation the carabinieri also seized weapons. The Guardia di Finanza carried out the preventive seizure aimed at confiscating assets, in Italy and abroad, for 70 million euros.
Relazione Dia: ''Cosa nostra subdola e silente concentrata negli affari''
by Aaron Pettinari - Pdf "Reorganization is attempted after Riina's death. Clashes are not ruled out"
Despite the continuous arrests (the last concerned last week the members belonging to the district of Passo di Rigano and the historic Inzerillo family), the seizure and confiscation of assets, the criminal organization called Cosa nostra is still pervasive and endowed with dynamism and offensive potential ".
This is the first consideration that, in the semi-annual report published last July 19, Dia's analysts are looking at the Sicilian mafia.
The investigators lined up all the information gathered during the second half of 2018 in which the operation Cupola 2.0, the one that on December 4, 2018 revealed the attempt to reorganize the Provincial Commission after the death of the Chief of Chiefs, Totò Riina, was certainly the most important success of the Police Forces.
According to Dia, the death of the Corleonese bossie has opened a "new transition phase, that of succession, however characterized by very delicate and problematic aspects, linked to the alignments, alliances between families and the new relations of force. , after years of internal review and constant search for balance, Cosa Nostra has really tried to finally give itself a definitive organization, not only substantial but also formal ".
Dia emphasizes how"it was argued that the mafia organization was, finally, measuring for some time with the return to Palermo of the so-called" escaped "or" American "and their descendants, or the losers of the mafia war won by the Corleonese " , able to " recover the ancient power also by relating to the Corleonese wing, as well as making use of historical relations with overseas bosses ".
The operation that took place last week, moreover, did nothing but confirm the involvement of the Inzerillo family, of the district of Passo di Rigano, in the dynamics of the Sicilian criminal organization.
Possible violent actions Analysts observe how"even if the attempt to reconstitute the Dome was unsuccessful due to prompt enforcement, the investigative findings confirmed the associates' awareness of the fact that one of the strong points, perhaps the main one, of Cosa Nostra has always been to It is a structured organization, well rooted in the territory, unitary and top-down, with precise top roles, so it seems likely that the Palermo organization will continue to experience a phase of transition and remodulation, during which the most authoritative components will confront each other to confer a new structure and new garments, striving to pursue the creation of a top-down and unitary structure ".
Then they sound an alarm:"Precisely because of the failure of the attempt to reconstruct the Dome and thus continuing the critical elements described above (which the establishment of the coordinating body should have allowed to progressively overcome), it is not possible to exclude in an absolute way that the difficulties of the organization and the complex dynamics between the components that are part of it can lead to strong disagreements, even with acts of violence.
This possibility is also to be considered because of the fact that internal conflicts could be further exacerbated by the new collaborative relationships of affiliates, particularly authoritative, with justice " .
palermo rapp dia 2 2018 int1( I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE ITS DRUGS... THEY DONT LISTEN THOUGH...)
The business network: the drug above all "The 'lace' - Dia's analysts know - not only represents a primary source of" sustenance ", but is also a fundamental means to control the territory". However, an increasingly strong return to drug trafficking is reported.
According to investigators, the interest of Sicilian organized crime towards the drug business remains high, as it is a huge capital multiplier. "In this illicit, international and transnational context, - they write -the important and unavoidable criminal synergies emerge, due to supply needs, with other Italian mafia organizations, as well as with foreign criminal organizations involved in the long chain of drug trafficking ".
The report acknowledges the existing relations Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta just to purposes of drug supply.
Speaking of the business of Cosa Nostra in the semi-annual report it is certified as"Today Cosa Nostra tries to avoid violent ostentation and sensational gestures, which would inevitably provoke social condemnation, in order to best pursue one's own affairs while at the same time maintaining a certain social consensus.
This new strategy, in relation to that stragista, is allowing, in fact, a subtle and silent penetration into the socio-economic-administrative fabric, favoring the collusive-corruptive tactic " .
"The illicit business agreements - the report continues -they are therefore the fruit of mutual convenience between the parties.
Corruption, based on a social fabric still available to compromise and which has its strengths in familism, in welfarism and in a widespread clientelism, is aimed at interfering with the functioning of the public administration, especially at the local level and mostly in those sectors where substantial economic resources pass, such as health, waste and the agro-food sector.
Considering that the Municipalities, even the small ones, can be important spending centers, with the Cosa Nostra corruption is able to condition bureaucracy and politics, in order to achieve its goals more effectively.
An economic-entrepreneurial sector at risk of corruption turned out to be that of maritime transport,, Dia continues. "Historically - the law continues - the Sicilian mafia controls the construction, the production of bituminous and cement conglomerates, the earth movement, the mining activity and the agro-silvo-pastoral sector.
Alongside the aforementioned traditional areas, Cosa Nostra has also known to infiltrate large-scale food distribution, in the tourism-hotel sector, in the betting and online gaming sector, in the manufacturing industry, in the waste cycle, in real estate investments, also made through judicial auctions, in works connected with the construction of energy plants from renewable sources and in all those sectors that benefit from state and community public funding.
An important testimony of all this is the profiteering attributable to the well-known fugitive Messina Denaro or to the numerous companies considered by him to be related. The investigative activities have disrupted the considerable economic power due to the boss of Castelvetrano, together with the complex and articulated chain of figures that allow him to manage investments and recycling operations, always identifying new economic sectors in which to move.
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by AMDuemila The report of the second half of 2018: " Enduring criminal life guaranteed also by connivance with 'white collar' "
" If in the nineteenth century the precursors of the modern Camorra entrepreneurs had secured a monopoly in the distribution of hay for carriages, now it can be affirmed, because it is acclaimed by definitive judicial acts, that there is no licit sector producing wealth that has not been object of attention by the clans ".
This is what emerges from the July-December 2018 Semi-annual Report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate on the Camorra. The criminal organizations of Campania have " regenerated ", it is read, through increasingly efficient techniques of infiltration of the socio-economic, political and entrepreneurial fabric.
"The associations infiltrate the legal economy either through participation in healthy companies or by operating directly with their own reference companies, characterized by a continuous modification of structures and company headquarters, in order to make it more complex to trace back to the real property.
In some cases these are business networks, through which they control the entire supply chain of activities related to a specific economic sector: in the gaming sector, for example, there were connected companies that dealt with the installation and maintenance of slot machines and video lotteries, as well as the management of dining rooms and catering services ".
As reported by the report, the enduring camorra criminal life is not only guaranteed by a suffocating social infiltration,connivance with the so-called white-collar workers, who are also entrusted with the task of hiding the treasures of the clans ".
These, according to the DIA, are" accumulated above all through the trafficking of drugs, exercised today in different ways than in the past, since they are entrusted to expert brokers, able to import drugs from foreign countries, stock the goods and distribute them to wholesalers ".
The different behaviors of the Camorra clans The semi-annual report of the DIA points out that the criminal dynamics of the Camorra clans " continue to be particularly complex, and coexist, often in the same area, different groups by structure and operational choices:
alongside minor associations, mainly dedicated to the control of illegal activities in the territory of respective influence, historical and structured organizations operate, such as the Mazzarella , the Licciardi and Contini in the Neapolitan capital, the Mallards , the Moccias , the Nuvolettas , the Polverinos and the Orlandoes in the province, the Casalesi in the Casertano area, increasingly projected to extend their range of action to other regions and abroad ".
If for the former" violence is a necessary instrument of criminal affirmation , "the latter" tend to shun glaring actions and always appear more oriented to control the legal markets, tightening relationships with the business world, public administrations and politicians ".
Numerous districts of Naples and many other areas of Campania, controlled by premature clans, in fact, write the employees of the DIA, are marked by a climate of violence enacted by those convicted who shoot inside the shops, regardless of the possibility of hitting innocent people.this magmatic situation with serious consequences for public security ".
Criminal phenomena, like those of the" extended "ones, are in all respects, according to the study, synonymous with a juvenile deviance that does not seem to stop. They are the youngest, in fact," from degraded family and metropolitan contexts ", the main protagonists of these episodes of unjustified aggression or clashes between gangs.
Not only." The state of social unease and widespread illegality that characterizes large areas of the Campania region, the coexistence of true Camorra organizations and own, urban gangster groups and gangs of young delinquents - reads -makes it possible for the former to be able, at any time, to count on armies of hundreds of people, also consisting of minors employed as lookouts, arms transporters, couriers at home for the delivery of drugs, even to the commission of murders ". question " is clearly perceptible - continues the report - a cause-effect relationship between social and family degradation and youth deviance ."
The phenomenon of juvenile crime, is mentioned in the report, was also the subject of the plenary session of the High Council of the Judiciary held in Naples on 11 September 2018, during which it was notified that "juvenile delinquency is not an emergency but a gangrenous problem with which we have been measuring for a long time ".
relation give caserta The Casalesi clan
The report of the DIA also shows that although the powerful alliances of the Casalesi clan with the Neapolitan groups such as the Moccia di Afragola and the Mallards of Giugliano in Campania are still solid , with the repentance of the chieftain 's son Schiavone said " Sandokan "the famous mafia family of Caserta suffered a severe blow. "
An important element of novelty with respect to the criminal assets of the Caserta area is to be found in the choice, in July 2018, of collaboration with the justice of Nicola Schiavone ", the investigators write. As regards the illegal activities of the Campania clans, and in particular in the Salerno area, "the infiltration of contracts - for the construction of public works, for the provision of services (particularly delicate is that of the collection and disposal of solid urban waste), for the maintenance of infrastructure and state property - continues to represent a sector of primary interest of criminal organizations, which also involves unfaithful entrepreneurs and public officials "."
The corruption of the latter - the document continues -represents the picklock that allows Camorra organizations to infiltrate the public administration and influence its management.
Where corruption attempts should be in vain, there is a criminal escalation that goes from threats to actual intimidation, as happened in the municipality of Agropoli, in which a series of intimidation actions were recorded by the local Marotta group, for to induce the mayor to assign jobs and social housing to the affiliates ".
Still on the Casalesi in the report July-December of the Diaries the investigators show another point of strength of the criminal cartel. Or"the ability to use the illicit proceeds in entrepreneurial activities, creating a real empire, capable of producing profits and acquiring social consensus through the employment in commercial activities of reference of the association ", reads the balance sheet of the second semester Dia.
" The vastness of this empire is attested by the numerous seizure orders issued over the years to entrepreneurs who have made their companies available to the cartel ." An action method confirmed also in the detailed report.
Finally, the employees notify a particular threat addressed to a collaborator of justice already affiliated to the Clara Zagaria appeared on October 10 last year in San Cipriano d'Aversa. "Whoever enters this house is a penitent "is the written appearance on the building.
An 'indicative' message against the collaborators of justice, according to the investigators, on the situation organized crime in the Caserta area. The uninhabited building, in 2013 was seized in execution of a decree of the prevention measures section of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
"So far the judicial inquiries, the state of detention of almost all the founders and of numerous historical affiliates, the collaboration with the justice of prominent exponents do not seem having in any case radically influenced the previous structures, as happened in some Neapolitan areas ", is added to the Dia budget."
Many important exponents - they explain -even if restricted in prison, they control the areas of influence, giving orders to the outside, while the organization's leaders, gregarious and supporters continue to enjoy the benefits of belonging to the society, such as financial assistance in prison, the costs of justice and the sustenance of the family ".
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Informative articles. What is the story behind the feud between the secondigliano alliance and the Zaza clan? The Zaza family has historically been one of the strongest clans in the Camorra. Much like the casalesi and nuvolettas. Those 3 families have been able to stand the test of time. A lot of other Camorra clans that were active around the same time are now defunct.
Mallardo clan splinters, at the bar the drug store in Giugliano
internapoli.it Home chronicle chronicleLocal chronicleFirst Floor Mallardo clan splinters, at the bar the drug store in Giugliano Of Internapoli editorial staff -March 27, 2019
The hearing was celebrated this morning in the trial that sees the splinter group of the Mallardo clan that has the stronghold in the Palazzine di Giugliano at the dock.
At the bar Davide Barbato, Gennaro Catuogno 'or squirrel, Domenico Chiariello' Mimmuccio ', Ernesto Cuciniello, Aniello Di Biase, Francesco Di Nardo, Giuseppe Mele' or chiattone and Crescenzo Panico 'or Pippone.
The accusation is that of accused of association aimed at drug trafficking issued by the investigating judge of Naples.
All the defendants have chosen to be tried with the Abbreviated Rite, except for Catuogno, who will instead be judged by the Ordinary rite. The next hearing, before Judge Fabio Provvisier,for the discussion of the parties, it was updated to September 10th.
The pm is Antonella Serio of the DDA of Naples. In the defensive college, among others, the lawyers Michele Giametta, Antonio Giuliano Russo, Luigi Poziello, Alessandro Caserta, Celestino Gentile, Alfonso Palumbo, Salvatore Cacciapuoti, Mauro Zollo, Giuliano Russo and Beniamino Mammarella.
The investigation They are all people already known to the police and the recipients of the order executed this morning against the group of the Palazzinari of the Mallardo clan were already in prison.
Some are old bosses of the Mallardo clan from which they then broke away, others are the young talents who shared the criminal line of the nascent group of Palazzine. The operation was carried out by the carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of Castello di Cisterna
ROLES OF EVERY AFFILIATE The roles of the various components emerge in the order
Michele Di Biase: financier of the association, coordinator of the relationships between the various components of the operating structure, guaranteeing in fact the marketing of the drug
Gennaro Catuogno 'or squirrel: the marketing of the drug is authorized based on its proximity to the Mallardo clan (
Aniello Di Biase and Giuseppe Mele: they promoted, directed and organized the association and coordinated the various reports, redistributing the illicit profits
Davide Barbato, Domenico Chiariello 'Mimmuccio', Ernesto Cuciniello, Francesco Di Nardo: they dealt with the distribution and sale of drugs
Crescenzo Panico 'o Pippone: he kept the organization's accounts taking care of the collection and custody of the money collected by the individual buyers.
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Characters At the head of the group were Gennaro Catuogno 'or squirrel and Aniello Di Biase. Speaking of Catuogno was the penitent Giuliano Pirozzi : «He is my wife's uncle, as my mother-in-law and his wife are sisters, so I know him perfectly.
I had family as well as Camorra relationships with Gennaro Catuogno. He was with me one thing in criminal affairs. " These are some of the statements taken from the deposition of Giuliano Pirozzi, the white collar of the Mallardo clan, in the trial against Francesco Mallardo, known as o 'chiatto, accused of insurance fraud with the aggravating circumstance of having favored the Mallardo clan.
Of 'Paparella', since October there is no news, O 'Scoiattolo had a particular bond. And it is clear from the words of the collaborator of justice Giuliano Pirozzi . «Together with Michele Di Biase they were a steady couple, by nature he was a great camorrista.
Not only that he was a man of confidence and was one of the architects of the victory of the Mallardo clan over the Maistos, so much so that he said in the last period, together with Michele Di Biase and others, strong of their past, they had been put a bit like senators for life. They only sent him money and had power over everything. "
It all started in 2014, when the leaders of the Mallardo clan ended up in jail.
From that moment, taking advantage of the power vacuum, the Palazzine group, which until then had remained on the sidelines, decided to contravene the order of the Ciccio Mallardo boss and started selling narcotics in the territory.
Several families joined in the new business: the Di Biase family, led by the boss Michele called Paparella, his son Aniello, Gennaro Catuogno known as' o scioiattolo, the d'Alterio alias Piripicci, the De Simone, the Marano and the Smarrazzo.
This is the nucleus of the new criminal group that, through the sale of drugs and extortion, has made its way from 2014 to today, first reaching an agreement with the historic group of Mallards with which it then went into conflict sparking a feud that led to ambushes, purges and murders.
The first to fall was Michele De Biase, who disappeared in October 2015.
His car was found in the Vasto neighborhood in Naples stained with blood. Even today there is no trace of his body. From that moment on it was a succession of events of blood, interspersed with a pact of non-belligerence between the opposing factions lasted very little.
The three groups agreed to divide the extortion activities on the territory, to make common cash and to share the profits. "The Mallards had tolerated the activity of the group of buildings - write the magistrates - but over time the contrasts had intensified for the management of illicit activities and for the division of the relative proceeds, frictions which then led to the long trail of blood starting from the ambushes to Michele di Biase, his son Aniello and Catuogno â€.
These criminal episodes are framed by the magistrates of the DDA as a real internal purge wanted by the old bosses for two reasons: both because they had violated the order to sell to Giugliano and because the boss Ciccio seems to have been afraid that Michele Di Biase could acquire more power and undermine leadership in the territory.
Among those arrested there is also Davide Barbato: he was arrested in March last year in Giugliano because he was surprised in possession of a semiautomatic caliber 9 parabellum pistol with abraded serial number and 10 cartridges in the magazine that he kept hidden in a video recorder in disuse in the basement and will be sent to the racis of Rome to verify its possible use in facts of blood or intimidation.
A 'respectable' criminal curriculum, to use a eufemisco, that of Domenico Chiariello, involved in the assault on the supermecato Sisa di Qualiano that led to the death of the young Giuseppe D'Aniello and the arrest of his accomplice Francesco Sarracino.
The Salerno Surveillance Court has allowed to expiate the residual sentence, another 4 years, in a community of recovery for drug addicts of the territory. Despite the heavy charges against him (2 aggravated robberies, possession and possession of 2 clandestine weapons with abridged matriculation and receiving of scooter number plates, ed), he left the Eboli prison.
In September 2015 the 35-year-old from Giugliano was sentenced to eight years in prison by the court of Naples North. The prosecutor's request was for 12 years of imprisonment, but the investigating judge considered that a lower sentence was applied, also due to the benefits of the reduction of one third provided for by the Abbreviated procedure.
Then in the Court of Appeal in Naples he obtained a penalty discount, receiving a sentence of 6 years and 8 months in prison.
Ernesto Cuciniello , the only one in the wild, was nevertheless known to the chronicles for the 2008 arrest when he was arrested for the robbery at the Banca Intesa San Paolo branch.
Even Pino Mele he is a well-known character. The young man is known for having committed a robbery in the province of Treviso, together with other accomplices, in which they shot a jeweler who had tried to react to a robbery, seriously injuring him and forcing him to a long hospitalization.
The story, especially in the area where the coup occurred, is having a wide media coverage because all the authorities of the coup are on the loose, also due to the slowness of Italian justice.
A criminal story that has also intertwined with a bloody event in Qualiano on May 31, 2014, when one of his accomplices in the robbery in Treviso, the 22-year-old Giuseppe D'Aniello, was killed while trying with an accomplice to take away the collection of the Sisa supermarket in Via Di Vittorio, by a carabiniere free from the service.
Despite the sentence of 10 years for the coup in Veneto, then reduced to 7 years in Appeal, Mele was practically at large, because he had never been to the institution to which he had been entrusted, but was actually domiciled in fact at a his aunt in close contact with the underworld in which he grew up.
Which then led him to try to make the "qualitative leap" by approaching one of Mallardo's local ras, Michele De Biase, which exposed him to the police investigation that stopped him and hunted him in this period.
Francesco Di Nardo, and Crescenzo Panico 'o Pippone were already in the cell because they were involved in the order of the Palazzine group which led to the zeroing of the rebel cosca.
The reasons for the Demerger
"The splitters were hunted by the same Mallards because they violated the order not to sell to Giugliano".
The division within the Mallardo clan was actually a purge wanted by the historical leaders of the cosca because they disobeyed the order to pass off in Giugliano.
The rift between the historical group and the emerging one of the Palazzine is above all on the control of the drug market. The latter would have created a drug dealing business in Giugliano, which has always been banned by the bosses Francesco and Ciccio who have, over time, preferred to become "middle class" by investing illicit capital in activities in the economic sector.
Around him he joined the discontented of the Mallardo clan, those who in the course of time had been excluded from the historic criminal family and young offspring who took the bones out of theft and robbery.
His head lift, and that of his father, has not been frowned upon by the historic group of Mallardo.In the last year there have been several police and carabinieri operations in the territory of the third city of Campania,
Some of those arrested are linked, directly or indirectly to one of the two factions, while others work in autonomy from the underworld, taking advantage of the lack of tight controls that was there before. In the past, in fact, those who were found to be dealing without authorization to Giugliano were beaten or even shot.
Informative articles. What is the story behind the feud between the secondigliano alliance and the Zaza clan? The Zaza family has historically been one of the strongest clans in the Camorra. Much like the casalesi and nuvolettas. Those 3 families have been able to stand the test of time. A lot of other Camorra clans that were active around the same time are now defunct.
In Gomorrah, it says....
" The clans affiliated with the Secondigliano Alliance- the Licciardi, Contini, Mallardo, LoRusso, Boschetti, Stabile, Prestieri, and Bosti families, as well as the more autonomous Sarno and DiLauro families...
The Lo Russos, I believe were the catalyst for the split in the Alliance, a bad shipment of heroin, multiple overdoses or something.
The Prestieris were I believe DiLauro allies, so when they had thier troubles, they were probably affected. They also had a ton of arrest in that clan.
I think, after the war within the Alliance, the Mazzarella clan probably backed a coalition of families for control of the Center-City. The Bosti clan is still firmly with the Alliance. Also the Aieta clan apparently has 3 women all married to Mallardo, Bosti, and Contini family bosses, all the women influential in the clan.
The Mazzarella was always a financially powerful clan, not militarily. It's why they all had to band together to fight off Cutolo.
Informative articles. What is the story behind the feud between the secondigliano alliance and the Zaza clan? The Zaza family has historically been one of the strongest clans in the Camorra. Much like the casalesi and nuvolettas. Those 3 families have been able to stand the test of time. A lot of other Camorra clans that were active around the same time are now defunct.
In Gomorrah, it says....
" The clans affiliated with the Secondigliano Alliance- the Licciardi, Contini, Mallardo, LoRusso, Boschetti, Stabile, Prestieri, and Bosti families, as well as the more autonomous Sarno and DiLauro families...
The Lo Russos, I believe were the catalyst for the split in the Alliance, a bad shipment of heroin, multiple overdoses or something.
The Prestieris were I believe DiLauro allies, so when they had thier troubles, they were probably affected. They also had a ton of arrest in that clan.
I think, after the war within the Alliance, the Mazzarella clan probably backed a coalition of families for control of the Center-City. The Bosti clan is still firmly with the Alliance. Also the Aieta clan apparently has 3 women all married to Mallardo, Bosti, and Contini family bosses, all the women influential in the clan.
The Mazzarella was always a financially powerful clan, not militarily. It's why they all had to band together to fight off Cutolo.
I think being a financial power is more valuable than being a militant power. Of course you need both but the more powerful financial Nuova Famiglia beat Cutolo.
The Naples Flying Squad arrested 30-year-old Antonio De Martino, believed to be related to Ponticelli's De Micco clan: according to investigators, he was one of the two killers who, on 10 October 2015, shot Nunzia D'Amico, the "Passilona", in the Conocal district, killing the female boss and paving the way for the "Bodo" ​​clan.
Camorra, brutal murders and loads of coca in the hinterland. In the cell the deep throat of the clans Already a member of one of the deadliest organized crime groups, that of the boss of Casalesi Giuseppe Setola, 60-year-old Alfredo Barasso has a lot to tell about the Camorra. And he decided to do so, immediately after the arrest of the Civil Guard in Valencia, Spain, and after the extradition: in the first interrogation with the prosecutor, he declared that he intended to provide full availability.
Italian mafia boss pays €10,000 to buy a baby Reportedly, he did it show the extent of his organisation's power
Published: October 06, 2019 21:34
Rome: Italian prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Naples mafia boss suspected of having given 10,000 euros (Dh40,331.59) to one of his men to buy a newborn baby, a paper reported Sunday.Italian mafia boss suspected of having helped buy baby
The boss from the Camorra, the neapolitan mafia, is thought to have offered the money to a women from eastern Europe to provide one of his men with a son, "Il Mattino" reported.
According to a legal document obtained by the newspaper, he did it show the extent of his organisation's power.
Prosecutors have opened an investigation into falsifying civil documents for criminal ends. They want to establish whether this case is just one in a hidden network trafficking children.
A capo of the Camorra: "The independence of Catalonia is a curtain to operate without making noise" The reporter David Beriain discovers in 'Clandestino in Spain' (DMax) how the Camorra has turned Barcelona into the nerve center of its illegal businesses on the Mediterranean coast.
The journalist interviews several capos. Among them one that has 20 people working in Spain (in addition to many kids). He says he has so many businesses in Barcelona that he can't even count them. And he affirms that the independence of Catalonia is "a curtain" so that the camorra can operate in the shade, "without making noise". They move "a lot of money, a lot." They don't have it stopped, he says, "because if he doesn't take dust." You invest in businesses such as restaurants, discos, hotels ... Without any shame, he explains: "We have so many things that it would take us one day to explain them." The gangster explains that in the newspapers we only talk about politics and independence, "and in the meantime, we do our business in the shade." And they don't like publicity, he admits Beriain with a sneer, hiding his face behind a balaclava. "We have 100 buildings in Diagonal Mar alone, we have built many skyscrapers." It is the so-called 'washer' of murky money.
Another boss of one of the strongest clans will teach the reporter how the narcos bring cocaine inside pineapples, and will tell him about his relationship with the Camorra and the multiple ways they have of introducing the drug into the port of Barcelona.
The journalist also meets Maurizio Prestieri , an important ex-camp of the Neapolitan mafia with whom he meets in Madrid to explain why our country is the preferred place for the mafia to launder money, traffic and take refuge. After being arrested in Marbella in 2003, Prestieri spent several years in prison and now collaborates with the police as a confidant. "Benidorm, Alicante, Torrevieja, Barcelona ... It is not necessary to be a scientist to know what happens. Someday it will be known as the" españacamorra ", assures the excapo.
Camorra: a very loyal Zagaria boss Vincenzo Inquieto, 51, stopped at Capodichino airport
(ANSA) - NAPLES, OCTOBER 20 - Vincenzo Inquieto, a 51-year-old entrepreneur believed to be very loyal to the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, was arrested last night at Capodichino airport in Naples by Dia men. He returned from Romania where - it emerged - he managed the real estate empire created on behalf of Zagaria by his brother Nicola Inquieto, arrested in 2018. Vincenzo Inquieto was already stopped in 2011 in the blitz that led to the arrest of Zagaria. He is held responsible for the crime of criminal association of the Camorra type.
Camorra, Carabinieri arrest 17 people linked to the Casalesi.
Despite the excellent arrests and "repentances", the Casalesi clan continues to be fully operational in the Caserta area it emerges from the latest investigation by the Naples Dda, which led to the arrest by the carabinieri of the Caserta Investigative Unit of 17 people for crimes of Camorra association, extortion and trafficking of drugs and weapons.
The precautionary measures 14 in prison and 3 under house arrest concern the Schiavone faction of the Casalese criminal federation.
Among those who ended up in the cell are the 62-year-old Giacomo Capoluogo, considered the cashier of the clan, who has always been close to the Zagaria faction, but in recent years closer to the Schiavones; and 46-year-old Salvatore Fioravante, known as the "little pig", who is also a well-known face of the clan.
Why is the casalesi clan considered the Camorra still when they are more similar to the Sicilians and Calabrians and bigger than any other Camorra family?
Why is the casalesi clan considered the Camorra still when they are more similar to the Sicilians and Calabrians and bigger than any other Camorra family?
Camorra or Camorristico are just definitions used by Judges and journalists in Campania this goes back all the way to the early 20th century similar to Mafia.
Why is the casalesi clan considered the Camorra still when they are more similar to the Sicilians and Calabrians and bigger than any other Camorra family?
Camorra or Camorristico are just definitions used by Judges and journalists in Campania this goes back all the way to the early 20th century similar to Mafia.
How do the Casalesi or Nuvolettas compare to the top Sicilian and Calabrian crime families? I believe I have seen Saviano and others say that the Casalesi is every bit as powerful and wealthy.
Camorra in Naples, summit among the bosses in the hospital mortuary NAPLES > CHRONICLE Saturday 2 November 2019 by Leandro Del Gaudio
It was the safest, armored, security-proof place. A place where one could discuss, close agreements and sign peace, that between two cartels that - at least from the end of the nineties - mark the town's black chronicle, we talk about Mazzarella against those of Secondigliano. And this is how the mortuary hall of the Ascalesi hospital becomes, in the eyes of an eighty-year-old Camorrista, a decisive place to define strategies, draft a truce, witness the handshake that lies behind the great division of the racket into Naples, let's talk about the lace imposed on the (infinite) works of Via Marina, on the construction sites (buildings) that mark the circulation from Via Vespucci to San Giovanni a Teduccio. It is one of the background to the investigations culminating in the arrests of Carmine Montescuro , 84,, the «peacemaker», the «power of the port», the «Switzerland» of the town Camorra, to read the papers of the 23 arrests of two weeks ago. And it is in the pages destined to the evaluation of the Court of Review, that we discover the expedient used by the boss of Sant'Erasmo to start the great agreement, the non-aggression pact between the Mazzarella and Secondigliano clans, in view of the big cake of the works in via Marina.
The new boss of Scampia Antonio Abbinante , 61 years old, brother of Guido and Raffaele, the head of the Scissionisti, ended up in handcuffs today. Antonio Abbinante, originally from Marano but resident in Scampia, is also the father of Arcangelo (still in prison). Arcangelo is in fact considered one of the most ruthless killers of the criminal group. He is currently on trial for the ambush that took place on the beach of Terracina of the boss Gaetano Marino. The Abbinanti, among other things, were part of the group of families that rebelled against the Di Lauro clan.
Arrest 51 people for fraud against the elderly: they are close to the Camorra in Naples. A round of scams across Italy which had its center in Naples, under the control of the clan Contini: 51 people were arrested for having swindled a large number of elderly.
Camorra, arrested narcos fugitive from 2016: he was a chef in the Netherlands
The men of Dia and the State Police, in collaboration with the Dutch Police Department, arrested Alfredo Marfella, a fugitive from 2016 and accused of international drug trafficking. Marfella, burdened with a European arrest warrant, worked regularly as a chef in a well-known restaurant in The Hague, in the Netherlands. NAPLESCAMORRALATEST NEWS NOVEMBER 27, 2019 9:45of Valerio Papadia
He was considered a narcos, an international drug dealer, but he was a chef in the Netherlands. The men of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate and of the State Police, in collaboration with the Dutch Police Department, arrested Alfredo Marfella , a fugitive from 2016, on whom a European arrest warrant was pending after a precautionary custody order issued by the Court of Naples for international drug trafficking. Now, the man regularly worked as a chef in a well-known restaurant in The Hague, in the Netherlands , where he was arrested. Marfella is considered by investigators as a promoter and organizer of an association that acted as an intermediary in the drug trade between Italy and the Netherlands.
Marfella's arrest was allowed thanks to the synergy between the Dutch Antimafia and the national prosecutor's office, in constant contact with the Dia. "The operation can be considered the result of an international investigative strategy to combat organized crime, which Dia has developed over time, also through the conception and direction of the Antimafia Operational Network - Onnet, a project that provides, with the tools of existing police cooperation, to support the investigative units of the Member States with specialized agents on the phenomenon and to simultaneously improve the exchange of information useful for the investigations ", reads a note issued by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate.
29 NOVEMBER 2019 00:10 Ambush in Naples, killed 30 year old: investigations open to any hypothesis
A 30 year old, Alessandro Napolitano, was killed in an ambush in the area of ​​Miano in Naples. The victim was aboard his car, a gray Opel, near his mother's home, when the killer exploded several gunshots at close range, some of them to his head. The investigations are open to all hypotheses: Napolitano, according to the investigators, was not affiliated with any clan.
In two seperate operations in Afragola and North Naples, police arrested 19 members of the Moccia clan and 16 people of the De Rosa clan for crimes of mafia-type association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, possession of clandestine weapons and drug dealing. Both clans used bombs against businesses.
I have been told that the Di Lauro and Licciardi families are more like cartels than they are mafia. Is that why they were historically at odds with the more entrepreneurial mafia families like the Zaza-mazzarellas and Nuvoletta-Polverinos?
I have been told that the Di Lauro and Licciardi families are more like cartels than they are mafia. Is that why they were historically at odds with the more entrepreneurial mafia families like the Zaza-mazzarellas and Nuvoletta-Polverinos?
The Camorra is not an organization like the Mafia. Neapolitans call it “the system†with resignation and pride. The Camorra offers them work, lends them money, protects them from the government, and even suppresses street crime. The problem is that periodically the Camorra also tries to tear itself apart, and when that happens, ordinary Neapolitans need to duck.
I have been told that the Di Lauro and Licciardi families are more like cartels than they are mafia. Is that why they were historically at odds with the more entrepreneurial mafia families like the Zaza-mazzarellas and Nuvoletta-Polverinos?
The Camorra is not an organization like the Mafia. Neapolitans call it “the system†with resignation and pride. The Camorra offers them work, lends them money, protects them from the government, and even suppresses street crime. The problem is that periodically the Camorra also tries to tear itself apart, and when that happens, ordinary Neapolitans need to duck.
You are right. The Camorra is a lot more fragmented than the Sicilians and Calabrians. How exactly did the ndrangheta get to their level so quickly? They seized the drug trade ever so quickly and reinvested their earnings. The most powerful families in the Ndrangheta must be more powerful and wealthy than any other subsets within any other organization today. The Sicilians were traditionally the richest and most powerful but the top Camorra members may have made as much money if not more than the top Sicilian mafia members in the 80s.
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Patrizio Bosti, Eduardo Contini, Francesco Mallardo, Maria Licciardi : according to the investigations of the DDA, they are the leaders of the Secondigliano Alliance. Yesterday the final blow with 126 arrests and over 200 people under investigation.
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Returns an alarming picture of the Neapolitan criminal level, far from the "pulverization" of the past years but characterized "by a sophisticated mafia direction": the investigation by the Naples prosecutor's office on the so-called Secondigliano Alliance focuses on a camorra that does not shoot (or almost ) but think about business. Today a maxi inter-force blitz coordinated by the Public Prosecutor, which involved police, carabinieri, the Guardia di Finanza and Dia, has dealt a severe blow to the criminal federation of the Contini, Licciardi and Mallardo families. A total of 126 precautionary measures were issued (89 in prison and 36 under house arrest and a ban on staying in Campania).
Some members of the Licciardi, including Maria Licciardi, sister of one of the founders of the Alliance, Gennaro Licciardi, known as "the monkey", escaped arrest. The financiers have seized goods for over 130 million euros throughout Italy - companies, cars, motorcycles, a boat, houses, companies, commercial and business activities, fine watches and diamonds. Founded by three historical bosses in the late 1980s, the Alliance is still pervasive in the shadow of Vesuvius. The prominent role is played by the Continis, and at the top of the federation are the brides of the bosses Edoardo Contini, Patrizio Bosti and Francesco Mallardo, the three sisters Aieta (Maria, Rita and Anna) and, of course Maria Licciardi. All had a leadership role. Women who kept contacts with the bosses at 41bis and gave orders to the affiliates on the management of welfare and business. Broad-spectrum business that was not "limited" to traffic and the sale of cocaine and marijuana from South America, via Holland, thanks to privileged and "coded" relations with the 'Ndrangheta, in particular with the Commisso of Siderno.
Surveys revealed that the Contini family also managed all the activities of a hospital in Naples, San Giovanni Bosco, which became famous for the cases of ants in the wards. There they controlled every aspect, from hiring to contracts, to labor relations. Not only. With the complicity of the health professionals they carried on the flourishing business of insurance frauds, even for other clans. And if a patient died, the Camorra could have him "resurrected" on the documents allowing the relatives, for "only" 500 euros, to be able to take him home by ambulance early. In essence, the prosecutor of Naples Giovanni Melillo emphasized, "the hospital was the logistical base for their criminal plots".
HERE ARE THE NAMES OF ALL ARRESTED ARRESTS IN PRISON acanfora Ciro AIDA Antonio AIETA Anna AIETA Antonio AIETA Maria AIETA Rita Alfano Alessio AMBROSIO Mario Ammerman Joseph ANIELLO Alberto ARDUINO Giuseppe ATTARDO Gaetano BARBELLA Giulio BAR Happy BOSTI Ettore BOSTI Patrick BOTTA Angelo BOTTA John BOTTA Lucia BOTTA Nicola BOTTA Salvatore BOTTA Salvatore BOTTA Vincenzo CANDIDO Giovanni CANDIDO Lamberto CAPOZZO Rosario CAPOZZOLI Vincenzo CASO Pietro CERBONE Pietro CICCARELLI Giuseppe Cino Pasquale CIULLO Giuseppe COMMITTEE Salvatore CONTINI Edward Coppola Carlo Corrado Gennaro COSTA Gennaro Cuomo Alfredo CRISTIANO Antonio CHRISTIAN Fabio CHRISTIAN Thomas DE FEO Alfredo WOMEN Maurizio WORLD Gennaro PLAN Giuseppe DE FALCO William DE ROSA Giuseppe DI CARLUCCIO Ciro Di Martino Luigi OF MUNNO Rosa ESPOSITO Domenico ESPOSITO Ettore ESPOSITO Giovanni ESPOSITO Luca FALANGA Umberto FIORENTINO Massimo FIORILLO Gennaro Folchetti Luigi Giamminelli Francesco GIORDANO Giuseppe Grasso Emanuele BIG Gennaro LICCIARDI Maria MALLARDO Francesco MARSEILLE Giuseppe Mendozzi Salvatore MEROLLA Salvatore Murano Roberto MUSCERINO Antonio PATIERNO Michele pellìccio Gennaro Pengue Antonio PERCOPE Salvatore FISH Antonio Petrone Salvatore PICARDI Patrick Poggi Luciano POMATICO Mario Riccio Bruno Riccio Gennaro ROLLER Nicola PLUG Giuseppe TOLOMELLI Carmine TOLOMELLI Giuseppe TOLOMELLI Vincenzo TOLOMELLI Vincenzo VITTORIO Raffaele VITTORIO Salvatore VOLPE Francesco
HOUSE ARREST
ACANFORA Salvatore AMBROSIO Vincenzo ANATRIELLO Francesco BOSELLI Alessandro BOTTA Ciro CALIENNO Antonio COLANTUONO Pietro BRACALE Vincenza CHIAVARONE Ciro CHIAVARONE Leopoldo CRISTIANO Maurizio DE ROSA Gennaro DI MARTINO Gianluca DI MARTINO Paolo FINIZIO Nunzio GUELI Francesco IMPERATORE Antonella LIETO Domenico MANZO Francesco MARANO Mario MATINO Mario MECHERI Enrico MORESCANTI Claudio NADDEO Franco NATALE Domenico PALMA Vito PANICO Concetta PASQUARIELLO Vincenzo PERSICO Luigi PROSPERO Salvatore RINALDI Antonio RINALDI Pasquale RIVA Marco SANTORIELLO Fortunato TARALLO Vincenzo VENTRIGLIA Vincenzo DIVIETO DI DIMORA IN CAMPANIA ESPOSITO Gaetano
The words of the magistrates: in particular MALLARDO Francesco, BOSTI Patrizio and CONTINI Eduardo for having continued to maintain, even in detention, the control and direction of the respective clans and the supremacy in the adoption of the strategic choices of the Alliance;
-AIETA Maria, AIETA Rita, AIETA Anna, consorts respectively of CONTINI Eduardo, BOSTI Patrizia and MALLARDO Francesco, with the roles of managers and participants of the strategic directives, both in the internal relations to the single confederal clans and in the relations between them within of the Alliance and externally, directly and consciously involved in the management of the criminal affairs of the mafia coterie with management and decision-making powers in coordination with their spouses, also as vehicles to the outside of the respective directives, and with autonomous powers especially in relation to the control of usury and extortion and to the management of the economic income of the mafia confederation;
ESPOSITO Gaetano, external competitor of the radiant confederation, permanently and consciously occupying himself with reinvesting a portion of the capital illicitly accumulated by the heavens' members of the Secondigliano Alliance in various economic and financial activities, including real estate investments and large-scale investment in gold and precious metals, and remaining at the disposal of the association for any economic and financial activity and necessity aimed at maintaining and increasing the economic-criminal strength of the Alliance, to whose leaders it constantly related and to which it reported,
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Patrizio Bosti, Eduardo Contini, Francesco Mallardo, Maria Licciardi : according to the investigations of the DDA, they are the leaders of the Secondigliano Alliance. Yesterday the final blow with 126 arrests and over 200 people under investigation.
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Returns an alarming picture of the Neapolitan criminal level, far from the "pulverization" of the past years but characterized "by a sophisticated mafia direction": the investigation by the Naples prosecutor's office on the so-called Secondigliano Alliance focuses on a camorra that does not shoot (or almost ) but think about business. Today a maxi inter-force blitz coordinated by the Public Prosecutor, which involved police, carabinieri, the Guardia di Finanza and Dia, has dealt a severe blow to the criminal federation of the Contini, Licciardi and Mallardo families. A total of 126 precautionary measures were issued (89 in prison and 36 under house arrest and a ban on staying in Campania).
Some members of the Licciardi, including Maria Licciardi, sister of one of the founders of the Alliance, Gennaro Licciardi, known as "the monkey", escaped arrest. The financiers have seized goods for over 130 million euros throughout Italy - companies, cars, motorcycles, a boat, houses, companies, commercial and business activities, fine watches and diamonds. Founded by three historical bosses in the late 1980s, the Alliance is still pervasive in the shadow of Vesuvius. The prominent role is played by the Continis, and at the top of the federation are the brides of the bosses Edoardo Contini, Patrizio Bosti and Francesco Mallardo, the three sisters Aieta (Maria, Rita and Anna) and, of course Maria Licciardi. All had a leadership role. Women who kept contacts with the bosses at 41bis and gave orders to the affiliates on the management of welfare and business. Broad-spectrum business that was not "limited" to traffic and the sale of cocaine and marijuana from South America, via Holland, thanks to privileged and "coded" relations with the 'Ndrangheta, in particular with the Commisso of Siderno.
Surveys revealed that the Contini family also managed all the activities of a hospital in Naples, San Giovanni Bosco, which became famous for the cases of ants in the wards. There they controlled every aspect, from hiring to contracts, to labor relations. Not only. With the complicity of the health professionals they carried on the flourishing business of insurance frauds, even for other clans. And if a patient died, the Camorra could have him "resurrected" on the documents allowing the relatives, for "only" 500 euros, to be able to take him home by ambulance early. In essence, the prosecutor of Naples Giovanni Melillo emphasized, "the hospital was the logistical base for their criminal plots".
HERE ARE THE NAMES OF ALL ARRESTED ARRESTS IN PRISON acanfora Ciro AIDA Antonio AIETA Anna AIETA Antonio AIETA Maria AIETA Rita Alfano Alessio AMBROSIO Mario Ammerman Joseph ANIELLO Alberto ARDUINO Giuseppe ATTARDO Gaetano BARBELLA Giulio BAR Happy BOSTI Ettore BOSTI Patrick BOTTA Angelo BOTTA John BOTTA Lucia BOTTA Nicola BOTTA Salvatore BOTTA Salvatore BOTTA Vincenzo CANDIDO Giovanni CANDIDO Lamberto CAPOZZO Rosario CAPOZZOLI Vincenzo CASO Pietro CERBONE Pietro CICCARELLI Giuseppe Cino Pasquale CIULLO Giuseppe COMMITTEE Salvatore CONTINI Edward Coppola Carlo Corrado Gennaro COSTA Gennaro Cuomo Alfredo CRISTIANO Antonio CHRISTIAN Fabio CHRISTIAN Thomas DE FEO Alfredo WOMEN Maurizio WORLD Gennaro PLAN Giuseppe DE FALCO William DE ROSA Giuseppe DI CARLUCCIO Ciro Di Martino Luigi OF MUNNO Rosa ESPOSITO Domenico ESPOSITO Ettore ESPOSITO Giovanni ESPOSITO Luca FALANGA Umberto FIORENTINO Massimo FIORILLO Gennaro Folchetti Luigi Giamminelli Francesco GIORDANO Giuseppe Grasso Emanuele BIG Gennaro LICCIARDI Maria MALLARDO Francesco MARSEILLE Giuseppe Mendozzi Salvatore MEROLLA Salvatore Murano Roberto MUSCERINO Antonio PATIERNO Michele pellìccio Gennaro Pengue Antonio PERCOPE Salvatore FISH Antonio Petrone Salvatore PICARDI Patrick Poggi Luciano POMATICO Mario Riccio Bruno Riccio Gennaro ROLLER Nicola PLUG Giuseppe TOLOMELLI Carmine TOLOMELLI Giuseppe TOLOMELLI Vincenzo TOLOMELLI Vincenzo VITTORIO Raffaele VITTORIO Salvatore VOLPE Francesco
HOUSE ARREST
ACANFORA Salvatore AMBROSIO Vincenzo ANATRIELLO Francesco BOSELLI Alessandro BOTTA Ciro CALIENNO Antonio COLANTUONO Pietro BRACALE Vincenza CHIAVARONE Ciro CHIAVARONE Leopoldo CRISTIANO Maurizio DE ROSA Gennaro DI MARTINO Gianluca DI MARTINO Paolo FINIZIO Nunzio GUELI Francesco IMPERATORE Antonella LIETO Domenico MANZO Francesco MARANO Mario MATINO Mario MECHERI Enrico MORESCANTI Claudio NADDEO Franco NATALE Domenico PALMA Vito PANICO Concetta PASQUARIELLO Vincenzo PERSICO Luigi PROSPERO Salvatore RINALDI Antonio RINALDI Pasquale RIVA Marco SANTORIELLO Fortunato TARALLO Vincenzo VENTRIGLIA Vincenzo DIVIETO DI DIMORA IN CAMPANIA ESPOSITO Gaetano
What makes the Licciardis more like the mafia than most other camorra families?
The Guardia di Finanza of the Provincial Command of Naples arrested 12 members of an organization of drug dealers, with bases in Rome and Naples. The criminal organization, composed of Neapolitan citizens, is particularly active in the importation from the Netherlands and Spain of huge quantities of drugs - mainly cocaine, hashish and marijuana - destined to feed the market squares of the capital of Campania. They are also linked to the ambush in which little Noemi was seriously wounded.
Giuseppe Avventurato (48), already known to the police, was killed in an ambush in Acerra, in the province of Naples. The murder took place inside a building of Corso della Resistenza shortly after 6.00 pm. The victim was transported to Villa dei Fiori, a local hospital, by some people who said they heard gunshots outside the building where they live. The hospital's health staff could do nothing but verify the death. The investigations were entrusted to the local police station. The man is originally from Naples.
The Guardia di Finanza of the Provincial Command of Naples arrested 12 members of an organization of drug dealers, with bases in Rome and Naples. The criminal organization, composed of Neapolitan citizens, is particularly active in the importation from the Netherlands and Spain of huge quantities of drugs - mainly cocaine, hashish and marijuana - destined to feed the market squares of the capital of Campania. They are also linked to the ambush in which little Noemi was seriously wounded.
'Camorra suspect The Hague is a flamboyant entrepreneur' December 19, 2019
The police have made eleven arrests in Naples and one in The Hague, in an action against a Neapolitan Mafia organization, the Algemeen Dagblad reports . The suspicion is a involvement in smuggling of thousands of kilos of cocaine and tens of thousands of kilos of hashish. Early Wednesday morning the police in The Hague arrested 58-year-old Dario P., the public prosecutor confirmed to the AD. Contractor aka pizza owner Dario P. is a well-known in the Hague region. He came in the news in 2008 after the takeover of a building in Rijswijk because he had a conflict with the previous owner. According to the judiciary in Italy, the leading role in the network is reserved for Salvatore N. At the end of November , the Hague police arrested Alfredo M., a chef in an Italian restaurant in The Hague, in another Italian Camorra investigation.
Giuseppe Avventurato (48), already known to the police, was killed in an ambush in Acerra, in the province of Naples. The murder took place inside a building of Corso della Resistenza shortly after 6.00 pm. The victim was transported to Villa dei Fiori, a local hospital, by some people who said they heard gunshots outside the building where they live. The hospital's health staff could do nothing but verify the death. The investigations were entrusted to the local police station. The man is originally from Naples.
In 1988 his father Domenico Avventurato was also shot dead.
Ciro D 'Anna, 38, was killed in an ambush in Portici ( Naples ), the man was inside a tobacconist's. D 'Anna was an affiliate of the Vollaro clan, he was hit by five bullets.
Some statements of former Casalesi boss Iovine are online now.
It is a story rooted in the Casalesi clan of the 80s that told by Antonio Iovine, inserted in the ordinance that led to the arrest, among others, of Pino Cantone and to investigate Ivanhoe Schiavone.
According to the collaborator of justice, relations already existed between Maurizio Capoluongo and Antonio Bardellino. The former also participated in the murder of Ciro Nuvoletta and took part in the meetings of the Bardellino clan, also held with Carmine Alfieri, historic boss of the Nola. It seems that behind the murder of De Ciccio, always according to Antonio Iovine, there was Maurizio Capoluongo, who " told me that he had solicited the fire group stationed at Armando seven barrels, relative of the wife of Dario De Simone, just the day the murder was carried out . "
According to Iovine, the real target of the clan was Luciano De Cicco, called Polifemo, but " only by chance was Carmine De Ciccio eliminated ". The Capoluongo initially dealt with agriculture, so much so that Maurizio Capoluongo in 1989 had moved to the lower Lazio with his brother Giacomo. Then, after the Spartacus ordinance, they sold the properties and returned to Caserta. Giacomo moved to San Cipriano. Since then, relations with Michele Zagaria began: "I met Michele Zagaria at Giacomo Capoluongo's home on several occasions, " explains Iovine.
Much has been written about Giuseppe Iovine, brother of Antonio Iovine. At a time when the Casalesi clan was all in San Cipriano and in the neighboring municipalities, at a time when the public, administrative function, that is, the municipalities were completely at the service of the bosses, it also happened that the brother of one of the leaders of the clan of the Casalesi, became an urban policeman.
Giuseppe Iovine, as it is known, but as if it is still incredible to remember, he wore the uniform of a servant of the state while his brother plotted murders and managed the criminal activities of the Camorra.
Then Giuseppe Iovine assumed the role of protagonist in the aftermath of the arrest of his relative, which occurred in November 2010. He tried to replace him; organized an extortion network, but was arrested in 2012. In short, a well-known character. But from the Camorra tales, especially when these are made by first-rate repentant, what was and what is still today, just Antonio Iovine, surprises emerge: Giuseppe Iovine, we do not know if when he was still vigilant or not, he had constituted a criminal activity aimed at managing the proceeds of black toto in the city of Aversa and in the countryside, evidently still in vogue despite the advent of legalized sports betting.
Toto nero is a word that evokes great events in the national news, starting from that of 1980 when top footballers, such as Bruno Giordano, Manfredonia and others, were even arrested, by police and carabinieri who entered, on a famous Sunday afternoon, in changing room area of ​​many Italian stadiums to carry out the measures signed by the magistrates.
A well-known story, which led to a series of sensational disqualifications, including the two-year one of a perhaps not guilty Paolo Rossi, who returned to the field two months before the 1982 World Cup that would have helped Italy win with the historic sequence of only goals that guaranteed him the title of top scorer and, for that year, also the golden ball.
That's why if we read the word toto nero in an ordinance, it stimulates us. His name was Ciro " Fellarust" and he was the one with whom Giuseppe Iovine, according to the story of Antonio Iovine, had joined to manage the black toto from the headquarters located in the city of Aversa.
Michele Zagaria pretended to support the initiative, however imposing the payment of a percentage share to the clan. In reality, if it were only up to him, that Ciro " Fellarust" would have killed him. This he said to Antonio Iovine, to whom he said to speak immediately with his brother Giuseppe to get out of that affair. This happened. Antonio Iovine asked Michele Zagaria to guarantee his brother Giuseppe Iovine a kind of small compensation. The concept of small figures, in the golden age of the Casalesi clan, was very relative.
In fact, Michele Zagaria paid 100 thousand euros more tranches to Giuseppe Iovine, who took off from that tour.
There is still a steel pact between Casalesi and Corleonesi on fruit and vegetables and waste. The heirs of Schiavone and Bidognetti are extremely active, despite all the blows inflicted by investigations, convictions and 41 bis inflicted on bosses and wingmen: and the new frontier of organized crime looks towards road transport of large retailers, without however never giving up the waste business. New details emerge on the strategies that are pushing Cosa Nostra (and in particular that of the Corleonesi) to make agreements with the Camorra of Terra di Lavoro. The National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office has already acquired important results in the fight against the agromafia. But there are still many investigations underway between Campania, Sicily, Calabria and many northern regions that aim to identify the channels of what appears to have become the core business of the Italian mafias. Investigations that aim to demonstrate how Casalesi and Sicilians would no longer compete for the territory, having decided to aim towards a shared interest, sharing the big transport cake. From cocaine to weapons, tons of hashish and waste (like toxic ones), on the one hand; and on the other, fruit and vegetables and other lawful goods. Because, today, those who control road transport get their hands on an important part of the national economy.
The Camorra to conquer the North. In Veneto the maxi trial on infiltration of the Camorra has begun, on January 8 in the bunker hall, the investigating judge Andrea Battistuzzi summoned the 76 defendants for the investigation that revolves around the organization which in Eraclea had as its boss Luciano Donadio, 52 year old originally from Giugliano in Campania.
A group of 37 people believed to belong to the 'Casalesi di Eraclea' will have to answer for usury, extortion, robbery, scams, tax offenses, drugs and weapons. 47 prisoners are arrested while 3 are under house arrest. The organization has demonstrated its ability to infiltrate infiltrate municipal activities, the mayor Mirco Mestre was arrested for exchange votes with Camorra-smelling characters, while his predecessor Grazia Teso was investigated.
There is still a steel pact between Casalesi and Corleonesi on fruit and vegetables and waste. The heirs of Schiavone and Bidognetti are extremely active, despite all the blows inflicted by investigations, convictions and 41 bis inflicted on bosses and wingmen: and the new frontier of organized crime looks towards road transport of large retailers, without however never giving up the waste business. New details emerge on the strategies that are pushing Cosa Nostra (and in particular that of the Corleonesi) to make agreements with the Camorra of Terra di Lavoro. The National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office has already acquired important results in the fight against the agromafia. But there are still many investigations underway between Campania, Sicily, Calabria and many northern regions that aim to identify the channels of what appears to have become the core business of the Italian mafias. Investigations that aim to demonstrate how Casalesi and Sicilians would no longer compete for the territory, having decided to aim towards a shared interest, sharing the big transport cake. From cocaine to weapons, tons of hashish and waste (like toxic ones), on the one hand; and on the other, fruit and vegetables and other lawful goods. Because, today, those who control road transport get their hands on an important part of the national economy.
I read long time ago a notification about german-italian waste connection, but from a very reliable source.Radioactive waste mostly through hospital treatment from germany which was not officially "eliminated". But illegally sunk in the sea by a consortium of Cosa Nostra, Camorra and Ndrangheta. German guys got their difference between illegal and legal. Mafia got money for her action and resident cancer from swimming.
The Naples prosecutor asked for 110 years in prison for drug traffickers who worked for the boss Raffaele Imperiale (in turn in hiding in Dubai since 2015).
8 years of imprisonment against Raffaele Scognamiglio ; 12 years of imprisonment for Marco Simeoli ; ten years for Vincenzo Torino ; five years and four months for Luigi Carotenuto ; ten years for Luigi Abbrunzo ; ten years for Maurizio Ambrosino; 14 years for Massimo Liuzzi ; six years of imprisonment for Giuseppe Marono ; eight for Ferdinando Perrotta ; 14 years of imprisonment for Angelo Russo.
Among those for whom the anti-mafia prosecutor has asked for a sentence is also Massimo Liuzzi, considered the link between Andrea Lollo (former drug broker with the task of reselling cocaine to the so-called paranze and currently collaborator of justice) and Imperiale. Instead, Ettore Bosti's position has been omitted.
Imperiale known as "pasta" would even have had the strength to bribe people at Interpol. A dozen small and medium-sized camorra-linked entrepreneurs in recent months have gone to Dubai to open pizzerias, sandwich shops.
On Thursday Stefano Bocchetti, 44, member of the Lo Russo clan, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Miano (Naples) in a reputed Camorra ambush. An arsenal consisting of machine guns, rifles, ammunition, bulletproof vests was found a few meters from the game room where Bocchetti was killed. The carabinieri of the Stella company have found the weapons in a room in Via Parise: 2 automatic submachine guns (an M4 Colt and a Beretta CX4 with precision sight), a pump action rifle, 400 ammunition of various caliber, two bulletproof vests, two helmets, magazines and weapon components. A real arsenal of war weapons perfectly lubricated and ready to fire. Various materials for the packaging and cutting of drugs are also in the room. All weapons will be checked to see if they have been used for blood events.
A boy of a few years held by the hand and dangled on the outside of the balcony, in tears, in front of his parents dumbfounded by terror.
It is one of the accusations made against Nicola Rullo , the alleged boss of the Contini clan and to five other men of his clan, in the context of the last line of investigation on the Camorra believed to be the owner of a piece of the city. Violence and threats - about the little boy dangling outside the railing - that are consumed in an attempt to get back some checks received by the pair of parents, in turn held responsible for having taken part in the big bank mortgage scam.
What story is this? It is the latest investigation into the Contini clan , which culminated these days in the notification of 59 warranty notices, against Nicola Rullo, some of his alleged business partners and an army of figureheads. This is the investigation into the great fraud of bank loans, which allows us to find the point of contact between representatives of the bourgeoisie of the city and subjects linked to the bloody Camorra, that of the feuds for the racket and for the dealing squares. In summary, in addition to Nicola Rullo, the bank manager Vincenzo Montone ends up accused , a few years ago at work in a branch of Unicredit (which must be considered an offended part of the scam); Salvatore Giglio, owner of "Il Giglio immobiliare". They are held responsible for having created a system aimed at obtaining loans of hundreds of thousands of euros, with the aggravating circumstance of having favored the Contini clan.
The police of the Nucleo Investigativo of Naples arrested the 32-year-old Neapolitan Giuseppe Arduino, a fugitive and a leading exponent of the Contini clan.
As part of a coordinated activity of the Naples Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, Arduino was tracked down by the military inside a villa in Capaccio-Paestum, in the province of Salerno.
The 32-year-old was wanted since June 26, 2019, when an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples against 126 subjects held responsible, in various capacities, for criminal association of mafia type was executed.
Napels police arrested 24 members of an organization of drug traffickers operating between Campania and Lazio.
Among the main exponents of the association is Ciro Capasso , whose operations in the sector of drug trafficking had already emerged in other judicial investigations which also attested to his proximity to Camorra environments related to the clan of the splinters of Secondigliano, as well as to the economic wing of the Contini clan and in any case in contact with other Neapolitan associations in favor of which he has operated over time as a real "broker" of drug trafficking.
'Clean sweep' operation against the Orlando clan on Wednesday, active mainly in the Neapolitan municipalities of Marano and Quarto. 24 arrests for mafia association, drug trafficking and extortion. The Camorra association has gained hegemony over the territory by exploiting ties, including family ties, with the old Nuvoletta and Polverino families. The operation has effectively dismantled the organization that managed in particular the distribution and sale of the drug, both to wholesalers and to the pushers of the main squares in the area, extending its links even to the territories of the lower Lazio and Sardinia, regions that fed drugs through local referents.
Anti-Camorra operation in Naples, police arrested 32 members of the Lo Russo clan based in the neighborhoods of Miano, Piscinola and Marianella on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, loansharking and illegal possession of weapons. Among the arrested several young members who replaced the imprisoned bosses.
Camorra, the son of the boss Augusto La Torre sentenced to 10 years CASERTA Friday 21 February 2020
The court of Naples sentenced Francesco Tiberio La Torre to 10 years and 4 months in prison , son of the head of the homonymous clan active in Mondragone Augusto La Torre , detained for over 20 years. La Torre Jr was sentenced at the end of the abbreviated rite by the judge for the preliminary hearing, which also imposed penalties of up to 20 years for eleven other defendants. The boss' scion is accused of having been part with the accomplices of a criminal organization dedicated to trafficking and drug dealing , in particular hashish, cocaine and marijuana. The drug was purchased in the Neapolitan area and sold at retail in Mondragone.
On November 12, 2015, the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated by the Naples Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office, conducted around thirty searches in 11 Italian regions. 29 people (including 10 Venetians) are indicted in this case to which we added a large chapter, in this case trafficking in aircraft and helicopter components, machine guns, rocket launchers, Beretta, grenades. The traffic mainly concerns Somalia, but also Armenia, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Iran, South Sudan (The Ambassador of this country in Italy seems to be involved in the 'case) and Angola. Relatives of the Camorrist clan of Casalesi and the "Mala del Brenta" are arrested, including the entrepreneur Pasquale Chianese, suspected of having employed as a military instructor. Other people are involved like Andrea Pardi (Managing Director of the “Societa Italiana Elicotteriâ€) based in Rome, Riccardo Migliori (former deputy, current President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) plus Bruno Scapini and Giancarlo Carpi. Omar Jama living in London rejects the charges of the investigators and does not seem to have been arrested. However, the noose tightens around him because we learned that he was apparently known to Stefano Perotti, an entrepreneur arrested for corruption as part of the Great Works investigation in Florence (where Jama lived several years for his studies of law). In 2007, his consulting firm paid Jama 16,000 euros for a consultancy contract to promote potential jobs in Somalia. Aldo Pavan, 74, who lives on a meager pension in Treviso, was not arrested either and said he was outraged to have "been accused of such misdeeds of which he knows nothing".
Giancarlo Carpi was much more verbose after his arrest. He even testified in a report in Rai 3 magazine "Report" that the death of Elena Maniero, the daughter of Felice, a former Mala del Brenta boss who became repentant, was criminal. Elena was found dead at home on February 23, 2006, and police at the time concluded that she had committed suicide. Words that Felice Maniero does not believe even if at the time he also believed in this thesis "they killed her" had thus been his first words. But the years passing Felice sided with the theory of suicide.
The ex-boss Ciro Mariano speaks: «In Naples the Camorra no longer exists» Saverio Di Donato -February 29, 2020
The former head of the Quartieri Spagnoli Ciro Mariano 'o picuozz told himself during an interview released in the morning for Gigi Di Fiore: «He only spread tarantella with no sense Naples, the Camorra no longer exists. There is no more, as I say, the underworld. There are gangs of kids who do nonsense and sometimes become dangerous because of this, because they can make victims even among people outside the system. They do the stretches, which are only tarantella to make brothel, to appear, without any sense ».
Mariano will turn 69 next November, he is a free man, after a total of 30 years spent in prison, including 13 under the 41-bis regime between Asinara, Cuneo, Parma, Pianosa and Sulmona. "Do you agree with the choice of your brother Marco, who has become a collaborator of justice?", Di Fiore also asks the ex-Camorra. «No, I have severed all relationships with him, as did my brother Salvatore who is serving life in prison. When he returned to the Districts, Marco did nothing but nonsense, he ruined my friends who had never had criminal problems before. Because of him, they ended up in jail, now they are free again. "
For the shooting of Domenico De Cesare last July, Angelo Genovese and Michele Squillante were sentenced to 5 years. The offense ascribed to them has been declassified by attempted murder and robbery to injury and robbery. A year is the sentence that has been imposed on Genovese's mother and wife, Immacolata Barra and Sara Mencherini accused of aiding and abetting.
Alfonso Scoppetta (33) was shot and injured in a camorra ambush in Torre Annunziata. The episode took place last night, at 1.15 am, in via Tagliamonte. From a first reconstruction the man, already known to the police, would have been approached by two scooters with four people on board who fired gunshots one hitting him in his knee.
Scampia, Don Vittorio Siciliani died: a life for the least and against the Camorra By Rosario Caracciolo Posted on April 5, 2020 Don Vittorio Siciliani, beloved parish priest of the Resurrection in the Monterosa district, died. He was 84 years old, died on Palm Sunday and his disappearance leaves a huge void in the neighborhood, in the city and in the Church that has served for 60 years. He was a point of reference for the community, he spent a life for the least and against the Camorra.
Don Vittorio was the first to denounce the drama of the Sails in the Church, transformed the parish into a center of social activities for the neighborhood and of assistance to disadvantaged families, fought the Camorra and all forms of delinquency. He was very concrete, shy and did not like being in the spotlight
The parish community communicated his death on social media: "Today, April 5, 2020, Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, our dear Father Vittorio Siciliani has returned to God. He fought in his illness, with the strength of his character and his deep faith ".
Hundreds of messages of condolence and affection left on Facebook. “He was also busy on the anticamorra front in the darkest days of Scampia - recalls Daniele Sanzone of the 'A67 - He remembered everyone, but everyone. The last time I saw him and, I had not entered the church since the time of communion, he said to me “By now you can only see yourself on TV. Come and visit me every now and then. " Dear Don Vittorio rest in peace †source Repubblica
The Venosa family is well known. A relative Giovanni Venosa took on the role of a boss in the movie Gomorrah. He also turned out to lead a branch of the Casalesi clan in real life.
I thought it was strange they would do that now is almost impossible, but the shooting already happened on March 6 but he died today after 36 days in intensive care at the San Paolo hospital in Naples.
At the end of March Francesco Iovine, nephew of 'o Ninno boss of the Casalesi, died: he was in Ibiza. A sudden death occurred in the hospital. He was in Ibiza where he lived with his sister. Francesco Iovine , 30 years old son of Carmine and nephew of Antonio aka ' o Ninno - ex boss now collaborator of justice - died suddenly. He may have died from covid-19 . Unlike his brother Oreste, Francesco had not joined the protection program guaranteed to relatives of repentants.
Wow, the Licciardi- Mallardo clan got the Casalesi to back down? From concrete?
I think the Licciardi clan is the strongest in Naples...
Rather than a Casalesi faction, the Zagaria family has been compared by several turncoats to a 'Ndrina. They are based on genuine kinship and almost impenetrable.
The powerful Pasquale Zagaria, 60, brother of the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele, was released from the prison of Sassari where he was in 41-bis regime and placed under house arrest.
The powerful Pasquale Zagaria, 60, brother of the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele, was released from the prison of Sassari where he was in 41-bis regime and placed under house arrest.
His nickname is Bin Laden, many people are upset in particular the far-right.
The powerful Pasquale Zagaria, 60, brother of the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele, was released from the prison of Sassari where he was in 41-bis regime and placed under house arrest.
His nickname is Bin Laden, many people are upset in particular the far-right.
Isn't it odd that they're releasing them now when the virus seems to be slowing down over there? Why now and not before?
The powerful Pasquale Zagaria, 60, brother of the boss of the Casalesi clan Michele, was released from the prison of Sassari where he was in 41-bis regime and placed under house arrest.
His nickname is Bin Laden, many people are upset in particular the far-right.
Isn't it odd that they're releasing them now when the virus seems to be slowing down over there? Why now and not before?
IDK, probably because once the virus is inside in the prison system it spreads easier. Outside it's looking better for Italy that's true, hopefully there won't be a second wave.
Gennaro De Angelis, one of the current leaders of the Casalesi. has been arrested for usury and extortion of two entrepreneurs from southern Lazio, the first operating in the restaurant sector and the second in the car trade.
“I'll shoot you, I'll cut your head and eat your guts. I'm going to jail but you won't see the light of the sun anymore". This was the content of one of the voice messages sent to one of the victims by Cristian Vento, a well-known tattoo artist from Roccasecca (Frosinone), with precedents in relation to the Casalesi and believed to be linked to Gennaro De Angelis,
Assets of 50 million euros were seized from Carmine Maisto, close to top members of the Mallardo clan. The entrepreneur's assets were found in the province of Latina, as well as in the provinces of Naples, Rome, Florence, Pisa and Venice. Maisto founded a dense entrepreneurial network in real estate companies, hotel structures, restaurants, villas, apartments, residential building complexes, supermarkets, stables, bathing establishments and other assets attributable to him.
25-year-old Luigi Puca, son of the boss currently detained Pasquale Puca called "o 'minorenne", historical head of the Puca clan active in the Neapolitan area, between Sant'Antimo and neighboring municipalities, was arrested by the Giugliano carabinieri
The Neapolitan Public Prosecutor's Office, together with a building contractor already in prison, Giuseppe D'Aponte, accuses him of extortion aggravated by the method and the mafia purposes against another builder in the area in serious economic difficulties, forced to deliver to the two checks and bills for over 50 thousand euros against an initial debt of just 11 thousand.
Money that D'Aponte had poured into the current account of the victim who, with authorization, had used them to settle slopes. A few days later, however, D'Aponte told the victim that it was not his money but that of the clan, which now demanded exorbitant interest. At this point, the victim reported everything to the police.
Italian police on Monday arrested nine people near Caserta on suspicion of drugs and arms trafficking and extortion for the Neapolitan Camorra mafia.
"You mustn't go there with a rifle but with a kalashnikov, that way you blow in his window with a single blast," alleged boss Salvatore D'Albenzio told an underling at Maddolini, according to a police wiretap.
D'Albenzio is the scion of a Camorra family for at least three generations.
Camorra, 16 arrests in Naples: the Polverino clan beheaded, accused of mafia-type association, association aimed at drug trafficking and fictitious header of goods. Among the suspects are Vincenzo Polverino , regent of the organization, and Michele Marchesano, with tasks of managing the immense real estate of the clan, respectively cousin and brother-in-law of the boss Giuseppe Polverino, top figures around which the faithful of the baron have gathered.
Camorra, arrested boss of the Cuccaro-Andolfi clan fugitive since 2019 May 29, 2020 The carabinieri of Naples arrested Ciro Imperatrice, a top member of the Cuccaro-Andolfi clan, with a stronghold in the Barra district of Naples, unavailable since October 2019, nicknamed Brutolino or Brodolino. The man is the recipient of an imprisonment order issued by the general prosecutor of Naples as he was sentenced to 2 years and 5 months of imprisonment for the crime of mafia-type criminal association. Imperatrice was traced in the first hours of dawn in a house in via Cupa Rubinacci. The military of the Arma found him hidden inside a closet of the bedroom where he slept. He is now in the Naples-Secondigliano prison.
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 26 people on suspicion of dealing drugs for the Naples-based Camorra. Those arrested allegedly bought cocaine, via brokers, from the 'Ndrangheta of Rosarno and Gioia Tauro, police said. The D'Alessandro clan had claimed a monopoly over the drugs trade in a wide swathe of the Naples area including the entire Stabiese area (Castellammare di Stabia, Santa Maria La Carità , Vico Equense) and in the Sorrento peninsula and then, thanks to the strategic alliance with the Afeltra-Di Martino clan, also in the Lattari Mountains area.
FI Senator Cesaro probed in Camorra case, 3 brothers arrested Lawmaker and siblings under investigation over alleged Mob-politics collusion
(ANSA) - Rome, June 9 - A Senator for Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right opposition Forza Italia (FI) party, Luigi Cesaro, was placed under investigation Tuesday and his three brothers arrested in a probe into the Neapolitan Camorra mafia and politics. Antimo Cesaro was taken into detention in prison while Aniello and Raffaele Cesaro were placed under house arrest. ROS security police served 59 arrest warrants across the Naples area in relation to the probe. Those arrested are accused of external complicity in mafia association. Among those arrested are allegedly leading members of the Puca, Verde and Ranucci clans at Sant'Antimo north of Naples. Police said they had uncovered a thick web of links between politicians, businessmen and criminal circles. The four Cesaro brothers are suspected of colluding with Camorra members and Mob-linked businesmen, police said.
Camorra boss Cutolo's bid for house arrest rejected Condition compatible with jail, COVID infection unlikely - court
(ANSA) - Rome, June 10 - A Bologna surveillance court on Wednesday rejected former Camorra boss Raffaele Cutolo's plea to be allowed out from prison to house arrest for health reasons. The former charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, 78, is serving multiple life terms for murder. He will stay in jail at Parma under the harsh 41 bis regime for high-security inmates including top mafiosi. According to the Bologna judges, his condition is not incompatible with prison detention and he does not run the risk of contracting COVID-19. They also noted that he remains a "symbol" for the Naples Mob and has retained his charisma. Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede recently survived two no-confidence votes after hundreds of mafia bosses were released to house arrest for health reasons linked to the virus crisis. He hastily passed decrees aimed at getting them back in jail and some have already returned from house arrest.
Italia News Camorra, brother of the repentant killed on the street in San Giorgio a Cremano June 16, 2020
Ambush in broad daylight against the brother of a repentant. Gunshots in the Neapolitan to kill Raffaele Gallo, 56, who was released from prison recently after spending sixteen years there.The victim was riding a scooter when the killers fired. At least eight shots. Six hit Gallo, who had a history of mafia crime and other crimes. The target of the assassins was the brother of the repentant Giovanni, the man who accused a boss and some of his accomplices of a deadly ambush in 2011 in which Luigi Formicola (target of the command) were killed and the mechanic Vincenzo Liguori, father of the journalist of the Morning Mary, innocent victim of the Camorra hit in the heart by a stray bullet while he was repairing a scooter inside his workshop.
The Camorra commandos entered the crowd in the southern area of ​​Corso Vittorio Emanuele III in Torre Annunziata. Two men escaped death and the bullets hit a shop window and a parked car. The hit men fired despite terrified people who tried to find shelter in open businesses. The sequence of terror continues in Torre Annunziata now plunged back into a creeping Camorra war between emerging groups that is consumed by blows of stretches, ambushes and bombs.
Italian police on Tuesday arrested 28 people in a probe into the penetration of the Camorra's Senese clan into Rome's economic and business fabric. Dawn raids were carried out in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Verona, Frosinone, and L'Aquila. Over 200 police and finance guards took part in the operation. Those arrested were accused of extortion, usury, fraudulent transfer of goods and assets, money laundering, and reusing ill-gotten gains. Assets worth some 15 million euros were seized. Police said they had "decapitated" the leadership of the Senese clan operating in the Italian capital. They said the Camorra clan had been operating in Rome for many years. Among those issued warrants were clan leader Michele Senese aka "O' pazz" (Crazy), currenty in jail for a 2001 murder; his brother Angelo Senese; his son Vincenzo; and his wife Raffaella Gaglione. They are all accused of using mafia methods to help the Campanian mafia penetrate the Roman economy. The Camorra is based in Campania, the region around Naples, but also operates elsewhere in Italy and abroad. (ANSA).
Antimo Giarnieri, 18, was shot dead in the town of Casoria (Naples); he was the brother of Vittorio Giarnieri, 27, reputed member of the Casalesi clan, arrested in 2019. Despite the young age of the victim, according to police it could be a Camorra-related ambush.
Camorra, the police chief: "A gangster mutation is underway in Naples" Gabrielli comments on the alarm launched by the prefect Valentini in an interview with "Repubblica": "The disarticulation of the old criminal families has triggered anarchic forces"
July 15, 2020
"In the face of a significant disarticulation of some Camorra families, the loss of social control has left free a series of anarchoid forces, no longer responding to the logic of underworld families. In this context, the most youthful groups have given rise to the phenomenon of gangsterism which characterized and is characterizing the city and the hinterland in this period. Obviously all this does not mean that the fight against the Camorra should not see the word end, but at this moment this violence which is a cause of great concern for citizens and is translated through the use of weapons, is something that questions us and pledges ". Police chief Franco Gabrielli said in reply - on the sidelines of the Ammaturo Prize in progress in the Neapolitan capital - to those who asked him to comment on the alarm launched on the 'Republic' of the prefect of Naples Marco Valentini on the spread of weapons among young people.
"A prefect never speaks in vain but for consolidated and acquired data - underlined Gabrielli - and as provincial safety authority he has the pulse of the situation. I believe that the city, like the whole country, is recovering after the lockdown and after a period of compression of the crime due to the fact that people were at home and that predatory crimes were difficult to carry out ".
"In this context - he added - as we had already noticed before Covid, in a country where blood crimes are increasingly marginal, the Neapolitan and Foggia realities have represented some exceptions in recent years in the sense that in spite of of the strongly compressed trend of other parts of the country, in the Neapolitan and Foggiano areas continued to shoot and die killed even if in smaller percentages. And this in the Neapolitan reality has had a gangsteristic mutation ". "Therefore at this moment - he concluded - there is a particular attention to the phenomena of widespread crime, precisely because the lockdown period has led to a compression of the criminal phenomena and now these phenomena are resuming with a higher violence than the previous one".
Camorra-linked European forger gang busted 44 arrests, in Italy France and Belgium
(ANSAmed) - ROME, JUL 16 - Italian and French police on Thursday busted a Camorra-linked European forging gang.
Police said they had uncovered a "vast network" of counterfeiters linked to the Campanian mafia. They made 44 arrests, 40 of them in Italy and the remaining four in France and Belgium.
The operation was coordinated by Europol. Police seized some eight million euros in cash and another eight million in assets.
Salvatore Attanasio was stabbed to death in the neighborhood of Porta Nolana, he was charged with the murder of a member of the Mazzarella clan in 2011.
He was killed by 14 stab wounds.
It was February 2019 when Salvatore Attanasio was arrested by the Mobile Squad of Naples. The charge was of attempted murder. The 42-year-old is held responsible for the ambush against Vincenzo Maggio, father of the collaborator Salvatore.
The episode, known as the Halloween ambush (because it happened on October 31, 2011 and because the killer went into masked action), is remembered as the author of the raid missed the target. Three other people died and were injured.
Salvatore Attanasio was the son of Giuseppe Attanasio, killed in a Camorra attack in 1998.
Also two shootings in the Neapolitan area.
Andrea Attanasio and Marco Cozzolino, two nephews of the boss Ciro Formicola, were shot and seriously wounded in the neighborhood of Barra and Mario Dentice,a member of the Gallo clan, was shot and wounded in Torre Annunziata.
For some days the boss Raffaele Cutolo has been hospitalized in the Parma hospital in the ward for prisoners. The 79-year-old 'professor' of Ottaviano was urgently transferred from the prison infirmary for an aggravation of his condition, for a respiratory crisis and for a clinical picture that was unbalanced compared to other serious diseases such as diabetes. The news of Cutolo's transfer to the hospital, which appears today in the Neapolitan newspaper 'Il Mattino', was communicated only yesterday to the family members and to the lawyer of the boss detained under the 41 bis regime, the lawyer Gaetano Aufiero. "Even on the health conditions - says the lawyer - the news is very sparse and is transmitted late". Raffaele Cutolo has been in several penitentiaries in his 42 years of imprisonment under the 41 bis regime. For some years he has been detained in Parma and from there on 19 February last, due to a respiratory crisis, he was urgently taken to hospital in Parma. He is diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, which also worsens other conditions, such as diabetes and urinary tract dysfunction.
Camorra: under house arrest but ties to clan, Lady Zagaria taken Boss sister Michele, reserved exit for escapes, secret visits Through a private exit she could guarantee herself any escapes or receive "secret and forbidden" visits inside the house. This is how Elvira Zagaria, sister of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, herself a prominent figure of the clan, violated house arrest in her luxurious villa in Boville Ernica, in the province of Frosinone, where she had lived since May 31, when she was released from prison. from the Messina prison. The woman was arrested and ended up in the Roman prison of Rebibbia. The investigations revealed how Zagaria, in these months of staying in Boville Ernica, had met another member of the clan led by her brother Michele. T Zagaria had been sentenced on March 28, 2019 with a second degree sentence of the Court of Appeal of Naples to the penalty of 7 years of imprisonment, for the crime of mafia-type association; she therefore ended up in Messina prison, then in May she obtained house arrest, but she had never broken ties with the clan, of which she was a top "manager" after the arrest of Michele and the other three brothers and death of her husband Francesco, who was in charge of finding contracts on behalf of the clan in public bodies, such as the Caserta hospital, dissolved a few years ago due to infiltration of the Zagaria clan.
Fatal crash in Secondigliano. Gaetano Todisco, known as “'o ninnoâ€, considered close to the Di Lauro clan, died following a motorcycle accident. According to an initial reconstruction, the man was traveling along the Secondigliano road at high speed when his scooter crashed into some parked cars. It happened around two o'clock in the night between Wednesday and Thursday, near via Misteri di Parigi. The area of ​​the rione dei fiori also nicknamed "third world". Todisco would have been very close to Marco Di Lauro .
Drugs from Holland to Naples, 14 arrests: among the suspects the owners of the Le Shabby Cafè bar The Mobile Teams of Naples and Caserta have dismantled an organization dedicated to the trafficking of cocaine from Holland to Naples: it was managed by the Bonavolta family, linked to the Mazzarella clan and owner of the two "Le Shabby Cafè" bars, which were set on fire in 2017 and 2018.The Mazzarella cartel, one of the most powerful of the Naples Camorra, is involved in a vast drug trafficking from Holland.
The hands of the Camorra on the restaurants in Rome: 13 arrests, including clan leaders Angelo and Luigi Moccia Thirteen arrests at dawn between Rome and Naples, affected the interests and economic penetration of the Moccia clan in the capital. Pre-trial detention order also for bosses Luigi and Angelo Moccia who invested the proceeds of the criminal activities of the Camorra organization in buildings and restaurants. The capital is one of the mafia's big dirty money washers.
A 28-year-old, Alessandro Riso, was shot and killed yesterday in an ambush on the northern outskirts of Naples, in the Miano district, in via Vittorio Veneto. The police investigate the murder. According to initial information, the victim is believed to be close to the Cifrone clan, one of the joints of the more famous Lo Russo clan, decimated by the arrests and repentance of bosses and affiliates.
A real bomb hits the Neapolitan Camorra. Marco Di Lauro would have dissociated himself from the Camorra. Dissociation which does not mean repentance, but which means a clean break with the past, that is, his will to have nothing more to do with the Camorra world. A way where Marco Di Lauro was born and raised, to become first the scion of the clan then the ruler and head set until his capture.
Marco Di Lauro was arrested on Saturday 2 March 2019 after fourteen years on the run. He is locked up in the Sassari prison under the harsh prison regime. A life sentence already hangs on him for the murder of the innocent Attilio Romano and several trials still pending.
Roberto Saviano: "It is not just the Camorra, it is the desperation of the South that is exploding" The writer: "Conte enjoyed a kind of untouchability, but now he is a leader who is not protecting us"
The Italian mafias are doing all they can to prevent coronavirus from harming their business — including orchestrating violence at anti-lockdown protests. The mob’s drugs trade was hit hard by lockdown restrictions, but economic chaos presents opportunities.
According to Italian authorities, the Camorra planned and directed demonstrations in Naples that descended into violence and attacks on police on Friday. Similar protests have taken place across the country for the past four days, with bar and restaurant owners expressing concerns that tighter measures, brought in by the government to counter a surge in coronavirus cases in the country, will destroy their businesses.
While the economic turmoil caused by the crisis has presented opportunities for the mafia to snap up stricken firms, curfews and lockdown restrictions are bad news, because increased police checks curtail the mob’s freedom to operate. Police estimate that with the closure of nightlife in Italy, the Camorra’s drugs revenue will be hit by as much as 60 percent.
"Almost all fruit and vegetables in Italy come from the Camorra" During a visit to the seaside resort of Ostia, journalist Rick Nieman learns that almost all the fruit and vegetables eaten in Italy come from the Camorra (Neapolitan mafia).
“The Italian fruit and vegetable companies are all legal companies, but in the hands of different organized crime clans,†Augusto tells Rick. "You can just leave your car open here because the mafia does not steal cars. Selling fruit and vegetables is much more profitable because of the high turnover rate and low personnel costs."
"90% of the sellers are North Africans and they are the workers of the Camorra. The mafia has changed in recent years from a violent organization to a company operating in the upper world," said Augusto.
New Clan Partenio, 14 arrests: exchange vote for the boss's son
The suspects are considered seriously suspected, for various reasons, of several crimes, such as mafia-type criminal association, extortion, political-mafia electoral exchange, disturbed freedom of enchantments, material falsehood, fraud, fraudulent transfer of values ​​and money laundering.
From the investigative results, a context of expansion of the criminal interests of the Camorra group in the sectors of auctions and real estate acquisitions emerged, combined with a strong interest in influencing the political and administrative life of the city of Avellino.
The activity documented the promise of votes on the occasion of the elections of the Municipal Council of Avellino in June 2018 by members of the Genovese-Galdieri clan, against a candidate for councilor - later elected - son of an inmate boss, belonging to the same group, in exchange for the reassignment of the management of a sports center located in Avellino.
There is also the urban myth that the Camorra fixed the '87/88 season, when Napoli with Maradona lost the scudetto to Milan squandering a 5-point lead advantage over the team of Gullit and Van Basten.
Drug dealing and Camorra, Carmela D'Amico in prison The 44-year-old was joined by a provision issued by the general prosecutor. She will have to serve two years and 6 months, transferred to a cell in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. About four months was the distance from prison for Carmela D'Amico, 44, belonging to the homonymous crime family of Ponticelli. She was released from prison in August after three years and 4 months of uninterrupted detention. According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, in the past the woman would have managed a "square organized to sell mainly cocaine" but where "hashish was also sold". That square was believed to be attributable to Carmela, one of the sisters of Nunzia D'Amico, the woman known as the 'passilona', murdered in 2015 and the sister of the bosses Giuseppe and Antonio, both inmates.
Hunt for the narcos of the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale is in the sights of the Prosecutor's Office Alessandro Caracciolo -29 December 2020
Hunt for the narcos of the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale in the sights of the magistrates. Yesterday the chief prosecutor Giovanni Melillo held a press videoconference after the arrest of the boss Antonio Di Martino . At that time, the head of the Naples Prosecutor's Office also announced the goals of the Prosecutor's Office: “ Imperiale , one of the great drug trafficking brokers worldwide. We discount the defects and limitations of the collaboration provided by the authorities of other states, in particular the United Arab Emirates â€.
WHO IS RAFFAELE IMPERIALE Imperiale's life seems to come straight out of a Netflix script. Son of a wealthy builder from Castellammare di Stabia. 'Lello Ferrarelle' since he was a boy suffered a flash kidnapping that never completely convinced the investigators who followed the case.
He is barely twenty when he moves to his brother in Amsterdam. Perhaps it is there between the channels that he understands the importance of certain channels. On Dutch soil he was introduced by a Moccia man to Elio Amato ( Raffaele's brother , head of the Scissionists) who introduces himself as Giancarlo and books a load to be sent to Secondigliano.
THE SECONDIGLIANO FAIDA AND THE ROLE OF 'FERRARELLE' From then on it is the rise of that boy from Castellammare who makes millions thanks to the criminal organization created by Paolo Di Lauro . At the time in the Ciruzzo or 'millionaire clan there were Raffaele Amato, Maurizio Prestieri, Rosario Pariante, Enrico D'Avanzo, Raffaele Abbinante, Gennaro Marino and Antonio Leonardi . Imperiale becomes the referent of Secondigliano which deals directly with the cartels.
So powerful that when the feud breaks out, both the Di Lauro and the Scissionists know well that the outcome of the dispute will be decided on the basis of who chooses 'O Lello. A forecast that materializes when Imperiale continues to supply the 'split' at least until 2008 in its golden hiding in Dubai which still lasts today.
In the last days of 2020 they captured a fugitive boss.
Infrared drones were needed to capture Armando Di Martino, 40, considered by investigators to be the regent of the homonymous clan in the Stabia area. A fugitive for two years, Di Martino was arrested in the forest around the town of Gragnano, not far from his home. The video shows the escape and the moment of capture taken by the drones.
Camorra, acquitted entrepreneur believed to be linked to the Casalesi clan by Editorial staff Tue January 12, 2021 16:42
The third criminal section of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere acquitted the entrepreneur Luciano Cantone from the accusation of mafia association and fictitious registration of assets attributable to the Casalesi clan. The same accusations were also addressed to Mario Cantone, brother of Luciano, who committed suicide by hanging himself, in February 2014, in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere where he had been imprisoned since June 2013, after being arrested as part of a vast anticamorra operation. Also acquitted three collaborators of Cantone, Luca D'Errico, Ferdinando Galluccio and Anita Turro, also defended by the two lawyers of the entrepreneur, the lawyers Francesco Liguori and Francesco Angelino. The Cantone brothers were accused by the collaborator of justice Nicola Schiavone, son of the chieftain Francesco Schiavone, known as “Sandokanâ€.
Camorra, vast operation against the Casalesi: 34 arrests and seizures for 8 million euros Alberto Raucci -January 20, 2021
The soldiers of the Provincial Command of Florence and the SCICO of the Financial Police, as part of a coordinated service from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Florence, are giving execution to an order of the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Florence Court which has 34 precautionary measures were ordered against as many people accused of being linked to the Campania Camorra clan of the "Casalesi".
The suspects, in recent years, would have operated in the Tuscan territory, both through companies operating mainly in the construction sector and through investments in the real estate sector. Activities are underway in the provinces of Florence, Lucca, Pistoia, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Ferrara, Bologna, Rome, Isernia and Caserta, with the collaboration of the Departments of the Body competent for the territory and the ROAN of Naples.
The hands of the Casalesi on food distribution: 12 precautionary measures in the Zagaria group. This morning, the Carabinieri of the ROS and the Penitentiary Police of the NIC - Central Investigative Unit -, executed an application order of precautionary measures issued by the Court of Naples, at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples - District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 12 subjects, held responsible for mafia-type criminal association, money laundering and fictitious registration of assets aggravated for the purpose of facilitating the Casalesi clan - Zagaria Group .
The investigations of the ROS and the NIC from which the provision arises, carried out between February 2016 and May 2019, have documented how Filippo Capaldo, nephew and designated heir of Michele Zagaria, up to the subjection to the prison regime of 41 bis, with the collaboration of the brothers Nicola and Mario Francesco and his associates Paolo Siciliano and Alfonso Ottimo , has directed the clan assuming a dominant position in the sector of large food distribution.
The Casalesi also enriched themselves with online poker. In the context of the operation called Pokerissimo they seized assests from Antonio Tancredi.
The 54-year-old from Potenza has already been investigated by various public prosecutors of the territory for crimes related to illicit gaming, also perpetrated through the development and management of complex computer systems for organizing and collecting the game active on foreign platforms. Over time, these have catalyzed the interests of important Calabrian and Campania criminal gangs, including the Casalesi clan, yielding high earnings.
In particular, from previous investigations Tancredi, appeared to be a real point of reference, for his technical and managerial skills, for associations, including mafia members. The clans turned to Tancredi when they wanted to manage illegal online gaming which, through the avoidance of the payment of taxes due, became one of the most profitable businesses managed by organized crime for the Casalesi too.
Blow to the Camorra of the lower Lazio, 19 arrests against the 2 clans. In Santi Cosma and Damiano, Castelforte, Minturno and neighboring municipalities, about 200 Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Latina, with the help of helicopters and canine units of the Arma, carried out an order issued by the GIP at the Court of Rome, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
The accusations against the suspects are, for various reasons, of mafia-type criminal association, association aimed at the sale of drugs, illegal possession of common guns, extortion, robbery, damage and fire, all crimes aggravated by the mafia method.
Clan headed by Antonio Antinozzi who, following a split from the Mendico-Riccardi clan, had formed an autochthonous group structured on a family basis. He used violent methods and intimidation. He used weapons and explosive devices creating a climate of subjugation and silence among the population. The existence of two associations dedicated to drug trafficking was therefore established.
Already in 2007 they had been recognized as belonging to the Mendico-Riccardi clan whose existence had been established by the Latina Court of Assizes following the 1990s investigation, also conducted by the Latina Investigative Unit.
The relative sentence, issued on 17 July 2009, confirmed by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome on 15 October 2010 and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 2012, had recognized the existence until 2001, in the territory of the province of Latina, of a mafia-like organization. It was connected to the largest criminal organization of the Casalesi clan, promoted directly and organized by Ettore Mendico and Orlandino Riccarci and to which Antonio Antinozzi , among others, belonged.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the Camorra made important investments in the production of personal protective equipment and obtained contracts , through some apparently " clean " companies, which also managed to grab public contracts for supplies to hospitals. This was stated by the president of the Naples Court of Appeal Giuseppe De Carolis di Possedi during the press conference to present the judicial year 2021.
"It is a worrying fact - said De Carolis - due to the pandemic, the Camorra was able to launder the proceeds of its illegal activities where at that time it was more convenient, making them available when they were not available, obtaining immediate benefits". During the crises, then added the Attorney General of Naples Luigi Riello, "as in this period of pandemic and as happened for the earthquake of 1980, the mafias shoot less" but are "more aggressive in grabbing the cake of public funding" .
Blitz in Scampia, Secondigliano and Torre: 20 arrested. Involved family close to the Di Lauro. considered members of three distinct criminal groups of drug traffickers, with operational bases in Torre Annunziata and in the Neapolitan districts of Scampia and Secondigliano.
The first of the criminal groups is attributable to the Genovese family , already the subject of previous legal proceedings for illicit affairs with the “ Gallo-Cavalieri †clan of Torre Annunziata.
In particular, the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Naples was able to reconstruct the trafficking of Genovese Franco , promoter of the criminal association, who had purchased lots of hashish to be transferred first to Sicily, through the intermediation of an exponent of the Cappello clan. in Catania, and later in Malta, where one of his associates put them in the local drug market.
At the same time, the attention of the Fiamme Gialle focused on a second criminal group , composed of the Manzi / Dannier families , operating in the districts of Scampia and Secondigliano.
The Dannier family is historically inserted in the panorama of drug trafficking and is considered close to the Di Lauro clan .
The GICO of Naples focused on a third and last criminal group, composed exclusively of members of the Dannier family, who turned out to be skilled drug "brokers", boasting numerous "references" among the exponents of the Spanish supplier cartels and among several affiliates of Camorra clans of the Neapolitan area.
Twist in the murder of the 'Celestial Houses', Gennaro Marino 'McKay' acquitted, former member of the Di Lauro clan board and absolute master of what was considered the 'crown jewel' of the clan, namely the square of the Celestial Houses. The trial is that for the murder of Massimo Mele which took place on 7 October 2003 in Secondigliano. Marino was indicated by the public prosecutor as the instigator of the crime (the material perpetrator Vincenzo Vitale will later be killed in an ambush) and had asked for the penalty of thirty years in prison for him.
Investigation literally shattered thanks to the arguments of Marino's defenders who highlighted how the declarations of the repentant were very contradictory and related to mere conjecture. The repentants attributed the crime to Mele's excessive desire for autonomy, which reached the point of questioning the leadership of the brothers Gennaro and Gaetano Marino.
The defense attributed the crime to Vitale's desire for revenge against Mele for the advances made by the latter to Vitale's wife. That evening Vitale would have acted on his own, finding Mele in the street and killing him. Arguments that convinced the judges who thus acquitted ' McKay ' of all charges .
The three nephews of Casalese boss Michele Zagaria were released from prison. Arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros in recent weeks. All stopped as part of an investigation by the DDA of Naples, because they would have infiltrated the clan in the business of food distribution. Accused of de facto control of important supermarket chains operating in the provinces of Caserta and Naples.
The Naples Review Court has in fact annulled the precautionary custody order for Filippo Capaldo, son of Beatrice Zagaria, Michele's sister. Considered by the investigators to be the successor designated by the boss, from whom he inherited the same entrepreneurial ability.
The boss of the Casalesi clan Pasquale Zagaria , known as “Bin Ladenâ€, brother of the chieftain Michele Zagaria , was released from prison . Following the appeal presented by his lawyers, the lawyers Angelo Raucci and Andrea Imperato , the "economic mind" of the Casalesi has obtained from the Supreme Court a recalculation of the years of imprisonment to be served.
Zagaria was held at 41bis in the Milano Opera prison since last September 22nd. There he returned after 5 months of home care granted at the beginning of the pandemic for the serious pathology he is suffering from.
During his detention in various Italian prisons he suffered "inhuman and degrading treatment" and for this reason the surveillance magistrate of Cuneo Stefania Bologna reduced the sentence of 210 days to Pasquale Zagaria, brother of the boss Michele Zagaria, one of the four leaders of the Casal di Principe mafia federation.
Two days ago Vincenzo De Luca (40) was shot dead in Scampia in the area known as 'la 33'. De Luca,, considered by investigators to be close to the boss Abbinante, was hit while he was in a social club. Antonio Abbinante was released from prison only a week ago from the Catania prison where he was held.
Charred body found in car near Naples Victim may have been tortured
(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 24 - The charred body of a man was found on Wednesday in a car that was set alight in a supermarket car park in the province of Naples town of Afragola. Police are investigating and they have not ruled out the hypothesis that the victim may have been tortured before being killed, sources said. (ANSA).
Captured Vincenzo Ciriello , a 60-year-old Neapolitan considered a prominent member of the Mazzarella clan, inserted by the Ministry of the Interior in the list of dangerous fugitives. Ciriello - known as “o'zullus†- was captured in France by the National Fugitives Research Brigade, on input from the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Naples.
The military gave their French colleagues specific indications regarding the location of the subject, as part of a detailed investigation coordinated by the magistrates of the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate. Ciriello was arrested in Avignon. He is now in prison, awaiting the extradition order. Ciriello worked in his brother's pizzeria.
Vincenzo Ciriello was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Mazzarella and Montescuro groups who had business aims in the port of Naples were involved in the process.
The Zagaria brothers acquitted: Pasquale, Carmine and Antonio were accused of extortion. Brothers of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, and for Filippo, Raffaele and Francesco Capaldo , nephews of the boss (they are the children of Beatrice Zagaria), and for the other three defendants Ciro Benenati, Pasquale Fontana and Nicola Diana. The Attorney General had asked for sentences of six to 14 years in prison for all, but the appellate magistrates shared the approach of the defendants of the accused, who were betting on the unreliability of Battaglia, which emerged from the statements of the repentant Massimiliano Caterino, former right arm of the boss Michele Zagaria, who had told that Battaglia was a friend of the Zagaria brothers so much that he also took part in the wedding of Carmine Zagaria.
A man died and another was injured in an ambush in the night in Naples. After a report to 113, the police found two people on the ground in via Esopo, in the district of Ponticelli.
Giulio Fiorentino, 30, born in Torre del Greco, was taken to the Villa Betania clinic, where he died shortly after from gunshot wounds. Vincenzo Di Costanzo, 24, transported to the Ospedale del Mare, suffered injuries to his legs and groin. Operated, it is not considered life threatening. Both victims, according to police reports, are already known to the police.
Camorra 'eminence grise' gunned down in Naples Hit on mediator could signal fresh turf war say cops
(ANSA) - NAPLES, MAR 16 - A 77-year-old Camorra member gunned down in an ambush in Naples Monday night was considered an "eminence grise" in the Neapolitan Mob, police said Tuesday. Antonio Volpe, hit by a hail of bullets by hitmen on a scooter in the Fuorigrotta quarter, was a senior advisor to the Baratto-Bianco-Volpe clans, police said. Volpe was the brother-in-law of Antonio Bianco, believed to be a top lieutenant of the two brothers who run the Baratto family. The hit on Volpe could be part of a fresh turf war, police said. He had been a mediator in many disputes, they said. Volpe was injured in another attempt on his life in 2005. (ANSA).
The news of Giuseppe Simioli 's repentance could have a disruptive effect on the 'System' of Marano, already, orphan of the historic bosses. 'O Petrucelo could tell the secrets of the clan who led and managed the drug trade for years. In 2008 he became the right hand of Giuseppe Polverino , the chieftain nicknamed called Peppe 'o Barone.
He and 'o Baron were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Giuseppe Candela. The sentence was pronounced in December 2019 by the Court of the Assizes of Naples. Candela was murdered in the center of Marano, in July 2009, on the specific order of the boss, who had decreed his death during a summit in Spain.
On behalf of the Polverinos, Simioli took care of the hashish traffic on the Spain-Italy axis, taking care of all phases. From the collection of money, the so-called puntante, passing to the negotiation of prices, to the payment, to the withdrawal of the drug. Finally, then, to transport and distribution in the Italian channels.
His trips to Spain were frequent to take care of the trafficking in person, as well as to be close to his loved ones. For years he had led a double life, in fact, he kept a wife and a child in Marano and at the same time he had an affair with a Hispanic-Brazilian with whom he had 2 children. In the province of Rome he was taking a hiding in the countryside, conducted in a personal resort built in the countryside complete with a hot tub.
After the arrests of recent years, the Orlando-Nuvoletta-Polverino criminal group can consider itself seriously in trouble. On November 27, 2018, Antonio Orlando, aka Mazzolino , boss of the homonymous clan who became a fugitive 15 before, was arrested. On November 8 of the same year, the handcuffs were also triggered for Angelo Orlando , accused of having contributed to the operation and strengthening of the Orlando clan.
Naples, shooting starts again: the victim of the attack Ciro Cotugno, 47, wounded by gunshots in the Ponticelli district. The man was under house arrest in his home in via San Michele. Hospitalized at Cardarelli with a reserved prognosis, he undergoes a delicate surgery.
They tried to kill Giuseppe Moccia in Rome he was wounded by gun shots. A heavy name, a family distantly linked to the historic Camorra organization of the Moccia di Afragola clan. With a history of drugs, 38-year-old Giuseppe Moccia had recently been released from prison. The Moccia clan, as documented by numerous investigations, is a historic Camorra organization protagonist of heated feuds between the end of the 80s and the early 90s. It is still operating in the municipalities of the Neapolitan province of Afragola, Casoria, Arzano, Caivano, Cardito, Crispano, Frattamaggiore and Frattaminore as well as, in recent years, also in the Roman territory. The fulcrum of this association was Gennaro Moccia, assassinated on May 31, 1976 in an ambush due to the contrasts between his hegemony and the opposing Giugliano clan which, at the time, controlled the territory of Afragola.
Gasoline that smelled of the Camorra, 45 arrests against the 'oil' clans Of internapoli -April 12, 2021130 0
Petrol that smelled of the Camorra, 45 arrests against the 'oil' clans. From the early hours of this morning, in the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto, the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno and Taranto and the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Salerno are engaged in an operation coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorates of Potenza and Lecce. Executed of two application ordinances of personal and real precautionary measures.
Issued by the respective GIP against 45 people, under investigation for criminal association with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method, aimed at the commission of serious crimes against property, such as fraud in the field of excise duties and VAT on fuels, fictitious registration of goods and companies, fraud against the state. A further 71 people also involved, reported on the loose for crimes connected to those of an associative nature. The investigative activities have in fact ascertained the infiltration of the Casalesi clan and the Cicala clan in the lucrative hydrocarbon market in the territories of Vallo di Diano and Tarantino.
Italy: Camorra mafia appeals to youths Italy’s Camorra mafia honors its dead with wall murals, but priests warn against glorifying criminals. This idolization of “false heroes†is meant to lure young people into partaking in organized crime.
An ambush against a repentant of the Camorra. Carmine Amoruso was the target of the hit men who fired 5 gunshots in the ambush last Tuesday. The man from Poggiomarino was in the car with his brother when he was attacked in San Marzano sul Sarno, as reported by FanPage. After the ambush, the man stole the car of an innocent passing motorist, after which he went to the hospital.
The 36-year-old collaborator of justice had in the past been linked to the Giugliano di Poggiomarino clan. Then the investigation was transferred to the Antimafia given the modalities of the assassination attempt. Amoruso had been wounded by a bullet in the left shoulder blade, he is not in danger of life.
Carmine Amoruso escaped an ambush in 2009, when an innocent Nicola Nappo died in his place. It was July 6 when the killers opened fire near a bar in Poggiomarino, killing the 23-year-old and seriously injuring an 18-year-old who was with him. It was a tragic mistake in person, due to a similarity. According to the investigators, that murder was decided by the Cesarano clan.
Camorra, arrests throughout Italy: blow to the Fabbrocino clan and its rivals
From the first light of dawn, the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Naples are carrying out, in the provinces of Naples, Salerno, Imperia, Cosenza, Ancona and Reggio Emilia, an order for the application of the precautionary measure of custody in prison issued by the Gip office of the Court of Naples at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples - District Anti-Mafia Directorate - against 26 subjects, seriously suspected, for various reasons, of having been part of two distinct criminal organizations operating on Poggiomarino and in the neighboring Neapolitan municipalities, in struggle among them for the hegemony on the territory.
The association historically present in that territory, attributable to the Fabbrocino clan, has been flanked and opposed by a new criminal entity, with the aim of seeking autonomous criminal spaces. In this context, activities connected with numerous extortions and intimidations were documented, an important trafficking of narcotic substances, ascertaining supply channels also with the Calabrian 'ndrine. At the same time, a preventive seizure of assets and financial relationships is underway for a total estimated value of approximately 50 million euros.
Murder a little while ago in Naples. A man was shot dead in the Miano neighborhood . On the spot the carabinieri for the findings of the case. It should be a Camorra-style ambush. The raid took place in via Vittorio Veneto. An ambulance was also on site but the rescue was useless. The victim is called Salvatore Milano , from Secondigliano. He was killed by killers while he was in a coffee shop ( bar Rosetta ). In recent times he had been seen in company with some members of the Cifrone clan , heirs of the Lo Russo in the area north of Naples. Milan is not new to the news, he has several precedents. There was also a crowd of onlookers who flocked to the scene after the shots. Salvatore Milano, born on March 13, 1961, was already the victim of an ambush in September last year in Giugliano. The convict had told the investigators that he had been the victim of a robbery but his version did not convince the investigators. He went to the emergency room of the Pozzuoli hospital with a gunshot wound to his shoulder. The victim, medicated and questioned in the immediacy of the facts, claimed to have been injured by a commando of bandits while he was inside his car in Giugliano.
Ovens of gold and money for Colombian and Neapolitan narcos: well-known entrepreneur acquitted Of internapoli -April 23, 2021491 0
He ended up in prison three years ago, accused of having participated in a mega association operating between Colombia, Spain, Holland and Italy , aimed at importing large quantities of cocaine from South America , with an operational base. and logistics in Naples and in the province. Fabrizio Ventura , Milanese entrepreneur, owner of VCG, international leader in the production of furnaces used for the melting of precious metals, for the goldsmith and dental industry, immediately decided to rely on the judicial care of the lawyers Dario Vannetiello and Giusida Sanseverino. Just the entrepreneurial activity led overseas and to establish relationships with Colombian entrepreneurs, without realizing that in 2014 they were under investigation for international cocaine trafficking even with subjects of Campania crime.
The dense network of investigations also traps the entrepreneur Ventura who, after years of investigative activity, with hours and hours of intercepted conversations and stalking, is arrested. According to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, Ventura received large sums of money from the drug trafficking organization and then sent them to Colombia, hidden inside the ovens produced by his company, also by making the frame in gold. All under the cover of legitimate oven shipments to Colombia.
Thanks to the painstaking defensive work carried out by the lawyers Vannetiello and Sanseverino, the Neapolitan Court, in the context of an appeal decision that was characterized by dozens of convictions, ended up convincing itself about Ventura's extraneousness to the criminal team, resulting in acquittal and immediate release.
Four people, believed to be affiliated with the Aprea Camorra clan , were subjected to arrest as a crime suspect as part of the investigation into the fire action committed last April 17 in the Barra district, eastern outskirts of Naples, during which she was injured a 25-year-old completely unrelated to the facts. The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Naples carried out the arrest, issued by the Dda of Naples, against 4 subjects seriously suspected of the crimes of attempted murder, possession and illegal carrying of common firearms, aggravated by the method and by the mafia purposes. According to what has been reconstructed by the investigations carried out by the Investigative Unit and by the Company of Naples Poggioreale, the ambush is part of the armed conflict for the management and control of illegal activities in the eastern city by the Aprea clan , which together with the clan De Luca Bossa, Minichini Schisa, Casella and Rinaldi make up the mafia cartel called Alleanza di Secondigliano led by the Camorra families of Licciardi, Contini-Bosti and Mallardo . The action, committed in broad daylight, in the crowd and with an uncovered face, was aimed at providing an outdoor demonstration of the military strength of the Aprea clanin order to guarantee the control of the territory through the immediate and blatant repression of any conduct that could question its power. The suspects, in an attempt to hit the designated victim who had fled, voluntarily exploded, at man's height, numerous gunshots in the presence of numerous people present at that time on the street and injured the woman who was walking with partner. The woman was then taken and treated at the Ospedale del Mare. The investigations developed over time have shown how the Aprea clan, established in the historic stronghold of Corso Sirena, is absolutely operational and equipped with a consistent availability of weapons, as also emerges from recent seizures, which confirms its dangerousness, strengthened by the alliance with the other powerful families of Camorra.
Police dismantle shrine to mafia boss Wed, 28 April 2021, 4:29 pm Police have arrested 21 people suspected of belonging to the Sibillo Camorra clan, on charges of mafia association, extortion, receiving stolen goods, drug dealing, prostitution, possession, and illegal carrying of firearms, a statement said.
The 19-year-old boss Emanuele Sibillo was the leader of a group of young mobsters.
He was the inspiration for writer and journalist Roberto Saviano in his book 'La paranza dei bambini' -- which in the Camorra jargon means group of armed children.
Sibillo was killed in an ambush in 2015 and the family placed his ashes in a building in central Naples, inside a shrine.
Some of the shopkeepers, who were victims of extortion by the gang, were summoned in front of the shrine, local media reported, adding one of them was forced to bow in front of Sibillo's bust.
From the first light of dawn the carabinieri of the provincial command of Naples are carrying out an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate against 12 affiliated to the Camorra group Cutolo, rooted in the Rione Traiano , a district on the western outskirts of the city. Among the arrested also members of the Sorianiello clan.
The suspects are seriously suspected of association aimed at drug trafficking, possession and sale of drugs, attempted murder and illegal carrying of weapons .
The investigations, conducted by the carabinieri of the Naples investigative nucleus and the Bagnoli company and coordinated by the Naples DDA, made it possible to document and reconstruct the activity of the criminal group, under the influence of the historic cartel of the Secondigliano Alliance .
The Camorra had links to Dallas, Major ports attract Italian organized crime syndicates, which operate in at least 19 U.S. cities, according to the Justice Department.
In the early hours of this morning, policemen of the Flying Squad and of the San Giovanni-Barra police station executed an order of custody in prison issued by the Gip of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 37 affiliated to the clan Rinaldi, Reale, Formicola and Silenzio, all seriously suspected of mafia-type association crimes, attempted murder, extortion, possession and carrying of aggravated firearms.
Murder of Lorenzo Nuvoletta's son-in-law, encore arrests for the bosses of the Casalesi clan A new order has been placed for the murder of Lello Lubrano. The man was the son-in-law of Lorenzo Nuvoletta and was killed by the Casalesi clan in November 2002.
Lello was the son of the chieftain Vincenzo , both linked to the Camorra of Marano. Lorenzo Nuvoletta's daughter married Lello Lubrano.
THE NAMES OF THE RESPONSIBLE Michele Zagaria , born in San Cipriano d 'Aversa on 21 May 1958 and Giuseppe Caterino , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa on 19.01.1954. Respectively detained in the Sassari and Viterbo prison houses, the two are believed to be the principals.
Salvatore Nobis , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa on 10 November 1959 and Antonio Santamaria born in Cancello and Arnone on 29.12.1975. The two are held in the prisons of Tolmezzo and Viterbo. According to the prosecution, the two had the role of basisti with the task of following the victim during his travels, the so-called mirror operators.
The investigations made it possible to ascertain how the murder in question was born as a result of the expansionist aims of the Casalesi clan on a portion of the territory where an indigenous criminal association, the Lubrano-Ligato-Abbate clan, operated. This, over time, had often led to frictions, followed by strategic truces, at the height of which the Camorra summit of Casal di Principe prevailed by dictating its own rules. It also required the presence of their lieutenants and forcing "the villagers" to be satisfied with the management of criminal activities of lesser importance and fruitfulness.
As part of the same investigative activity, in the year 2020, a similar restrictive measure was issued against another associate: Francesco Schiavone born in 1953, alias Cicciariello, cousin of Sandokan .
19 house searches (1 in Naples and 18 in Germany ) 4 persons arrested (Italian nationals) Seizures include various documents such as accounting records, IT evidence and €30 000 in cash Judicial security order of €415 000 in total, issued by Germany The criminal network is involved in the production of counterfeit euros in the area of Naples in Italy and their subsequent distribution in Germany. The main suspect is also believed to be involved in the trafficking of different illegal commodities including drugs, stolen vehicles and falsified documents. He is suspected of distributing these illegal commodities, acquired by his associates living in Naples and connected to the Camorra.
During the course of the investigation law enforcement officers made several seizures including cocaine, an illegal firearm and counterfeit money for a value of about €160 000. This investigation also led to the first seizure of a counterfeit banknote of the new €100, just six months after its official release by the European Central Bank.
Europol facilitated the information exchange, operational coordination and provided analytical support. During the action day, Europol supported with technical expertise and cross-checked operational information against Europol's databases and the systems of the European Central Bank.
This investigation is part of the Italian DIA Project ONNET, an EU-financed initiative to tackle mafia-type organised crime groups active in Europe. The project was launched at Europol's headquarters and targets the mafia-style criminal groups in their entirety, rather than one or more of their specific criminal activities.
Headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, Europol supports the 27 EU Member States in their fight against terrorism, cybercrime, and other serious and organized crime forms. Europol also works with many non-EU partner states and international organisations. From its various threat assessments to its intelligence-gathering and operational activities, Europol has the tools and resources it needs to do its part in making Europe safer.
Raffaele Imperiale enters the list of the most dangerous fugitives in Italy! Imperiale close associate of Rico the Chilean and Daniel Kinahan is said to live in Dubai for many years.
Interesting the historian Barbero traced the origins of the Camorra to the revolt led by Masaniello in Piazza Mercato on 7 July 1647 against the foreign occupier. It all began when the shopkeepers decided not to pay the tax imposed by the Spaniards, after which it unleashed the revolt of all the popular districts of the market.
The judge for the preliminary hearing of the court of Naples sentenced 3 members of the Casalesi clan to thirty years in prison.
This is the murder dating back to 1997. Giuseppe Setola , head of the Casalesi massacre wing, Aniello Bidognetti , son of the Casalesi chieftain Francesco Bidognetti known as "Cicciotto e Mezzanotte", and the clan exponent Giuseppe Dell'Aversano sentenced to 30 years.
The judge then inflicted 12 years on Cicciotto's other son, Raffaele Bidognetti. The collaborator of justice has allowed with his declarations, to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, to reconstruct the crime.
The murder is that of the painter Domenico Zippo , killed in Casal di Principe as part of the feud between the Schiavone and Bidognetti families. Zippo was walking in the very central Corso Umberto, when he was approached by the killers and killed with three gunshots in the chest.
Setola (defended by Paolo Di Furia) is in prison with numerous life sentences also for the 18 people killed in Caserta during the season of terror in 2008. The killer admitted that he was the material perpetrator of the crime, as was Giuseppe Dell ' Aversano, while the principals were Raffaele Bidognetti and his brother Aniello.
What is being referred to when the article mentions Casalesi massacre? The shooting of the African victims? Or some other event(s)?
Yes the massacre of the Blacks. The Castel Volturno massacre is the name given by the Italian press to a mass shooting perpetrated by the Casalesi clan that caused the deaths of seven people on 18 September 2008.
05 June 2021to to to Ambush against two Italians in Ibiza: a 28-year-old man is very serious and another 35 was injured more lightly by shots fired from a car while attending a private party outside a villa in Santa Eularia. on the central eastern coast of the Spanish island of the Balearics.
The ambush took place in the night and the emergency services received the call around 2:30 am. The 28-year-old, hospital sources report, is hospitalized in very serious conditions and has undergone an operation to extract a bullet from the skull. The 35-year-old suffered minor injuries instead.
The command of the Guardia Civil of the Balearics reported that a car, carrying three people on board according to some witnesses, stopped in front of the villa where the party was taking place and one of the occupants lowered the window and opened fire. The car left soon after, running away. The staff of the Civil Guard of Santa Eularia, contacted by the AGI, stated that the investigations are ongoing and that it is not possible at the moment to provide further information. The attack took place in the Can Ramon district, near the industrial polygon of Ca na Palava. The villa where the party was taking place had been rented but it is not known whether the two injured are tourists or permanently reside on the Balearic island.
The person shot in the leg last night in Via Marco Aurelio in the 'heart' of the 'area called 44' of the Rione Traiano was the 48-year-old Ciro Di Napoli known in criminal circles with the nickname 'o muzzon. Di Napoli boasts precedents for drugs but, according to the latest information from the police, he would be considered the current regent of the Cutolo clan, an association active in the area of ​​44 and recently hit by a maxi blitz. Operation resulting from the statements of the former lieutenant of the clan, the repentant Genny Carra.
Two Neapolitan narcos were arrested with 20 kilos of heroin at Zurich airport. The couple were from South Africa. According to the official version provided by the Swiss agents, the movements of the two narcos would have been monitored since their departure from Italy to the African continent. In the background, the Tanzania-South Africa-Holland route: this is the heroin route run by the Nigerian mafia. The shipment of heroin was destined for Amsterdam, the European terminal of drug trafficking. From there it would then be distributed to other countries.
And then, with regard to the affair, an agreement emerges that the Camorra and the Nigerian mafia (very rooted in Campania, especially in the Caserta area), would have closed for the supply, transport and distribution of drugs. Target? Flooding Europe with heroin, a type of drug given a strong recovery in consumption. Among other things, it is difficult to hypothesize that the two narcos acted without a powerful clan behind them. They are very young, anonymous, chosen precisely because they attract little attention.
Blow to the Casalesi, 5 subjects arrested, including Walter Schiavone, son of the historical head of the "Casalesi" clan , Francesco Schiavone known as " Sandokan ". The accusations are Camorra-type association, possession and carrying in a public place of firearms and warfare. Then also the fictitious registration of company shares, illicit competition and extortion, aggravated by the mafia purpose.
The measures constitute the outcome of an investigation activity that made it possible to acquire serious circumstantial elements on the operations of a criminal group. The group is dedicated to the management and control - with extortion methods - of the distribution of dairy products in the territories of the province of Caserta. In particular the famous Mozzarella from the Camorra, the business managed by Walter Schiavone.
Tensions again very high in the area north of Naples, a 38-year-old, Salvatore di Caprio , was wounded in an ambush in Miano, a peripheral area of ​​the northern area of ​​Naples. Di Caprio is a well-known character he had been released from prison for a few months and in the past he was close to the Di Lauro clan, but after prison and the expiation of the sentence, Di Caprio would have changed the criminal circle approaching a clan of Naples.
the policemen of the Homicide Section of the Flying Squad captured Salvatore Marino , a 44-year-old Neapolitan recipient of an execution order for imprisonment issued last May 28 by the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Naples - Criminal Execution Office - as sentenced to the sentence of 12 years, 3 months and 16 days in prison for conspiracy to illicit drug trafficking exacerbated by mafia methods committed in 2006 in Naples.
The man, at the end of an observation activity, was located in via Monfalcone and, at the sight of the policemen, he tried to escape aboard a scooter but was promptly blocked. Salvatore Marino is considered an exponent of the Mazzarella clan.
How powerful was Di Lauro clan in comparison to other major Camorra factions? Like were they comparable to the Caselesi or were they a relatively small faction? They were very deep into drug wholesale and distribution in Scampia so I assume they must had some real money.
Cops save man condemned to death by mafia for fling Camorra's intended victim had had sex with jailed mobster's wife
(ANSA) - NAPLES, JUN 21 - Italian anti-Mafia prosecutors and police have saved a man who was condemned to death by the Naples Mob for breaking its strict rules on extramarital sex. The man got his death sentence from the cupola of the Camorra's Abbinante clan in Scampia because he was in a relationship with the wife of a jailed mobster, judicial sources said Monday. Police arrested those who ordered the hit and those who were gearing to carry it out after the victim's grave had already been dug, the sources said. The arrestees were boss Antonio Abbinante, his nephew Raffaele, and three 'soldiers': Antonio Esposito, Salvatore Morriale and Paolo Ciprio. The intended victim was said to be "contiguous" to the Camorra organization. The Camorra members planned to lure the man to the countryside between Marano and Arzano, near Naples, on the pretext of "working something out," police said. Once he was there they would have shot him dead and buried him in the grave that had already been prepared, they said. (ANSA).
A man, Antonio Avolio, 30, was shot dead in via Teano, at the crossroads with via comunale Piscinola, on the outskirts of Naples. It seems that the man was approached by some strangers. The carabinieri arrived on the spot and are making the first surveys and working to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the incident.
Today is the second murder that takes place in the Miano district , in the north-western outskirts of Naples, in just over two months. In fact, on April 22, a 60-year-old was hit by some hitmen inside a room and shot dead.
Antonio Avolio was arrested in 2016 for extortion and released from prison in 2020. Now the carabinieri of the Stella Company and the Naples Investigative Unit are working to reconstruct his acquaintances in recent months.
Reduced sentence in Cassation (from 22 years to 9 years and 4 months) for the boss Antonio Orlando, better known as "Mazzolino". Orlando, in prison since November 2018 and detained under the 41 bis regime, is the head of the hegemonic clan of the same name in the municipalities of Marano, Quarto and Calvizzano. The man is also serving a three-year prison sentence for events (falsification of documents) dating back to the period he was on the run. A criminal organization that, over the years, has managed to incorporate two important mafia families: first the Nuvolettas, and then the Polverinos.
On Sunday the 65-year-old Amedeo Genovese died . The boss suffered a cardiac arrest while he was hospitalized in Parma, who was recently transferred there due to the worsening of his health conditions. Amedeo together with his cousin Modestino founded the Partenio Clan in Avellino.
Amedeo Genovese , recently assisted by the lawyers Mauriello and Danna , was serving a life sentence in the prison of the Emilian city, where he was detained from 2010 first to 41 bis then under high security following the conviction for the murder of the Camorra of Walter De Cristofaro. The bloody event took place in Serino on 12 July 2000 and Genovese was declared principal.
Nicola Cosentino was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for external complicity in mafia association with the Casalesi clan. The former undersecretary for the economy and former regional coordinator of the Campania PDL was condemned by the judges of the fourth section of the Naples Court of Appeal at the end of the Eco4 trial. Judicial proceeding that takes the name of the consortium that dealt with the collection and disposal of waste in various municipalities of the Caserta area.
At first instance Nicola Cosentino , assisted by Stephen Mutton lawyers and Agostino De Caro, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment and perpetual interdiction from public office for collusion with the Camorra association with judgment of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, the November 17, 2016, after over 140 hearings. The request of the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office , expressed during the hearing on 9 December last, was 12 years of imprisonment.
Most wanted drug trafficker arrested in Dubai Raffaele Imperiale, 46, on the run since 2016
(ANSA) - NAPLES, AUG 19 - One of Italy's most dangerous mafia fugitives, top Camorra narco trafficker Raffaele Imperiale, was arrested in Dubai on August 4, sources said Thursday. Imperiali, 46, on the run since 2016, has reportedly been living a lavish life in the UAE capital. Imperiale had an older brother who died in 1996 and left him a coffeeshop in Amsterdam from where he began his criminal career. In his coffeeshop Imperiale sold soft drugs and was reportedly involved in large-scale cocaine trafficking with the Dutch drug trader Rick van de Bunt. In the 1990s he was introduced by Antonio Orefice, a member of the Neapolitan mafia's Moccia clan, to Elio Amato, brother of Raffaele Amato, at the time one of the top drug traffickers of the Di Lauro clan. Imperiale began to earn millions of euros, becoming the pointman of the Di Lauro organization that dealt directly with the drug trafficking cartels in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. According to Italian authorities, Imperiale was living high on the hog in Dubai and spending €400,000 a month to maintain his lavish lifestyle. In 2016, two Van Gogh paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002 were recovered in a villa in Castellammare di Stabia, his hometown near Naples, owned by him. DEA documents sent to Dutch police exposed an alleged super drug cartel headed by Imperiale, Ridouan Taghi (former Dutch most wanted criminal, now in jail), Daniel Kinahan (Irish reputed gang boss) and Edin GaÄanin (Bosnian drug trafficker). The group was observed by the DEA having meetings in the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, the base of the alleged cartel in 2017. The DEA regards this as one of the world's fifty largest drug cartels, with a virtually monopoly on Peruvian cocaine and controlling around a third of the cocaine trade in Europe. (ANSA).
Rick van de Bunt , a friend of Mink Kok, was one of the lesser-known major drug dealers from Holland. He was liquidated on the streets of Madrid in 2008.
Former Camorra repentant Carmine Amoruso was preparing the murder of Raffaele Carrillo along with the men in his new clan. The murderous plan of the Amorusos was thwarted by the timely identification of the sources of evidence regarding the collection of weapons and the rapid issuance of the arrest order that prevented, in fact, anticipating it, the execution of the fire action by the new clan. Raffaele Carillo, who was held responsible for wanting to carry out fire actions against them, belonged to the rival criminal gang headed by Rosario Giugliano who operated in Poggiomarino.
Imperiale was close to Taghi, Kinahan and the most important european drug dealers
In particular with Rico the Chilean Imperiale faces only a 8 year sentence Rico will be out a few years later, they probably have tons of money stashed away/invested. He was the pointman for Raffaele Amato aka The Spaniard, leader of the Scissionisti.
Imperiale was close to Taghi, Kinahan and the most important european drug dealers
In particular with Rico the Chilean Imperiale faces only a 8 year sentence Rico will be out a few years later, they probably have tons of money stashed away/invested. He was the pointman for Raffaele Amato aka The Spaniard, leader of the Scissionisti.
Imperiale is believed to be one of the leaders of a 'super-cartel' which controls a major portion of Europe's lucrative cocaine trade.
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) documents sent to Dutch police identified Imperiale, Dutch mobster Ridouan Taghi, Bosnian criminal Edin GaÄanin, Richard 'El Rico' Vega and Daniel Kinahan as the heads of a so-called ‘super drug cartel.’
the boss Salvatore Astuto, 57, was shot to death in Naples
Michele Guarro was wounded in the legs and abdomen by several gunshots in Torre Annunziata, Naples. According to what is learned, the wounded man, believed to be close to the Gionta clan of the Camorra. This probable ambush by the Camorra comes less than two hours after the ambush that took place in Naples in the market area where Salvatore Astuto, 57 years old and close to the Rinaldi clan, lost his life. According to what is learned, the man was killed with about 20 gunshots. In the market area, the Rinaldi clan contends for the management of the territory with the Mazzarella clan and it seems that the ambush is actually linked to the long feud between the two Camorra gangs. In particular, this latest episode would be linked to the management of the drug market at Levinaio.
Mafia, arrests in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia: with threats and extortion they controlled fairs and economic activities The blitz triggered in the provinces of Udine, Venice and Pordenone: armed punitive expeditions were discovered against those who were not subject to the hegemony imposed by the head of the criminal group
September 15, 2021
TRIESTE. The Anti-Mafia Investigative Department and the Trieste Economic and Financial Police Unit carried out a precautionary custody order in prison during the night against numerous people accused, for various reasons, of extortion aggravated by the mafia method. The suspects allegedly "forced - with repeated intimidating behaviors - numerous Friulian and Venetian street traders not to exercise their entrepreneurial activity and in order to prevent the regular running, in Bibione (Venice), of the well-known summer fair called" I Giovedì del Lido del Sole ”», reads the device.
The objective of the accused was to be able to obtain direct control of economic activities and thus condition the free market and the economic and social development of the renowned tourist resort. "Particularly significant - underlines Dia - some episodes in which punitive expeditions with weapons were organized against those who did not submit to the hegemony imposed by the head of the criminal group also in other fairs of the Friuli-Veneto coast". Searches of men and women of the territorial departments of the police, the carabinieri and the financial police and the military of the 8 Engineers Regiment of Legnago are still in progress in the provinces of Udine, Venice and Pordenone.
Morra: "The blitz makes politics reflect" "My thanks to Dia, the Finance Police and the DDA of Trieste for the operation that saw dozens of arrests for extortion aggravated by the mafia method in eastern Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia", says Nicola Morra, president in a note of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission. "The picture that emerged from today's operation - he continues - is that of infiltration by the Camorra in a territory that was thought to be immune, and this very belief of impermeability to certain phenomena is the serious mistake of those who consider themselves invulnerable". According to the president of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, it is now necessary to urge the attention and sensitivity of citizens, of economic operators to denounce, to immediately put a stop to these mafia degenerations ». «Trieste - he reflects - which seems so far from the territories typically hit by criminal phenomena, demonstrates how the attention of politics must never fail or be deluded by hypothetical zones of immunity. The Anti-Mafia commission could plan an upcoming mission to Trieste precisely to investigate in depth what is happening and to give a concrete sign of presence and closeness to the healthy and honest civil society that does not bow its head ".
In the high-security prison of Frosinone, southeast of Rome, an inmate shot at three fellow inmates. The firearm was delivered to the shooter by drone.
After obtaining permission to shower, a 28-year-old Neapolitan prisoner, a member of the Camorra, pointed a firearm at the guard. He then tried to open the door of a cell containing three fellow inmates. When that failed, he shot through the bars at the men, who miraculously remained unharmed.
Mobile phone The shooter then called his lawyer using an illegal cell phone. He managed to convince him to hand the firearm over to the hastily summoned guards.
The Neapolitan's attack came after he had been mistreated by his fellow inmates a few days earlier.
CCTV footage showed that the man's firearm had been delivered to the window of his cell via a drone.
The case has caused a stir in Italy. The country has the most overcrowded prisons in the European Union.
Camorra and politics, the Review denies Luigi Cesaro's home revocation Of internapoli -2 October 2021231 0
The Naples Review Court rejected the petition for revocation of house arrest issued against Forza Italia senator Luigi Cesaro. Press sources make it known. The precautionary measure was issued at the beginning of September as part of an investigation by the Naples DDA on the Puca di Sant'Antimo clan, where the parliamentarian (defended by lawyers Alfonso Furgiuele and Michele Sanseverino) was born 69 years ago.
Investigators challenge the senator and his family about relations with the local criminal organization. The execution of the precautionary measure issued for the accusation of external competition in the Camorra association remains suspended until the decision of the Giunta for the authorizations to proceed from the Senate.
Camorra mafia boss Raffaele Amato is reportedly among the figures to feature in the Pandora Papers, a huge leak to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) of secret documents regarding people who use offshore dealings in tax havens. The documents provide details about a shell company, registered in the United Kingdom, that Amato used to buy land in Spain, the ICIJ said. Amato, the leader of the 'Scissionisti' Neapolitan mafia clan involved in a bloody mafia war in 2004 and 2005 whose story helped inspire Roberto Saviano's award-winning book, movie and TV series "Gomorrah," is serving a 20-year prison term.
The Naples Review Court has decided that Raffaele Imperiale must remain in prison. The request for revocation of the precautionary measure advanced by Imperiale's lawyers was rejected. For the prosecutor of Naples, which filed new documents, Imperiale was not a "simple drug supplier" but " one of the pillars on which the entire Camorra organization of the Di Lauro clan splinters rests ". According to the magistrates without his connections "the Amato clan would have disappeared or perhaps never existed".
The investigations into Imperiale also led to the identification of the drug trafficker's contacts with the criminals believed to be at the head of drug cartels involved in the so-called Mocro War in the Netherlands and Belgium, which resulted in over 40 deaths. These are Taghi Ridouan and Riquelme Vega. The first awaiting trial, the second taken in Chile in 2017 and extradited to the Netherlands where he was recently sentenced.
The DDA also produced the statements of numerous collaborators of justice, first of all Carmine Cerrato, right-hand man of the boss Lello Amato, who told of the encrypted codes with which they spoke to each other, of “disposable” mobile phones.
The Amato Pagano clan without Raffaele Imperiale , the Campania drug trafficker of international standing arrested at the beginning of last August in Dubai where he is still today and for which an extradition request has been forwarded, would have lasted shortly, perhaps not even existed . For the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office, in fact, Imperiale, with his partner Mario Cerrone , who was also the recipient of a simultaneous arrest warrant in prison for criminal association of a Camorra type, is not a "simple drug supplier" but "one of the pillars on which the whole Camorra organization of the 'splinters' of the Di Lauro clan rests ”.
Imperiale was the “protagonist” of a serious road accident while driving a Ferrari in which one man died, the claim was made in new documents filed by Italian prosecutors as part of their case against drug trafficker Imperiale.
According to prosecutors, one of Imperiale's associates, who was behind the wheel of a Lamborghini, was also involved in the fatal crash in Spain. But according to one informer who is co-operating with Italian authorities, Imperiale abandoned his Ferrari following the crash - despite the fact it was worth a six-figure sum.
"He did not show disappointment that the prestigious cars had been destroyed, as he had a lot of money,” the informer has claimed.
The details are included in statements given to Italy’s Direzione Investigativa Antimafia ('Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate'), also known as DIA, from numerous “collaborators of justice”.
Collaborator of justice, Gennaro Carra , revealed particular background regarding the bosses of the Rione Traiano Raffaele Imperiale and Mario Cerrone . The son-in-law of the boss Salvatore Cutolo after the capture chose to repent and speaking of the two leading exponents of the Traiano Camorra said: " They also wanted to buy Serie A club Napoli ". The circumstance is also reported in the precautionary custody order in prison against the two. According to his words, Imperiale and Cerrone had indescribable economic power. In fact, the repentant to the investigators said: " They had a crazy economic availability ".
I wish Jerry Capeci would do his Gangland News thing on these guys lol, Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, and Sacra Corona Unita too. It would definitely breathe new life into his website.
Camorra is killing Naples says archbishop Msgr Battaglia urges mafiosi to convert
(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 12 - The local Camorra mafia is killing Naples, its archbishop said Tuesday, urging Camorristi to convert after a wave of murders. "They are killing Naples! The Camorra and graft are killing it, with the violence and cruelty of those who have forgotten they are human beings!", said Metropolitan Archbishop Monsignor Domenico Battaglia. "To the men of the Camorra, to the corrupt and those in collusion with criminality I say: become human beings again! Convert! Your Bishop will not shy away from welcoming and accompanying the steps of conversion and human rebirth". (ANSA).
Inmate of Poggioreale dies at 84, he was a former boss of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata di Cutolo. Giovanni Marandino died at the Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, detained in the Poggioreale prison since February of this year, accused of usury.
In their latest report the Dia makes the Mallardo clan one of the most solid organizations not only in Campania but in the entire national territory. The main ability of the Giuglianese clan, part of the Secondigliano Alliance cartel , was to continue to hold control of the territory despite the arrest over the years of all the leaders and regents.
"The monopoly of illicit business in the territories of relevance, a strong economic power and a marked regenerative capacity of the staff despite the two brothers believed to be at the head of the association remain detained". This is the last description that Dia makes of the Mallardo clan. The clan is considered by the Antimafia to be one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Italy, also thanks to its close alliances with the Neapolitan clans of the Contini and Licciardi with whom it forms the Secondigliano Alliance. But also with the Casalesi clans and neighboring gangs such as the Polverino and Ferrara Cacciapuoti families.
Italian police on Friday arrested 40 people in connection to a case of suspected hospital contract rigging involving the Neapolitan Camorra mafia. Those arrested included suspected members of the Secondigliano Alliance, public officials and businessmen, allegedly involved in bid rigging and the extortion of companies working at hospitals, police said. The companies operate in the sectors of patient transport, funeral services, construction and cleaning, police said. Among those arrested is Luigi Cimmino, suspected boss of the Vomero quarter, his son Franco Diego and his right-arm man Andrea Basile. Trade unionists and entrepreneurs were also arrested including Marco Salvati, owner of a patient transport firm called The Cross of St Pius, as well as the Sacco family, who run hospital cafeterias.
The second section of the Court of Appeal of Naples has fully acquitted the boss Domenico Pagnozzi, from the accusation of mafia-type association that was contested in the operation " the mountain " on alleged ramifications of the Pagnozzi clan in the Sannio.
In the first instance Pagnozzi was sentenced to 19 years in prison. During the second degree trial the sentence was reduced to 16 years and 10 months. The Cassation had accepted the appeals of Pagnozzi's lawyers, the lawyer Dario Vannetiello and the professor Alfonso Furgiuele, postponing the celebration of the second degree of judgment at a different section of the Naples Court of Appea.
On Friday Giuseppe Tipaldi was killed in via Janfolla in the Miano district, the 38-year-old was shot and killed in a recreational club at around 2:30 am. This is the second murder in less than 24 hours. A few hours earlier, in fact, Andrea Merolla had been killed in the Fuorigrotta district, 30 year old killed at a gas station. Merolla was the nephew of the boss Vitale Troncone but it is not yet clear whether he was included in the dynamics of the Camorra.
He is not just any character but the son of the ras, that of Giuseppe Tipaldi is an excellent murder. The father of the victim is in fact Ras Gaetano Tipaldi , known as Nanà. Last night a man was killed in a recreational club in via Janfolla near street number 444. Giuseppe Tipaldi , known as Peppe a recchia, fell under the blows of assassins, son of ras Gaetano ally of the Cifrones of the upper part of Miano.
Ras is a term for 'who, within the Camorra clan, possesses a strong but not total authority and is a subordinate of the boss, while exercising his power locally.
Ambush in Naples, commando unleashed in a bar: five people hit Carmine Di Niro - November 24, 2021
An armed commando who entered a bar with spying weapons, opening fire and hitting five people. This is what happened this evening, around 8 pm, inside the “ Roxy bar” in via Silone in Arzano , a town close to the northern area of ??Naples.
The 'gunslingers' shot and wounded five people, transported to nearby hospitals but not in danger of life, at least according to preliminary information.
Two of the five injured, as reported by the carabinieri, are believed to be close to the Arzano 167 clan : in particular, one of the injured is Salvatore Petrillo , a person already known to the police.
READ ALSO Camorra ambush in the street, man hit in the face by a bullet: he is in desperate conditions The investigations are obviously still in progress: the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Casoria and the Castello di Cisterna investigative unit are present on the spot for the surveys and to collect any testimonies and images from video surveillance cameras.
The military is trying to reconstruct what happened also to ascertain the likely Camorra-type nature of the criminal action.
" We are decent people, everyone knows us in Arzano ... ", the owner of the bar told the carabinieri in tears, as reported by Ansa. The 'Roxy bar' is located on the ground floor of a six-story building.
Casalesi ambush with 2 dead: 8 arrests. Principals and killers revealed The double murder decided after Cicciariello's release
Eight precautionary orders for a double murder that took place 18 years ago in Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
This morning, in the city of the Forum and at the Prison Offices of Sassari, Novara, Parma, Viterbo, Milano Opera, Sulmona (AQ) and Palmi (RC), the Carabinieri of the Caserta Investigation Unit carried out a precautionary custody order, issued by the Court of Naples, at the request of the Neapolitan Anti-Mafia District Directorate, against 8 (eight) persons considered seriously suspected of the double murder in prejudice of Sebastiano Caterino , born in 1955, and Umberto De Falco , born in 1971, consumed in Santa Maria Capua As of October 31, 2003.
In the early 2000s, which ended the "Villa Literno feud" between Bidognetti and the group Ucciero-Tavoletta and after the procedural events that had led to the arrest of several leaders and members of the Casalesi clan, the faction Schiavone is gathered around the figure of Francesco "Cicciariello" Schiavone . The latter, released from the Spoleto prison and after having assumed the criminal direction of the clan, immediately wanted to reaffirm the hegemony of the Casalesi against those who had hindered their rise; among these Sebastiano Caterino who, released from prison in May 2002 and settled in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, formed an autonomous group, of which Umberto De Falco was also part.
On the morning of October 31, 2003, the victims were aboard the Volkswagen "Golf" GTI, driven by Caterino, whose gear was blocked by an Alfa 166 allowing the arrival of another car from which the commando of killers who exploded numerous gunshots at the victims. The Carabinieri rushed to the scene and found Sebastiano Caterino who was now deceased while Umberto De Falco, seriously injured, died a few hours later in the hospital. During the inspection, dozens of cartridge cases attributable to war weapons were found, while the cars used by the command were subsequently found charred in San Tammaro and Grazzanise.
THE LIST OF ARRESTED
ZAGARIA Michele , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on 21 May 1955, detained for another cause at the Sassari Prison;
SCHIAVONE Francesco , born in Casal di Principe (CE) on 6 January 1953, detained for other reasons at the Novara Prison;
MARTINELLI Enrico , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) May 27, 1964, detained for another cause at the Parma Prison;
CATERINO Giuseppe , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on January 19, 1954, detained for other reasons at the Viterbo Prison;
DE LUCA Corrado , born in Sorrento (NA) on 7 May 1967, detained for another cause at the Milan Opera (MI) prison;
SPIERTO Pasquale , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on March 30, 1968, detained for another cause at the Prison of Sulmona (AQ);
VIRGILIO Claudio , born in Versmond (Germany) on December 26, 1977, detained for another cause at the Palmi Prison (RC).
MORONESE Agostino , born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere on 20.10.1969.
Thus the Silenzio clan controlled the "Bronx": 26 arrests The murder of Annamaria Palmieri and all the activities of the clan in the district have been reconstructed
This morning the Flying Squad carried out a precautionary custody order issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 26 people, considered seriously suspected of participation in a mafia-type criminal association and of association for the purpose drug trafficking, as well as for some crimes of murder, possession and carrying of firearms, and extortion. The investigations reconstruct the current criminal balance in the territory of San Giovanni a Teduccio, characterized by numerous bloody facts caused by the feud, taking place in 2018 despite the arrests and convictions, between different Camorra families, expression of two broader confederations, the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan, which have always contended
In particular, the activities carried out starting from January 2018, following the murder of Annamaria Palmieri, right arm of Maria Domizio, regent of the Formicola clan, reconstruct a violent armed conflict between the Camorra families Silenzio and Formicola, both operating in the sphere of influence and control of the dominant Rinaldi-Formicola-Reale cartel, in turn attributable to the Secondigliano Alliance. There are numerous violent actions reconstructed in the precautionary order through which the Silenzio clan forced entire families to abandon their legitimately occupied homes, in order to guarantee the military control of the so-called Bronx District and the management of the Silenzio family to the members and affiliates of the of all illegal activities,
This context also includes the reconstruction of the evidence relating to the murder of Annamaria Palmieri, which took place on 23 January 2018, which appears to have represented the first striking criminal act aimed at giving a ferocious demonstration of the criminal design of the group, as well as the subsequent criminal actions. attributable to the violent reaction of the Mazzarella cartel and the criminal dynamics related to the control of the import flows from Spain of drugs destined not only to the drug dealing squares of San Giovanni a Teduccio, but also to those of other Neapolitan districts (Barra, Secondigliano), and other municipalities in Campania.
I have a question, do these guys engage in any other rackets like gambling and loansharking? Or are they hooked into the legitimate economy like Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta? Or is it just drug trafficking with these Camorra guys from Naples?
I have a question, do these guys engage in any other rackets like gambling and loansharking? Or are they hooked into the legitimate economy like Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta? Or is it just drug trafficking with these Camorra guys from Naples?
The clans are capable of getting their hands on the whole city even on its historic hospitals. in October they arrested 40 people in connection to a case of suspected hospital contract rigging. Funeral parlors are also mostly run by the clans and they are huge in the foodindustry, construction, gambling, loansharking.
This week Katia Bidognetti, daughter of Francesco known as ‘Cicciotto ‘e mezzanotte’, ended up in prison , considered by the investigators to be the ruling boss of the Casalesi Camorra clan from Campania.
The 39-year-old was under house arrest in Reggio Emilia with charges - disputed, in various capacities, to 20 other defendants - of extortion against entrepreneurs from Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d'Aversa, Villa Literno, Cellole, Castel Volturno, Acerra and Roma. The Reggio carabinieri carried out the jail order after the six-year sentence for mafia-type association issued on appeal became final. The woman will have to remain in the cell until January 31, 2023, after having already served part of the prison sentence between prison and house arrest.
The new clan and the attack on the Cesarano: 21 arrests The investigation into the Buonocore-Matrone that have put the clan active in Castellammare, Pompeii and Scafati in difficulty
The investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of the territorial department of Nocera Inferiore and coordinated by the Dda of Salerno culminated today in the execution of a precautionary custody order against 21 people (13 in prison and 8 under house arrest). According to what was reconstructed by the investigations, the head of the mafia organization was the 47-year-old Giuseppe Buonocore, son-in-law of the historic scafatese boss Francesco Matrone known as "Franchino 'a beast", currently detained at 41 bis. Buonocore, since his release at the end of 2016, would have implemented the reorganization of the clan in order to reacquire the criminal control of the Scafatese territory and the management of illicit business, already in the past the prerogative of the father-in-law. To do so, he would have made use of the previous structure of the Matrone clan and of the consolidated relationships with old allies of his father-in-law: among these, according to the reconstruction of the Dda, there would be 61-year-old Ferdinando Cirillo, who for his criminal "authority" would have provided help in terms consulting, mediation and strategic support.
The investigations made it possible to reconstruct the activities of the clan and the sectors of greatest interest, including arms trafficking, control of the slot machine sector and extortion against economic activities in the area, as well as the violent clash with the clan. Loreto-Ridosso, originally from the same area, and the Cesarano clan, historically rooted in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) but for some time present and influential on the Scafatese criminal scene.
The ambush started late yesterday evening in Viale Luca Pacioli. The man, who had a 2015 criminal record for possession of weapons, was riddled with bullets while on the streets.
He was in the company of acquaintances when the killers appeared: Matteo tried to escape so much that he was hit three times in the chest and shoulders. He was accompanied to the nearby Mare hospital by some acquaintances but despite the doctors' attempts to save his life, the man died during the operation.
The dynamics do not seem to leave room for other hypotheses: the Camorra war that has been going on for months between the De Luca Bossa-Minichini clans on the one hand and the De Micco De Martino on the other.
In a sensational blow to the investigation of the DDA of Naples 11 members of the Ponticelli clans, protagonists of the feud were all released at the end of October.
Maria Licciardi was transferred to the hard prison, will spend the 41 bis in the penitentiary of L'Aquila. It's very rare for a woman to end up at 41 bis.
THE CAMORRA AND THE SACRA CORONA UNITA TEAM UP IN FUEL-SMUGGLING SCHEME, 37 MOBSTERS ARRESTED AND $56 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED April 12th, 2021
The Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri carried out precautionary measures for 45 people as part of an investigation, conducted by the Dda of Potenza and Lecce, on the infiltration of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita in the hydrocarbon sector through nominees and tax evasion. The operation was carried out between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto.
The Casalesi cartel, rooted in Caserta but with ramifications practically everywhere, and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita, originally from Taranto, in Puglia, had infiltrated the hydrocarbon sector, upsetting the market with fraud on excise duties and VAT and with intricate systems of false headers to circumvent controls. This emerges from the investigation coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorates of Potenza and Lecce, which led to personal and real precautionary measures for 45 people to the report on the loose for another 71 suspects.
Of the precautionary measures, 26 are in prison, 11 under house arrest, 6 prohibitions of residence and 2 prohibitions of the suspension from the exercise of two members of the Corps for 6 months. The operation began in the early hours of today, April 12, carried out by the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Taranto and Salerno and by the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Salerno between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto. In addition, seizures of properties, companies, warehouses and fleets of articulated lorries, ordered by the investigating magistrates of Potenza and Lecce, were carried out against the 45 suspects, for a total value of approximately 50 million euros. The accusations are, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at the commission of fraud on excise duties and VAT on mineral oils, fictitious registration of goods and companies, money laundering, self-laundering and use of money of illicit origin.
The investigation, we read in a note signed by the public prosecutor of Potenza, Francesco Curcio, and by the Lecce counterpart, Leonardo Leone De Castris , "confirmed how big organized crime and national mafias, by now, are financed if not in via exclusive, absolutely prevalent way, in one with drug trafficking, through these illicit smuggling activities which, in actuality, have reached gigantic proportions, which had never been reached in the past ".
In Taranto, investigators discovered, the organization revolved around the figure of Michele Cicala, who has ties to members of the Catapano-Leone clan from Taranto. The group, "using an innovative fraudulent know-how in the hydrocarbon smuggling sector, consolidated its business with that of criminal groups operating for some time in the same sectors with companies that already had their own market". He had thus allied himself with the other group, the one operating in the Vallo di Diano, between Basilicata and Campania.
"Basically - explain the Prosecutors - huge quantities of fuel for agricultural use were sold, which as known benefits from particular tax concessions, to subjects who then placed it on the normal market for transport, very often using the so-called white pumps". In practice, the Taranto group provided the Campania / Lucanian group with the names of agricultural entrepreneurs, unaware of all, to whom the companies fictitiously invoiced the sale of agricultural fuel; in reality the product was sold illegally to other economic operators who then placed it on the market, earning about 50% of the actual cost of each liter of petrol.
The group had also devised a system to prevent agricultural entrepreneurs from discovering the scam: "through computer mechanisms, they deceived the telematic system of the Revenue Agency , which was unable to deliver the electronic invoice to the fictitious customer / farmer apparent recipient of the caraburante who, therefore, remained unaware of the fake sale operation carried out using his name ".
The product came out of the tax warehouses with false documents attesting to the transport of agricultural fuel. In case of control by the police, the group used the same stratagem of the organization unveiled a few days ago in Rome: a pump was activated through a device that injected the dye into the vehicle's tank, changing the color and making it look like the agricultural one. Once it arrived in the commercial depots of the suspects, the truck stopped to simulate the unloading of agricultural fuel and the loading of that for transport, and then left again with false documentation. Once reached the final deposit, the transaction was not registered and therefore the black sale was completed. According to the magistrates, this activity yielded about 30 million euros every year.
On the Lucanian side, the investigations focused on the fuel companies of the Petrullo Group, led by Massimo Petrullo, which in recent years had experienced an exponential increase in turnover and investments. It emerged that the economic boom of the company coincided with the entry into the corporate companies of " members of the well-known Caserta family of Diana (of San Cipriano d'Aversa), who had invested in the company, in hidden form, capital from, with reasonable certainty and in any case at the level of circumstantial gravity, from previous illegal activities, especially in the waste trafficking sector, activities of very significant dimensions in relation to which Camorra boss Raffaele Diana had been challenged at the time by the Public Prosecutor of Naples, the aggravating circumstance of the facilitating purpose of the Casalesi clan ".
Over time, the magistrates point out, the Diana family had assumed a predominant role, so much so that Petrullo, now ousted from control, had tried to secretly agree with the Tarantini and had " even hired a killer to kill Diana, an attempt later abandoned " ; the disagreements had not resulted in a war "only because of the mutual interest in not raising excessive alarms about the illegal activities perpetrated, extremely profitable for both sides".
Among the illegal conducts, also "the participation in a tender for the supply of fuels in favor of the Consortium for the Reclamation of the Tyrrhenian Cosentino Basins, awarded through an irregular agreement, guaranteed by the proximity to a representative of local crime, able to impose itself even in a different territory from that of election. The full involvement in this episode of an employee of the Consortium, now subjected to house arrest, has been confirmed ". Finally, the complicity of a carabiniere was discoveredwho allegedly provided the group with information on the investigation in exchange for some cans of fuel which it then resold; the soldier, after the emergence of the elements against him, had already been transferred to another province in non-operational assignment in November 2019.
The operation follows another one in a few days that was carried out by the Guardia di Finanza between Campania, Lazio and Calabria and which revealed the interests of the Camorra (in particular the Moccia clan) and the 'Ndrangheta in the same sector; in that case the pivotal point of the investigation was the heiress and singer Anna Bettozzi who, according to the accusations, with the funds arrived from the Camorra had raised the fortunes of her company, Max Petroli, and had destabilized the market with a round of false invoicing and fulfillment.
With Camorra clans, are members sworn in with a ceremony, or is it just understood that they're members? How exactly does it work? Does anyone know?
Not on the scale of Cutolo's NCO. Cutolo spent a great amount of time researching the 19th century Camorra and reconstructed the old Camorristic ritual of initiation. He took great care in making the ritual a binding social practise. In his cell, he created a ceremony in which the initiate received the award of the primo regalo (first gift) also called abbraccio (embrace) or fiore (flower). He infused the old Camorristic traditions with Catholicism and reconstituted the ritual of initiation of the traditional Camorra.
Through his book of thoughts and poems, Poesie e pensieri and his many interviews with journalists, Cutolo was able to create a strong sense of identity amongst his members. The book was published in Naples in 1980, but never distributed to the public. The book, containing 235 pages of poems and pictures, was seized by the police and censored as an "apology of a criminal organization." According to the Justice department, this book was viewed by NCO members as the "Bible of the NCO" and was particularly popular in prison, due to Cutolo's own distribution by mail. Even though his book was impounded by magistrates within days of its publication, many prisoners, alienated from society both inside and outside jail, wrote to Cutolo and other NCO leaders asking for a copy. Its possession alone would later be considered incriminating evidence.
Thanks for all of your information Hollander, however I'd still like to know what exactly makes someone a member of a Camorra clan. There has to be something that binds these people together, for instance, how does a couple of freelance criminals get absorbed into a Camorra clan? What exactly constitutes membership? Anyway, thanks for your input, as always.
Thanks for all of your information Hollander, however I'd still like to know what exactly makes someone a member of a Camorra clan. There has to be something that binds these people together, for instance, how does a couple of freelance criminals get absorbed into a Camorra clan? What exactly constitutes membership? Anyway, thanks for your input, as always.
I think what you’re asking has merit but there’s likely no definitive answer. What makes someone a member of the Irish mob? I don’t believe they have any initiation rights. What makes someone a member of Chicago’s splintered GDs? The days of getting jumped in are from the 80s and 90s…
There is no initiation ceremony like in Cosa Nostra or 'Ndrangheta , thats why Camorra clans appear and disappear every few years , people change sides constantly.There are some Camorra clans that are still present and very powerful after decades.But generally Naples is much more chaotic than Sicily or Calabria
There is no initiation ceremony like in Cosa Nostra or 'Ndrangheta , thats why Camorra clans appear and disappear every few years , people change sides constantly.There are some Camorra clans that are still present and very powerful after decades.But generally Naples is much more chaotic than Sicily or Calabria
But there is a stong use of the Catholic code or sacramental practices by affiliates of the Camorra.
Does the money that a Camorra clan make go into a coffer or common fund? These are the type of details that I find the most interesting but are rarely discussed.
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[A]
affiliate
m. 'who joins the organization of the Camorra; who is registered in the organization of the Camorra '
G 55 «for every Sicilian affiliate there are five from Campania».
G 256 "Mario Santoro instead accepted, but with the company of Giuseppe Dell Medaglia, affiliated with the Ranucci clan of Sant'Antimo".
G 266 «A center organized in a villa seized from an affiliate of the Casalesi clan, Egidio Coppola».
it. affiliate 'who is a member of an association, company or sim.'
GRADIT sv affiliate § 2nd word of the common lexicon.
agent
m. 'who deals with commercial affairs on behalf of the Camorra clans'
G 61 "Gala prided himself on his quality as an agent."
G 63 "Pensioners, office workers, small entrepreneurs gave money to some agents who then reinvested it for the purchase of drug consignments."
it. agent 'who deals with business and stipulates contracts on behalf of third parties'
GRADIT sv agent § 2 word of the technical-specialist lexicon dir. comm.
alliance
f. 'federative structure of Camorra clans; union of several Camorra families'
G 50 "the clans belonging to the Secondigliano Alliance were part of the Directory".
it. alliance 'union, coalition between several people, groups or parties, for the achievement of common purposes'
GRADIT sv alliance § 2 word of the highly used lexicon.
ally
m. 'who is bound by an alliance to the Camorra clans'
G 79 "it is necessary to be introduced by affiliates and allies to the clan".
G 93 "Only afterwards will the parties, the allies, the enemies be created around them".
it. ally 'who is united by a covenant pact'
GRADIT sv ally § 2nd word of the common lexicon.
pineapples
m. pl. 'grenades'
G 117 «Nervous, tense, and with a character who had" pineapples "around his neck. The pineapples are the hand grenades that the men of the paranze carry on them ».
G 117 "Pikachu said there was a basket near a window, full of pineapples."
Ferrero s.v. pineapple 'hand grenade with disruptive scales, in the jargon of the Italian-American mafia'.
GRADIT sv ananasso § 1a [from 1980] word of the technical-specialist lexicon arm. 'grenade'.
agency
f. 'economic body made up of the various businesses that a Camorra family deals with'
G 69 "But in Secondigliano the huge Di Lauro company was creaking."
G 55 "Raffaele Cutolo's New Organized Camorra of the 1980s was a sort of huge company, a centralized agglomeration".
G 57 "The companies of the clans have certain regulatory plans, they have infiltrated the ASLs".
G 72 «The Di Lauro clan has always been a perfectly organized enterprise. The boss structured it with a multilevel company design ».
it. company 'group of people and goods organized to achieve an economic goal by carrying out various kinds of activities'
GRADIT sv company § 1 word of the high availability lexicon.
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baby-drug dealer
m. (English + it.) 'child who sells drugs on behalf of the Camorra clans'
G 119 "The groups of baby-drug dealers are fundamental in the flexible economy of the drugstore because they are less conspicuous, they sell drugs between a shot of the ball and a ride on a moped and often go directly to the customer's home"
GRADIT sv baby-drug dealer [from 1989 in “La Repubblica”] word of the common lexicon 'child used to sell drugs because not punishable given his very young age'.
band
f. 'more or less numerous group of people, belonging to a Camorra clan, who form a league to oppose other opposing clan groups'.
G 105 "They say that the Camorra war is between gangs, who kill each other"
Ferrero s.v. band: slang voice band 'brigade, company of friends'
GRADIT sv banda 1 § 3rd word of the lexicon of high use 'organized group of criminals'
fire battery
f. 'group of armed people, affiliated with the Camorra clans, set up for the purpose of committing crimes'
G 213 "his brother Walter coordinated the fire batteries".
G 224 «The Bidognetti have powerful fire batteries».
G. 225 "The batteries of fire were getting ready and the carabinieri were ready to collect the bodies of the slaughter".
Ferrero s.v. battery of fire 'organized group, gang of thieves. The Camorra also uses paranza with the same meaning '
it. battery 'artillery unit consisting of four or more guns and the means and men necessary to make it operational'.
GRADIT s.v. battery word of the technical lexicon - specialist milit.
it. fire 'dense net of gunfire'
GRADIT s.v. fire § 7 word of the common lexicon.
boss
inv. (engl.) 'who exercises ample power of control over the activities of the Camorra and a certain authority over the persons belonging to it.
G 50 «a boss from Secondigliano had been hired in a clothing store».
G 58 "Gennaro Licciardi, ? ? in scigna ?: he was the first boss who brought about the metamorphosis of Secondigliano".
G 267 "The boss directly delivered the vhs of the film to his architect, according to the village."
G 267 "This seems to me to be one of those stories that decorate the rise to power of every boss, an aura that mixes with legend, with real metropolitan myths"
Ferrero sv boxwood 'master; chief, principal, in the jargon of the Italian-Americans of the Center-South; from English boss'
GRADIT s.v. boss [since 1913; from English boss 1822] word of the common lexicon 'leader of a gang of criminals'.
[C]
Camorra
f. 'association of the Neapolitan underworld'
G 48 "Camorra is a non-existent word for a cop".
G 55 "Despite the restructuring of the clans, the Camorra is the largest criminal organization in Europe by number of affiliates".
G 99 "The Camorra of the past is always better than what it is now or what it will be".
G 135 "The Camorra killed more than anyone".
G 136 "From everywhere, all of a sudden the Camorra had returned to exist in the region where it was believed that there were now only gangs and snatchers".
G 159 "But the Camorra is not an independentist organization, an armed nucleus, and its weapons are not its real power."
G 182 "The Camorra has a very long memory and capable of infinite patience".
G 245 "The Camorra today is a form of terrorism that inspires fear, imposes its laws and tries to become an endemic component in Campania society"
D'Ambra sv Camorra 'sect, gang of oppressors, buriassi, thieves, who demand arbitrary bounties and taxes in their name in prisons, soldiers' quarters, gambling houses, and markets with reduced traffic in rural and urban industries'.
Andreoli sv Camorra 'known sect of criminals; the gain or the part of the Camorra '.
Ferrero s.v. camorra 'a secret criminal association founded in Naples, and widespread especially since the nineteenth century'.
D'Ascoli sv camorra 'camorra, a secret association with its own laws, which derives favors and gains from criminal acts; the gain of the Camorra '.
GRADIT s.v. camorra § 1a [since 1861] word of the common lexicon 'criminal organization of a mafia type, established with its own laws and codes already during the 1600s, and which currently exercises control over illegal activities spec. in the Neapolitan area '.
Camorra
m. 'who belongs to the Camorra'
G 96 "if you play the Camorra, here's what happens to you".
G 98 "He will have gone to some Camorra friend, will have been introduced and then will have started to work for Di Lauro"
G 113 "That Camorrista had taken so many that the body was overturned."
G 294 "He had managed to become a man of true power, a Camorra".
Ferrero s.v. camorrista 'a compound of convict, thief, stabber, vagabond and proletarian'.
GRADIT s.v. camorrista [1861] word of the common lexicon 'who belongs to the Camorra'.
charismatic leader
m. 'person who directs, who is placed in command of a Camorra faction'.
G 140 "Amato was the charismatic leader of the Spaniards".
it. boss who directs the business of other people; exercising a directive function, a command, an authority '
GRADIT s.v. chapter § 2nd word of the fundamental lexicon.
charismatic 'based on a strong personal charisma'
GRADIT s.v. charismatic § 2 word of the common lexicon , adj.
square head
m. 'member of the Camorra clan that coordinates and manages drug dealing activities'.
G 73 "The third level is represented by the foremen".
G 149 "The carabinieri intercepted a text message that a girl sent to a very young cop who was arrested during the period of the feud and returned to deal as soon as he got out of jail".
it. piazza 'place where economic, financial or commercial transactions take place'
GRADIT sv piazza § 6th word of the technical-specialist lexicon.
head of the area
m. 'who directs and controls the activities of a specific territory which is under the authority of a Camorra clan'
G 88 "Bizzarro had ceased to be a diligent head of the Di Lauro area".
G 104 "In a wiretapping, Rosario Fusco, accused of being an area leader of the Di Lauro, has a very tense voice and tries to be convincing by addressing his son".
G 207 "Each with its own area manager, each part of the Casalesi network".
GRADIT s.v. capozona [from 1982 in “Il Corriere della Sera”] word of the common lexicon 'who directs the activities, services and sim. in an area, also with reference to organized crime activities'.
candy
f. 'ecstasy tablet'.
G 77 “Heroin, kobret, soft drugs and then pills, what some still call ecstasy when in reality there are one hundred and seventy-nine variants of ecstasy. Here in Secondigliano they are super-sold, they call them X rows, or the token or the candy ».
Ferrero sv candy cocaine; adaptation of an entry from American slang '
it. candy 'large tablet made with variously colored and flavored cooked sugar'
GRADIT s.v. candy § 1 word of the highly used lexicon.
sign
m. ' league, union of several Camorra families'
G 50 «the Camorra cartel that gathered several families».
G 214 "Sandokan became the emblem of the victory of his cartel over the other families".
G 214 «The entire economic power of the family cartel».
G 218 "The largest trial against a criminal cartel by number of defendants and proposed sentences had been completely unknown to the media."
G 260 "He had set up a powerful criminal cartel together with men from the ? ndrangheta and some stragglers from the Cosa Nostra."
it. cartel 'alliance, coalition of groups or organizations pursuing a common goal'.
GRADIT s.v. cartel 1 § 2 [from 1697] word of the common lexicon.
cashier
m. 'who collects, on behalf of a Camorra clan, the sums of money collected by drug dealers'
G 76 "five hundred to the coordinator and cashier of the drug dealers".
G 230 "He was arrested years ago for a Camorra association, accused of being the cashier of the Casalesi clan, the prosecution proposed a sentence of eight years of imprisonment for 416 bis".
it. cashier 'in a bank or company, whoever has the cash delivery and is responsible for it'
GRADIT s.v. high use lexicon word cashier .
cavallaro
m. 'who takes care of the relations of a Camorra family with the outside world, the official spokesperson'.
G 72 «The“ cavallaro ”does not send, Giovanni Cortese the official spokesperson, the one who has always looked after the relations of the Di Lauro family with the outside world».
it. cavallaio 'messenger who delivered on horseback the citations of the courts', dial. and reg. cavallaro .
stumps
m. pl. 'term used by the Camorra to define a type of handcuffs'.
G 143 «Paolo Di Lauro was in jeans and a dark polo shirt. At the foot the Paciotti, the shoes that all the leaders of the clans in these parts wear. The guards freed his wrists by removing the shackles and handcuffs ».
it. stumps ' large wooden tools with which once the feet of prisoners were blocked; chains'
GRADIT s.v. log § 7 word of the common lexicon.
chiachiello
m. (nap.) 'who is not affiliated with the Camorra'.
G 136 «They look at you from the big toe to the forehead to try to weigh your specific weight and guess if you are a chat or a good one . A failure or a Camorrista ».
nap. he chattered 'Weak man, of little spirit. Disabled, inept '( D'Ambra, Andreoli, D'Ascoli sv chiachiello ).
clan
inv. (English) 'closed and exclusive group of people who are part of the organization of the Camorra'.
G 60 "The clan has always been particularly vengeful."
G 72 "The Di Lauro clan has always been a perfectly organized enterprise ".
G 92 "A freedom that of the Di Lauro clan is granted and cannot be expected to possess".
G 48 "The criminal organization coincides directly with the economy, the commercial dialectic is the backbone of the clan".
G 98 "And then if you need to remove the curtains because the carabinieri are catching you, the clan pays you a month in northern Italy or abroad".
GRADIT s.v. clan § 2 [from 1915] word of the highly used lexicon 'restricted group, closed community, with negative nuance, clique, coterie'.
colonel
m. 'higher rank of Camorra affiliates; who is inferior only to the boss regent '.
G 132 "a colonel from Di Lauro, one of those who had turned against him".
it. colonel 'among the senior officers of the army, air force and armed forces of the state, the intermediate rank between ten. colon. and the general '
GRADIT sv word colonel of the technical-specialist lexicon, milit.
commando
inv. (engl.) 'group of armed people, belonging to Camorra clans , who act by surprise for criminal purposes'
G 225 "Then the commando had chased them in the street and started firing about ten shots."
it. commando 'assault patrol specializing in surprise actions'
GRADIT s.v. commando word of the common lexicon.
appears
m. 'householder or affiliate of the Camorra'.
G 273 "the term used to indicate a householder or an affiliate has always been appear".
G 46 "While we were eating he got up to go and greet some of his friends."
it. appears 'partner, accomplice in dishonest or unclean actions'.
GRADIT s.v. appears § 2 [from the 13th century] word of the common lexicon.
Nap. 'those who hold baptism or confirmation, but also godchildren, relatives ” D'Ambra, Andreoli, D'Ascoli.
confederation
f. 'union of Camorra families aimed at forming a Camorra cartel'
G 158 "it was the Moccia family of the great confederation who took it upon themselves to silence him forever".
G 211 "At the beginning of the 1980s Cicciotto di Mezzanotte and Sandokan were military managers, but also entrepreneurs with interests in every field, had by now matured the possibility of directing the enormous multicephalon of the confederation".
G 213 "After this death there was a split between all the families of the Casalesi confederation".
it. confederation 'national or international association between entities and organizations'
GRADIT s.v. confederation § 3 word of the common lexicon.
consortium
m. 'association of people, linked to a Camorra clan, set up to control and coordinate economic activities and contracts in their area of ??competence'
G 288 "it emerged from the ordinance that the consortium earned large sums from extortion"
it. consortium 'association of several subjects, set up to coordinate and regulate common activities, spec. economic and financial '
GRADIT s.v. consortium § 2 word of the technical - specialist economic lexicon.
smuggling
m. 'illegal activity consisting in importing or exporting goods in violation of customs laws'
G 24 "smuggling triggered the Camorra war of the early 1980s"
GRADIT s.v. smuggling § 1 [from 1291] word of the highly used lexicon 'illicit activity consisting in importing, exporting or circulating in the territory of a state goods that are prohibited or subject to tax'.
nickname
m. (nap.) 'nickname, which can be inherited from the ancestors or born on the basis of particular physical traits, with which the Camorra boss is identified
G 67 "Almost all bosses have a nickname: it is absolutely the unique, identifying trait."
G 65 "But the anthology of the contronomi is infinite".
coordinator
m. 'who coordinates the drug dealing square'
G.77 "the coordinator of the square is able, listening to them all hands-free with the map in front of him, to have under his eyes in real time the movements of the police and the movements of customers"
it. coordinator 'who, who coordinates'
GRADIT s.v. word coordinator of the common common lexicon.
Courier service
m. 'who receives the assignment, by the Camorra clans, to transport drugs from one city to another'
G 31 "Many work as couriers".
G 169 "The Giuliano then, even if with the stigma of infamy, continued to be the only ones able to maintain relations with the large drug traffickers and impose the law of protection"
it. courier 'person in charge of the transport of correspondence, dispatches and sim.'
GRADIT sv courier word of the common lexicon.
[D]
dolphin
m. 'who, being the boss's favorite, is destined to succeed him'
G 70 "It is said that Gennaro Marino, known as Mckay, the dolphin of Paolo Di Lauro, went to the hospital where the dying boy was, to comfort the boss".
G 70 "The boss had noticed the will of his dolphin to become independent but he wanted to forgive him"
it. dolphin 'designated or probable successor of an important personage'
GRADIT s.v. dolphin 2 [from 1958] word of the common lexicon.
employee
m. 'person who, for the work he does, depends on the authority of a Camorra clan; it is said of the entrepreneur who is subject to a Camorra group and who receives a salary from the latter '
G 88 "No longer free autonomous levels within a multilevel company, but employees"
it. employee 'employee'
GRADIT s.v. dependent § 4 word of the highly used lexicon.
directory
m. 'economic, financial and operational structure composed of entrepreneurs and bosses representing various Camorra families in the north of Naples'
G 49 "Everything was coordinated and managed by the Directory".
G 50 "The Directory - like the collegiate body of the French Thermidor - represented the real power of the organization more than the fire batteries and the military sectors".
it. Directory 'committee consisting of five members which exercised executive power in France between 1795 and 1799'
GRADIT s.v. Directory § 1st word of the technical-specialist, historical lexicon.
manager
m. 'who directs, who is at the top of a Camorra clan and is in charge of drug trafficking and dealing activities'
G. 71 "They wanted to meet Paolo, the father, the top manager, the top management, the first contact person of the association".
G 86 "the manager of the Spanish squares, a manager of the second level of the clan, had fled to Barcelona with the money from the Di Lauro bank".
G 102 "In via Fratelli Cervi, on the thirteenth floor of the building, all the leaders of the splinters still in the area had gathered".
G 143 "At the feet the Paciotti, the shoes that all the leaders of the clans in these parts wear ".
G 157 "A historical figure of Camorra leader is certainly Anna Mazza".
it. executive 'who has managerial functions in a specific sector or for certain services'
GRADIT s.v. executive § 3 word of the common lexicon.
dissociation
f. 'the action and effect of the dissociation of the militants in the armed organizations, who dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors'
G 159 «Anna Mazza intervened who sensed that the time had come for a new strategy. Propose dissociation ».
G 159 "Dissociation could have been the solution to the lethal power of the repentant, which although full of contradictions is the real fulcrum of the attack on the power of the Camorra". 'it. dissociation 'dissociation, dissociation and their result'
GRADIT s.v. dissociation § 1 word of the common lexicon.
[E]
performer
m. 'who, within a Camorra clan, has the task of materially carrying out a crime commissioned by a principal'
G 159 "The militants of the armed organizations dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors".
G 116 "According to the investigations, the perpetrators had also returned to the scene of the crime".
it. executor 'one who performs, who puts into practice a task assigned to him by someone else'
GRADIT s.v. executor § 1 word of the common lexicon.
extortion
f. 'act by which the Camorra clans, through violence or threats, obtain sums of money' (tot. 6).
G 60 "The System had also succeeded in transforming the classic extortion and usury logic".
G 216 "He was wanted for ten murders, three kidnappings, nine assassination attempts and numerous violations of the laws relating to weapons, as well as extortion".
G 288 "From the ordinance it emerged that the criminal consortium earned large sums of money through extortion".
GRADIT s.v. extortion word of the technical-specialist, legal lexicon. 'crime of whoever obtains a profit or an advantage from others through violence or threats'.
extortionist
m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, has the task of collecting sums of money through violence or threats'.
G 237 "After you have a career as a killer, as an extortionist or as a stake, you end up in construction or collecting garbage."
f. 'struggle between Camorra groups for the purpose of revenge or for the conquest of power'.
G 95 "To follow the feud I was able to get a radio capable of tuning into the police frequencies."
G 104 "But the arrest of the group of the Spaniards was not able to stop the haemorrhage of the feud".
G 163 "not just a clash between factions, but a family feud that over the years has registered about forty ferocious ambushes that sow mourning between the two contending nuclei".
G 255 "Quadrano inserted the murder into the feud that was taking place between his group and the Schiavone".
GRADIT s.v. feud §2 [from 1750] word of the common lexicon 'fight between two families of organized crime, typical of the mafia, the camorra and the' ndrangheta, practiced with the elimination of the members of one or the other, for reasons of revenge , of supremacy, of control of the territory or of illegal activities'.
Falcon
m. 'who, in an organization or association, takes uncompromising or aggressive positions'.
G 223 «Some repentants had even reported ambush attempts by the organization's“ hawks ”against the senator».
it. hawk 'spec. in international disputes, supporter of the drastic and uncompromising line '
GRADIT sv falco § 3 [from 1966] word of the technical-specialist political lexicon.
family
f. 'group of people, united for criminal purposes, made up of members of the same family'
G 249 "The Camorra calls a clan organized for criminal purposes a" family "".
G 146 "The family where Paolo Di Lauro had taken his first steps".
G 55 "Then came the New Family of Carmine Alfieri and Antonio Bardellino, structured in a federative manner with economically autonomous families united by joint operational interests".
G 58 "The Licciardi family had transformed a place that was a reservoir of laborers into a drug trafficking machine".
G 62 «The Nuvolettas are the only family outside Sicily who sit in the dome of the Cosa Nostra».
G 158 "It was the Moccia family of the great confederation who took it upon themselves to silence him forever."
Ferrero s.v. family 'coterie, first degree of the mafia association. It is almost always made up of relatives and similar to the same family, or in any case by "friends" linked to it '.
GRADIT s.v. family § 5 [from the 2nd half of the 13th century] word of the fundamental slang lexicon 'in mafia jargon, grouping immediately below the clan'.
faction
f. 'group of Camorra, particularly sectarian, which is in struggle with another Camorra grouping'.
G 258 "Both factions, although not knowing each other's intentions, had reached the same solution".
it. faction 'group, party spec. characterized by intolerance and sectarianism '
GRADIT s.v. faction § 1 word of the common lexicon.
iron
m. 'pistol'
G 121 «More and more often everything that the kids of the System want they try to obtain with the“ iron ”, as they call the gun».
G 123 "They had armed them, they had given them an iron, a pistol, and a very limited territory in which to work."
Ferrero sv ferro 'the revolver, firearm, iron par excellence. This rumor is widespread and used above all in the central-southern regions, and in the jargon of the Italian-American mafia '.
supporter
m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, supports and favors the activities of the clan itself'
G 59 "Not far away, in Portogruaro, Vincenzo Pernice, Pietro Licciardi's brother-in-law was arrested and with him some supporters of the clan".
G 74 "The whole economic and financial structure has its own military team: a ferocious group of fire and a capillary network of supporters".
it. supporter 'who supports, favors in a disguised way, the action of subversive or clandestine political groups'
GRADIT s.v. supporter word of the common lexicon.
appearing
m. 'who, in certain Camorra actions, pretends not to be part of the organization and intervenes only in case of need'.
G 254 "Nunzio De Falco was waiting for them, not in his villa in Santa Fe, but in a restaurant where most of the customers were probably appearing ready to intervene in case the policemen had committed any imprudence".
it. appearing 'appearance'
GRADIT s.v. appearing § 2 word of the common lexicon.
production chain
f. 'area in which the distribution of goods that are under the control of the Camorra clans is articulated'.
G 49 "The Secondiglianesi clans had created a commercial network spread all over the world, capable of purchasing entire chains of shops and thus dominating the clothing market".
franchising
inv. (engl.) 'system by which a Camorra boss gives his trusted man the right to exploit, under certain conditions and upon payment of a fixed sum, one of the drug dealing squares'.
G 80 «Not just a referent; the boss Paolo Di Lauro, who esteems his management, has given him the place in franchising ».
franchising 'contract whereby one company grants its products and the right to use its own brand to another company, upon payment of a fee'
GRADIT sv franchising (1975) word of the commercial specialist technical lexicon.
[G]
GAD
Inv. 'Abbreviation of the anti-drug group that the Camorra clan of Mondragone has set up to prevent drug dealing in Mondragone and on the Domitian coast'.
G 299 "The clan created a group with a lot of formal claims to the police switchboards, an acronym: the GAD, the anti-drug group."
G 299 "If they caught you with a joint in your mouth they broke your nasal septum, if any wife discovered a sachet of coke, it was enough to let someone from the GAD get a voice that would make them stop wanting to kick and punch in the face and forbidding petrol stations to refuel to get to Rome ».
token
m. tablet of ecstasy!
G 77 “Heroin, kobret, soft drugs and then pills, what some still call ecstasy when in reality there are one hundred and seventy-nine variants of ecstasy. Here in Secondigliano they are super-sold, they call them X rows, or the token or the candy ».
m .: cfr. candy, X file.
it. small metal disc token , corresponding to a certain monetary value, used for the operation of automatic machines'
GRADIT s.v. high use lexicon word token .
gregarious
m. 'who is part of a Camorra clan without a rank and without any managerial function; who depends in everything on the boss'.
G 218 "Many leaders and followers of the Casalesi clan had ended up in twenty years of power and aide."
G 280 "generalissimo of a clan among the most powerful in Europe in which he entered as a wingman".
G 93 "one, two ambushes a day, first the wingmen of the two clans, then the relatives, the burning of houses, the beatings, the suspects".
G 91 "The De Lucia, Giovanni Cortese, Enrico D'Avanzo and a large group of followers remain faithful to Di Lauro."
it. gregarious 'in a community, in an organization, member with no managerial duties or responsibilities'.
GRADIT s.v. gregarious § 2 word of the common lexicon.
guaglione
m. (nap.) 'boy'; term of the Neapolitan dialect with which the affiliates of the Camorra call the children who are recruited, with various tasks, within the Camorra organization '
G 92 «They are all Guaglioni ... all Guaglioni ... now I will show you what he does that».
G 103 "And then nothing and no one could have prevented Gennaro Marino from having a dacha built in the heart of Secondigliano, a symbol of the strength of his business and even more a promise of success for his boys who, if they knew how to behave, sooner or later they could reach that luxury, even on the outskirts of Naples, even in the darkest edge of the Mediterranean ».
Andreoli sv guaglione 'child, boy - for boy destined for small shop services, delivery boy; street boy, brat '.
D'Ascoli sv guaglione 'boy, young boy'.
GRADIT s.v. guaglione [from 1857] word of the dialectal lexicon, napol. 'boy'.
guappo
m. (nap.) 'Camorra; term of the Neapolitan dialect with which the affiliate of the Camorra was originally called.
G 273 "The new generations of bosses do not have an exquisitely criminal path, they do not spend their days on the street with the local guappo as a reference, they do not have a knife in their pocket or scars on their faces".
D'Ambra sv guappo 'good, valiant, smargiasso'.
D'Ascoli sv guappo 'Camorra, bravaccio, bully; valiant, of good quality, excellent '.
Ferrero s.v. guappo 'bravaccio, bully, man who is on the way to becoming a Camorra'.
GRADIT s.v. guappo § 1a [from 1651] word of the dialectal lexicon, napol. 'Camorra, bravaccio, hooligan'.
bodyguards
m. and f. 'who is responsible for the protection of the Camorra boss; the boss' bodyguard.
G 74 "Giuseppe Prezioso, Cosimo's personal bodyguard".
G 160 "Women the executives, women their bodyguards, women the entrepreneurs of the clan".
G 161 "His bodyguards were two girls."
G 274 "The shoulder guards of the boss women are dressed like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill : blond bob and phosphorescent yellow jumpsuits".
G 276 "Romeo was his bodyguard, the part of the right arm, the faithful man".
GRADIT s.v. shoulder guard § 1 [from 1631] word of the lexicon of low use 'bodyguard'.
Camorra war
f. 'situation of armed conflict between two or more Camorra factions'
G 96 "Since the Camorra war broke out, many have stopped putting limits on their tolerance."
G 105 "They say that the Camorra war is between gangs, who kill each other".
G 106 "In the wars of the Camorra the Red Cross is not recognized, no clan has signed the Geneva Treaty".
G 139 "The wars of the Camorra put the countries dominated by families on the map, the Campania hinterland, the lands of the bone, territories that some call the Far West of Italy, which a violent legend claims richer in machine guns than in Forks".
fire group
m. 'armed group of a Camorra clan'
G 110 "The firing groups call them paranze".
see paranza
[H]
holding
inv. (eng.). 'Camorra clan that controls and manages the drug dealing activity of a group of clans'.
G 72 "The largest drug trafficking holding company, one of the strongest nationally and internationally, is about to go through the deadliest of crises, after decades of perfect functioning."
holding 'parent company; financial company that controls one or more banks'
G. 210 "Entrepreneurs. This is how the Camorra members of Caserta define themselves: nothing but entrepreneurs ».
G 230 "Passarelli was the absolute entrepreneur, the number one, the closest, the most trusted".
2. entrepreneur of the clan , of the system , of the Camorra : m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, carries out an organized economic activity for the purpose of producing or exchanging goods, especially drugs, or services'.
G 87 "No more consortium entrepreneurs, free to decide the amount of money to invest, the qualities and types of drugs to be placed on the market".
G 108 "The entrepreneurs of the clans are the only ones who have an exponential advantage".
G 127 «Cosimo clearly represents the new entrepreneur of the system».
G 127 «The bosses, the Camorra entrepreneurs would repeat the same».
G 205 "In exchange, companies , businesses , shops , farms , farms were bought by the entrepreneurs of the clan at an excellent price and the Italian company spread over half of Serbia".
G 295 "Augusto had imposed a name on the board of directors of the clinic, the name of one of his daughters who was also an entrepreneur of the clan, enriched himself with the management of a landfill".
it. entrepreneur 'whoever starts and professionally exercises an economic activity for the production or distribution of goods or services'
GRADIT sv entrepreneur § 1 word of the common lexicon.
[L]
leader
inv. (english). 'absolute leader of a Camorra group'.
G 210 "The new leaders, the new wars, everything had happened after the explosion of the Bardellino clan, origin of the entrepreneurial power of the Camorra in these lands".
G 212 "Sandokan had to show all the bosses that he was the heir, that by right of ferocity he was the new leader of the Casalesi."
G 283 "The psychoanalyst boss Augusto La Torre was one of Antonio Bardellino's favorites: as a boy he took the place of his father becoming the absolute leader of the ? Chiuovi ? clan, as they called them in Mondragone".
leader , leader of a party, of a group, spec. an organization '
GRADIT s.v. leader § 1 word of the common lexicon.
legionnaire
m. 'who belongs to the group of the most trusted men of the Camorra boss'.
G 300 "Behind him, all his legionaries, the Camorra legionaries, had to stand behind his every action."
G 301 "The legionaries would have done everything for Augusto: even when the boss repented, they followed him".
it. legionary 'soldier belonging to military bodies spec. volunteers'
GRADIT s.v. legionary § 3 word of the technical-specialist, military lexicon.
level
m. 'one of the floors into which the Camorra system can be divided, with reference to the position of the Camorra employee for the purpose of determining the salary'.
G 73 "The organization is made up of a first level of promoters and financiers, made up of the leaders of the clan".
G 73 "The second level includes those who physically deal with drugs".
G 73 "The third level is represented by the foremen".
G 73 "The fourth level, the most exposed, is made up of drug dealers".
G 88 "No longer free autonomous levels within a multilevel company, but employees".
it. level 'position held in a civil or military hierarchy'
GRADIT sv level § 3 word of the fundamental lexicon.
lieutenant
m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, has a subordinate rank to that of the boss and takes his place, if necessary'.
G 58 "Licciardi, at the end of the 1980s, was lieutenant in Secondigliano of Luigi Giuliano, the boss of Forcella, in the heart of Naples".
G 64 "Paolo Di Lauro came from the school of the Maranese, his criminal career began as their lieutenant".
G 140 "Before the policemen in balaclavas hit him with his face on the ground, Raffaele Amato had already had a setback: when he was arrested in a hotel in Casandrino together with another lieutenant of the group and a large Albanian trafficker".
it. lieutenant 'officer who takes the place of a superior'
GRADIT s.v. lieutenant § 2 word of the technical-specialist, military lexicon.
[M]
warehouse
m. 'sorting center for men and goods where clan agents go to pick up goods to be distributed to clan shops or other merchants'.
G 52 «The distribution mechanism that the Directory implemented was that of the warehouses. So they called them in the telephone interceptions: they are real sorting centers for men and goods ».
G 52 "The warehouses were the center of the commercial area where the agents arrived who took the goods to be distributed to the clan shops or other retailers".
it. warehouse 'room or set of rooms, spec. annexed to homes, rural buildings, industrial and similar plants, used for the shelter, storage and conservation of goods and various materials
GRADIT s.v. warehouse § 1st word of the highly used lexicon.
principal
m. 'he who, within the Camorra clan, charges others with the execution of a crime'.
G 157 "She was accused immediately after the death of her husband of having armed the hand of her son not yet thirteen to kill the instigator of the murder of her father".
G 159 "The militants of the armed organizations dissociated without repenting, without revealing names and accusing principals and executors".
GRADIT s.v. mandator § 2 word of the common lexicon 'whoever instructs another to commit a crime'.
labor
f. 'the set of those who, in the Camorra organization, have the task of materially carrying out a crime, as opposed to the leaders or principals who planned and organized it'.
G 31 "Parco Verde is a mine for Camorra laborers".
G 31 "Here all those who want to collect the lowest levers, the labor to be paid even less than the Nigerian or Albanian pusher".
G 32 "He would not have made Parco Verde an emergency tank from which to always draw labor at a very low price".
G 58 "The Licciardi family had transformed a place that was only a reservoir of laborers into a machine for drug trafficking: into international criminal entrepreneurship".
GRADIT s.v. manpower § 2 [from 1937] word of the common lexicon
'in an organization, the set of those who carry out simple executive tasks: the labor of crime'.
brick
m. 'hashish ingot'.
G 122 "In the system I take three hundred euros a week, but if I sell well I also get a percentage on each brick (the hashish ingot) and I can get to three hundred and fifty-four hundred euros"
it. brick ' brick product used as building construction material'
GRADIT s.v. brick § 1 word of the high use lexicon.
mazziatone
m. (nap.) 'physical assault for punitive purposes; call to order for those who do not abide by the rules of the Camorra '.
G 225 "After the mazziatone he had to run to the hospital to have his head sutured."
G 278 "The bosses want to speak directly with them, the clan can no longer bear these attitudes in the country, the paternalistic tolerance, usual in these territories, changes into a duty of punishment, and so they must have a ? mazziatone ?, a violent spanking publishes to make them go straight ".
m. 'person who, within the Camorra clan, carries out mediation activities in the stipulation of a contract; which contributes to reaching an agreement '
G 51 "The American shopkeepers, the owners of the shopping centers wanted to deal exclusively with Secondiglianese mediators".
G 63 "There were no guarantees beyond the word of the mediators, but the investment was systematically profitable".
G 317 "Graduates, good looking, they became mediators after a few years spent in the US or England to specialize in environmental policies".
it. mediator 'whoever mediates or intervenes between two or more parties to facilitate the reaching of an agreement'
GRADIT s.v. mediator § 1st word of the common lexicon.
mesata
f. 'monthly salary that the clans give to the families of the affiliates who are in prison'.
G 153 «The mesata. This is the girl's first success ».
G 153 "The mesata is the monthly salary that the clans give to the families of the members".
G 153 "When engaged, the month is passed on to the fiancée even if it is better, to be sure of reversibility, to be pregnant".
G 154 "Almost always together with the month they also bring a little expense"
nap. mesata 'pay of a month, mesata' Andreoli, D'Ascoli sv mesata .
it. mesata 'pay, monthly salary'
GRADIT s.v. mesata § 2 [from 1500] word of the common lexicon.
[N]
drug trafficking
m. 'illicit international drug trade'.
G 54 "In many cases the paths of drug trafficking also moved through the channels of the sale of clothes".
G 63 "The Nuvolettas, federated with the Nettuno and Polverino subclans, had also renewed the investment mechanism of drug trafficking, creating a real popular cocaine shareholding system".
G 73 "The Di Lauro clan bills five hundred thousand euros a day only through drug trafficking."
G 290 "Rome, for all the entrepreneurial-Camorra families of Caserta, is the first point of reference for drug trafficking and investment in real estate".
GRADIT s.v. drug trafficking [since 1986] word of the common lexicon 'in journalistic language, drug trafficking at an international level'.
[P]
pole
m. 'who has the task of supervising the property and activities of the Camorra clans and controlling the territories of drug dealing to warn of any intervention by the police'.
G 31 "And then drivers and poles, to garrison territories even kilometers away from their home".
G 77 "Before their management as plaza organizers, the poles only protected the hustlers from arrests and identifications."
G 77 "Di Lauro, on the other hand, set up poles to protect buyers as well, so that anyone could safely access the squares managed by his men".
G 120 "The presence of ? poles ? is also fundamental in the roofing of construction sites".
G 272 «If some stake of the clan that still guarded the villa had surprised me, they would have given me blows and I could have even screamed like a slaughtered pig; no one would have heard. '
Ferrero s.v .: slang voice 'accomplice who stands guard, ready to give the alarm with an agreed signal in case of danger'
nap. pole 'pole; accomplice in a theft who has the task of fixing himself in a given place to spy on ' D'Ascoli sv
it. pole 'person who watches while the accomplices are carrying out a theft, a robbery and the like.'
GRADIT s.v. pole § 2 word of the common lexicon, slang.
paranza
f. (nap.) 'group of five armed people, belonging to a Camorra clan, who hide in safe houses and are called only for the purpose of killing'.
G 110 "The firing groups call them paranze".
G 111 "Before organizing themselves in paranze they immediately begin to strike".
G 117 "In the house where an entire paranza was hidden".
G 117 "Pikachu spoke quickly, gesticulating loudly and drawing positions, movements of the members of the paranza".
Nap. paranza 'equal quantity of men and things, like a four, an eight. Said of men. Hand, brigade, squad ' D'Ambra sv
Ferrero s.v .: 'classic unit of measurement of the Neapolitan Camorra: group of thieves, pickpockets and scammers who work as a team'
GRADIT s.v. paranza § 2 word of the common slang lexicon 'in the jargon of the Neapolitan Camorra, group of Camorristi'.
See fire group
drug match
f. 'large amount of drugs bought or sold in bulk'
G 55 "Dozens of police operations in recent years have shown that both the Sicilian mafia and the ? ndrangheta have needed to mediate with the Neapolitan clans for the purchase of large batches of drugs".
G 63 "Pensioners, office workers, small entrepreneurs gave money to some agents who then reinvested it for the purchase of drug consignments."
G 87 "The stakes are the investments that every manager makes in buying a lot of drugs".
G 210 "The strength of the Casalesi cartel has always been that of dealing with large batches of drugs without the need to feed an internal market."
GRADIT s.v. lot § 2 word of the technical-specialist commercial lexicon 'quantity of homogeneous goods that are bought or sold in bulk'.
repented
m. 'belonging to the criminal organization of the Camorra which declares its willingness to collaborate with justice in order to obtain a reduction of the sentence'
G 65 «The repentant Gaetano Conte was one of the first to reveal the organization chart. A repentant with a particularly interesting story. "
G 71 "And so - according to the declarations of the repentant Pietro Esposito - they sent the message to Cosimo Di Lauro, the regent of the cartel".
G 117 «What the repentant Pietro Esposito known as“ Kojak ”tells us does not seem to be a legend».
G 211 "As the repentant Carmine Schiavone tells us, the two bosses pressed Antonio Bardellino to return him to Italy and push him to eliminate Mimì Iovine".
G 223 «Some repentants had even reported ambush attempts by the organization's“ hawks ”against the senator».
GRADIT s.v. repentant § 1 word of the common lexicon 'accused of crimes of terrorism or belonging to organized crime who undertakes to collaborate with justice by providing useful information for investigations, to enjoy the particular benefits provided by law, spec. relating to the reduction of the sentence '.
piece
m. 'homocide'.
G 118 «But what struck me most was the term“ piece ”. Piece was the new way to define a murder ».
G 118 «“ Making a piece ”: an expression borrowed from piecework, the killing of a man equated to the manufacture of a thing, no matter what. A piece.".
G 118 "Even when Pikachu spoke of the dead in the Secondigliano war, he spoke of the pieces made by the Di Lauro and the pieces made by the splinters."
it. piece 'object that is part of a series of similar others'
( GRADIT s.v. piece 1 § 1st word of the fundamental lexicon).
shop square
f. 'area where drugs are sold'.
G 64 "His project was to be able to coordinate the shopping plazas with the same logic with which he had managed the chain stores and jacket factories".
G 75 "The drugstore squares have always fascinated me for the perfect organization that contradicts a reading of pure decay".
G 76 "Everyone has a day off and if they show up late on the drugstore square for every hour they are subtracted fifty euros from their weekly wages".
G 81 "The organization of the shopping plazas could have taken place in Posillipo, in Parioli, in Brera, but it took place in Secondigliano".
G 305 "Vague resemblance to Stallone, body pumped up in the gym, he was putting up a shop that soon would have led him to be an important reference, and shortly thereafter he could kick the old bosses now with a shattered charisma after repentance ".
it. piazza 'place where economic, financial or commercial transactions take place'
GRADIT s.v. piazza § 6th word of the technical-specialist commercial lexicon.
it. shop 'putting into circulation, marketing of substances, of products prohibited by law'
GRADIT s.v. shop § 2 word of the highly used lexicon .
protection payment
m. 'form of bribe extorted from shopkeepers and entrepreneurs by mafia and camorra organizations'.
G 227 "The Casalesi used to impose protection money on entrepreneurs from Campania in the north, now they manage the market directly".
Ferrero s.v. cut off the mafia bribe; the payment of a bounty on any commercial, industrial and professional activity '.
GRADIT s.v. lace § 5 word of the common slang lexicon. 'sum extorted from mafia organizations, especially from traders and entrepreneurs'.
figurehead
m. 'who, allied to a Camorra clan, allows the use of their name to sign contracts for the purchase of assets in place of the boss whose name remains unknown'.
G.50 «In reality, the shop, owned by a figurehead, was his property. Following this trail, the entire production and commercial network of the Secondiglianesi clans emerged ».
G 63 "The profits from drug trafficking were then reinvested, through some nominees, in the purchase of apartments, hotels, shares in service companies, private schools and even art galleries".
G 215 "The milk companies were registered in the name of nominees who acted on behalf of the Casalesi".
it. figurehead 'someone who apparently participates in a business in his own name and on his own account while in reality he acts on behalf of another who cannot or does not want to appear'
GRADIT s.v. figurehead word of the common lexicon.
stinging
f. 'ritual of affiliation to the Camorra, consisting in pricking the aspirant's right fingertip with a pin'.
G 247 «In San Cipriano d'Aversa Antonio Bardellino still affiliated with the ritual of pricking, also used by the Cosa Nostra: a modality that belonged to rituals that have gradually disappeared. The aspirant's right finger was pricked with a pin and the blood dripped onto the image of the Madonna of Pompeii. Then this was burned on a candle and passed from hand to hand to all the leaders of the clan who were standing around the perimeter of a table. If all the affiliates kissed the Madonna, the newly introduced officially became part of the clan ».
it. sting 'superficial wound caused by the penetration into the skin of a thin and sharp object, by a sting and the like.'
GRADIT s.v. stinging § 1 word of the high availability lexicon.
bet
f. 'investment that every leader of a Camorra clan makes in buying a drug lot with the clan's capital'
G 87 "The bets had been made with the Di Lauro capital, but a large part of the profit that had to be shared had been withheld".
G 87 "The stakes are the investments that each executive makes in buying a drug lot with the Di Lauro capital".
G 87 «Bet. The name derives from the irregular and hyper-liberal economy of coca and tablets for which there is no element of certainty and caliber. Even in this case, the bet is like on a roulette wheel ».
G 140 "Amato had become an important executive since he mediated on drug trafficking and managed investment bets."
it. bet 'to risk a certain sum in a game of chance or, even, a bet relating to any event; the amount of money wagered '
GRADIT s.v. bullet § 5 word of the common lexicon.
pusher
inv. (English). drug dealer; who, within the Camorra clan, has the task of selling drugs'
G 76 "And then new pushers are being deployed in this area from other squares."
G 76 "For an arrested pusher, another is warned and will be found on the spot".
G 76 «Here the hustlers are all very young guys».
G 79 "No pusher in acetate suit crashed into the corners of the squares for whole days defended by the goalposts".
Ferrero s.v. pusher 'big drug dealer. It is a voice imported from Anglo-American slang, where it literally means "the one who pushes".
inv. (English) 'criminal activity of the Camorra, consisting in imposing, with violence, control and extortion on commercial, entrepreneurial and professional activities'.
G 61 "The Nuvolettas of Marano, a suburb north of Naples, had triggered a more complex and efficient racketeering mechanism based on mutual benefit and the imposition of supplies".
G 62 "The companies represented by Gala claimed to have been victims of the racket of the Camorra, to have suffered the diktat of the clans".
G 215 "The new Casalese Camorra bourgeoisie has transformed the extortion relationship into a sort of additional service, the racketeering into a participation in the Camorra company."
G 215 «The racket as an imposed purchase of services. This new conception of the racket emerges from a 2004 investigation by the Caserta Police Headquarters which ended with the arrest of eighteen people ”.
GRADIT sv racket dall'ingl., Word of the common lexicon [from 1959] 'criminal organization that controls certain sectors of economic activity, extorting money by intimidation'.
System guy
G 124 "The waiters in the pizzeria were the same age as the System boys and looked at them in admiration, without even having the courage to serve them".
1. System kid 'very young affiliated with the Camorra organization'.
G 118 "Pikachu loved him, he described him as a sort of boss, he was a reference among the System kids because he had the task of feeding fugitives and, according to him, shopping directly to the Di Lauro family".
G 121 "More and more often everything that the System kids want they try to get with the" iron ", as they call the gun, and the desire for a cellphone or a stereo, a car or a moped, easily turns into murder. "
G 121 "Pikachu and Kit Kat took me to Nello, a pizza chef from the area who was in charge of feeding the System kids when they finished their shift."
G. 129 «The System kids had even begun to call them 'talking dead'».
GRADIT s.v. boy § 1b word of the fundamental lexicon.
See system
ras
m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, possesses a strong but not total authority and is a subordinate of the boss, while exercising his power locally'.
G 88 "Bizzarro was the Ras of Melito".
G 88 "Ras is an expression that intends to define who possesses a strong but not total authority, while still subject to the boss, at the highest office".
GRADIT s.v. ras § 2 [from 1885] word of the common lexicon fig. 'leader of the underworld who exercises his power locally'.
referent
m. 'person who is a point of reference for the Camorra clan within a given territory'.
G 71 "They wanted to meet Paolo, the father, the top manager, the top management, the first contact person of the association".
G 80 «According to the investigations, Gennaro Marino Mckay made this square so convenient. He is the clan referent in this territory ».
it. referent 'in journalistic or political language, person or thing that constitutes or can constitute a point of reference'
GRADIT s.v. referent § 2 word of the common lexicon.
regent
m. 'who, within the Camorra clan, exercises power in the absence of the boss; it is usually said of the boss's son who takes the place of the fugitive or inmate father '.
G 71 "And so - according to the declarations of the repentant Pietro Esposito - they sent the message to Cosimo Di Lauro, the regent of the cartel".
G 124 «Cosimo Di Lauro has been arrested. The regent of the clan, the leader of the slaughter, according to the accusations of the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor of Naples, the commander of the clan according to the repentants ».
G 125 "The war did not allow the villa to be completed, to be filled with furniture and paintings, to become the regent's palace, the golden heart of the rotting body of the Secondigliano building".
G 298 "According to the investigations, it was the regent of the clan, Giuseppe Fragnoli, who wanted to eliminate him. Without even asking for authorization, he decided to get rid of the bad tongue that was so tarnishing the image of the boss."
Ferrero s.v. regent 'substitute for a householder, in the jargon of the new mafia'.
it. regent 'who temporarily holds an office or a public office, replacing the absent or missing holder'
GRADIT s.v. regent § 4 word of the common lexicon.
[S]
split
f. 'division of a Camorra group into two or more new groups, due to differences that have arisen on the principles, methods, purposes or for the conquest of independence and power in a specific territory'.
G 86 «In reality he had not paid his share to the clan thus showing that he no longer had any kind of subjection with those who wanted to pay him. He had formalized the split ».
G 88 "When the Secondiglianese fire groups began to show their military strength, the split had not yet taken place."
G 92 "In 1992 the old management team resolved the split of Antonio Rocco, head of the Mugnano area, at the Fulmine bar, entering armed with machine guns and hand grenades".
G 97 "If someone goes unpunished it is too great a risk that legitimizes the possibility of betrayal, new hypotheses of splits".
it. splitting 'division of a group resulting from a political, social or private conflict'
GRADIT s.v. splitting § 1b word of the common lexicon.
splinter
m. 'those who join a splinter movement within a Camorra clan; this is the name given to the men of the Di Lauro clan who have strayed from it '.
G 86 «In Andalusia the Casalesi del Caserta, on the islands the Nuvoletta di Marano, and in Barcelona the ? splinters ?. This is the name that someone begins to give to the Di Lauro men who have gone away ».
G 94 "On October 30, 2004 they presented themselves at Salvatore de Magistris's house: a sixty-year-old man who married the mother of Biagio Esposito, a splinter, a Spaniard".
G 101 "The very young splinter is terrified that the Di Lauros may blame her, but he reassures her by saying that he had many girls, so no one can associate Anna with him."
G 111 "On 15 January they shoot Carmela Actress, mother of the splinter Francesco Barone, '? o Russo', indicated in the investigations as a close man of the McKays in the face".
G 141 "The province to the splinters, Naples to the Di Lauro".
it. splinter 'who gives rise to or participates in a political or ideological split'
GRADIT s.v. splinter word of the common technical-specialist political lexicon.
sentinel
f. 'armed person who, within the Camorra clan, is responsible for the surveillance and protection of the members of the clan'.
G 72 "They observe the prepared escape routes, the sentries posted, without attracting attention".
G 106 "The nurses reported that before entering to go and help someone, anyone, not only shot and killed, but also an old woman with a fractured femur or a heart attack, they had to get out, be searched, let them enter the ambulance a sentry who checked whether it was really a medical transport or hid weapons, killers or people to flee ».
G 116 «He showed me how the sentry who had killed his dog was positioned. Always sentry behind the door. Sitting, with a cushion behind it and the soles of the feet resting on the sides of the door ».
G 275 "Only a few years earlier, approaching this place would have meant being identified by dozens of sentries".
it. sentinel 'armed soldier in charge of a guard shift for the custody and protection of military persons or things'
GRADIT s.v. sentinel § 1 word of the highly used lexicon.
service
m. 'particular assignment to which a select group of Camorra is commanded'.
G 97 «The Camorra men sent to do the“ service ”maybe they were loaded with coca or maybe they had to be sober to try to guess the most microscopic detail. But it is well known what methods they use to eliminate all resistance, to undo the slightest breath of humanity. The fact that the body was burned seemed to me a way to cancel the torture. "
it. service 'every single position to which a soldier is held'
GRADIT s.v. service § 3 word of the fundamental lexicon.
overshoot
intr. 'commit a mistake; not to abide by the rules and orders of the Camorra '.
Does the money that a Camorra clan make go into a coffer or common fund? These are the type of details that I find the most interesting but are rarely discussed.
People literally have salaries in Camorra , low level drug dealers get paid around 1000e weekly .
Ambushed in Naples in the Christmas crowd, the Fuorigrotta boss was shot in front of the bar
Thursday 23 December 2021
Ambush in Naples: Fuorigrotta boss Vitale Troncone was shot in via Caio Duilio . He was in front of a bar when he fell under enemy fire. Transported to the San Paolo hospital, he is in serious condition, hit in the legs and face. They investigate the carabinieri.
On 10 November , still in via Caio Duilio, the road that leads from the exit of the Quattro Giornate Gallery to Piazza Italia, the 30-year-old Andrea Merolla , nephew of Troncone , was killed . Merolla was approached by two people aboard a scooter who exploded against several gunshots and died at the San Paolo hospital from serious injuries. His uncle was also taken to the San Paolo hospital.
Does the money that a Camorra clan make go into a coffer or common fund? These are the type of details that I find the most interesting but are rarely discussed.
People literally have salaries in Camorra , low level drug dealers get paid around 1000e weekly .
The common fund (cassa) is like a central bank it keeps the clan together.
f. 'ritual of affiliation to the Camorra, consisting in pricking the aspirant's right fingertip with a pin'.
G 247 «In San Cipriano d'Aversa Antonio Bardellino still affiliated with the ritual of pricking, also used by the Cosa Nostra: a modality that belonged to rituals that have gradually disappeared. The aspirant's right finger was pricked with a pin and the blood dripped onto the image of the Madonna of Pompeii. Then this was burned on a candle and passed from hand to hand to all the leaders of the clan who were standing around the perimeter of a table. If all the affiliates kissed the Madonna, the newly introduced officially became part of the clan ».
it. sting 'superficial wound caused by the penetration into the skin of a thin and sharp object, by a sting and the like.'
THE CONDITIONS OF THE BOSS TRONCONE Struggle between life and death Vitale Troncone , the chieftain of the Fuorigrotta group seriously injured yesterday morning in via Caio Duilio in front of the family bar. The boss was transferred to the hospital of the Sea, in danger of life. The blows that hit him would seem like two, one to the cheekbone and one to the right leg. Sicari who hit him in the face with the clear intention of killing him. An ambush that comes a month after the one that cost the life of Andrea Merolla , nephew of Troncone himself. The Piazza Italia group is now increasingly in the crosshairs of the ras who have long declared war for control of this slice of the city.
The thing about the Camorra though, and really all the Mafia groups in Italy, is with these mass arrests they can't tell you the exact role of everyone rounded up. For instance, let's say there's a roundup in America involving the Colombo Family, they can tell you the exact rank and role of everyone arrested, from boss all the way down to the lowest associate. It seems like the Camorra doesn't have ranks, like boss, underboss, captains and soldiers. I mean of course they have bosses, but beyond that I'm left wondering where everyone else falls in the rank-and-file.
The Camorra structure is much more complex you do have soldati and each clan is headed by a caporegima. The Camorra is headed by the Great Council, but her influence over individual gangs is not as strong as the Cupola in Sicily or La Provincia in Reggio Calabria.
The Grosseto fans displayed the banner bearing the words “Camorra, no thanks” after the arrival of the new president. The Tuscan soccer team, which plays in group B of Serie C, was sold by the Ceri family to the construction entrepreneur from Caserta, Nicola Di Matteo . The agreement between the parties was made official on Monday 27 December through a press release. A few hours after the agreement outside the Nilo Palazzoli training ground , the banner appeared that testifies to the anger and disappointment of the fans.
It all started with a sentence pronounced by Nicola Di Matteo who pronounced in 2019, during the presentation at Teramo as the new CEO. " The Camorra is a choice of life, I have always respected them, they respected me ".
Those heavy and unacceptable words that already at the time unleashed a storm that prompted Di Matteo to immediately interrupt his participation in the company. Forward the Lega Pro suspended him from any official event after making a report to the Federal Prosecutor, while the mayor of Teramo, Gianguido D'Alberto, was very hard in censoring those statements.
Behind the feud of Fuorigrotta the direction of the Licciardi clan, the hypotheses on the ambush of the boss Troncone Investigations continue on the ambush against the boss Troncone in Naples: the clans of Bagnoli, backed by the Licciardi of Secondigliano, could be involved in the Fuorigrotta feud. Edited by Nico Falco
The commando that attempted to kill the boss Vitale Troncone , in Fuorigrotta, may have been armed by the clans of Bagnoli, supported by the Licciardi of Secondigliano, and it is not excluded that it may be the answer to the fire that destroyed a pub. It is one of the hypotheses on which investigators are working to shed light on the ambush of 23 December, when the 53-year-old, believed to be the head of the homonymous Camorra group active in the Phlegraean district, was wounded by 2 gunshots, one by one. leg and one in the cheekbone, in front of the family bar, in via Caio Duilio; admitted first to the San Paolo and then to the Ospedale del Mare, where he is still today, Troncone is in serious condition.
The ambush would be part of the feud that broke out in Fuorigrotta . A clear objective, hegemony over the Neapolitan district, but actors still to be defined: certainly the criminal groups in the area, but it is possible that those of the nearby Torretta di Mergellina and those of the Rione Traiano are also involved in some way. And that the clans of Bagnoli also play a role in the clans: in particular the Esposito-Nappi who, despite the recent arrest of the chieftain Massimiliano Esposito, known as the Scognato, and the repentance of his right arm, would still have a strong influence on the territory, above all thanks to the alliances with other historical groups of the Camorra; "strong shoulder" of the Bagnoli clans, in the past linked to the Giannellis and later to the Esposito-Nappi family, would be the powerful Licciardi clan of Masseria Cardone , at the top of the Secondigliano Alliance.
2022 began only a few hours ago and, unfortunately, there is already the first murder of the year in Naples: on New Year's Eve a 42-year-old was killed in Fuorigrotta , a district on the western outskirts of the Campania capital. The victim is Salvatore Capone , a 42-year-old offender, who was shot dead last night in via Leopardi, not far from his home:
The Fuorigrotta neighborhood has recently been crossed by many tensions: only a few days ago, on 23 December last, the 53-year-old boss Vitale Troncone was hit by some bullets in the face and legs .
Last night's ambush in Fuorigrotta, in which Salvatore Capone died , could be the answer to the attempted murder of the boss Vitale Troncone and mark a new turning point in the feud that is bloodying the district of the western suburbs of Naples: it could represent the descent into camp of other groups, linked to the Mazzarella , which in this way would oppose themselves openly to those linked to the rivals of the Secondigliano Alliance.
Capone was considered very close to the bosses of the Rione Lauro, controlled by the Iadonisi and Cesi groups, and in particular he was linked to the first clan.
According to the investigators, the Iadonisi and Cesi groups represent the point of connection between the Bagnoli clans and the Licciardi of the Secondigliano Alliance . The role of Salvatore Capone in this plot of alliances and the proximity to the Camorra di Bagnoli can be understood from the statements of Yusseff Aboumouslim , nephew and former right-hand man of the boss Massimiliano Esposito "lo Scognato" and today a collaborator of justice.
How does someone with a name like Yusseff Aboumouslim end up being the nephew of someone named Massimiliano Esposito?
Good question I read several articles about him but no mention of his background but I believe his sisters are married into the Esposito family. He had been around for a while already in 2011 they reported two people in custody for attempted aggravated extortion: Yuseff Aboumouslim, aged 19, and Davide Emanuele Amato, of 27.
Camorrist brothers at the origin of the organization of the Brazilian PCC
On February 8, 1983, in the harsh European winter, Italian businessman Presta Luigi, owner of a famous jewelry store, was kidnapped in Naples by seven armed people. Some wore masks. The gang demanded 1.7 billion lire, the currency at the time, to free him. The ransom was paid after intense negotiations. The kidnappers made several calls to Luigi's wife and insisted on receiving 10 billion lire. But they agreed to reduce the value. The victim was released on March 14 of that year in San Nicola Arcella, province of Cosenza, Calabria.
Three Camorra brothers led the kidnapping and fled to Brazil in May 1983. Two of them, Renato and Bruno Torsi, were captured in São Paulo. Ten years later they were trapped side by side with founders of the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital). Both were sent to the House of Custody and Treatment of Taubaté, in Vale do Paraíba, birthplace of the PCC, created in that unit on August 31, 1993. The two Camorristas played a decisive role in the organization and structuring of the largest criminal faction in Brazil..
Big Brother Mizael Camorristas saw the birth of the PCC in Taubaté up close. Their best friend in prison was Mizael | Aparecido da Silva, aka Miza, one of the eight founders of the Primeira Comando da Capital and the creator of the faction's statute. During the time they spent together in prison, the Torsi explained to Mizael that a criminal organization has a duty to help the families of its associates and hire lawyers to defend its imprisoned and freed members. The brothers also guided Mizael to charge PCC faction factions a monthly fee to help strengthen the group as a company, making profits, investing money from illicit activities - such as kidnappings, robberies and drug trafficking - and even laundering capital, along the lines of of the Camorra. Mizael and the Torsi considered each other more than friends.
Online betting in the hands of the Camorra, turnover of 5 billion euros: 33 arrests!
The alleged criminal consortium would have carried out its activities through websites mainly with .com and .eu domains, all without the required authorizations of the Italian State Monopolies, located on different servers which have been physically located abroad, in so-called tax havens, including Panama and Curacao. The platform for the global management of illicit gaming has been identified, at the state of the investigations, in a site registered on servers located in America.
The aggravating mafia is also contested in terms of facilitating the Casalesi clan.
The trial on the murder of Luigi Barretta , murdered in 2005 as part of an internal purge of the Amato-Pagano clan , ended with seven life sentences imposed, for various reasons, by the judge last January 20, against Carmine Amato, Ciro Caiazza, Lucio Carriola, Enzo Notturno, Carmine Pagano, Cesare Pagano and Salvatore Rosselli . On the other hand, the collaborators of justice Antonio Caiazza and Carmine Cerrato were inflicted 12 years of imprisonment Barretta, an exponent of the splinters just 22 years old, was assassinated by his own clan, that of the "splinters", in May 2005, when the feud between the Amato-Pagano (called, in fact, the splinters) and the Di Lauro clan was ending. A decision taken to punish that young man who showed himself, the investigators write, "... rebellious and arrogant towards other affiliates and the leaders of the clan ...". After killing him, the assassins placed his body in a garbage bag which was then dumped in the countryside around Caserta.
Sentence to life imprisonment for Marco Di Lauro, nicknamed F4 because he is the fourth son of the inmate boss Paolo . The gup of Naples Maria Laura Ciollaro has found the son of Ciruzzo 'or millionaire guilty, as principal, of the murder of Ciro Maisto, an affiliate killed because he was considered unreliable. Maisto did not stop complaining about the leadership, threatening to get out of the ranks of the millionaires and also to start a collaboration with the justice system. For these reasons he was lured into a trap and murdered on August 6, 2008.
The murder was carried out in a villa in Secondigliano, which is located near the so-called Third World. Maisto was shot at least 9 times, with a .357 Magnum, 8 of which hit him in the head. Together with Marco Di Lauro , Pasquale Spinelli, the one who set the trap for the victim, Nunzio Talotti, in charge of coordinating and carrying out Marco Di Lauro's orders, and Gennaro Vizzaccaro, material executor together with Antonello Faiello, were also sentenced to life imprisonment . in the meantime deceased.
The Italian Camorra suspect Raffaele Imperiale (46), who was arrested in Dubai last year at the request of the Italian authorities, would not be extradited from Dubai. At least that's what the Irish newspaper Sunday World reports . Last August, it leaked that Imperiale in Dubai with a co-defendant had been arrested in a luxury villa. Sunday World writes that local authorities have rejected the request of the Italian DDA (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia) to extradite him to Italy. That would mean Imperiale going free. He was on the top list of wanted Italian suspects until the summer . Imperiale has been wanted by Italian authorities since 2016 to serve an eight-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, in an investigation into Naples-based Camorra. Imperiale was also the man who delivered paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum to the authorities in Italy. His name is also associated with investigations into cocaine trafficking, in combination with the Irish Kinahan clan and the Amsterdam Chilean Richard “Rico” RV, who was convicted in the Netherlands for leading a criminal organization that dealt in drugs. Imperiale has also been mentioned as being indirectly involved in a conflict between Dutch drug criminals.
Double murder in the Don Guanella district, in the Scampia district of Naples. Two bodies inside the Colombi park. The two victims, Pasquale Torre (45) and Giuseppe Di Napoli (35), were hit by several gunshots while they were aboard a white Punto. The first was found lying on the steering wheel, while Di Napoli's body was out of the car, on the ground. He probably tried to escape but died almost immediately.
The area of ??influence is that of the Licciardi clan, but has been disputed between clans for many years and became a land of conquest from the beginning of the decline of the "historical" clans, the so-called "Capitoni". It seems they are close to the former Lo Russo clan, now dissolved after arrests and repentances.
According to an initial reconstruction, two or more hitmen would have come into action, riding several scooters, who would have fired with different weapons.
Since 2019, Renato Cinquegranella is the most wanted fugitive belonging to the Camorra. Since 2002 Cinquegranella is wanted for mafia-type criminal association, murder, illegal possession of weapons and extortion.[5]
From 7 December 2018 international research has been issued, and arrest for the purpose of extradition.
Ambush in San Martino: the boss Clemente Fiore is in the sights
Death mission failed in San Martino Valle Caudina: the 67-year-old boss, Clemente Fiore and a 20-year-old boy who accompanied him were injured.
Fiore is a prominent member of the Pagnozzi clan, one of the most trusted by the boss Domenico Pagnozzi , arrested years ago along with important elements of the Roman organized crime for the murder of the boss Giuseppe Carlino . The sixty-seven-year-old had returned to freedom , albeit under police surveillance, last year after a series of acquittals for violations of surveillance measures.
He spent nearly thirty years in prison for a series of drug trafficking and extortion convictions. The two were transported to the Rummo hospital in Benevento, and both would not be in danger of life. The carabinieri of the provincial command of Avellino are investigating the incident, who have already started the surveys on the spot and are listening to some people who live along the road.
“ The Casalesi clan will never die. It is a root, you cut it and there the plant comes out. I say that the Casalesi clan will be reborn “. This said Anna Carrino , the former partner of the boss Francesco Bidognetti and now a collaborator of justice, to Roberto Saviano. The interview was aired during the Insider broadcast on Rai 3.
Carrino spoke of love for the boss until the discovery of the clandestine relationship with another woman. Then there was the escape from Casal di Principe and the beginning of collaboration with justice. Anna Carrino , who is an extremely credible collaborator for the DDA. The woman recounted the talks with the chieftain in prison and the sign language: " If he gave me a sign of the beard he referred to Francesco Schiavone Sandokan, if he touched his shoulder, as if to indicate the degrees, he referred to Alessandro Cirillo, 'o Sergente " .
THE SIGNS OF THE CASALESI CLAN Signals that were then brought out as she tells Saviano: "I thought I had transformed, I was becoming like an affiliate," she said. During the interviews the woman invited her husband to repent but his response was peremptory: "I prefer to die in prison and not be a collaborator of justice because my children have to walk with their heads held high".
Drugs were supplied to Melito, Caivano and the Rione Traiano: 36 arrests on Monday. The key man is Vincenzo Chiarolanza he bought cocaine from the Secondigliano Alliance , after which he placed the drug on the market through individual dealers who operated in Villa Literno and along the Domitian coast. The man, known in the world by the nickname Ultimo, is believed to be a supporter of the Casalesi clan.
Gustavo Bardellino, nephew of Casalesi founder Antonio Bardellino, was shot and wounded in an ambush in the town of Formia, Lazio
After the disappearance of Antonio Bardellino and the Camorra war in Caserta, the boss's family took refuge, starting with his brother Ernesto, former mayor of San Cipriano d'Aversa.
In the south of Pontine the family of Campania origins took root and arrests were made several times. However, some balance may have broken. In recent years, however, some clans from Campania are trying to make room in the lower Lazio, clashing with the local ones.
Question for written answer E-000294/2022 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 138 Fulvio Martusciello (PPE) Subject: United Arab Emirates: the new frontier for the Camorra The number of Camorra associates seeking fortune in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has increased alarmingly. Immediately after the case of Raffaele Imperiale, Luca Esposito and Maria Bosti, the son-in-law and daughter of Secondigliano Alliance boss Patrizio Bosti, were arrested while trying to fly to Dubai. Thanks to their affiliation with the Secondigliano Alliance, they managed to bribe doctors in order to obtain fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates and fake negative PCR test results. Gianni Melillo of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of the Public Prosecutor Office had already asked for a 10-year prison sentence for Luca Esposito. The risk of such a sentence pushed him not to wait longer and to take advantage of the Italian justice authorities’ difficulties in obtaining extradition from the UAE. How is the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) intending to put pressure on the Emirati judicial authorities in order to ensure that they cooperate and to avoid such episodes?
Nicola Zeppetelli (40) was shot dead in Avellino. Zeppetelli, owner of a club in the hamlet of Joffredo in Cervinara, lost his life in an ambush.
Shot in broad daylight The man was hit by several gunshots right in front of his club. Everything happened in a matter of minutes. Apparently, Zeppetelli parked his car, and as soon as he got out, someone shot him..
Raffaele Imperiale is about to return to Italy, in fact, the new extradition request presented by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office to the government of the Arab Emirates would have been accepted. The news was reported by Il Mattino . The super-narco will have to serve a final sentence of just under 5 years for drug trafficking in Italy. Penalty reduced in light of his collaboration with him in the recovery of the famous 2 Van Gogh paintings stolen in Amsterdam. The works of art were in the villa of Imperiale's parents on the outskirts of Castellammare di Stabia .
That guy should get manslaughter with a suspended sentence at most. He shouldn't even be arrested, honestly. I'm never one to take the side of the law but the guy did what he had to do.
That guy should get manslaughter with a suspended sentence at most. He shouldn't even be arrested, honestly. I'm never one to take the side of the law but the guy did what he had to do.
"Secondigliano alliance is comparable to Cosa Nostra according to, the revelations of Luca Esposito , the son-in-law of the boss Patrizio Bosti who in early February, after being arrested for bribing a doctor in exchange for fake Green Passes before leaving for Dubai with his family, asked to speak with the magistrates. The prosecutor Giovanni Melillo was also interrogating him in prison on February 2 and 3, alongside the anti-camorra prosecutor Ida Teresi.
He has not yet decided whether or not to collaborate with justice, he has released for now only spontaneous statements, which however have turned on, even more, the spotlight on the most powerful clan not only in Naples but in Italy.
According to Esposito , the Alliance that sees Contini-Mallardo-Licciardi together is comparable to the Sicilian mafia: "every month it pays its affiliates almost 170 thousand euros in" salaries ", it is protected from collusion with members of the police and where the wives hire reins of command when husbands are in prison ”.
The strength of the Aieta "Boss wives are like avatars: when there are no husbands, there are wives." According to Esposito, today in Naples "Anna Aieta is in charge", wife of Giugliano's chieftain Francesco Mallardo and sister of the wives of Patrizio Bosti and of the other inmate boss, Edoardo Contini.
Nicola Rullo, a leading exponent of the organization, would, for example, have affiliates " who were not" baptized "by Edoardo and Patrizio"who "did not appreciate" that Rullo"had an army of his own". Esposito does not hide that he does not get along very well with his brother-in-law, Ettore Bosti. "He's unmanageable, he doesn't love anyone." And he would also be bloodthirsty, to the point of bragging about the crimes he committed, as when, Esposito claims, the young Bosti told him about a double murder, where even an innocent man had lost his life while watching a football match on television.
Life imprisonment for the Casalesi boss Francesco Schiavone alias 'Sandokan' and Giovanni Diana for the murder of the traffic policeman Antonio Diana. The agent was killed in 1989 in San Cipriano d'Aversa . This was decided by the Court of Cassation which confirmed the verdict issued in 2019 by the Court of Appeal of Naples , putting an end to a proceeding in which the protagonists were the collaborators of justice, including the former fugitive boss Antonio Iovine, Carmine Schiavone, Giuseppe Quadrano, whose declarations have allowed the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples to reconstruct after almost 30 years the roles of the various members of the clan in the planning and execution of the crime. In total there were 9 defendants, but seven, including Iovine himself, chose the shortened procedure (all already convicted) while Sandokan and Diana went to the trial. From the trial it emerged that Francesco Schiavone was the instigator while Diana the mirror maker who had the task of locating the victim and also keeping the weapons. The traffic policeman Antonio Diana was killed in the feud that at the end of the 1980s contrasted the groups led by Francesco Schiavone and Francesco Bidognetti with that of the founder of the clan Antonio Bardellino. In particular, the murder of Diana was a response to the murder of Michele Russo, near Sandokan and killed by the Bardellino killers. Francesco Schiavone believed that the traffic policeman had acted as a mirror during the Russo's crime, and so he gave the order of death.
International drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale (47) was extradited from Dubai to Italy on Friday. Imperiale was arrested on August 4, 2021 and then released. The Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples had requested his extradition.
Eight years in prison Camorra boss Raffaele Imperiale was sentenced in Italy in 2016 to eight years in prison for international drug trafficking. Italian Justice Minister Marta Cartabia was in Abu Dhabi earlier this month to support an extradition request for Imperiale after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) previously refused to grant Italian requests.
Imperiale also had warrants for arrest for cocaine importation by various Camorra clans and Mafia membership.
This time it's true, the super boss Luigi Cimmino repents: "Enough, I want to change my life"
Earthquake in Naples, Luigi Cimmino , 61, boss of Vomero , regrets . A sensational turning point in the investigation into the Neapolitan Camorra. The first minutes, covered by omissions, were filed today by the prosecutor Henry John Woodcock at the preliminary hearing against the alleged bosses of the Secondigliano Alliance .
From the murder of Silvia Ruotolo to the contracts for the Cardarelli hospital, the boss of Vomero repents. Minutes full of omissions, those deposited in the courtroom a few hours ago, by prosecutors Celeste Carrano and Henry John Woodcock , during the trial against the alleged bosses of the Secondigliano Alliance. White-collar workers and citizen ills are shaking, Luigi Cimmino looks like a river in flood.
Luigi Cimmino in the past had already expressed the will to repent, he began to tell some details about the Neapolitan clans to the prosecutor Henry John Woodcock. And the first minutes of the boss's depositions - naturally covered by omissions - were filed today, April 15, by the magistrate during the preliminary hearing on extortion for contracts in some hospitals in Naples.
Arrested in Chioggia The Vomero boss, who was arrested in Chioggia in 2016 after a month on the run, will now be able to tell the secrets of one of the most powerful Camorra clans in Naples. Cimmino was one of the absolute protagonists of the Neapolitan Camorra history. In June 1997 he was the real target of the Caiazzo clan, in the ambush that cost the life of the innocent victim of the Camorra Silvia Ruotolo, mother of the former councilor - and today a city councilor - Alessandra Clement
Ambush on Easter night in Naples. A young man was killed in front of the curve B of the Maradona stadium in the Fuorigrotta district. Shortly after one, on piazzale d'Annunzio, just a few meters from the entrance to the players' changing rooms. Enrico Marmoreo, 25, was in his gray Fiat 500 when he was joined by a scooter with two men in the saddle who fired at least eight times. In the area where the murder took place there are several video surveillance cameras, the images, examined by the investigators, could help to reconstruct what happened. Not only that, that area is crowded on Saturday evenings, so the presence of witnesses is also likely.
Angelo Moccia and his wife, an intercepted businessman and his wife: all in audience with the Pope (a public audience with the Pope who obviously did not know who his guests were). It happened a few years ago, as evidenced in a note from the judicial police, according to what emerges from the papers of the raid which culminated in 57 arrests. It happened on March 22, 2017 , according to what emerges from the wiretapping against the entrepreneur Giovanni Esposito.
Mafia association, extortion, use of money, goods or utilities of illicit origin, self-laundering, fictitious registration of goods, corruption, illegal carrying and possession of firearms, receiving stolen goods, aiding and abetting, crimes aggravated by the purpose of facilitating a mafia group. These are the charges disputed in various capacities to the 57 suspects deemed to be affiliated with the Moccia di Afragola clan , a clan that for some time had extended its criminal web going well beyond the borders of the Municipality of the Neapolitan hinterland, with firm branches even to Rome.
A very hard blow, the one inflicted by the district anti-mafia Directorate of Naples, thanks to a joint investigation by the Gico of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples and the Ros of the carabinieri.
Thirty-six precautionary custody orders in prison, 16 under house arrest and five measures of temporary prohibition to carry out business activities: among those arrested there are also Angelo, Luigi and Antonio Moccia and their brother-in-law Filippo Iazzetta , considered to be the leaders of the gang . The leaders of the organization would have managed to manage the criminal group even from prison, giving orders to affiliates in a state of freedom. The group's "white-collar workers" are also targeted: entrepreneurs operating in the sector of waste oils of animal and vegetable origin, in the sector of railway and high-speed contracts.
Naples, ambush in the night in Acerra: two 22-year-olds died
Ambush in Acerra, in the Neapolitan area: two 22-year-olds, already known to the police, died. The victims are Vincenzo Tortora, a native of Acerra, hit by a few gunshots, one to the head, and Pasquale Di Balsamo, also from Acerra, wounded by three gunshots, one in the side, which it was then fatal. Tortora, dying, was transferred to Cardarelli in Naples, where he died. Investigations by the Carabinieri of the Castello di Cisterna investigative unit are underway, to reconstruct the dynamics of the facts.
Contracts to the Casalesi 35 arrests: entrepreneurs and a lawyer from Giugliano involved
It has targeted the interests in economic sectors of great importance of the faction of the Casalesi clan headed by the boss Francesco Schiavone , such as contracts for the services of the railway network and road paving, the investigation coordinated by the Naples Public Prosecutor which today led to the execution by the carabinieri of Caserta, the DIA of Naples and the NIC of the DAP, of 35 precautionary measures and a seizure of assets for 50 million euros. The crimes alleged, for various reasons, to the suspects, are extortion, fictitious registration of assets, auction disruption, corruption, money laundering aggravated as they were committed by facilitating a mafia organization.
Over the years, the brothers Nicola and Vincenzo Schiavone (both resident in Posillipo) would have created an entrepreneurial network capable of supporting the family of Francesco Sandokan Schiavone . Dante Apicella also ended up in the cell , believed to be the head of a sort of entrepreneurial system capable of managing proceeds from entrepreneurial orders that would have fostered the criminal system of the Casalesi.
There is also a lawyer from Giugliano, MC, and the head of a banking agency, Francesco Chianese, among the recipients of the 35 precautionary measures (17 in prison, 17 at home and an obligation to report to the judicial police) notified this morning to 35 suspects as part of the investigation. Both investigators deny having revealed to one of the persons under investigation, the existence of the investigative activity.
Milan-Amsterdam, the money of the European cocaine trafficking recycled into works of art: 31 arrests, Alberto Genovese investigated
Network of drug traffickers, Genovese involved in the ketamine used in the parties at Terrazza Sentimento. An art gallery in Amsterdam seized: Andrea Deiana, a dealer specialized in Banksy, was arrested. The accounts of two companies in Pero and Como blocked, a circle of well-known bikers in Cologno Monzese searched
Deiana would have had a close relationship with a leading exponent of the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale (not investigated), also known as the "boss of the Van Goghs" . According to the investigation, the Italian gallerist in Amsterdam was so close to Imperiale that he helped ensure the Camorra's in hiding in Europe , and even escorted him on his escape from Kiev to Dubai . Imperiale, sentenced to eight years for drug trafficking and money laundering (non-definitive sentence) thanks to his collaboration with the courts, was captured on 4 August 2021 and then extradited to Italy at the end of March this year.
Naples, 24 arrests today: rival clans Rega and Esposito-Palermo beheaded NAPLES > CHRONICLE Monday 16th May 2022
Mafia-type association aimed at receiving stolen goods, possession and illegal carrying of weapons and explosives, attempted murder and association aimed at drug trafficking: these are the crimes that, for various reasons, the Dda of Naples challenges 17 suspects to whom, during the course of the night, the carabinieri of the Compagnia di Castello di Cisterna notified (between Naples, Agrigento, Biella, Terni and Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the province of Caserta), as many arrests issued by the investigating judge of Naples.
A 44-year-old was shot in Soccavo, in via vicinale Palazziello. According to what was reconstructed by the police, this is Antonio Ernano, brother-in-law of the inmate boss Alfredo Vigilia 'o nir, already known to the police, who arrived at the emergency room of the San Paolo hospital in via Terracina in serious condition, in the company of a friend , but it is not life threatening.
He sustained a gunshot wound to his left buttock.Two shells were found on the spot. The area where the ambush took place is considered by investigators to be under the control of the Vigilia clan.
The boss Tortora killed by two clans to divide Acerra, 6 arrests in the Neapolitan area Two criminal groups from the Neapolitan area would have planned the murder of the boss Pasquale Tortora to divide up the Acerra territory; 6 arrests of the carabinieri.
Pasquale Tortora , boss of the homonymous clan of Acerra and Casalnuovo killed in an ambush on May 20, 2020 , was allegedly killed by killers armed by two different criminal groups, who wanted to take control of the town of Naples with that murder. It is the reconstruction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which led to the precautionary custody order for 6 people issued by the investigating judge of Naples and carried out during the night by the Carabinieri of the Castello di Cisterna Investigation Unit between Acerra, Naples and Nuoro; the suspects are accused, for various reasons, of complicity in murder, illegal possession of weapons and receiving stolen goods, with the aggravating circumstance of mafia purposes. The investigations, carried out by the carabinieri, have documented the existence of two separate Camorra groups, the first based in Afragola and attributable to Cosimo Nicolì , born in 1977, who boasted direct relations with the Sienese family, an emanation of the Moccia clan and decades stationed in Rome; the other group, formed in Acerra, would instead be headed by Bruno Avventurato , class of '75, brother of Giuseppe Avventurato, victim of a Camorra ambush in Acerra on 19 December 2019.
A 38-year-old man Raffaele Balsamo, while under house arrest for robbery, was shot dead in Afragola, Afragola in recent months is a territory where the fibrillations of organized crime have been evident even with acts of intimidation and ambushes.
Son of the chieftain killed in the disco, Casalesi bosses condemned editorial board June 3, 2022
The Gup of the Court of Naples , Giovanni De Angelis, sentenced the bosses Michele Zagaria and Vincenzo Schiavone known as Petillo to 30 years in prison, at the end of the shortened rite . The two bosses were accused of the murder of Michele Della Gatta, an element of the clan killed in a beach in Castel Volturno in 1999.
The judge also inflicted 10 years and eight months on Antonio Iovine, known as “o ninno”, a former boss of the Casalesi family who became a collaborator of justice. For almost 20 years, the perpetrators and perpetrators of the crime had never been discovered, so much so that the first investigation by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples , activated after the murder, had ended with an archiving.
THE REVELATIONS OF THE SON OF SANDOKAN Then important clan justice collaborators, first of all Nicola Schiavone, eldest son of the Casalesi chief Francesco Sandokan Schiavone , and therefore Antonio Iovine himself , began to talk about the Della Gatta crime, opening up new scenarios. It emerged that Zagaria and precisely Iovine were the instigators of the crime, while Vincenzo Schiavone was the material perpetrator, and that the crime, which took place on June 5, 1999, would be closely connected to another bloody event that occurred three months earlier, on March 19. of the same year, or that of Carlo Amato , son of the boss Salvatore Amato , who then controlled the city ofSanta Maria Capua Vetere .
Beaten and stabbed Carlo Amato, who emerged from the immediate investigations of the DDA, was beaten and fatally stabbed by Della Gatta , then a member of the Schiavone family, in a disco in Santa Maria. The party was organized by the then 18-year-old Walter Schiavone , son of Sandokan, who was present.
It seems that Carlo had offended Walter Schiavone and his brother Nicola, for which Della Gatta reacted by beating and killing Amato. The latter's father then wanted to take revenge by hitting one of Sandokan's sons, so the clan bosses, to avoid bloody revenge and therefore a probable feud, decided to kill Della Gatta .
Camorra: DIA blitz against the Mallardo clan, 25 arrests 17 people in prison and 8 under house arrest, there is also the regent
The 25 people arrested by the Dia di Napoli are believed to belong to the Mallardo clan, a component organization of the so-called Secondigliano Alliance (together with the Licciardi clan and the Contini clan). criminal association of the Camorra type.
Against the suspects (for 17 people the investigating judge of Naples ordered the prison, for the remaining 8 the house arrest) the investigators contest, for various reasons, also the crime of extortion, detention and abusive carrying of firearms, false attestations in deeds intended for the judicial authorities, personal aiding and abetting, fictitious registration of assets, use of money of illicit origin, self-laundering, aggravated fraud to obtain public funds, crimes, all of them, aggravated by the mafia method.
The investigations carried out are currently considered useful in reconstructing the organization chart of the Camorra organization which has its base and does illicit business in Giugliano in Campania and in other municipalities in the hinterland north of the Campania capital. The investigations revealed the fictitious title of assets, a crime concerning, in particular, a betting agency (in fact attributable to the clan regent, recipient of one of the precautionary measures, but found in the name of the daughter-in-law and managed by the son) and others assets, in the name of figureheads, which have been seized.
Wow considering his mental issues probably suicide.
In these 17 years in hard prison at 41 bis, Cosimo would seem completely mad: he no longer washed, he no longer wanted interviews, he did not respond to lawyers. In reality, everyone left him alone. He could repent, try to fix it, but he didn't want to be the first in his family to cooperate. Cosimo was only respected because he is Paolo's son.
The autopsy on Cosimo Di Lauro 's body has been set for Thursday 16 June . The prosecutor of the Milanese prosecutor is investigating for manslaughter after the death of the historic boss, who remained in a tough prison regime at 41-bis for 17 and a half years, changing six prison facilities as reported in today's edition of the newspaper Il Mattino. Arrested in Scampia on January 22, 2005, there are no signs of suicide on Cosimo Di Lauro's body.
Man killed in an ambush in the Dominican Republic: he would come from Agropoli He is a 47-year-old man who was shot dead while he was in a car near the Las Americas tollbooth . As reported by InfoCilento, the victim 's name would be Lucas Garofalo , but it could be a fake name. In fact, it would be a citizen of Agropoli . A hypothesis being examined by the lawyers of the alleged victim's family members.
Camorra: new criminal group crushed, 29 arrests – Campania Thursday 14th July 2022 09:09 AM
Clash with injuries and hanging out for illicit business control (ANSA) – NAPLES, JULY 14 – 29 people were arrested during the blitz that the agents of the Naples mobile squad made today in the Neapolitan district of Pianura. The charges against the suspects are, for various reasons, of mafia-type association, attempted murder, extortion, possession and carrying of firearms, association aimed at trafficking and distributing drugs, all aggravated by the mafia method.
The investigations were launched following the wounding of two people, which took place last December, The investigators have ascertained the birth and rise of the new criminal group that would have opposed another team for the control of illegal activities. The investigations had a first turning point last December when two injuries were recorded one day later.
Among the disputed crimes, also a “spread” committed to the detriment of a car wash and an attempted murder.
“A strong applause to the police and the judiciary who this morning freed our territory from numerous metastases that, we hope, will remain in prison for a long time”. This was stated by Luigi Cuomo, spokesman for the Pianura anti-racket association dedicated to the memory of Gigi and Paolo, two innocent victims of the Camorra.
Ambush in Ponticelli: double murder in the Fiat district
Ambush in Ponticelli, two dead in via Eugenio Montale in Ponticelli in the Fiat district, behind the ABC.
The victims of the double murder are: Carlo Esposito, born on 16 July 1993 and Antimo Imperatore, 56 years old. The murder took place in an apartment. One of them was at the door.
According to what leaks, Esposito is believed to be close to the De Micco-De Martino clan, while Imperatore was on site for maintenance work (to install a mosquito net) and was a stranger to any criminal environment.
This morning Emmanuel De Luca Bossa, son of the boss Antonio De Luca Bossa, was arrested in a blitz, among others, in Ponticelli.
The well-known Lo Russo clan had been defunct for several years, but now an operation by the DDA against as many alleged "emissaries" of a criminal group which was deemed by the investigators “ A sub-division of the Lo Russo clan”.
Raffaele Petriccione , Cesare Duro , Giovanni Perfetto , Salvatore Di Vaio , Fabio Pecoraro , Alessandro Festa , Vincenzo Pagliaro and another person ended up in handcuffs . The accusation for all of them is of extortion aggravated by the mafia method. An operation that reveals the operation of the group which includes characters already in the past who ended up in investigations into the local evil, such as Raffaele Petriccione who jumped to the head of the news a few years ago for a daring escape 'enriched' by a gun aimed at the agents, or like Giovanni Perfetto, brother of the better known Raffaele known as 'muss e scign' and uncle of Ciro sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Vincenzo Di Napoli . In the group also Cesare Duro, arrested a few years ago in Frattamaggiore after a daring escape from the police.
Naples 'divided' between the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan, the map of the neighborhoods October 3, 2022
A cartel of families and a historic clan pull the ranks of the Camorra through their enormous criminal and economic power. The two 'titans' are the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan who influence the criminal life in the districts of Naples , leaving, however, a limited decision-making power to the groups subjected to them. Recent judicial investigations and law enforcement operations were analyzed in Dia 's latest semi-annual report .
Therefore the two powerful criminal entities directly or indirectly control the districts of Naples . This organizational structure guarantees federated groups a series of advantages and considerably increases their criminal capacity. Precisely the control of one's own territory confers greater power and compactness from a military point of view , above all, in comparison with competing organizations, thus resulting in a greater force of intimidation resulting from belonging to the criminal cartel.
The Contini, Licciardi and Mallardo families are the main components of the Secondigliano Alliance . These clans have become entrepreneurial realities that control a large part of the economic activities of the city: restaurant chains, entire commercial sectors and the service sector.
Instead, the Mazzarella clan, present in the central and eastern area of ??the city, is interested in weaving alliances with criminal groups in Marigliano, San Giorgio a Cremano and Somma Vesuviana , moreover, they try to get their hands on the public contracts of nearby Salerno through the complacency of some public administrators. Without neglecting the extra-Campania expansionist aims that emerged in the recent judicial police operations that have highlighted the interests in recycling activities in the Castelli Romani area carried out through exponents of the ally D'Amico group .
The map of the clans that control the city of Naples is therefore divided into different macro-areas: the one controlled directly by the Secondigliano Alliance including almost the entire city of Naples and a large part of the province; the area attributable to the clans federated with the Alliance and to the groups falling under their control; the one in which the Alliance shares leadership with the Mazzarella clan falling mainly in the center of the city of Naples. There is also an area of ??exclusive hegemony of the Mazzarella clan , namely Portici and San Giorgio a Cremano.
Therefore, the smaller groups remain the protagonists of almost tribal contrasts marked by shootings, explosions of bombs and fires. These violent incidents are conducted to assert their influence in small parts of the territory where they want to impose their control over extortion and drug dealing. Only in a few sporadic cases the murders are directly referable to the most authoritative organizations and in this case they can be framed in the logic of internal purge imposed precisely to protect the delinquent balance and the major interests linked to big business.
In her Report to Parliament, Dia also explained the transformation of the main Camorra cartels into real business holding companies , capable of becoming integral parts of the legal economy supported by personal ties, very often parental, and connivance in large sectors of entrepreneurship and in public administration.
The economic power of the Campania organizations is mainly ensured by drug trafficking.
Naples, stabs on the soccer field: the grandson of lady Camorra Maria Licciardi immediately released. The father remains in the cell October 8, 2022
Gennaro Musella, the 19-year-old grandson of Lady Camorra, Maria Licciardi, is already free, accused of attempted murder of a 24-year-old at the end of a soccer match and the wounding of the two brothers. The father, on the other hand, Giuseppe Musella, Licciardi's son, remains in prison. The boy who is presented at the police station accompanied by his lawyer defended himself by saying that he was provoked throughout the race and that the adrenaline at the end of the race took over. He explained that he had used no knife but a piece of iron found on the ground. And so after the long deposition he was released and is being investigated on the loose pending the formulation of the charges for the trial. After two days of being unavailable, the boy presented himself to the police accompanied by his lawyer. With the complicity of his father Giuseppe, (in a state of custody for three days) he had stabbed three brothers from Giugliano on Monday night at the end of the final of a soccer tournament that took place in recent weeks on the San Rocco di Chiaiano field. The 24-year-old Manuel Salzano, from Giugliano is hospitalized at the Cardarelli hospital in a reserved prognosis with deep wounds in the abdomen. While his brothers Antonio and Geatano, who intervened in defense of him, had suffered more minor injuries and after being medicated they were discharged.
This week a 19 year old was shot and wounded. This is Nicola Notturno, son of Enzo and nephew of Gennaro..The latter became a collaborator of justice. A choice already paid for in blood, given that in 2017 it cost the life of another Nicola Notturno, cousin of the victim of the last raid. The young man reached by the assassins, however, is not in danger of life. Investigators are working to find out if the ambush is also linked to Gennaro Notturno's decision to collaborate with magistrates to illustrate to investigators how drug trafficking was managed. The assassins, in fact, went into action in one of the main drug dealing squares in Europe.
Gennaro Notturno is a real psychopath. He explained in interrogations how he and his companions killed Giulio Ruggiero in 2005. He also told how they then sawed off his head with an electric cutting bench saw. How they started playing football with his head, with some laughing but others throwing up in a corner. And how they then delivered that head to his relatives.
Wiretaps reveal how Kinahan ally Raffaele Imperiale hoped to import 30 tons of coke before ‘retiring’ “We have done so much to get where we are. We can't give up now.”
Imperiale already got a relatively light sentence but this latest bust with those calabrese will put him away for a long time. Pretty stiff sentences for drug trafficking in Italy.
Camorra: 22-year-old with a precedent killed in the square in the Neapolitan area
NAPLES, OCTOBER 24 – The corpse of a 22-year-old with previous dependents, Alessio Bossis, believed to be affiliated with the De Luca-Bossa clan, was recently found in Volla (Naples) by the Carabinieri who intervened in the forecourt commercial “In Piazza” in via Monteoliveto 41. The young man was the victim of an ambush by unknown persons who killed him with a few gunshots.
The carabinieri of the Torre Annunziata Investigation Unit rushed to the scene. Investigations are ongoing.
Baratto-Volpe Camorra group a criminal group active in the Fuorigrotta district which falls within the sphere of influence and control of the so-called "Secondigliano Alliance"
Cop among 11 Camorra arrests in Naples Ex Napoli skipper Bruscolotti among loan sharks' victims
(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - A Carabiniere policeman was among 11 people arrested Tuesday in Naples in connection with a loan sharking ring run by the local Camorra mafia. The officer has been charged with corruption. Former Napoli soccer team captain Giuseppe Bruscolotti , who handed over the captain's armband to legend Diego Armando Maradona, was among 11 cases of alleged usury of businessmen, police said.
Raffaele 'don Rafele' Ligato died in Opera prison after a long illness. The boss was serving a life sentence in the Milanese penitentiary under the 41bis regime: according to the investigators he was a historic head of the Lubrano-Ligato clan, founded by Vincenzo Lubrano but managed by the second Camorra family. The 74-year-old will be buried in his town of origin, but the Caserta Police Commissioner has banned the public funeral as reported by CasertaNews.
In the Caleno countryside, the Papa and Ligato clans, still carry out a penetrating control of the territory, coming to influence some neighboring areas of lower Lazio with ramifications also in other Italian regions. The group is mainly active in the extortion sector, especially to the detriment of local entrepreneurs and economic operators, but also operates in the trafficking of weapons and drugs and in recycling through apparently legitimate economic activities including supermarkets, construction companies and hospitality companies.
The Nuvoletta family is linked with the Lubrano clan through marriages celebrated between close relatives of their respective chieftains.
Police arrested six members of the Moccia clan. The alleged crimes are of mafia-type association and illegal carrying and possession of war weapons and common firearms and related ammunition.
The Moccia clan
The Moccia clan is considered one of the most powerful mafia groups of the Camorra type operating mostly in the municipalities of Afragola , Acerra , Casoria , Casalnuovo di Napoli , Caivano, Arzano, Frattamaggiore, Grumo Nevano, Frattaminore and Cardito. Over the years it has forcefully entered Lazio , Lombardy and Puglia, taking possession of commercial activities such as fruit and vegetable shops, but also restaurants and night clubs. Other profitable activities of the clan, especially in the city of Rome, where it is firmly established, are the control of building contracts, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking and above all the management of betting shops. .
The founder of the clan was Gennaro Moccia , killed in a Camorra attack in April 1974, probably by a fire group of the Giugliano and Magliulo clan, antagonists of the Moccias.
Following the feud, the Giugliano and Magliulo clan was ousted, thus reuniting, in the following years, Afragola and the neighboring municipalities under the control of a single and powerful clan, the Moccias. The void left by Gennaro Moccia was then filled by his wife, Anna Mazza, the first woman in Italy to have undergone criminal proceedings for mafia crimes . The group has been able to count and count on bosses of the caliber of Gennaro Moccia, Angelo Moccia , Anna Mazza , Luigi Moccia, Vincenzo Moccia and alliances with other clans such as those of Licciardi, Sacco-Bocchetti, the Russo di Nola Clan, the Contini and the Senese clan.
Given the territories controlled by the clan and the areas with which it borders, even if of a Camorra style, the Moccia clan has established business relationships even if there have been several wars with types of mafias such as those of the "Cosa Nostra" and ' ndrangheta, both in the Caserta area with the Casalesi and in northern Italy, in regions such as Lombardy and Piedmont. Furthermore, from the settlement in Rome, the Clan has managed to comfortably fit into the administrative environment, as well as the political one. It manages the market of slot machines, street food trucks, chestnut sellers that can be found at every corner of the most famous squares in Rome. And we can find their acolyte in every street business, such as florists and markets, as in hashish, marijuana and cocaine dealing areas such as Piazza San Lorenzo, local pubs and discos. It is no coincidence that the DIA in the annual reports among all the prominent mafia groups present in the capital, gives a certain weight to the percentage of Moccia's earnings. The Moccia clan has a considerable share of control over the territory of Rome. Where there were and still are groups such as those of the Magliana and “Nuova Magliana”, with Massimo Carminati, who despite being under house arrest holds a certain power and control, the Moccias demonstrate a considerable range of action. Even during the operations of "Mafia Capitale", the Moccia clan had its role and the authorities had a certain foresight, following for some time and knowing a part of their business.
As for Campania, since the 80s "of the reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake . Luigi Moccia, was considered by the investigators to be the white collar of the clan, the true mind of the criminal holding, capable of transforming one of the most bloody gangs of the Neapolitan, into a mafia that grows in the apparent tranquility of respectable offices. In fact, the top management of the organization is mainly interested in top-level entrepreneurial affairs, also thanks to the strong penetration force at the local political level. As also stated by the last publication of the DIA, none of the leaders of the clan has ever become repentant, they have only limited themselves to dissociating, thus welding a single criminal continuity in the hinterland of the Neapolitan area.
In Lazio, on the other hand, according to the investigators, the Moccias, in collaboration with the clan of Michele Senese, powerful head of the Roman underworld, originally from Afragola and close to the Moccia, manage and conduct illegal activities and thanks to the complacency of unsuspected figureheads, they also control legal business and economic activities, such as “clean” banks and financial companies.
Naples, 25 arrests today: the Sangermano clan defeated, the patron saint's bow in front of the boss's house
As part of a coordinated investigation by the Naples Anti-Mafia District Directorate, the Carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of the Castello di Cisterna group and staff of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate carried out an order for precautionary custody in prison, issued by the Court of Naples, against 25 subjects affiliated to the Sangermano clan seriously suspected of mafia-type association, extortion, fraudulent transfer of values, illicit competition, usury, self-laundering and carrying and illegal possession of common firearms, the latter crimes aggravated by the purposes and methods mafia.
The investigative activity, carried out from 2016 to 2019, made it possible to highlight the operation of the criminal association, based in San Paolo Bel Sito with interests largely in the countryside of Nola and in a part of the province of Avellino, tending to affirm its hegemonic control over the territory of interest, even with the availability of an important quantity of common firearms.
As a demonstration of the pressing presence of the clan in the area, during the procession of the patron saint of the town, the effigy of the Saint was made to "bow" in front of the house of the clan chief.
During the activities, the carabinieri also executed a preventive seizure decree, for a value of approximately 30 million euros, on properties (land and buildings), companies, cars and financial relationships.
Pasquale Angellotti, 54, former member of Lo Russo clan , was shot dead while he was into a car in the neighborhood of Miano (Naples)
The death of ‘o cecato, not surprisingly, is yet another major murder committed against members of what was once known as the clan dei capitoni. Before him, in fact, had been killed Salvatore Milano, Giuseppe Tipaldi and, above all, Giuseppe Di Napoli and Pasquale Torre, the latter slaughtered together, in an ambush whose dynamics are still to be clarified. Crimes all attributable to the new criminal balances that were created in Miano after the fall of the Lo Russo, balances whose creation would have also contributed to gangs from other districts, such as the scissionists of Scampia and the Mazzarella of the historic center.
Regarding Angellotti, his underworld charisma is undoubted. Considered one of the main assassins of the Lo Russo clan he had managed, however, to escape two life sentences,
Bruno Carbone was arrested in Rome , considered one of the major Neapolitan drug brokers. The 45-year-old had been on the run since 2003, when he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for international drug trafficking along the Spain-Naples-Catania route .
He was the recipient of a precautionary custody order in prison issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples at the request of the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate, facts for which he has already been tried and sentenced in the first and second degree.
For years he would have managed the relationship with the Colombians, he would have supplied drugs to various clans of the Camorra, from the Nuvolettas to the Ciccarellis of Parco Verde, up to the clans of the Rione Traiano . He was captured by the carabinieri of the Naples investigative unit inside Ciampino airport: he was in possession of a false document.
On October 7, a new pre-trial detention order was issued against Bruno Carbone and Raffaele Imperiale. The two super-narcos of Neapolitan origin ended up in the blitz of the Reggio Calabria prosecutor's office which overall led to the arrest of 36 people.
Arrest of mafia drug-trafficker on Europol’s most wanted list shrouded in mystery Bruno Carbone, right-hand man of mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, was arrested at Rome airport amid claims he was extradited from Syria
International cocaine trafficking, the network of narcos Raffaele Imperiale defeated: 28 arrested International cocaine trafficking and money laundering: dawn blitz by the State Police and Guardia di Finanza, which disrupted the network belonging to the drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale. Edited by Naples editorial team
International drug trafficking and money laundering, cocaine in this case: maxi-blitz at dawn by the State Police and Guardia di Finanza. From the early hours of the morning a vast operation by the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza has been underway in Naples and in the province: the forming network has been defeated, with an operational base in the province of Naples and headed by the well-known drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale , arrested in Dubai , where he was a fugitive, in August 2021.
Fiamme Gialle and policemen are carrying out an order for the application of personal precautionary measures, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples, District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 28 people held responsible, for various reasons, for a purposeful association international drug trafficking and money laundering.
The cocaine arrived in Naples by sea hidden in containers The investigations made it possible to reveal that Imperiale ensured that the drugs arrived in the main European ports by sea, from South America, hidden in some containers . Once on the mainland, the cocaine was then transported by road by compliant road hauliers and was then hidden in deposits used by the criminal organization spread throughout Italy, between Campania, Calabria, Lazio and Emilia-Romagna.
“All I remember is the blood, all that blood,” Giandavide De Pau, the former driver of an Italian Mafia boss, allegedly said after he slaughtered three prostitutes in Rome’s upper-class Prati district last weekend. How a mob driver turned out to be a serial killer.
In the photos, top, from left, Katia Bidognetti, Nicola Sergio Kader, Teresa Bidognetti and Giosuè Fioretto; below, from left, Vincenzo D'Angelo, Federico Barrino, Gianluca Bidognetti and Nicola Garofalo
In recent years the business between the Mallardo clan and the Casalesi have increasingly strengthened. Together with the Alliance of Secondigliano they constituted the so-called mixed group which raged on the Domitius-Plegraean coast.
In the blitz carried out, which led to the elimination of the Bidognetti faction, the existence of a Giuglianese wing of the Casalesi was underlined which was headed by Salvatore Sestile , former owner of La Contessa , who died of Covid in February of Last year.
Another contact person of the Casalesi in Giugliano is Giovanni Della Corte (Schiavone faction) .
Operation against the Camorra in Naples: 66 people arrested
The charges are of mafia-type association, extortion and possession of weapons, for various reasons linked to the Camorra cartel called De Luca - Bossa - Casella - Minichini - Rinaldi - Reale
Operation against the Camorra in Naples: 66 people arrested
The charges are of mafia-type association, extortion and possession of weapons, for various reasons linked to the Camorra cartel called De Luca - Bossa - Casella - Minichini - Rinaldi - Reale
The collaborator of justice reported to the judges an episode that took place between March and July 2018 during which he mediated in a dispute between the boss Alfredo Minichini and a childhood friend of his. The victim paid the clan 1500 euros a month, moreover, he continuously received requests from the young man for free goods granted out of fear.
“He had to complain to me about it. I, therefore, had a meeting with Alfredo Minichini obtaining from the latter that he no longer turned to V. to obtain goods or money beyond the monthly quota. He agreed. However , V. he boasted publicly of the favorable treatment he received, also going around saying that his son Michele Minichini was bisexual. Alfredo learned about it… he wanted satisfaction ” , the collaborator of justice tells the magistrates. At that point there was retaliation with gunfire.
Gaetano Vitagliano, 48, the reputed cashier of the Amato-Pagano clan, was arrested in Dubai
Dubai is finally doing something made deals with several western countries. More than 500 drugs dealers have been arrested by Dubai Police in the first six months of 2022 I read.
Camorra: 2 mafia-type associations defeated, 25 arrests in the Salerno countryside and seizure of assets worth 1 million In the indictment, the criminal organization led by Francesco Fezza and Andrea De Vivo has not abandoned the traditional extortion activity, an instrument of imposition on the territory and of displaying its presence. The union with Rosario Giliano - pivot of the newborn confederation dating back to the year 2020 - then allowed the Fezza-De Vivodi clan to increase its criminal strength. The historic Camorrista, nicknamed "the minor" due to his criminal affiliation dating back to the time in which he had not yet reached the age of majority, was in fact part of the Camorra association headed by Carmine Alfieri and, in particular, of its articulation attributable to Pasquale Galasso.
Seizure of assets for one million of financiers between Italy and Spain The crimes contested by the investigators are mafia-type association, association aimed at drug trafficking, extortion, attempted murder, fictitious ownership of assets, self-laundering, illegal carrying and possession of weapons, illicit competition with violence or threats, aggravated by the method and/or mafia purposes.
Instead, the Guardia di Finanza is carrying out a preventive seizure of assets, company shares, current accounts and financial relationships in the direct and indirect availability of the suspects, on the national territory and in Spain, for a total value estimated at around one million euros.
Naples, arrests today: maxi blitz in the night between Forcella and Maddalena, the mother of boss Mazzarella is also in prison The vast police operation underway from the early hours of the morning Monday 5 December 2022, 07:30 - Last update 09:50
From the early hours of the morning in Naples, in the Forcella and Maddalena districts , a vast operation by the State police has been underway in execution of an order issued by the Court of Naples at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against about twenty people seriously suspected of mafia-type association, extortion and possession of weapons, in various capacities linked to the Mazzarella clan .
Among the recipients of the arrests in prison there is also Antonietta Virenti , 64, the mother of the boss Michele Mazzarella , son of the clan leader Vincenzo. According to what emerged from the investigations of the mobile team (coordinated by the first manager Alfredo Fabbrocini), the clan also imposed the "pizzo" on the street vendors of the Maddalena market, forced to pay or to buy the clan's goods. And those who didn't pay were beaten, even publicly, as happened to a merchant who was slapped while he was at work.
Another prominent element of the Mazzarella clan is Massimo Ferraiuolo : an arrest in prison has also been issued and notified against him.
police seized 293 million euros in assets and companies in the regions of Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Sardinia and Lazio from the businessman Antonio Passarelli linked with the clans Mallardo, Di Lauro, Scissionisti, Pica, Aversano, Verde e Perfetto.
police seized 293 million euros in assets and companies in the regions of Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Sardinia and Lazio from the businessman Antonio Passarelli linked with the clans Mallardo, Di Lauro, Scissionisti, Pica, Aversano, Verde e Perfetto.
WOW Raffaele Imperiale has started a process of collaboration with Justice!!
The Public Prosecutor's Naples (deputy prosecutors De Marco, Caputo and Giugliano) deposited the first six reports, four containing revelations by Imperiale, one by his partner Bruno Carbone.
Imperiale and Carbone are leading exponents of the Amato-Pagano Camorra clan, also known as the splinter clan, active in the area north of Naples and at the forefront of international drug trafficking with contacts and alliances both in South America and in the Netherlands. The decision of the two to collaborate with the magistrates could provide the prosecutor with news of great interest, also with regard to the 100 million chats intercepted by Europol's IT experts, a large part of which would have been exchanged by them.
Mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, close contact of Taghi, defected to justice in Italy Mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale (48), a close contact of Ridouan Taghi and Richard R. ('Rico the Chilean'), has defected to the judiciary in Italy and is making statements as a repentant. In addition to his Camorra, they can also be of great importance to the most serious category of Dutch criminals.
Imperiale was one of biggest drug brokers in Europe , i bet a lot of high level guys are in danger right now. This is huge , players like Imperiale usually don't snitch
Imperiale was one of biggest drug brokers in Europe , i bet a lot of high level guys are in danger right now. This is huge , players like Imperiale usually don't snitch
According to the Dutch judiciary, Ridouan Taghi, Rico 'the Chilean' R. and Raffaele Imperiale formed a triumvirate that led a criminal organization that committed many murders and laundered drug money. Rico R. aka El Rico was sentenced to eleven years in prison for this.
According to FBI, Taghi was able to communicate with the outside world thanks to a prison guard.
The American intelligence and security service warned the Dutch authorities in December 2020 that Taghi could communicate unseen with the outside world. At that time he was already in the Extra Secure Institution (EBI) in Vught.
He actually communicated with Raffaele Imperiale, through Taghi's son, according to messages sent with crypto phones from the later hacked SKY Ecc. They would have been still in contact about drug deals.
He had been sentenced to death by his clan for an affair with the wife of another member of the clan. For this reason the Abbinante del Monterosa had included him in their very personal 'book of death' even digging the grave where they would have thrown his body. To save Luigi Rignante from certain death the men of the state police who arrested the elite of the clan. Hence the decision of the ex ras to repent and reveal the secrets of what, for a long time, had been his second 'family'. It has been a raging river ever since. Of dates, roles, duties of the Abbinante del Monterosa. To guide the magistrates in the journey inside the underworld of Scampia and Secondigliano. Rignante himself, the son of a doctor who became a camorrista before choosing to become a collaborator with justice. Rignante, after learning of the clan's death sentence against him, decided to turn his back on his group and go over to the side of the state by revealing all the secrets and, above all, the organization chart of one of the longest-lived clans in the 'north area.
Yesterday for the Abbinante the sentences arrived in the trial which took place with the abbreviated procedure: for the regent Antonio Abbinante the heaviest sentence, 20 years in prison. As for the others, the investigating judge Giovanni Vinciguerra established 14 and 10 years for Raffaele Abbinante and Arcangelo Abbinante . For Salvatore Morriale and Paolo Ciprio established 16 years while for the same Rignante came the sentence of 9 years and four months.
The 44-year-old Girolamo Scafuro was stabbed while in a car with a woman while in Giugliano by two unknown men. Scafuro is the son of Antonio Scafuro killed in an ambush in 2007 in Arzano in his funeral home where Girolamo himself was also injured, for some years he would have been close to the Moccia clan. He was hospitalized in the San Giovanni di Dio hospital in Frattamaggiore, the man would not be in danger of life. Scafuro's ex-wife Antonietta Santoro, arrested in a raid by the carabinieri in April this year, is the companion of the Amato-Pagano boss, Giuseppe Monferegolo.
Yesterday morning the agents of the San Giovanni-Barra Commissariat, during the territorial control service, in passing through vico Catari noticed a group of people who, at their sight, fled into the adjacent streets. The police officers, suspicious, carried out a check in a building with the entrance gate open where they found, among some piles of waste material, some parts of State Police uniforms, drugs, and several guns. Weapons and uniforms of the police may have been used to conduct ambushes as part of a Camorra war, in fact, the blitz was conducted in a fort of the Mazzarella clan. Therefore the guns will be subjected to ballistic tests by the police.
Afragola, New Year's ambush: it's a hunt for killers throughout the Neapolitan area Luigi Mocerino, originally from Acerra, was shot dead in the street
Investigations underway on the New Year's ambush in Afragola, in the Neapolitan area.
A 38-year-old man, Luigi Mocerino, originally from Acerra, was shot dead on the street, in via Domenico Mocerino, in the city center, as he was entering a delicatessen.
Some people would have hit him from behind with three or four shots. The man was already known to law enforcement. After a report to 112, the Casoria carabinieri intervened on the spot and are conducting the investigation.
Investigation of the Casalesi clan, summit in Ostia: the lawyer Gallinaro appears with Fioretto and Iovine The meeting took place during the birthday celebrations of the Sicilian Francesco Dimino. The investigators: the entrepreneur Aprea acted as intermediary
Until February 2022 he was the oldest prisoner in Campania and possibly Italy, Camorra boss Carmine Montescuro, who died last week, aged 89, in his home in Naples. For the investigators, the boss, originally from Sant'Erasmo, was a real "grey eminence" of the Neapolitan underworld. His release in favor of home detention was ordered by the surveillance court of Naples in consideration of the numerous and important pathologies from which he suffered. A few days ago he had returned home, dying, after spending a period in the hospital.
He played the role of mediator between the clans for at least 30 years, making sure that his small underworld group – called little Switzerland – had a strategic role in the division of the illicit business that moved through the port of Naples at the time fundamental hub for the Secondigliano Alliance and the clans that referred to the Mazzarella family .
He managed to cover for many years, always keeping a low profile, the role of ambassador among the Camorra cartels. Nicknamed "zi minuzz", Montescuro was arrested by the police on 24 October 2019. After an initial release, in November 2019, detention in prison was ordered again for him in November 2021 for violation of the precautionary measure under house arrest.
It was the conversion to Islam , an expedient initially adopted to escape death and then becoming a choice of faith, that kept Bruno Carbone alive , the right-hand man of the international drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale , nicknamed the "Van Gogh boss" . This was revealed by Il Mattino.
According to rumors leaked to some press last November, later confirmed, Carbone was arrested in northwestern Syria by a militia once linked to al Qaeda. The militia in question, the Hayat Tahrir al Sham (Hts), is a Salafist militant formation, closely linked to Ankara and currently active and involved in the Syrian civil war. Carbone - reports the newspaper - after his arrest allegedly suffered torture, threats and was now afraid of being killed when he decided - to save his life - to ask his captors for a copy of the Koran. A "found" initially aimed at avoiding a probable execution and then became a serious and convinced choice of faith.
From his golden fugitive in Dubai he had decided to flee after realizing that his arrest was now imminent. Under a false name, aboard a sultan's jet and paying a good 60,000 euros, he landed in Turkey from where he intended to leave for South America. But he is captured by the militia and so begins an ordeal that lasts many months. Until the liberation, in the middle of last November, and the delivery to Italy on which he set foot as a Muslim.
Weapons, drugs and racketeering: 17 arrests in a maxi operation in progress An investigation by the oplontine prosecutor's office led to this morning's operation
The blitz is underway right now. The carabinieri of the Torre Annunziata company are implementing a personal precautionary measure, issued by the investigating magistrate of Torre Annunziata at the request of the oplontine prosecutor, against 17 people.
These are suspects, for various reasons, for possession and drug dealing, extortion, possession and carrying of common firearms in a public place, centered in the popular "Poverelli" district of Torre Annunziata.
To define the contours of his murder, however, we need to go back to a month ago when Michele Mazzarella, Ciro Mazzarella and their cousin Salvatore Barile were arrested .. Ninety pieces of the group, indeed the entire ruling group of the clan.
In the pages of the decree of detention carried out against the three, the first trace with the contrasts and tensions with the Bosti and the Contini families and the potential scenario of a new war. Their capture has left a large slice of the territory unguarded.
One of the most dangerous fugitives left around is a racketeer Renato Cinquegranella has been wanted for 20 years. He is accused of the murder of "Bambulella" whose heart was ripped out
Vincent Sbrizzi Journalist January 16, 2023 1:47 pm
After Matteo Messina Denaro's arrest, four fugitives remain, considered by the Ministry of the Interior to be extremely dangerous. One of these is a member of the Camorra and his criminal "curriculum" earned him "by right" inclusion in this list. We are talking about Renato Cinquegranella, a camorrist believed to be a member of what was once the New Family, the cartel of clans opposed to Raffaele Cutolo's New organized Camorra between the 1970s and 1980s. Cinquegranella has been on the run since 6 October 2002 for crimes of mafia association, complicity in murder, illegal carrying of weapons and other crimes. Born in 1949, the name of Cinquegranella is linked to two episodes of enormous gravity that have marked the history of the Camorra and of our country.
The first is the murder of Giacomo Frattini in which he became a participant. "Bambulella", as the member of the Nco di Cutolo was called, was brutally tortured and murdered to avenge a murder that took place inside the Poggioreale prison. Frattini's body was found inside a sheet. He had been beheaded, his face disfigured and his hands had been cut off and his heart removed. Another "case" in which the name of Cinquegranella appears concerns the murder of the head of the flying squad, Antonio Ammaturo and his driver Pasquale Paola. The boss is accused of having given hospitality to the wounded members of the commando of the Red Brigades who took the life of the policeman. He welcomed them into his villa in Castel Volturno allowing them to escape, at first, after the firefight with the "falcons".
police arrested 24 members of the Mazzarella clan based in Naples and surrounding areas on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortions, money laundering and illegal possession of weapons. The investigations by the Carabinieri directed by the DDA also revealed the growing interest of the Mazzarella clan in the hydrocarbon trade and distribution sector. A trend on which, just a week ago, the spotlights of the Ministry of the Interior had been focused, which had highlighted the existence of a pact between the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta for control of the black market
police arrested 24 members of the Mazzarella clan based in Naples and surrounding areas on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortions, money laundering and illegal possession of weapons. The investigations by the Carabinieri directed by the DDA also revealed the growing interest of the Mazzarella clan in the hydrocarbon trade and distribution sector. A trend on which, just a week ago, the spotlights of the Ministry of the Interior had been focused, which had highlighted the existence of a pact between the Camorra and 'Ndrangheta for control of the black market
It seems that there has also emerged a growing interest on the part of the Mazzarella clan in the fuel trade and distribution sector, seen in requests for protection money from an entrepreneur in the sector and in the acquisition, by a franchisee, of a fuel distribution business in the Fuorigrotta area, near the Maradona stadium.
The activity of marketing smuggled cigarettes also appeared to be of particular interest to the clan, as well as the direct and indirect management of the main drug dealing squares in the eastern area of ??Naples.
police seized assets worth 50 million euros from the businessmen of trasport and waste sectors Michele and Giovanni Fontana, close to the Casalesi clan, Zagaria faction. Giovanni Fontana is also close to the narcos Raffaele Imperiale
police seized assets worth 50 million euros from the businessmen of trasport and waste sectors Michele and Giovanni Fontana, close to the Casalesi clan, Zagaria faction. Giovanni Fontana is also close to the narcos Raffaele Imperiale
Raffaele Imperiale, as well as Giuseppe Misso and Michele Barone made statements about the Fontana family.
Schiavone's stories against the businessman friend of politicians. The DDA wants him to testify Sandokan's son said he never knew Pino Fontana personally but knew that he was close to Michele Zagaria
The collaborator of justice Nicola Schiavone He doesn't know him personally, but he knows that he is an entrepreneur close to Michele Zagaria . This is what Nicola Schiavone , a former scion of his father Sandokan at the head of the Casalesi family, declared for about a year as a collaborator of justice on the position of Giuseppe Fontana , an entrepreneur from Casapesenna but transplanted to Caserta, involved in the Medea investigation which also embroiled several Caserta and Neapolitan politicians.
Schiavone's report was deposited by the DDA in the entrepreneur's appeal process which is taking place in Naples to ask for the renewal of the hearing investigation. In the coming days, the Court will decide whether or not to listen to the collaborator of justice via video link as requested by the Attorney General at the request of the DDA of Naples.
Schiavone told the magistrates that he knows the brothers of Giuseppe Fontana (known by all as Pino), with one of whom he also attended the Amaldi high school in Santa Maria Capua Vetere together. And on Pino's position he claims to have indirect knowledge "for having told me all the top exponents of the clan, in particular Giuseppe Misso, Nicola Panaro, Oreste Caterino, Antonio Iovine . I don't remember - he adds - having also spoken about it with Michele Zagaria as it constituted such consolidated news within the clan about the recognizability of these Fontana brothers and Michele Zagaria that there was not even need to talk about it between him and me ".
Rosario Giugliano known as 'o Minorenne and Nicola Francese remain in prison as decided by the Court of Review which rejected the appeal of the defense. Rosario 'o Minorenne , a sixty-year-old from Poggiomarino, and Francese are accused of being the perpetrators of the ambush committed on 13 April last in San Marzano sul Sarno, against Carmine Amoruso, injured following 14 pistol shots. Amoruso, also a native of Poggiomarino, had spontaneously left the protection program granted to him a few months earlier. The former collaborator of justice returned to the territory, settling in the Nocerino Sarnese countryside.
Manna goes back a long time, back in 1988 he was wounded in a sensational ambush in Casalnuovo in which two people were killed: Angelo D'Alife, 28, and Angelo Fico, 24. Manna, who was 24 at the time, was wounded in the legs together with another person.
"A real boss in a skirt", the repentant speaks of Marianna Giuliano From editorial board
Marianna Giuliano, 45, daughter of Forcella clan chief Luigi Giuliano and wife of boss Michele Mazzarella , is defined as "a real boss in a skirt" arrested today on charges of having ordered the murder of Salvatore Lausi, the cashier of the clan found guilty of having made disappear a box entrusted to him containing 100 million lire. According to what emerged from the investigations of the carabinieri, Michele, from prison, sent letters to the affiliates, even to the regent of the time Eduardo Bove (sentimentally linked to Anna Giuliano, sister of Luigi Giuliano). After the murder of Bove (killed on 5 January 2005) it was Anna Giuliano who delivered some letters to the investigators. In the declarations made on 11 July 2007, a collaborator with justice, Michelangelo Mazza , defines Marianna Giuliano as "a real boss in a skirt".
"She has always followed the story of the Mazzarella clan in a top position - explains the "repentant" - remaining a little aloof at her husband's important meetings". Then when Michele Mazzarella was locked up in prison, the repentant still explains "... his wife played a dual role, representing the communication channel between the Mazzarella clan and Michele who continued to be the boss, dictating directives and murder mandates..." but, he adds, Marianna "...was able to decide on her own and manage the illicit activities of the ordinary clan”. This, according to Mazza, also put her in strong contrast with the regent Bove and other top elements. Bove even attempted a split due to Marianna Giuliano, who received from 35,000 to 60,000 euros a month from the clan, as well as shares from the proceeds of drug dealing, video poker and some extortion.
He was killed in 2002 for a shortfall of 100 million lire, money that the Mazzarella clan had entrusted to him and that he was supposed to keep at home but which had disappeared from that presumed safe place. And her sister, to find out who had taken them, even asked a fortuneteller for enlightenment.
Her father nicknamed "'o rre" (the king) was one of the most famous bosses in history due to his links to Diego Maradona. In 2002, he decided to collaborate with Italian law enforcement and became a pentito, a co-operating witness against organised crime. There were many attempts to "pollute" Luigi Giuliano's collaboration with the judiciary, recently Luigi (73) told media that Paolo Di Lauro offered him a billion lire to make him accuse the other Camorristi. The Giuliano clan was on such bad terms with rival mobster Michele Zaza that it launched an attack against his nephew Pasquale in December 1979. The Giuliano clan had been in good terms with the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, headed by Raffaele Cutolo until the first half of 1979, but the two clans then broke out into conflict. Cutolo demanded to receive a cut from the Giulianos' illegal gambling centres and lottery system in his power base of Portici. Following this, the Vollaro clan leader named Luigi Vollaro raised the idea of an anti-Cutolo alliance with Giuliano. A provisional death squad was set up, which contributed to the dozens of gangland deaths that year.
Another Giuliano has repented in 2021. Salvatore Giuliano, 'o russ, as he is nicknamed in the parts of Forcella, is the murderer of Annalisa Durante, and had decided to speak with the magistrate of the DDA who is investigating the new criminal levers in the neighbourhood. He testified about the murder of Salvatore Lausi known as Pirulino, that he had been killed because he played a double game between the Mazzarellas and the Missos. Michele Mazzarella, 45, believed to have ordered the murder ; Vincenzo Mazzarella, 74, principal and organizer and Salvatore Barile , 39, as material executor in competition with Ciro Giovanni Spirito and Vincenzo De Bernardo , both deceased.
What is going on in Naples , this is like 4th killing since begging of year.
Another murder the 26-year-old Antonio Bortone, was shot dead shortly after 8 pm. Shortly after, another 29-year-old arrived injured at the Aversa hospital: investigators hypothesize a connection between the two episodes. Bortone is a well-known character in the northern area underworld.
ambush in Naples, the 20 years old Antonio Gaetano was shot and seriously wounded, he is a reputed member of the clans based in the neighborhood of Pianura
ambush in Naples, the 20 years old Antonio Gaetano was shot and seriously wounded, he is a reputed member of the clans based in the neighborhood of Pianura
Police say its retaliation to murder of Antonio Esposito on March 3. I guess we have Camorra war in Naples right now, its 7th killing in 2 months.
The son of a mafia boss who rebelled against his destiny Antonio Piccirillo – scion of a capo in Italy’s Camorra criminal organization – is encouraging other young people in his situation to stay away from a life of crime
Maria Licciardi , arrested by the Ros of Naples, on 8 August 2021, as she was about to leave for Spain from the Roman airport of Ciampino was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison. The alleged clan chief, considered by the Dda to be a member of the Secondigliano Alliance, was found guilty of being the leader of the criminal association founded by her brothers. Numerous extortions have also been recognized, some of which, however, have been classified as private violence.
Camorra-related ambush in the town of Torre Annunziata (Naples), Luigi Guarro, 44, member of the Gionta clan , was shot and seriously wounded
There was also a case of mistaken identity , Francesco Pio Maimone 18 , who was delivering pizza's for family restaurant when he was shot and killed in Naples.
Criminal organizations are harming the world of football: this is the complaint by the CEO of Serie A Luigi De Siervo released during a long interview with Il Corriere della Sera. The top manager also spoke of the possibility that Serie A could buy DAZN , in the event that the Lega channel is used to broadcast the matches.
“ We are going through a delicate moment. On the one hand, we have achieved fewer constraints in the sale of TV rights, with the ability to extend contracts from three to five years. On the other we are waiting for the measure against piracy, the scourge that weakens our football. The illegal activity, managed according to investigations by the Camorra and the Mafia, has caused a loss of one billion in three years” , De Siervo said.
Another murder in the Neapolitan area: Raffaele Malvone , 29, was shot dead today in Torre Annunziata. The ambush took place around 1 pm today, Sunday 26 March, in via Plinio : Malvone, with a criminal record, believed by the investigators to be close to the Gionta clan.
Another murder in the Neapolitan area: Raffaele Malvone , 29, was shot dead today in Torre Annunziata. The ambush took place around 1 pm today, Sunday 26 March, in via Plinio : Malvone, with a criminal record, believed by the investigators to be close to the Gionta clan.
This is like 3rd member of Gionta clan that was shot in last month. Do we know what is actually going on there ?
Another murder in the Neapolitan area: Raffaele Malvone , 29, was shot dead today in Torre Annunziata. The ambush took place around 1 pm today, Sunday 26 March, in via Plinio : Malvone, with a criminal record, believed by the investigators to be close to the Gionta clan.
This is like 3rd member of Gionta clan that was shot in last month. Do we know what is actually going on there ?
At the end of 2022 the Godfather spoke in court after years of silence. Valentino Gionta asked to have his say during a hearing. "I've wanted to talk for a year, but they haven't questioned me. I've been in prison for 30 years, but it's the first time I'm starting to talk about many things. I tell the judges to look carefully at their cards". He then adds: "Ask me, I'll explain things to you". This is how he began by addressing the magistrates.
Currently the boss is in prison with a life sentence, but his intervention seems more directed to defend his family than to repent.
He tried to explain the meaning of some wiretaps, above all to shelter his wife Gemma Donnarumma, who returned to Torre Annunziata after having served her sentence. And not only. Her defensive line is aimed at getting her daughter Teresa Gionta and her husband Giuseppe Carpentieri out of trouble, as well as her 39-year-old nephew with the same name. The three are on trial with him and accused of being the regents and of having reorganized the Gionta clan between 2020 and 2021, with extortion and drug trafficking.
Vincenzo Di Lauro arrested by the carabinieri of the Naples Investigative Nucleus in his home in Piazza Zanardelli. The second son of Paolo Di Lauro , known in the news with the initials F2, would be the instigator of one of the eight murders, that of Luigi Giannino , which took place during the Second Feud of Scampia .
Vincenzo 's arrest represents a severe blow to the clan founded by Ciruzzo o' millionaire, in fact, according to the investigators, he is the most operative son of the founding clan leader, the one with the greatest criminal capacity.
He was not involved in the first Scampia feud because he was imprisoned. He was arrested on March 27, 2007 for criminal association of the Camorra type and finally released from prison in January 2015.
Di Lauro repeatedly indicated by collaborators of justice as the financial mind of the clan and, above all, as a character endowed with enormous criminal charisma . Furthermore, according to Maurizio Prestieri unlike his brother Cosimo, Vincenzo would not prefer to resolve with violence, rather, he would be inclined to find a diplomatic way so as not to attract the attention of the police.
Immediate process for the children of the boss Bidognetti, they wanted to reorganize the Casalesi From editorial board
Immediate trial for 39 people accused of having reorganized the Casalesi clan in recent years, in particular the Bidognetti and Schiavone factions. Therefore, without the filter of the preliminary hearing, the children and sons-in-law of the boss Francesco Bidognetti, alias Cicciotto and Mezzanotte, will also appear before the judge . The investigating judge of the Naples court ordered the immediate trial, Isabella Iaselli, who accepted the request presented by the deputy prosecutors of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of Naples Maurizio Giordano, Graziella Arlomede, Fabrizio Vanorio, Vincenzo Ranieri.
THE THREE CHILDREN OF CICCIOTTO 'E MEZZANOTTE The boss's three children will go on trial at the beginning of June: the youngest Gianluca, the sisters Teresa and Katia , the latter's husbands Vincenzo D'Angelo and Carlo D'Angiolella, Emiliana and Francesca Carrino , respectively aunt and cousin of the children of the boss (Emiliana is Anna's sister, currently a collaborator of justice as well as the boss's former partner and mother of Gianluca, Katia and Teresa), and historians affiliated with the Bidognettis such as Giosuè Fioretto, Emiliana's husband , and Nicola Kader Sergio, Francesca's husband and held as area chief in Castel Volturno on behalf of the clan .
ACCUSED OF HAVING REORGANIZED THE CASALESI CLAN Among the accusations, in addition to having reorganized the clan above all around Gianluca, despite the latter having been in prison since 2008 for the attempted murder of his aunt and cousin Francesca conducted in Villaricca, also extortion against numerous commercial operators ( a businessman was shot in the legs), control of the funeral home sector thanks to agreements dating back to the 1980s with companies operating in the area, drug trafficking. According to the investigators , Gianluca Bidognetti's directives were implemented outside prison by the sisters Katia and Teresa , who received the salary of the clan, and the husbands of the latter, in particular that of Katia, Vincenzo D'Angelo.
Bruno Solla, 59, member of the De Luca Bossa clan, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Ponticelli (Naples)
Apparently fireworks exploded in various districts and areas of the district, historically controlled by the De Miccos. There are numerous testimonies from residents regarding the celebrations of the rival clan. His brother Salvatore Solla was killed in 2016.
Camorra in Naples, the Mazzarellas and the Alliance of Secondigliano 'masters' of the city Antonio Mangione
The two main criminal actors of the Neapolitan Camorra scene are the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella Clan. The first 'family' is made up of the Mallardos, Contini-Bostis and Licciardis. The MAZZARELLA clan is made up of numerous minor criminal groups, settled both in the neighborhoods of the center of Naples and outside the capital, thus extending its hegemony also over those active in the province of Naples. To better represent the criminal assets of the Camorra organizations operating in the city of Naples, the metropolitan area has been divided into the Central Area, the Northern Area, the Eastern Area and the Western Area as described below.
With reference to the Naples-Central Area (Avvocata, San Lorenzo-Vicaria, Vasto Arenaccia, San Carlo all'Arena-Stella, Mercato-Pendino, Poggioreale, Montecalvario, Chiaia-San Ferdinando-Posillipo) an area was considered homogeneous territory on the geo-criminal level corresponding to the districts of the historic center10 in the capital. This area is characterized by the co-presence in the same neighborhoods of clans affiliated to the so-called. ALLIANCE OF SECONDIGLIANO and others attributable to the MAZZARELLA clan.The territorial boundaries of the two criminal formations in these neighborhoods are very fluid, the result of the rearrangements resulting from the intra-clan rivalries and the numerous and continuous contrasting actions. The resulting power vacuums, if not promptly filled, systematically induced the opposing factions to take advantage of these disadvantages in order to expand their area of ??influence or to re-appropriate old lost territories.
It should be noted, in particular, that within the MAZZARELLA clan the claims of city territories passed under the control of the opposing CONTINI clan (SECONDIGLIANO ALLIANCE) are not dormant, precisely in the central area of ??the Neapolitan city where the borders between the two opposing criminal formations are even more fluid. The recent return to freedom of prominent members of a family affiliated with the MAZZARELLA clan, in the San Lorenzo district in the Forcella area of ??Naples, could be a harbinger of new friction between the two rival teams. The MAZZARELLA clan, through members of the same family or loyalists associates, would maintain its hegemony over other rival groups in the management of illegal activities in the "Decumani" area, in the Mercato districts, in the Stella district and in the areas between Porta Capuana and Porta Nolana, as well as in the so-called area. New houses. The presence of groups attributable to the MAZZARELLA clan can also be found in the area of ??the University, Santa Chiara and Piazza Bovio as well as in the area of ??Pallonetto di Santa Lucia.
Also in the Sanità district, where the influential associations11 attributable to the ALLENZA DI SECONDIGLIANO have been considerably weakened by recent police operations, the attempt at expansion by the MAZZARELLA clan through the BARILE family, which occupies a top position in the of the aforementioned mafia groups. The main criminal interests of the MAZZARELLA clan relate to counterfeiting, drugs and extortion activities committed to the detriment of traders and street vendors in the various city markets
The CONTINI clan, confederated to the so-called. ALLEANZA DI SECONDIGLIANO, would exercise a function of management and control over the groups operating in the Vasto, Arenaccia, Ferrovia, Rione Amicizia, Borgo Sant'Antonio Abate12 and surrounding areas. The information acquisitions of the period in question would appear to show no changes of the internal structures of the organization although two personal measures hit the leaders of the family in January and June 2022. In the first case, the attempt by the son-in-law and daughter of the clan chief to go to the United Arab Emirates would have been averted, where they would have long ago woven a dense network of relationships to manage the economic affairs of the organization and in particular the laundering, re-employment and self-laundering of the proceeds of illicit activities of the BOSTI-CONTINI clan. In the second case, 3 young people were arrested, including the nephew of the aforementioned clan leader, as they were believed to be the authors of an episode of serious violence committed near a restaurant in the historic center against a waitress and a foreign customer .
The same conflict between clans of opposing criminal cartels would be recorded in the Poggioreale district, where the CONTINI clan would be hegemonic in the control of illicit activities in those districts already considered a fief of the MAZZARELLA clan. Even in the Quartieri Spagnoli the criminal scenario would seem to be characterized by a high level of conflict between newly established groups looking for new spaces to manage their illicit interests and some old formations that would try to fill the power gaps. From this point of view, in the state of the info-investigative acquisitions, it would seem that we should read the episodes of armed violence during the semester committed to the detriment of subjects involved in the management of drug dealing squares but the dispute over alleys and areas would create tensions also with reference the management of extortion against commercial activities.
Naples-North Area (Secondigliano, Scampia, San Pietro a Patierno, Miano, Piscinola, Chiaiano, Vomero and Arenella). In the northern quadrant of the city of Naples, there is a large presence of homogeneous groups in each district, all adhering to or gravitating around the so-called. Secondigliano alliance. In the district of the same name, the judicial outcomes report the procedurally ascertained presence of the LICCIARDI clan which, despite the detention of its undisputed leader, is still divided into four subgroups with recognized operational autonomy but subordinate to the aforementioned clan: - Masseria Cardone group, direct emanation of the LICCIARDI family, headed by the closest non-detained family member; - group from the Don Guanella district whose alleged leader is in close kinship with the LICCIARDI family; -group from the Rione Berlingieri; - group from the Kennedy Ward which, due to the police operations that have taken place in recent years, is said to be in a situation of crisis in terms of criminal leadership and would be the object of the expansionist aims of certain neighboring groups.
18 people arrested in mafia vote-swapping probe Suspects include Melito di Napoli Mayor, councillors
(ANSA) - ROME, APR 18 - Police on Tuesday executed an arrest order in the Naples area against 18 people suspected of various crimes including political-mafia vote-swapping, attack on the political rights of citizens, mafia-type association, corruption, external complicity in mafia association, and attempted extortion. Melito di Napoli Mayor Luciano Mottola, elected in 2021 at the head of a centre-right coalition, City Council President Rocco Marrone, 38, and City Councilor Antonio Cuozzo, 25, were among 16 suspects placed on pre-trial detention.
Two suspected were placed under house arrest including City Councilor Massimiliano Grande, 50.
Antonio Architravo was acquitted , accused of having asked for protection money on the construction site in the name of the Contini clan, an offshoot of the Secondigliano Alliance .
Contini clan is still one of the most powerful clans in Napels.
La Torre/ Mondragone clan. From investigations carried out in 2013, which led to the arrest of 35 alleged affiliates, it emerged that the heirs of the clan appointed the boss Carlo Di Meo as regent of the criminal activity, who would have signed an alliance with Cosa Nostra, in particular with the boss Vincenzo La Placa of Palermo.
Nelle foto, da sinistra, Francesco Tibero La Torre e Carlo Di Meo
Vincenzo Costanzo, 26, with criminal records and close to the D'Amico clan, was shot dead in Naples
Nephew of the boss Antonio D'Amico. Costanzo may have paid with his life for ruthlessness and criminal choices not in line with the recent history of the group stationed in his neighborhood, he would have been disliked by many and has close ties with young people close to the De Miccos, the bitter enemies of the D'Amicos.
Nephew of the boss Antonio D'Amico. Costanzo may have paid with his life for ruthlessness and criminal choices not in line with the recent history of the group stationed in his neighborhood, he would have been disliked by many and has close ties with young people close to the De Miccos, the bitter enemies of the D'Amicos.
Celebration of Napoli taking the first place in Serie A was used to cover the murder.
As for the Camorra, Dia describes «a complex criminal system permeated by the operations of historical and consolidated criminal groups and aggregations with unstable balances which, not infrequently, seek to legitimize themselves by resorting to violent methods to assert their control of the territory. A crime always looking for new, better and more lucrative positions in the illegal markets but also interested in the expansion of a dense network of businesses. The investigations have documented the ability of the most traditional criminal associations to penetrate the entrepreneurial socio-economic bed often managing to consolidate monopolistic positions in entire sectors so as to significantly affect the economic fabric of the territory.
Ponticelli's boss cuts off his arm, Klaus Davi publishes the video
On Saturday afternoon in the Fiat district of Ponticelli, the Camorra boss Francesco De Martino severed his right forearm in front of the journalist Klaus Davi "in protest" . The episode was witnessed by several inhabitants of the neighborhood, De Martino's wife and other relatives. Davi, as he himself made known, had gone to Ponticelli to produce a report on the feud that is bloodying the east area of ??Naples. Intercepted away from home, he too had managed to speak to De Martino for a few minutes, who, however, had answered reluctantly and after a few jokes, had returned home.
Camorra: extortion, 10 arrests in the Caserta area
Naples, 23 May 09:52 - (Nova Agency)- In the province of Caserta, on charges of extortion aggravated by the mafia method, ten people were arrested by the Operations Section of the Carabinieri Company of Casal di Principe, in the province of Caserta, following an order issued by the investigating judge of the court of Naples, at the request of the Neapolitan Anti-Mafia District Directorate. The arrested would be members of a Camorra group formed around the figure of Mario De Luca, a historic exponent of the Casalesi clan, in an attempt to take advantage of the criminal vacuum that had arisen thanks to the arrests made over the years by the police. The investigations made it possible to identify the ten arrested (5 in prison and 5 under house arrest), who had extended their network of extortion in the territories of Casal di Principe, Teverola, Frignano, San Cipriano d'Aversa, Marcianise and Castel Volturno. The criminal group acted both directly against the traders and indirectly through the acquisition of a bribe on the debt collection of sums owed.
Naples, blow to the Ferrara-Cacciapuoti clan of Villaricca: 19 arrests in the maxi operation of the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza
Hard blow to the Camorra of Villaricca. A maxi operation conducted by the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza led to the arrest of nineteen people affiliated with the Ferrara-Cacciapuoti clan.
The people who ended up in pre-trial detention, after the order issued by the investigating judge of Naples, are investigated for mafia-type criminal association , extortion, violations of the legislation on weapons and drugs and attempted murder, crimes all aggravated by the purposes of facilitating the clan . During the operation by the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza, various companies were also seized for a turnover of approximately 16 million euros. The companies operated in the most disparate sectors: real estate, construction, hydrocarbons, cafeteria and catering, sale of foodstuffs.
Eleven pre-trial detention orders were made this morning in Torre Annunziata. The charges, for various reasons, are for drug dealing and extortion. In the crosshairs members of the Gallo-Cavalieri clan. Among the prominent names appear that of Lucia Gallo and her husband Giuseppe Colonia. But Gennaro Gallo alias son of Quarantuno was also arrested. Operations are still ongoing.
Camorra ambush at Pallonetto, Pasquale Sesso killed at 44: a 28-year-old arrested Jul 07, 2023
Naples – Pasquale Sesso , the man killed while he was aboard his scooter during the ambush that took place on Wednesday evening in the Pallonetto di Santa Lucia area, lost his life at the age of 44 . According to the latest reconstructions, the police would have stopped a 28-year-old, suspected of murder.
The 44-year-old would have been killed as he traveled the stretch of road between vico Solitaria and via Pallonetto. Several gunshots would have been fired against him , leaving him no way out: despite the rush to the Pellegrini hospital in Naples, the man died shortly after.
A short distance from the murder, the agents identified a prime suspect: he is a 28-year-old young man identified by the police who, according to what Corriere del Mezzogiorno reports , has ties to organized crime. Sesso, on the other hand, would have precedents for drug dealing and robbery.
The presence of the 28-year-old at the scene of the crime was ascertained from the footage recovered from the video surveillance cameras installed in the area. At the time of arrest, he was carrying a pistol , the weapon he may have used to kill the victim.
The young man was therefore first charged with the crime of illegal possession of a firearm. The investigations will then clarify his possible involvement in the ambush that sparked panic among the residents of the area.
“ You have to intervene with all your strength , what happened is total disgust. Earthquake shots. How is it possible that between the Monte di Dio barracks and the army building a few meters from what happened, we have to live barricaded with this fear or the fear of not getting off or not returning home because we risk getting shot? The state must make the state, it's a shame” – is one of the messages sent to the deputy Francesco Emilio Borrelli.
09 JULY 2023 12:25 Ambush in Naples with gunshots, 47-year-old in very serious condition
In Naples, a 47-year-old man, believed by investigators to be at the top of the De Micco clan, is in very serious condition after being the victim of an ambush in the Ponticelli district. Ciro Naturale was hit by three shots: one in the abdomen, one in the collarbone and one in the cheekbone. He was transported to the Villa Betania hospital. The dynamic is still to be reconstructed.
Who is Ciro Naturale, Ponticelli's Camorra broker, victim of an ambush that reduced him to the point of dying by Luciana Esposito July 9, 2023in Chronicle , Highlights0
Struggle between life and death Ciro Naturale known as 'o mellone , the 46-year-old who ended up in the crosshairs of Camorra hit men on the evening of Saturday 8 July, while he was in via Carlo Miranda in Ponticelli, a fort of the De Micco clan, where they also live some friends and relatives of the interpreter from the local underworld reduced to dying.
Admitted to the Villa Betania hospital in Ponticelli, where he was transported after the ambush, Naturale's clinical picture remains critical. Reached by several bullets in the chest, one in the collarbone and another shot, however, he pierced his skull, from one temple to the other. A hail of gunshots that caused very serious injuries. Undergoing a delicate surgery shortly after arriving at the hospital, his conditions remain critical.
The brother-in-law of the Scognamillo brothers, the famous "Bombò", the narcos of Ponticelli , was in turn a leading figure in the local underworld, not so much from a criminal point of view, but more for his well-known ability to earn and circulate money . Mind-boggling figures that have refreshed the coffers of the De Micco-De Martino clan for some time. A subject accustomed to the management of illicit businesses, those related to drugs in primis, a real Camorra broker . A role that made him a crucial pawn, mistakenly considered untouchable .
The value assumed by Naturale in the ambit of the Ponticelli Camorra chessboard is revealed in all its indisputable importance by recent events. First of all, from the decision of the boss Marco De Micco to indicate him as his predecessor in the management of the affairs of the clan, at the same time as his arrest, which took place in April 2022. A choice resulting from the need to satisfy a priority need: that of guaranteeing income consistent with the clan. A guarantee that only a seasoned businessman like 'o Mellone could guarantee. Although that passage of the baton caused quite a stir and aroused the discontent of the De Martinos who hoped for a different decision that would see the XX play a role of that caliber, above all considering the forces invested in the various feuds that had alternated in those years, intended to preserve and reaffirm the hegemony of the two-headed monster constituted by the De Micco-De Martinos. A disappointed expectation that saw the De Martinos focus on the military profile of the organization , going to form the armed wing of the organization, at least until the internal balance of the clan changed, thanks to some excellent releases that followed one another in the last months.
The top role covered by Naturale within the organization following the arrest of the boss Marco De Micco was underlined by the car bomb attack which exactly one year ago shattered his wife's Jeep, parked near the house in via Virginia Woolf and which also led to damage to the cars of other residents in the area. An attack wanted by the De Luca Bossas, under the guidance of Christian Marfella, the half-brother of Tonino 'o sicco who was released from prison at that historic moment and who revealed on several occasions the desire to hit 'o mellone himself to inflict a serious blow on the finances of the rival clan.
The attack - listened to live by the investigators - together with the threats addressed to Naturale's daughter by Marfella and the desire expressed by the latter and his followers - unaware of being intercepted - to concentrate on planning an ambush and killing 'o mellone , they contribute to rebuilding the climate of tension with which the Camorra broker had been forced to live. Not only the threats coming from rivals, but also the pitfalls inherent in the repentance of Antonio Pipolo , a former member of the Bodo-XX who just a few days before the raid aimed at the car of Naturale's wife had decided to collaborate with justice. As proof of his credibility,Pipolo allowed the policemen to find a large quantity of drugs, attributable to Naturale.
This is enough to understand why the atmosphere was full of tension in the ras' house. Down during the summer of 2022 Naturale used to spend long periods away from Ponticelli, a detail that also transpires from the dialogues between Christian Marfella and his loyalists who express all their regret for not being able to track him down before he disappeared.
Following the blitz that last January imprisoned those responsible for the mining attack targeting Naturale, the scenario would not have changed. So much so that the Camorra broker continued to spend long periods of time away from Ponticelli , limiting his presence in the neighborhood to the bare minimum , perhaps aware of having ended up in the eye of the storm or simply oriented towards a more cautious and prudent.
Certainly, the latest Camorra ambush staged in Ponticelli was not aimed at a minor subject. Considering the important role covered by Naturale in business and his kinship with a top figure in the local underworld, the decision to eliminate 'o mellone must have come from a reason that was anything but futile.
Four members of the Casalesi clan are investigated for three murders which took place in 1993, in particular for those of Antonio Russo and Sergio Bruno killed in Pianura on 20 October 1993, and for the murder of Gennaro Barba , killed at Villa Literno seven days later.
Among them three collaborators of justice Domenico Bidognetti, Pasquale Vargas and Vincenzo Cantiello.
According to what has been ascertained, the three murders would have occurred in the context of the conflict between the Neapolitan clans Lago and Contini for the control of illegal activities in the Pianura district. To act, hitmen from the Casalesi clan would have done a favor to the Lagos, while the victims were believed to be close to the opposite faction.
After 11 years on the run Vincenzo La Porta , a 60-year-old from Naples believed to be close to the Contini clan, part of the criminal cartel called the "Alleanza di Secondigliano", was arrested on the Greek island of Corfu.: betrayed by his support for Napoli. With the victory of the scudetto, La Porta could not help but celebrate. The carabinieri recognized him in a photo taken on the facade of a restaurant. He wore a baseball cap on his head, a blue scarf in his hands. After a long series of investigations and tailings, carried out with the precious collaboration of the Greek police forces, the carabinieri blocked him on the street while he was riding his scooter.
Oh okay. I know there's a sentence in first instance and then there's a definitive sentence. He was actually sentenced first to 8 years in 2014, then maybe it became definitive in 2018? Maybe that's why he was free this year. Pretty confusing.
Ambush in the Neapolitan area, shots fired in the street: man dying Editorial team — 17 September 2023
The man who was the victim of an ambush last night in Marigliano , a municipality in the province of Naples , is fighting between life and death . According to the reconstruction of the Carabinieri of the operational and mobile radio unit of Castello di Cisterna and those of the Marigliano station, the ambush took place in via San Rocco shortly after midnight. A 49-year-old local man, already known to the police, was hit by several bullets .
The man, rescued by an ambulance, was taken to Nola hospital with injuries to his abdomen and groin. He is hospitalized in serious condition, intubated , and in danger of dying. After a few hours, a 45-year-old from Casavatore showed up at the same hospital. He was wounded in the leg, probably hit by a bullet. His life is not in danger. The Carabinieri are investigating to reconstruct the story and verify whether the two injuries are connected.
Oh okay. I know there's a sentence in first instance and then there's a definitive sentence. He was actually sentenced first to 8 years in 2014, then maybe it became definitive in 2018? Maybe that's why he was free this year. Pretty confusing.
In Italy, there are 3 instances in the trials. The definitive sentence comes after the appeal.
The Italian legal system has a plurality of sources of production. These are arranged in a hierarchical scale, under which the rule of a lower source cannot conflict with the rule of an upper source (hierarchy of sources).
The Constitution of 1948 is the main source.[4] The Italian civil code is based on codified Roman law with elements of the Napoleonic civil code and of the German BGB. The civil code of 1942 replaced the original one of 1865.[4] The penal code ("The Rocco Code") was also written under fascism (1930).
Both the civil code and the penal code have been modified in order to be in conformity with the current democratic constitution and with social changes.[4]
The Neapolitan narcos Simone Bartiromo was considered a sort of Robert Oppenheimer by the Sorianiello clan.
This criminal status emerged in an environmental interception contained in the latest ordinance that hit the West Naples gang. So the 32-year-old would have explained the difference between Colombian and Bolivian cocaine , the latter considered to be of superior quality. In a conversation, captured in April 2021 at Simone Sorianiello 's house , the two talk about the bad smell given off by a variety.
At that point Bartiromo explains the 'formula' to the clan leader's son: " You have to take the Colombian so I mix it under the press... It is pressed and loses that acetone smell... Better to mix the Colombian than the Bolivian without smell because by mixing it you make 850 and 150 so the atomic bomb comes out and no one complains ."
On Monday morning, dozens of soldiers surrounded what is considered the stronghold of the Sorianiello clan , the so-called '99' in via Catone in the Traiano district, to execute several arrest warrants against bosses and followers.
In total, 26 measures were carried out thanks to the investigations coordinated by the Neapolitan DDA. Two prominent members of the gang managed to escape the raid: Simone Bartiromo, indicated as the main drug supplier, and Simone Sorianiello, son of the detained boss Alfredo and his current heir.
The Sorianello clan is one of the criminal groups of the Secondigliano Alliance.
Since dawn this morning, the Carabinieri and State Police have been carrying out a blitz in Ponticelli, in the eastern area of ??Naples: 31 people have been affected by restrictive orders issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Naples at the request of the Directorate Neapolitan Anti-Mafia District. The people involved are believed to be linked to the Camorra cartel called De Luca – Bossa – Casella – Minichini – Rinaldi – Reale, active in the eastern area of ??the Campania capital.
Attack on the Di Lauro Clan, 27 arrests: Tony Colombo and Tina Rispoli also in prison
The Carabinieri of the Special Operational Group and the Provincial Command of Naples carried out a precautionary custody order, issued by the GIP of Naples upon request from the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate against 27 suspects as they were seriously suspected in various capacities of crimes of mafia association, external competition in a mafia association, aggravated extortion, aggravated private violence, criminal association aimed at rigging an aggravated facilitated auction, criminal association aggravated by having facilitated a mafia clan and by the nature of transnationality aimed at the smuggling of foreign processed tobacco.
Among the recipients of the measure are neo-melodic singer Tony Colombo and his wife Tina Rispoli. They will be taken to prison.
Singer, Mobster's Widow Held In Naples Mafia Swoop By AFP - Agence France Presse October 17, 2023
A local singer and a mafioso's widow were among 27 people arrested Tuesday during a crackdown on members of the Naples mafia, who named one of their businesses after the Sicilian mob.
Neapolitan crooner Antonio "Tony" Colombo and his wife Tina Rispoli, the widow of assassinated "Camorra" boss Gaetano Marino, are suspected of working with the clan of jailed mobster Marco Di Lauro, police said.
Among the clan's investments was a ready-to-wear line entitled "Corleone", after the Sicilian town whose name was used for the fictional Mafia family in "The Godfather" films.
In the same spirit, the clan was also said to have launched an energy drink called "9 mm", a common size of ammunition for handguns.
Colombo, 37, announced his retirement from singing in 2020, a year after he married Rispoli, who was widowed when her mobster husband was gunned down on an Italian beach in 2012.
Colombo's latest song, "Ti aspetto all'Altare" ("I'm waiting for you at the altar), has nearly 60 million views on YouTube.
Among the 27 suspects targeted in Tuesday's operation was also a driver from the anti-mafia prosecutor's office, police said.
Here's one for you Hollander, not the most recent, but here goes:
THE CAMORRA & SACRA CORONA UNITA TEAM UP IN FUEL-SMUGGLING SCHEME, 37 ARRESTED & $56 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED April 12th, 2021
Finance and military police carried out precautionary measures for 45 people as part of an investigation, conducted by the Dda of Potenza and Lecce, on the infiltration of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita in the hydrocarbon sector through nominees and tax evasion. The operation was carried out between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto.
The Casalesi cartel, rooted in Caserta but with ramifications practically everywhere, and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita, originally from Taranto, in Puglia, had infiltrated the hydrocarbon sector, upsetting the market with fraud on excise duties and VAT and with intricate systems of false headers to circumvent controls. This emerges from the investigation coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorates of Potenza and Lecce, which led to personal and real precautionary measures for 45 people to the report on the loose for another 71 suspects.
Of the precautionary measures, 26 are in prison, 11 under house arrest, 6 prohibitions of residence and 2 prohibitions of the suspension from the exercise of two members of the Corps for 6 months. The operation began in the early hours of today, April 12, carried out by the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Taranto and Salerno and by the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Salerno between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto. In addition, seizures of properties, companies, warehouses and fleets of articulated lorries, ordered by the investigating magistrates of Potenza and Lecce, were carried out against the 45 suspects, for a total value of approximately 50 million euros. The accusations are, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at the commission of fraud on excise duties and VAT on mineral oils, fictitious registration of goods and companies, money laundering, self-laundering and use of money of illicit origin.
The investigation, we read in a note signed by the public prosecutor of Potenza, Francesco Curcio, and by the Lecce counterpart, Leonardo Leone De Castris , "confirmed how big organized crime and national mafias, by now, are financed if not in via exclusive, absolutely prevalent way, in one with drug trafficking, through these illicit smuggling activities which, in actuality, have reached gigantic proportions, which had never been reached in the past ".
In Taranto, investigators discovered, the organization revolved around the figure of Michele Cicala, who has ties to members of the Catapano-Leone clan from Taranto. The group, "using an innovative fraudulent know-how in the hydrocarbon smuggling sector, consolidated its business with that of criminal groups operating for some time in the same sectors with companies that already had their own market". He had thus allied himself with the other group, the one operating in the Vallo di Diano, between Basilicata and Campania.
"Basically - explain the Prosecutors - huge quantities of fuel for agricultural use were sold, which as known benefits from particular tax concessions, to subjects who then placed it on the normal market for transport, very often using the so-called white pumps". In practice, the Taranto group provided the Campania / Lucanian group with the names of agricultural entrepreneurs, unaware of all, to whom the companies fictitiously invoiced the sale of agricultural fuel; in reality the product was sold illegally to other economic operators who then placed it on the market, earning about 50% of the actual cost of each liter of petrol.
The group had also devised a system to prevent agricultural entrepreneurs from discovering the scam: "through computer mechanisms, they deceived the telematic system of the Revenue Agency , which was unable to deliver the electronic invoice to the fictitious customer / farmer apparent recipient of the caraburante who, therefore, remained unaware of the fake sale operation carried out using his name ".
The product came out of the tax warehouses with false documents attesting to the transport of agricultural fuel. In case of control by the police, the group used the same stratagem of the organization unveiled a few days ago in Rome: a pump was activated through a device that injected the dye into the vehicle's tank, changing the color and making it look like the agricultural one. Once it arrived in the commercial depots of the suspects, the truck stopped to simulate the unloading of agricultural fuel and the loading of that for transport, and then left again with false documentation. Once reached the final deposit, the transaction was not registered and therefore the black sale was completed. According to the magistrates, this activity yielded about 30 million euros every year.
On the Lucanian side, the investigations focused on the fuel companies of the Petrullo Group, led by Massimo Petrullo, which in recent years had experienced an exponential increase in turnover and investments. It emerged that the economic boom of the company coincided with the entry into the corporate companies of " members of the well-known Caserta family of Diana (of San Cipriano d'Aversa), who had invested in the company, in hidden form, capital from, with reasonable certainty and in any case at the level of circumstantial gravity, from previous illegal activities, especially in the waste trafficking sector, activities of very significant dimensions in relation to which Camorra boss Raffaele Diana had been challenged at the time by the Public Prosecutor of Naples, the aggravating circumstance of the facilitating purpose of the Casalesi clan ".
Over time, the magistrates point out, the Diana family had assumed a predominant role, so much so that Petrullo, now ousted from control, had tried to secretly agree with the Tarantini and had " even hired a killer to kill Diana, an attempt later abandoned " ; the disagreements had not resulted in a war "only because of the mutual interest in not raising excessive alarms about the illegal activities perpetrated, extremely profitable for both sides".
Among the illegal conducts, also "the participation in a tender for the supply of fuels in favor of the Consortium for the Reclamation of the Tyrrhenian Cosentino Basins, awarded through an irregular agreement, guaranteed by the proximity to a representative of local crime, able to impose itself even in a different territory from that of election. The full involvement in this episode of an employee of the Consortium, now subjected to house arrest, has been confirmed ". Finally, the complicity of a carabiniere was discoveredwho allegedly provided the group with information on the investigation in exchange for some cans of fuel which it then resold; the soldier, after the emergence of the elements against him, had already been transferred to another province in non-operational assignment in November 2019.
The operation follows another one in a few days that was carried out by the Guardia di Finanza between Campania, Lazio and Calabria and which revealed the interests of the Camorra (in particular the Moccia clan) and the 'Ndrangheta in the same sector; in that case the pivotal point of the investigation was the heiress and singer Anna Bettozzi who, according to the accusations, with the funds arrived from the Camorra had raised the fortunes of her company, Max Petroli, and had destabilized the market with a round of false invoicing and fulfillment.
That was a good racket Liggio, this bust also showed how powerful they are and far removed from the streets of Gomorrah.
Italian Police Arrest 16 Judges, Confiscate $1.3 Billion Of Assets In Enormous Anti-Mafia Move Adam Taylor Mar 19, 2012, 4:42 PM CET Naples, Italy Christopher Furlong / Getty Police have reportedly arrested at least 16 judges in an operation centered on the Italian city of Naples, the BBC reports.
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Those arrested are thought to be linked to the Fabroccino Camorra clan, one of Italy's most notorious criminal organizations. Corrierre.it describes those arrested as "at least sixteen tax magistrates, eight tax tribunal officers, a prominent lawyer who also teaches at university, and an accountant".
Around 60 people in total have been arrested, apparently for links to tax corruption. AGI.it is reporting that 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in assets has also been seized in the operation.
We've seen multiple reports that Italian organized crime has increasingly been moving away from traditional areas, such as drug running and protection rackets, into more sophisticated financial crimes. At the start of this year one anti-mafia group argued that in affect the Italian mob had become the largest "bank" in Italy.
Actually I have, people think that the Camorra are nothing but street gangs, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's a huge misconception. I'll try to find the other bust that involved over a billion.
I can't find the other billion euro asset seizure right now, but here's some more that are impressive:
$673 MILLION IN CAMORRA ASSETS SEIZED May 10th, 2011
Italian police say they have seized assets worth 600m euros (£526m) in the latest action against the Camorra. They include nearly 1,000 properties, 200 bank accounts, and several companies said to belong to the Mallardo clan associated with the Camorra, the Neapolitan-based Mafia. Several people suspected of being members of the group were arrested.
Police say the syndicate is involved in several businesses - from betting shops to pharmaceuticals. The assets include "around 900 properties, 23 companies, and 200 bank accounts" allegedly belonging to the Mallardos. Among those arrested was Feliciano Mallardo, the suspected clan boss.
"The clan's companies had seized control of entire economic sectors: from the production and distribution of coffee to betting shops to the wholesale trade in drinks and pharmaceutical products," police said. The clan also set up "numerous real estate companies" around Rome. Barely a week goes by now without another major operation against Italy's various organised crime syndicates.
In the past year, Italian authorities have changed their tactics by going after the assets of the crime syndicates. In another operation last month, they took control of more than 40 properties, 60 plots of land, nearly 200 vehicles, and 2 football clubs being used by the mob to boost their support. The aim is to weaken the mob's financial structures, making it difficult to earn money for themselves and to pay others.
Then there's this one:
$540 MILLION IN CAMORRA ASSETS SEIZED February 5, 2014
Around $540 million was seized in Tuesday’s sting targeting the Zaza clan of the Camorra organized crime group in Italy. Colonel Renato Chicoli of the anti-Mafia bureau in Rome said, “The investigations started 5 years ago in 2009 around Ciro Smiraglia, an entrepreneur who managed a huge flow of money in Rome.” He said Smiraglia, who was arrested on February 4th, is the nephew of the deceased organized crime boss Michele Zaza, the founder of the Zaza clan.
The clan’s current leader is Salvatore Zaza, who is serving a term in Tolmezzo jail. Stefano Zaza, Salvatore Zaza’s son, was arrested in Naples. Police also arrested a nurse working in Tolmezzo jail for allegedly smuggling a SIM card to allow the elder Zaza to “keep working” from jail. 2 members of the Naples police force are under house arrest because of the sting. Police linked a network of companies to Smiraglia, indicating that Rome is still one of the major destinations for the money the Zaza clan collects from drug smuggling and extortion. Police have arrested 28 people and are still seeking 1 fugitive. All of them are charged with organized crime association, fraud, and extortion.
“The operation was actually an attack on the clan on 2 fronts,” explained Chicoli. “In Naples the police arrested 13 people, all members of the clan, that kept the Fuorigrotta neighborhood under control through extortion and drug smuggling. That money went to Rome, where Smiraglia made it grow.”
In Rome, Smiraglia’s network allegedly included 2 officials of the Agenzia delle Entrate tax collecting authority, who helped the group evade taxes from cars brought in from Germany, a bank director who gave inside information on potential clients, and a number of Smiraglia’s relatives.
Among the seized goods is property in Rome, Gorizia, Genova, and Caserta. Police have seized 20 companies, including those involved in the construction, hotel, car sales, financial management, gambling, and racehorse management industries.
In Rome, authorities seized 3 4-star hotels (the G Hotel, the Abitart, and the Bellambriana) as well as the smaller Joy Hotel and Mood club, a center city disco, because they believed they are under the Zaza clan’s control. Authorities also seized dozens of bank accounts, several cars, a large yacht, and 18 racehorses, some of which are sons of the champion “Varenne.”
Then there's this one:
$23 MILLION IN COSA NOSTRA ASSETS SEIZED; $67 MILLION IN CAMORRA ASSETS SEIZED July 15, 2018
Sicilian police moved to confiscate an array of assets including 65 properties and 19 cars from a notorious Mafia boss as authorities underlined the new Italian government's pledge to crackdown on organized crime. Police published pictures of a villa with a vast swimming pool and panoramic views overlooking Palermo, one of a handful of assets worth as much as €21 million (£18 million) seized from Mafia boss Pietro Formoso.
Formoso is a prominent mobster from the Misilmeri clan of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, who made his money from international drug smuggling and forcing Sicilian supermarkets to use meat supplied by the underworld.
Gen. Giancarlo Trotta, the commanding officer of the finance police who seized the assets, said: “This is a new blow against Mafia infiltration of the legal economy and against the Mafia that damages companies who respect the rules.” This will go some way in underlining the new populist Italian government’s claim to be spearheading a new crackdown on organized crime. Formoso was arrested before the coalition of the League and the 5 Star Movement took office.
Matteo Salvini, the Interior Minister and leader of the hard-Right League party, earlier this month called television crews to film him swimming in another gangster’s confiscated pool in Tuscany to highlight his determination to fight crime gangs - though that villa had been seized as long as seven years ago.
In Caserta in the province of Naples police in a separate operation early last week seized assets worth an estimated €60 million from 2 Neapolitan mobsters from the Camorra, Gaetano and his brother Silvestro Balivo, aged 54 and 64, confiscating 5 construction and medical companies, accounts in 14 banks, 13 cars and more than 100 houses and pieces of land. Mr. Salvini commented on the latest the Naples seizure by tweeting “the Mafia disgusts me”. Italian authorities seized crime assets worth an average of €1.6 billion euros per year from 2010 to 2014, l'Espresso magazine reported.
Then this one:
19 MEMBERS OF THE CAMORRA ARRESTED AND $17 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED
Hard blow to the Camorra of Villaricca. A maxi operation conducted by the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza led to the arrest of 19 people affiliated with the Ferrara-Cacciapuoti clan.
The people who ended up in pre-trial detention, after the order issued by the investigating judge of Naples, are investigated for Mafia-type criminal association, extortion, violations of the legislation on weapons and drugs and attempted murder, crimes all aggravated by the purposes of facilitating the clan. During the operation by the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza, various companies were also seized for a turnover of approximately 16 million euros. The companies operated in the most disparate sectors: real estate, construction, hydrocarbons, cafeteria and catering, and sale of foodstuffs.
And this one:
29 MOBSTERS FROM THE CAMORRA ARRESTED; $143 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED October 3, 2008
Italian police arrested 29 people in the Naples area Tuesday in a crackdown on the Camorra after the killings of an Italian businessman and 6 African immigrants earlier last month. They had arrested 3 suspects in the September 18th murders.
“The war against the Camorra will continue until it is done,” said Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, whose government last week ordered 500 troops to the Naples region for 3 months to assist in the crackdown. Maroni said last week that the Camorra had declared war on the Italian state.
Casalesi Clan Suspected
The September 18th murders were allegedly committed by the Camorra’s feared Casalesi clan in the town of Castelvolturno. An Italian was killed at an arcade, and at an African-run boutique, 6 Africans from Ghana, Liberia, and Togo were shot dead. The BBC reported that the killings may have been the Camorra’s response to foreigners moving in on its lucrative drug trade. Police raided small coastal villas near Naples and rounded up the 3 suspects, and found 2 AK-47 assault rifles, pistols, police uniforms, and other disguises. Another suspect in the murders was arrested on September 22nd.
Prosecutors had issued more than 100 arrest warrants on Tuesday, about 70 of which were issued for people already convicted of crimes or awaiting trial in jail. Police then arrested several people suspected of holding high rank in the Casalesi clan, including Guiseppina Nappa, the wife of Francesco Schiavone, whom investigators suspect of running the group from jail. She is accused of taking monthly payments that the Camorra pays to the families of jailed members. Police also took control of buildings and seized assets valued at €100 million ($143 million).
This one:
$18 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED FROM CAMORRA-LINKED BUSINESSMAN IN ITALY & ROMANIA August 31st, 2021
Italian police on Tuesday seized some 16 million euros in assets from a Salerno businessman allegedly linked to the Naples-based Camorra crime group.
Roberto Squecco has been convicted of crimes that favoured the Camorra's Marandino clan.
The assets were seized in Italy and Romania. It is the first time that an EU measure on mutual recognition of seizures has been applied, said anti-crime central director Francesco Messina. "We are now able to address the offshoring of Mafia assets," he said.
And this one:
OVER $50 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED FROM MOB-TIED BUSINESSMEN IN THE TRANSPORT AND WASTE SECTORS February 23rd, 2023
Police seized assets worth 50 million euros from the businessmen of transport and waste sectors, Michele and Giovanni Fontana, close to the Casalesi clan, Zagaria faction, of the Camorra. Giovanni Fontana is also close to Camorra drug lord Raffaele Imperiale.
Then there's this one:
$340 MILLION IN ASSETS CONFISCATED FROM THE CAMORRA January 24, 2014
On Wednesday, Italian police issued more than 90 arrest warrants in a nation-wide operation against the Camorra, a Mafia-style organization that originated in Naples. Authorities also seized $340 million of its assets. Police said the operation, dubbed “Operation Aracne” from the Greek word for “spider,” gave a mortal blow to one of the most prominent clans within the Camorra, the Contini clan.
In Rome, Operation Aracne led to the closing of more than 20 restaurants and pizzerias. Most were managed by the Righi family, who prosecutors believe control the Contini clan’s money laundering operations.
According to Direzione Investigativa, Camorra godfather Edoardo Contini created a financial empire over the past 20 years by successfully distributing cocaine in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Naples.
In the Naples region, police seized 49 Contini owned companies and 28 estates, and froze more than 500 bank accounts. Contini business in this region was managed by the Di Carluccio family, who were involved in the oil industry. Seizures were also made in Tuscany, where the Camorra allegedly had a network of clothing businesses.
In the Apulia region, the investigation is still ongoing, and focuses on the Gallipoli football club. Authorities believe the Righi family paid an opposing team a $68,000 bribe in 2008 so the Gallipoli club would be promoted to a higher football league division.
Operation Spider shows how organized crime has penetrated the Italian economy. It follows an October 2013 report from Coldiretti, a national food organization which claims that about 5,000 restaurants in Italy are controlled by organized crime.
The office of Franco Roberti, Italy's national prosecutor in the fight against organized crime, said that the legitimate businesses created by the Contini crime family in the food, clothes distribution, and gas station industries were essential for allowing the clan to successfully earn illegal profits and avoid scrutiny. Police say the Contini clan also spread their influence through extortion, loansharking, and cocaine and heroin trafficking overseas.
I just posted 7 different huge asset seizures against the Camorra. All the big groups in Italy are interconnected now, probably more so today than ever before. The media loves to talk about this group gaining more power over that group but the truth is they really all work together oftentimes on joint ventures.
If I could just remember the name of that big Camorra businessman I could probably find the other billion euro seizure. If memory serves me well I think he was even killed.
Here's one that involves over a billion euros from 2011, but it wasn't the one I was talking about:
Police seize one billion euros in mafia assets
Italian police have seized assets worth around one billion euros (1.5 billion dollars) from the Polverino mafia clan based in the Naples region, including companies, land and yachts, police said Thursday.
A police operation on Tuesday netted 39 alleged clan members on charges including extortion, drug trafficking and illegal financial dealings.
Two of those arrested were candidates from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling People of Freedom party in upcoming local elections.
The arrests are the fruit of a joint investigation between Italian police and the Guardia Civil in Spain into the activities of the Polverinos.
Investigators said the clan controls a major drug trafficking network in the northern suburbs of Naples, supplying the Italian market from Spain.
The Naples crime syndicate, the Camorra, is a vast and wealthy organisation that is heavily involved in the drugs market and controls large parts of the construction and retail industries in the southern Italian region of Campania.
Caserta: flying squad arrests regent of the Casalesi clan October 20, 2023 He was considered the new regent of the Casalesi clan. The agents of the Caserta flying squad arrested the boss Emilio Martinelli this morning, in execution of a precautionary custody order in prison, issued by the investigating judge office of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate. He is accused of mafia-type criminal association. The provision arose from the investigations carried out by the Caserta flying squad, coordinated by the Naples DDA, during which elements emerged which made it possible to reconstruct the reorganization of the Casalesi clan and the links between the different confederate groups, each operating in their own area . After a first operation in 2021, subsequent investigations made it possible to ascertain that the Casalesi clan, despite the convictions reported by some exponents and the decision of others to collaborate, has always continued to be operational, around the new generations of the Schiavone and Bidognetti, with an important role played by Emilio Martinelli , son of Enrico , a leading element of the Schiavone faction currently detained at 41bis. During the investigations of the Caserta flying squad, it emerged that Martinelli junior assumed the role of true regent of the Casalesi clan for drug trafficking, extortion against traders, car rental and scams relating to the 110% bonus in the territory of San Cipriano di Aversa. Together with five other people, already in prison for some time, but with a very specific role also in the management of the arsenal available to the clan, including revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, Kalashnikovs and UZI model machine guns.
I was wrong, the bust I was thinking of didn't involve a billion, but 700 million. But if you put it in dollars it's close to a billion. It was Camorra businessman Dante Passarelli.
I was wrong, the bust I was thinking of didn't involve a billion, but 700 million. But if you put it in dollars it's close to a billion. It was Camorra businessman Dante Passarelli.
I'm familiar with the 'Sugar king' the Passarili's are from casal di principe, in February the confiscation of assets against Biagio, Gianluca and Davide Passarelli, heirs of Dante Passarelli, has been annulled. The Court of Appeal declared the statute of limitations for the crimes. There is also no place to proceed for Vassallo. Carmine Vassallo pocketed sums of money deriving from the rent of seized goods.
Extortion and drug trafficking, 14 arrests between Benevento, Caserta and Avellino They are under investigation for mafia-type association, extortion, illegal possession of weapons. Precautionary measures were also carried out in Potenza and Catanzaro 08:36
Carabinieri operation Since the early hours of the morning, a vast operation by the Carabinieri of the Benevento Provincial Command has been underway in various municipalities of the Caudina Valley and in the provinces of Avellino, Caserta, Potenza and Catanzaro.
The military, with the help of canine units, are carrying out a precautionary custody order in prison issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate against 14 people seriously suspected, in various capacities, of criminal association mafia type, as well as crimes of extortion, damage, possession of explosive material, illegal possession and carrying of weapons and association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic substances, all with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.
30.10.2023 • 09:35 Zombie companies, unlicensed units, widespread smuggling and debts of millions of euros make up the dark side of Greek fish farming, not to mention the extensive theft of fish from aquaculture installations.
It is estimated that between 7,000 and 10,000 tons of fish are traded illegally, as they are not recorded in accounting statements.
These are the quantities of fish that are allegedly channeled into the market, inside and outside of Greece, without documents, with the scammers making use of the good old Italian mafia networks, mainly those located in Naples, and the transactions are almost exclusively conducted in cash.
The son of the Camorra super fugitive Cinquegranella (74) was arrested last week in Genua, he was among the members of a well-known bar on the seafront. Six people of Campania origin living in Genoa, subjected to investigations for having committed in concert with each other the crime of fraudulent transfer of values, originally contested with the aggravating circumstance referred to in art. 416-bis.1 for having committed the crime referred to in art. 512-bis of the Criminal Code to facilitate the mafia-type association called Camorra.
Since 2002 Renato Cinquegranella is wanted for mafia-type criminal association, murder, illegal possession of weapons and extortion. In the 1980s he was linked to the Nuova Famiglia and also accused of giving refuge in his villa in Castel Volturno to terrorists belonging to the Red Brigades. Since 2019, Renato Cinquegranella is the most wanted fugitive belonging to the Camorra.
18 arrests for mafia infiltration at Caivano Public contract winners victims of Camorra racketeering \ (ANSA) - ROME, NOV 1 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested 18 people in a probe into suspected Camorra mafia clan infiltration in the crime-ridden Naples area town of Caivano, which hit the headlines and prompted government action after the teen gang rape of two cousins aged 10 and 12 last summer. Caivano town council was already dissolved for mafia-related offences on 16 October. This latest alleged infiltration is related particularly to the management of public works contracts, judicial sources said. Police said the criminal organisation was able to obtain confidential information from public administrators regarding the awarding of contracts so that they could address extortion demands to the winners. The government this summer issued a Caivano decree aimed at curbing youth involvement in Mob activities, setting jail time for parents who fail to stop their children truanting. A whole raft of measures was aimed at fighting mafia and drugs related crimes in the town, which is seen as a test bed for many towns in particular in southern Italy. photo: Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi chairs recent public order meeting at Caivano with prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and Naples Prefect Claudio Palomba (ANSA).
NEWS CASAL DI PRINCIPE The family members of the Casalesi bosses paid by the clan: "Zagaria group excluded from the list" The revelations of the repentant Salvatore Orabona end up in the information against Martinelli jr
Alist of affiliates of the Casalesi clan restricted to 41bis who were to be paid a monthly salary of 2500 euros. This is what was established by the leaders of the criminal association during a meeting. Justice collaborator Salvatore Orabona spoke about it during an interrogation in 2016.
The summit was attended by, among others, Giacomo Capoluongo, Emilio Martinelli (recently hit by a precautionary custody order), Salvatore Fioravante and Orabona himself. "We agreed in that meeting that we had to deliver the salaries that they had not received for some time", said the justice collaborator who specified the complaints represented by the families of the prisoners who had not received their salaries since the arrest of Carmine Schiavone, son of Sandokan .
The families of the bosses at 41bis were included in the list - drawn up by Giacomo Capoluongo: Francesco Bidognetti, alias Cicciotto 'e Mezzanotte; Francesco Schiavone Sandokan, his cousin of the same name known as Cicciariello, Enrico Martinelli (Emilio's father), Elio Diana, Raffaele Diana known as Rafilotto, Sebastiano Panaro and Vincenzo Schiavone known as Petillo. They would have been paid the sum of 2500 euros per month.
The Zagaria group was not included in the list because the family itself stated that it did not want to have contact with us as it feared that there could be, following our operations, arrests and regrets, in any case they had absolutely no financial difficulties".
Blitz in Scampia against the Abbinante clan, 37 arrests Cc investigations, leading members of the gang also in handcuffs NAPLES , 07 November 2023, 09:29
ANSA editorial team
The Carabinieri of the Napoli Stella Company are executing a precautionary order issued by the judge for preliminary investigations at the Court of Naples, at the request of the DDA, against 37 people referable in various capacities to the Abbinante clan, operating in the Neapolitan district of Scampia.
Among these, the recipients of the measure are also the last prominent exponents of the Camorra cartel, at liberty until today, who would have used the family name to assert their strength in the neighborhood. The suspects are accused, in various capacities, of the crimes of mafia-type criminal association, association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic substances, extortion, illegal possession and carrying of weapons, illicit production, trafficking and possession of narcotic substances.
All crimes aggravated by the mafia method and purposes.
Ambush in the clan's fort, an 18-year-old seriously in hospital by Luigi Nicolosi SHARE: Sat 11 November 2023 08:56
The fort of the Casella clan is the new epicenter of the interminable feud in East Naples. After the numerous incidents recorded in recent months, last night in Via Franciosa there was bloodshed which unfortunately had been in the air for some time now. The one who got the worst was a boy of just 18 years old, Daniele Frassanito, originally from Taranto but domiciled in Ponticelli, already known to the police archives despite his very young age.
They hid 7,700 kg of marijuana in their house: two arrests in Salerno They are 71 year old CD and 66 year old AM, both residents of the city and accused of possession for the purpose of trafficking of narcotic substances During a house search, carried out by the Carabinieri of the Operational and Radiomobile Unit and the Dog Unit of Sarno, they were found in possession of 4 bags containing a total of approximately 7,700 kg of marijuana.
Two injured, not seriously, a few hours apart in Naples and its province. The first episode happened yesterday morning around 9 in via Musci in Pollena Trocchia): a 47-year-old man was injured by a gunshot and transported to the Villa Betania hospital in Naples where office staff arrived General prevention. The conditions of the injured man, Massimiliano Baldassarre were not considered serious.
According to an initial reconstruction, the man was shot in the right arm while he was on the street in the Vesuvian municipality. He was treated in hospital and later discharged. Agents from the San Giorgio a Cremano police station and the Flying Squad are reconstructing the dynamics.
Another episode around 12: agents from the Ponticelli police station intervened at the Ospedale del Mare in Naples where a man, Filippo Lernia , 46 years old, arrived with gunshot wounds: a shot hit him in the right leg but his life is not in danger.
Camorra clans are also taking advantage of new technologies to do business. This important detail was discovered by the military economic-financial police units of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples, Trieste and Frosinone, in collaboration with the Central Investigation Service on Organized Crime, which carried out two attacks in Campania, Lazio and Emilia Romagna. preventive seizure decrees concerning movable and immovable assets for a total amount of over 150 million euros against 11 subjects under investigation, in various capacities, including in association form, for multiple tax crimes, false corporate communications, fraudulent transfer of values and self-laundering.
The investigations have revealed the concrete risk that the suspects would nullify the financial guarantee for the treasury also through operations on foreign accounts, the establishment of trusts, the registration on bitcoin platforms and the repeated fictitious registration of companies and movable assets and properties to nominees.
New technologies, favored by progress in cryptography - i.e. the application of methods that serve to make a message comprehensible/intelligible only to people authorized to read it - and by the evolution of the internet, are causing a radical change in the global economy, with particular reference to the financial sector, in terms of the methods of exchange of goods, services and any financial activity. Among the most significant applications of digital technology to the financial sector stands out the birth and spread of "cryptocurrencies" (or "virtual currencies"), the best known of which is bitcoin.
The clan's drugs, raid in the 219 district of Brusciano: 41 arrests Maxi operation by the Carabinieri, the organization linked to the Rega-Piacente clan defeated: residents denied the keys to the doors, intercoms also dismantled
35 people in prison, 6 affected by a residence ban in Campania: this is the outcome of the maxi operation launched this morning at the first light of dawn by the Carabinieri of Castello di Cisterna. The target of the raid was a criminal syndicate specialized in drug trafficking which had established its operational base in the 219 district of Brusciano, in the Neapolitan area. Linked to the Rega-Piacente clan, the group was organized with rigid working methods: the pyramidal structure included a street leader, then drug dealers and lookouts, who alternated in 8/10 hour work shifts to effectively cover the entire day. Swiss punctuality is the request of the bosses during shift changes, thanks to video surveillance the carabinieri have in fact discovered that even the slightest delay could lead to dismissal from the organisation. The investigations showed how the drug dealing activity, often carried out in the presence of children, also affected the private lives of residents outside the clan, to the point that none of the condominium owners were in possession of the keys to the entrance doors and the intercoms had been removed to avoid unauthorized opening.
When the Camorra or N'Drangheta encroach out of Calabria and Campania,into places like Lazio, Abruzzo,Molise,Basicalata and Apulia,do they take in members from those regions?
When guys already involved in organized crime for those areas,came to continue their activities in America,in the early days were they part of the 3 major mafias here-Camorra,Sicilian Mafia,or N;Drangheta, or did they have names for their own organizations?
What do you know about the Zaza clan? In 2014 $540 million in assets were seized from them.
Zaza clan is Mazzarella clan, one of most powerful Camorra groups next to Casalesi and Licciardi.
Zaza is a branch of Mazzarella, until 2009 it was headed by Salvatore Zaza, who was one of biggest drug traffickers of Camorra, he was arrested in 2009 in Barcelona.
That Mafia Summit thing in Milan made me realize just how much I overlook and underestimate the Moccia clan. They might be the most white-collar, richest family in the Camorra...
That Mafia Summit thing in Milan made me realize just how much I overlook and underestimate the Moccia clan. They might be the most white-collar, richest family in the Camorra...
Ambush in the Neighborhoods, the boss' nephew shot Fri 01 December 2023 09:25
Ambush in the night: Salvatore Equabile, a 42-year-old with multiple criminal convictions, nephew of the Quartieri Spagnoli boss, shot in his legs. He told the police that he had been the victim of an attempted robbery in via San Nicola La Strada. The case is being investigated by the Carabinieri of the Naples mobile radio unit, who intervened in the Pellegrini emergency room and listened to the victim.
His version is being examined by investigators, but knowing his criminal record it seems rather unlikely. Salvatore Equabile, known as "Sasà", was arrested after a long absence in 2011. He was on holiday at the seaside when the carabinieri captured him. Equabile was already known to the police for robbery and weapons, and was considered a leading member of the Terracciano family. And, above all, he is the nephew of the clan leader Salvatore Terracciano, known as 'o nirone.
Clan Polverino, on appeal flurry of sentence reductions for the Ras of Marano Alfonso D'Arco
The appeal process which saw the last diehards of the Polverino clan from Marano, including Giancarlo Siani 's two killers , ended with a flurry of discounts . For them too, as for their children, there have been significant redeterminations of sentences. This was established by the Court of Appeal of Naples which thus reduced the sentences for Armando Del Core and Ciro Cappuccio to 5 years and 4 months compared to the 9 years of imprisonment imposed in the first instance. Same 'softening' for their children with Ciro Cappuccio sentenced to two years and eight months compared to the six inflicted in the first instance, and ten years for Nicola Del Core who however received 16 years in the first instance.
Significant sentence reduction also for Raffaele Ruggiero who, compared to the 15 years of the first degree, was sentenced to ten years with the exclusion of the aggravating circumstance inherent to the association: the defensive line followed by his lawyer, the criminal lawyer Luigi Senese, is fundamental , who managed to obtain a substantial sentence reduction. Other results include a 16-year sentence for Michele Marchesano, brother-in-law of the boss Luigi Polverino, and ten years for Luigi Esposito (defended by Domenico Dello Iacono) compared, however, to 16 years in the first instance.
Ambush in the Neighborhoods, the boss' nephew shot Fri 01 December 2023 09:25
Ambush in the night: Salvatore Equabile, a 42-year-old with multiple criminal convictions, nephew of the Quartieri Spagnoli boss, shot in his legs. He told the police that he had been the victim of an attempted robbery in via San Nicola La Strada. The case is being investigated by the Carabinieri of the Naples mobile radio unit, who intervened in the Pellegrini emergency room and listened to the victim.
His version is being examined by investigators, but knowing his criminal record it seems rather unlikely. Salvatore Equabile, known as "Sasà", was arrested after a long absence in 2011. He was on holiday at the seaside when the carabinieri captured him. Equabile was already known to the police for robbery and weapons, and was considered a leading member of the Terracciano family. And, above all, he is the nephew of the clan leader Salvatore Terracciano, known as 'o nirone.
Salvatore Equabile was involved in 2005 murder of Raffaele Iannaccone.
9 DECEMBER 2023 11:13 Camorra ambush with a Kalashnikov machine gun, the killers' target emerges unharmed Shooting occurred in Lettere with an assault machine gun: car riddled, but victim slightly injured. By Naples editorial team
A full-blown ambush, the killer (or perhaps there were several people, given the weapon used) was followed, aimed at and attacked with a submachine gun, a Kalashnikov. It is a type of weapon that is difficult to use for a "demonstration action". The incident occurred yesterday night in Lettere, a municipality perched on the Lattari mountains , shortly after Castellammare di Stabia, in that area which is defined as "the Jamaica of Campania", given the Indian hemp plantations which the police forces continually they identify and eradicate.
The victim is 33 years old, believed to be very close to the circles of the Di Martino clan from Gragnano. The man was hit by bullets fired from the well-known assault machine gun invented in the former Soviet Union with the acronym AK-47. The thirty-three-year-old emerged from the car almost unharmed, with graze wounds . The young man was accompanied to the emergency room of the San Leonardo hospital in Castellammare di Stabia, where he was treated. The police from the Castellammare di Stabia police station are investigating the case. No leads are currently ruled out.
Raid in the Rhein-Erft district Cologne investigators succeed in striking money launderers on behalf of the mafia From Jan Wördenweber December 14, 2023, 10:38 a.m Reading time 2 minutes Masked emergency services stand in front of a house and cars. The raid was aimed at suspected money launderers (symbolic photo).
Several arrest warrants were executed in the greater Cologne area in an operation against organized crime.
Seven residential and commercial premises in the greater Cologne area were searched in a raid on Thursday morning (December 14th). According to information from the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”, the action took place in the Rhein-Erft district. As the Cologne public prosecutor's office and police announced, three European arrest warrants and arrest warrants worth around 724,000 euros were executed. This means: According to the court order, the public prosecutor's office is allowed to secure assets of a maximum of 724,000 euros from the accused. This includes, for example, cash, but also material assets such as jewelry or vehicles.
The investigation, which has been running since 2019 and in which the Stuttgart customs investigation office is also involved, is directed against several Italian nationals. The three suspects, aged 29, 63 and 65, are accused of working as a gang to launder money from illegal drug deals run by the Camorra, based in the Naples area.
Greater Cologne area: Strike against money launderers from the Camorra environment Since 2015, the accused are said to have purchased high-priced luxury vehicles in Germany on behalf of Italian citizens from the Camorra community in Italy with money that came from criminal transactions. As the authorities further announced, the vehicles were said to have been made available to the clients through an alleged car rental company owned by the accused and fictitious long-term rental contracts.
The fictitious rental agreements are also said to have been paid for with money from drug deals, illegal gambling and gang-related economic crimes by the Camorra in Italy. In this way, the investigators allege, the Camorra's funds were to be laundered. The car rental model is also said to have served to conceal the actual ownership of the vehicles. The vehicles, including motorcycles, were models from Audi, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Range Rover, VW and Yamaha.
Maxi police blitz against baby gangs: 40 arrests, weapons and drugs seized The State Police is engaged in a vast operation in 14 Italian provinces, the scene of recent episodes of violence attributable to youth criminal groups. About forty people were arrested, a quarter of these are minors. Officers seized guns, edged weapons and brass knuckles, hundreds of doses of drugs and several sums of money.
A large-scale operation by the State Police< is taking place in these hours a i=4> which is employing over 500 operators coordinated by the Central Operational Service in 14 provinces (Arezzo, Bari, Catania, Genoa, Milan, Modena, Naples , Palermo, Padua, Pescara, Reggio-Emilia, Rovigo, Salerno and Verona) which have been the scene of recent episodes of violence attributable to youth criminal groups. About forty people were arrested, of whom around 25% were minors. Those reported, however, would be around 70, of which a third are minors.
according to police they belong to trap circles lol
Drillrap scene here has been pretty violent in recent years. Drill rap ended up in the Netherlands via Great Britain. Especially in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the drill rap groups are waging a life-and-death battle.
Cobra's are notorious and illegal here they are used by both fireworks enthusiasts, at the end of the year, as underworld to send a message. Police is worried.
Cobra manufacturer: mafia and Chinese copy my fireworks Rop Zoutberg
Correspondent Italy
On a wall in Di Blasio's Elio Fireworks office are requests for his cobras from around the world. Most of the production goes abroad, director Elio Di Blasio agrees. It mainly goes to Eastern Europe. He does not export anything to the Netherlands, where controls on the import of fireworks are strict. "The transport would also be far too expensive."
He sighs when asked how his fireworks bombs appear in the Netherlands. There are two ways, says Di Blasio. Or illegally from eastern Europe. Or imitated by at least four Chinese manufacturers who copied his cobras.
"But the mafia around Naples also does that. The fireworks that end up in the Netherlands with my name on them could also have been made by the Camorra ."
The Dutch police suspect that there are at least twenty different types of cobras in circulation, some of which are fakes. This makes setting off illegal fireworks a Russian roulette: you never know exactly what is in the bombs.
On the office table is the range of fireworks made in Di Blasio's Italian factory. There are fourteen types of his cobras, each heavier than the other. The Cobra 8, wrapped in silver paper, contains one hundred grams of explosive (measured in NEC, Net Explosive Content). That's more than enough to blow up containers, bridge railings and even cars, as shown in videos posted by users on the internet.
Di Blasio shrugs when asked why he makes such extreme fireworks. "It is intended for fireworks shows, for professionals. I am not responsible for sixteen-year-old boys using my fireworks incorrectly."
Moreover, the market demands that the fireworks become increasingly heavier. "In Eastern Europe they only want this kind of fireworks. The heavier, the more attractive it becomes. I make it. And then everyone wants it."
The Neapolitan mafia also imitates my fireworks.
Elio Di Blasio A little later, Di Blasio shows the location of his factory, where the cobras have been made by thirteen employees for almost twenty years. The sheds are hidden behind a local road, without any indication. “That is for security reasons,” Di Blasio continues to repeat.
"The government requires us to make our fireworks far outside the villages and towns." But it remains a guess what the warehouses look like from the inside, because Di Blasio keeps his visitors at a great distance from the factory.
NOS The Cobra 3 and 6 Only when the microphone is turned off does he tell how he went to investigate in Chinese department stores in the Czech Republic and saw his counterfeit fireworks everywhere. He also knows how the rival mafia blew up a nearby fireworks factory a few years ago. “They stop at nothing.”
He looks grimly at his visitor. And suddenly the danger of the cobra seems much greater than just the explosion caused by a fireworks fanatic.
Drugs, weapons, racketeering. 26 arrests between Afragola and Casoria
The DDA: conflicts over the drug dealing centers between criminal subgroups of a branch of the Moccia clan
26 people were arrested by the Carabinieri and the police at the end of a joint operation between Afragola and Casoria, province of Naples. Between prison and house arrest, the suspects are accused of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, robbery and illegal carrying of weapons of war.
The investigations conducted by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate revealed the continuous transformation of the criminal balance in the two municipalities north of Naples, in the Salicelle district as in the neighboring areas, with a clear contrast between various factions of the Sasso-Parziale criminal group, a structure - according to the prosecutors – of the Moccia clan.
Depending on the various changes of regency, due to the numerous arrests over time, different subgroups came into conflict with each other in the management of drug dealing and extortion against entrepreneurs and traders.
Ambush outside the 'bass' in Naples, former Misso turncoat hit
From editorial board
On Thursday evening he said he was approached by two people riding a scooter with their faces covered. The latter fired gunshots at him which hit him in the neck and shoulder, causing him to end up straight at the Vecchio Pellegrini with a reserved prognosis.
Vittorio La Sala , born in 1972, was injured last night in Vico della Calce in Materdei near a street used for the sale of scooters. This is a character with an important criminal 'past': former Misso family before joining the Torino family at the time of the latter's split and then becoming a collaborator with the justice system. The man told the police that he saw two people near the club and that he was approached by the two who fired two gunshots at him before running away. The police are investigating, no leads are ruled out.
Cobra's are notorious and illegal here they are used by both fireworks enthusiasts, at the end of the year, as underworld to send a message. Police is worried.
Firework culture almost died out here, i remember when we were kids, all the kids would be outside whole december/january messing around with fireworks, my friends and i were obsessed with it. But now almost no one does it.
According to FBI reports, the Ukranian-Jewish crime boss Semion Mogilevich had alliances with the Camorra, in particular with Salvatore DeFalco, a lower-echelon member of the Giuliano clan. Mogilevich and DeFalco would have held meetings in Prague in 1993. Semion Mogilevich's net worth is estimated to be 10 billion dollar.
Cobra's are notorious and illegal here they are used by both fireworks enthusiasts, at the end of the year, as underworld to send a message. Police is worried.
Firework culture almost died out here, i remember when we were kids, all the kids would be outside whole december/january messing around with fireworks, my friends and i were obsessed with it. But now almost no one does it.
Yes here too they want to ban it because of the many people who get injured, as a kid I loved it they still sell fireworks here two days before New Year and I enjoy the rockets and other stuff but most exciting is the illegal stuff from China lol..
Fugitive Camorra boss caught in Spain Nicola Rullo, 53, nabbed in Alicante after three months on run ROME, 31 December 2023, 13:01
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Fugitive Camorra boss Nicola Rullo was caught in Spain on Sunday. Rullo, 53, is considered the right hand of detained clan leader Edoardo Contini, one of the leaders of the so-called Secondigliano Alliance in the Neapolitan Mob. He was arrested in Alicante after three months on the run. Rullo must serve four years, two months and eight days in jail for mafia association. He is now in a Spanish prison awaiting extradition. Police said Rullo had been preparing to ring in the New Year in style in the Spanish resort.
Well there seems to be some kind of initiation in the Secondigliano Alliance, but not all men are 'baptised' .
A Camorra ras who has his own army. There is also this revelation in the first two minutes formalized by Luca Esposito , son-in-law of the boss Patrizio Bosti.. Esposito began speaking with the magistrates by describing the top-down structure of the Secondigliano Alliance and the roles of the leading affiliates.
Among these was Nicola Rullo who, according to Esposito : «Some of Nicola Rullo's men had not been 'baptised' by Edoardo and Patrizio . And therefore they did not appreciate that Rullo had an army of his own." Regarding the structure, Esposito says: «The Alliance is like Cosa Nostra. There are the top management, but also other men subordinate to the top management who have other enlisted men who pay directly." Then on the current leadership: «Anna Aieta, wife of Ciccio Mallardo, is in charge, she is the real criminal».
Clan Mallardo, new structures in the Giugliano gang after the excellent releases. The recent release from prison of Patrizio Picardi has given new criminal life to the Mallardo clan. The ras, considered by the investigators to be a real regent of the gang, an offshoot of the Secondigliano Alliance, left following the decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Naples which accepted the request presented by Picardi 's lawyers.
Picardi joins other leading exponents of the Giugliano Camorra, who obtained freedom after having served the sentence inflicted on them or following the decisions of the judges in the ongoing trials. Also released was Antonio Guercia , a 34-year-old from Giugliano, alias o'spagnuolo, nephew of Ciccio Mallardo
A clan that is still strong and dominant, which has not been affected either by arrests or attempts to split. A two-headed clan, which on the one hand continues to cultivate alliances with other gangs and on the other has relations with local politics. This is the photograph taken by Dia of the Mallardo Clan in the latest report published yesterday.
The magistrates write: "The Giugliano district highlights the widespread influence of the historic Mallardo clan, a top component in the Secondigliano Alliance , with an extraordinarily central role in the decision-making and strategic dynamics of the aforementioned cartel. The clan, thanks to the prestige acquired over time, continues to maintain solid family ties with the Contini, the Licciardi, the Bosti in the city of Naples, excellent relations with the Nuvoletta, Polverino, Orlando , of Marano di Napoli, with the Ferrara clans. Cacciapuoti of Villaricca as well as and through his representatives, also in Qualiano , where the satellite groups D'Alterio-Pianese and De Rosa operate , antagonistic to each other. Furthermore, it has relations with the Casalesi clan , in particular with the Bidognetti clan , to the point of creating a cartel with the Licciardi and the Casalesi conventionally called a "mixed group".
The narcos of the Di Lauro clan have been captured, betrayed by his cigarette habit
Faslii Qibini was the first wanted person to end up in handcuffs in 2024, yet another person tracked down by the Carabinieri of the Neapolitan Provincial Command who just a few days ago closed the annual balance sheet with 17 prisoners under arrest.
A final sentence of over 22 years in prison hangs over the head of the 64-year-old of Albanian origins, international drug trafficking the crime for which he was wanted.
THE DI LAURO AND NARDIELLI NARCO The man is considered a broker in cross-border drug trafficking. According to investigators, he managed and mediated heroin trafficking between his country of origin, Greece, Turkey and southern Italy where he did business with the Di Lauro clan and then with the "Nardielli", a criminal group from the Oplontine side . Then a long period of hiding, declared way back in April 2011 when, under house arrest, he escaped and disappeared without a trace. Without ever a misstep, away from the spotlight but not from the memory of the soldiers of the investigative unit of Naples.
WALKING ON CORSO SECONDIGLIANO They searched for him for over 12 years, until yesterday afternoon, when Qibini was walking in Corso Secondigliano, unaware that he was surrounded. It wasn't a coincidence that cost him the handcuffs but a scrupulous monitoring of the habits of his family.
He was careful to avoid the street and to be seen around, but the evident increase in the volume of family "spending" turned on a light bulb in the minds of the police.
During the holidays, his wife and son did not give up a stop at the tobacconist to buy cigarettes. Too bad they weren't smokers. The "blondes" - the police imagined - were for someone else. So the military intensified their observations and patrolled the neighborhood with ever greater attention.
Betrayed by his hunger for nicotine, Qibini decided to buy cigarettes on his own. He didn't have time to light one, the police surrounded him and arrested him. He is now confined in Secondigliano prison.
Honors for an Italian mafioso’s thesis in which he confesses to three unknown murders: ‘What follows is my criminal history’ The justice system is investigating the sociology paper that Catello Romano wrote in prison on the ‘allure of crime’
Goodsmellas! Influencer daughter of feared Giuliano mafia boss launches new fragrance named after him decades after his feared gang brought terror to Naples Nunzia Giuliano said buying the scent is the perfect way to honour her late father By ELENA SALVONI
PUBLISHED: 09:43 GMT, 11 January 2024 | UPDATED: 12:51 GMT, 11 January 2024
A TikTok star whose father was the boss of what was known as one of Naples' most 'bloodthirsty' Mafia clans has brought out a perfume in honour of him.
Nunzia Giuliano has marketed the scent - named 'O Liò' after Carmine 'The Lion' Giuliano - by telling followers that buying it would be the perfect way to honour the mafioso.
The powerful Giuliano clan, based in Forcella, held influence in Naples for four decades, beginning as cigarette smugglers before moving into drug trafficking.
Naples, 25 arrests today: dirty money laundered in trendy clothing and restaurants · 8 million euros seized. 41 mins ago
A river of money recycled in many companies, acquired or established in Italy and abroad. This is how a Neapolitan business group acted, in which there were also some people close to the Camorra clan. At stake were large sums of money coming from tax fraud obtained through undue compensation or from counterfeiting crimes. The companies were registered in the name of frontmen paid to escape any seizure measures. On this basis, three suspects were subjected to precautionary custody in prison, 9 to house arrest and thirteen to the obligation to report to the judicial police and the preventive seizure of financial resources and movable and immovable assets for approximately 8.4 million euros. As reported by Ansa, Salvatore D'Amelio, owner of various youth clothing brands including Minimal and Drop list, also ended up under house arrest . The investigations also revealed that some of the recipients of the measures were transporting clandestine weapons with abraded serial numbers, both common firearms and weapons of war. Fundamental was the help of compliant professionals who encouraged money laundering in the most disparate economic sectors, such as trendy clothing, the sale of counterfeit branded watches, the trade of food and IT products, catering and goods transport.
Half of all fake watches are Rolex knock-offs – and the replicas are harder to spot than ever: around 10 per cent of pre owned timepiece are now bogus, from Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet
Naples, drugs for the clans from Holland and Spain. Sorted to the drug dealers in an ambulance like the one in 118
29 precautionary measures, one quintal of narcotic substances seized. During the investigations, the fugitive Bruno Carbone, who managed the cocaine supplies, was arrested in Dubai. The narcos: «From Panama we bring her by submarine»
The supply of drugs for some of the main Camorra drug dealing centers in Naples and the province, including the Parco Verde di Caivano , passed through Holland and Spain . And it was guaranteed by drug traffickers - some of them Albanians - with the mediation from Dubai of Bruno Carbone , the right-hand man of Raffaele Imperiale , the Van Gogh boss . There were two criminal organizations that exploited this route to bring cocaine, marijuana and heroin to Italy. Both dismantled by a Carabinieri investigation coordinated by the Naples Prosecutor's Office.
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29 precautionary measures were imposed , including arrests in prison or under house arrest and a residence ban, on charges of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking as well as possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking. The two criminal groups managed communications through encrypted chats - Sky Ecc and Encrochat - to prevent eavesdropping. Carbone received cocaine orders on the encrypted chat and then supplied the Camorra clans. The distribution to the drug dealing squares, according to the Anti-Mafia investigations, was instead entrusted to Vincenzo Della Monica . Which from the depots of Marano and San Giovanni a Teduccio managed the shipment of drugs to the drug dealing centers of Scampia, Parco Verde di Caivano, Marianella, the Cisternina of Castello di Cisterna, Secondigliano, Giugliano and Marigliano. Also at the top of the organization were Salvatore Della Monica, Raffaele's brother, with the role of cashier, and Michele Nacca. The second criminal group involved in drug trafficking is apparently linked to Simone Bartiromo, Roberto Merolla and Giovanni Cortese.
Probably related to the arrest of boss Nicola Rullo in Spain.
Ambush in Naples, he is shot in his house and he throws himself from the balcony to escape: 50-year-old dead The victim is Raffaele Cinque, considered close to the Contini clan, the killer may have continued shooting from above. A Gomorrah-style execution Cinque , 50 years old, was hit by bullets in his house and jumped from the balcony to find escape but died.
There seems to be a feud between the Contini clan ('backbone' of the Secondigliano Alliance) and the emerging criminal group of the Sanità.
Do you have any more info on that? This is 4th or 5th shooting in Naples in last ~30 days, something is going on for sure.
On friday a Contini man Moffa (18) was arrested for a double attempted murder in December. The victim was the actor Ciro Vecchione of the 'Paranza dei bambini' together with his girlfriend, both were injured. Last Wednesday Moffa escaped - suffering only minor injuries - from an ambush in which eight armed killers apparently went into action, an ambush which then led to five arrests.
Nicola Giuseppe Moffa is his full name, they continued shooting toward his house and injured innocent 68 years old. But looks like its internal feud in Contini clan/Secondigliano alliance.
Shooting in the middle of Naples city center: “We live in fear” It is still unclear who wanted to meet Moffa. The 18-year-old is known to the police and may be connected to previous robberies in the city center. According to the Ansa news agency, this is suggested by an old gunshot wound.
“They were shooting wildly at innocent people who were shopping,” Gianfranco Wurzburger, president of Assogioca, told La Repubblica . The organization helps children and young people find ways out of crime. Wurzburger's daughter heard the shots. “Dozens of bullets, you’ve never seen anything like that. We live in fear,” he said.
“Eighty shots were fired in the city center”: shootout in the Italian metropolis “Eighty shots were fired in the city center, with the real risk of killing innocent people,” Ansa quoted representatives of the Anti-Camorra Committee as saying. The committee has been calling for stricter regulations on the ownership of weapons for months. “You cannot move freely because you are so afraid of becoming the focus of shootings,” it continued.
Nicola Giuseppe Moffa is his full name, they continued shooting toward his house and injured innocent 68 years old. But looks like its internal feud in Contini clan/Secondigliano alliance.
There seems to be a new group who came out of the extinct Misso clan, who have been enemies of the Contini for years. Vecchione, known for having participated in the film 'La paranza dei bambini', is also the nephew of Ciro Armento, former Misso colonel and currently in prison where he is serving a sentence for association. Vecchione would also be linked to the criminal circles of the Sanità, so much so that he includes controls among others with Gennaro De Martino, nephew of Ciro, affiliated to the extinct Misso clan, and Gianluca, leader of the organized typhus group called Rione Sanità. Vecchione, in the days following the ambush, told a relative about the meeting that took place in Romania with Moffa during a concert. "In Bucharest we are all the same, here we are on our own land... In Bucharest they greet you when they see you, rightly they don't keep what they should keep, so shut up, me and you."
Gratteri: ''To fight the Camorra we need to invest in technology''
Camorra and 'Ndrangheta compared “The 'Ndrangheta is tougher, cruder and drier, it exercises absolute control of the territory and has a cult of rules that keeps everyone as rigid as so many toy soldiers” . It is no coincidence that within Calabrian organized crime, the level of justice collaborators is very low. “ Here in Naples, from my point of view, there are many levels of Camorra. The thing that impressed me most are these young people who shoot in the squares, in the streets, and I have difficulty seeing them as Camorra. In the logic of the 'Ndrangheta - explained Gratteri - two boys who start shooting at eye level on the motorbike, the next day, in Calabria, would be caught and melted like soap. Because in Calabria there is a belief that the 'Ndrangheta must not lose its prestige or its leadership . Through the memory of a telephone interception that took place in Calabria, in which an emissary of the crime of San Luca intervenes to resolve an internal feud using a far-sighted perspective, which might seem unusual, Gratteri explained the difficulties he had to overcome to intercept the logic bell criminal. In particular, regarding the " stretches" . A Camorra phenomenon which consists in quickly crossing the streets of the city on scooters, shooting, sometimes even at eye level, and forcing people in the street to lie down on the ground in an attempt to take cover. “ I had difficulty understanding and metabolizing these 'words', which were not able to give me a logic of a criminal nature. I remember a criminal interception in Calabria, in which an emissary of the San Luca crime scene intervened to quell an internal feud and said: 'Be careful because when you shoot at cars, shutters, or at lawyers, you terrorize the people, and what you have done in 30 years, you will no longer have, because the people will have already abandoned you. This is because - continued prosecutor Gratteri - the mafias need popular consensus to exist." - he continues - “ Perhaps, in the world of the dark web, the Camorra is ahead of the 'Ndrangheta. He manages to buy weapons, cocaine and order murders. In Naples I saw specialists who manage to navigate the dark web in a mafia-like, but also managerial and entrepreneurial way. For this reason it is necessary to create working groups made up of magistrates who work on the dark web, or police groups made up of people capable of studying the means of communication that a Camorra member uses to talk to another person who is in Dubai, in Bogota, or in New York ”. It's still:“Today, we have mafias that are able to communicate above our heads, to build new applications to communicate without being intercepted. This is the technology gap that we need to fill as soon as possible. Also for this reason the government must necessarily invest in software capable of decrypting these means of communication, which are technologically very advanced".
Do wiretaps really cost too much? Are wiretaps an expensive investigative activity? How much do they cost exactly? According to the ministry, all the wiretaps that the prosecutors carry out with the authorization of the investigating judge cost 170 million euros. However, the cost to consider for keeping a phone monitored for 24 hours is only three euros, basically, two coffees. “These would be the big costs? - observed Gratteri - Nobody talks about the value of goods that are seized every day, which could be put up for sale immediately afterwards. Does no one ever account for these assets, such as cars, watches or luxury homes? How many wads of banknotes do we find hidden inside the walls, under the floors, or in the safes”. After Justice Minister Carlo Nordio stated that mafiosi don't talk on the phone, criticism, doubts and perplexities arose. Precisely regarding this delicate issue, Gratteri explained: " Before speaking we should study to avoid saying nonsense. On the phone the mafiosi will never say: 'Sorry but I'm not coming to dinner tonight because I'm going to kill that guy'. It can happen, however, that a mafioso calls a person with a clean criminal record on the phone to say: 'See you at the bar'. Now, for those who speak inside Parliament, perhaps it means nothing, but for me, a mafia investigator, that information is gold. A phone call from a mafia member is important, especially if made to call someone with a clean criminal record. Since from an investigative path backwards, I can get to the mafia boss." - he continues - “ There are times when I hear people say: 'We, for mafia and terrorism trials, don't touch wiretaps'. And what about crimes of corruption, extortion and embezzlement? In that case, is it possible to use the Trojan for wiretapping? If you forbid me from using the Trojan to carry out an investigation into the public administration, you will severely limit me. Often - Gratteri specified - I get from the public administration to the mafia, but rarely from the mafia do I manage to get to the public administration".
Police anti-Camorra blitz in Naples, numerous arrests The leaders of the Mazzarella, Buonerba and Cardarelli clans were taken NAPLES , 30 January 2024, 07:37
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The leaders of the Mazzarella clans and top exponents of the Buonerba and Cardarelli crime families are among the suspects arrested at dawn in Naples, specifically in Forcella and in the so-called "new houses" as part of an anti-Camorra operation by the State Police launched at Sunrise.
At the request of the DDA, which coordinated the investigations, the investigating judge issued over a dozen precautionary measures.
The men of the Flying Squad and the Police Stations
Poggioreale and Vicaria-Mercato are notifying precautionary measures against numerous individuals seriously suspected, in various capacities, of attempted extortion and personal injury aggravated by the mafia method.
Mazzarella Clan, the repentant Giuliano: "I'll reveal to you who's in charge in the districts" From Alessandro Caracciolo
Salvatore Giuliano is one of the great accusers of the Mazzarella criminal cartel , in fact, the justice collaborator has reconstructed part of the criminal organization chart. In an interrogation, dating back to June 2021, 'o Russ had already indicated to the DDA magistrates the names of the Ras of the Caldarelli and the Bonavoltas, precisely those statements were used in the latest investigation that affected the three clans.
“In San Gaetano the managers are Emanuele Amoroso, Antonio Bonavolta, Stefano Capuano and Salvatore Marino ; in San Giorgio there is Patrick; in Portici there is Cipolla currently detained, if I'm not mistaken, for extortion and who I have always seen at Barile's house; in San Sebastiano there is Giacomino, recently released from! look for; in the Market area there is Ciro Mazzarella, son of Gennaro; in the area of ??'ncopp and walls there are the Popes, Pino and Elio; at the Casa Nuove, Luca Caldarelli and Rocco known as burdello and another person whose name I don't remember at the moment but who I would be able to recognize and who has special surveillance; at Maddalena there are the Ferraiuolos ; in the San Giovanni area there is Tobia and I Scorpio ; in Rione Villa there is Salvatore D'Amico's son-in-law known as the pirate, who is called Gesualdo; Salvatore Barile is directly in San Erasmo , this became his home following the expulsion of 'o Mennuzzo. In fact, I want to point out that Salvatore Barile al Connolo lives there only because in the area there are the Soricilli who belong to the Contini family ."
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ALLIANCE OF SECONDIGLIANO AND MAZZARELLA According to the report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, the Campania capital is divided into 30 neighbourhoods, administratively divided into 10 municipalities. For the georeferencing of criminal groups operating in the city, however, reference is often made to zones, districts, areas or in any case to portions of territory, more or less large and differently named, which can correspond to an urban agglomeration or a series of buildings housing that falls simultaneously into two or more neighborhoods.
Regarding the metropolitan area, the predominance of the two Camorra cartels remains, the Alleanza di Secondigliano and the Mazzarella clan , both with a high criminal capacity and particularly stubborn in terms of infiltration of the legal economy. The Alliance of Secondigliano , in particular, is made up of some family groups that constitute its elite: the Mallardo, Contini-Bosti and Licciardi clans , the first two also connected to each other by kinship ties.
A multitude of smaller groups gravitate around the two Camorra cartels, particularly prone to resorting to violence and always ready to face conflicts connected with the management of illicit trafficking, mostly drug dealing and extortion activities. These are groups active in limited portions of territory that act in a position of instrumental dependence on the interests of the overlying cartels.
Camorra feud after the murder in a nightclub in Posillipo, sentences for Paolo Di Lauro and 9 other bosses From Stefano Di Bitonto
«Cirù, how many children do you have? Do you have ten children? Then get it into your head that the death of my nephew is worth as much as the lives of your ten children." This is the emblematic phrase that describes the beginning of the little prince's feud , the death of Vincenzo Esposito , favorite nephew of the boss Licciardi. The phrase pronounced by Maria Licciardi to Paolo Di Lauro alias 'Ciruzz or millionaire' inaugurates the first major feud in the northern area. The conflict that would lead to Esposito's death arose from an altercation in a nightclub in Posillipo between the group attributable to the Licciardis and another close to the Prestieris included in the Di Lauro clan. A brawl then degenerated into a series of cross-revenge until Esposito's death.
The boss Paolo Di Lauro, indicated as the instigator of the murder of Francesco Fusco, one of the participants in the crime, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thirty years for the brothers Guido and Raffaele Abbinante, life imprisonment also for Raffaele Perfetto 'colonel' of the Lo Russo clan .
As regards the other sentences, Rito Calzone received 18 years and 8 months for the murder of Ciro Cianciulli: thanks to the defensive line followed by his lawyer, the lawyer Luigi Senese, Calzone was recognized as having generic mitigating circumstances equivalent to premeditation . Among the others convicted are Ettore Sabatino 16 years, Giuseppe Lo Russo 20 years, Gennaro Trambarulo 20 years, Maurizio Prestieri 18 years, Antonio Leonardi 14 years.
Yes to psychological treatment for Marco Di Lauro, the fugitive former boss will be transferred to another prison From editorial board
Twist in the trial against Marco di Lauro , the former fugitive 'F4' , as reported in preview by Cronache di Napoli , will be transferred from the Sassari prison to be treated in another penitentiary from a psychological point of view. The judges have in fact accepted the request of the defender Gennaro Pecoraro , the former boss will be taken to a suitable penitentiary for psychiatric treatment but will remain under 41 bis.
The conditions of Marco Di Lauro He eats little and refuses to talk to everyone, psychiatric evaluation for Marco Di Lauro Detained in hard prison in Sassari for some time he has refused to talk to his family. Including wife. In the meantime he was hospitalized under close observation in the psychiatric departments of Turin and Cagliari and even in those situations he always refused talks with psychiatrists.
The judges want to see clearly and understand whether his attitudes are truthful and similar to those of his brother Cosimo, who later died in prison on 13 June 2022 after having served 17 years of imprisonment under the 41bis regime in the Opera prison.
Prosecutor Gratteri: "There are problems of violence and Camorra in Naples, but it's not South America" “Naples is not South America, it is an unfair comparison”: thus the prosecutor of Naples, Nicola Gratteri, who nevertheless speaks of “a problem of violence and Camorra” By Giuseppe Cozzolino
Nicola Gratteri, Prosecutor of Naples. Photo / Fanpage.it In Naples "there is a problem of violence and Camorra", but the comparison with South America "is a strong statement that I don't agree with". The Neapolitan prosecutor Nicola Gratteri thus responds to some declarations following the inauguration of the judicial year. And for Gratteri it is an "unfortunate" comparison.
"But have you ever been to Bogotà, Caracas, Cartagena and then made a comparison with Naples?", he explained today on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol to the Municipality of Naples, "I have been dozens of times to South America and I know that what violence is. Of the last 25 murders in Naples, 18 have been discovered. And talking about a South American city, a city in the hands of the mafia, is not right. Study the great Italian metropolises of the North, then tell me if Naples is more or less dangerous." For the prosecutor of Naples, the city has "different levels of Camorra: the one that bothers the most and directly affects people and the one on the street like the ones who hang them, a phenomenon that, as a magistrate who fought the 'Ndrangheta, I cannot understand get used to it, I don't understand them. Not even on a criminal level."
Problems that the President of the Court of Appeal of Naples, Eugenio Forgillo, had also highlighted in the report for the opening of the 2024 judicial year , who, regarding criminal violence and the cities themselves, had spoken of a "display of a sterile violence", with "expeditions on scooters and motorcycles with blind shooting in urban areas", to the point that "the persistence of these illegal phenomena brings this territorial area closer to some underdeveloped foreign realities rather than to civilized countries".
Alfonso Fontana, 24, with criminal records, was shot dead in Torre Annunziata (Naples) by two killers on a scooter
He was close to Fasano clan, he did prison time for a shooting that happened three years ago in Castellammare.
“Uncle Antonio was killed in a Camorra ambush in Agerola in 2017, a few weeks before testifying in a trial against the D'Alessandro clan, while the other uncle Luciano was a collaborator of justice."
The seizure of the boss Setola was ineffective, the villas returned to the family
The seizure of the two villas of Giuseppe Setola , found guilty of dozens of murders including the massacre of Ghanaians in Castel Volturno , dating back to 18 September 2008, is ineffective .
This was established by the judge for preliminary investigations of Naples, Gianluigi Visco, to whom the documentation relating to the seizure of the two properties located in Casal di Principe, where Setola's daughter and her Camorra in-laws still live, was sent at the beginning January by the Court of Assizes of the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, which declared itself incompetent after ordering the seizure of the villas last November.
A procedural issue which involves the return of assets to the family members of the head of the Casalesi massacre wing , detained under 41 bis at the Milan Opera prison with numerous life sentences to serve.
Naples, Finance blitz against drug trafficking, 16 arrests | FEBRUARY 13, 2024 10:09 AM | 0 comments 2 minutes to read Finance blitz coordinated by the Naples DDA led by Nicola Gratteri against drug trafficking: 16 arrests
NAPLES - The soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples have carried out an order for the application of the precautionary custody measure in prison, issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Naples, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples – District Anti-Mafia Directorate, led by Nicola Gratteri .
The provision concerns sixteen people "seriously suspected, in various capacities, of the crimes of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, detention for the purpose of drug dealing, kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, failure to comply with the sentence". The investigations, conducted by the financiers of the GOA Section of the Organized Crime Investigation Group, would have made it possible to «reveal the operations of four different criminal groups (in the province of Naples, but with ramifications also in other Italian territories and in Spain), dedicated to the trafficking of various types of drugs (mostly hashish and cocaine)".
DRUG TRAFFICKING IN NAPLES, THE GROUPS INTO WHICH THE SYSTEM WAS ORGANIZED In particular, a first group, operating in the territory of Naples and the province and with branches in Crotone, headed by a person who, through couriers, was responsible for the wholesale marketing of batches of narcotics in favor of customers not only from Campania but also Calabrians. A second group, operating in Naples and its province and with branches in other Italian regions (in particular, Emilia-Romagna), which would also have distributed batches of narcotics to the first group. A third group, which would have imported batches of narcotics from Spain, mainly destined for the Irpinia market. A fourth group, with an operational base in Giugliano in Campania (province of Naples), which would have dealt with the marketing of the narcotic in favor, in particular, of another criminal group active in the Vesuvian countries.
During the investigative activities, conducted in collaboration with the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service, the military seized over 300 kg of hashish, 36 kg of cocaine and over 400 thousand euros in cash. The investigation would also have made it possible to ascertain the kidnapping for the purpose of extortion of one of the recipients of the precautionary measure to force his wife and brother to pay off a debt of 7,700 euros originating from previous unpaid drug supplies.
The Camorra in Naples, the Secondigliano Alliance advances towards the Sanità district From Giuseppe Letizia - February 14, 2024
NAPLES – The historic center is a 'powder keg'. The Sanità district is 'undefended', to use the words of one investigator. And this creates appetites. After the maxi blitz and then the arrest of Vincenzo Pirozzi (taken into a workhouse), local families have to reorganize, but it takes time. The police fear a scenario: the Secondigliano Alliance and the Splinterists want to get their hands on Sanità . Not from today. We will have to wait a few days to see if the old non-belligerence pact still holds. The clans of the northern area may have already decided to regain Sanità. Propitious occasion. After all, the Lo Russos from the Miano neighborhood had already done it some time ago, but today they no longer exist. The 'capitoni' had placed trusted men in the alleys at the Sanità: a remote control. Successful for years, until the revolt of the local boats. Something similar could happen again. The closest to Sanità are the Licciardi and Contini members of the Alliance cartel, together with the Mallardos. The Licciardis moved from Masseria Cardone to Secondigliano. The Contini from Vasto. But the Amato-Pagano from Melito and Mugnano are constantly expanding and could also claim space in the historic center. In short, the chessboard is fragmented. According to the maps, the group closest to Sanità is the one once led by Eduardo Contini. Today they have a new organizational chart. Even the Splinterists have changed their face: the old guard of Cesare Pagano and Raffaele Amato no longer exists. Now silent investigations begin: the agents collect information confidentially, to understand who and how will take the first step. For now the alleys are deserted: a strange silence has fallen on the Sanità system after the arrests. On January 16th, twelve were arrested by the flying squad, an alleged association aimed at drug trafficking. The so-called itinerant drug dealing squares: orders for drugs were received by telephone, then transmitted to the various pushers on scooters, who completed the home delivery. It's not all. In a different context - on February 1st - Vincenzo Pirozzi was stopped: the agents of the investigative team of the San Carlo Arena police station notified the 43-year-old of the security measure of the workhouse near Vasto. Already placed on probation. The Prosecutor's Office lists him as one of the bosses of the Sanità district. In the past considered close to the Missos.
Anti-Camorra blitz to stop the war between clans in northern Naples: 13 precautionary measures in Frattamaggiore
The Carabinieri are notifying 13 precautionary measures (11 arrests and 2 residence bans) to various people between Frattamaggiore, Frattaminore, Arzano and Caivano.
Anti-Camorra blitz by the police to stop the war between clans in the northern area of ??Naples, between the municipalities of Frattamaggiore, Frattaminore, Arzano and Caivano . The operation by the carabinieri of the Giugliano in Campania and Caivano companies, coordinated by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate, began this morning. There are 13 precautionary measures notified to as many people, of which 11 of custody in prison and two residence bans in Campania, following an order for the application of precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples.
The 13 recipients of the precautionary measures are considered seriously suspected, for various reasons, of the crimes of mafia-type association, association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic substances, extortion and attempted extortion, possession and carrying of weapons, detention for the purpose of drug dealing , crimes aggravated by the mafia method.
Anti-Camorra blitz to stop the war between clans in northern Naples: 13 precautionary measures in Frattamaggiore
I don't think this will have any effect, murders in Naples are crazy in last few months.
It will be interesting this year now Nicola Gratteri is in charge of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples, he has been dealing with the Calabrians for decades, but Camorra is something else.
Camorra, blitz against the new clan of the Agro Nocerino: dozens of arrests
Operation against the Camorra and in particular against the new clan of the Agro Nocerino with ramifications also in the province of Naples .
A precautionary custody order was carried out by the carabinieri of the territorial department of Nocera Inferiore at the request of the Salerno prosecutor's office.
The action was directed against the members of a Camorra-type criminal association, operating in the Nocerino Sarnese countryside and in the province of Naples.
Dozens of affiliates and bosses have ended up in prison accused of drug trafficking and extortion of traders and entrepreneurs.
About a hundred carabinieri from the Nocera Inferiori territorial department are in action with the collaboration of the Pontecagnano helicopter unit
Fight against Scafati's Camorra clan: dawn raid leads to 31 arrests, 5 fugitives February 16, 20243 min. read Comment 3 min. read At dawn this morning the Carabinieri of the Territorial Department of Nocera Inferiore together with the soldiers of the Provincial Command of Salerno , of the Torre Annunziata Group and of the Ferrara and Potenza Companies carried out a precautionary custody order - issued by the Salerno GIP on request from the local Prosecutor's Office, against 36 members of a mafia-type criminal association operating in the Agro Nocerino Sarnese and in the Province of Naples. The raid arose from the existence of serious indications of guilt towards the suspects for having set up a Camorra clan self-defined as a " family " due to the kinship ties that bind the main suspects and at the top of which is Dario Federico di Boscoreale who - as the GIP writes - "already convicted as leader and promoter of a mafia-style criminal association in 2007, he moved his criminal interests from the historic location in Pompeii and Boscoreale, assuming criminal control of the Scafati territory" together with the convicted criminal Salvatore Di Paul .
According to the accusatory hypothesis, the Clan, by virtue of the intimidating force also provided by the availability of firearms mainly supplied by Domenico Tamarisco , a member of the Nardiello Clan of Torre Annunziata , managed the drug dealing squares of Scafati , also engaging in extortion activities on the same territory and neighboring areas.
According to the accusatory reconstruction, shared by the GIP, the group already subject to previous investigations by another judicial office as it operated in the District of Naples and in particular in the areas of Pompeii and Castellammare di Stabia , had moved to the nearby territory of Scafati following the power vacuum related to the arrest carried out in December 2021 of alleged exponents of a mafia group linked to Franchino Matrone , acquiring supremacy over other criminal groups operating in the same territory to the point of being called to intervene to regulate the Camorra's territorial competences and the " runnings" carried out by other groups that had trespassed into the settlement territories.
Ten extortion episodes carried out by affiliates of the clan were deemed proven: among these we note the extortion carried out inside the tourist port of Marina di Stabia carried out in sensational ways, i.e. through a so-called " lay " perpetrated by subjects who went to the site on large-displacement motorcycles.
It should be highlighted that 5 people avoided the execution of the precautionary order while at the same time the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno executed an order for the seizure of registered immovable and movable assets, economic activities and financial relationships for a total value currently estimated at approximately 3 million euros.
Press release from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Salerno
Italy, Home Of The Mafia, Now One Of Europe's Safest Countries By Gaël BRANCHEREAU February 17, 2024 Order Reprints Print Article
After a crackdown on mafias which pushed them into less violent financial crime, the murder rate plummeted Miguel MEDINA Text size
Italy may be the land that launched Cosa Nostra, but today it is one of the safest countries in Europe, with a murder rate well below its neighbours.
From the mid-19th century through to the 1990s, thousands of people died in mafia violence, from rivals or traitors cast in cement or fed to pigs, to judges, priests and witnesses killed for daring to defy the mob.
There were also the traumatic "Years of Lead" from the end of the 1960s to the 1980s, when armed groups from the extreme left and extreme right brought terror to Italy with bombings and assassinations.
The brutal murder of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades in 1978 is burned into the national psyche, although the largest number of the estimated 400 victims of the period were killed by neo-fascists.
But when this bloody period ended, and after a crackdown on mafias which pushed them into less violent financial crime, the murder rate plummeted.
Back in 1990, there were 34 murders per one million inhabitants in Italy, compared to 24 in neighbouring France, according to UN figures.
In 2021-22, this had fallen to 5.5 per million in Italy and 11 in France, eight in Germany and 10 in the UK.
In Europe, only Norway and Switzerland have a murder rate lower or equal to Italy's, while Latvia, the worst, has a rate 6.5 times higher.
"Homicides in general have decreased in the last 25 years, especially the percentage of men" -- who previously were the main victims of mafias, noted Raffaella Sette, a sociologist at the University of Bologna.
Just 10 percent of murders each year are now blamed on organised crime.
"The mafias -- the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Cosa Nostra -- have radically changed their way of operating," said Gianluca Arrighi, a criminal lawyer who writes police novels.
"Today, they operate from a more economic point of view, buying up real estate, entering into companies," he said.
Analysing the causes of violence across different countries is always risky, but Arrighi believes several factors are at play.
While Italy is poorer than its comparable EU neighbours, he says this is not always detrimental to social well-being, saying "goodwill" between people can help compensate for life's difficulties.
"The higher the conflict in a society, the higher the number of murders, committed by people who are in some state of anger," Arrighi told AFP.
The murder rate is, however, higher in the south of Italy, the poorest part of the country.
But Stefano Delfini, head of criminal analysis at the government's department of public security, agrees that "our society is less violent".
"The social fabric is more resistant, probably because of the presence of family values which mean difficulties are felt in a less harsh way."
Another factor that drives violence in other countries is alcohol or drug use, particularly in France and the UK.
Italy does not keep data on this, but consumption of alcohol is the lowest in the EU, according to the World Health Organization.
There is rising awareness in Italy about femicides -- killing of a woman or girl by a partner, spouse or family member -- with 97 recorded in 2023, out of a total 330 murders.
A lack of harmonised data on femicides makes comparisons with other European countries difficult.
But statistics compiled by the World Bank for 2021 show a rate of 3.9 murders of women per one million people in Italy, well below the 6.8 in France and 8.0 in Germany.
The murder level have been pretty stable for years now. We have to go back to 2004-2005. An estimated 160 people were killed in gangland fighting in Naples in those two years. The Camorra will never stop though they will keep struggling violently for control of the streets.
Camorra ambush in the Lattari Mountains, “Ciruzz 'o biond” killed
A 61-year-old man, Ciro Gargiulo , known as “Ciruzz 'o biond”, was probably killed by rifle bullets. The man, with a history of drug charges, defined as the "king of smoking", was apparently killed in a Camorra ambush on land he owned. The murder took place in via San Giorgio, a road between the municipalities of Lettere and Casola. His son would have taken him to hospital. Investigations underway by the police.
The murder level have been pretty stable for years now. We have to go back to 2004-2005. An estimated 160 people were killed in gangland fighting in Naples in those two years. The Camorra will never stop though they will keep struggling violently for control of the streets.
160 people in 2 years is a lot , but from start of 2024 situation in Naples is crazy, there is like 9 or 10 murders in last 2 months.
The murder level have been pretty stable for years now. We have to go back to 2004-2005. An estimated 160 people were killed in gangland fighting in Naples in those two years. The Camorra will never stop though they will keep struggling violently for control of the streets.
160 people in 2 years is a lot , but from start of 2024 situation in Naples is crazy, there is like 9 or 10 murders in last 2 months.
The several big mafia wars in the 80s were particular brutal (Cutolo, Casalesi, Reggio Calabria war, Santapaola, Corleonesi), there were days of up to 7 gang murders in Palermo alone.
Alfonso Fontana, 24, with criminal records, was shot dead in Torre Annunziata (Naples) by two killers on a scooter
Carmine Martino 52 years old was arrested for this murder, also around 200 police officers and soldiers are deployed to try and stop current war in Naples.
Alfonso Fontana, 24, with criminal records, was shot dead in Torre Annunziata (Naples) by two killers on a scooter
Carmine Martino 52 years old was arrested for this murder, also around 200 police officers and soldiers are deployed to try and stop current war in Naples.
A lot of murders, but I doubt it's a war, if a guy gets out of line that's enough to take him out with these guys.
The prosecutor of Naples Nicola Gratteri meets the leaders of the Dia: the objective is to attack the assets of the Camorra From editorial board
Investigative topics and the strategies to be adopted for the prevention and fight against organized crime: these are the topics that the Naples prosecutor Nicola Gratteri addressed during his visit to the Dia in Naples where he held a conversation with the director, the general of the army corps Michele Carbone and the center chief Claudio De Salvo . During the meeting, particular emphasis – reports a note – was given to the assessments of ongoing activities and prevention measures for the attack on assets illicitly accumulated by organized crime.
Another related theme was the use of specific tools by the Dia to combat the criminal presence in the economy, such as reports of suspicious transactions, which, even recently, have allowed important results, such as the seizure of approximately 55 million euro ordered by the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere and carried out last month, an operation which saw the synergy between the Public Prosecutor and the director of the Dia. The anti-mafia magistrate, with director Carbone, then met the staff of the Operations Center to whom he expressed heartfelt thanks for their efforts in the difficult territory of the District and wanted to make all the members of the joint structure feel the closeness of the entire Power of attorney.
Ambush on the neighborhood narco, injured due to the disputed "base". Blood in Monterosa, detectives fear a rift in the Abbinante clan. Winds of feud in Scampia, the internal purge track takes off
by Luigi Sannino
Sun 25 February 2024 09:28
NAPLES. At the basis of the ambush against Giancarlo Possente there would be reasons internal to the drug dealing environments in the Monte Rosa district, probably a disputed place according to the investigators who know the area best. But not only that: the day after Scampia's double wounding it emerged with certainty that Pasquale Parziale was by chance near the 43-year-old, the only target of the shooting. Just think about the number of bullets that hit the victims: 5 for the 43-year-old, one for the other.
Ambush on the neighborhood narco, injured due to the disputed "base". Blood in Monterosa, detectives fear a rift in the Abbinante clan. Winds of feud in Scampia, the internal purge track takes off
by Luigi Sannino
Sun 25 February 2024 09:28
NAPLES. At the basis of the ambush against Giancarlo Possente there would be reasons internal to the drug dealing environments in the Monte Rosa district, probably a disputed place according to the investigators who know the area best. But not only that: the day after Scampia's double wounding it emerged with certainty that Pasquale Parziale was by chance near the 43-year-old, the only target of the shooting. Just think about the number of bullets that hit the victims: 5 for the 43-year-old, one for the other.
According to informant Luigi Rignante , Giancarlo Possente is leader of several drug squares in Scampia.
Camorra ambush at Pallonetto, Pasquale Sesso killed at 44: a 28-year-old arrested Jul 07, 2023
Naples – Pasquale Sesso , the man killed while he was aboard his scooter during the ambush that took place on Wednesday evening in the Pallonetto di Santa Lucia area, lost his life at the age of 44 . According to the latest reconstructions, the police would have stopped a 28-year-old, suspected of murder.
The 44-year-old would have been killed as he traveled the stretch of road between vico Solitaria and via Pallonetto. Several gunshots would have been fired against him , leaving him no way out: despite the rush to the Pellegrini hospital in Naples, the man died shortly after.
A short distance from the murder, the agents identified a prime suspect: he is a 28-year-old young man identified by the police who, according to what Corriere del Mezzogiorno reports , has ties to organized crime. Sesso, on the other hand, would have precedents for drug dealing and robbery.
The presence of the 28-year-old at the scene of the crime was ascertained from the footage recovered from the video surveillance cameras installed in the area. At the time of arrest, he was carrying a pistol , the weapon he may have used to kill the victim.
The young man was therefore first charged with the crime of illegal possession of a firearm. The investigations will then clarify his possible involvement in the ambush that sparked panic among the residents of the area.
“ You have to intervene with all your strength , what happened is total disgust. Earthquake shots. How is it possible that between the Monte di Dio barracks and the army building a few meters from what happened, we have to live barricaded with this fear or the fear of not getting off or not returning home because we risk getting shot? The state must make the state, it's a shame” – is one of the messages sent to the deputy Francesco Emilio Borrelli.
Gennaro Belaeff was arrested for this murder. Pasquale Sesso was professional high-end watch thief at international level, he was killed because he wanted to stop paying percent to Camorra. They also ambushed his brother but he survived.
Moments of terror in the late afternoon today, Friday 1 March 2024, in Scafati where a Camorra ambush occurred in the street: the well-known criminal Marcello Adini was injured. The events took place around 6pm near the San Pietro district.
Ambush in Scafati, known criminal injured Around 6pm, close to the San Pietro neighbourhood, several gunshots were fired from a moving car at eye level towards the well-known criminal Marcello Adini, who was released from prison only three days ago after his acquittal for the murder of Armando Faucitano.
The 43-year-old would have been grazed in the arm and it is not yet known whether he ran away or went to a health facility for treatment. The criminal appears to have been standing on the street corner with three other people at the time of the ambush. One of the bullets lodged in the sign of the gourmet delicatessen Do Re Si Mangia at number 242 where Adini was having a frugal meal at the time. The police intervened on site and started investigations to identify those responsible. Also hunting for the injured criminal.
INVESTIGATION 03 marzo 2024 alle 13:40 Mafia infiltration, Sardinia increasingly at risk
In Assemini, the ghost headquarters of a company from which the Naples Prosecutor Gratteri had 55 million euros seized
The colors of the building are anonymous, like that four-storey building erected during the brick boom period on the outskirts of what was once the Las Vegas of Campidano. Number 78 is Corso Asia, at the crossroads between Assemini and Macchiareddu, between the industrial enclave and the city of punishment, the Uta prison. The late afternoon light is faint in this air corridor which at least every half hour pierces the eardrums of those poor unfortunates who live on the axis with runway 14 of Elmas airport.
Silent bells
The bells are there, some, however, have always been silent. The last fingerprints imprinted on the button are those of the reporter who dared to break into the quiet calm of that apartment where the secrets of one of the most significant judicial seizures against companies under investigation for collusion with the Camorra ever carried out in Sardinia are hidden. The name of the company is the personal-fiscal history of a team whose pedigree is not the stuff of catechism. There is the birth name, Entei SpA, there is the corporate evolution summarized: “Etica SpA”. Behind the ethical-Aristotelian call to the common good, however, there is nothing philosophical. It is the anagram translation of “Environmental Technologies International SpA (Etica SpA). One name, a whole program: even international environmental technologies.
Close encounter
When you try the close encounter card you expect that after the first press on the bell they will answer you with a universal slang, but nothing. Not even the politeness of a “good morning, sorry we're busy”. Absolute silence behind that little gate that protects a tax office that has been deserted for some time. After all, the gentlemen of "Ethics" really have something to do these days, after the black "soul" of the Camorra and organized crime, that state terror called Nicola Gratteri, Attorney General of Naples, asked and obtained the seizure of all the financial and economic assets of this company with the tax residence close to the Sa Nuscedda stream, the mouth towards Santa Gilla, in the land of Assemini.
55 million seized
Not a seizure like many others, but the beauty of 55 million euros. An avalanche of money ended up in the state safe beforehand, complete with a commissioner, until the judicial process was completed. The prevention measure written by the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere on 16 January is a sort of criminal record of sixty pages, with as many hypothetical charges and crimes that have already been on trial for some time. The accusation is substantiated in a myriad of disputed and recalled facts. The Judges' order is explicit: «the preventative seizure is ordered to the detriment of D'Amico Antonio and his family unit of all company shares and corporate assets in their availability». At stake are direct and indirect relationships with the most powerful clan in Campania, the Casalesi. In the seizure order the reference to "excellent" names of the most influential clan bosses is recurrent, starting from the number one: Michele and Pasquale Zagaria, both guests of the 41 bis of Sassari. The context is explicit: a potential criminal wedged between white-collar workers and laborers capable of influencing contracts and works with a glance in every public-private ravine where the Camorra has insinuated itself in Campania, but not only. The story, as often happens in these environments, is all waste and reclamation, landfills and sewage sludge which suddenly become gold for the collateral and direct coffers of organized crime, according to what the seizure order tells us. The corporate structure is complex, but the fiscal heart of the company is right in Corso Asia in Assemini. The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate scores its big coup precisely in the Sardinian enclave of this group, which over the years has decentralized powers, money and assets in favor of its direct family members. For the seizure against "Etica", the joint-stock company based in the metropolitan city of Cagliari, however, the Judges refer directly to him, the founder, Antonio D'Amico: «seizure of the entire share capital and complex of capital goods and any other goods intended for business activity recorded in the specific mandatory accounting records constituting the company compendium, as well as the deposits and bank accounts of Environmental Technologies International, registered office in Assemini Corso Asia 78, having as its corporate purpose " construction of public works for the transport of fluids". The questions are an obligatory step: why does a company of this importance have its registered office in the extreme outskirts of Assemini, a few kilometers from the Uta prison, already full of Camorra members on the move? Is there a correlation? Or otherwise, why did Antonio D'Amico relocate the legal affairs of Ethics to this anonymous Sardinian enclave? There is no answer to all this in the judicial documents, but it is clear that many documents are still kept under lock and key. One piece of data, however, emerges from the customer portfolio of this company subjected to seizure: on the company website the names are those you would never expect.
High-sounding references
In the “ Reference ” chapter they write: our references are the most evident testimony to our experience, competence and seriousness. And then down a mass of high-sounding names, from the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, complete with the banner of Palazzo Chigi, to the Sardinian Abbanoa, from the Pugliese aqueduct, the one that sent sewage sludge from all of Puglia to Sardinia, to the neighboring Lucano aqueduct , from the Municipality of Caltanissetta to that of Perugia, from the Campania Region to the Calabria Region. It is not known in what capacity Abbanoa and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers appear in this parterre, but it is certainly a chapter that needs to be clarified, without wasting too much time.
Sardinia «vulnerable»
This affair is the latest in chronological order which opens up disturbing scenarios regarding potential risky infiltrations in Sardinia. The latest six-monthly report from the Anti-Mafia completely overturns the scenario of the past, that of an impregnable Sardinia. The passage is explicit as never before: «In Sardinia, over time, projections of the so-called traditional mafias dedicated to investments aimed at laundering and reinvesting the proceeds illicitly accumulated in other Regions have been found. This assumption is also confirmed by the Attorney General of the Republic of Cagliari during his speech at the inauguration of the 2023 judicial year, according to which the Sardinia Region "appears vulnerable to the penetration of mafia organizations, in particular, from Campania and Calabria. The latter, moreover, appear to be strongly interested in the laundering of money of illicit origin and in the re-use of illicit capital, phenomena facilitated by the great investment opportunities that Sardinia offers in the tourism and commercial sector". In other words: sending another 100 mafia bosses to the Sardinian "Cayenne", to the Uta prison, would be a lethal blow for the island, yet another.
Anti-Camorra blitz in Torre Annunziata, 12 arrests
Anti-drug operation in the province of Naples against the Gionta and Gallo-Cavalieri clans
NAPLES The soldiers of the Carabinieri Group of Torre Annunziata have carried out an order for the application of the precautionary measure in prison issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 12 people, considered seriously suspected, for various reasons, of the crimes of mafia-type criminal association as well as association aimed at illicit trafficking of narcotic substances. In particular, the investigations revealed the alleged participation of two suspects, respectively, in the Gallo-Cavalieri clan and in the Gionta clan, which operate in the Torre Annunziata area. Furthermore, the alleged existence of a parallel organization dedicated to drug trafficking was discovered, attributable to the Gallo-Cavalieri clan and intended to supply the drug dealing squares of Torre Annunziata.
Nicola Gratteri: ''The Camorra has evolved, today it is a leader in cryptocurrencies'' 09 March 2024 The Chief Prosecutor of Naples: "There are two Camorra groups, the 'economic' one, which moves on the dark web and the one which dedicates itself to 'laying down'" The dark web is the new frontier of the Camorra, " an evolved Camorra ". Word of the chief prosecutor of Naples Nicola Gratteri, who - during a training course for journalists organized by the Campania unitary union at the "Bixio" barracks, in Monte di Dio - spoke about the Campania mafia.
“ Only a few days ago - the magistrate recalled - we closed an investigation which, at a national level, went almost unnoticed, despite its importance: an investigation into the international laundering of something like three billion euros that passed through Italy , Latvia and Lithuania through a global network of shell companies. An investigation that describes well what the evolution of the mafias will be ”.
On the risks linked to the distorted and illicit use of IT resources, the Naples Prosecutor's Office has equipped itself with a task force of specialized magistrates on the subject, who - explained the prosecutor - " to penetrate these phenomena must think exactly like hackers do . Specialists are needed. And, in our case, it is not easy to have them, because the public administration pays little ."
“ In Naples - added Gratteri - there are two Camorra groups: the first, very advanced, is strong in entrepreneurship and has conquered the tertiary and large-scale distribution markets. 'economic' Camorra, which moves on the dark web; then there is the one who dedicates herself to doing 'bending', an unthinkable phenomenon in Calabria that the 'Ndrangheta would never allow because it must live by social consensus. In Calabria these young men who shoot wildly would disappear into thin air the next day ”.
“ In Naples - said the former Catanzaro prosecutor - I distributed delegations and made the sections aware of illegal construction and pollution. I would like an acceleration on these issues. Illegal building is complicated, let's look for example at what happened in Ischia last year: everywhere people built in dangerous places. The mayors say they don't have the funds to demolish hundreds of illegal buildings, but I am committed to demolishing them. In Catanzaro I did the same by going to the regional councilor for the environment and telling him: 'There are 250 illegal apartments that have been ordered demolished by the judge'. It worked and they were shot down. My goal now is to try to do it in Naples ,” he concluded.
Ex-mafioso Catello Romano opens the door: neglect of omerta Ex-mafioso Catello Romano (33) is serving a thirty-year sentence for the murder of a politician. Behind bars he wrote a thesis about his gangster life and the Italian became world news because he confessed to three unsolved murders. 'My goal is to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of crime and its possible prevention.' Crime Erik Brouwer Mar 10 2024 | 15:39
Catello Romano The converted Muslim sat behind a computer in prison and wrote: 'My name is Catello Romano. I am 33 years old and have been in prison for almost half my life, fourteen years in a row. I committed terrible crimes and was convicted of murder on behalf of the Camorra. What follows is my criminal history.' These are the first words of the most spectacular Italian dissertation ever. The author: ex-Camorra member and serial killer Catello Romano. He is currently in custody in Padua and will not be released anytime soon. Not even now that he breaks the omerta and reveals how the Camorra operated in his town.
Catello Romano was born in 2001 and grew up in Castellammare di Stabia, a town of 14,000 inhabitants near Naples. His neighborhood of Scanzano is a Camorra stronghold. Retailers must pay protection money. The waste industry is completely controlled by the mafiosi. Many politicians and municipal officials cooperate with them. Agents receive money if they ignore their crimes or pass on information from secret documents. Catello's ordinary parents hated the Camorra and according to them, their son also had to realize that the mafiosi on their scooters were canaglia , scum. At first he seemed to listen and decided to become a police officer. According to him, things went wrong after his parents' divorce. He was laughed at and verbally abused on the street. Were the Romanos real Catholics?
Crazy mafia boss Catello fell under the spell of the Camorra. His favorite film was Il camorrista from 1986 by Giuseppe Tornatore, about the deranged mafia boss Raffaele Cutolo. Catello calls him 'O Prufessore' (the Professor) in his thesis and he writes: 'The Professor was the first to occupy my inner world.'
The Professor was the leader of Nuova Camorra Organizzata, a gang that had to restore the former glory of the Neapolitan mafia. He was put on earth by God to save the Neapolitan people, could bring the dead to life and make people without legs walk again. Psychiatrists declared him psychotic and insane after his arrest, the judge sentenced him to life in prison in 1963 for many murders and he died behind bars in 2021.
One afternoon, Catello met a Camorra member eighteen years his senior named Renato Cavaliere. Catello describes him in his dissertation as 'my underworld buddy'. Renato introduced him to other Camorra members and explained how the organization worked in their town. The clan leader was Vincenzo D'Alessandro. Their clan was therefore called the D'Alessandro clan. Catello joined the Camorra, he started stealing, threatening, suddenly had the budget to dress well, bought Paciotti boots, a Prada jacket and a Rolex. He cherished his jackets and ties, had worked hard for them and 'made many sacrifices for them by taking on humble and difficult jobs'.
Non-criminal townspeople were afraid of him, the most beautiful girls from his town suddenly responded to his advances
Catello describes in his dissertation why the Camorra became extra attractive to him. He developed an increasingly poor relationship with his father, almost never saw his mother after the divorce and filled the 'void' by replacing real family with 'a new family'. He looked for role models and they were the mafiosi 'who were at the top of the hierarchy'. Catello didn't want to look like his father or follow in his footsteps, why would he? His life as a Camorra member seemed to have only advantages at first. Non-criminal fellow citizens were afraid of him, the most beautiful girls in his city suddenly responded to his advances, even in the clubs of Naples they came to him because of his 'new criminal identity'.
Crucial date in his life: February 3, 2009. Renato and Catello met two other Camorra members that day: Salvatore Belviso and Raffaele Polito, the first cousin of clan boss Vincenzo D'Alessandro. Their mission was to kill Luigi Tommasino, a Democratic Party councilor in Castellammare. Catello was not told why, he only knew that Tommasino was around forty and he saw in a photo that Tommasino had a round head with only some hair on the sides.
Catello was given the task of following the council member and putting his schedule on paper. He did so and on February 3, 2009, the attack could hardly have gone wrong. The target was driving his Lancia Musa through Viale Europa in his town of Castellammare di Stabia at around half past four in the afternoon. Next to him sat his 13-year-old son Raffaele. Tommasino was passing by the Unieuro store as Renato and Catello rode by on a Piaggio Beverly scooter. They fired thirteen times with a Czech-made 9 caliber Luger pistol. Bullets landed in Tommasino's head. The councilor fell on the steering wheel of the Lancia, the car swerved to the left and crashed into the Unieuro shop window. His son Raffaele was not hit, that was not the intention, Camorra members do not kill family members. Journalists and carabinieri traveled to Viale Europa. The mayor burst into tears when he heard the news and urged all residents of his city to rise up against the Camorra 'to show that Castellammare di Stabia is not afraid of the mafia'.
Detectives concluded that the gunmen were professional sicari (hitmen). What was the motive and who gave the order? Tommasino was first described as 'not very visible' and 'not a strong personality'. He had a clean criminal record and was described by colleagues at city hall as 'an impeccable politician'. Tommasino had an office above the boutique where his wife worked behind the counter. Agents went there to confiscate diaries, files and computers. Tommasino's brother Giovanni gave an interview to channel TG1 and said: "Luigi was killed because he condemned the Camorra infiltration of his party."
Regretful After the murder, Catello returned to his Scanzano neighborhood, Raffaele went into hiding in a farm that the clan rented in the province of Siena. A few weeks after the murder, Raffaele called the police. He declined to give his name, but did say, "I know the names of those who killed Tommasino." The shooters were Catello Romano from Castellammare and Renato Cavaliere from the same town, known in the D'Alessandro clan as The Uncle. Salvatore Belviso had helped with the preparation. The three suspects were arrested.
Catello told police he wanted to become a pentito , regretfully. Carabinieri took him to a hotel and dictated to Catello what was expected of him as a pentito. He would be placed in a protection program, but in return he had to be fully open. Names, places, murders, crimes. Catello pretended to tell all when he confessed to killing Luigi Tommasino, but he didn't know he was a city councilor. He described in detail how the preparation had gone and how he had first followed Tommasino for two weeks. He had not committed any other murders, this was really his first liquidation.
Catello had only pretended to cooperate with the police, climbed out the window and fled to his girlfriend
Two days later, an officer opened his room door. Where was the pentito? Catello had only pretended to cooperate with the police, climbed out the window and fled to his girlfriend. He spent the night with her and then looked for a hiding place. Agents only found him after a month in the Caserta region and then he could no longer pretend to be a pentito. Catello didn't want that at all, he was proud to belong to the Camorra and bravado told the detectives that he was withdrawing all his so-called confessions.
First hypothesis about Tommasino's murder: he was indeed murdered because of his anti-Camorra attitude. After a thorough investigation, the municipal councilor turned out to be less virtuous than expected. A detective pointed out the "dangerous connection" the politician had with "prominent members of the D'Alessandro family." Tommasino was a childhood friend of Pasquale D'Alessandro, brother of clan leader Vincenzo. On behalf of the D'Alessandro clan, the municipal councilor arranged for family members of Camorra to get jobs at companies that worked for the municipality. The collaboration went well for a long time, but at the beginning of 2009 he did not keep an agreement. A few weeks before the murder, Tommasino had a conversation with two entrepreneurs about a parking garage in the city center. The clan members were angry about this, the entrepreneurs had not contacted the D'Alessandros and the parking garage had to be checked by them. Tommasino probably had to die over this issue, as a warning to other politicians who break agreements.
Lifetime The trial against Catello and the others started on November 23, 2010. He was 21 years old and received a life sentence. His underworld buddy Renato was 39 years old and received the same sentence. Salvatore was sentenced to eighteen years, Raffaele to twelve years for solving the murder through his phone call. The judge wrote in the judgment: 'The murderers acted with their faces uncovered, in the city center and in the name of the D'Alessandro clan. The order to kill Tommasino came directly from the boss Vincenzo D'Alessandro, whose consent was needed to carry out the liquidation.' The attack was committed in the center of the city, 'in front of the terrified eyes of hundreds of people'. That made it extra bad and traumatic.
Catello was first imprisoned for six years in Catanzaro, the capital of Calabria. Italy's most dangerous mafiosi are guarded there as heavily as possible. His appeal was in 2016. Renato was now a sincere pentito and said: 'I was the leader. I was instructed by boss Vincenzo D'Alessandro to eliminate people who were hindering our interests, such as Tommasino. I ask his family for forgiveness for what I did. And they have a right to know the truth.”
The judge reduced his sentence to thirty years and Catello also received thirty years on appeal. They returned to their cells. Catello was visited there one morning by a man named Charlie Barnao, a professor from the University of Catanzaro who has been teaching the Sociology of Survival sub-study in Italian prisons for five years. Ex-criminals need to learn lessons by writing down their criminal history. Barnao previously helped Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Curatolo, who was sentenced to life in prison, with his thesis on prison survival strategies and he worked with Camorra Godfather Sergio Ferraro, who had twenty years behind bars to write his thesis on 'socialization between mafia clans' . Both were awarded a sociology diploma and they were as happy with that as with a successful contract killing.
Catello's dissertation was entitled: Criminal Fascination . He described how his father often beat his mother and explained how the mafia became his new family. He wanted to be completely honest, so he confessed to crimes he had never told the police about.
On October 27, 2008, just before noon, two men were shot at in front of an abandoned bar on Via Castellammare near Castellammare di Stabia. They died instantly. Local journalists called it 'a brutal double murder'. Was the Camorra behind it? It certainly seemed that way.
Detectives cordoned off the area and interviewed witnesses. Two sicari appeared to have liquidated the two victims from a motorcycle. They did this 'in perfect Camorra style', it was reported the next day in the Corriere del Mezzogiorno . According to carabinieri from Castellammare, more than twelve shots had been fired. The names of the victims were announced after a few days. Carmine D'Antuono was 58 years old and lived in Castellammare. His nickname was O Lione, The Lion. He had a high position as a lieutenant in the mafia. His clan got into a conflict with the D'Alessandro clan and it escalated into a bloody war.
Name of the other victim: Federico Donnarumma. He was 42 years old, worked as a driver and was from Pimonte. No officer seemed to understand why he too had been shot. Donnarumma did have a criminal record, but that was for fraud and other relatively minor crimes. Wrong time in the wrong place? That's what it looked like. The perpetrators could never be found until Catello came clean in his dissertation.
Hole in the soul He and the other shooter prepared for the murder for two weeks. Catello was given a photo of D'Antuono and memorized the characteristics of his future victim. He had never seen Donnarumma before, and the Camorra did not actually need her to die at all. Afterwards, Catello had a 'hole' in his soul that never healed. In his dissertation he describes it as 'the most violent, traumatic and irreparable event' in his life. Carmine D'Antuono had to die because he was a rival, he could still deal with that, but Donnarumma only died because he happened to be near D'Antuono and Catello wrote: 'I didn't understand it right after and I still can always don't understand. But I shot him too.”
Next murder he confessed to: of Nunzio Mascolo, a member of their own clan. He was murdered at night on December 6, 2008 in Castellammare. The command consisted of two people. They rode to the target on motorcycles and wore helmets. Mascolo didn't realize he was being chased until the last moment. He fell, but it was too late: 'a shower of lead was let loose on his body'. Catello fired nine shots from a 7.65 caliber pistol. The 36-year-old Mascolo was killed instantly.
In his thesis, Catello writes: 'Although I cannot prove it, I am certain that he did nothing to deserve death. In the infamous logic of the Camorra and of the underworld in general, it works like this: it is not even necessary that the victim has done anything. I learned on the spot that in that world you can die because of the envy of someone who, unfortunately for the victim, has some leverage to impose a death sentence.” Catello also makes it clear that his role was to pull the trigger and not to ask questions. That's just how it worked in the Camorra.
After his confessions and apparent conversion to Muslim, Catello was transferred to a slightly less heavily guarded prison in Padua. There he completed his dissertation. Catello said he went 'through a very difficult process' by reliving everything. He was not allowed to hold anything back, total honesty was expected of him and that often hurt.
According to his professor, the end result is a Mario Puzzo-worthy autobiography of 170 pages full of 'chilling descriptions of the criminal environment, as well as musings on family, education, childhood, puberty, divorce, separation anxiety, drugs, violence and mafia history'. The foreword states: 'My goal is to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon of crime and its possible prevention. I strongly believe that words are important and this autoethnographic text aims to change the world.'
Catello wanted to investigate why 'crime exerts such a deep fascination' on young people and why the mafia clan can replace 'the family of origin'. One of his explanations: 'It is their way of emancipating yourself and gaining social recognition. In this context, violence becomes a task and a way to demand respect.'
“I had this crazy strong desire to be someone, to be seen and to be part of something bigger and more important, to prove myself through cruelty.”
Reckless and stupid At the beginning of his dissertation, Catello describes his friendship with Renato and other Camorra members: 'Through them I built a new alternative identity as a heavy boy, it was a mask with which I wanted to hide my vulnerability as a teenager, to survive in a violent and extreme world.' He was, in his own words, 'reckless' and 'stupid', had an 'idiotically strong desire to be someone, to be seen and to be part of something bigger and more important, to prove myself through cruelty and coldness in suppressing other men'.
He writes in detail about the first time he used a gun. He had to because he had to protect a clan member who was out on bail. Rival mafiosi wanted revenge and Catello's job was to prevent this. He must admit that he enjoyed moments like this for a long time and that made him do things that he can no longer imagine. After his first murders, he had to throw away his newly purchased expensive clothes 'as a precaution to hide traces of gun powder'. He had made the mistake of just wearing his Prada jacket and now he had to destroy it. He "suffered greatly and I complained for a long time." In fact, his clothes were so important to him that he went to his client to 'force' him to buy him a new jacket, 'something he did not do'.
Outpourings like this were not easy for Catello to write, but it had to be done. On one of the last pages he quotes Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister who was liquidated by Red Brigade terrorists and wrote just before his death that 'anyone who tells the truth should never regret it'. Catello agrees with these words and calls speaking the truth 'enlightening'. Calling on all virtuous people to "be courageous," he writes, "I have related the above in the hope that I have done something good for those I have wronged and for myself."
After his release, Catello wants to start over "as the Catello I was before everything I did" and he "hopes to put his life in order, once and for all." Through the thesis 'I bring the truth to the surface and, in a sense, as far as possible, I repay a debt to society'.
Catello graduated with honors and received his sociology degree in a small ceremony from his imam. His professor calls Catello "a brilliant student" who "received very good grades throughout his studies" and said: "He has put his life in order once and for all and analyzes the events of his past through a sociological research method, which also makes it a has a therapeutic function.'
The thesis is currently in the hands of the public prosecutor. The text is being studied by detectives and the local police boss is likely to reopen the investigation into the three mafia murders in 2008.
Anti-Camorra blitz in Caivano, the "protection" of the Angelino clan hit: 14 arrests including a policeman from San Cipriano
The investigations documented at least 36 cases of extortion from traders and entrepreneurs in the area
Caivano (Naples), 12 March 2024 – Anti-Camorra blitz at dawn in Caivano where the Carabinieri arrested 14 people, believed to belong to organized crime . The operation was conducted by the Carabinieri of the investigative unit of the Castello di Cisterna group to execute 13 custody warrants in prison and one under house arrest by the investigating judge of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate. The crimes contested, for various reasons, are mafia-type association, extortion and attempted extortion, crimes aggravated by the mafia method. At the center of the investigations are the Angelino clan's requests for protection money against entrepreneurs and traders in Caivano and the surrounding areas.
The investigations
An agent of the local police of the Municipality of San Cipriano (Caserta) is also among the 14 suspects arrested today by the Carabinieri of Castello di Cisterna. With the investigations, which concern the period between May and November 2023, the military found a real roundup of the economic realities of the territories (Caivano and surrounding areas) to be subjected to extortion: in fact, 36 extortion episodes were carried out or attempted from the documented Angelino clan. Some of the recipients of the precautionary measures are also held responsible for having favored the absconding of the head of the criminal group Antonio Angelino, known as "Tibiuccio", identified and arrested on 9 July 2023.
Executed after breaking mafia code of silence: Camorra assassins shoot turncoat engineer in the face outside Apple HQ in Naples after he exposed construction racket
Marano, Giaccio murder: three more arrests in the Polverino clan From editorial board-March 27, 20240
Three new precautionary custody orders for the murder of Giulio Giaccio, killed 26 years ago by a commando of the Polverino clan. The young man was mistaken for a person who allegedly had a relationship with a leading affiliate of the clan. The judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the magistrates of the DDA of Naples (prosecutor Giuseppe Visone), applied the measure of precautionary custody in prison against Luigi De Cristofaro, alias Mellone, Salvatore Simioli, 'o Sciallo, and Raffaele D' Alterio, alias 'a Signurina. Simioli and D'Alterio are already detained for other crimes. These are three prominent figures of the Polverino clan. For the same murder, the conviction has already been requested for Carlo Nappi, Salvatore Cammarota and Roberto Perrone, the latter a collaborator of justice. The collaborators of justice, including Perrone and Simioli, better known as Petruocelo, revealed the background to the murder.
Camorra Boss Turns State's Witness In Italy After 26 Years In Jail
One of Italy's most notorious mafia bosses, Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, has turned state's witness after 26 years behind bars, a judicial source confirmed to AFP Friday.
Camorra Boss Turns State's Witness In Italy After 26 Years In Jail
One of Italy's most notorious mafia bosses, Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, has turned state's witness after 26 years behind bars, a judicial source confirmed to AFP Friday.
Well Sandokan was alleged to be behind the murder of Bardellino.
Alleged murder of Bardellino, according to some he is still alive, i don't know what to believe in that one. I am sure he was connected to politicians/freemasons that are still free, because they rarely go to prison, but is he willing to talk against them.
Gratteri: «The web has allowed the Camorra to create an online bank» by Marco Politano 4 April 2024i n Current NewsReading time: 1 minute
The prosecutor: «We only managed to seize 2 billion» «An ndrangheta family hired German and Romanian hackers to make financial transactions within 20 minutes in banks located on 3 different continents». This is one of the results of the investigations into the dark web, conducted by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Naples Nicola Gratteri, today at the UN in New York to present the report of the Magna Grecia Foundation on Cyber ??crime. The prosecutor illustrated various examples of cyber crime in action also in Italy.
«In Naples I saw how the Camorra was able to build an online bank which involved countries such as Lithuania and Latvia and with 6,000 customers between Lombardy, Lazio and Campania and laundered something like 3 billion and 600 million euros, of which we only managed to seize 2 billion" explained Gratteri, adding that within the bank a "very sophisticated technology of Israeli production was used that only the most advanced police can afford, because just one of these software costs 5 million euros »
‘Market of Fakes’ in Naples, capital of counterfeits and Camorra Published Sun, Apr 7, 2024 · 03:01 PM\
AS TOP brands such as Gucci and Prada prepare to report billions in sales this month, luxury fakes on the streets of Naples are also yielding a jaw-dropping cash stream – for the mafia.
The teeming southern metropolis is ground zero for Italy’s counterfeit market – estimated to be worth six billion (S$8.8 billion) to seven billion euros – where fake handbags, sunglasses, clothing and shoes flourish, hawked in plain sight to buyers willing to score a knock-off bargain.
“Which brand do you like? What colour, what model?” asks a persistent seller at the “Market of Fakes”, spread out over back alleys near the gritty city’s central train station.
Men arrive hauling overstuffed blue plastic bags, from which emerge Gucci baseball hats, Fendi wallets, Hermes belts and bright orange Louis Vuitton shoeboxes, sold from rickety tables at a fraction of the price of their originals.
Counterfeits are a global phenomenon, whether fake fashion, toys, electronics, food or pharmaceuticals, estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to represent 2.5 per cent of world trade.
But Italy – home of the most luxury fashion brands – is the clear leader in counterfeit seizures within the European Union, accounting for 63 per cent of detained items in 2022, according to a November EU report.
And it’s in Naples where counterfeits find a unique breeding ground, giving it the dubious distinction of being the undisputed European capital of fakes.
The city is home to every phase of the counterfeit fashion supply chain, from manufacturing and warehousing to distribution and sales – all dominated by the region’s home-grown Camorra mafia.
Easy money While many consumers are unconcerned about counterfeits, the mafia’s handprint has increasingly made them a law enforcement priority.
“Counterfeiting is very important because it’s a warning bell”, signalling more dangerous crimes, said Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Evangelista, head of operations in Naples for the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial crimes police.
While less lucrative than selling drugs, counterfeiting generates cash, helps launder drug money and is relatively low-risk, with jail sentences far below those for more violent crimes. “They’ve already got the clientele… the tourists go by on the street, the bag is bought, and it generates profits for the criminal organisation,” Evangelista told AFP.
Police seizures are frequent and on the rise, including the discovery of a factory producing thousands of counterfeit Napoli banners, jerseys and caps in February.
Interior ministry data shows that between 2018 and 2022, Naples police seized nearly 100 million items worth over 470 million euros – some 14 per cent of the value of all counterfeit goods seized in Italy.
“In Naples, counterfeiting represents a real parallel economic sector” run by local and foreign mafias, a 2021 government report showed. It called the city a “centre of excellence” for fakes.
An artisanal heritage in tailoring and leather, an international port, high unemployment and an influx of cheap foreign labour have all helped counterfeiting flourish – as has the local population’s longstanding tolerance of bending the rules.
Camorra and China Collaboration between the Camorra and Chinese criminal groups fuels the rigorously controlled system. While higher quality goods are produced locally, most imported goods come from China and Turkey.
Counterfeiters choose busy EU ports, such as Rotterdam, or those with less stringent control such as in Greece or Bulgaria, before reaching Italy by truck.
Once in the Campania region, final finishing takes place in workshops using cheap illegal labour. Labels are frequently shipped separately and sewn on last, making it more difficult for customs to spot fakes.
The mafia also controls distribution, either through its own sales channels or pressuring shop owners to sell fake goods among their genuine items.
A 2022 police investigation found Naples street market sellers paid the mafia up to 200 euros weekly to operate their stands, or were forced to buy their merchandise.
‘Cancer’ in market Counterfeiting’s negative effect on the economy, notably in terms of lost demand, lost jobs and unpaid taxes, is huge. The Italian government put it at 17 billion euros in 2020 – a year when economic activity heavily contracted due to the coronavirus lockdowns.
There are other consequences: many of Naples’ hundreds of toxic fires each year are due to the disposal of trimming from counterfeit garments and shoes, experts say.
Top brands spend millions to fight counterfeiting. Louis Vuitton brought more than 38,000 anti-counterfeiting procedures globally in 2017, according to its website. Even smaller companies are now setting up legal protection departments, while increasingly investing in tracking technology.
Local businessmen in Naples also established a Museum of the Real and Fake to educate consumers. It closed last year. Its head, Luigi Giamundo, said more than 32,000 small fashion businesses in Campania were threatened by unfair competition, where even raw fabric can be counterfeited.
“It’s a cancer wedging itself into our market”, Giamundo said.
Juna Shehu of Indicam, an Italian association lobbying for intellectual property protection of leading fashion brands, said industry cannot act alone.
Indicam is calling for the EU to harmonise rules on dealing with seized fakes, with some countries currently making brands pay for their storage or destruction.
Educating consumers is also key. A 2023 survey found one-third of EU citizens would consider buying fakes if the originals are too expensive, rising to half of young people.
“This has to be a multidisciplinary approach because counterfeiters are becoming more and more expert,” Shehu told AFP.
Back on the Naples street, many customers seem unconcerned. “It doesn’t bother me,” said Caterina, 17, who bought a fake YSL wallet from a market seller for 11 euros. The original costs more than 300 euros. “Regardless of the label, it’s about whether I like the object.” AFP
Turin, Operation Echidna: axis emerged between Camorra and 'Ndrangheta AMTwo thousand 09 April 2024 The 'Ndrangheta-Camorra axis also appears in the investigation by the Turin DDA and the ROS carabinieri code-named Echidna. Two of the arrested people, Antonio and Luigi Mascolo , originally from Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) and resident in the Turin area, are said to be part of the 'local' 'Ndrangheta group of Volpiano but, according to what can be gleaned from the documents in the proceedings, they worked to help some exponents of the Stabiese Camorra to the point that the investigating judge, in the precautionary custody order, said he was struck by the fact that "despite the distance from their region of origin, these links continued to be active and constant". In particular, these are members of the Vitale family, considered close to the D'Alessandro clan, for example welcoming Luigi 'Gino' Vitale to Leinì to allow him to spend a period of time under house arrest. The name of the actor and singer Mario Merola , the famous 'king of the drama', who died in 2006, also appears in the documents of the subalpine Dda . Antonio Mascolo, 60 years old, in a conversation intercepted in 2021 told of when, on the orders of a person unspecified, put "a gun to his head" because he owed money. But for this reason, he added, he became the target of "two or three clans of Naples". It does not appear that the Turin DDA is carrying out any investigations into the episode. Mario Merola was investigated in two legal proceedings, in 1983 and 1989, and was always completely exonerated.
Ambush on the boss, 3 arrests in the Quartieri Spagnoli. In their area, passers-by were also searched Three young people were arrested by the police for the wounding of Masiello, dating back to November 2022; the suspects would be part of an emerging criminal group. By Nico Falco
Three young people were arrested by the State Police for the wounding of Vincenzo Masiello , who was shot on 5 November 2022 in the Quartieri Spagnoli, in the center of Naples: according to the reconstruction of the investigators, the group would have tried to carve out its own space in the criminal dynamics of the area, and for this reason he allegedly shot at the victim, currently detained, believed to be at the top of the crime family that bears his name.
The precautionary custody order in prison was carried out by the Police today, 17 April, on the delegation of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor for Juveniles of Naples; the three suspects are seriously accused, for various reasons, of personal injury, carrying and possession of firearms, private violence, robbery, all aggravated also by the mafia methods envisaged by article 416 bis.
From the investigations, conducted by the Flying Squad of the Naples Police Headquarters, it emerged that the three, who are 17, 20 and 22 years old, are part of an emerging criminal group, dedicated to crimes against property, which has established its operational base in vico Lungo San Matteo and has a large availability of weapons; according to what was reconstructed by the investigators, the members of the group, on several occasions and armed with pistols, carried out military control of the area, going so far as to search passers-by who were in their area of ??influence at night to ensure that they were not linked to rival groups.
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