I think the fact that Messina Denaro is on the run for that long isn't so much because of his personal power, but because the "higher-ups" protecting the mafia (politicians, corrupt law enforcement, freemasons etc) need him as a sort of "boogeyman" to divert attention from themselves. If he was arrested, many people would say "ok, the last defendant in the bombings/massacres of the 90s has been caught, now let's focus on whoever protected him and is still free", and that's what many powerful people don't want.

About the potential revelations in case of his arrest, I can't know for sure of course, but I think he only will be arrested when his replacement is ready, and whatever evidence and compromising documents he may have, they surely will already be safely hidden long before the arrest will be "allowed" to happen. When Riina was arrested, the police took away the surveillance from his home and allowed the mafiosi to remove all compromising evidence from it before the house was searched. When Provenzano was arrested, no big revelations came either...

Also won’t forget that some key ndrangheta clans, such as the commisso, were tied up with LCN in NY and in Canada since the heroin trade, they were supporting the heroin trade i between Sicily and USA via the Calabrian port of Crotone, so the transition was quite smooth..,

Perhaps you're right, maybe no big revelations will come from it, but it's definitely there. But I mean the huge billion-dollar asset seizures from his clean-faced fronts alone suggests he wields enormous economic clout. But for sure, you're right about them not really wanting to catch him.

He is a billionaire for sure, he is most powerful organized crime figure in Europe , maybe next to some Russian mafia bosses who are close to Putin. But as Dwalin said , after arrest of Riina , someone took away surveillance from his home , when they came back , house was empty.

Messina Denaro has also been protected by the 'ndrangheta in the past, the "Corleonesi" always had strong links to the Calabrians, Riina stayed in Calabria some time while on the run. Meetings between the top of Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta are continuing to this day.

Ex head of Calabria council cleared of 'Ndrangheta charges
Domenico Tallini a defendant in Farmabusiness case

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 18 - The ex head of the Calabria regional council, Domenico Tallini,, was acquitted Friday of charges of helping an 'Ndrangheta clan illegally sell drugs in the so-called Farmabusiness case.
Tallini, 70, was accused of helping the Grande Aracri clan of Cutro near Crotone sell drugs on the wholesale market.
He was also accused of vote buying.
Another five people were acquitted with Tallini.
The court found 14 people guilty and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from two to 16 years. (ANSA).

Wire taps from an investigation into the Calabrian mafia revealed that they have been converting cocaine into “coal” to avoid detection when importing the product from Colombia.

The investigation came to a head this week with the arrest of 65 people, the identification of a dozen local politicians in Anzio and Nettuno believed to serve the Calabrian clans, and the arrest of two policemen. A chemist hired to convert the fake coal back into the usual white cocaine powder was identified as a Colombian nicknamed “Parkinson”, with the alleged traffickers boasting in one of the intercepted conversations that he was “two steps ahead of everyone else”.

The major operation in Rome this week uncovered the first recognized 'Ndrangheta' locale 'in Central Italy.
Not a "bastard", but a local "major company", recognized by the parent company in Calabria and therefore of high rank.
Here bosses such as Giacomo Madaffari, Davide Perronace, Vincenzo Italiano and Bruno Gallace guide councilors and approach advisers, recruit carabinieri and persuade entrepreneurs.

One of the matters was that Gallace was furious with the former ultra-Lazio leader and drug trafficker Fabrizio Piscitelli «Diabolik» shot dead in August 2019.

Who was behind the shooting ?

No idea, both camorra and 'ndrangheta have been linked to it looks like Diabolik was a renegade upsetting many people.

In 2019 Diabolik’s gang and his partner, Fabrizio Fabietti, were smashed, 51 went to jail and under house arrest: members of the underworld linked to Lazio’s ultra environment, batteries of thugs and boxers to deal with violent debt collection, extreme right-wing extremists .

Leandro Bennato, a drug trafficker from the neighborhood of Casalotti, he also ordered the murder of 2 albanians close to Diabolik

After the one with “Nano ferocious”, another exclusive interview by Klaus Davi with the superboss of the 'Ndrangheta of the Piana di Gioia Tauro, Pino Piromalli . He served a 22-year sentence in a harsh prison regime but the investigators are convinced that even from behind bars he kept the "direction" and continued to manage the business of the clan from Gioia Tauro to Milan: "We voted for everyone, of right and left. We always chose the most ... deserving ".

Italian police seize mafia goods worth 800 million euros in Calabria
Italian police announced on Wednesday that they had seized property worth more than 800 million euros. They belong to three brothers suspected of ties to the Calabrian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta.
Source : BELGA
Today at 14:02
The properties include numerous businesses, supermarkets, one of the largest shopping centers in southern Calabria and real estate, including two luxury villas, according to a statement from the Financial Police (GDF). Bank accounts, luxury motorcycles and, among other things, a Ferrari were also seized.

The Italian justice has been investigating the patrimony of the three brothers for years. One of them is currently on trial after an operation against the mafia in 2015.

According to the AGI news agency, it concerns the brothers Franco, Pasqualino and Marcello Perri. Their father Antonio Perri was murdered outside one of his supermarkets in 2003.

According to AGI, the investigators suspect the brothers of having made large profits thanks to their ties to the mafia and violations of the free market laws. They would have acquired a sort of monopoly in the sectors in which their companies operated.

Experts regard the 'Ndrangheta as the most powerful mafia in Italy after supplanting the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Neapolitan Camorra.

Several turncoats spoke of the Perri's going back to the 80s.
Statements of collaborators Rosario Cappello, Giuseppe Giampà and the former collaborator Giovanni Governa.
The repentants Pasqualino D'Elia and Pietro Paolo Stranges.

Limburgers coordinated cocaine gang
An Italian group from Genk is suspected of controlling cocaine transport on a large scale. In an extensive international drug investigation, four arrests were made in Genk on Tuesday. Those involved are said to have set up a cocaine trade and may have had ties to the 'Ndrangheta mafia. That is what De Standaard and Het Belang van Limburg write today. The Limburg public prosecutor's office cannot comment for the time being.

The searches and arrests are directly related to the large-scale action coordinated by the federal prosecutor a few weeks ago in the Albanian environment. That organization imported large consignments of cocaine via the port of Antwerp, but was also active in Rotterdam, Le Havre and Hamburg. The containers with cocaine from South America arrived in Antwerp. The cocaine was then spread further in Europe via cars with hidden spaces, private planes and boats.

The drugs ended up with other criminal gangs in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. In the investigation in Italy links were made with the mafia. The arrests of last Tuesday in Genk would fit in that context.

'Ndrangheta, the interview with Emanuele Mancuso: “They buy the trials. The drug money is underground "
Published 28 February 2022|From g0e9n2n0a0r8o0v6
by Klaus Davi - February 27, 2022

Interview by Klaus Davi with the repentant of the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta who reveals the secrets of the powerful criminal organization. “The money from the cocaine trade with South America was packed and hidden underground. Many wanted Luigi Mancuso to always be free, because in this way he was able to keep order ".

“After interviewing Pino Piromalli, the superboss from the Piana di Gioia Tauro, Klaus Davi“ intercepted ”the repentant of the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta, Emanuele Mancuso, for another long interview. The Italian-Swiss journalist was joined by Alessio Fusco, a correspondent for Newsmediaset.

Emanuele, here we are. Let's start with the first question: I would like to ask you what made you repent. Why did he go to justice?
«So, I decided to collaborate with justice because my daughter was about to be born. Seven days before the baby was born. '

In short, he did it for her. Tell me a bit: what happened? What were the main interests of the Mancuso family?
«The main interests are drug trafficking from South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador. They transport tons and tons of cocaine to Italy, and then there are the oil business, large contracts and numerous investments in Northern Italy in construction ».

How does this "method", this mafia "method" work? You were in this system, how does it work?
"What do you mean?".

The drug movement: where does it start from, are there meetings, contacts with the people who are there, with the local entrepreneurs? Or is it a mafia system - you go to these people and threaten each other -? I would like to understand a little better.
"What about tenders in particular?"

As for the contracts but also for the drugs that are brought up, from what I seem to have understood ...
«There are many methods for transporting cocaine from South America but they change above all because certainly the ways of investigating by the prosecutors change. The 'Ndrangheta is evolving, it is constantly evolving, but there are many “methods” of them ».

Instead, as far as contracts are concerned, we go to entrepreneurs with blackmail, threats… or what else?
"Absolutely not! It is difficult for the entrepreneur to suffer violence; we start from the assumption that the 'Ndrangheta is now so strong that it decides directly when to tender and what to build. What has the entrepreneur been doing lately? Before even taking part in a tender he pays the clan directly. The gangs, that is, do not even need to threaten because the entrepreneur is already put there by the gang directly. Because the company belongs to the clan or the entrepreneur, when he arrives, he already knows that he has to pay, so you don't even get to threaten or carry out attacks ».

As for drug trafficking, on the other hand, did the drugs arrive at the port of Gioia Tauro and then were "turned over" in different ways?
“The drugs arrived both in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and then also made calls at Gioia Tauro, Livorno and Genoa. Then it was sorted ».

How much money does this market bring? Was there really so much money in the Mancuso family's coffers as they say?
«A kilo of pure cocaine - it depends on how you close the deal ... - has a negligible price in South America; in Italy it is multiplied by 4 with the cut you get to earn around 100,000 euros per kilo, therefore a stratospheric gain: it is a business where money does not count anymore, you have to weigh it. And, in fact, many members of my family hide the money underground, indeed they use excavators to pack them, the money… ».

Yes, because that's black money: so they hide it because they have to invest it?
“That's not the problem, it's that they have so much money that they either brick it up or put it underground with excavators; it is not the question that they are in black, the question is that they have so many that they do not even know what to do with them ".

This is crazy!
"Already. And in fact, the processes are also bought ».

What do you mean?
"In the sense that there was a proven system where through subjects belonging to the Freemasonry they reached the judges and in this way arranged the trials."

So you also enter the processes? Even politics - at this point it is legitimate to think so -?
"Absolutely yes: and not only politics, but also the secret services."

So they were being paid to pretend they didn't know?
'They were paid to fix some sentence; at the local and provincial level, politics has always been in the hands of the clans, nothing has ever changed. At the regional level, the same thing, with connections also extended to the national level ".

Yes, yes, I understand! With money you can buy everything: from the trial to the politician on duty, right?
"Let's say that since the 'Ndrangheta entered Freemasonry it has become practically very powerful, it has no borders."

After Luigi Mancuso ended up in prison, this whole system did not stop, it went on. He has passed from father to son. That is, isn't it that it "dies" there?
«Look, Luigi Mancuso was arrested in 2019 while I was already detained. From the experience I had, I can affirm that the 'Ndrangheta is the most difficult to fight because it is "founded" on blood ties, therefore it is very strong, it is difficult for me that it will end ».

I can ask you one thing, you told me that this is no longer the 'Ndrangheta of murders ... But have you ever heard statements in your family like “We have to get rid of this, now it's really disturbing too much”?
"Yes, it happened, of course."

Just said, or even done?
"Even done."

May I ask you which characters were most affected: businessmen or politicians?
"Look, I don't know if I can answer these questions."

Okay, let's move on: gang wars, feuds, stuff like that - is there still something similar within the territory, in your opinion? -.
"Yup! But when there are strong personalities like that of Luigi Mancuso there are never wars because they try to get along and divide up the territory. It is difficult for wars to happen with a person like Luigi Mancuso. Luigi wanted more than one “subject” at an institutional level to maintain order between two clans: it is an advantage both for politics and for entrepreneurs and for the territory; the 'Ndrangheta is very powerful on a social level. You must consider that decent people came to me and said to me: "Emanuele, can you find me a job?" as if I were the employment office; or: “Emanuele, I need a visit to the hospital” and I made him pay the visit in ten days: this is what the 'Ndrangheta is, you command at all levels. Yes, at all levels ».

Emanuele, her life has changed a lot: since she has been under protection, in fact, she cannot do many things and must always ask for permission. I think you have to ask permission to see her daughter too, right?
“Look, my daughter's story is something shameful that the rule of law cannot afford; you must consider that my father also raised me without having the limitation of parental responsibility like all my uncles, my relatives who have minor children; I who have collaborated with justice and have never committed even a murder to date find myself free and without parental responsibility, with the limitation of parental responsibility: the reason is that I am a member of the clan. This is something completely unacceptable, out of place, non-existent, absurd after four years ».

And your daughter is with your wife?
«My daughter is with my ex-partner who is also accused of numerous mafia crimes and has also been convicted in the first instance. It is a paradox, I can say that it is a paradox. Indeed, it is more than a paradox, because all fathers in Italy who come out of prison go back to their children and no one is limited parental responsibility. I, on the other hand, who should not have an extra gear but ten more gears because I dissociated myself from the gangs, I have even testified against my parents, instead of being rewarded because I have a different lifestyle, I suffer the limitation of parental responsibility because he belongs to a clan; something out of the ordinary. I can see my daughter for just fifty minutes in a closed room. '

I ask you one last thing: there was a story that concerned me. Do you tell me how it went and what was then said about me by her family?
«I, Doctor Davi, met her on the occasion when I had a car accident in 2016. I remember that she called me on the mobile phone and I invited her to come to the Vibo hospital to see me. And I remember that as soon as she set foot at the Jazzolino she was first attacked, kicked and punched, then her camera was stolen; in short, a robbery and in addition you have been reported. As if to say: in addition to the damage, insult has also been added. I remember that I also gave her an interview. Later she came to my house, even more than once. And one day I remember that my mother exclaimed: "This one, if you come home, you go away with your legs in the air." I don't know if you have understood the meaning ».

Did they want to shoot me?
"Well, something would surely have happened."

A threat, in short. They were tough enough: maybe they didn't want to take me out, but still hit pretty hard.
“It's normal, because it was annoying. Anyway she came with her colleague Micelotta, she also went to my uncles, my relatives, and this thing irritated my family because she didn't want to appear, she wanted to be silent anyway, in short ».

Emanuele, if you want to add something, that's fine for me….
«I would like to tell all the boys not to believe in the 'Ndrangheta, to study and to trust so much in the Justice and the Carabinieri or the Police; in Calabria there is a great need for young people who believe in this and who do not believe in the 'Ndrangheta. No charm, the 'Ndrangheta is something that sucks ».

Interesting read , thanks for posting my friend!

THE FOCUS
The secret services take the photo of the new 'Ndrangheta: "Able to infiltrate"
In the "Annual report on information policy for security 2021", the strength of organized crime emerges, which is growing with drug trafficking, makes the most of the "important strategic hub" of the port of Gioia Tauro and points to funds from the NRP

The secret services do not lose sight of the 'Ndrangheta, on the contrary they follow its organizational and criminal changes with great attention. This can be seen from the content of the “Annual report on the information policy for security 2021” which, in recent days, was presented to Parliament.

The image of Calabrian organized crime, the one that is unanimously recognized as the most powerful mafia operating in the world, which emerges from the photograph taken by the Italian 007s, resembles a sprawling organization, capable of changing shape, of adapting to changes in the world to continue to do business and escape the controls of the police.

"The persistent infiltrative capacity, even in contexts of extra-regional projection and abroad - reads the report presented to Parliament - is linked to consolidated corruptive and collusive expertise, especially at the local level, functional to the reuse of the substantial proceeds of drug trafficking in sectors of strategic importance ". The main concerns are pinned on the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and on the risk that these funds could end up in the hands of the gangs that, in recent years, have shown that they are able to give life to a" clear welding, likely to develop within qualified relational circuits, between criminal circles, entrepreneurs, public administrators and specialized professionals, mostly in corporate and tax matters ".

The 'Ndrangheta, therefore, appears to be committed not to wage war internally and to make the most of its infiltration skills to make money. "These - the report continues - are contraindicated relationships capable of facilitating both the laundering of illicit proceeds, through articulated tax evasion and avoidance schemes, also achieved with the use of sophisticated techno-finance tools, as well as conditioning of the public decision-making sphere, especially at the local level, especially in the context of the award of tenders for the construction of infrastructural works ".

Relations that the 'Ndrangheta manages to manage also thanks to the huge sums of money it collects with the narco traffic, from what is, historically, the predominant business: that of the sale of drugs. "By virtue of the significant profit margins deriving from drug trafficking, Calabrian associations, interested in reducing inter-clan competitive tensions - reads the report - exploit various relational circuits, even abroad, to ensure supply of drugs from production areas to consumer markets ".

In this context, we finally read in the “Annual report on the information policy for security 2021”, “the port of Gioia Tauro continues to represent an important strategic hub around which the interests of historic and powerful clans gravitate”.

The infamous 'Ndrangheta has been linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, partnering with it to import cocaine into Europe and distribute it there.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/the-...ugglers-have-their-eyes-on-a-new-market/

Luigi Trovato, 52, member of the Giampa' clan, was shot dead in the center of Lamezia Terme

Klaus Davi learned from a video released by the Guardia di Finanza that the alleged drug boss and broker Giuseppe Campisi , known as" Pino ", from Vibo Valentia, (arrested last Friday in Rome, ed) in his lair was reading his book 'The Killer of the 'Ndrangheta' (published by Piemme) and 'Accomplici e guerilla' by Nicola Gratteri and Antonio Nicaso. I declare myself ready to meet him, if this is permitted by the judicial authorities, and to speak with him.

Thanks to the magistrates Giuseppe Lombardo, Roberto Pennisi, Nicola Gratteri himself, Roberto Di Palma and other representatives of the state but also of former members of organized crime, we have told the lives of characters such as Annunziato Raso, Molè-Piromalli killer, Nino Fiume, Gino Molinetti, Giovanni Tegano, Gennaro Pulice, Donato Giordano and Domenico Paviglianiti », says the journalist and mass media scientist.

Klaus Davi met, often in their homes, some of the leading exponents of organized crime: from Giovanni Luca Nirta to Francesco Strangio (San Luca), from Nino Imerti known as "Nano Feroce" to Giuseppe Piromalli "Facciazza", from Salvatore Mancuso dell ' homonymous clan to Vincenzo Pesce, from Paolo Polimeni to Nicola Bonavota, from Tommaso Inzerillo of Palermo to Salvatore Manzella called “Sansone” from Foggia. "Both with the book and with the journalistic commitment to 'Fatti e Misfatti' on TgCom24 in these three years, we have done an excellent job of narrating the absolutely original crime that has evidently left its mark, as shown by the images of the Guardia di Finanza concluded Davi.

Brazil, green light for the extradition of the superlatitant of the 'Ndrangheta Rocco Morabito
In order to proceed with the extradition, however, the court specifies in its order, Italy must comply with certain requirements required by Brazilian legislation, such as the removal from a possible sentence of detention served in Brazil and the application of a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...della-ndrangheta-rocco-morabito/6519848/

‘NDRANGHETA: AIDING AND ABETTING BOSSES WHILE ON THE RUN, 8 ARRESTS

(ANSA) – REGGIO CALABRIA, MARCH 10 – Eight people were arrested by the Reggio Calabria mobile squad accused of having favored the inaction of the boss of the ‘Ndrangheta Giuseppe Pelle, known as “Gambazza”, considered one of the alleged leaders of the homonymous cosca of San Luca. Six of the arrested are relatives of Pelle, accused of having helped him escape the execution of a prison order under which he had to serve a residual sentence of 2 years and 5 months in relation to a definitive sentence for mafia association. The other two involved in the operation are not relatives of the boss, but would have been his supporters anyway.

The operation conducted by the Police was called “Defender”, from the name of the off-road vehicle on board which Giuseppe Pelle, while on the run, was accompanied to the Condofuri hideout where he had found refuge and where he was arrested on 6 April 2018 by same mobile team of Reggio Calabria and the Sco. The precautionary custody orders carried out as part of the operation were issued by the district magistrate of Reggio Calabria at the request of the Public Prosecutor, Giovanni Bombardieri, and the Deputy Prosecutor, Giuseppe Lombardo. The detention in prison was arranged for his wife, Marianna Barbaro, aged 55, and two sons of Pelle, Antonio, aged 35, and Francesco, aged 31; for the son-in-law, Giuseppe Barbaro, aged 36, and for his nephew Antonio Pelle, also 36 years old. Another daughter of Pelle, on the other hand, Elisa, aged 35, was granted house arrest. Also arrested and taken to prison are 51-year-old Giuseppe Morabito and 43-year-old Girolamo Romeo, who, according to the accusation, had made available the property where Pelle spent his hiding. (HANDLE).

The marriage between his daughter Elisa and the arrested Giuseppe Barbaro in August 2009 was attended by 2,000 people.
Giuseppe Barbaro is the son of Pasquale Barbaro and the scion of the eponymous Barbaro 'ndrina from Platì.

'Ndrangheta, Gotha, trial to be redone for Giorgio De Stefano. And he has already left house arrest

For the Supreme Court, all crimes that were committed before 2005 have already ended in the context of a different and previous judgment, which has reached a definitive sentence. In a new appeal procedure, the responsibilities for the crimes contested in the following decade will be reviewed

The behind-the-scene power broker has already left the house arrest obtained in September, after six years in a cell.

De Stefano was actually a component in all respects of the strategic direction of the 'Ndrangheta. An organism different from the single clan, superior, secret and therefore unknown to all, if not the top "military" leaders of the mafia organization.

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets acquitted

de stefano is probably a freemason

Investigations were full of the names of presumed Calabrian freemasons. Pentito Consolato Villani said they must reopen the case of lodge P2 and the lists that have always been considered incomplete.Both the lawyer Paolo Romeo and the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano were part of the P2 of Licio Gelli who often went to Reggio Calabria, Villani said
Giorgio De Stefano, Villani will add, is the real mind of the homonymous clan and is the most powerful subject that exists today in that border area between the 'Ndrangheta and those centers of occult power that also pass through Masonic circles.

Same goes for Sicilian mafia.