The pentito Roberto Presta , a top figure in organized crime active in the Esaro Valley talks about 'the commission' aka "The Province".
A superstructure that would govern the most important choices of the 'Ndrangheta.
The collaborator of justice is the cousin of the superboss Franco Presta, I refer to the existence of a commission constituted by the representatives of all the provinces of Calabria. For the Cosenza part, this commission includes Ruà Gianfranco, Lanzino Ettore, Presta Franco, Patitucci Francesco, Piromallo Renato, Muto Gigino, Carelli Santo. The commission meets in different places, also on the occasion of "legal" events such as, for example, weddings, to discuss and define criminal strategies also in reference to political and power events in general. This information was reported by Franco Presta to my brother Antonio Presta when the latter was to take over as head of our group. I do not know the names of the representatives of the other provinces who are part of the commission. I don't know exactly if my brother Antonio Presta ever attended a commission meeting, also because when I happened to accompany him to important criminal appointments I could not know the subject of that eventual meeting.

Published on: 09/19/2022 - 9:10 pm
'Ndrangheta in Spain, arms and drug trafficking: 32 arrests
MADRID Law enforcement blitz against ' Ndrangheta activities in Spain. As communicated by the Spanish Civil Guard, an operation carried out in collaboration with the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza, hit an active nucleus in particular in Ibiza, as well as an Albanian criminal organization with related activities on the island. In all, 32 people were arrested, including Italian, Albanian and Hungarian citizens, both in Ibiza and in other Spanish locations. The blitz took place in recent days, between 13 and 17 September, but it was only known today.

The cocaine trafficking
According to the investigators, the main activity of the dismantled Italian nucleus was drug trafficking, in particular of cocaine. The Albanian group supplied drugs and weapons to the Italian one, explained the Guardia Civil. The blitz, called 'Operation Dragon Ball', involved 400 Spanish agents, who received the support of the Italian Dia (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate) and intervened in Ibiza and other areas of Spain.

Action against Italian mafia in Spain: 32 arrests

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/action-against-italian-mafia-spain-32-arrests

Some of those arrested are linked to some murders in Italy.

Italy’s Most Powerful Mafia Mingles With Devoted Christians at the Sanctuary of Polsi in Calabria

https://www.occrp.org/en/ndrangheta...ns-at-the-sanctuary-of-polsi-in-calabria

'Ndrangheta in Bra: asked for 28 years in prison for Salvatore Luppino
29 September 2022
The Court of Asti.
ASTI Twenty-eight years in prison for Salvatore Luppino, 22 and 17 for his brothers Vincenzo and Carmelo: these are the requests formulated by the prosecution,the Turin anti-mafia district directorate, for criminal association crimes mafia and drug trafficking at the criminal meeting chaired by judge Matteo Bertelli Motta.

The legal case follows the blitz of the Carabinieri and Police who, in June 2020, arrested twelve people, including the Luppino brothers, accused of having managed a "locale", that is a cell of the 'Ndrangheta in Bra. According to the investigators at the head of the clan was Salvatore Luppino, now in prison in Civitavecchia (Rome): the group would have managed a thriving drug and arms trafficking using as a base, together with a garage in the town center, the premises of the Rainbow Circle, in via XXIV Maggio. The bar run by the family is at the center of another legal matter: the murder of the thirty-year-old Albanian Avenir Hysaj whose body was found, in March 2021, in the fortresses of Pocapaglia,

The locali in Northern Italy.

A severe blow to the ‘Ndrangheta of Crotone was inflicted this morning by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro which triggered an operation against the so-called Locale of Mesoraca, which led to the arrest of over thirty subjects. In fact, exactly thirty-one people ended up in handcuffs, for twenty-seven of whom the prison doors were thrown open, while house arrest was arranged for the remaining four. The DDA challenges them, for various reasons, the criminal association of mafia origin, the external competition in the same, the extortion aggravated by the mafia method, the criminal association aimed at the illicit trafficking of waste, the illicit management of the same, the criminal association for the purpose of trafficking, producing and selling drugs and other crimes, with the aggravating circumstance of being an armed association.

Report of the Dia: 'Ndrangheta present in Latin America alongside the narcos
Luca Grossi 03 October 2022
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Argentina: cocaine production and the Calabrian mafia

Several judicial investigations continue to "demonstrate the attitude of the 'Ndrangheta to interact easily with the bloody organizations of the South American drug trafficking."
One of these investigations culminated in the' Magma 'trial (November 2019) in an abbreviated rite: "the Gup of Reggio Calabria had issued the sentence of conviction against 29 accused members of the Bellocco clan for a total of about 370 years of imprisonment because they were held responsible for mafia-type associations and international drug trafficking with South America, in particular Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica " .
Other investigations, on the other hand, have revealed the relationships with exponents of other criminal factions, especially in Calabria and Sicily, such as the 'ndrina Gentile di Amantea (CS), the' ndrina Lanzino di Cosenza, the 'ndrina Gallace di Guardavalle (CZ) and the Cappello clan of Catania.
These are some of the details released by Dia in the six-monthly report regarding contacts with the 'Ndrangheta and South American narcos organizations.
According to analysts, moreover, “South American organized crime operates above all in various regions of northern Italy, in particular in Lombardy and Liguria and to a lesser extent in Lazio. These are associations which, in addition to being dedicated to the commission of crimes against property and the exploitation of prostitution, collaborate with other foreign or Italian factions in the management of drug trafficking from Latin America. "
The transport of cocaine is managed with different methods : "the import takes place through air and sea routes using intermediate stops in order to evade the controls of the Police Forces and customs".

Mexico
The country would be "heavily exposed to the phenomenon of laundering of illicit proceeds attributable to drug trafficking, human beings, arms, smuggling, fraud and extortion". Dia stressed that the "international drug trafficking" is managed by the "Mexican criminal associations and the Italian organized crime from Calabria, Campania and Sicily. For this purpose, in particular, the 'Ndrangheta would use the port of Gioia Tauro (RC), strategic hub for cocaine trafficking in Europe ".

Colombia
"Colombia - reads - would be one of the main cocaine producing countries. The substantial illicit trafficking would be carried out in parallel with a complex system of recycling the relative proceeds, through real estate transactions and operations carried out in casinos or through the use of cryptocurrencies. ".
The Italian criminal organizations - especially the 'Ndrangheta - would stock up on the cocaine loads transferred along the “Chile-Ecuador-Venezuela-Brazil-Dominican Republic” route, directly from the Colombian cartels, entering Europe from Spain and Holland.
Dia analysts highlighted that "the most important criminal organizations involved in the cultivation and trafficking of drugs, as well as chemical precursors, would be the dissident groups of the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) , the BA.CRIM. (Bandas Criminales) and the armed paramilitary associations that arose following the demobilization of the historic AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia). The most important criminal gang would be that of the Usuga Clan or Clan del Golfo made up of over 70% of the paramilitaries present in Colombia ".


Brazil
In the report it was indicated as a "transit territory for drugs to Africa and Europe".
The biggest criminal group would be "the Primeiro Comando da Capital", a criminal organization that "would have embarked on a path of evolution aimed at starting money laundering activities, perpetrating financial crimes and establishing contacts with the counterparts based in the countries of the western hemisphere. and Europe ".
With regard to the possible presence of Italian mafias in Brazil, it emerged "how in the past the strong Sicilian emigration to the countries of America would have led to the reconstitution, in those contexts, of criminal aggregates with characteristics similar to those of origin, making them useful points of reference for international drug trafficking.

Peru
A "considerable amount of cocaine" is produced here. The drug is passed "through the countries of Central and South America and into those of West Africa by foreign criminal gangs that would join the local gangsters".
"The main sources of illicit proceeds would be drug trafficking, counterfeiting of goods and illegal gold mining."
As for the links between the Italian mafias and Peru, "the interests of the Ndrangheta clans of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian bands have emerged - we read - in investigative activities in the recent past".

Argentina
The country "thanks to the widespread use of cash, would offer criminal organizations high opportunities for the reinvestment of illicit proceeds also through financial transactions carried out in other countries without anti-money laundering legislation".
In Argentina, as highlighted by Dia, "the legislation concerning the seizure, confiscation and management of assets resulting from crime, would still have limited effectiveness".
The criminal phenomena indicated in the report are many: search for fugitives, money laundering, terrorism, immigration, protection of the artistic heritage and, of course, drug trafficking.
In this regard, "clandestine flights for the transport of cocaine from Bolivia and Peru were detected, as well as illegal entry of boats from Brazil and Paraguay along the vast river network on the border with Argentina; - drug seizures in peripheral areas of large cities, where clandestine laboratories destined to complete the cocaine transformation cycle were identified. In this context, contacts were recorded to undertake drug trafficking between South American organizations and exponents of the 'Ndrangheta, facilitated by the presence on site of Calabrian associates still in close relations with Italy ".
Finally, consolidated relations emerged "between the Mexican cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generation (which would concentrate most of the drug trafficking activities in Asia, Africa and Europe) and the 'Ndrangheta, in relation to trafficking of cocaine shipped inside containers".

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...sconi-in-un-agrumeto-con-i-boss/6826386/


Processo ‘ndrangheta stragista, agli atti il verbale del pentito Bruzzese: “Vidi Craxi e Berlusconi in un agrumeto con i boss”

‘ndrangheta stragista, a collaborator declares to have seen Craxi and Berlusconi at a meeting with the bosses

Mafia had diplomats smuggle 500 million Fr
October 4, 2022 0 comment

In 2021, a huge trial against several hundred mafiosi of the ‘Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra took place in Calabria.

The mafia makes an incredible amount of money with its core business, drug trafficking – which then has to be legalized. Lire worth around 500 million Swiss francs are said to have been laundered in Switzerland in 2007, write the newspapers from «CH Media». And this with the help of diplomats!

https://switzerlandtimes.ch/local/mafia-had-diplomats-smuggle-500-million-fr/

if it is true Berlusconi planned to run for politics long before 1994

Pino Piromalli is out

https://youtu.be/3CjERJMlrlg

The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office asked for a total of over 380 years of imprisonment for 34 people accused in the shortened trial, in the Lombard tranche of a maxi investigation, also coordinated by the Dda of Reggio Calabria and Florence. Investigation that had inflicted a severe blow to the clan Molé-Piromalli with over 100 precautionary measures carried out throughout Italy.
In particular, prosecutors have asked for 20 years in prison for the historic boss in Lombardy Bartolomeo Iaconis , for Michelangelo Larosa and Michelangelo Belcastro.

Bartolomeo Iaconis , known as don Bartolo, 64 years old, originally from Giffone (Reggio Calabria), has been active in Como since the 90s. After serving 14 and a half years, he was again arrested by the Ros of Milan for a murder, that of Franco Mancuso, which took place in 2008 at the Arcobaleno bar in Bulgarello (Como) for which he was also sentenced to life imprisonment as principal. A crime that served to affirm, according to the judiciary, his supremacy over the territory after his release from prison.

I think I posted it back in july. Piromalli one of the few with double affiliation both ndrangheta and cosa nostra.

Drugs, blitz in Calabria 36 arrests, 4 tons cocaine seized

https://news.italy24.press/local/83707.html

Raffaele Imperiale among the people arrested

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/fo...ia-b2a9bde6-059a-4f03-90d7-4417aca0da39/

Interesting first time he's directly linked to the Calabrese, but no suprise he is considered to be among the most powerful drug brokers in the world.

Documents sent by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to the Dutch police exposed what would be a super drug cartel headed by Raffaele Imperiale, Ridouan Taghi (former Dutch most wanted criminal, now in jail), Daniel Kinahan (Irish reputed gang boss) and Edin Ga?anin (Bosnian drug trafficker). The group was observed by the DEA having meetings in the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, Imperiale's alleged operating base. The meetings took place in 2017, however, it only reached the Dutch media in October 2019. The DEA regards this as one of the world's fifty largest drug cartels, with a virtual monopoly on the Peruvian cocaine trade and would control around a third of the cocaine trade in Europe. Yet, according to the DEA documents, the destination for all the drugs shipments would be the Dutch ports

Corrupt port workers facilitating ‘Ndrangheta drug trafficking activities arrested in Italy https://gangstersinc.org/blog/corrupt-port-workers-facilitating-ndrangheta-drug-trafficking-act

'Ndrangheta, sentences of up to 18 years for the Barbaro clan in the shortened trial

The investigation by the Pavia Finance Police, coordinated by the Milanese DDA prosecutor Gianluca Prisco, last January had led to the unveiling of the existence of historic 'Ndrangheta families originating from Platì (Reggio Calabria) and rooted in the north

by FQ | 7 OCTOBER 2022
Nine months after the arrests came the abbreviated first instance sentence that had led to 17 arrests between Milan and Pavia as part of an investigation into the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy. Sixteen years and 8 months were inflicted on Rocco Barbaro, 31, and 18 years and 6 months for his father Antonio, 54. The investigation last January had led to the unveiling of the existence of historic 'Ndrangheta families originating in Platì (Reggio Calabria) and rooted in the north, in particular in the territories straddling the provinces of Pavia, Milan and Monza Brianza and in the Turin area.

Among the convicts also Domenico Sergi at 8 years and 8 months. The arrests were carried out on January 10 with charges ranging from criminal association aimed at drug trafficking to the possession and carrying of weapons up to a series of extortion episodes with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method.

The meeting of Craxi and Berlusconi with the boss Piromalli would have happened already in 1979/1980. That's even before the Second 'Ndrangheta war (1985-1991).

Berlusconi links to the Mafia go back to 1974, in those years the DC was in power, but in the 1980s and early 1990s, the party was plagued by numerous corruption scandals, such as the P2 affair.

Berlusconi was a member of P2 and is still a freemason.

Mafia Ringleader ‘Lady Oil’ Sentenced To Jail
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October 12, 2022
Anna Bettozzi was sentenced to 13 years and two months in jail on Wednesday. Known as a petrol mafia ringleader ‘Lady Oil’, she was arrested last year for mafia association with ‘Ndrangheta.

The preliminary hearings judge (GUP) said the woman had been one of the leading figures in the vast ‘Petrol Mafie SpA’ probe.

Bettozzi, also known as ‘Lady Oil, is the widow of oilman Sergio Di Cesare. She was among 70 people arrested in April last year for mafia association involving the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta. She also stood accused of money laundering and tax fraud on petroleum products.

Some one billion euros in assets were seized – property, companies and cash. They included plants owned by the Made Petrol Italia Srl company, formerly known as Max Petroli, which Bettozzi was running.

‘Ndrangheta wanted Kazakhstan gas deal
Police claim the ‘Ndrangheta clans wanted to seal a deal to import gas and oil from Kazakhstan with the biggest Kazakh oil company, KMG.

‘Ndrangheta is Italy’s richest and most powerful mafia. It controls most of the cocaine trade in Europe.

he would have acted as a broker for the ‘Ndrangheta in Tuscany

A fugitive, considered by the investigators among the most dangerous wanted in Italy, was arrested in Spain, in Fuengirola (Malaga). Originally from Melito Porto Salvo (Reggio Calabria), 53 years old, but rooted in Tuscany and operating in the port of Livorno

https://news.italy24.press/local/112104.html

No name?

Mario Palamara

'Italian 'Ndrangheta suspect also worked through the Netherlands'

Police are linking Palamara to the preparation of cocaine shipments from Colombia to Italy. In the 'Ndrangetha, he is counted as part of the Morabito clan, but he also worked for other clans, who entrusted him to make deals with cocaine suppliers in South America. In Italy, the detectives used the nickname "super-broker" for him.

He mainly worked at the port of Livorno, according to the police. There, the police seized cocaine that had been delivered in a series of refrigerated containers.

The Florence prosecutor's office was looking for him for that case. In Catanzaro, the “Molo 13” investigation was conducted into a cocaine line that ran through the Netherlands.

Messages made readable by the police, possibly from Sky-ECC or EncroChat, play a role in the evidence.

The Morabito clan in Italy has a firm grip on the cocaine trade in Milan and Turin, among other things. This summer, Rocco Morabito was extradited from Brazil in a major cocaine trafficking investigation.

Now look at that, no African-American gang or American gang period is operating on those levels.