Italy seizes millions from online gambling business

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/8107-italy-seizes-millions-from-online-gambling-business

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6358013/italy-world-cup-vincenzo-iaquinta-prison-guns-mafia/

MAFIA LINK SHOCK Italy World Cup-winner Vincenzo Iaquinta ‘faces six years in prison’ after ‘illegally harbouring guns’ for Mafia

The doors and windows of the villa in via San Francesco d'Assisi in the hamlet of Rogorotto, near Milan, have been closed for days. The 'boss' house of Francesco 'Ciccio' Riitano, is empty and nobody knows what the destiny of the building will be. In fact, the entire Riitano family decided to abandon Arluno, a Milanese municipality that had become the operational base of the mafia association dedicated to international drug trafficking, dismantled in May 2017.

The hypotheses on where Ciccio Riitano can hide are numerous: one thinks of Germany, near Frankfurt, where the 'boss' also has an activity; or just in Calabria, where he would find numerous support. Even Spain is among the hypotheses , given that the Iberian peninsula was one of the places touched by the international drug traffic managed by Riitano and his, as well as Colombia. Or maybe the 'boss' is still here, in the province of Milan, and maybe he is hiding right in Arluno.

The vice prefect of the Island of Elba, Giovanni Daveti, 66, and Giuseppe Belfiore, 61, repeatedly arrested for association mafia and leading exponent of a clan of 'Ndrangheta, both ended up in jail, the criminal association, disjointed by the Livorno Guardia di Finanza coordinated by the chief prosecutor Ettore Squillace Greco, aimed at tax fraud and other serious crimes.

Another seven people involved ended up under house arrest and all the precautionary measures were ordered by the judge of the Court of Livorno.

Belfiore is the brother of the instigator of the murder of the Turin public prosecutor Bruno Caccia in 1983 and is affiliated to one of the most well known 'ndrangheta gangs operating in the Piedmont area and abroad (especially France and Spain.)

https://www.thenews.coop/128948/sec...-fighting-mafia-sustainable-agriculture/

How Italian co-ops are fighting the mafia through sustainable agriculture

https://news.sky.com/story/italian-...warns-countrys-anti-mafia-chief-11396031

Italian mafia going global as influence spreads, warns country's anti-mafia chief

Thanks to Carmelo.

Leonardo Portoraro, 63, was shot dead with a machine gun in front of a restaurant in the town of Villapiana (Cosenza); his brother Giovanni was also killed in 1992. He was a native of Cassano allo Ionio and among the most powerful bosses of Cosenza province.

I read an interview with Nicola Gratteri which is like the main Ndrangheta prosecutor and knows everything about them. He said in order to make a large deal you got to pay a small fee , then they ask him to who this fee has to be paid, he then says its a organization which is above all the Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian cartels , i assume Ndrangheta is also included there since the interview is about them...

You guys think he means the Mexicans or some shit like CIA? Does the Ndrangheta have to pay the Mexicans for smuggling coke you think?

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/06/alex-perry-the-good-mothers.html

The Good Mothers: Women Are the Key to Breaking the "Most Powerful Organized Crime Outfit on Earth"

https://www.thelocal.it/20180607/inside-san-ferdinando-slum-calabria-italy

Inside the slum that houses southern Italy's migrant workforce

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Boo...ale-prosecutor-who-took-on-Italy-s-mafia

'The Good Mothers' profiles the female prosecutor who took on Italy's mafia

I apologize if this has been discussed before , but how currently involved are Ndrangheta clans in cocaine production ? I do believe I've read that certain clans have been running cocaine labs in certain South American countries for some time .

I have also read they have their own cocaine labs in South America but i dont know if its a large number or if its true even.

A young man from Mali was shot dead on June 2 in the Italian province of Calabria. Soumaila Sacko, 29, leaves behind his wife and a five-year-old daughter in Mali and friends and colleagues in southern Italy. He worked to bring in the harvest and was also an activist for the grass roots union, USB, which campaigns on behalf of African day labourers.
Sacko was one of thousands of workers who work as harvesters and day labourers, earning a pittance on the orchards of vegetable and agricultural farms in the hinterland of Gioia Tauro. The workers are housed in tents, barracks or improvised huts made of wood and plastic sheeting.
Most of the young workers come from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast or Senegal. Many of them have no proper papers and are treated like slaves.
On Tuesday, a 43-year-old farmer named Pontoriero was arrested on suspicion of murder. The newspaper Corriere della Sera writes that the Pontoriero family is alleged to be associated with the Ndrangheta.

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/i...sur-les-urnes_2794931.html#xtor=CS2-765-[twitter]-

Municipal elections in Italy: in San Luca in Calabria, the shadow of the mafia hovers over the ballot boxes
Since 2013 and the dissolution of the city council for mafia infiltration, no candidate appears in the municipal election of Sunday in this borough of 4,000 souls, cradle of the Calabrian mafia.

The cradle of the dreaded 'Ndrangheta
Yet in San Luca, in Calabria, the cradle of the most formidable clans of 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, not the slightest electoral tremor. The town of 4,000 inhabitants, including a dozen mafia families, hanging on the mountain slopes of wild Aspromonte, no voting since 2013 and the dissolution of the city council for mafia infiltration. Also, reflecting an Italian reality, like 43 other Italian municipalities (22 in Calabria), San Luca no longer has a mayor and is managed by a senior official.

Long Live The Rooster.

@ SC, disappointed in you that you had to stoop to name calling. But youre the boss. Feel bad for you too now.

@ Loscalzo, your nonsense about Tampa still holds no weight and Ive been vindicated many times over.

All the best to Nickle, Bensonhurst, Cabrini, and Giacomo. Keep up the good posts in my absence

Wrong thread buddy.

Strax, Rooster has nothing better to do than make multiple accounts and spam threads out of anger. A man with such influential reach in Buffalo law enforcement and the Buffalo underworld sure does have a lot of free time on his hands, huh?

Nicky, drop it. You agreed to ignore Rooster (or whatever name he tries to go by) and I must ask you to live up to that promise now. Just ignore him. I won't ask you again.

Fair enough.

At the trial 'Ndrangheta stragista the collaborator of justice from Puglia

"La 'Ndrangheta Calabrese is everyone's mother, embracing all the groups in Italy: Camorra, Cosa nostra and Pugliesi. There was no group that had no contact with Calabria " . To say it is the collaborator of justice Salvatore Annacondia , killer of Trani with more than 50 murders behind him and a rise in power from Puglia to Lombardy that led him to have the recognition of important 'ndranghetisti as Domenico Tegano and Franco "Coco" Trovato.
The repentant was heard today at the trial 'Ndrangheta stragista that sees defendants the boss of Brancaccio Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Santo Filippone, Calabrian considered at the top of the Tyrrhenian mandate at the time of the attacks against the Carabinieri in Reggio Calabria between 1993 and 1994. Annacondia recounted his experience with the Calabrian families of the mafia, insisting on the enormous power achieved by the 'Ndrangheta: "We can say that the Calabrian family is the most powerful in the world" . The people who commanded a certain "level knew how to assert themselves only by speaking - he added - who commands and directs can use calm" . Among all, the repentant has no doubts, to keep the ranks was the boss Domenico Tegano called ' Mimmo' :"In Milan everyone was headed by the De Stefano family of Reggio Calabria, headed by Tegano, there was no leaf that moved without the consent of the Tegans" .
There would have been an extended criminal circuit like "a consortium" which included "the Sicilians, including the Fidanzati, the Pugliesi and the Calabrese" , an acronym that "rarely came out of the big bosses' mouth, used it to make people understand what it was the structure " .

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/dos...rangheta-e-la-grande-mamma-di-tutti.html

Long Live The Rooster.

Cmon now Nikki, obey SC, be a good little Loscalzo

FORMER BOSS FRANCO PINO TELLS OF THE SUMMITS BETWEEN NDRANGHETA AND COSA NOSTRA AFTER THE MURDER OF BORSELLINO

https://www.pillamaro.it/cronaca/le...cosa-nostra-dopo-lomicidio-di-borsellino

http://www.theweek.co.uk/90851/does-the-mafia-still-exist

Does the Mafia still exist?

Lea Garofalo was killed by her Mafia family. Now she's the face of anti-mob protests

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/...-the-face-of-anti-mob-protests-1.4707462

The Mafia Is More Powerful Than It’s Ever Been

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...rful-and-scarier-than-its-ever-been.html

Im just talking fantasies now, but im curious what you guys think..If Ndrangheta would be like some kind of terrorist group like the ones you see in the Mission Impossible , Bond movies. Would they be more powerful and dangerous than say ISIS or Al Qaeda? I read somewhere ISIS budget was like 2 or 3 billion dollars a year and Ndranghetas is 50-70b..

Sorry if im fucking this thread up with these kind of questions,,, this thought just came to my mind and i wanted to ask you guys what you think.

Theoretically speaking yes , though as far as practicality is concerned the answer is probably no . After all the power base of ISIS is in undeveloped countries , which makes the task of being a financially successful terrorist group all the more easier . I think it's safe to say that a highly active terrorist group couldn't maintain the revenue flow of the Ndrangheta if they were based in a developed country , since the authorities of advanced countries are all the more proactive with respect to terrorism .

That said it's curious to note that the Ndrangheta is so successful in spite of its business dealing with Islamic terrorists . One would think that the authorities would wage a very furious campaign against organized crime groups that do business with terrorists , however it seems the Ndrangheta has ( so far ) escaped an effort of that sort .