At the top, a 60 year old native of Reggio, Mario Sergi, from Delianuova but transplanted for years to Bolzano, who according to the accusations directed and commanded the 'ndrina, also maintaining contacts with the local underworld. Another prominent figure is that of Francesco Perre, 59 year old from Platì, considered the founder of the 'ndrina of Bolzano in the 90s, now residing in Calabria, would have agreed with Mario Sergi the supplies of cocaine to be sent to Bolzano.

Cocaine from South America managed by the 'ndrangheta, 9 arrests: searches in Reggio and Messina.
9 precautionary measures and 12 searches between the provinces of Bologna, Florence, Reggio Calabria, Messina and Viterbo for traffic, detention and drug dealing, and header fictitious goods. Linked to some of the most well-known families of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, active in the import of significant quantities of drugs, especially cocaine, from South America and intended for the Emilia-Romagna and Tuscan markets.
The suspects, according to the reconstruction of the investigators, used the most modern communication devices, made available by qualified Albanian contacts.

'Ndrangheta, 21 arrests in Reggio: blow to bosses and wingmen of the De Stefano-Tegano and Libri gangs. The accusations, for various reasons, are of mafia association, several extortions, illegal possession and port of arms, aggravated by the mafia method and facilitation. The name of the operation is "Malefix" and has led to searches and arrests, in addition to Reggio Calabria, also in Milan, Como, Naples, Pesaro Urbino and Rome.

One of the arrested is Giorgio De Stefano (born Giorgio Confello Fibio) is the illegitimate child of the powerful boss Don Paolino De Stefano, killed in 1985. Over the years, he had managed to mend relations with his half brothers, taking the boss’s surname and entering the family criminal organization.

Police arrested 21 members of the Perna-Pranno clan of the 'Ndrangheta based in Cosenza on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, theft and illegal possession of weapons. Including Gianfranco Sganga, 50 years old, and Alfonsino Falbo, 51, son-in-law of Franco Perna, historical leader of the Cosenza mafia. Sganga, who was released from prison in 2016 after a conviction for mafia association, quickly got back in charge of the gang. The headquarters of the group's criminal activities was the San Vito area and the historic center of Cosenza.

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Three murders in the popular Gallico district of the extreme northern suburbs of Reggio Calabria were part of the frictions between Gino Molinetti and Carmine De Stefano. The tension that arose had taken on worrying levels for the balance of the mafia of the city Reggio Calabria. The first murder dates back to the evening of February 15, 2018, when Pasquale Chindemi, the 53-year-old regent of the Condello family in the area, was shot dead, the second murder occurred on February 14, 2019 (a year later) when the 50-year-old Francesco Catalano was killed while he was returning home to the Arghillà district; the third is the innocent Fortunata "Donatella" Fortugno, the woman who lost her life for being in the wrong place at the wrong time because she secluded herself in the company of a prominent character, Demetrio Logiudice, he miraculously remained unharmed by the pistols. The group from Archi is "connected" to the ambitions of Gino Molinetti to obtain the regency of the Gallico club.

In the early hours of June 30, over 200 Carabinieri and Police officers arrested 12 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta in Piedmont, after a long and complex investigation conducted by the Italian authorities with the support of Europol and the law enforcement authorities of Croatia, France and Germany. The operation, called "Altan", began in 2017 towards the Alvaro clan, operating in Calabria and rooted in several cities in the country. This clan was active not only in Italy, but also in other EU states. The criminal group was involved in international drug trafficking (cannabis and cocaine) and trafficking in firearms. The investigations led the police to carry out 30 house searches and seized a rifle and some narcotics.

(source Europol)

A vast operation of the State Police is underway from the early hours of this morning, aimed at the execution of 12 arrests [11 in prison and 1 under house arrest] issued against top elements, lieutenants and affiliated to the powerful gangs of the 'Ndrangheta SERRAINO and LIBRI operating in the city of Reggio Calabria, all held responsible for mafia association and, in various capacities, for extortion, fictitious registration of assets, damage, port and illegal possession of firearms, corruption for acts contrary to official duties, illegal competition with violence or threat, fire, aggravated by the circumstance of the mafia method and facilitation.
The investigation has made it possible to ascertain how the top of the SERRAINO gang is currently represented by Maurizio Cortese, son-in-law of Paolo Pitasi, formerly trusted man of Francesco Serraino, the "mountain boss", assassinated during the second war of 'Ndrangheta. Over the years Cortese - captured as a fugitive in 2017 by the Mobile Squad and the Carabinieri - has acquired increasing importance within the mafia groups.
The investigation revealed several elements that demonstrate how the chief cosca had a cell phone available in prison - found on 9 April 2019 by the Prison Police - with which he was able to communicate confidentially with the outside world and to issue instructions to his wife who lent herself to act as a postman and to other associates, with the use of cryptic language but pertaining to the dynamics and criminal activities of the gang of which he continued to hold the reins despite the state of restriction.

Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta united in a "One Thing" to destabilize the institutions. Twenty-six years after the deadly ambush to two carabinieri - Antonino Fava and Giuseppe Garofalo (killed in Scilla on 18 January 1994) - prosecutors Giovanni Bombardieri and Giuseppe Lombardo asked for life imprisonment for Giuseppe Graviano and Rocco Filippone, man of the Piromalli of Gioia Tauro, considered the instigators of the murders and the injury of two other soldiers.

The Calabrian aid to Totò Riina
The massacre design implemented between 1990 and 1994, according to the will of Totò Riina, according to the Reggio Prosecutor's Office was not only the work of Cosa Nostra. The 'Ndrangheta also joined the project with a decision made by seven heads of families, who gathered in a cottage in Nicotera. The bombs and ambushes should have made it clear to the government of the time that there was an agreement with the Mafias that had to be respected and that "nobody could have done without them". Deputy Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo in his five-day indictment explained that the ambush committed by the Consulate Villani and Giuseppe Calabrò to the two carabinieri was "A terrorist-mafia act". It was claimed with the acronym "Falange Armata" to divert investigations and to remove suspicions from the 'Ndrangheta which, otherwise, could have lost strength and consensus.

'Ndrangheta in the North, the repentant: "The Nirta commanded in Aosta"
July 11, 2020
The drug trafficking routes discovered in Operation Gehenna
The existence of a local of the 'Ndrangheta in Aosta , where "the Nirta commanded", was confirmed by Domenico Agresta, one of the most important collaborators of justice of the Turin DDA, questioned today - by videoconference - at the Gehenna trial.

Agresta, 31, regretted it in 2016. In the interrogations rendered that year he had not spoken of the 'ndrangheta's activity in Aosta. Today he explained that "in our environment certain things are known, they are implied, and so, when I met Giuseppe Nirta , I did not need to specifically ask him that he was an affiliate and he was on Aosta: just as he knew that I was from Volpiano ".

Agresta also explained that "my uncle, Domenico Marando, told me that our families had always been united". Compared to the interrogations of 2016 he also added that a "Di Donato", of which he did not name, belongs to the local Aosta: but he did not recognize him in the photographs that were shown to him. Among the people involved in the investigation Geenna is Roberto Alex Di Donato, tried with the abbreviated rite, who today made use of the right not to answer.

The notorious and powerful 'Ndrangheta from the southern Italian region of Calabria has pocketed $ 45,000 from the Italian government that was intended for emergency relief to businesses because of Covid-19.

The Milan tax police have found the case and arrested eight people. They are suspected of participating in a criminal organization, made worse by the use of mafia methods, possession of weapons, money laundering, fictitious registration of goods and false invoices.

The 'Ndrangheta clan was associated with mob boss Lino Greco. The clan comes from the province of Crotone (in Calabria), but is also very active in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. Police conducted searches across Italy.

Four detainees were immediately sent to prison pending trial. The other four are under house arrest pending trial. The Italian police came across false invoices and front men during the investigation, and confiscated money and goods worth EUR 7.5 million.

Among those arrested is also a Chinese resident in the Tuscany region who helped launder large sums of money sent to China. Large amounts were also channeled to accounts in England and Bulgaria.

Cosche di 'ndrangheta in Veneto: 33 arrests and over 100 suspects. The affairs of the 'Ndrangheta increasingly moved to the regions of northern Italy. In Veneto in particular where the carabinieri arrested 33 people for mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortion, robbery, usury, receiving stolen goods, money laundering and other crimes.
The arrests were carried out in Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Calabria.

'Ndrangheta: blitz between Italy and Switzerland, 75 arrests. 158 suspects. Today's operation was conducted by the Guardia di Finanza and the Swiss police. 75 people arrested accused of being linked to gangs of the 'Ndrangheta.
A total of 158 suspects have been involved in the crime of mafia association, association dedicated to the international trafficking of drugs, money laundering, fictitious registration of goods, corruption and other crimes, all aggravated by the mafia methods.
Calabrian organized crime families are in check, operating mainly in the territory that connects Lamezia Terme to the province of Vibo Valentia.

Light on the Commisso di Siderno clan, "dirty" affairs from Calabria to Umbria: 8 suspects
by Rocco Muscari - July 22, 2020

The Reggio District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office closed preliminary investigations relating to the "Core business" investigation , which took place in December last year between Calabria and Umbria. There are 8 suspects by the DDA - in particular by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, by the adjunct Giuseppe Lombardo and by the substitutes Simona Ferraiuolo and Giovanni Calamita - which disputes various crimes in various capacities and in different ways, including participation in an association for crime of mafia type, the fictitious header of goods and more.

The main suspect is Cosimo Commisso born in 1950, in the role of head and organizer of the association, as "subject to the top of the Siderno company ". The investigation revealed the interests of the Commisso family both in the safeguarding of assets attributable to the Crupi family, partly involved in the "Maple" operation, and in investments on land in the Perugia area to be used for vineyards for the production of wine to be marketed in Canada.

The other suspects are: Francesco Commisso, Antonio Rodà, Giuseppe Minnici, Vincenzo Crupi, Rocco Natale Crupi, Giuseppe Crupi and Loriana Rodà.

Drug trafficking managed by the San Luca 'ndrangheta, 14 arrests. The State police has completed a vast operation aimed at executing various orders of pre-trial detention in prison issued against prominent elements of the Mammoliti and Giorgi families of San Luca and other individuals from Locride and the Piana di Gioia Tauro, believed to be responsible for criminal association aimed at cocaine trafficking.

The investigators of the Siderno police station and of the mobile team of the Reggio Calabria police headquarter also carried out numerous searches. Bunkers were discovered in the homes of some arrested. About 100 State Police officers employed.

The investigations conducted by the Siderno police station began with the capture of the ex-fugitive Rocco Mammoliti, arrested in the Netherlands on June 9, 2016 and extradited to Italy on August 18 of the same year. The DDA managed to identify the logistical bases of the traffickers who, in Benestare, in Locride, used a shed as their headquarters. The drug ended up in Puglia and Sicily while the counterpart was paid to the bosses in a butchery owned by Domenico Pellegrino. In a single day, three suspects delivered on behalf of the brothers Giovanni and Giuseppe Giorgi quantities of cocaine for a value of 340 thousand euros in banknotes of various denominations. Money, divided into bundles,

The Molinetti and the Mallardo's (camorra) held numerous meeting to negotiate large drug shipments from Holland (Rotterdam).

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Six fugitives believed to belong to or contiguous to the gangs of 'ndrangheta have been arrested in Argentina, Costa Rica and Albania as part of the "I can" project (Interpol cooperation against' ndrangheta), the initiative coordinated by Criminalpol which has as its objective the hunt to the fugitives and the property of the gangs all over the world.

The six are all connected to an investigation conducted by the Scico of Rome and by the men of the Gico of the Reggio Calabria finance guard who at the end of November 2019 led to the issuance of 45 precautionary measures and allowed to defeat the gang related to the Bellocco di Rosarno and its articulations in Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Lombardy.

In Buenos Aires three ended up in handcuffs: Ferdinando Saragò , considered by investigators courier and a trusted man of the 'Ndrangheta, shuttled between South America and Calabria and the gangs turned to him for operational needs and the transport of secret documents . Giovanni Di Pietro who, according to the investigators of the Reggio Calabria prosecutor's office led by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, was the front office between the Italian gangs and the South American drug suppliers and was directly involved in the export of narcotic substances.

Fabio Pompetti , privileged interlocutor of two of the arrested in the November operation: he was the man who, thanks to his network of relationships and operational indications, allowed to circumvent the anti-money laundering systems and to evade customs controls. For years he has been, investigators say, the 'spokesman' of South American suppliers to the 'Ndrangheta.

In Costa Rica, Franco D'Agapiti , owner of the Amapola casino hotel in San José, was considered the point of reference for the members of the gang. His task was to facilitate the entry of cocaine into Italy and offer hospitality and logistical support to the 'Ndranghetists. In Albania, finally, Bujar Sejdinaj ended up behind bars nicknamed his uncle, Bellocco's referent for the Balkan area. Adrian Cekini , an Albanian too, was added to the five fugitives connected to the investigation of the Finance and arrested in the last hours , but he had already been arrested last May 26 in Elbasan.

Detectives seize £2m of dirty mafia money laundered through fake London business by Italian crime gang
The 'Ndrangheta mafia laundered £2million through fake accounts in London
Crime group now been forced to hand over the cash from the front businesses
Police found bank accounts held a £1,723,706 and Euro 356,043 respectively

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An organization dedicated to facilitating the hiding of 'ndrangheta bosses has been disarticulated by the carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio Calabria who arrested 14 people held responsible, in various capacities , trafficking and association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic or psychotropic substances, personal support of fugitives, possession and port of common and war firearms. The operation, called Gear, was carried out between Reggio Calabria, Teramo and Benevento.
The organization had established its nerve base in an aggregate quarry located in Gioia Tauro identified thanks to investigations conducted by the Operative Section of the Carabinieri Company of Gioia Tauro and follows the arrests of fugitives Antonino Pesce, Salvatore Etzi and Salvatore Palumbo.
The monitoring of fugitives' wives, girlfriends, relatives and supporters had brought out the centrality of the extraction site which then turned out to be a real hub of the criminal activities. Monitoring of the quarry also allowed the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro to capture, on April 14, 2018, a fourth fugitive, Vincenzo Di Marte, included in the "list of dangerous fugitives" and considered a prominent element of the Pesce gang.

The DDA of Catanzaro has filed a request for indictment against the more than 400 suspects involved in the maxi-investigation Scott-Rinascita , which resulted in the historic blitz against the 'Ndrangheta, which hit the Vibonese "crime" and the microcosm of 'ndrine that revolves around it.

The request - which bears the signature of the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and the substitutes Andrea Mancuso, Antonio De Bernardo and Annamaria Frustaci - concerns 456 compared to the 479 suspects of the conclusion of the investigations. From what emerged 23 positions were removed, while 438 are the disputed charges. Large numbers, for a large investigation whose prosecution could see 224 offended parties become civil parties, if the Municipalities of Vibonese, the Province, the Region, the Prefecture of Vibo, the Ministry of Justice and the dozens and dozens of harassed entrepreneurs decide to do it.

The DDA, therefore, calls for the trial for 'Ndranghetists of the Vibonese gangs, starting with the Mancuso of Limbadi led by Luigi Mancuso "Il Supremo" , in excellent relations with the De Stefano of Reggio Calabria and the Pyromalli of Gioia Tauro and at the head of the crime of the province of Vibo Valentia with liaison duties with the province of Reggio and the crime of Polsi, absolute summit of the unitary 'ndrangheta.

But also for politicians, professionals and unfaithful representatives of the institutions, in many cases linked together by the glue of the deviated masonry. The request also includes the 60 suspects involved in an anti-drug operation conducted last June between Calabria and Tuscany. Excellent suspects appear in Scott Rinascita, such as lawyer Giancarlo Pittelli, criminal lawyer and former MP of Forza Italia , who later moved to Fdi in 2017, accused of external competition. A central figure in the accusatory castle.

On the one hand the lawyer who defends and advises the "mammasantissima" of the gangs, on the other the politician who organizes meetings and dinners in which everyone participated, including members of the police and magistrates.

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A 49-year-old man was the victim of an ambush last night in Vibo Valentia near the Vibo Center shopping center: unknown fired several shots that reached him in the ear, right forearm and legs. The 49-year-old himself - as reported by Ansa - called for help: an ambulance arrived on the scene and transported him in red code to the hospital; it would not be life threatening. The dynamic is not yet clear.

Arrested by the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria, coordinated by the DDA, 6 people linked to the Labate clan. They are accused of extortion, possession of weapons of war, common firing and clandestine and fraudulent transfer of values. In the Carabinieri "Cassa continua" operation, the suspension for 12 months from the exercise of public official was notified to an employee of the Municipality of Reggio. The shares and assets of the funeral company "Croce Amaranto" were seized.
The investigations started on June 16, 2017, after an arrest and a huge load of weapons of all kinds. A load that thanks to telephone and environmental interceptions, led to identify a larger group of people inserted in the Labate gang also known as "TiMangiu" which controls the Gebbione area of ​​Reggio Calabria. Specialized in extortion and arms trafficking.

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Francesco Modaffari, a fugitive linked to the 'Ndrangheta arrested in Germany through an international police operation called "Eyphemos", will arrive in Italy today. His brother Domenico was repatriated a month ago.

The investigation coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Reggio Calabria Prosecutor and conducted by the SCO - Central Operational Service - with the Reggio Calabria Mobile Team and the Palmi Commissariat, in February led to the execution of 65 precautionary measures for criminal association Mafia-style, international drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, extortion, aiding and abetting private violence, electoral violations aggravated by the use of the mafia method and the purpose of facilitating the 'Ndrangheta, as well as for mafia political electoral exchange.

The ex-fugitive was spotted in Hanover, where the two brothers lived and worked. The investigations had documented the existence in Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte, in the Reggino region, of an association structure under the control of the more established local 'ndrangheta of Sinopoli and neighboring territories belonging to the Alvaro gang.

The criminal group, with a wide availability of weapons also from war, has made itself responsible in the past for several murders, drug trafficking and extortion also in Lombardy.

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A 44-year-old man, Antonio Pupo, was shot dead last night in an ambush in Rosarno (Reggio Calabria). According to what emerged from the first reconstructions, the man was near the sports field of the town of Piana when he was approached by one or more hit men who fired.

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Carabinieri arrested the boss Domenico Bonavota in Sant'Onofrio. He was hiding in the house of an unsuspected family where the soldiers assisted by the Hunters Squadron, broke in yesterday evening.
He had been on the run for about two years and an imprisonment order was hanging over him after being sentenced to life in the Conquest process.
Domenico Bonavota, considered the head of the military wing of the powerful Sant'Onofrio family, was also the recipient of an order for pre-trial detention in prison as part of the maxi investigation Scott-Rinascita.
Having escaped arrest with his brother Pasquale (who remains on the run and actively wanted), the boss did not offer resistance when the police broke into the house in the center of Sant'Onofrio where he allegedly hid from the start of the hiding place.