Illegal trafficking of waste, arrests and seizures: also precautionary measures for football clubs
FEBRUARY 15, 2023, 09:12 REGGIO CALABRIA CHRONICLE

The investigation by the Milanese prosecutor's office which this morning triggered handcuffs on about twenty people , 18 to be precise .

The operation , code-named Black Steel , concerns an alleged trafficking of illicit waste in various European countries, with a round of false invoicing and recycling activities .

In fact, the suspects are contested and in various capacities for the crimes of criminal association for the illicit trafficking of waste, recycling, self-laundering and more.

At the same time, a seizure of an estimated value of 90 million euros was ordered by the investigating judge of the Lombard capital : according to the investigators, it would be money that for the investigators they would have usually reinvested in the same traffic and also in other lawful activities, including the purchase of shares in a football club.

The blitz is part of an Action Day coordinated by Eurojust for international profiles, with the support of Europool , and was carried out jointly by the Carabinieri Group for Environmental Protection and Ecological Transition of Milan and the Federal Criminal Police Office of Munich , Germany.

The investigations are conducted by the public prosecutors of Milan, Monaco and Reggio Calabria : a joint investigative team has in fact been created to ascertain the alleged crimes.

Since the 1950s it has been the destination and home of many bosses of great caliber such as Luciano Leggio, Gaetano Badalamenti and Gerlando Alberti.

Franco Coco Trovato (76) is considered the Godfather of Milan.

In 2020 Mario Trovato (71), his brother , involved in anti-mafia operations such as "Wall street" and "Metastasis" died in the Trieste hospital from the complications caused from Covid19.

They have created a fiefdom of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy, trial at the start - .
LOCAL about 19 hours agoREPORT

February 21, 2023

The abbreviated trial for Cosimo Maiolo, alleged boss of the restaurant in Pioltello, in the Milanese area, and, among others, for his three sons, Salvatore, Antonio and Omar, for his ten-year-old younger brother, Damiano and for his nephew Giovanni will open in April in Milan.. The various charges are mafia-type criminal association, electoral coercion, drug trafficking, attempted extortion, attempted murder and other crimes all aggravated by the mafia method. The defendants, a dozen in all, were arrested last December as part of an investigation coordinated by the prosecutor of the DDA Paolo Storari and conducted by the State Police.

Undisputed fiefdom of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy
According to the reconstruction of the investigators in the municipality in the province of Milan, the Maiolo-Manno families, related to each other, would have constituted an undisputed fiefdom, headed by Cosimo Maiolo, 58, who has already ended up in prison in the historic blitz "Crimine-Infinito" of 2010, sentenced to over 11 years, with sentence served and special surveillance in progress. The investigation, in addition to having dealt a serious blow to a clan of the 'Ndrangheta that allegedly provided support to a candidate for mayor,unelected, from the centre-right in Pioltello, highlighted how the criminal organization has operated both in the "classic" forms, such as drug trafficking, weapons, requests for protection money, intimidation and usury, and with the more sophisticated ones such as entrepreneurial infiltration , with the creation of "manpower tanks" and "business" on the transport of corpses in the midst of the pandemic, and the pollution of electoral competitions. Prosecutor Storari had requested and obtained immediate proceedings, after which the 10 defendants chose the abbreviated procedure. ( handle )

Milan, drug trafficking in Opera prison dismantled: 30 arrests and detentions. The relatives of the detainees are also involved

https://news.italy24.press/news/498790.html

the wiretaps of the sicilian Nazzareno Calaiò, boss of the Barona neighborhood

“I’ll go to San Siro and cut off his head”: this is how the criminal boss planned the murders of the Inter and Milan ultras

https://news.italy24.press/local/498511.html

Wild Stories From When Milan Was Italy’s Capital of Crime
Jailbreaks, court shootouts and bribing a prime minister with a lion cub – it all happened in Milan in the 70s and 80s.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v8wx/milan-mafia-mob-history

It still is

https://lab24.ilsole24ore.com/indice-della-criminalita/indexT.php

may be true for the number of crimes in general, but for the crime of mafia association much less than in southern cities

Guardia di Finanza Carries Out “Money Delivery” Operation Against Two Major Drug Trafficking Groups

https://bnn.network/breaking-news/c...ainst-two-major-drug-trafficking-groups/

it was a joint-venture between Ndrangheta and Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale network involved

Milan's level of danger is moderate. Milan is remarkably less criminal than Rome , Naples , Paris , Toulouse , Barcelona or London.
But like any big city there are certain neighborhoods where tourists should not come.

In Gerenzano the drugs of the ‘Ndrangheta and the Camorra were stored, 40 arrests

https://news.italy24.press/local/515256.html

I'm agree, Milan was by far more violent in the 1970s and 1980s than today; the worst neighborhoods like Quarto Oggiaro or Barona are still heavily populated by southern italians

Back then most notorious was Comasina, now it's a nice district with pizzerias, trattorias and bars frequented by many students from the nearby Università. Many young people.

Milan, raid on the gypsy camp in via Bonfadini: 10 arrests / VIDEO
Blitz by the local police: the charges for the suspects are theft, receiving stolen goods and drug dealing

The camp in via Bonfadini, he then recalls, was built by the Municipality in 1987 with families present in Milan since the 1960s, Roma from Abruzzo, about 120 people.

https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/via-bonfadini-campo-nomadi-arresti-rpypu5uw

How involved are the Ultras from Curva Sud (AC Milan) and Curva Nord (Inter Milan) with the city's organized crime?

I know that Inter's leader was recently killed and Milan's leader was arrested on drug trafficking charges.

But are the Ultras used just as foot soldiers or is there a possibility that they hold actual weight due to the size of the Ultras? The younger ones follow the older ultras blindly.

Ultra: The Underworld of Italian Football Paperback – March 1, 2021

https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Tobias-Jones/dp/1786697378

Piero Palermo arrested, the hashish and coke broker who put the 'Ndrangheta in contact with the jeweler of the forum Buonaparte
by Federico Berni
Palermo, known as "Louis Vuitton" due to his mania for luxury, is accused of having offered war weapons to Calabrians for sale and of having taken them to a Milanese dealer to buy Rolex for cash

https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/...ea7be2-78e7-4f8b-982d-e859bd974xlk.shtml