Between fiction and reality, from the set with lots of shots, chases and special effects to the seals affixed yesterday by the Guardia di Finanza. This is the parable of the Calbin di Simeri Crichi company, the aggregate plant of the Lobello business group .

For the investigators of the DDA of Catanzaro, the family holding would have chosen the 'Ndrangheta as an entrepreneurial ally, thus obtaining a dominant position on the market, not only by winning dozens of public contracts but by imposing the supply of concrete to other companies.

In the summer of 2019 the Lobello quarry was chosen for some shooting of the Calibro 9 film with important actors such as Michele Placido, Marco Bocci, Ksenia Rappoport, Barbara Bouchet and Alessio Boni and directed by Toni D'Angelo. The plot of the film focuses on Calabrian organized crime and its illicit trafficking. There are the 'ndrine at war, a brave policeman, infiltrations in Northern Italy but there is also the gray area, those unsuspected professionals, entrepreneurs and lawyers who represent the link between the criminal world and the institutional level.

'Ndrangheta, FBI investigators on a mission in Calabria
May 7, 2021
First Interpol, now the FBI. In March, an Interpol operational summit was in Italy for three days between Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, where they met, among others, the prosecutors of the Dda of Catanzaro and Reggio, respectively Nicola Gratteri and Giovanni Bombardieri, in a little less than a year after the launch of 'I-Can' which allowed the arrest of Marc Feren Claude Biart, a fugitive considered close to the Cacciola di Rosarno clan on 29 March. In the field a project involving the Italian police forces and those of 10 other countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA) which, like Italy, have set up dedicated operational units to the fight against the 'Ndrangheta. These days, however, the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States of America sent its men to Calabria. The contents of the meetings between the FBI and the Police Forces are not known, on which absolute confidentiality is maintained, but it is certain that these are not simple courtesy visits: synergies in progress at an operational level on investigations that cannot regardless of the assistance of the FBI.

That's an alright film, imagine Martin Scorsese doing an Ndrangheta or even a Cosa Nostra movie back in his prime. Oh the lost opportunities 😕

Martin Scorsese is a fan of the Gomorrah movie.

Gomorrah movie was good, but the Gomorrah TV series was even better.

Another important maxi-trial is coming up in Reggio. The preliminary hearing has been set for 31 May next, during which the Gup will have to decide on the request for indictment of 75 people.

Among the defendants of the new maxi-trial are the bosses Carmine, Orazio, Paolo Rosario and Giorgino De Stefano known by the nickname of "Malefix". But also the brothers Alfonso and Gino Molinetti known as "the beast", Demetrio Condello, Giandomenico Condello, Demetrio Canzonieri, Antonio Libri, Filippo Barreca and Edoardo Mangiola. All were arrested in the three investigations coordinated by the Reggio prosecutor's office and are considered the heads of their respective 'Ndrangheta families.

The indictment was also requested for other members of organized crime such as Antonio Serio known as "Totuccio", Antonino Latella and the boss Giovanni Rugolino, considered the local head of Catona.

Pino Gregoraci “non c’entrava con la ‘ndrina”/ Suicidio in carcere, era innocente

https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/...icidio-in-carcere-era-innocente/2167850/

Did he commit suicide? I thought these were tough Men of Honor.

The whole case in Canaidan Connection operation collapsed in fact, they were all absolved of mafia charges...

The 76-year-old boss Giuseppe Piromalli , known as "the face" or "the scarred" , was released from prison after 22 years of imprisonment at 41 bis.

The repentant of ‘Ndrangheta Antonino Filocamo was found dead early May. The body was found in the Lecce apartment, where he was staying as part of the protection program for justice collaborators by the police, alarmed by family members, who had not heard from him for a few hours. The most accredited hypothesis is suicide.

Giuseppe De Stefano , boss of the homonymous clan of Reggio Calabria, was traveling aboard an ambulance when he had to return to Reggio during the period in which he spent his inaction on the Vibonese coast. The vehicle was made available by the same gangs of Vibo together with two armed men and with the "escort" of a car with two other armed men. This was told by the collaborator of justice Andrea Mantella , 49 - former armed wing of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan of Vibo and then at the head of an autonomous group - during his deposition in the Rinascita Scott maxi trial, underway in Lamezia Terme. De Stefano would have been a guest of the Bonavota clan of Sant'Onofrio in the resort of the Stillitani entrepreneurs.

'Ndrangheta, returned from Spain fugitive arrested last March

The fugitive from 'Ndrangheta Giuseppe Romeo, born in 1986, has returned from Spain, landing in Fiumicino, escorted by staff of the International Police Cooperation Service (SCIP) of the Central Criminal Police Department. Romeo, originally from San Luca (Rc), was arrested in Barcelona on 11 March, on the basis of a European arrest warrant. From Germany, Romeo managed drug trafficking throughout Europe.

Oh the fact that Piromalli is out..it0s going to be interesting potentially.

Giuseppe Piromalli is a legend in their circles they control the port of Gioia Tauro.

Together with the brothers Gioacchino senior and Antonio called "Nino" he maintained the leadership of the homonymous clan for many years inheriting the scepter that belonged to his paternal uncles Mommo who died in 1979 and Peppino who died in 2003. The Piromalli clan, one of the most powerful in the 'ndrangheta, has conditioned, directed and directed, in alliance with the De Stefano of Reggio Calabria, the Alvaro of Sinopoli or the Mancuso of Limbadi, the changes within the organization, starting with the creation of the new dowry of the "Saint" whose forerunner was Mommo Piromalli.

Piromalli !

Mafia families "took the carabinieri or policemen and raised them" . This was said to the Dda of Reggio Calabria Maurizio Cortese , the former regent of the Serraino clan who in recent months has chosen to collaborate with the justice system .

To the deputy prosecutor Stefano Musolino, the repentant Cortese described the figure of Mimmo Morabito , one of the defendants in the "Pedigree" trial. Speaking of him, the former boss has no doubts and in fact, already in the minutes of last August 25, to the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri and to the prosecutor Musolino: « He is a Mason Mimmo . I saw the booklet, I saw the booklet myself, do you understand? ». "In each family they had certain people - as reported by the interrogation of 28 September 2020 -, certain people like Morabito, even worse, that is, who practically had these relations with the police . Basically they took the carabinieri or policemen and raised them. They made them grow ».

To prosecutors Stefano Musolino and Walter Ignazitto, the collaborator also names the lawyers Paolo Romeo and Giorgio De Stefano , the main defendants in the "Gotha" trial: «They are no longer at the level of the 'Ndrangheta. They - he says - are not part, they do not have to do with me to say or with… they only have to do with characters that I cannot have understood, of the third level ».

Organized crime in Germany
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When the mafia boss unpacks
Nicolino Grande Aracri is in a prison in Milan. (Photo: Eatalyano / CC BY - SA 4.0)
With Nicolino Grande Aracri, one of the really big names of the 'Ndrangheta is said to have decided to cooperate with the Italian judiciary as a key witness. The authorities in Germany could also benefit from his statements.

By Florian Fuchs , Oliver Meiler and Christian Wernicke

The man, whose words could be worth so damn much in the near future, is sitting in a Milan prison, murder, life imprisonment. Nicolino Grande Aracri, his full name, was considered the right hand man of Antonio Dragone, the boss of the ' Ndrangheta from Calabria in southern Italy. Then he is said to have killed him, in 2004 that was.

Today Aracri, 62, who comes from the small town of Cutro not far from the Ionian coast of Calabria, is himself one of the big names of the 'Ndrangheta, even if he is in prison. A modern super boss who has made a significant contribution to the internationalization of the Calabrian mafia in recent years. And it is a medium sensation in the history of organized crime in Italy that "Don Nicola", as he is also known, has now decided to work as a key witness with the judiciary . So far, no boss of the 'Ndrangheta had taken this step. The Calabrian cartel has always been considered impenetrable and is known to operate in secret.

Police and fire brigade in Munich Mafia meeting at the Oktoberfest

After the 'Ndrangheta visit the Oktoberfest, investigators set their sights on the mafiosi - and come across a network with offshoots in Germany. There were now 33 arrest warrants and searches in more than 80 locations.  
By Francesca Polistina
The interrogations in Milan have an echo - as far away as Dusseldorf, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported on it first. The North Rhine-Westphalian State Criminal Police Office has also been investigating the 'Ndrangheta for decades. Aracri lived in Münster and Warendorf for several years. Thomas Jungbluth, the responsible LKA department head, emphasizes in an interview with the SZ that up to now there is no knowledge of "what the key witness may have said and about whom". But when it comes to "criminal offenses in NRW, then we want to know". They are cooperating within the framework of an Italian-German task force and will "apply in due course to question the man". Hope rings through - hope for insights.

Aracri is currently being interrogated in Italy by Nicola Gratteri, the public prosecutor of Catanzaro and an expert on the 'Ndrangheta. Apparently the talks have been going on for a long time without their content being made public. Neither has any of this flowed into ongoing proceedings against the clans. And so one wonders in Italy whether Grande Aracri tells anything essential about the nature and interdependencies of the most powerful and richest Italian mafia of the moment. Or whether he's just hoping for relief from prison.

Nevertheless, the Italian media are already comparing Grande Aracri's encounter with Gratteri with that of Tommaso Buscetta, a repentant boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, with the great mafia hunter Giovanni Falcone in the 1980s. This should mark a turning point in the state's fight against organized crime. If Grande Aracri unpacks, as Buscetta did, many of the characters at the dim interface between the upper and the underworld would have to tremble.

"Nicolino Grande Aracri can make statements that none of the previous key witnesses can make," says Sandro Mattioli. As chairman of the "Mafia? No thanks!" from Berlin he tries to educate people about the activities of the Italian Mafia in Germany. The association also reports on Grande Aracri on its blog. Should the mafia boss really speak, "an earthquake" could be imminent. As a high-ranking member of the 'Ndrangheta, his testimony is presumably not that interesting for solving individual crimes like cocaine deals, says Mattioli. In return, he has the best insight into the structures of the Mafia in Germany and into more complex issues such as investments. "If you want to explain how the 'Ndrangheta is organized in Germany, he could provide important input."

Active in the cocaine business
Federal German criminalists classify the 'Ndrangheta together with the Camorra (from the Naples area) and the Cosa Nostra (Sicily) under a common code: IOK, "Italian Organized CrimeAccording to the investigators' findings, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta association has secured the benefices in the lucrative cocaine trade for years. "According to the Italian authorities, the' Ndrangheta as the internationally dominant group of the IOC is responsible for up to 80 percent of cocaine imports to Europe ", confirmed the federal government in March of this year when it answered a request from the Greens in the Bundestag. The officials of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer describe the extent of the criminal energy of the 'Ndrangheta in the Federal Republic as follows:" Germany is one of the most important for the' Ndrangheta Action, investment and retreat areas outside of Italy. "

And that has been going on for years. In contrast to Turkish-Arab family clans or rocker bands, the mafia does its business silently. According to Thomas Jungbluth from the LKA-NRW, their criminal sales and profits in Germany cannot be reliably quantified. However, the Italian mafia and the Turkish-Arab clans have one thing in common: "Both create their parallel worlds - one open, the other concealed." Jungbluth answers the question of who is acting more threateningly, like Bertolt Brecht once did when comparing Haifisch (with teeth in his face) and Mackie Messer (whose weapon you can't see): "The ones you can't see are usually more dangerous."

Nevertheless, sometimes the violence of the 'Ndrangheta also explodes, after all, up to 50 billion euros in drug sales across Europe: 14 years ago, in August 2007, a mafia-like bloodlust shook North Rhine-Westphalia when two warring' Ndrangheta families in Duisburg six people were shot dead on the street. Allegedly, according to insiders, the Calabrian mafia has therefore established its own supervisory and arbitration body in Germany, the so-called Crimine di Germania. "Germany is big, very rich," said Nicola Gratteri of this dubious novelty of an 'Ndrangheta Council abroad in February of the FAZ and the MDR, saying that it is more difficult to "keep the dispute within the local cells under control."

Mammoth trial at the Duisburg Regional Court
As early as 2018, the Federal Criminal Police Office counted 344 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany. Business is rampant, the number of Mafiosi is growing, also in North Rhine-Westphalia: In 2015 there were 101 alleged Mafiosi in the Rhine and Ruhr areas, and in 2018 as many as 117. The WAZ confirmed to Jungbluth that in 2018 more than half (67) of them belonged to the 'Ndrangheta.

The land on the Rhine and Ruhr is particularly exposed. Because the drugs from South America mostly come to Germany via Antwerp and Rotterdam. Mafia behavior is currently being examined in a mammoth trial before the Duisburg Regional Court: First the Dutch police discovered 95 kilos of cocaine in 2015 between wooden slats from Guyana, three years later the investigators arrested 84 suspects in the Europe-wide "Pollino" campaign - plus four tons of cocaine and two million euros in cash.

Bavarian investigators could also benefit from possible Aracri statements. Grande Aracri's brother was registered in Augsburg. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office assumes that there are around 100 members of Italian Mafia organizations in the Free State. According to the LKA, an insight into the structures would be "worth gold". Augsburg, Munich and Nuremberg as metropolitan areas are focal points of the mafia investigations in the Free State. Besides the cocaine trade and money laundering, the investigations concentrate more and more on the phenomenon of the "agromafia" - how the clans control Italian food production and thus also the export of products to Germany.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/mafia-ndrangheta-aracri-1.5296751

It is actually not confirmed that it is Gratteri that is speaking with NCG. Plus, it is not a given at all that NCG knows anything about Germany and of course if he says something German police is bound to talk to him.

Buscetta was a low level criminal compared to NCG, the parallel is ridiculous - it's just that they are two different criminal organisations so Buscetta could know a lot more because of that. The 'ndrangheta's first pentito, Pino Scriva was the first Buscetta maybe. Bah.

Pretty funny they held a meeting in Munich at the Oktoberfest. They must have been pretty drunk haha..

New Report on Italian Mafias in Europe -

https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/countering-regional-italian-mafia-expansion


a lot unsurprisingly about the 'ndrangheta

https://www.dw.com/en/italian-mafia-boss-arrested-in-brazil-after-escaping-prison/a-57649654

Italy's most wanted no.2 narcotrafficker 'ndrangheta member Rocco Morabito has been arrested after two years searches in Brazil.

With the collaboration of DEA, FBI and the US Department of Justice. Morabito, wanted since 1994, was included in the list of the 10 most dangerous fugitives of the Italian Interior Ministry.

Vincenzo Pasquino, a fugitive originally from Turin, also included in the list of dangerous fugitives, was also arrested with Morabito.

Nicola Acri, Rossano's boss and bloodthirsty killer, repented
After 10 years of hard prison he began to collaborate with the DDA of Catanzaro. He has already made statements on various bloody facts

Nicola Acri, 42, boss of Rossano, known as "eyes of ice", has taken the plunge, considered one of the most bloodthirsty Calabrian killers and already listed as one of the 100 most dangerous fugitives. A criminal career that began when he was just 21 years old and was considered to be the head of the Rossano clan. For three years, before being captured in 2010 in Bologna, he was a fugitive and was included among the 100 most dangerous fugitives in Italy.

After ten years of hard prison he decided to collaborate and speak with the Dda of Catanzaro, led by Nicola Gratteri. A very recent collaboration during which Acri made statements on serious bloody events that saw him as a protagonist. The circumstance was learned today due to the hearing that saw him summoned before Calabrian judges. Acri is a piece of the nineties of the new 'Ndrangheta of the central-northern Ionian area of ​​Calabria and has risen to the headlines for having carried out a series of murders in the Sibaritide between 1999 and 2001.

Sentenced to life imprisonment with final sentence, he was serving his sentence under the 41 bis regime. The carabinieri captured him on the outskirts of Bologna in November 2010. Even in Emilia he had been busy trying to impose a brand of ground coffee on a series of public establishments. His role as godfather of Rossano was conferred on him by the leader of the nomadic crime of Cassano, Franco Abbruzese, known as "Dentuzzo", also a life sentence and his companions in murderous raids.

Aww, tough guy couldn't take "hard prison" anymore

In the municipality of Rizziconi , inside a rural house, the Reggio mobile squad located and captured the local fugitive, born in 1965, Giuseppe Crea. He had evaded arrest: he would have had to serve 8 years in prison following a conviction reported for a series of crimes committed in 2008.

The fugitive captured at the first light of dawn is the nephew of Teodoro Crea born in 1939, considered a top member of the 'Ndrangheta, currently in prison. Therefore, he is the first cousin of the children of the elderly boss, Giuseppe and Domenico Crea, currently detained, arrested after many years as fugitives.

A massive Mafia trial is underway in the Calabrian region of southern Italy, but people there say only a cultural shift will free them from the clans’ stranglehold.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/calabria-mafia-trial

There probably won't be a cultural shift, most people realize that the State is worse.

The lawyer of Nicolino Grande Aracri - powerful ndrangheta boss of Crotone who, according to news a few weeks ago, apparently started talking to prosecutors - has not only not been told that his client has repented but also he has not been told that his services are no longer needed - once someone enters officially the collaboration agreement they have to change lawyers. So basically so far he has not repented really.

https://www.lacnews24.it/cronaca/gr...el-boss-nel-format-lac-rinascita_137324/

Romanian woman accused of executing her Italian boyfriend in Spain,
the son of a mafia boss from 'Ndrangheta, risks 26 years in prison
02.06.2021 14:31

A Romanian woman risks 26 years in prison in Spain, being accused of executing her Italian boyfriend, the son of a Calabrian mafia boss, 'Ndrangheta.

Prosecutors demanded that the woman, Cristina Elena T., be sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder and 2 years for illegal possession of firearms, according to La Razon .

The Romanian woman is accused of killing her boyfriend, Giuseppe Nirta, in Águilas, Murcia region, in 2017, then claiming that he was executed by a stranger who was waiting for him in the yard of their house. Subsequently, all the evidence gathered indicated her, and the woman was arrested. She spent a year and a half in pre-trial detention, after which she was released.

In addition to the 26 years in prison, the prosecutor's office demands that the woman pay the court costs and compensation of 200,000 euros for the mother of the deceased. In turn, the Nirta family is demanding 500,000 euros in compensation.

At the time of the murder, Cristina Elena T. said that an unknown person was waiting for them in the yard of the house, and when they got out of the car, her partner was shot from behind, several times, while she managed to escape.

But all the evidence contradicted her, and after the reconstruction the forensic scientists said that, given the position in which the body was found, Giuseppe Nirta was taken by surprise and did not have the impulse to flee, as would have happened. if he was targeted by an assassin. Moreover, after the murder, Cristina called the victim's phone to an acquaintance and announced that Giuseppe had been killed, and not the Police, as any person in such a situation would have instinctively done.

Following forensic examinations, traces of gunpowder were identified on the clothes the woman wore on the day of the murder. However, she still claims she is innocent.

To rule out any suspicion, the Forensic Service used state-of-the-art techniques, according to the quoted source.

Giuseppe Nirta's father is a prominent member of the Ndrangheta mafia clan, who was arrested in Italy in 2008 for murder.

Ndrangheta connection??


Torched car found with body inside near Turin
Charred corpse found in countryside at Gassino

(ANSA) - TURIN, JUN 3 - Italian police on Thursday found a burned-out car containing a charred body in open fields at Gassino near Turin.
Police are trying to establish what caused the car, a Fiat Panda, to catch fire.
But they think it was set alight.
The person inside has yet to be identified.
An autopsy has been ordered. (ANSA)