The energy giant and the links with his “uncle” Luigi Mancuso. «The "boss" did business with the 'Ndrangheta»
The role of Orazio Romeo, owner of Sp Energia siciliana. The conversation with D'Amico on the mafia massacres and relations with the Calabrian clans

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...il-capo-faceva-affari-con-la-ndrangheta/

I think he was a freemason.

He was Forza Italia deputy back in the day , his father started ferry service company in Messina/Calabria. Considering him being Forza Italia deputy back in the day , he probaby was freemason.

Amedeo Matacena was accused of having requested the electoral support of the 'Ndrangheta from the Rosmini family . A circumstance confirmed, also by the friendly visits he entertained with the children of the boss of Sinopoli, Carmine Alvaro, known as "u cupertuni".
In the early 1990s Matacena had been involved in the maxi Olimpia investigation , when the DDA of Reggio Calabria reconstructed some events of a criminal nature, including a hundred murders, as well as the relations between the 'Ndrangheta and politics, starting from the early 80s.

yes, a network of freemasons helped him to stay on the run for a long time

Cassano, Freemasonry scares even the "devil" of the 'Ndrangheta
The secret interrogation of the former boss Forastefano and the revelations about the deviated lodges: "They don't come with a rifle like us, they kill you slowly".

https://www.cosenzachannel.it/2023/...paura-anche-al-diavolo-della-ndrangheta/

according to ex secret services and Gladio member Massimo Pizza, 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra are the same thing

The former SISMI agent and the meeting in Rome to destabilize the state. "There was the elite of the 'Ndrangheta"
Massimo Pizza's story to Report: «Calabrian and Sicilian clans are the same thing. At that summit also politicians, Freemasons and right-wing subversives"

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...lo-stato-cera-il-gotha-della-ndrangheta/

«The 'Ndrangheta no longer exists!... Once upon a time, in Limbadi , Nicotera , Rosarno there was the 'Ndrangheta!. Now the 'Ndrangheta is part of Freemasonry, let's say it is under Freemasonry. However, it has the same rules!... The 'Ndrangheta is gone, Freemasonry and those four crooks who still believe in the 'Ndrangheta are left!..."

( Superboss Pantaleone Mancuso during an environmental interception made public in March 2013 )

Bullshit, the Ndrangheta still exists.

Yes, but what he means that freemasons (many bosses are members) are dictating the law.

In the 1970s both Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta began to infiltrate the lodges of the freemasonry and they started running their affairs and political connections.

Last July there was an interesting development concerning Pasquale "the supreme one" Condello.

Trial of the boss U Supremu, among the number one of the 'Ndrangheta. But he is incapable of understanding and willing
July 28, 2022
Editorial board
Chronicle , Judiciary
court the heat
The court-appointed expert confirmed the suspicions. The trial is destined to end in an acquittal
He had launched his appeal via video link from the maximum security prison: «There are people who want me dead, my life is in danger. I want to speak to a prosecutor." Surprise spontaneous statements those that the man, Pasquale C., known as "U Supremu", seventy-year-old from Calabria currently detained under the 41 bis regime for his past linked to the 'Ndrangheta, had released in court in Novara at the beginning of the trial which sees him accused of injury and contempt of a public official. Just when he was in the district house in via Sforzesca in Novara, in 2016, he would have attacked the prison police officers, threatening them and referring to the fact that he has a certain criminal depth and that he fears nothing.

The judge, accepting a request from the defence, had ordered a psychiatric report in the light of the fact that the defendant refused to participate in the hearing, did not sign the waiver of attendance, and raved about with random phrases fearing a situation of danger for the his life, phrases that had nothing to do with the disputed facts: «I feel in danger. I have also already written letters to the magistrates, which have not been taken into consideration so far".

The other morning the expert appointed by the court, speaking in the courtroom, confirmed the suspicions: the accused is incapable of understanding and unable to stand trial. The trial, which will continue in November, is therefore destined to end with an acquittal.

The man was the capobastone (the one who makes the most important decisions) of the family of the same name, on the run from 1990 to 18 February 2008. He is considered one of the number one of the 'Ndrangheta and has four life sentences behind him: i his affairs ranged from bribes to extortion, from procurement to the control of numerous economic activities even outside Calabria and abroad.

Geez, are all the entire organizations nothing but rats? Does ANYONE refuse to cooperate anymore???

I hope so

'Ndrangheta in Mantua, corruption on post-earthquake reconstruction: 10 precautionary measures

Dozens of searches in Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Veneto and Calabria. At the center of the investigation is a technical instructor, nephew of a boss of the Dragon clan who imposed his companies on those who asked for funds for the reconstruction

They called it "Sisma operation" and it goes back more than ten years, to the earthquake that hit Mantua in 2012: the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Mantua, at the conclusion of investigations coordinated by the Dda of Brescia, carried out this morning at dawn an order for the precautionary custody of 10 people under investigation for extortion, corruption and fictitious registration of companies", with the aggravating circumstance of mafia purposes, for having facilitated the 'Ndrangheta Dragone clan .

The operation is underway in Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Veneto and Calabria. The crimes were allegedly committed as part of the procedures for granting 'earthquake funds' for the reconstruction of buildings damaged by the 2012 earthquake in the province of Mantua.

'Ndrangheta is the italian crime group with less informants, the ones who cooperate are the exception not the rule

The 'Ndrangheta ''is the main criminal agency on the planet''
Jamil El Sadi 04 January 2023
The Anti-Mafia Commission recounts the evolution of the Calabrian mafia, between secrecy, "special rules" and external entities
The 'Ndrangheta is not only a mafia-type criminal organization with supranational characteristics, but " a real and proper well-branched " and " unitary " system of power, endowed with " visible " hierarchies and characterized by the presence of " hidden associates " who , as such, " must not under any circumstances be declared to the members of the basic structure, as they are called to operate in 'reserved' contexts, through 'secret' top management structures whose existence is known only to a small, highly selected circle of very high-ranking affiliates ”.
All this is affirmed by the "Report on the relationship between organized crime and Masonic lodges" written by the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission. A detailed document that analyzes the evolutionary path of the 'Ndrangheta on the basis of the acts of the "Gotha" trial - conducted by the prosecutor of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Lombardo - and of inquiries such as "Meta", "Crimine" and "Infinito".
The " thinking head " of the 'Ndrangheta - reads the document - is " confidential, occult, Masonic or invisible (the strategic direction) characterized by a mixed composition (the so-called 'integrated entities') ". Alongside the top exponents of the " visible " 'Ndrangheta – “chosen among those who possess not only apical skills, as such authorized to compose the Province (organizational management), but also special offices, as such authorized to direct the further decision-making bodies (operational management) ” – “they take part, as 'hidden' associates, qualified subjects coming from converging operational contexts to whom the tasks of confidentially taking care of the stable functional connection between the top 'visible' component of the mafia-type organization and the covered Masonic organizations are delegated, such as indispensable interfaces with the political, institutional, entrepreneurial and professional circles ”, continues the document.
To guarantee the efficiency of the 'Ndrangheta criminal organization, understood as a complex criminal system, " it was necessary to create a further strategic level component within it ", made up of a " restricted committee " of " thinking heads" to whom the exclusive task of entrusting to apply the special rules, execute the programs and update the first reserved structure of the 'Ndrangheta: 'la Santa' ”. This special dictate consists of "secret rules governing the activities of the 'reserved top management' (to be considered the evolution of the 'Santa company'), within the 'Ndrangheta". These " place themselves in a specialty relationship ", and as such "prevail over the traditional basic rules, which continue to find punctual application towards members of the "visible" components of the same mafia-type organization ". Furthermore, the special rules, “ dictated above all for the purpose of preserving and protecting the reserved apical structure, are characterized by extreme application rigidity so as to prevent entry into 'regular' Masonic apparatuses for members of the 'visible' 'Ndrangheta and, vice versa, prevent the entry into the 'visible' 'Ndrangheta' of subjective components coming from recognized Masonic organizations ”. Thanks to this regulation, entry into the reserved apical structure is allowed only to " belonging to covered masonry ": "only the 'covered' Freemason - i.e. the one who is unknown as such even to his fellow lodgers - is enabled to enter the aforementioned occult structure at the top of the 'Ndrangheta, exactly like only the member of the 'Ndrangheta endowed with very high degrees (' redundancies') or vested with special offices can enter 'covered masonry' ”. The double regime of secrecy "is imposed in order to preserve both the 'lay' component (as the so-called 'Masons' are indicated in 'Ndrangheta jargon) of the 'invisible' 'Ndrangheta' (which does not exist for the lowest grades) and the 'cardinal' component (those who were originally the so-called 'santists'), with the evident aim of creating a false representation of reality in which the lower echelons are led to think that the confidential relationships of the big bosses can be referred to environments external to the criminal organization, which instead it finds its highest decision-making body in the 'occult' strategic direction (made up of 'santists' and 'masons' in the meanings just mentioned)” , we read. It is the process that – according to the documents available to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission – is defined as “ scotomization”, which “ has the purpose of definitively transforming the 'Ndrangheta from a mafia-type criminal organization (operating on a territorial type) to the main criminal agency on the planet: to achieve this decisive result, the great families of the three districts (above all De Stefano , Piromalli and Nirta ' La Maggiore ') understand that it is necessary to create gray areas, to exploit the mental prejudices and stereotypes, the preconceptions and pre-understandings of those belonging to the lower levels ”.
Returning to the " additional subjects " within the 'Ndrangheta, however, the document underlines how these are " confidential " or " secret "” compared to those coming directly from the criminal context of the mafia type. “ The primary purpose of this original organizational solution is to avoid the risk of duplicating already existing apical structures, with the consequent generation of misunderstandings towards the other components of the same criminal system, of lower rank, in relation to the specific skills of each - wrote the Bicameral - . Thus, to avoid this danger, something absolutely new was created, something so reserved that it could in no case be perceived as existing by the intermediate and basic levels, which by their nature need certain rules, recognizable subjects and above all of authoritative bosses with an important, and recognizable, criminal history”.

Relations between the 'Ndrangheta and Italian Freemasonry
History
The 'Ndrangheta, albeit in a collateral way, already in the sixties had relations with deviant Freemasonry , to the extent that this acted as an intermediary with the institutions [4] [5] . The aim was to establish relationships of mutual interest with the political class, through the clientele welded by the exchange vote . [6]

Since the 1970s, relations have tightened to the extent that Freemasonry acted as an intermediary with the institutions. He begins to have close relationships after the first 'Ndrangheta war , where some bosses become Freemasons to be able to communicate without intermediaries and thus increase earnings with Freemasonry figures also belonging to the world of banking, judiciary, business and law enforcement [7 ] . This new way of acting of the Calabrian mafia seems to have been wanted by the old boss Don Mommo Piromalli and the new promise Paolo De Stefano [7] . Those who were against this, like Antonio Macrì eDomenico Tripodo , believed that the 'Ndrangheta should not affiliate with other associations and therefore respect the traditional rules of the mafia code [7] . These were eliminated, but in any case to remedy the moral problem , Piromalli founded the Santa , a sort of last hierarchical degree of the organization to which once you have access you also have the power to get in touch and join other organizations, such as Freemasonry [7] . The santisti can be a maximum of 33 but subsequently the number was increased [7] .

In 1992 the so-called "Cordova investigation" (from the name of the Chief Prosecutor of Palmi Agostino Cordova who conducted it) brought to light relations between the 'Ndrangheta and deviant Freemasonry [8] . Cordova ordered searches in the headquarters of the Grand Orient of Italy , which led to the resignation of the Grand Master Giuliano Di Bernardo [9] [10] . The investigation into Freemasonry was then forwarded to the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office after Cordova's transfer to Naples in 1993 and archived in 2000 by the GIPAugusta Iannini, who declared: "there is no need to bring criminal action against the 64 Masons under investigation" [11] .

In 1995 , with the Olimpia operation , more information was obtained; the people who allowed the santisti to join Calabrian Freemasonry were discovered: the notary Pietro Marrapodi, Pasquale Modafferi and the head-loggia Cosimo Zaccone [12] [13] . The existence of a hidden layer of the 'Ndrangheta in recent years was suggested by a telephone interception dating back to the end of 2007 . The carabinieri record, via a bugging device, a conversation between Sebastiano Altomonte (originally from Bova Marina ) and his wife. Altomonte at this juncture underlines that "there is one that is known and one that no one knows". And then, reiterating the concept:«there is the visible and the invisible [...] that nobody knows, only those who are invisible». This entity has never found judicial confirmation. However, the words of Sebastiano Altomonte, subsequently convicted of mafia association, make a current juxtaposition between mafia power and Masonic circles plausible. [4] [14]

Recent events
On 7 November 2012 , an investigation by the DDA of Catanzaro revealed the alleged involvement of the gang in the reconstruction work after the earthquake in Abruzzo and the implementation in Rome of the fiber optic network for the internet and the involvement with Paolo Coraci, founder of a Masonic lodge that allegedly asked for electoral support for D'Ambrosio in exchange for contracts in Lazio , Lombardy and Veneto [15] . In the same year the Wisdom investigation of the DDA of Reggio Calabria showed that the link with theItalian Freemasonry would be very strong, to the point of constituting a way of infiltration at the top levels of Italian politics and the economy [16] , in addition to the promotion of three police stations - two in the South and one in the North - at general management level [17 ] . In particular, in 2010 the lodge indicated the directors of 15 public bodies [18] [19] , appointments that did not materialize. The operations were facilitated by the Liberi e Forti movement, founded by Coraci in 2010 , and by the Edil Sud company of Francesco Comercpubblicazione missaria of the Mancuso - Tripodi clan . [20] [21]
On November 17, 2013 , the Grand Orient of Italy suspended for the first time in its history a lodge, in this case the Rocco Verduci lodge based in Gerace , and with the temple in Siderno for a possible involvement of persons affiliated irregularly and connected to crime organized in Calabria. The choice of suspension was taken after the last judicial inquiry: Operation Wisdom , in which people affiliated with both the 'Ndrangheta and the lodge were arrested [22] .
On 4 January 2016 , the Kyterion 2 operation directed by the Catanzaro District Anti - Mafia Directorate ended which led to the arrest of 16 alleged affiliates of the Grande Aracri di Cutro , the investigations revealed alleged attempts to connect with exponents of the Vatican and the Court of Cassation , as well as the intrusion into Masonic orders and knighthoods by the local chief Nicolino Grande Aracri [23] [24] .
The 2014 report of the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy Giuliano Di Bernardo ( 1990 - 1993 ), now Grand Master of the regular Grand Lodge of Italy , would emerge from the Mammasantissima del Ros dei Carabinieri operation concluded on 15 July 2016 . which reports to the public prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo the confidences of Ettore Loizzo, at the time deputy of the Grand Master: «During a meeting of the Junta of the Grand Orient, which I called urgently in 1993 after the start of the investigation by Dr. Cordova on Freemasonry, at my specific request he said he could say with certainty that in Calabria , out of 32 lodges, 28 were controlled by the 'Ndrangheta. I immediately told him: "And what do you want to do in the face of this disaster?". He replied: "Nothing". Even more dumbfounded, I asked why. He replied that he could do nothing because otherwise he and his family risked serious reprisals ... I point out that the Calabrian question was much more worrying as Calabrian Freemasonry was much more ramified than the Sicilian one » [25]. Since July, the pentito and freemason Cosimo Virgiglio has also started talking about the relationship between Freemasonry and the 'Ndrangheta. He says that highly politicized freemasonry uses Calabrian crime to control electoral flows while it uses money laundering. According to the pentito, the loggia of Reggio Calabria would be divided into two parts: one clean and one hidden; the 'Ndrangheta would be part of the second. He also tells of the presence in the loggias of exponents of the Piromalli and De Stefanos . The mixture of criminal elements, with the dowry of Santa and Freemasons in Masonic jargon is defined as a "gap" (in reference to the breach of Porta Pia); and technically it would be the Masonic world to join the ranks of the 'Ndrangheta [26] [27] [28] .
On 31 January 2017 , in a hearing before the anti-mafia commission, the former master of the GOI Giuliano Di Bernardo told of the links between the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and freemasonry, and that the number 1 of the Calabrian freemasonry told him that 28 out of 32 Calabrian lodges were infiltrated by the 'Ndrangheta [29] [30] .
On May 23, 2018 , an IT scan of the Anti- Mafia Investigation Directorate enters the Breakfast trial in which the pentito Cosimo Virgiglio and former Freemason tells that the 'ndrina dei Molé through the former Minister of the Republic Claudio Scajola wanted to get to Impregilo . He also tells of the relations of the Molès with the covered loggia of Ugolini Giacomo Maria aka the Grand Orient of San Marino [31] .
On December 19, 2019 , the Rinascita-Scott operation begun in 2016 ended, leading to the arrest of 334 people in particular in the Province of Vibo Valentia , including the heads and affiliates of all the main Vibonese 'Ndrangheta clubs and allies of the Mancusos , in addition to the Mancusos themselves. Among those arrested there are also politicians such as Giancarlo Pittelli (formerly of Forza Italia ), Gianluca Callipo, mayor of Pizzo and president of ANCI in Calabria, lawyers including the defender Giuseppe Zinnà investigated for money laundering after being found at the Swiss - Italian border on December 4 with a check for 100 million euros [32] , Filippo Nesci, urban planning manager of Vibo Valentia , Danilo Tripodi employee to the court of Vibo Valentia , the building contractor Prestia, the restaurateur Ferrante, and exponents of Freemasonry [33] [34] [35] [36] .
Freemason Staffmasters

Nicola Gratteri: The man on the kill list of Italy's most powerful mafia

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63959241

Massimo Lo Prete,50, with criminal records for drug trafficking, was shot dead in Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria)

Killing him would be like shooting themselves in the leg , it would be over for them , that would generate so much heat on them , he is less of a threat alive than dead.

He isn't on any hit list. Prosecutors and politicians nowadays like to claim they're being targeted by organized crime to inflate their ego.

Yeah they shouldn't waste their time killing this worthless government mutt.

This is a big hit he was close to the 'cosca Mole', and the ambush happened at a petrol pump which was observed by the police because it is run by the Piromalli family.

His alleged killer has already been arrested. Damn that was quick.

italian police is so good but it cant defeat mafia groups lol

Yeah I'm always reading about powerful guys just being released from prison after several decades. I'm like, how was anyone ever free long enough to do anything? But somehow they're still there.

yes he isn't on any kill list, they can't do it and they know it, there are not the 1980s/1990s anymore, Cosa Nostra wanted to kill the prosecutor Di Matteo but police stopped the plan in time, it's almost impossible today with all cameras and police surveillance

What's sickening is that if they do take him out, the public will make him out to be a saint or a martyr when really he's just part of the government looking to eliminate the competition.

Giuseppe Mazzaferro
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The name of Massimo Lo Prete, known as "Mangiapanini", in fact, appears in several investigations, including recent ones, on drug trafficking. One of the cars used by a suspect arrested in the "New European Narcos" investigation was registered to him. Furthermore, some collaborators of justice have spoken of Lo Prete such as Antonio Russo who, in 2014, defined him as a "major drug trafficker" who "leads a very high standard of living" and is "clearly linked to the Molé".