Anna Sergi has tweeted that Domenic Perre (Australia) has died. Her tweet also links to an article published in an Australian newspaper.

https://twitter.com/annasergi/status/1655887796769308672?s=46&t=ec5JjzW4kIbijwKywCiI0w

Maxi blitz against the 'Ndrangheta in Vibo Valentia: 61 arrested in the Maestrale - Carthago operation
There is also the former president of the province of Vibo Valentia in the maxi operation against the 'Ndrangheta which led to the arrest of 61 people
Posted on:10-05-2023 07:47

In the last few hours, the authorities have carried out a maxi operation against the 'ndrangheta in the Vibon area : hundreds of agents are involved, as are the suspects. Dozens of arrests, including that of the former president of the Province. Second blitz in a few days against the Calabrian mafia.

According to local reports, the Maestrale - Carthago investigation coordinated by the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Directorate and the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri , brought the Police, Finance Police and Carabinieri onto the field in a maxi blitz.

More than 500 law enforcement officers intervened in the province of Vibo Valentia for a vast anti-mafia operation that led to the arrest of 61 people .

Among them there is also the former president of the province and mayor of Briatico, Andrea Niglia . In all, it is learned, there would be a total of 167 suspects .

Amazing so many police op's in the last weeks with hundreds of suspects.

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1700068-20230511.htm

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65552961

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Italian mafia: Police arrest 61 suspected 'Ndrangheta in widespread raids

https://www.newsweek.com/undergroun...e-bust-against-italian-ndrangheta-631650

Published 7/4/17 I found it interesting thought I'd share.

Secret Courts Uncovered Where Mobsters Face Death For Breaking Mafia Code

Matteo Messina Denaro protected in Calabria by the 'Ndrangheta during his escape
May 11, 2023
It is September 3, 2016. Nicola Accardo and Antonino Triolo , two mafiosi from Partanna, in the Trapani area, speak not knowing they are being intercepted: "He says Matteo was in Calabria and is back... " Accardo revealed. The investigators have no doubts: it is Matteo Messina Denaro , at the time wanted number one in Italy. The Calabrian track is back in the news because the latest elements collected by the investigators show that the last stage of the inaction of the godfather of Castelvetrano, before his transfer to Campobello di Mazara, was precisely Calabria. Thanks to the protection of the 'Ndrangheta Matteo Messina Denarohe would have taken refuge between Lametia Terme and Cosenza, a city in which the boss would also have had various affairs: from drug trafficking in which the 'ndrine have now conquered a leading role, to the construction of a tourist village and wind farms , a business in which the mafia boss, through the entrepreneur Vito Nicastri , would also invest in Sicily. But, while Messina Denaro spent in Campobello was almost a normal life, in Calabria, according to investigators, the mafia boss would have had a fugitive similar to that of his historic Corleonese ally, Bernardo Provenzano forced to hide and move several times .

Reading the name Accardo reminded me that Chicago's Tony Accardo was also from Castelvetrano, in the Province of Trapani.

FLORENCE – The underworld also lives in Tuscany. In particular the ‘Ndrangheta, responsible for 47% of criminal episodes. This is followed by crimes attributable to associations of mainly mixed and foreign origin (26%), the Camorra (19%) and Cosa nostra (3%).

https://news.italy24.press/local/539405.html

Confidences to the undercover Belgian agent: "San Luca is the mother of the 'Ndrangheta"

In the "Eureka" investigation there is the hand of an infiltrated Belgian agent, capable of penetrating the Calabrian criminal environments of Genk . «The investigative emergencies collected - notes the Dda of Reggio - have made it possible to ascertain the existence and functioning of a stable criminal association headed by elements of the Strangio "Fracascia" family of San Luca , in whose ranks operate exponents of the gangs of 'ndrangheta of the Nirta "Versu" and Strangio "Janchi", protagonists of the Duisburg massacre , as well as the other families of Giampaolo "Nardo", Giorgio "Suppera", the so-called "Tranca", as well as the Pipicella, the latter in turn linked to the gang of Mammoliti "Fischiante".

A precise "map", with roles and responsibilities. The accusations of drug trafficking are black and white , based on a series of negotiations in which the infiltrator was personally involved, even between South America and Ecuador.
The suspects flaunted their origins and links with San Luca . In a report from 2022, the Carabinieri del Ros line up a series of episodes thanks again to the contribution of the Belgian agent. The common thread lies in the close ties with people involved in the Duisburg massacre and in the sharing of the (dis)values ??of the 'Ndrangheta: "They don't know who my father is and who is behind me from San Luca".

Marcello Nirta born in 1966, for whom "the family is the most important thing in life", confided in the agent, explaining that his father Domenico Antonio born in 1931 had forced him "to open the pizzeria" and therefore a legal business , to create cover for criminal activities. "First you have to have a real business to do something else," he would have advised him according to the reports of the infiltrator. On the other hand, the father, who died in 2020, would have been "the last of the Nirtas in Belgium" and for this he enjoyed "much respect". For Marcello Nirta , after all, « the 'Ndrangheta is not a bad thing», because «people see only negative things but currently the 'Ndrangheta gives a lot of help to poor people, the people of 'Ndrangheta have balls and are courageous».

It is useless to underline that the vision is distorted, similar to that of Giuseppe Nirta , who during the lockdown invites the insider to lunch at his home. And between a video on San Luca and the 'Ndrangheta and another on the Duisburg massacre, he explains to the interlocutor that "San Luca is the mother of the 'Ndrangheta". The agent asks how to become a member. «Members already affiliated vouch for you in front of the organization». Finally the rituals: «I prick a finger with blood, a holy picture of the Madonna is wetted and then the holy picture is set on fire. When this happens, you are affiliated forever».

https://theshiftnews.com/2023/05/13/malta-company-supplied-encrypted-phones-to-italian-mafia/

Malta company supplied encrypted phones to Italian Ndrangheta and other.

Italy police seize 2.7 tons of cocaine in banana shipment

https://www.dw.com/en/italy-police-seize-27-tons-of-cocaine-in-banana-shipment/a-65636405

These guys are the powerbrokers!

Rocco Delfino is “a man who gets everywhere”

https://www.facebook.com/lacnews24/...elli-per-rocco-delfino/4136732969764807/



https://news.italy24.press/trends/553377.html

https://crimhalt.org/2023/05/12/fab...tl-les-coulisses-de-la-mafia-calabraise/

Fabrice Rizzoli, guest of Yves Calvi on RTL: behind the scenes of the Calabrian mafia


"Fabrice Rizzoli : There has been a war of figures for 2-3 years. Personally, I had left it at 8,000 Calabrian mafiosi, including 4,000 in Calabria and 4,000 spread over Italy and Europe. The Directorate of Anti-Mafia Investigations has reassessed the number at 20,000. If we take into account the diaspora in Canada and Italy since the 1950s, the numbers are indeed increasing."

BUCCINASCO Elisa Barbaro, 23, with a clean record, granddaughter of Rocco Papalia, opens a bar in Milan, arousing the indignation of Rino Pruiti, mayor of Buccinasco where the 'Ndrangheta has been rooting for decades through the exponents of the Papalia-Barbaro clan as attested by numerous investigations and definitive sentences. The intolerance of the mayor, who clashed on social media with the girl's mother, Serafina "Sara" (as she calls herself) Papalia, is also directed towards fellow citizens who have expressed support for the entrepreneurial initiative.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-un-bar-a-milano-e-buccinasco-si-spacca/

The ‘Ndrangheta in the trade of petroleum products, seizures for 80 million in Italy and abroad

https://news.italy24.press/local/584835.html

‘Ndrangheta, international drug trafficking: 41 arrests

https://news.italy24.press/local/587750.html

Cocaine, hashish and marijuana from South America: the Finance of Bologna dismantles the drug cartel
The Fiamme Gialle operation led to the execution of 41 pre-trial detention orders against people linked to the 'Ndrangheta

Bologna, 30 May 2023 - An impressive operation by the Guardia di Finanza led to the execution of 41 pre-trial detention orders ( 37 in prison , 3 under house arrest and a residence permit), in the provinces of Bologna , Reggio Emilia, Modena , Parma, Milan, Cremona, Brescia, Pavia, Livorno, Rome, Foggia, Potenza, Crotone and Reggio Calabria. People linked to a criminal association made up of Italians belonging to or contiguous to the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio and Crotone, dedicated to the international trafficking of cocaine , hashish and marijuana, ended up under the lens of the Fiamme Gialle.

According to the financiers, the leader of the association would be a person at the top of the 'ndrina " Staccu " of San Luca, in the province of Reggio Calabria, a fugitive in Spain since 2018 and arrested in March 2021. Precisely during the period of inaction the boss would have pulled the strings of a vast international drug trafficking network capable of handling loads of drugs of hundreds of kilograms per month, thanks also to close relations with South American cartels , including the Brazilian Primeiro Comando da Capital and Colombian, Peruvian criminal organizations , Mexican and Bolivian , and some of the best known and most dangerous Italian fugitives.

From South America , the drug arrived in the ports of northern Europe, particularly Antwerp and Rotterdam , to then be distributed to the rest of the continent. Business in Italy was managed by people linked to the criminal association, Calabrians who had been living in the Parma and Reggio areas for years , who, making use of logistic bases located in various regions (Calabria, Lazio and Lombardy), of couriers and compliant companies, were able to deal with illicit trafficking throughout Italy .

According to financial sources, a network of people of Chinese nationality would have played a leading role in all of this, using the Fei-Chien money sending system to transfer, through a long chain of wire transfers , large sums of money to commercial companies in China and Hong Kong . The latter, through articulated compensation mechanisms, were able to deliver the money to the drug trafficking brokers and to the South American cartels themselves through agents residing abroad. The investigations revealed that, thanks to the Fei-Chien mechanism, the association was able to clean up more than 5 million euros.

In addition to the 41 precautionary custody orders, the Fiamme Gialle carried out the seizure of 44 buildings and land, 17 cars and motorcycles, 354 bank relationshipsand 80 companies, commercial activities and shareholdings, for a total estimated value of over 50 million euros, while numerous personal and local searches are still underway .

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/...an_authorities_contests_eaw#.ZHYHKHbMJPZ

Ndrangheta raids: Maltese man arrested at request of Italian authorities contests EAW

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/eur...hinese-money-brokers?utm_source=rss_feed

Italy police arrest 40 ‘Ndrangheta mafia suspects for drug smuggling via Chinese money brokers

IFT systems, fei-ch'ien (China), hui kuan (Hong Kong), hundi (India), hawala (Middle East), padala (Philippines), and phei kwan (Thailand) are used by organized crime all around the world.

The Bonavota killer repents, the leaders of the clan tremble
The words of the new collaborator are being examined by the DDA of Catanzaro. Onofrio Barbieri is considered a trusted man of the Sant'Onofrio gang

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ota-si-pente-tremano-i-vertici-del-clan/

I thought the Ndrangheta doesn't rat? Looks like they're all rats.

although the number of pentiti is growing because of maxi-operations, it is still low compared to the total number of members

True, but the guys flipping are pretty important members. One important rat is like equal to 5 insignificant ones.

'Ndrangheta pentiti are still less than 100 I believe. While Cosa Nostra and Camorra have each 1000-2000 in the last decades.

Those numbers look pretty high

Exactly what I'm saying, I don't see much difference between the Ndrangheta and the other groups, they all have lots of rats. So what if other groups have more, they still have a lot of rats.

Ndrangheta has almost 200, Cosa Nostra 300 and Camorra 600; there are also 100 from Sacra Corona Unita and 80 foreigners

Gratteri said, before 2008, there were 1,000 pentiti (informants) from Sicily's Cosa Nostra, 2,000 from Naples's Camorra and only 42 with the Calabrian mafia.

he is wrong or probably somebody misunderstood what he said