'ndrangheta in Veneto: 7 arrests. Operation against the Multari family, active in the Verona area for over 30 years.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-in-veneto-7-arresti-e-20-perquisizioni/

What Documentation did you see? Do you have a link?

Here another Video about the Ndrangheta and the San Luca Clans at 09:55.


https://www.france24.com/en/2013051...heta-calabria-drug-trafficking-france-24

Seeing a lot of the ndrangheta members last names compared to camorra and cosa nostra last names is so weird. Mole, Nirta, Pirommali etc. All names that are so uncommon and to an extent, may not even sound or look that Italian(speaking mainly about Mole).

There are little more than five pages that the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate dedicates to the province of Vibo Valentia in its usual semi-annual report. The time frame taken into consideration concerns the first six months of 2018. In Vibonese - the dossier reads - the widespread, nefarious influence of the Limbadi local is recorded. Ergo, the Mancuso are still dictating the rules of the game in one of the Italian territory with the highest mafia density. A family, that of the Mancuso, which - according to the Dia - boasts solid alliances with the coasts of Reggio Calabria and those of the plain of Gioia Tauro. The report specifically cites the bomb attack that killed the young Matteo Vinci, an innocent victim of mafia arrogance.

The role of women.The figure of Rosaria Mancuso emerged from the "Demetra" investigation conducted by the Carabinieri and which shed light on the attack by Limbadi. The role of women in the 'ndrangheta vibonese appears to be marked in another investigation that characterized the first half of the investigative activities of the various law enforcement agencies. The Dia cita, among many others, the "Black Widows" operation carried out by the State Police that carried out the arrest of 7 subjects, held responsible, in various capacities, of attempted murder and illegal arms, as authors of the attack on 28 July 2017, in Sorianello, against two brothers. The investigations have allowed to bring back the motive of this ambush to the criminal dynamics in place in the municipalities of Soriano, Sorianello and Gerocarne "... for the conquest of the leadership in the territory between two opposing factions, within the same" local of 'ndrangheta "known as the local dell'Ariola ...". Of absolute importance, once again, of some women of 'ndrangheta (hence the name of the operation) whose role, from the investigation, is returned in all its centrality: sometimes as the instigators of heinous criminal actions, sometimes as accomplices in the concealment and conservation of weapons.

Many last names have Greek influences, like the word ´ndrangheta itself.

So does Sicily. But you can clearly spot the differences between Greek culture and Italian culture. Language as well I would assume. But did people specifically from the Greek influenced villages stay there instead of immigrating in the late 1800s and early 1900s? Because a lot of Sicilians, calabrese and Neapolitans(that I see who are in one of the 3 mafia groups) who are still in Italy have pretty distinct last names. I know it’s hard to determine what region one is from by last name because there can be a family with that name from multiple regions throughout Italy, but still.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/a...creasingly-prey-Italys-3-big-mafias.html

Police: Rome is increasingly prey to Italy's 3 big mafias

Reggio Calabria, killed in ambush of 'ndrangheta Francesco Catalano: "Near the boss Ciccio Rodà"
His role had lately grown in the northern suburbs of Reggio Calabria. A crime that fits perfectly into the dynamics that are affecting the gangs of Gallico , the district of origin of the victim. In fact, between intimidation, damage and murder, the local 'ndrangheta for more than a year is at the center of never healed frictions.

Ndrangheta Fugitive Strangio captured
'Dangerous' criminal had been on run for a year

(ANSA) -Rome, February 15 - Carabinieri police in the southern region of Calabria said Friday that overnight they captured a "dangerous" 'Ndrangheta mafia fugitive, Francesco Strangio.
Strangio, who had been on the run for a year, was found in an apartment in the centre of Rose, a small town in the province of Cosenza.
He is linked to the Strangio-Janchi clan of San Luca and will now serve a 14-year term for international drug trafficking for having negotiated and managed the importation of cocaine from South America.

To add to my point, the name Janchi is also a last name that you could add to the list. My guess is that the southern regions such as Calabria and Sicily must have a lot of unfamiliar names like this as you were saying.

janchi is not a surname, it's the nickname of the strangio family members

Ok I misunderstood. I saw Strangio-janchi and thought it was an allegiance between clans.

How many Ndrangheta members are there? I know it’s hard to know an exact number but is the 6,000 number on Wikipedia accurate at all? For such a large organization there’s very little info on individual members. Compared to the Sicilians and Camorra, there’s barely anything since they have whole essays on many different members of their organization.

Italian police on Tuesday arrested 23 people in busting a drugs gang belonging to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The arrests were made in Calabria, Campania, Lombardy, Liguria and Puglia, police said.

Salvatore Barbaro turned himself in at the Carabinieri station in Milan, he must serve 8 years. His wife is the daughter of the powerful boss Rocco Papalia.

Mafia group planning to distribute drugs between Italy and Spain detained by police

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2019...d-spain-detained-by-police/#.XG78bOj0nIV

https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Balkans/How-the-Mafias-came-to-Slovakia-192863

How the Mafias came to Slovakia

Reggio Calabria, boss of the 'Ndrangheta write to the judge Roberto Di Bella: "thanks for the work of recovery for our children, continue like this"

The president of Reggio Calabria's juvenile court, Roberto Di Bella, receives letters from prisoners and also from bosses in prison at 41bis, who invite him to continue his work. He receives them for his commitment to the 'recovery' of the children of affiliates to the 'ndrangheta. His recent work was inspired by the fiction of Rai1 "Liberi di scelta", with Alessandro Preziosi as the magistrate. To state the receipt of these letters was Di Bella during an interview with gNews, the information newspaper of the Ministry of Justice. " I had this chance, probably, I would not be here today ," wrote an inmate.

I think it was internal, the bikers wouldn´t go after him without the blessing of the Calabrian bosses. Pasquale faced 20 years in prison. According to some rumors, this sword of Damocles would have convinced Barbaro to break the code of silence with the police, the reason for the crime, as well as in the control of the drug market, should perhaps also be sought in the fact that the young man had become an informer.

'Ndrangheta, the former Senator Pietro Fuda investigated for Mafia association. Former president of the province of Reggio Calabria.
He had challenged the dissolution of municipal councils as a tool to fight the clans. He would allow the Commisso clan to take a position of influence in the Siderno City Council. The DDA has also established a connection with secret Masonic lodges.

https://www.occrp.org/en/unfinishedlives/the-cocaine-cowboys

The Cocaine Cowboys

Do the Barbaros in Australia have any power? I follow the one son on Instagram but he doesn’t seem like he’s too bright lol

‘Ndrangheta boss faces U.S. charges in connection to seizure of over 1,500 kilos of cocaine bound for Europe http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...rges-in-connection-to-seizure-of-more-th

Thanks, Biondo was tied to the Spanish boss El Gordo. In 2012 the Calabrian capo, his pregnant wife and his young son survived an ambush in Lloret de Mar. El Gordo was killed in a car bomb in 2017.

Maria Vallonearanci had a leading role her now ex-husband is part of the Acri-Morfo clan.
Maria became a repentant of 'ndrangheta and fled to Germany: "In Italy I was not safe"

Notizia tratta da: https://www.ciavula.it/2019/02/maria-pentita-ndrangheta-germania/

Can anybody tell me abou the Gazprom deal that they had?

Yeah i would like to hear more about that too

Also,(unrelated question) did Scilla in Calabria and Palermo in Sicily have the same architects? I was looking at pictures of Scilla and it reminded me so much of Palermo. Sicily is known to have towns like we saw in The Godfather. Just houses built on top of each other going up hills. Some of them on the water making them fishing villages. But I have been told that the villages in Sicily differ in terms of how they are designed from most of southern Italy and just Italy in general. Looking at Scilla though I would guess that Calabria has similar looking villages. At least very southern Calabria like Scilla.

Police arrested at the Milan Malpensa airport, the fugitive Giuseppe Iaria (38), they caught him after he landed by plane from Dubai.
Iaria was wanted since 2016 considered a close confidant of the top bosses Giuseppe and Vincenzo Iamonte of the homonymous gang of 'ndrangheta hegemon in the territory of Melito di Porto Salvo.

The new collaborator of justice Salvatore Stambè !

He was born in the Vibo Valentia, in that inland territory made of forests, inaccessible areas, where the 'Ndrangheta over the years has made its presence felt - heavy. His family, even if not yet recognized in judicial way as belonging to organized crime, in fact it is. And he was part of it until a very short time before deciding to empty the bag and collaborate with the investigating magistrates, the DDA of Turin specifically. Yes, because Salvatore Stambé, a prominent member of the homonymous association originating from Gerocarne, in the Vibonese area, has been collaborating for several years in the Langhe of Asti.

And his revelations may represent for the investigators of the DDA of Catanzaro that important, if not quite decisive, piece to recompose the puzzle of the killing of his 57 year old brother Dominic, which occurred on the morning of March 4, 2017 in the garden of his home in a isolated area of ​​Sant'Angelo di Gerocarne.

According to what the article published exclusively in the paper edition of the Quotidiano published today, signed by Gianluca Prestia, most of the Stambé family moved to Costigliole d'Asti. Salvatore established himself definitively in 2011, the year after his baptism of 'ndrangheta, as well as the joint killed. And there, relying on the support of "those of Gioia Tauro", he formed a "Locale" of 'ndrangheta. A "Bastarda" as they say in jargon when this is not recognized by Calabria.