'Ndrangheta: Local politician among 19 arrested in mafia sting

https://www.thelocal.it/20201119/ndrangheta-local-politician-among-19-arrested-in-mafia-sting

Antonio Pelle gambazza was the most important boss for many decades. He was the patriarch of the San Luca locale and the 'Ndrangheta capo crimine. He reached the rank of vangelo, at the time the highest rank in the organisation.

The Nirta's on the other hand were formed by the brothers Giuseppe , Antonio , Francesco, Sebastiano and Domenico Nirta, maybe even more powerful 'ndrina very close to the Corleonesi.

The Nirta's did lose two important leaders.
On 24 January 2013 , the son-in-law of Giuseppe Nirta , Vincenzo Femia , was killed in Rome .
On 7 June 2017 Giuseppe Nirta, 52 years old son of the late boss Sebastiano, is killed. The murder took place in Spain, in the Murcia region.

An ambush in agricultural land, a 72-year-old in Reggino is serious
By editorial staff November 19, 2020
The carabinieri investigate the serious episode in order to trace the matrix of the fact of blood. Meanwhile, the man was taken by helicopter rescue to Reggio Calabria

A 72-year-old was shot and wounded on agricultural land in the small town of Galatro in Reggino. The man, ML, would be from Giffone. Rescued and taken by ambulance to the emergency room of the Polistena hospital, the man was then transferred in helicopter rescue to the Reggio Calabria hospital given his condition immediately appeared critical, also considering that the blows would have also reached him in the head.

The carabinieri are now investigating to try to reconstruct the dynamics and trace the perpetrators of the ambush.

The boss of Limbadi Diego Mancuso, 66, one of the undisputed leaders of the homonymous consortium of the 'Ndrangheta of the Vibonese, leaves the prison and returns in total freedom. He had been arrested in May last year to serve a final sentence of 6 years for mafia association remedied in the trial born from the "Genesis" operation. Last January, however, the Court of Appeal accepted the request for continued penalties between the sentences arising from the Genesis and Dynasty operations (also here for mafia association with a sentence already served) thus reducing the sentence to be served from 6 to 2 years.

Today, therefore, also thanks to an additional penalty for "good behavior" in prison , Diego Mancuso is back in total freedom. Diego Mancuso is the brother of Rosaria Mancuso, detained for the Limbadi car bomb that cost the life of the biologist Matteo Vinci, as well as brother of the bosses Giuseppe, Francesco and Pantaleone. (Agi)

Klaus Davi is again provoking 'ndrangheta, cosa nostra and camorra lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAfVn-WkEA&feature=emb_logo

You should ask antimafia, he has the most information about the GTA. Commisso def have strong links to Calabria for example Frank (The Chosen) Commisso has residences in both Ontario and Siderno.

'Ndrangheta: Piscopisani clan, 21 sentences requested for a total of almost 200 years in prison
In addition to the leaders of the clan of Piscopio, among the defendants also the boss Cosmo Michele Mancuso of Limbadi. The investigation coordinated by the DDA and conducted by the Vibo Mobile Squad.

13 years and 8 months for Nazzareno Fiorillo , 54, called “U Tartaru”, from Piscopio, indicated as the head of the 'ndrangheta locale in Piscopio.

Two million euros worth of assets were seized by the Dia from Vincenzo Pesce, 67 from Rosarno (Reggio Calabria), considered a leading exponent of the hegemonic gang of the same name, together with that of the Bellocco family, in the municipality of Reggino . Pesce reported 2 final convictions for crimes of simple and mafia conspiracy committed in the years 1980 and 1989 and following which he had already been subjected to the measure of special surveillance for a period of three years.
The man was involved in the "'Ndrangheta Banking" Operation, conducted in June 2014 by the Dia which had led to the discovery of a parallel credit system through which the Calabrian gangs granted loans at usurious rates to Calabrian and Lombard entrepreneurs in difficulty.
Pesce was sentenced to 4 years in prison for the crime of fictitious registration of assets with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the 'Ndrangheta.

Polycephalous ‘ndrangheta: Crimes, behaviours and organisation of the Calabrian mafia in Australia

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004865818782573

Great article by Anna Sergi.

A judge on Thursday indicted 444 suspected members of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia on an array of charges, including murder, attempted murder, extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking, a judicial source said.

The trial of 355 of the defendants will start on Jan. 13 and will be one of the largest cases to target organised crime in Italy since the so-called maxiprocesso that severely weakened Sicily’s more storied Cosa Nostra mafia group in the 1980s.

https://www.metro.us/judge-orders-mass-trial/

On Wednesday morning, the carabinieri of the Sesto San Giovanni Company carried out three arrests requested by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against as many affected Italian subjects, of Calabrian origin and residing in the Milan area.

They are accused of extortion, attempted extortion and robbery, all aggravated by the mafia method to the detriment of a Cormano trader in the period between the months of May and September.

According to the investigators, the three are linked to the Flachi clan, which emerged in the northern area of ​​Milan and neighboring municipalities of the alliance headed by the notorious Giuseppe Flachi known as Pepè.

Coronavirus, the brother of the head of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy dies in prison
By editorial staff 13 December 2020
At the age of 71 Mario Coco Trova died, imprisoned in the Tolmezzo prison. He was in prison for mafia association

Mario Coco Trova died today at the age of 71 in the Tolmezzo prison for Covid. Klaus Davi makes it known. Mario Coco was in jail for mafia association, extortion and other crimes since 2014, younger brother of Franco Coco Trova, historical undisputed leader of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy and currently detained in Rebibbia, where he recently obtained his doctorate in Law.

The Coco Trovatos are related to the De Stefano clan of Reggio Calabria, considered among the most powerful of the 'Ndrangheta, as Carmine De Stefano married Franco Coco Trova's daughter. The name of Mario Coco Trova was obviously linked with that of his brother, a key figure in “Wall Street,” the first major investigation into the infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy. A native of Marcedusa, in the province of Catanzaro, he has long been considered the heir of the life-sentence boss.

Ambush in Cutro, the ex of the boss's niece shoots her new partner with a rifle.
She is niece of Nicolino Grande Aracri, a daughter of the lawyer Domenico Grande Aracri, recently involved in the Farma Business investigation.
It happened the other night, while the predestined target of a fortunately unsuccessful shotgun shot returned with his car to Petilia presumably after having taken the girl, a 24-year-old law student back home.The ambush materialize near the villa of the lawyer Grande Aracri. The young man was unharmed.
From what it has been possible to learn, the motive would be of a passionate type or in any case attributable to conflicts of a private nature.

'Ndrangheta in Great Toronto Area: charts and a classification

https://www.cosanostranews.com/2020/12/ndrangheta-in-greater-toronto-area.html?m=1

Here is a interesting Link. You guys think the Ndrangheta in Germany is the most Powerful of the World, outside Italy? More powerful than in Canada and other countries?

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/lal...eten-vede-solo-la-mafiosita-degli-altri/

The mafia turns social media influencer to reinforce its brand
Southern Italy’s mob bosses embrace digital platforms as a way to spread their message
Miles Johnson in Rome 2 HOURS AGO

To the casual observer it was just another Facebook page dispensing inspirational messages — and the occasional threat — to its 18,000 followers. In fact “Honour and Dignity”, was a social media branding exercise for an Italian mafia boss whose frequent posts came to an abrupt end after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Before his incarceration in 2017, Vincenzo Torcasio, a boss of a clan of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful mafia, spent five years building up a sizeable online following. His digital offering provided an unlikely mix of kitsch images of roses and hearts, quotes from the writer Paulo Coelho, and occasional nuggets of grizzled gangster wisdom.

Read full article: https://www.ft.com/content/285732c9-e962-4896-83c2-ce31e09003e6

I love that he was into Paulo Coelho

Yes I agree with Nicaso from what I have gathered, the top 3 would be Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands.

i don't think netherlands above australia

'Ndrangheta, the revelations of a repentant on the disappearance of Maria Chindamo.
A collaborator of justice Antonio Cossidente reports to the Dda of Catanzaro the confidences received from Emanuele Mancuso on how and why the entrepreneur was eliminated.
She disappeared on May 1, 2016 while on her farm in Limbadi, in the Vibonese area. There are new revelations about Maria Chindamo, an entrepreneur from Laureana di Borrello, in the province of Reggio Calabria, thanks to the statements made by the collaborator of justice Antonio Cossidente, 55 years of Potenza, to the Dda of Catanzaro, who is investigating the case.
Cossidente shared his detention in prison with Emanuele Mancuso , founder of the homonymous Limbadi clan, one of the most influential of the 'Ndrangheta, with whom he established a strong bond. From the latter he would have learned that Maria Chindamo would have been killed and torn to pieces with a tractor or fed to the pigs because of her refusal to sell her land in Limbadi to the neighboring Salvatore Ascone, believed to be linked to the Mancuso clan and already arrested for the crime but later released from the Review Court.
At the moment the DDA led by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri has examined Cossidente's statements. According to the collaborator of justice, Chindamo's body was made to disappear on May 6, 2016 - the same day the woman's ex-husband took his own life - to sidetrack the investigation and make the suspicions of the crime fall on the family of the 'ex husband.

Italian woman Maria Chindamo murdered by mafia and ‘fed to pigs’

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/eur...ria-chindamo-murdered-mafia-and-fed-pigs

In terms of manpower you're right, both Canada and Australia are above Netherlands. But you have to take into account when you look at power the role the Dutch play in the global drug trade, that why most of the Italians operating in the Netherlands are high up the food chain.

I have a question for your Hollander. As far as Cosa Nostra, or even an N'drangheta presence in the City of Brussels, Belgium. I know there is a small section of Brussels that has a Little Italy of sorts.

What do you know of it. And who are the members, their names per se, in that city?

For that matter, how about the presence of French, or Corsican racketeers in Brussels?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.vic...lations-and-blood-rituals-0000504-v21n11

One enters the upper house of the local, the Società Maggiore, as a santista (the name refers to his being part of the Società Santa). A rung above him is the vangelo (gospel), so called because he swore loyalty to the 'Ndrangheta with one hand on the Bible (a tattooed cross marks his left shoulder). Next is the trequartino (three quarters), who has privileged access to three quarters of the organization (he has a cross on his right shoulder and an emerald rose under his foot).

This article talk about a cross tattoos and a rose under the foot.
Does it means the ndrangheta has special tattoos with specific meanings?

I will look into that.
In Brussels there are members of Cosa Nostra from Favara (Agrigento) and of the powerful Rinzivillo family from Caltanissetta.
'Ndrangheta members came mostly from Rosarno (Reggio Calabria), Bellocco and Ascone families.
Also Camorra members from the Secondigliano families.

Just before Christmas, the collaborator of justice Giovanbattista Fracapane , assassin of the Tegano clan of Reggio Calabria died. The news, anticipated by Klaus Davi - was confirmed to Ansa. The death, according to what has been learned, occurred on December 16 last due to natural causes and no investigations have been started. Fracapane was a protagonist of the second mafia war that bloodied the city from 1985 to 1991 with hundreds of deaths. Responsible for many murders that took place during that period, the former killer was a fugitive for years. In 2004 he began to collaborate with justice. He told the prosecutors some background of the clash between the De Stefano-Tegano and the Condello clan, shedding light on many murders consumed in the eighties and nineties. But he also spoke of the political sympathies of the 'Ndrangheta. Finally, he recently made statements to shed light on the murder of Giuseppe Cartisano,

Such a HUGE trial, I can't imagine the work and time the prosecutors put into it. Also security has to be significant for all people involved almost like a war situation.

'Ndrangheta: Italy prepares for mafia 'maxi-trial' with 355 defendants

https://www.thelocal.it/20210111/italy-prepares-for-mafia-maxi-trial-with-355-defendants

Is this biggest mafia trial in Italy since sicilians mafia maxi trial ?

Yep. And it primarily focuses on the Mancuso clan.... I was just asking about......

The trial will focus on mob activity in the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia, an area dominated by the Mancuso clan. The defendants will be locked in cages.

More than 900 witnesses will give evidence at the trial, which starts on Wednesday, and investigators will produce 24,000 wiretaps and bugged conversations to back up charges of murder, extortion and drug dealing.

The hearings promise to rival the 1986 “Maxi” trial in Palermo.