Secret Mafia Commission in Germany
With the gradual expansion of the 'Ndrangheta into northern Italy and abroad, further such control bodies have emerged, which are subordinate to the Crimine di Polsi. They are a kind of commissions or bodies that are supposed to ensure that business runs smoothly and, above all, to prevent bloody massacres like Duisburg. What was previously unknown to the public: There is also such a secret commission in Germany.

According to joint research by MDR and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ), a Crimine di Germania has been in existence for more than ten years. According to confidential documents, this control body, also known as the "Camera di Controllo", is said to have been founded after the Mafia murders in Duisburg. The seat is presumed to be in Duisburg itself. Nine men from all over Germany - all allegedly high-ranking 'Ndrangheta members and most of them active as Italian restaurateurs - are said to be on this secret commission. Your task: You should ensure business peace, a balance of interests and compliance with the rules. It appears that your job is not to interfere in direct criminal operations.

A map of Germany showing where the nine members of the Crimine di Germania are based. One member is the "Erfurt Group".
Politics in secret: The Crimine di Germania regulates peace and interests of the Mafia clans in Germany.

The special thing about the Crimine di Germania is that it is the only governing body of its kind in Europe outside of Italy. In response to an MDR / FAZ request, the Federal Criminal Police Office officially confirmed for the first time that the existence of the Crimine di Germania was known.

'NDRANGHETA IN CROTONE: 12 ARRESTS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POSSESSION OF WEAPONS. CLANS HIT
Shot by the anti-mafia prosecutor of Catanzaro against the Vrenna-Corigliano-Bonaventura clans of Crotone and Megna di Papanice.
12 people ( 9 in prison and 3 in house arrest) are accused, in various capacities, of armed association aimed at the illicit trafficking of narcotic substances (in particular heroin, cocaine and marijuana), receiving stolen goods, possession of weapons of war. Two of them must answer for the 'Ndrangheta association.

In Germania ‘ndrangheta ha comitato controllo locale, organizzata con “Capo crimine”

https://www.calabrianews.it/in-germ...llo-locale-organizzata-con-capo-crimine/

Confiscation of 20 million from Giovanni "Billy" Mancuso, a leading exponent of the 'Ndrangheta Vibonese, movable property, real estate, farms, sole proprietorships and bank current accounts for an estimated value of about 20 million euros attributable to Giovanni Mancuso (cl. 41), known as "Billy", a well-known multi-judge, exponent prominent of the homonymous clan of 'Ndrangheta , already subjected to house arrest.

When they use the "homonymous" in these articles, what do they actually mean to convey with that word? I never understand the meaning of the word, or sentence its used in.

And what is the U.S. currency equivalent to 20 million "Euros" ?

Over 24 million dollars. Homonymous means with the same name so this guy Billy Mancuso is a member of the homonymous clan Mancuso.

Dimitri De Stefano was sentenced on appeal to 10 years and 8 months of imprisonment for mafia association, instead of 13 years and 4 months of the first degree. The judges of the Reggio Calabria Court of Appeal issued the sentence late in the evening, dismissing his role as a participant, and not as head promoter as in the first instance.
Dimitri is a son of the deceased boss Don Paolino De Stefano.

The Secret Luxembourg Base of Italy’s ’Ndrangheta Mafia
by Cecilia Anesi (IrpiMedia), Giulio Rubino (IrpiMedia), Luc Caregari (Woxx), Jérémie Baruch (Le Monde)
15 February 2021

By the time Santo Rumbo turned up in Luxembourg, he was already deeply enmeshed in the world of the Italian mafia.

At just 31 years old, he’d allegedly risen to one of the highest ranks of the ’Ndrangheta, the vicious Calabrian crime group that is responsible for a good chunk of Europe’s cocaine trade.

So Italian police were more than a little concerned to learn he had moved to the tiny northwestern European nation, where he got involved in a restaurant business along with a group of young migrants from an impoverished Italian village near his hometown of Siderno, in the ’Ndrangheta’s heartland.

The intensely hierarchical and clannish ’Ndrangheta have fanned out across the world from their home base in southern Italy, often using family-based chain migration to get footholds in new markets.

But the town of Siderno, on the sunny Ionian coast, is still the capital of their global narco-empire. There, the mighty Commisso clan rules over a number of ’Ndrangheta families that are so powerful that their decisions can affect global cocaine prices.

Santo Rumbo’s father, Riccardo, was one of these family leaders, heading the Rumbo-Figliomeni ‘ndrina subgroup.

Read More: https://www.occrp.org/en/openlux/revealed-the-secret-luxembourg-base-of-italys-ndrangheta-mafia

Prosecutors in Reggio Calabria only learned about Santo Rumbo’s high ranking by chance, when they overheard two ’Ndrangheta bosses in Canada talking about him on a wiretap. One mentioned that Rumbo was given a higher dote than his brother, who’d held the Vangelo until he died.

If Rumbo did hold a ranking of Trequartino before the age of 30, this would have been an extraordinarily rapid rise through the mafia ranks.

Top article Mammola under Siderno didn't know that! OCCRP very good investigative journalism.

OCCRP is one of the best investigative journalism in EU in my opinion.

'Ndrangheta, the boss Mazzagatti died: in 2014 he received the "bow" of the Madonna
February 26, 2021
The leader of Oppido Mamertina was seriously ill and died in Taurianova in his home

The 89-year-old boss Giuseppe Mazzagatti died tonight of natural causes . The leader of Oppido Mamertina was seriously ill and died in his home in Taurianova. Mazzagatti, sentenced to life imprisonment for mafia association and murder, was under house arrest in 2014 because his conditions were incompatible with the prison regime.

In that year he rose to the headlines for the famous " bow " of the Madonna delle Grazie in front of his home on the occasion of the traditional religious procession. A few months after that episode, the boss was taken back to prison. In August 2016, however, he returned to house arrest.

GOTHA PROCESS
'Ndrangheta in Reggio, the repentant Cortese: "Romeo and De Stefano belonged to a higher power"
February 26, 2021
The statements of the collaborator of justice in the context of the Gotha trial

«When I left the prison, Paolo Romeo passed into my cell. Romeo had arrived in Tolmezzo a few months earlier. I knew who he was and he knew my caliber and my criminal role. Pietro Labate told me that I had to respect Paolo Romeo and Giorgio De Stefano ». To say it was the collaborator of justice Maurizio Cortese who for the first time deposed in a public hearing. He did so this morning, connected by videoconference with the bunker hall of Reggio Calabria, in the hearing of the "Gotha" trial which is being celebrated with the
ordinary rite and which sees, as the main defendant, the lawyer and former parliamentarian of the PSdi Paolo Romeo, considered the thinking head of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio.

Romeo and the lawyer Giorgio De Stefano, according to the former boss, "were not part of the 'Ndrangheta" old model ".
Rather, he added, they were part" of a system of power superior to that of the traditional' Ndrangheta ".

After Cortese, the collaborator Maurizio De Carlo , former accountant of the De Stefano clan, was heard talking about politics and, referring to Nino Fiume, now a collaborator of justice but until 2002 killer of the "arcoti", said: "He made a strong election campaign for the former president of the Calabria region Giuseppe Scopelliti. I know Antonio Caridi, he too was supported by the De Stefano family. He was sponsored by the De Stefano clan and above all by Franco Chirico ".

Operazione Canadian 'ndrangheta a Siderno, le prime condanne al Clan Muià

https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/fo...ia-7af714a5-b4ba-4709-b632-49e1d0a2398a/

So Santo Rumbo was acquitted, interesting.

Here is the structural organization chart of the 'Ndrangheta that wants to take Northern Italy
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Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Veneto, Valle d'Aosta and Trentino Alto Adige: here is the map of the expansion of the 'Ndrangheta outside the Calabrian parent company. A map from which, as the Dia investigators write in their report presented to Parliament, "the image of a highly pervasive 'Ndrangheta emerges strongly even in extra-regional dynamics and increasingly inserted into relational plots with illustrious personalities from the political and business world" .

A "structural organization chart" of the gangs outside the region that has important numbers, emblematic of the expansionist capacity of the gangs, of the ability of the bosses to reproduce their power according to the typical pattern of Calabrian structures even far from the "mother". In total, 46 locales emerged, of which 25 in Lombardy, 15 in Piedmont, 3 in Liguria, 1 in Veneto, 1 in Valle d'Aosta and 1 in Trentino Alto Adige.

But the expansionist aims of the Calabrian families of 'Ndrangheta have already crossed national borders for some time. Even abroad, in fact, the 'Ndrangheta organizations are able to exploit above all the opportunities offered by the different regulatory systems, favoring the establishment in states that are "not cooperative from the point of view of judicial assistance, which have those large meshes appropriately exploited by the 'Ndrangheta for the reinvestment of illicit capital ”.

For Dia, then, "The current legislative inhomogeneity existing among the various European countries favors the infiltration into the world of economy and finance of the mafias already considerably benefited from the integration of the markets, the liberalization of capital movements, the potential offered by telematic networks, as well as by the development of financial intermediation, among other things, also through alternative circuits. This regulatory misalignment, on the other hand, makes it very difficult to seize mafia assets outside the national territory ".

As for the 'Ndrangheta structures located across the border, as stated by the Central Anti-Crime Director, Prefect Francesco Messina, "The current information framework appears to converge towards a progressive recovery of relations between the clans of the Ionian-Reggio side and the homologous associations traditionally allocated in Canada, in the Ontario region. In this regard, the illicit relations of top members of the 'Ndrangheta with the members of the so-called Toronto Control Chamber, who are held responsible, in that country, for various illegal activities, with particular reference to the gaming and betting, drug trafficking, as well as the re-use of huge profits ".

The criminal growth of the 'Ndrangheta, then, was facilitated by the important diplomatic action carried out by the Calabrian bosses who, over the years, have been able to weave solid relationships of interest with the other criminal organizations operating in Italy. “Significant recent investigative findings - reads the report - confirm the tendency of Calabrian criminal groups to establish forms of utilitarian collaboration with groups of different mafia matrix, in particular with Cosa Nostra. This cooperation tends to appear motivated by specific contingencies rather than by consolidated forms of interaction governed by a sharing of common criminal objectives ".



'Ndrangheta, Dia report: "Mafia groups rooted in Piedmont"
The report of the Minister of the Interior to Parliament on the results achieved by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate in the first half of 2020
Dia - archive photo
Ndrangheta, Dia report: "Mafia groups rooted in Piedmont"

" The roots of mafia groups in Piedmont are confirmed, notably the
'Ndrangheta, which over time has established premises similar to those in their respective areas of origin ". It is one of the passages reported in the report by the Minister of the Interior Lamorgese to Parliament on the results achieved by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department in the first half of 2020 .

" The historical presence of these clans - we read - was once again highlighted by the sentence pronounced on February 19, 2020 by the Court of Cassation, which sentenced an exponent of the Belfiore-Ursino clan to life imprisonment for having committed in the Piedmontese capital, in 1983, the murder of the then chief prosecutor of Turin ( Bruno Caccia, ed). These are associations mainly dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and usurious actions often aimed at the acquisition of entrepreneurial activities, but which have recently privileged inclusion in the public procurement sector, through corrupt practices ".

The report also refers to the “Carminius / Bellavita 416 bis” operation, which in February 2020 led to the indictment of the regional councilor Roberto Rosso . " The investigation had shed light on the attempts of a 'Ndrangheta association to acquire some public works launched by a municipality in the Turin province, in the face of the promise of obtaining electoral consensus during administrative consultations in that local context. of the public administration which often takes place with the contribution provided by professionals able to build complex corporate networks useful for shielding the origin of capital ".

It is also highlighted as "some important investigations in recent years have contributed not only to the reconstruction of the 'Ndrangheta organizational charts, but have revealed the stable presence in the Region of structured Calabrian groups. These are criminal aggregations with a marked business-entrepreneurial propensity, which make use, where appropriate, of the typical mafia violent behavior always committed in synergy with the Reggio head office. Furthermore, there has been evidence, once again, of how the most typical Calabrian mafia expressions continue to manifest themselves even outside the lands of origin through the rituals of affiliation, the strict respect for roles and internal hierarchy, affiliates to bear the economic expenses of other affiliates held and the maintenance of a common fund".

The document also notes that " in Piedmont, for some time now, some Mafia families have managed to enter the construction and earthmoving sectors, as well as in the management of activities related to gaming and betting ". Dia's concern is not only the 'Ndrangheta. In fact, some delinquent groups of foreign origin operate in the territory. " The criminal groups of African origin (especially Nigerian), Albanian and Romanian - reads the report - confirm the criminal dynamism in the Piedmont area ".

In conclusion, the report observes that " in the region there are no symptomatic signs of a criminal downsizing of the 'Ndrangheta which, instead, is believed to continue to play a leading role in the Piedmontese criminal scenario. This is also due to the repeatedly emphasized conformation and capillarity, as well as for the strategy of peaceful coexistence that the Calabrian factions have planned in recent times in Piedmont, as well as in various other areas of the Italian territory, towards the associations of different matrix present there and well inserted in their respective delinquent contexts of reference ".

“Canadian ‘ndrangheta connection”, 7 condanne e un’assoluzione in abbreviato

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-condanne-e-unassoluzione-in-abbreviato/

Toronto-born Mafia figure sentenced in Italian case dubbed ‘The Canadian Connection’

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...case-dubbed-the-canadian-connection.html

'Ndrangheta in Reggio, 19 sentences to the "Gypsy clan". Brawl and management of nightlife bouncers

Over a century in prison. The heaviest penalties were imposed on Cosimo and Andrea Morelli sentenced to 15 years, 7 months and 10 days and 14 years of imprisonment respectively.
The Reggio Court of Appeal has inflicted 19 sentences for over a century in prison against a criminal group hit in the Heracles operation.
Both, for the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, would be at the top of the Roma clan that operated alongside and in harmony with the powerful Ndrangheta gangs of Reggio city and Archi. Among the accusations stands out the mafia and violent management of the bouncer service in the clubs of the summer nightlife, the Lidos on the Lungomare at the center in recent years of a series of violent fights and attacks on managers and customers.

The company that runs ferries between Sicily and the Italian mainland has been placed under judicial administration due to mafia infiltration.
The six-month penalty was applied to the 'Caronte & Tourist' ferry company for favouring the interests of the 'Ndrangheta
Caronte & Tourist is a well-known operator in Italy, which holds a de-facto monopoly on ferry connections over the Strait of Messina, which separate Sicily and Calabria.
According to Italy's anti-mafia police, the company farmed out lucrative catering, cleaning, and ticket booking services to 'Ndrangheta-controlled companies.
Authorities seized assets worth 800,000 euros (962,000 dollars) from Massimo Buda. He was described as the son of a jailed Ndrangheta clan leader.

Most-wanted 'Ndrangheta fugitive arrested in Spain
Lamorgese hails 'determination' of Italy police

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - A member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta who had been on the run since 2018 and was on the list of Italy's most dangerous fugitives was arrested in Barcelona on Friday.
Giuseppe Romeo, a key player in the Calabrian Mob's domination of the European cocaine trade, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail on mafia and drug trafficking charges.
Romeo, 35, from the 'Ndrangheta fief of San Luca, was arrested by the Guardia Civil with the help of Italian prosecutors.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said the arrest "rewards the work and the great determination of state police investigators, coordinated by the anti-mafia directorate of Reggio Calabria".
She said it was a "hard blow" to 'Ndrangheta's narcotics trafficking activities.
She said the Italian police had shown "dedication, professionalism and great ability to cooperate with authorities in other countries".
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, outstripping Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Camorra in Naples.

Seems like everywhere you look in Italy's economy, you find the Mafia. Trucks don't move, goods aren't delivered, without them getting paid first.

Wanted ‘Ndrangheta Mafia member caught in Spain – Listed as one of Italy’s most dangerous fugitives http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ember-caught-in-spain-listed-as-one-of-i

The Romeo's are a force. Paolo Romeo is a lawyer, according to the repentant Filippo Barreca for the family he kept in touch with Cosa Nostra, as a Freemason he was part of Gladio.

2 arrested in 28-yr-old 'Ndrangheta cold case murder
Businessman killed because thought linked to clan member murder

(ANSA) - VIBO VALENTIA, MAR 24 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested two members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia for murdering a Calabrian businessman in a cold case stretching back 28 years, to 1993.
Vibo Valentia businessman Filippo Piccione was allegedly murdered on February 21 1993 on the orders of the Lo Bianco clan after they decided he had had something to do with the murder of a clan member and relative, Leoluca Lo Bianco, on Piccione's property.
Police have now arrested Salvatore and Rosario Lo Bianco on charges of premeditated murder and acting to favour the illicit activities of the Lo Bianco-Barba 'ndrina (chapter).
Leoluca Lo Bianco had been murdered in the fields outside Vibo on February 1, 1993.
As well as the two Lo Biancos, police served warrants of investigation on another eight people: Michele Lo Bianco, 73 , from Vibo, aka "U ciucciu" (The Donkey); Domenico Lo Bianco (79), from Vibo; Leoluca Lo Bianco (62), from Vibo, aka "U Rozzu" The Rude Guy); Filippo Catania (70), from Vibo; Antonino Franzé (66), from Vibo; Vincenzo Barba (69), fdrom Vibo; Alfredo Calafati (59), from Cessaniti; and Paolino Lo Bianco (58), from Vibo. (ANSA).

Hi all
new to the forum, with a keen interest (and a loooooot of research) on the 'ndrangheta in various places (not just the ndrangheta but mostly!) I am italian/calabrian and in Italy currently, so I am reading this thread with a lot of interest - hope to be able to contribute to it!

Welcome!

The fugitive Marc Feren Claude Biart was arrested in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, hit by an order of custody in prison
issued in 2014 by the investigating judge of the Court of Reggio Calabria, for criminal association aimed at international drug trafficking drugs in favor of the Cacciola clan of Rosarno (RC). The capture was carried out by the I CAN (Interpol Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta) pool, with the collaboration of Interpol of the Dominican Republic and the work of the Italian security expert in Santo Domingo.
Biart, born in Rome on August 5, 1967, was involved in the "Mauser" operation that vanquished the Cacciola clan in the summer of 2014.

Welcome! Nice to see others who are also interested in Italian OC.

The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia , ordered the regime of hard prison (41 bis of the penitentiary system) against Domenico Macrì, 37, alias "Mommo" , considered at the top of the 'ndrina of the Pardea (called "Ranisi" ) of Vibo Valentia .

Domenico Macrì remained involved in the Scott-Rinascita operation, opting for an abbreviated judgment. The DDA of Catanzaro has already asked for him to be sentenced to 20 years in prison for mafia association, extortion, illegal possession of weapons, attempted murder and other crimes. In the past Macrì was already convicted in the trial born from the anti-mafia operation "Goodfellas" for having been part of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan and in particular of the group directed by Andrea Mantella (current collaborator of justice). With respect to the provision that imposes severe restrictions on prison life, Domenico Macrì - defended by lawyers Francesco Sabatino and Salvatore Sorbilli - will have twenty days to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Court.