37 years old and already in 41 bis , damn.

I wonder if 41-bis is as strict as they say it is. I'm sure it started out that way when the assassination of high-ranking public officials was still fresh on everyone's minds. But there have been cases where bosses were still able to run their affairs. Some of those anti-Mafia officials even feared Toto Riina could get orders out. The only thing is, who would listen? The Mafia was probably angry at him and was repairing their relationship with the State.

41bis is strict but as anything it depends on the overall regime of the prison which is always a give and take - it cannot be any other way. After all mafia members, some of them, bring “order” to prison when they are treated with respect inside, so there is a trade off, at times, to make for authorities. There is an interesting article I read recently but it is in Italian...

The system was essentially intended to cut inmates off completely from their original milieu and to separate them from their former criminal associates. Measures normally include bans on:

the use of the telephone;
all association or correspondence with other prisoners;
meetings with third parties;
receiving or sending sums of money over a set amount;
receiving parcels (other than those containing linen) from the outside;
organising cultural, recreational or sporting activities;
voting or standing in elections for prisoner representatives; and
taking part in arts-and-crafts activities, etc.,
as well as restrictions on visits from members of the family (once per month and visitors are only allowed to communicate by intercom through thick glass).

'Ndrangheta boss arrested in Lisbon
Francesco Pelle caught while being treated for COVID in clinic

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 29 - Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia boss Francesco Pelle was arrested in Lisbon Monday after 14 years on the run.
Pelle, 43, was caught by Carabinieri in a clinic in the Portuguese capital where he was being treated fro COVID-19.
He had gone on the lam in 2007.
'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, controls the European cocaine trade. (ANSA).

Lisbon - Francesco Pelle , 44, boss of the 'Ndrangheta, was arrested in Lisbon. Unavailable since 2007, he was found by the carabinieri in a clinic in the Portuguese capital where he was being treated for Covid. Originally from Locri and nicknamed 'Ciccio Pakistan', he was wanted (even abroad) in Milan since June 2019 where he had to sign. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for criminal association of the mafia type and murder because he was held among those responsible for the murder of Giovanni Nirta, head of the rival 'ndrina, who however survived the ambush, during which Maria Strangio was killed ,wife of Nirta. The revenge of the Nirta came in 2007 with the Duisburg massacre . On 19 July 2019 'Ciccio Pakistan', who was in Milan with the obligation to stay, lost track after the Supreme Court had rejected his appeal against the sentence to life imprisonment as the instigator of the 2006 Christmas massacre, which was followed by the slaughter of Duisburg on August 15th of the following year in which six people were killed.

The feud that pitted his family against rivals Nirta-Strangio was born to impose its dominance in San Luca , considered the cradle of the 'Ndrangheta . In this context, the epilogue - which also marked the end of the feud - starts from the ambush suffered by Pelle himself. It was July 31, 2006 and that day Pelle was looking out on the balcony of his house holding his first born son in his arms. One shot injured his spine, forcing him into a wheelchair . To quench his thirst for revenge he would have ordered the murder of his historical rival, Giovanni Luca Nirta.By organizing it on Christmas Day 2006. The designated target, however, escaped the hit men. His wife, Maria Strangio, fell under the blows, while a child and three other people were injured. This was the triggering episode that led to the ambush in front of the "da Bruno" restaurant in Duisburg on August 15th .

You Guys think the San Luca Clans are stronger and more Powerful than other ndrina like the Piromalli, Pesce, Commisso and other?

In The ndrangheta some clans among which those you just mentioned are all at the same level but they have different significance. San Luca clans are those who are closer to the “tables” of the ndrangheta, the old rituals of Polsi, so they are believed to be the “mother” clans, the most respected, among the oldest, the heart of the ndrangheta, even if in practice their economic power and criminal reach is not more than those of others

In addition to Hollander’s post above

Francesco “Ciccio” Pelle aka Pakistan fugitive since the San Luca feud in Calabria and arrested in Lisbon, where he was in hiding and had COVID

https://www.barrons.com/news/top-italian-mafia-fugitive-arrested-in-portugal-01617043509

Plus Marc Biart a trafficker for the Cacciola ndrangheta clan in Rosarno who used to work in the Netherlands has been arrested in Santo Domingo because he showed off too much of his tattoos in a YouTube cooking video!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...laude-biart-caught-youtube-cooking-video

I have often read that the Piromallis are the richest and most powerful Ndrina. But it is also said about the Ndrina Nirta Scalzone (La Maggiore) they are the most powerful. There is almost nothing to read about the Nirta Ndrina on the Internet. One also reads often the Piromalli have many connections to Freemasons and politics. The San Luca Clans are more in the drug trade and not with this big Politic Connenctions or is that wrong?

I have no idea, maybe you know more about this Ndrinas.

Yup, they are my 'expertise' I guess As I said, there is no-one more than others in the ndrangheta, especially not between Piromalli and Nirta. The clans in San Luca, as I said, are the gatekeepers of tradition and they have been connected to a series of feuds, including the Duisburg massacre one. They are also historically the ones that help create new clans, so they hold historical and representative power. The Nirtas were Capo-Crimine at various stages, which means they were recognised as having a lot of weight. They are in drug trade but not only, a lot of what they do is 'legal' businesses. The Piromalli are big entrepreneurs, they are involved in public contracts and they have been the ones with double affiliations to Cosa Nostra during the period of terror, they are more into big economics and of course they meet freemasons in that, as they are particularly good at laundering money and investing in public money as said, so they need connections

'Ndrangheta, in Reggio there is a new repentant: he is the son-in-law of the boss Barreca. This is Francesco Labate, 40 years old known as «Checco», involved in the past few weeks in the «Metameria» operation . Labate has already been questioned several times by the deputy prosecutor of the DDA Walter Ignazitto. This morning the prosecutor Stefano Musolino filed some of his minutes at the Court of Review where the position of the main suspect was discussed, the boss Filippo Barreca father-in-law of Labate who married his daughter.

Also last week.

'Ndrangheta, arrests in Gioia Tauro for international drug trafficking: 19 precautionary measures.

Thanks to the investigative activity, the Marina district and the Gioia Tauro waterfront were monitored for over two years, allowing us to reconstruct the organization chart of the 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte and demonstrate, in fact, that both places had been elected to " headquarters "and" enclave "of the mafia faction, because it is an ideal place to entertain private meetings between members of the association, to receive bosses, followers and important personalities from other 'Ndrangheta articulations, even in broad daylight .

Key character and starting point of the investigations was the 64-year-old Pasquale De Maio believed to be boss of the mafia group.

The 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte had the availability of a large quantity of weapons and trafficked permanently in the narcotics sector, dealing with cocaine, hashish and cannabis. In the meeting sites the exponents of the 'ndrina received the members of other' ndrine of the Piana di Gioia Tauro, thus certifying the recognition of the latter by the historical clans of the 'ndrangheta : the Alvaro of Sinopoli, the Pesce, the Cacciola and the Bellocco of Rosarno, so much so that all have sent their emissaries to Gioia Tauro.

In case you missed this -

Interpol new 6 minutes video on the 'ndrangheta

https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/INTERPOL-Cooperation-Against-Ndrangheta-I-CAN

Reggio Calabria, is hunting the accomplices of "Ciccio Pakistan"
After the capture of Francesco Pelle in Lisbon, the investigations of the Reggio DDA continue

Thanks to the help provided by at least half a dozen faithful friends, the now former fugitive from Sanlucho Francesco Pelle , 44, known as "Ciccio Pakistan", despite being now forced to live in a wheelchair, would have come aboard equipped vehicles preceded by auto-owl in Portugal, in Lisbon, where he was found and arrested while he was hospitalized in a private hospital for problems related to Covid.

After his departure from Milan, in view of the sure confirmation of life imprisonment, after one or two stops in the South of France and wearing false documents, he would have managed, even changing the car, to be led by his trusted drivers in Portugal, where, in fact, to spend with less risk and eyes on the fugitive.

The investigators, awaiting the extradition of the former fugitive to Italy, are now focused on one aspect in particular: giving a name and a face to the various supporters who in these two years of fugitive Italy and to hide abroad, but they also protected and shielded him, also providing him with "coverings" of all kinds and help on a logistical, health and economic level.

Thanks.
The Italians adapt anywhere in the world like the Chinese, it's a brand "Made in Italy".

I think Sinaloa might also be present on every continent, which is interesting since both are the pinnacle of cocaine.

Luana Barreca distances herself from her husband collaborator of justice. The daughter of the boss Filippo Barreca is not there and does not accept Francesco Labate's decision to take the plunge and speak with the judges of the Dda Reggio . The woman, defended by the lawyer Lorenzo Gatto, makes it known through a typewritten letter, where she explains that "the choice of a collaborative path of Mr. Labate Francesco, concerns only and exclusively his person ".

Barreca's daughter has no doubts: " It is not my intention and my children to follow or approve the choices made by Mr. Labate."

'Ndrangheta, bosses De Stefano and Barreca remain in prison: Review confirms ordinances
Saturday, 03 April 2021 18:03

Reggio Calabria - The Reggio Calabria Review Court confirmed the precautionary custody order in prison against the boss Paolo Rosario De Stefano arrested at the end of February in the "Nuovo Corso" operation against the homonymous Archi clan. The investigation, coordinated by the Dda of Reggio Calabria, was conducted by the mobile team and shed light on a series of extortions suffered by the Reggio entrepreneur Francesco Siclari. According to the investigations of the prosecutors Stefano Musolino and Walter Ignazitto, between 2015 and 2018, the victim would have paid "by way of protection money", and in several installments, the sum of 80 thousand euros, corresponding to 2% of the value of the renovations of the very central Corso Garibaldi. A second Siclari extortion it would have undergone for the redevelopment works of Piazza Duomo. The life-sentence boss of Pellaro, Filippo Barreca and Giandomenico Condello also remain in prison, involved, however, in the "Metameria" operation. For them too, the Review Court confirmed the precautionary custody order as it had done in recent days for the suspects Marcello Bellini and Domenico Calabrò.

With the "Metameria" operation, the DDA led by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri crushed the attempt of the boss Barreca to reorganize the ranks of his clan despite being under house arrest. Back in Pellaro, according to the prosecutors, Barreca claimed the territory of his competence through extortion activities, the use of violence and the criminal indications provided to his associates. Even when Barreca went to the hospital for treatment, he took advantage of those moments to organize meetings with the leaders of the other Mafia families and talk about the criminal dynamics that saw him as a protagonist.

Among the many accusations "Checco" Labate dwelt seriously on Filippo Barreca: "My father-in-law Filippo Barreca after his return to Reggio rebuilt the Barreca clan together with other subjects loyal to him, who recognize in him the head of the association ". Adding: «In order to regain control of the territory, he had a relationship with Carmine De Stefano. My father-in-law had turned to Carmine De Stefano because also thanks to his relations with Giuseppe De Stefano he had made a pact with the De Stefano family which he intended to get executed in order to regain control of the territory. It was my father-in-law who set the amounts and timing of the payments that entrepreneurs subjected to extortion had to make. My father-in-law gave me indications in this regard and I reported them to Domenico Calabrò who was responsible for implementing his directives ».

Giandomenico Condello also remains in prison, also involved in the "Metameria" operation, albeit in the investigative tranche that struck the De Stefano clan. Giandomenico Condello was the owner of a construction company even if for the district anti-mafia prosecutor he was instead one of the new faces of the leaders in jail, of Pasquale and Domenico Condello.

The Review Court also confirmed the precautionary custody order in prison against the boss Paolo Rosario De Stefano , son of the deceased capobastone Giorgio De Stefano and at that time referent of the Archi family that still dominates every scenario in the district "Centro ".

Mafia and fraud on petroleum products, 70 arrests throughout Italy and seized assets for a billion
08 April 2021

A one billion assets seizure and about seventy arrests . These are the numbers of the operation of the financial police of the provincial commands of Naples, Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, of the financiers of the Scico and of the carabinieri of the Ros.

The accusations are of mafia-type association, money laundering and tax fraud of petroleum products. At the same time, seizures of properties, companies and cash are underway for a value of approximately one billion.

The operation is the result of 4 different investigations, coordinated by the various Anti-Mafia Prosecutors of Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Naples and Rome and by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate. The investigations merged into the maxi operation in light of the fact that they concerned the same criminal dynamics even if with different subjects involved.

Groups targeted are the powerful MOCCIA Camorra clan, in Vibo Valentia BONAVOTA of S. Onofrio, group of San Gregorio, ANELLO of Filadelfia and PISCOPISANI and of the “Reggino” PIROMALLI clan, ITALIANO clan of Delianuova, PELLE clan of San Luca.

Oil heiress among dozens arrested as Italian police disrupt mafia fuel fraud
Anna Bettozzi was found with €300,000 in cash when her Rolls-Royce was pulled over in 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ted-as-italian-police-disrupt-mafia-fuel

Petrholmfie, so the 'Ndrangheta was ready with a group from Kazakhstan to compete with Eni and Lukoil
In the operation that led to over 70 arrests in recent days, the prosecutor of Catanzaro tells of the deal, which later failed, between the Mancuso clan and Rompetrol, a giant in the sector to create a large fuel distribution network. And in a lunch there is also talk of the export of the Amaro del Capo: "They are close to us"

by Antonio Fraschilla
09 APRIL 2021

They thought big, the men of the 'Ndrangheta belonging to the clan of Luigi Mancuso. They aimed to build an empire in the distribution of diesel and petrol such as to compete with giants such as Eni and Lukoil. Bringing a piece of the former Eastern Empire to Italy, the Rompetrol now belonging to a Kazakh group and building a pier with a buoy in the port of Vibo Valentia to allow the tankers to attack. A business worth hundreds of millions of euros, with brokers and white-collar workers who, aware that they are dealing with one of the most powerful Calabrian clans, acted as intermediaries with a manager from Kazakhstan.

The start of the deal

This story of meetings and major projects, then suspended because they smelled the smell of burning from the East and because one of the intermediaries was arrested on suspicion of murder, begins at the end of 2018. When the Milanese brokers Francesco Mazzani, son of a well-known politician of the Christian Democrats right arm of the former minister Vittorino Colombo, and Francesco Porretta begin to work to bring together the owners of a Calabrian fuel storage company, the Dr Service of the brothers Giuseppe and Antonio D'Amico, with the manager of Rompetrol Arman Magzumov. Intercepted in Milan, Mazzani talks to Porretta about the upcoming mission to Vibo Valentia and "informs the interlocutor of the successful outcome of the meeting he had with this Arman and added that there would also be the possibility of creating a" partnership in Italy ",

To welcome the two intermediaries in Calabria there are first of all the D'Amico brothers, Giuseppe and Antonio, patron of Dr Service, a company that already manages fuel depots. Who are the two Calabrian brothers? On Giuseppe D'Amico the investigators write a long paragraph: "Entrepreneur of reference of the organization and formally affiliated (with the dowry of the" saint "), already in the past linked - for reasons of territorial and family origin - to the clan of" Piscopisani "And more recently a trusted man of the Mancuso clan of Limbadi and of Luigi Mancuso in particular (with whom he was in close and direct contact), owner of activities financed also with money coming from various' Ndrangheta factions (Piscopisani, Mancuso, Alvaro , Piromalli), inserted in a tested mafia control system of public and private works based on the imposition on construction sites of compliant or contiguous companies. At the disposal of the organization and in excellent relations, as well as with the Mancusos, also with other branches of the 'Ndrangheta, both Vibonese and the “Reggio” (Piromalli gang) ».

Giuseppe D'Amico knows the fuel sector well. Speaking with Luigi Mancuso's niece, Silvana, and the intermediary Porretta, he boasted of transactions made in the past also with the family of the former undersecretary Nicola Cosentino: "D'Amico then, also listing all the opportunities deriving from the sale of of petroleum products, he reported to Porretta as for a period, taking advantage of the fact that gas supplies from Russia had been interrupted, he had managed to sell LPG to a company in Casal di Principe "which is the brother of Minister Cosentino (undersecretary , ed)… we have no problems because we know them ».

Mazzani, Porretta and D'Amico speak of possible investments in fuel depots on the coast of the Vibo Marina. The evening before the meeting with the Kazakhs, Porretta calls his companion Irina Paduret and tells her that "at the lunch scheduled for the following day in the presence of" Arman "," the uncle "(Luigi Mancuso) would also have participated": "So Porretta reported that he had learned from Mazzani that the Kazakhs could not formally appear in any commercial transaction, which is why Mazzani and Porretta themselves would have held - on behalf of the Kazakhs - the shares of the nascent company ».

The working lunch with Luigi Mancuso and the plans of the Kazakhs

The next day, January 18, 2019, Arman Magzumov and his wife arrive in Calabria and a business lunch is organized in a restaurant in Vibo Valentia. The clan leader himself, Luigi Mancuso, shows up at the appointment. That to the Kazakhs, before entering into the merits of the fuel deal, he also proposes other activities, such as the marketing of the Amaro del Capo produced by the "Distelleria Caffo" of Limbadi: "D'Amico and Luigi Mancuso returned the marketing of the liqueur "Amaro del Capo" asserting that the owner "is a person close to us", to the point that Mancuso himself proposed to go to the establishment to make it known to Kazakh guests: "[..] and you can go even with them ... "». Immediately afterwards Magzumov explains, according to the ordinance, "the strategy that Rompetrol would like to implement in Italy, similar to the projects implemented in our country by Lukoil… and which had planned to build a series of refueling stations in Italy that would represent the Rimpetrol-branded distribution network on the territory, on the Lukoil model. For this need, Mazzani, translating Magzumov's speech into English for the Calabrians, clarified that the guidelines for the creation of service stations according to the commercial criteria of the Romanian oil group were already ready ». But the Calabrians thought big and were ready to transform the port of Vibo Valentia into a hub for the oil trade in the Mediterranean, without touching Gioia Tauro under the protection of other 'ndrine. While talking, Giuseppe D'Amico explained to Porretta "of the possibility of buying a land of 10 hectares (owned by a person from Catanzaro, ed.), to have you build a coastal fuel depot connected to a rotating buoy to be installed off the coast (1.5 km), where you can allow large tonnage ships (from 25,000 tons upwards) to unload the product, channeled to the depot via submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor ». channeled them to the depot by submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor ». channeled them to the depot by submarine conduit. In consideration of this, D'Amico reported that he already had all the documentation certifying the feasibility of the project and that therefore could now be displayed to the Kazakh suppliers, given that a similar project, some time ago, had taken care of it on behalf of a possible Russian investor ».

But then the deal gets stuck. Perhaps the Kazakhs smell something, so much so that Magzumov never lets his boss, the president of Rompetrol, arrive in Calabria. Formally for «the problem inherent in the business documentation of the DD Service which, among the sectors in which it operates, there is also that of transport as well as the construction one. The aforementioned situation could probably constitute an obstacle to the good progress of the negotiations with Rompetrol which instead, as we have seen, was looking for referenced companies with which to negotiate and thus groped the expansion of its petroleum products on the Italian market ", write the investigators. , who intercepting another dialogue between intermediaries, add: «The dialogue in question also made it possible to learn information that has not yet emerged regarding the non-participation of the president of the Rompetrol company in the negotiations that took place in Vibo Valentia the week before. In fact, as we have been able to ascertain, the presence of the latter, initially foreseen, was then in fact skipped due to unspecified work commitments. Instead it was Antonio Prenesti (called "Mussustortu" and affiliated with the Mancuso clan, ed) who brought the D'amico to the attention of the fact that the president of Rompetrol, already present in Rome, had been warned not to go to Calabria by Mazgumov himself, and this evidently due to the fact that the latter had detected the criticalities relating to the company Dr Service ». But the deal also jumps because the collector between the Milanese brokers and the Mancusos, Antonio Prenesti,

For the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, the Kazakh affair demonstrates the power of the 'Ndrangheta and its way of thinking big: "One thing about this investigation struck me - said Gratteri - the meeting that took place in Vibo in January 2019 Valentia in the Da Roberto tavern. Here the entrepreneur D'Amico, who has a large fuel depot in Maierato, on that occasion had a meeting with a representative of KMG from Kazakhstan, the largest oil and gas extraction industry ». Mancuso said in a dialogue that he could even have Eni withdraw the licenses in a warehouse that could be competing. "" It is not a problem "said Luigi Mancuso - Gratteri says -" I make him withdraw the Eni licenses from the local authorities and so we will also use the Eni licenses ".

https://espresso.repubblica.it/inch...angheta_kazakistan_eni_lukoil-295736229/

The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
The meeting between the emissaries of the Mancuso and Mazzei clans at Villa San Giovanni. The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato to use the Locri deposit. Thus the "mafia united" makes business pacts. M ...
Published on: 04/09/2021 - 20:43
by Pablo Petrasso
The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
CATANZARO The embrace between Giuseppe D'Amico and Sergio Leonardi, at Villa San Giovanni, is for the anti-mafia magistrates of Catanzaro the seal on the agreement between the clans of Vibo Valentia and those of Catania. 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra united in the oil business thanks to the handshake between two "clean" emissaries. The Ros soldiers follow that meeting and record the words of the entrepreneurs. They consider them proof of their insertion in the criminal circuits, at the service of the gangs.

The emissary of the Cosa Nostra from Catania
The D'Amico brothers ( we told you about it here) are considered to belong to the Mancuso clan of Limbadi; Leonardi, on the other hand, "is a subject linked to the Cosa Nostra in Catania, primarily by virtue of the relationships of affinity acquired through his wife", the investigators point out in the decree that led to the arrest of 16 people. The woman is "exempt from criminal and police proceedings" but "belongs to the Sciuto family, historically leader" of the Sciuto-Tigna clan, active in Catania "with an autonomous caliber of mafia organization since the mid-1980s". Leonardi's father-in-law is the "head and founder" of the mafia family. And the Sicilian clan can also exhibit a kinship with a subject "belonging to the Mazzei clan of Cosa Nostra". Leonardi himself, in January 2020, was arrested in the "Vento di Scirocco" investigation,

A story of blood
On the afternoon of 9 July 2019, D'Amico and Leonardi meet at Villa San Giovanni. For about an hour, according to what the investigators note, they discuss the "illicit traffic in fuel in which they were involved." Towards the end of the meeting, the conversation turns to family matters. Leonardi recalls "the episode of the murder of his father-in-law Giuseppe Sciuto, murdered on the morning of 29 December 1992 with nine gunshots to the back and head". Executing him, in front of his wife and children, had been assassins whom he himself had brought into the house. D'Amico shows solidarity, and observes «that such episodes happen" when certain rules are lost "». To this degenerate model of mafia dynamics, D'Amico contrasts "his diplomatic vision of the" just man "who defuses any conflicts without resorting to violent methods, modus operandi characterizing Luigi Mancuso", considered a "man of peace", capable of smoothing out differences. According to Leonardi, the murder of Sciuto is linked "to conflicts that have arisen in the context of internal wars within the clan he belongs to." Someone wanted to "subvert the criminal hierarchy." A behavior that Leonardi summarizes in a few words: "The world is like this (...) nobody wants to stay second (...) the colonel wants to be a general (...) the general wants to be a king". In fact, the murder of Sciuto, aka Pippo Tigna, arises from the clash with the powerful Laudani clan. Two months before the ambush consumed in front of the boss's family, in fact, Gaetano Laudani, son of the chieftain Sebastiano, had been murdered. And the adversaries had decided to consume revenge. In Tigna, released from prison in November 1992, they had asked for the head of the killer Giuseppe Ferone but, one month after that request, still unexecuted, the death plan had been implemented by overwhelming the head of the clan who had not respected the pacts .

In the mafia "everyone has their own step"
This story provokes a response from D'Amico that the magistrates of the DDA of Catanzaro consider "of crucial investigative scope": "But - says the entrepreneur close to the Mancuso clan - we made a choice that ... of a scale ... so we must know that everyone has their own step… understood ». For prosecutors D'Amico, "with these words", he "unequivocally" sculpted his own and interlocutor's belonging to "hierarchically organized criminal structures, within which" everyone has their own step ", and to which the two they had chosen to belong ”. It is (also) in the light of this sentence that the magistrates consider that meeting as the embrace between two mafias. And it is no coincidence that the bearers of this embrace are the D'Amico, "Protagonists - reads the arrest decree - in the birth of a very flourishing (and illegal) commercial link between some Campania wholesalers and some Catania traders". Precisely the people of Catania "will be allowed to procure petroleum products in the Italpetroli tax warehouse in Locri".

The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato

The cars arrive at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato
The investigation documents a summit with Catania and Sanlucoti at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato, another company involved in the “Petrolmafie Spa” operation. The meeting at the company headquarters would be "aimed at reaching a criminal agreement for the management of a fuel depot in Locri". In addition to D'Amico, Roberto Aguì is present, considered «a subject with documented connections with various members of the Pelle di San Luca clan». Aguì, involved in the Mandamento Jonico investigation, was sentenced on 22 June 2020 to 13 years and 6 months of imprisonment ». From Catania, in addition to Sergio Leonardi, two "offenders from Catania belonging to the Pillera mafia clan of Catania" and a man "burdened with various precedents for crimes committed in the energy products sector" also arrive. That the topic of the meeting is oil trafficking is a fact that emerges from D'Amico's words. It is he who points out that "Leonardi was part of a criminal association that marketed hundreds of tankers of petroleum products a day, inside which, at a given moment, some cracks had been created".

"Here they have to do as we say"
The people of Reggio recall an old commercial relationship that had been established in the past between the Sicilians and a tax warehouse in Locri belonging to the Camastra family, a group of entrepreneurs considered close to the Ionica clans. That same area, over the years, has passed to the Italpetroli company, and would be characterized by "criminal management". A fact known to all the participants in what the Catanzaro DDA considers a real summit. On the Calabrian side there is a "criminal syntony", a "commonality of purpose" that leads the interlocutors (the D'Amico and the Sanlucoti) to set up "the conversation on a contrasting scheme between two interest groups, distinguishing a" we "(In which they brought together the Calabrian subjects present) and a" they "(the Sicilian interlocutors) separated, according to them, by unbridgeable distances».
In the past, relations between the two shores of the Strait had been interrupted by the manner of the Sicilians, "considered excessive, and because of their unreliability". "The war" was born precisely for certain behaviors. "I told him at the time - explains one of the intercepted men - that they shouldn't have come with flashy cars ... and they came with two Porsche Cayenne". The Locrians are not convinced to return to business with the people of Catania. But D'Amico supports them («here as we say we must do») and at the same time guarantees that things will change. Because "the Calabrians - the prosecutors write - had to act as a single front". "It's all the same thing - D'Amico ruling - they must understand that we are one way". Because the hugs between the mafias always rest on a (very) subtle balance.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...heta-e-cosa-nostra-in-nome-degli-affari/

Antonino Belnome, the repentant Lombard boss tells himself: “So the 'Ndrangheta takes away your freedom”. The documentary of Swiss TV
by FQ | APRIL 11, 2021
Antonino Belnome is one of the most important repentants of the Lombard 'Ndrangheta . From a Calabrian family, but born and raised in Giussano, in Brianza , where he climbed the ranks of the organization until he was not yet forty years old, the rank of godfather. Identified by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate as one of the killers of the boss Carmelo Novella , killed at the tables of a bar, in broad daylight, in San Vittore Olona in 2008, ten years ago he admitted his responsibilities and began to collaborate with the justice system , revealing unsolved crimes, buried corpses, dirty deals between weapons, drugs and corruption in Northern Italy.

In the first months of his collaboration, Belnome wrote a dense diary in which he told, through the eyes of a young man who grew up in the heart of Lombardy, the real daily life of a boss of the 'Ndrangheta: money, power and luxury, of course, but also the blind obedience to higher orders, the obtuse pervasiveness of 'Ndrangheta rites and hierarchies, the constant danger of betrayals and double games, which end up ruining your existence and making you “lose your freedom”. The diary therefore appeals to young Lombard people not to give in to the sirens of a criminal organization that promises easy money, but ends up taking possession of every aspect of your life, even private.

Ten years after the start of the collaboration, Antonino Belnome comes to terms with his past in the documentary The Godfather and the Writer , made by Marco Tagliabue for the transmission "Stories" of the Swiss public TV Rsi La1 , broadcast tonight, Sunday 11 April, at 20.40. His testimony is collected by the writer Camillo Costa , engaged in writing a book about him. The coordinator of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Alessandra Dolci , the Ticino public prosecutor Paolo Bernasconi and the witness of justice Gaetano Saffioti will present the work in the studio.


https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...-documentario-della-tv-svizzera/6161765/

37 arrests (20 Italians and 17 foreigners, 27 in prison and 10 under house arrest) are the result of a maxi operation against drug trafficking conducted by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Milan between the provinces of Milan, Alessandria, Bergamo, Genoa, Monza, Padua, Pavia, Rome, Varese, Vibo Valentia and Vicenza: the arrested are held responsible - for various reasons - for an association aimed at the production, trafficking and dealing of drugs , with the aggravating circumstances of transnationality and the availability of weapons.

One of the groups, according to the reconstruction, is made up of Italians - among them some exponents of Calabrian origin - two of whom were found to maintain strong relations with the leaders and emissaries of the 'Ndrangheta of Reggio. The other groups, on the other hand, refer to nuclei of Eritrean and South American origin, as well as to some cells, of various nationalities, independent of each other, which have however shown a marked transnational operation .

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...aina_gestita_dalla_ndrangheta-296534788/

clan Gullace from Catanzaro, active with brokers in Germany/Holland/Spain and cocaine from Colombia and other areas of Latin America into ports of Livorno, Genova, Antwerp, Rotterdam. a lot of cocaine in the years.......

THIS IS POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE
Nicolino Grande Aracri is the first boss of such a high ranking that decides to talk. Boss of the province of Crotone, he is rich and very very powerful.

https://www.lacnews24.it/cronaca/si...OI380mE8EHoRtkT4F91vsYHHXmPYGJDNFNi_Lq_s

Wow..
The superboss Nicolino Grande Aracri repents: the 'Ndrangheta, Freemasonry and politics are shaking
"Hand of rubber", mammasantissima of Cutro, is considered among the most powerful mafia in the world. Weakened by life sentences, he decided to take the plunge