Fugitive Camorra boss caught in Spain
Nicola Rullo, 53, nabbed in Alicante after three months on run
ROME, 31 December 2023, 13:01

Redazione ANSA

Fugitive Camorra boss Nicola Rullo was caught in Spain on Sunday.
Rullo, 53, is considered the right hand of detained clan leader Edoardo Contini, one of the leaders of the so-called Secondigliano Alliance in the Neapolitan Mob.
He was arrested in Alicante after three months on the run.
Rullo must serve four years, two months and eight days in jail for mafia association.
He is now in a Spanish prison awaiting extradition.
Police said Rullo had been preparing to ring in the New Year in style in the Spanish resort.

Well there seems to be some kind of initiation in the Secondigliano Alliance, but not all men are 'baptised' .

A Camorra ras who has his own army. There is also this revelation in the first two minutes formalized by Luca Esposito , son-in-law of the boss Patrizio Bosti.. Esposito began speaking with the magistrates by describing the top-down structure of the Secondigliano Alliance and the roles of the leading affiliates.

Among these was Nicola Rullo who, according to Esposito : «Some of Nicola Rullo's men had not been 'baptised' by Edoardo and Patrizio . And therefore they did not appreciate that Rullo had an army of his own." Regarding the structure, Esposito says: «The Alliance is like Cosa Nostra. There are the top management, but also other men subordinate to the top management who have other enlisted men who pay directly." Then on the current leadership: «Anna Aieta, wife of Ciccio Mallardo, is in charge, she is the real criminal».

Clan Mallardo, new structures in the Giugliano gang after the excellent releases. The recent release from prison of Patrizio Picardi has given new criminal life to the Mallardo clan. The ras, considered by the investigators to be a real regent of the gang, an offshoot of the Secondigliano Alliance, left following the decision taken by the Court of Appeal of Naples which accepted the request presented by Picardi 's lawyers.

Picardi joins other leading exponents of the Giugliano Camorra, who obtained freedom after having served the sentence inflicted on them or following the decisions of the judges in the ongoing trials. Also released was Antonio Guercia , a 34-year-old from Giugliano, alias o'spagnuolo, nephew of Ciccio Mallardo


A clan that is still strong and dominant, which has not been affected either by arrests or attempts to split. A two-headed clan, which on the one hand continues to cultivate alliances with other gangs and on the other has relations with local politics. This is the photograph taken by Dia of the Mallardo Clan in the latest report published yesterday.

The magistrates write: "The Giugliano district highlights the widespread influence of the historic Mallardo clan, a top component in the Secondigliano Alliance , with an extraordinarily central role in the decision-making and strategic dynamics of the aforementioned cartel. The clan, thanks to the prestige acquired over time, continues to maintain solid family ties with the Contini, the Licciardi, the Bosti in the city of Naples, excellent relations with the Nuvoletta, Polverino, Orlando , of Marano di Napoli, with the Ferrara clans. Cacciapuoti of Villaricca as well as and through his representatives, also in Qualiano , where the satellite groups D'Alterio-Pianese and De Rosa operate , antagonistic to each other. Furthermore, it has relations with the Casalesi clan , in particular with the Bidognetti clan , to the point of creating a cartel with the Licciardi and the Casalesi conventionally called a "mixed group".

The narcos of the Di Lauro clan have been captured, betrayed by his cigarette habit

Faslii Qibini was the first wanted person to end up in handcuffs in 2024, yet another person tracked down by the Carabinieri of the Neapolitan Provincial Command who just a few days ago closed the annual balance sheet with 17 prisoners under arrest.

A final sentence of over 22 years in prison hangs over the head of the 64-year-old of Albanian origins, international drug trafficking the crime for which he was wanted.

THE DI LAURO AND NARDIELLI NARCO
The man is considered a broker in cross-border drug trafficking. According to investigators, he managed and mediated heroin trafficking between his country of origin, Greece, Turkey and southern Italy where he did business with the Di Lauro clan and then with the "Nardielli", a criminal group from the Oplontine side . Then a long period of hiding, declared way back in April 2011 when, under house arrest, he escaped and disappeared without a trace. Without ever a misstep, away from the spotlight but not from the memory of the soldiers of the investigative unit of Naples.

WALKING ON CORSO SECONDIGLIANO
They searched for him for over 12 years, until yesterday afternoon, when Qibini was walking in Corso Secondigliano, unaware that he was surrounded. It wasn't a coincidence that cost him the handcuffs but a scrupulous monitoring of the habits of his family.

He was careful to avoid the street and to be seen around, but the evident increase in the volume of family "spending" turned on a light bulb in the minds of the police.

During the holidays, his wife and son did not give up a stop at the tobacconist to buy cigarettes. Too bad they weren't smokers. The "blondes" - the police imagined - were for someone else.
So the military intensified their observations and patrolled the neighborhood with ever greater attention.

Betrayed by his hunger for nicotine, Qibini decided to buy cigarettes on his own. He didn't have time to light one, the police surrounded him and arrested him. He is now confined in Secondigliano prison.

Honors for an Italian mafioso’s thesis in which he confesses to three unknown murders: ‘What follows is my criminal history’
The justice system is investigating the sociology paper that Catello Romano wrote in prison on the ‘allure of crime’

https://english.elpais.com/internat...what-follows-is-my-criminal-history.html

https://nypost.com/2024/01/09/news/...prison-with-thesis-confessing-to-murder/

‘Brilliant’ Italian mobster serving life earns degree in prison — with 170-page thesis confessing to three unsolved murders

Naples, 25 arrests today: dirty money laundered in trendy clothing and restaurants · 8 million euros seized.
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Goodsmellas! Influencer daughter of feared Giuliano mafia boss launches new fragrance named after him decades after his feared gang brought terror to Naples
Nunzia Giuliano said buying the scent is the perfect way to honour her late father
By ELENA SALVONI

PUBLISHED: 09:43 GMT, 11 January 2024 | UPDATED: 12:51 GMT, 11 January 2024

A TikTok star whose father was the boss of what was known as one of Naples' most 'bloodthirsty' Mafia clans has brought out a perfume in honour of him.

Nunzia Giuliano has marketed the scent - named 'O Liò' after Carmine 'The Lion' Giuliano - by telling followers that buying it would be the perfect way to honour the mafioso.

The powerful Giuliano clan, based in Forcella, held influence in Naples for four decades, beginning as cigarette smugglers before moving into drug trafficking.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...afia-boss-launches-fragrance-Naples.html

A river of money recycled in many companies, acquired or established in Italy and abroad. This is how a Neapolitan business group acted, in which there were also some people close to the Camorra clan. At stake were large sums of money coming from tax fraud obtained through undue compensation or from counterfeiting crimes. The companies were registered in the name of frontmen paid to escape any seizure measures.
On this basis, three suspects were subjected to precautionary custody in prison, 9 to house arrest and thirteen to the obligation to report to the judicial police and the preventive seizure of financial resources and movable and immovable assets for approximately 8.4 million euros.
As reported by Ansa, Salvatore D'Amelio, owner of various youth clothing brands including Minimal and Drop list, also ended up under house arrest . The investigations also revealed that some of the recipients of the measures were transporting clandestine weapons with abraded serial numbers, both common firearms and weapons of war.
Fundamental was the help of compliant professionals who encouraged money laundering in the most disparate economic sectors, such as trendy clothing, the sale of counterfeit branded watches, the trade of food and IT products, catering and goods transport.

Those knock-offs are very popular.

Half of all fake watches are Rolex knock-offs – and the replicas are harder to spot than ever: around 10 per cent of pre owned timepiece are now bogus, from Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/styl...-are-harder-spot-ever-around-10-cent-pre

Naples, drugs for the clans from Holland and Spain. Sorted to the drug dealers in an ambulance like the one in 118

29 precautionary measures, one quintal of narcotic substances seized. During the investigations, the fugitive Bruno Carbone, who managed the cocaine supplies, was arrested in Dubai. The narcos: «From Panama we bring her by submarine»

The supply of drugs for some of the main Camorra drug dealing centers in Naples and the province, including the Parco Verde di Caivano , passed through Holland and Spain . And it was guaranteed by drug traffickers - some of them Albanians - with the mediation from Dubai of Bruno Carbone , the right-hand man of Raffaele Imperiale , the Van Gogh boss . There were two criminal organizations that exploited this route to bring cocaine, marijuana and heroin to Italy. Both dismantled by a Carabinieri investigation coordinated by the Naples Prosecutor's Office.

The system

29 precautionary measures were imposed , including arrests in prison or under house arrest and a residence ban, on charges of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking as well as possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking. The two criminal groups managed communications through encrypted chats - Sky Ecc and Encrochat - to prevent eavesdropping. Carbone received cocaine orders on the encrypted chat and then supplied the Camorra clans. The distribution to the drug dealing squares, according to the Anti-Mafia investigations, was instead entrusted to Vincenzo Della Monica . Which from the depots of Marano and San Giovanni a Teduccio managed the shipment of drugs to the drug dealing centers of Scampia, Parco Verde di Caivano, Marianella, the Cisternina of Castello di Cisterna, Secondigliano, Giugliano and Marigliano. Also at the top of the organization were Salvatore Della Monica, Raffaele's brother, with the role of cashier, and Michele Nacca. The second criminal group involved in drug trafficking is apparently linked to Simone Bartiromo, Roberto Merolla and Giovanni Cortese.

Probably related to the arrest of boss Nicola Rullo in Spain.

Ambush in Naples, he is shot in his house and he throws himself from the balcony to escape: 50-year-old dead
The victim is Raffaele Cinque, considered close to the Contini clan, the killer may have continued shooting from above. A Gomorrah-style execution
Cinque , 50 years old, was hit by bullets in his house and jumped from the balcony to find escape but died.

He was arrested in 2014 for attempted murder, other than that it was all small crimes, this guy didn't seem like a important player.

There seems to be a feud between the Contini clan ('backbone' of the Secondigliano Alliance) and the emerging criminal group of the Sanità.

Do you have any more info on that? This is 4th or 5th shooting in Naples in last ~30 days, something is going on for sure.

On friday a Contini man Moffa (18) was arrested for a double attempted murder in December. The victim was the actor Ciro Vecchione of the 'Paranza dei bambini' together with his girlfriend, both were injured. Last Wednesday Moffa escaped - suffering only minor injuries - from an ambush in which eight armed killers apparently went into action, an ambush which then led to five arrests.

Nicola Giuseppe Moffa is his full name, they continued shooting toward his house and injured innocent 68 years old. But looks like its internal feud in Contini clan/Secondigliano alliance.

Shooting in the middle of Naples city center: “We live in fear”
It is still unclear who wanted to meet Moffa. The 18-year-old is known to the police and may be connected to previous robberies in the city center. According to the Ansa news agency, this is suggested by an old gunshot wound.

“They were shooting wildly at innocent people who were shopping,” Gianfranco Wurzburger, president of Assogioca, told La Repubblica . The organization helps children and young people find ways out of crime. Wurzburger's daughter heard the shots. “Dozens of bullets, you’ve never seen anything like that. We live in fear,” he said.

“Eighty shots were fired in the city center”: shootout in the Italian metropolis
“Eighty shots were fired in the city center, with the real risk of killing innocent people,” Ansa quoted representatives of the Anti-Camorra Committee as saying. The committee has been calling for stricter regulations on the ownership of weapons for months. “You cannot move freely because you are so afraid of becoming the focus of shootings,” it continued.

There seems to be a new group who came out of the extinct Misso clan, who have been enemies of the Contini for years.
Vecchione, known for having participated in the film 'La paranza dei bambini', is also the nephew of Ciro Armento, former Misso colonel and currently in prison where he is serving a sentence for association. Vecchione would also be linked to the criminal circles of the Sanità, so much so that he includes controls among others with Gennaro De Martino, nephew of Ciro, affiliated to the extinct Misso clan, and Gianluca, leader of the organized typhus group called Rione Sanità.
Vecchione, in the days following the ambush, told a relative about the meeting that took place in Romania with Moffa during a concert. "In Bucharest we are all the same, here we are on our own land... In Bucharest they greet you when they see you, rightly they don't keep what they should keep, so shut up, me and you."

The Camorra on waste management in Campania: seizure of 55 million euros

https://news.italy24.press/local/1214428.html

Gratteri: ''To fight the Camorra we need to invest in technology''

Camorra and 'Ndrangheta compared
“The 'Ndrangheta is tougher, cruder and drier, it exercises absolute control of the territory and has a cult of rules that keeps everyone as rigid as so many toy soldiers” . It is no coincidence that within Calabrian organized crime, the level of justice collaborators is very low. “ Here in Naples, from my point of view, there are many levels of Camorra. The thing that impressed me most are these young people who shoot in the squares, in the streets, and I have difficulty seeing them as Camorra. In the logic of the 'Ndrangheta - explained Gratteri - two boys who start shooting at eye level on the motorbike, the next day, in Calabria, would be caught and melted like soap. Because in Calabria there is a belief that the 'Ndrangheta must not lose its prestige or its leadership . Through the memory of a telephone interception that took place in Calabria, in which an emissary of the crime of San Luca intervenes to resolve an internal feud using a far-sighted perspective, which might seem unusual, Gratteri explained the difficulties he had to overcome to intercept the logic bell criminal. In particular, regarding the " stretches" . A Camorra phenomenon which consists in quickly crossing the streets of the city on scooters, shooting, sometimes even at eye level, and forcing people in the street to lie down on the ground in an attempt to take cover. “ I had difficulty understanding and metabolizing these 'words', which were not able to give me a logic of a criminal nature. I remember a criminal interception in Calabria, in which an emissary of the San Luca crime scene intervened to quell an internal feud and said: 'Be careful because when you shoot at cars, shutters, or at lawyers, you terrorize the people, and what you have done in 30 years, you will no longer have, because the people will have already abandoned you. This is because - continued prosecutor Gratteri - the mafias need popular consensus to exist." - he continues - “ Perhaps, in the world of the dark web, the Camorra is ahead of the 'Ndrangheta. He manages to buy weapons, cocaine and order murders. In Naples I saw specialists who manage to navigate the dark web in a mafia-like, but also managerial and entrepreneurial way. For this reason it is necessary to create working groups made up of magistrates who work on the dark web, or police groups made up of people capable of studying the means of communication that a Camorra member uses to talk to another person who is in Dubai, in Bogota, or in New York ”. It's still:“Today, we have mafias that are able to communicate above our heads, to build new applications to communicate without being intercepted. This is the technology gap that we need to fill as soon as possible. Also for this reason the government must necessarily invest in software capable of decrypting these means of communication, which are technologically very advanced".


Do wiretaps really cost too much?
Are wiretaps an expensive investigative activity? How much do they cost exactly? According to the ministry, all the wiretaps that the prosecutors carry out with the authorization of the investigating judge cost 170 million euros. However, the cost to consider for keeping a phone monitored for 24 hours is only three euros, basically, two coffees. “These would be the big costs? - observed Gratteri - Nobody talks about the value of goods that are seized every day, which could be put up for sale immediately afterwards. Does no one ever account for these assets, such as cars, watches or luxury homes? How many wads of banknotes do we find hidden inside the walls, under the floors, or in the safes”. After Justice Minister Carlo Nordio stated that mafiosi don't talk on the phone, criticism, doubts and perplexities arose. Precisely regarding this delicate issue, Gratteri explained: " Before speaking we should study to avoid saying nonsense. On the phone the mafiosi will never say: 'Sorry but I'm not coming to dinner tonight because I'm going to kill that guy'. It can happen, however, that a mafioso calls a person with a clean criminal record on the phone to say: 'See you at the bar'. Now, for those who speak inside Parliament, perhaps it means nothing, but for me, a mafia investigator, that information is gold. A phone call from a mafia member is important, especially if made to call someone with a clean criminal record. Since from an investigative path backwards, I can get to the mafia boss." - he continues - “ There are times when I hear people say: 'We, for mafia and terrorism trials, don't touch wiretaps'. And what about crimes of corruption, extortion and embezzlement? In that case, is it possible to use the Trojan for wiretapping? If you forbid me from using the Trojan to carry out an investigation into the public administration, you will severely limit me. Often - Gratteri specified - I get from the public administration to the mafia, but rarely from the mafia do I manage to get to the public administration".

Police anti-Camorra blitz in Naples, numerous arrests
The leaders of the Mazzarella, Buonerba and Cardarelli clans were taken
NAPLES , 30 January 2024, 07:37

ANSA editorial team

The leaders of the Mazzarella clans and top exponents of the Buonerba and Cardarelli crime families are among the suspects arrested at dawn in Naples, specifically in Forcella and in the so-called "new houses" as part of an anti-Camorra operation by the State Police launched at Sunrise.

At the request of the DDA, which coordinated the investigations, the investigating judge issued over a dozen precautionary measures.

The men of the Flying Squad and the Police Stations

Poggioreale and Vicaria-Mercato are notifying precautionary measures against numerous individuals seriously suspected, in various capacities, of attempted extortion and personal injury aggravated by the mafia method.

Among the arrestees the ras Luciano Barattolo. His release in March last year strengthened the Mazzarella's structure in an area in turmoil.

Mazzarella Clan, the repentant Giuliano: "I'll reveal to you who's in charge in the districts"
From
Alessandro Caracciolo

Salvatore Giuliano is one of the great accusers of the Mazzarella criminal cartel , in fact, the justice collaborator has reconstructed part of the criminal organization chart. In an interrogation, dating back to June 2021, 'o Russ had already indicated to the DDA magistrates the names of the Ras of the Caldarelli and the Bonavoltas, precisely those statements were used in the latest investigation that affected the three clans.

“In San Gaetano the managers are Emanuele Amoroso, Antonio Bonavolta, Stefano Capuano and Salvatore Marino ; in San Giorgio there is Patrick; in Portici there is Cipolla currently detained, if I'm not mistaken, for extortion and who I have always seen at Barile's house; in San Sebastiano there is Giacomino, recently released from! look for; in the Market area there is Ciro Mazzarella, son of Gennaro; in the area of ??'ncopp and walls there are the Popes, Pino and Elio; at the Casa Nuove, Luca Caldarelli and Rocco known as burdello and another person whose name I don't remember at the moment but who I would be able to recognize and who has special surveillance; at Maddalena there are the Ferraiuolos ; in the San Giovanni area there is Tobia and I Scorpio ; in Rione Villa there is Salvatore D'Amico's son-in-law known as the pirate, who is called Gesualdo; Salvatore Barile is directly in San Erasmo , this became his home following the expulsion of 'o Mennuzzo. In fact, I want to point out that Salvatore Barile al Connolo lives there only because in the area there are the Soricilli who belong to the Contini family ."

THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ALLIANCE OF SECONDIGLIANO AND MAZZARELLA
According to the report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, the Campania capital is divided into 30 neighbourhoods, administratively divided into 10 municipalities. For the georeferencing of criminal groups operating in the city, however, reference is often made to zones, districts, areas or in any case to portions of territory, more or less large and differently named, which can correspond to an urban agglomeration or a series of buildings housing that falls simultaneously into two or more neighborhoods.

Regarding the metropolitan area, the predominance of the two Camorra cartels remains, the Alleanza di Secondigliano and the Mazzarella clan , both with a high criminal capacity and particularly stubborn in terms of infiltration of the legal economy. The Alliance of Secondigliano , in particular, is made up of some family groups that constitute its elite: the Mallardo, Contini-Bosti and Licciardi clans , the first two also connected to each other by kinship ties.

A multitude of smaller groups gravitate around the two Camorra cartels, particularly prone to resorting to violence and always ready to face conflicts connected with the management of illicit trafficking, mostly drug dealing and extortion activities. These are groups active in limited portions of territory that act in a position of instrumental dependence on the interests of the overlying cartels.

Camorra feud after the murder in a nightclub in Posillipo, sentences for Paolo Di Lauro and 9 other bosses
From
Stefano Di Bitonto

«Cirù, how many children do you have? Do you have ten children? Then get it into your head that the death of my nephew is worth as much as the lives of your ten children." This is the emblematic phrase that describes the beginning of the little prince's feud , the death of Vincenzo Esposito , favorite nephew of the boss Licciardi. The phrase pronounced by Maria Licciardi to Paolo Di Lauro alias 'Ciruzz or millionaire' inaugurates the first major feud in the northern area. The conflict that would lead to Esposito's death arose from an altercation in a nightclub in Posillipo between the group attributable to the Licciardis and another close to the Prestieris included in the Di Lauro clan. A brawl then degenerated into a series of cross-revenge until Esposito's death.

The boss Paolo Di Lauro, indicated as the instigator of the murder of Francesco Fusco, one of the participants in the crime, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thirty years for the brothers Guido and Raffaele Abbinante, life imprisonment also for Raffaele Perfetto 'colonel' of the Lo Russo clan .

As regards the other sentences, Rito Calzone received 18 years and 8 months for the murder of Ciro Cianciulli: thanks to the defensive line followed by his lawyer, the lawyer Luigi Senese, Calzone was recognized as having generic mitigating circumstances equivalent to premeditation . Among the others convicted are Ettore Sabatino 16 years, Giuseppe Lo Russo 20 years, Gennaro Trambarulo 20 years, Maurizio Prestieri 18 years, Antonio Leonardi 14 years.

Alfonso Fontana, 24, with criminal records, was shot dead in Torre Annunziata (Naples) by two killers on a scooter

He was close to Fasano clan, he did prison time for a shooting that happened three years ago in Castellammare.

Yes to psychological treatment for Marco Di Lauro, the fugitive former boss will be transferred to another prison
From
editorial board

Twist in the trial against Marco di Lauro , the former fugitive 'F4' , as reported in preview by Cronache di Napoli , will be transferred from the Sassari prison to be treated in another penitentiary from a psychological point of view. The judges have in fact accepted the request of the defender Gennaro Pecoraro , the former boss will be taken to a suitable penitentiary for psychiatric treatment but will remain under 41 bis.

The conditions of Marco Di Lauro
He eats little and refuses to talk to everyone, psychiatric evaluation for Marco Di Lauro
Detained in hard prison in Sassari for some time he has refused to talk to his family. Including wife. In the meantime he was hospitalized under close observation in the psychiatric departments of Turin and Cagliari and even in those situations he always refused talks with psychiatrists.

The judges want to see clearly and understand whether his attitudes are truthful and similar to those of his brother Cosimo, who later died in prison on 13 June 2022 after having served 17 years of imprisonment under the 41bis regime in the Opera prison.

Prosecutor Gratteri: "There are problems of violence and Camorra in Naples, but it's not South America"
“Naples is not South America, it is an unfair comparison”: thus the prosecutor of Naples, Nicola Gratteri, who nevertheless speaks of “a problem of violence and Camorra”
By Giuseppe Cozzolino

Nicola Gratteri, Prosecutor of Naples. Photo / Fanpage.it
In Naples "there is a problem of violence and Camorra", but the comparison with South America "is a strong statement that I don't agree with". The Neapolitan prosecutor Nicola Gratteri thus responds to some declarations following the inauguration of the judicial year. And for Gratteri it is an "unfortunate" comparison.

"But have you ever been to Bogotà, Caracas, Cartagena and then made a comparison with Naples?", he explained today on the sidelines of the signing of a protocol to the Municipality of Naples, "I have been dozens of times to South America and I know that what violence is. Of the last 25 murders in Naples, 18 have been discovered. And talking about a South American city, a city in the hands of the mafia, is not right. Study the great Italian metropolises of the North, then tell me if Naples is more or less dangerous." For the prosecutor of Naples, the city has "different levels of Camorra: the one that bothers the most and directly affects people and the one on the street like the ones who hang them, a phenomenon that, as a magistrate who fought the 'Ndrangheta, I cannot understand get used to it, I don't understand them. Not even on a criminal level."

Problems that the President of the Court of Appeal of Naples, Eugenio Forgillo, had also highlighted in the report for the opening of the 2024 judicial year , who, regarding criminal violence and the cities themselves, had spoken of a "display of a sterile violence", with "expeditions on scooters and motorcycles with blind shooting in urban areas", to the point that "the persistence of these illegal phenomena brings this territorial area closer to some underdeveloped foreign realities rather than to civilized countries".

continua su: https://www.fanpage.it/napoli/il-pr...olenza-e-camorra-ma-non-e-il-sudamerica/
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“Uncle Antonio was killed in a Camorra ambush in Agerola in 2017, a few weeks before testifying in a trial against the D'Alessandro clan, while the other uncle Luciano was a collaborator of justice."