Castelvetrano, hunt for the accomplices of Messina Denaro.

Yet another police blitz in the night between Castelvetrano, Mazara del Vallo and the villages of the Valle del Belice, for the search for the fugitive mobster Matteo Messina Denaro. In total 130 police officers involved in the maxi operation in Sicily still in progress, belonging to the Mobile Teams of Trapani and Palermo and to the Central Operational Service.

They carried out checks and searches to hit the network of supporters of the fugitive - old mafiosi, professionals, traders - who in the past few years had been suspected of being supporters of the red primula of the Trapani mafia, wanted since June 1993.

Documents and materials defined as interesting were seized in the homes of some of the suspects, 19 in total. Once again it is confirmed that the inaction of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro is covered by subjects belonging to the so-called gray area of ​​Cosa nostra, between professionals, politicians and exponents of Freemasonry, for the names that have emerged so far from the investigations.

Next Sunday, in Castelvetrano, a delegation from the national anti-Mafia commission will arrive, headed by its president, the pentastorked senator Nicola Morra.

The portrait of Messina Denaro in the living room of the family home, in Castelvetrano

In the Messina Denaro pizzini found between 2006 and 2007, there were traces of five unsuspected names.

The first was a politician that Bernardo Provenzano had "made available" to Messina Denaro. The second, a priest who wrote to him: "If you need the blessing of Jesus Christ, you know where and how to find me". The third, an entrepreneur who was ready to take over some shares of a company to do big business in the province of Trapani. The fourth, a "friend", who had been devoted to the old Messina Denaro, and now serves his son. The fifth is a printer who assured that he had printed a new document for the fugitive godfather. Five, and who knows how many others, still protect the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro.

PALERMO - There are names known to the judicial chronicles and others so far unknown . People already under investigation, relatives of mafia and mafia victims, but also "unexpected" characters.

The list of suspects who have been searched in the hunt for Matteo Messina Denaro opens with the name of Giovanni Agate, 53, of Castelvetrano who at the end of the nineties negotiated a sentence in a trial against the pizza takers of the godfather fugitive.

The list continues with Raffale Arimondi, 59, entrepreneur,he too from Castelvetrano, and in the past investigated with the accusation of being a nominee for the mafia boss; Antonino Ingoglia, brother of a victim of the mafia war that two decades ago bloodied the province of Trapani: Errico Risalvato, former municipal councilor of Castelvetrano and family friend of Matteo Messina's brother Denaro, Salvatore; Andrea Moceri, a well-known olive farmer who has been seized with a millionaire fortune.

And then there are some "new" names, like those of three women: Adriana D'Incerto, or professional training worker, Leonarda Furnari and Katia Lombardo. New and young names, since they are between 35 and 40 years old.

Here is the complete list of people to whom the Public Prosecutor of Palermohas notified a search decree carried out by the policemen of the Palermo and Trapani mobile teams and by the agents of the Central Operational Service: Giovanni Agate, born in Castelvetrano, 52; Antonino Amaro, born in Castelvetrano, 44 ​​years old; Raffaele Arimondi, Castelvetrano 59 years; Giovanni Asaro, Mazara del Vallo, 63 years: Luca Burzotta, Mazara del Vallo, 57; Antonio Cognata, Campobello di Mazara, 68 years old; Adriana D'Incerto, Castelvetrano 39 years; Leonarda Furnari, known as Nella, Castelvetrano, 35 years old; Vito Gaiazzo Vito, born in Mazara del Vallo, 64; Leonardo Giglio, born in Vita, 54 years old; Vincenzo Indelicato, Castelvetrano, 50 years old; Antonino Ingoglia, born in Trapani, 57, Katia Lombardo, Castelvetrano, 40; Mario Mangiaracina, Castelvetrano, 39 years old; Pietro Messina, Castelvetrano 64 years; Andrea Moceri, Campobello di Mazara, 61 years old: Onofrio Napoli, Partanna, 60 years old; Antonino PIazza, born in Mazara del Vallo, 57 years old; Errico Risalvato, born in Castelvetrano, 67 years old.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...bd003ae-5d0c-477a-846d-8bd3c0bdd526.html

Nicastri helping with Arata probe

Mafia: blow to the Brancaccio clan 02 July 2019
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Operation 'Maredolce', 25 precautionary measures, seizures for 1 mln
ANSA) - PALERMO, 02 JULY - The State Police is carrying out a precautionary measure against 25 people accused of mafia-type criminal association, aggravated extortion, fire, following a delegation from the Palermo DDA which coordinated the investigations. fraudulent transfer of aggravated values, self-laundering, possession of drugs for smuggling and smuggling of Foreign Processed Tobacco.
The "Maredolce 2" operation carried out by the mobile team, shed light on one of the key territorial articulations in the economy of our Palermo: the mafia branch of Brancaccio and, in particular, the corso dei Mille family.
Investigators have radiographed the economy of a mafia clan already hit in July 2017 by the "Maredolce" operation. During the operation assets for an approximate value of one million euros were seized from the organization.

Three major Palermo bosses were recently released from prison. Giulio Caporrimo, regent of the mafia district that belonged to the Lo Piccolos. Salvo Genova, regent of the family of Resuttana and Domenico "Mico" Farinella, head of the district of San Mauro Castelverde.
In the meantime they have lost track of Giovanni Motisi, one of Europe's most wanted. Motisi known as u pacchiuni, 60, the boss of Pagliarelli sentenced to life imprisonment, has been a fugitive since 1993. Over the years the prosecutor's office in Palermo has never stopped scrutinizing all the ideas, which led investigators also to Spain, England, South America. However, no concrete trace of Giovanni Motisi has emerged.

The drug broker Paolo Lumia, from Mazara del Vallo (Trapani), was arrested in Bolivia. Lumia, 51, was released in the past few months, he had been obliged to stay but, however, had become unavailable. According to the investigators Lumia would manage trafficking of cocaine between Colombia and various countries of the world. He was based in Barcelona, Spain, for years and apparently he had a relationship with "the daughter of one of the largest South American drug traffickers".

Mafia: new blow to Agrigento clans, 9 arrests
Operation "siege", returns to the domiciliary municipal councilor

(ANSA) - AGRIGENTO, 12 JULY - The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Agrigento carried out 9 pre-trial detention orders issued against top executives and affiliates of the mafia families of "Cosa Nostra" in Licata (Ag) and Campobello di Licata (Ag) . The operation, carried out on the input of the Palermo District Anti-Mafia Directorate with the code name "Assedio", follows the investigation that on 19 June had already triggered 7 detentions for armed mafia association. The Carabinieri have thus dealt a new heavy blow to the mafia families of Licata and Campobello di Licata. Once again under house arrest for external competition in a Mafia association a local councilor in charge of Licata, Giuseppe Scozzari, who had resigned precisely following the first arrest. On him, the Public Prosecutors provided the Palermo magistrate with further elements that would have further strengthened the probationary framework. During the stalking, the carabinieri filmed summit and secret meetings between the top management and the mafia gang members. Even an extortion for construction work in Germany has been ascertained. Also documented the interests of the clan in the slot machine sector, through a compliant distribution company of electronic gaming equipment.

Forty years ago Giorgio Ambrosoli was shot dead in Milan. "The culmination of a certain way of doing finance, of a certain way of doing politics, of a certain way of doing economics"
The night of 11 July 1979, forty years ago, the lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli was killed with three pistol shots under the house in Milan, in Via Morozzo della Rocca: he was 45 years old. From 1974 he was liquidator commissioner of the Italian Private Bank, an institution almost bankrupt by the Sicilian banker Michele Sindona, who had established relationships with very important pieces of politics, finance and organized Sicilian crime. The day after his death, on 12 July 1979, Ambrosoli should have signed a formal declaration to confirm the need to liquidate the bank and attribute responsibility for the situation to Michele Sindona.
The killer was the Italian-American mafioso William Aricò, who was later found to have been hired by Michele Sindona and paid with 25 thousand dollars in cash and another 90 thousand credited to a bank in Lugano.

The boss of Agrigento province Leo Sutera, 68, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, he's close to Messina Denaro.

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/..._sanctions_on_darren_debono#.XSxtfuhKhPY

Russia blocks Malta bid for UN smuggling sanctions on Darren and Gordon Debono

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...08935f5-a013-4104-b734-f64cc3cebd95.html

Threatening letters sent to judges
Patronaggio and Vella get gunpowder, bullet

11 people were arrested in Messina, 9 in prison and 2 under house arrest, accused of being part of a criminal gang that ran an international cocaine trade between South America and Sicily.

Among those arrested was Ramirez Della Rosa, ex-boyfriend of Marysthel Polanco, one of the so-called "olgettine", the girls who attended the "elegant" dinners organized in their residence in Arcore by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Gdf seizes 11,000 cannabis plants
Planting from 9 tons of marijuana for a value of 20 mln

(ANSA) - CATANIA, 18 JULY - A plantation of 11 thousand 'skunk' cannabis plants, built on an area of 1,500 square meters, was seized by the Catania finance guard in a vast citrus orchard with 'terraces' of Militello. The operation was completed by soldiers from the Gico operational anti-drug group of the economic and financial police core. The seized marijuana, equal to about 9 tons, submitted to the first qualitative analysis, presents a high content of active principle (Thc), and could yield, in the retail sale, over 20 million euros. The plants, of Dutch origin, were on average 120 centimeters high and were irrigated with a sophisticated water system.
     Also seized a cottage where the drug was dried on an iron fence, two camping tents that were used by the 'farmers', a Ph meter to check the degree of acidity of the water used for irrigation and 25 kg of fertilizer.

The operational strategies of Cosa Nostra increasingly express a particular propensity towards the gaming and betting sector.

is son vito badalmenti of pizza connection fame back in the fold. he would be almost 60. he father was gaetano the pizza connection book was great. vito won at trial in nyc they deported him to spain and hes been a ghost, but they were on the inzerillos side i belive back then

He was on the "Italy's most wanted list" from 1995 until 2012 when the statute of limitations was declared expired lol..
He lives in Brazil.

Mafia, the drug axis between Palermo and Naples: 12 arrests take place

https://palermo.gds.it/articoli/cro...ti-8e8c4cd5-54fc-4e42-83f1-6d0c2ab92ead/

3 anti-drug operations in sicily run by mafia clans (palermo, gela, enna), 44 arrested, big quantities of cocaine, hashish and weed (locally produced) seized

https://www.lasiciliaweb.it/2019/07/23/blitz-antidroga-tutta-la-sicilia-sottosopra/

anti-drug operation in palermo led by giuseppe vallecchia member of noce family and brother - in - law of the boss fabio chiovaro, 16 arrested based in the neighborood of zisa

https://palermo.gds.it/foto/cronaca...ti-1d0999b8-1356-4ecb-8060-4c2f9c8aa7be/

28 million euros seized from businessman salvatore santalucia frontman for messina province mafia clans
https://www.blogsicilia.it/messina/...messinese-in-affari-con-nicastri/493024/

There a quit a few Grecos in the ´Ndrangheta.

most important drug dealing squares in palermo run by mafia bosses



https://palermo.gds.it/articoli/cro...io-c2e8d5e0-2d4b-4c4a-a957-3cefa4e5150f/

The lieutenant colonel Marco Alfio Zappalà was transferred under house arrest, arrested last April 16 along with the former mayor of Castelvetrano, Antonio Vaccarino, and another carabiniere. The investigation refers to the investigative context concerning the hunt for the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. The three are accused in various capacities by the Dda of Palermo (added Paolo Guido, substitutes Francesca Dessì and Piero Padova) of "abusive access to a computer system" and "disclosure of official secrets" and also to the former Dc politician is challenged the aggravating circumstance of having favored Cosa Nostra and the inaction of Matteo Messina Denaro.

The officer - in service with the Dia of Caltanissetta at the time of his arrest - left Enna prison on Saturday morning and has since been in his home, on the orders of the magistrate of the Palermo court, Piergiorgio Morosini, who has " partially accepted "the request of the lawyers Giuseppe Crescimanno and Claudio Gallina Montana. Last week the same investigating judge had canceled the house arrest for Giuseppe Barcellona, ​​who has been on the loose since last July 22nd. Vaccarino, known for having corresponded with the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro (in 2007) on behalf of Sisde, had been released from prison after just 15 days.

According to the indictment, Zappalà would have received from Barcelona (responsible for the transcription of the interceptions at the company of Castelvetrano) some 'screenshots' of conversations between two subjects subjected to investigation in which they commented on some aspects of the funeral of Lorenzo Cimarosa, collaborator of justice died due to a serious illness in January 2017. In turn the Lieutenant Colonel of the Dia would have sent the contents of these 'screenshots' to Vaccarino, who showed them to Vincenzo Santangelo, owner of a funeral home and already convicted of mafia. As part of the survey, the data contained in some IT devices seized from the three suspects were extrapolated, but content analysis is still ongoing.

https://palermo.repubblica.it/crona...ari_ufficiale_dei_carabinieri-232306307/

Mafia: 7 arrested, even two Masons
CC operation coordinated by Dda Palermo against the Licata clan

The police of the Ros and of the provincial command of Agrigento are carrying out a detention order, issued by the Dda of Palermo, against 7 people under investigation for mafia association and external competition in mafia association. At the center of the investigations of the carabinieri were the mafia family from Licata (Ag) whose structures and hierarchies were outlined. In the course of the investigation infiltrations were discovered in the entrepreneurial activities being carried out in the Agrigento area and the role occupied inside the cosca by two Masons who were venerable masters of two lodges: they would be a regional official and the son of a boss.

The Carabinieri went to two lodges of the Grand Orient of Italy in Palermo and Licata to acquire the lists of members, an important step of the anti-mafia operation "Halycon".

The police of the Agrigento mobile squad arrested, in execution of a European arrest warrant, the 32-year-old of Favara, Mario Rizzo, a former collaborator, never admitted to the protection program, accused by the Belgian magistracy of conspiracy and drug trafficking.

Rizzo is accused of " being placed in an organization dedicated to the cultivation of doping plants ". The measure was carried out after Rizzo, who in the past few months started a collaboration with the law by first shedding light on an ambush against a restaurateur, then revealing alleged plots on the Belgium-Favara axis, he returned free having ceased precautionary measure in the investigation of the attempted murder.

The 32-year-old, who recently retracted saying that his had been "a false collaboration", has appointed Calogero, the lawyer, as defense counsel. The agents took him from his home waiting to hand him over to the Belgian authorities who, last summer, had already tried to execute the European arrest warrant but the concomitant Italian legal affair had blocked the extradition.

doping plants? Marijuana?

Yes, funny translation..

Its surprising how many Euro mobsters grow, and run grow ops.

The guys in the States dont seem to be as involved in Cali, Rado, Oregon, Michigan grow ops........

Also surprised if they didnt invest heavily in the legal sector...