Police on Tuesday executed an arrest warrant for Antonino Labate, 68, an alleged boss of 'Ndrangheta, who is accused of trying to kill six Romanians. He is suspected of starting a fire at a home in the south of Reggio Calabria in February that could have killed the six, including two children. The group managed to save themselves by getting out of the home via a window.

Hunting Mob Bosses In The Mountains Of Calabria

https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/hunting-mob-bosses-in-the-mountains-of-calabria

https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...r-mother-true-story-behind-trust-w518072

John Paul Getty III: The True Story Behind 'Trust'

I think there is very little evidence they are involved of course they could be feeling really threatend by him but its not part of their mo, ‘Ndrangheta has never killed a journalist; they wish to act silently.

there is strong evidence that it's involved in my opinion, yes ndrangheta usually acts silenty at least nowadays, but look the duisburg slaughter etc.
it depends

Yeah the Duisburg bloodbath was exceptional.

Peppe "Manigghja" Jerinò has been moved to the tough 41bis regime. A key man who from Gioiosa Jonica would have conditioned the mafia balance of half of Calabria , from the first feud of the woods to the trafficking of drugs.
Jerinò, today, ends up in a hard prison. The minister Orlando has in fact accepted the request from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria that he had already arrested him in September 2014, in the context of the operation called Ulivo 99 . In the subsequent trial, defined at first instance before the Court of Locri, he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment .
Heir to Don Ciccio Jerinò , the patriarch who would have hosted even Michele Navarra while in hiding, before being assassinated by the Corleonesi, Giuseppe Jerinò is the brother of Vittorio, already involved in various judicial events, the best known one relating to the kidnapping of Roberto Ghidini . Operation Ulivo 99, which has undermined a system of drug trafficking between Romania and Bolivia, passing through Calabria and the Netherlands, could be the end of a criminal history.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-call-themselves-christian-idUSKBN1H41EL

Pope says Mafiosi 'carry death', can't call themselves Christian

https://nypost.com/2018/03/28/italian-mafia-uses-rampaging-cows-as-intimidation-tactic/


Italian mafia uses rampaging cows as intimidation tactic

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...fia-boss-do-laundry-20180330-p4z72j.html

Bankers for a gangster: Commonwealth lenders help mafia boss do laundry

Military police arrested Antonio Filippone, 45, son of Rocco Santo Filippone, a leading element of 'ndrangheta of the Piana di Gioia Tauro. He will have to serve the residual sentence of 5 years imprisonment for drug dealing.

The Filippones made a pact with cosa nostra of Palermo.

The fugitive years of the boss Giuseppe "Peppe" Pelle are over. The 58-year-old son of 'Ntoni Pelle 'Gambazza', historical patriarch who has written in his own hand the history of the Calabrian 'ndrangheta, has been identified in an isolated house, near Condufuri, a few kilometers from "his" San Luca. The boss was hiding in one of the most inaccessible districts of the entire province, where the first slopes of the Aspromonte begin to climb towards the peaks, the roads become mountain mule tracks, hardly passable, and the rivers are transformed into natural trenches. Almost a natural bunker, besieged this night by fifty men of the Reggio Calabria Squad, who with a very quick blitz entered the house, while other agents were besieging the entire area to avert any attempts to escape. Surprised inside the house with other men, the boss gave up without any resistance. On him hung a warrant for a mafia association last summer, plus a residual sentence of two years and five months to be served on a previous conviction for the Mafia.

CAUGHT: ‘Ndrangheta leader Giuseppe Pelle ran regional politics on behalf of Calabrian Mafia http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...pe-pelle-ran-regional-politics-on-behalf

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/7882-italy-anti-mafia-coop-braves-the-ndrangheta

Italy: Anti-Mafia Coop Braves the ‘Ndrangheta

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The Mob Town That Conspired to Gang Rape a Girl

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Video:Fugitive mob boss found hiding in Italy’s hinterland

https://www.refinery29.com/2018/04/...ndrangheta-calabrian-mafia?bucketed=true

The Terrifying Calabrian Mafia Group Likely Behind Paul Getty's Kidnapping

Matteo Vinci died in Limbadi near Vibo Valentia in Calabria as the car he was driving blew up because of a suspected bomb on Monday. His father was seriously inured in the blast, in 2014 the Vincis were arrested in a police operation. It seems he had problems with Sara Mancuso sister of the clan chiefs Pantaleone ("Luni") and Giuseppe Mancuso.

Die Welt: The Italian Mafia Returns to Bulgaria and Romania
Novinite Insider » OPINIONS | April 10, 2018, Tuesday // 15:43|

Die Welt: The Italian Mafia Returns to Bulgaria and Romania Source:


" 'Ndràngheta has been active in Eastern Europe for 20 years. It is also capable of influencing elections," said the anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri of Calabria in a large article in the newspaper Die Welt. According to the German edition, he is the most important forensic expert on the international contacts of the powerful Calabrian mafia.

Back in 2008, Francesco Forgione, Chairman of the Rome Anti-Mafia Commission, presented a comprehensive report on the international expansion of 'Ndràngheta. The Calabrian has long been under police protection because of his discoveries and is well aware of the dangers associated with one of the the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. He is also the author of the book Mafia Export.
"The organizations of the Italian mafia have long settled in all countries of Eastern Europe - above all in Bulgaria and Romania," said Forgione, quoted by Die Welt. The mafia's interests are "the same everywhere in the world," the expert added:

"The Mafia wants to profit from all sorts of financial transactions, money laundering, investment and illegal trade of all kinds."
Giant money from international trade in drugs, weapons and hazardous waste has been invested in real estate or stock exchange transactions - this is the simplest way to launder money, "says Francesco Forgione, adding:

"We know from our investigations that the Mafia is involved in Romania's poisonous waste scandals and has spread its tentacles to Gazprom." It is a fact, for example, that the Casalesi clan, one of Camorra's most successful bandit groups, has consolidated interests in Romania, and the Corleone clan has been involved in scandals with illegal poisonous waste. "

Recently, the mafia's appetites are also directed at EU structural funds, the resources of which are slowly being shifted from the southern flank of Europe to the eastern European member states. For 'Ndràngheta, which has huge resources, it is like a childish game to buy political influence in these countries, explains Forgione.
"This is the known mechanism of corruption - the Mafia bribes politicians to ensure impunity, and for politicians in the region, Mafia money is welcome because they serve their clientele and fund election campaigns," said the Italian expert.

It is supposed that the Mafia is directing its Eastern European business from the territory of Germany, where its criminal structures have been rooted for decades. "The Mafia entered Germany for a while along with the gastarbaters and for a long time went unnoticed because the authorities in the country had enough problems with other organizations - for example, the mighty Russian mafia," says Forgione, adding: Only after the bloody bath in Duisburg in 2007 when six people were gunned down in front of a restaurant in the middle of the day, the German authorities began to look at the structures of the Italian mafia.

'Ndràngheta directs drug exports through the strategic Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and controls its subdivisions in the Benelux countries. Two members of the Strangioo clan of San Luke in Calabria, who were involved in the killings in Duisburg, were arrested in Rotterdam and Brussels.

Francesco Forgione suggests that the expansion of the Italian mafia to Eastern Europe begins immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indisputable in this regard are the words of a boss of the mafia, which he said on the fateful date of November 9, 1989: "The Wall has fallen, go straight to Berlin and buy everything in the East," he ordered in a conversation tapped by the police.
Forgione argues that much of the Italian restaurant which are favorite of the Germans are tied to the Calabrian mafia bosses. The newspaper "Die Welt" notes that 11 members of the 'Ndràngheta were arrested in Germany in the January police action.

The fact that the mafia is expanding its business in Eastern Europe is also evident in the drug and arms trade returning to Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and Montenegro. Eastern European countries, including EU members, have often offered a "safe ground" for illegal transactions because legislation, search methods and cooperation in the fight against organized crime are far less developed than in Italy and Western European countries, " concludes Francesco Forgione, quoted by Die Welt.

The Court of Cassation annulled without delay the life sentence imposed on the boss of 'Ndrangheta Tommaso Costa for the murder of the merchant Gianluca Congiusta, killed in Siderno in an ambush on May 24 of 2005. However, the Court of Appeals will have to go back to ruling on Costa to determine the punishment of a conviction for Mafia association, drug trafficking and attempted extortion.
The man's attempt to foil an attempted extortion against his father-in-law is the motive for the murder. According to the reconstructions of the DDA the story would intertwine with the rivalries between the Costa and Commisso clans.

The 'ndrangheta doing business in Europe
The semi-annual report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department shows a cross-section in which Calabrian crime ranks in many countries of the old continent
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Drug trafficking, of course. But also recycling, construction, catering, sports betting, counterfeiting, agri-food and - latest arrivals - renewable energy. ' Ndrangheta , Camorra and Cosa Nostra have for many years been branched into numerous European countries, and are active in any sector of business smells. An impressive river of money, an export that knows no crisis, a map that is spreading day after day to ever new areas, as documented by the latest half-yearly report of Dia . Here is a picture of the interests of the mafias, and of the 'ndrangheta in particular, abroad.

France
The Italian organized crime has long been rooted in the territory, where it lays illicit capital and invests in drug trafficking: historically this is also territory of inaction, as shown by the arrests of prominent members of the Sicilian mafia and the Calabrian. Some 'ndranghetisti, who initially settled in Liguria, have moved to the Côte d'Azur , to Nice, Menton, Cannes where there would be a "second generation" of Calabrian mobsters. And a 'local' would be active in Ventimiglia, a center of «strategic power - according to Dia - for the numerous 'ndrine in the territory'.

Germany
Germany continues to be a "center of attraction" for Italian mafia organizations, mostly present in the West and in the South of the country, particularly in the richest regions, such as Baden-Wurttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Hesse. The Italian groups, in addition to taking care of the typical illegal activities, over the years have tried to infiltrate the legal economy, acquiring restaurants and pizzerias, used as a cover. At these latitudes, our mafias seem to have assumed, each of them, a specialization: the drug trafficking for the 'Ndrangheta , the building for Cosa Nostra, the sale of counterfeit goods for the Camorra.But it is the 'ndrangheta the most aggressive, also ready to fit into the new criminal spaces opened by the post-reunification crisis in the former East German Land.

Belgium
Belgium, due to its position at the center of Europe and the strategic importance of the port of Antwerp, polarizes many illegal transnational activities: for years, it has been a center of interest for all the main Italian mafias, in particular Cosa nostra and 'ndrangheta , dealing with drug trafficking and economic-financial crimes. In particular, the provinces of Mons-Charleroi, Hainaut and Liège are historically infiltrated by the gangs.

Switzerland
It remains a privileged destination for the laundering of proceeds deriving from crimes, mostly committed abroad: the priority interests of the 'ndrangheta are confirmed by the results of various investigations, as well as by the presence of "subjects considered contiguous to organized crime, suspected of recycling in the catering and building sectors ".

Malta
A subsidized tax system, on the one hand, and legislation that allows companies to be set up very quickly, on the other hand, have recently made the island "a financial hub capable of attracting substantial investments, even by criminality. organized Italian ". Among the sectors of interest - remember Dia - that of online betting, particularly appetite from the 'ndrangheta.

Spain
The Italian organized crime, as well as for the coverage of fugitives and drug traffickers, has over time exploited this area for the recycling and reuse of dirty money in hospitality and catering establishments, in real estate activities, in construction companies, in transport, in wholesale, agriculture and fishing. Presences of 'ndrangheta are reported in Girona and in the province of Madrid, while Malaga is the crossroads of subjects referable to all three major mafias.

Netherlands
Economy strongly devoted to international trade and advanced logistics facilities such as the port of Rotterdam and Schiphol airport: the Netherlands, like Spain, is used as a channel of entry into Europe of cocaine coming from the American continent and hashish coming from Morocco. Here, several mafia fugitives have sought refuge, but the interests of the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta are also documented, aimed at exploiting the opportunities associated with drug trafficking.

Bulgaria
In a privileged position on the "route of the Balkans", it acts as a link between Eastern Europe and the West, resulting in the center of various illicit trafficking, species of narcotics; but it is also the object of interest, by Italian consortiums, for the reinvestment of illicit capital through financial activities.

Slovakia
The February killing of journalist Jan Kuciak , engaged in an investigation of alleged relations between local government officials and 'Ndrangheta, has given rise to the suspicion that this is one of the new markets of Eastern Europe ended up in the crosshairs of our mafias. In relation to the crime, seven Italians were arrested, all released within a few hours. But already the last report of Dia spoke about the presence of "an organization linked to the 'Ndrangheta, dedicated to recycling through financial transactions . "

Romania
Here it would be proven the presence of mafia and criminal groups from Calabria, mostly devoted to illegal economic activities, first of all recycling : the most direct way to capitalize the possibilities offered by another expanding market.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/27/c_137139688.htm

More mafia groups run illegal business in Rome: report

The priest Don Pino Strangio of San Luca is on trial for external mafia association and participation in a secret association in odor of 'Ndrangheta. For decades, he's the "master" of the sanctuary of Polsi, the sacred place of the clans that converge there every September for the feast of Our Lady of the Mountain. And if this happened in public, far more worrying - says the investigation that sent him before the judges - was for years the activity that Don Pino Strangio has done in secret. It was he who met regularly with leading exponents of the 'Ndrangheta reggina to discuss candidacies, elections, alliances. Don Pino was and perhaps is a fundamental point of reference. Relatives of Strangio became known for the massacre of Duisburg that showed Germany the bloodiest face of 'Ndrangheta.

25 'Ndrangheta arrests in Piedmont, 22-yr fugitive nabbed
Drugs, weapons and extortion

(ANSA) - Turin, May 3 - Italian police on Thursday arrested 25 people on suspicion of belonging to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in Piedmont.
A so-called 'locale' or 'Ndrangheta branch was smashed between Asti and Cuneo.
The gang dealt in drugs, weapons and extortion, police said.
Separately an 'Ndrangheta drug trafficker on the run for 22 years, 73-year-old Angelo Filippini, was arrested in Morocco with the help of Interpol.

The final sentence for the former mayor of Siderno is 12 years in prison for mafia association. Alessandro Figliomeni was involved, together with another fifty people, in the operation coordinated by the DDA of Reggio Calabria "Recovery", conducted in December 2010 against presumed exponents of the Commisso clan.
The sons, according to the prosecution, would have had a leading role in the criminal organization. The detention of the former mayor was executed after the magistrates discovered by wiretaps that the political exponent was about to leave for Australia.

'Ndrangheta informant badly hurt in attack
While returning to protected home

(ANSA) - Bologna, May 8 - An 'Ndrangheta mafia accountant-turned-informant was badly hurt in an attack while he was returning home in a witness protection scheme home on April 18, media reported Tuesday.
Paolo Signifredi, 53, from Baganzola di Parma, an accountant considered close to 'Ndrangheta boss Nicolino Grande Aracri, was severely beaten by three men.
He had given evidence in the Grande Aemilia trial into Calabrian mafia infiltration in Emilia.
Signifredi started helping anti-mafia police with their enquiries in August 2015.

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...ayor-gets-12-years-for-mafia-association

Former Italian Mayor Gets 12 Years for Mafia Association

Salvatore Cassalona, ​​a 51-year-old from Palermo, has been sentenced to eight years by the Supreme Court. The Sicilian is affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta in Tuscany.

Ten members of the Vibo Valentia group in the capital Rome were acquitted, among them the boss Saverio Razionale, 57, of San Gregorio d'Ippona, and a lawyer, an accountant and a former witness of justice.

For 22 years he has had a thirst for revenge, since he was ten years old and they killed his brother. The men's hunt ended last Friday when he sowed panic and terror between Limbadi and Nicotera , in the Vibo Valentia, killing two people and wounding three others. Francesco Giuseppe Olivieri , 32, presented himself alone in front of the prison in Vibo Valentia, claiming he wanted to be. Immediately, the carabinieri arrived on the spot, where he was overheard by the substitute attorney of Vibo Valentia Concettina Iannazzo. "I acted to avenge the death of my brother".

Last Friday Francesco Giuseppe Olivieri wanted to punish all those he considered directly or indirectly involved in the death of his brother. For this reason, within one hour, he has done damage, ambushes and executions in three different centers of Vibo Valentia, killing Giuseppina Mollese, 80, and Michele Valerioti, 68, and injuring three others. But the list of goals - he confessed to the judge - was much longer.

He grew up, in the stronghold of the MANCUSO clan, cultivating the desire to avenge the death of Mariano, his brother killed when he was just over ten years old. Officially nobody knows who it was,at least for the courts. But in the village it has always been said that the murder was ordered to respond to another execution.