https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-mafia-mobsters-rounded-raids-world.html

Nearly 100 suspected mobsters 'linked to feared 'Ndrangheta mafia' are rounded up in raids across the world

A pentito from the 'Ndrangheta who lived in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam, for a long time, Giuseppe T., played an important role in the investigation into the Italian mafia.

That is what the dutch tax police Fiod is aware of after reporting by De Telegraaf . "He mainly provided insight into the working methods of the organization and in the family ties," says a spokesperson. "He explained the methods of money laundering and drug trafficking, he could also name names and he recognized people from photographs."

On Wednesday, 84 people were arrested in several countries during an action against the mafia clan from Calabria. In the Netherlands, were arrested five persons .

In the Pollino investigation, the Amsterdam region played a supporting role. That was different in previous studies on the 'Ndrangheta. The Calabrese mafia organization turned out to have tentacles in the flower auction at Aalsmeer. That branch was busted in September 2015 in a study in which dozens of arrests were carried out in Italy and the Netherlands.

https://www.dw.com/en/italian-mafia-bikers-berlin-clans-europes-crime-gangs/a-46602157

Italian Mafia, bikers, Berlin clans: Europe's crime gangs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/a...y-officials-probed-Italian-mob-ties.html

German police, city officials probed over Italian mob ties

https://www.standard.co.uk/business...y-uk-simply-moved-to-malta-a4009076.html

Focus: Gambling’s underbelly — police claim ‘mafia’ giant closed by UK simply moved to Malta

In yesterday's bust they also arrested Antonio Calogero Costaduro (44) in Maasmechelen, Belgium. He was born in Genk, but is a son of capo clan Salvatore Nirta of San Luca.
A good source says that Costaduro has risen in the Nirta-Strangio clan in recent years. He is a pivotal figure in the 'ndrangheta and organizes international drug trafficking through the port of Antwerp.

Nicola Gratteri, the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, says the 'ndrangheta moves at least 40% of the world's cocaine

In the world the ´Ndrangheta make up 56% of the Italian mafia vs. 16% Cosa Nostra

40 % of the worlds cocaine trade thats quite alot. I think that Gratteri and others in Italy put these numbers up just for the world to think that He/they are fighting some kind of Supreme crime group.

i also think is bullshit, 40% of worldwide cocaine would be 100% of european one
gratteri tends to hype ndrangheta because he's calabrian

They do have a foothold in North America, but are not the main suppliers over there. In the rest of the world they are bigger. 40% is still a lot, but if you look with whom they work in South America and Europe it's possible.

in north america they control little (mostly in ontario), in australia they probably control a lot
anyway in europe aside italy they don't control so much (and even in italy they don't control 100% of cocaine), i doubt they control cocaine coming to france or uk like gratteri claimed with this 40%
they have some little grip in germany, belgium, in the rest of europe i don't think so

The group busted this week had links to Surinam.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/08/europe/ndrangheta-mafia-raids-analysis-intl/index.html

Inside Europe's most powerful mafia -- the 'Ndrangheta

ndrangheta is the main european supplier of cocaine, i just don't believe in gratteri numbers
it is more believable that it moves 40% of european cocaine, not worldwide, it would be more than mexican cartels

40% of cocaine in Europe , maybe. But worldwide, no way. You have whole bunch of cartels in South/Central America.

Europe and Australia. Down under the profits are huge. I get a gram here for 40 euros.

Is it good quality ? Thats cheap , here a gram goes from 70 to 150 euros , depends on quality.

It differs, often it is too much cut.

A Violi was also arrested last week.

Antonio Barbaro alias “Pileri”, nato a Locri (RC) il 27.8.1978 – Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Barbaro alias “Pileri”, nato a Locri (RC) il 17.9.1982 – Arresti domiciliari;
Carmelo Bramanti, nato a Salerno il 3.12.1971 – Arresti domiciliari;
Serkan Bilgici, nato a Bonn (Germania) il 17.01.1980 – Custodia in Carcere;
Halil Bozkurt, nato a Mersin (Turchia) il 15.12.1980 – Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Campagna, nato a Napoli il 28.01.1973 – Custodia in Carcere;
Maria Rosaria Campagna, nata a Napoli il 20.02.1969- Custodia in Carcere;
Luciano Camporesi, nato a Rimini il 10.7.1975 – Custodia in Carcere;
Salvatore Santo Cappello, nato a Napoli il 31.08.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Fausto Commarà, nato a Crotone il 04.12.1962- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Condo, alias “Dominic – l’Australiano”, nato a Mount Lawley (Australia) il 29.8.1980- Custodia in Carcere;
Natale Condò, nato a Locri (RC) il 24.12.1963- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Costadura, alias “U Tignusu”, nato a Genk (Belgio) il 31.8.1974- Custodia in Carcere;
Orsolia Andrea Cundy, nata a Dimbau (Romania) il 15.12.1992 – Arresti domiciliari;
Roberto Esposito, nato a Gragnano (NA) il 14.09.1991 – Arresti domiciliari;
Andrea Gentile, nato a Locri (RC) il 23.3.1989 – Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Gentile, alias “Ciccione”, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.6.1981 – Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Giorgi, alias “Gianni da Mamma”, nato a San Luca (RC) il 28.2.1966 – Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Giorgi, nato a San Luca (RC) il 07.12.1963 – Custodia in Carcere;
Rosario Grasso, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) il 20.07.1982 – Custodia in Carcere;
Giovanni Grasso, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) l’8.6.1992 – Custodia in Carcere;
ViteshJamnapersad Guptar, nato a Nickerie (Suriname) il 19.10.1974 – Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Ietto, nato a Careri (RC) in data 13.11.1971 – Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Antonio Jerinò, nato a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 12.5.1963- Arresti domiciliari;
Rocco Jerinò, nato a Cinquefrondi (RC) il 26.6.1993 – Arresti domiciliari;
Cesar Steven Linares Ramires, nato a Calì – Valle del Cauca (Colombia) il 11.06.1994- Custodia in Carcere;
Carlo Luciano Macrì, alias “Rumeno”, nato a Siderno (RC) il 9.4.1962 – Custodia in Carcere;
Girolamo Macrì, alias “Japan”, a Siderno (RC) nato il 15.10.1987- Custodia in Carcere;
Josè Manuel Mammoliti, nato a Cinquefrondi (RC) il 03.05.1989 – Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Manglaviti, alias “CICI’”, Locri (RC) il 26.09.1972 – Arresti domiciliari;
Francesco Marando, nato a Locri (RC) il04.1983- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Marando, nato a Locri (RC) il 29.11.1985- Custodia in Carcere;
Marco Martino, nato a Cosenza il 01.09.1979- Custodia in Carcere;
Pasquale Biagio Muzzupapa, nato a Gioia Tauro (RC) il 03.02.1967 – Arresti domiciliari;
Salvatore Pacino, alias “Saverio” – “U Pacciu”, nato a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 19.8.1965- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Paparo, nato a Crotone il 17.01.1991- Arresti domiciliari;
Tommaso Perlapiano, nato a Castellanza (VA) il 25.10.1971- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Pelle, alias “Vancheddu”, nato a San Luca (RC) il 4.04.1962- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Pelle, alias “Micu i Mata”, nato a San Luca (RC) il 15.10.1950- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 15.04.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 17.11.1990- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 19.05.1981- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Pelle, nato a Locri (RC) il 19.09.1998- Arresti domiciliari;
Giuseppe Pipicella, alias “Zipangulu”, nato a Locri (RC) il 20.05.1971- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Pizzata, alias “Piritinu”, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.12.1988 – Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Romeo, alias “Corleone”, nato a Locri (RC) il 31.12.1978- Custodia in Carcere;
Filippo Romeo, nato a Locri (RC) il 6.10.1976- Custodia in Carcere;
Francesco Luca Romeo, alias “Biscottino”, nato a Locri (RC) il 25.9.1994- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Romeo, alias “U Pacciu” – “Maluferru” – “U Nanu”,nato a Locri (RC) il 22.4.1986- Custodia in Carcere;
Sebastiano Romeo, nato a Locri (RC) il 14.08.1979- Custodia in Carcere;
Sebastiano Romeo, nato a Reggio Calabria il 10.2.1992- Custodia in Carcere;
Stefano Romeo, nato a San Luca il 15.09.1967- Arresti domiciliari;
Giulio Fabio Rubino, nato a Caserta il 16.04.1984- Custodia in Carcere;
Serafino Rubino, nato a Caserta il 25.03.1980- Custodia in Carcere;
Vincenzo Salzano, nato a Napoli il 16.07.1968- Custodia in Carcere;
Angelo Sansotterra, nato a Magenta (MI) il 28.06.1949- Custodia in Carcere;
Antonio Scalia, nato a Locri (RC) il 28.12.1978- Custodia in Carcere;
Stefano Scalia, nato a Locri (RC) il 12.01.1984 – Custodia in Carcere;
Raul Singh, nato in Guyana il 29.03.1983- Custodia in Carcere;
Domenico Strangio, nato a Siderno (RC) il 18.11.1989- Custodia in Carcere;
Giuseppe Strangio, alias “Cardara”, nato a San Luca (RC) 18.09.1959- Arresti domiciliari;
Giuseppe Strangio, alias “Peppi i Cicciu”,nato a Locri (RC) il 04.05.1995- Arresti domiciliari;
Sebastiano Strangio, alias “Zucchero – “Sebastianu cu zuccheru” – “Grigia” (Gringia), nato a Melito Porto Salvo (RC) il 29.10.1970- Custodia in Carcere;
Kemal Tekin, nato a Colonia il 25.10.1984- Custodia in Carcere;
Santa Ursini, nata a Gioiosa Ionica (RC) il 9.07.1942- Arresti domiciliari;
Giorgio Violi, nato a Reggio Calabria il 07.07.1976- Custodia in Carcere;
Gianluca Antonio Vitale, nato a Locri (RC) il 3.06.1978- Arresti domiciliari;
Domenico Vottari, nato a Locri (RC) il 12.07.1982- Arresti domiciliari;
Teresa Vottari, nata a Locri (RC) il 4.03.1970- Arresti domiciliari;
Antonio Zappia, alias “Piola”, nato a Melito di Porto Salvo (RC) il 5.08.1992- Custodia in Carcere.

Per approfondire http://www.strettoweb.com/foto/2018...90-arresti-2/780910/#DltdfGe5D1BGDfDu.99

Apparently there was a conflict in Amsterdam.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...accused-importing-cocaine-on-trial-paris

UK man accused of importing 1.3 tonnes of cocaine goes on trial in Paris

Ex-Mafioso: 'The Netherlands has everything that goes with a criminal life'
A former member of the 'Ndrangheta' is dropping this week in Nieuwe Revu from the school about the presence of the Italian mafia in our country. 'The Dutch have a positive attitude towards Italians.'

When the Italian Rocco Gasperoni was arrested in Scheveningen in May 2016, it was an eye-opener for many of his friends in the seaside resort. The 75-year-old Gasperoni appears to be a member of the Italian mafia 'Ndrangheta. In 2001 he was convicted in Turin for large-scale drug smuggling, but during his house arrest Gasperoni fled to the Netherlands, where he opened a well-run pizzeria in Scheveningense Stevinstraat. The fact that he could no longer manage it himself after his arrest led to disappointed reactions from the neighborhood. "He made delicious pizzas, he was a beloved neighborhood figure, we're going to miss him," that's how it sounded. That he was a mafioso did not seem to bother anyone.

Gasperoni realized like no other how important it is to not stand out. Just do it, then as an Italian criminal you can lead a normal life in the Netherlands without having to go under, so was the creed for a long time. However, that has changed now, because Gasperoni is by no means the only mafioso that has ended up behind bars in the Netherlands in recent years. On the contrary; they are regularly arrested, such as last Wednesday, when agents in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Belgium picked up ninety people during a major campaign aimed at the 'Ndrangheta. Five of them were arrested in the Netherlands.

The action is the result of a survey in 2014, when the FIOD investigative service found links to foreign countries in a money laundering case in Brabant. There were also hundreds of raids in the context of operation Pollino, of which eight in the Netherlands and 2 million euros, 140 kilos of ecstasy pills and 4000 kilos of cocaine seized. This makes Pollino even more successful than a previous operation against the Mafia in September 2017, when several Mafiosi were arrested at the Galecop shopping center in Nieuwegein, after one of the largest mafia bosses in Italy, Francesco Nirta, was arrested in his apartment earlier in the day.

But the climax was probably February of the past year, when one or two mafiosi were arrested on one morning. Prior to this, a 38-year-old Italian was arrested in Tilburg in January 2017 who led a criminal organization in Sardinia, and in December 2016 a 46-year-old member of the Neapolitan mafia was detained in Utrecht. Both men were fugitive and had a considerable prison sentence in Italy. In the Netherlands, however, they could continue their criminal walk unnoticed.

But the Italian mafia does not always try to stay under the radar in the Netherlands. In October 2017, the 44-year-old mafioso Saverio Tucci - nicknamed the Angel Face, because of his bright blue eyes - is found dead in a car in Amsterdam-West. His remains are in the trunk of a Renault Clio. He was killed with a firearm, according to forensic investigation. It is suspected that it is a retribution for the murder of Mafia boss Mario Romito in the Italian region of Gargano, also called the trace of the boot. There, mafia fans Li Bergolis and Romito have been fighting for almost ten years.

It is old-fashioned territorial drive and there are also interests in the cocaine trade. Deaths fall over and over again, with as yet low point a fourfold murder on August 9, 2017, performed by Saverio Tucci among others. The fact that Tucci had to pay his share in the attack with death is not uncommon in Mafia circles. The fact that the Italian mafia is fighting conflicts across the border is rare. In countries such as the Netherlands, which are important for the transit of drugs, the Mafia prefers to keep quiet.

They are signs that the Mafia is indeed active in the Netherlands. 'Yes', because our own national criminal investigation does not really want to. According to her, it is all along with the interference of Italian mafiosi in the Dutch criminal circuit. According to Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Detective of the National Unit, it concerns 'a small number' of people, while Italian detectives say at high and low that the Netherlands has a big problem with the Italian mafia.

The fact that the Netherlands and Italy differ on the scale of the problem is due to the fact that almost no figures are available. The most recent investigation - named Cerca Trova (who searches, will find) - carried out in 2017 by the police, tax authorities / FIOD and the Public Prosecution Service, reports that between 1992 and 2014 55 Mafiosi were arrested or found dead in the Netherlands. Of 38 Mafia members there is a suspicion that they were in the Netherlands at some point in time. The report also recognizes that the Mafia families in the Netherlands use Italian catering establishments or other companies as a safe meeting place and cover, for example for fugitives and narcotics dealers. They are also used as a meeting office, as a cover for drug transports,

Cerca Trova mentions 22 Italian catering establishments affiliated with the Mafia. "The tip of the iceberg," says Benito, a former Mafia member. Before Benito left the Mafia because of his family, he transported cocaine to the Netherlands on a large scale. 'We let it come from Colombia, directly to the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and from there it was spread throughout the European hinterland, especially to Italy. We had partners in the Netherlands, customs officers who passed containers uncontrollably and fast boys, especially Albanians, who broke the containers at night at the port site to take out the coke. The narcotics then went over the road to Italy, sometimes in passenger cars, sometimes with goods transports. '

The couriers are usually young men, with Italian, Dutch or other nationality. In the case of goods transport, the choice of perishable goods as decanting agents is to use perishable goods such as flowers or fruit. 'Sometimes we paid in cash, sometimes in kind. Then we left a few kilos of coke in the Netherlands. The rest were smuggled to Italy for the 'Ndrangheta.'

The Netherlands is also a popular refuge among fugitive Mafiosi. Cerca Trova designates the Netherlands after Spain as the most important flight port. Mafiosi 'feel completely safe', can be read in the report, which of course also mentions the reputation of the Netherlands as a transit country of drugs and the good infrastructure as reasons why Mafiosi like to stay here. But also the positive attitude of the population towards Italians plays a role, just like the fact that it is relatively easy for an Italian to set up a cover; an Italian restaurant.

"But in addition, the Netherlands also has everything that goes with a criminal life," says Benito. 'The drugs rules are liberal, the sentences for drug offenses are low, there are many brothels and money laundering is relatively easy. It is no coincidence that the Netherlands has been a major attraction for the Mafia outside of Italy for decades. They often meet here. In the past there were often wild parties with many prostitutes. And nobody was afraid of the police, who had no eye for the Italian mafia at all. '

https://www.revu.nl/artikel/ex-maffioso-nederland-heeft-alles-wat-bij-een-crimineel-leven-hoort

How much do you think they profit from a kilo of cocaine in Europe Hollander? Say they buy it in South America and the chepest price which i think they do.

You can do the math. From about 2,000 euros per kilo of pure cocaine in Colombia to 50 euros per gram of cut coke in Amsterdam.
BTW if cocaine was not forbidden worldwide, it was probably as expensive as coffee or sugar.

It also depends how much they are going to cut it.

ndrangheta buys the cocaine 1500 euros for a kilo in south america and they sell 1 kilo for 30.000 euros to european wholesale distributors
in europe 1 kilo sold on the streets generates 80/100.000 euros

A kilo of pure cocaine , here in Balkans goes from 35,000-40,000 euros.

Yes but the transport and all of that comes in to play to. However does it come near to the number of 24 billion dollars on drugs alone a year you think?

1000 tons of cocaine need to be sold for 30 billion dollars if im not wrong?

Italian Mafia activities are expanding abroad and European police forces are still unprepared

https://menafn.com/1097826871/Itali...lice-forces-are-still-unprepared?src=Rss

they are just inflated numbers, nobody knows exactly how much organized crime earns anyway