I don't think it's necessary for the camorra to turn to the Calabrians they have always had good connection in the coke business since the Sicilian Mafia never was involved only heroin untill the 90s with the Cuntrera-Caruanas and others.

Im sorry but im not gonna take anyhing you say serious because its kind of obvious youre a lover of Cosa Nostra. On every thread you are very quick to mention that the Sicilian mafia is way much "better" than the NDrangheta.

i just don't like bullshit, if you don't believe in me just check yourself i read it in articles from the italian minister of interior, a more serious source than this german one; probably the german journalist written it wrong, i don't know

sicilian mafia was and it is still involved in cocaine trafficking, although currently less than camorra and ndrangheta
the biggest single seizure ever of cocaine in italy (5,5 tons) was imported by sicilian mafia in 1994, by the caruana-cuntrera's

I agree that certain articles may have information that may repeat itself, but in most articles there is always one new item, fact or sentence that wasn't mentioned in the past. News also get updated and this is how you get to learn more. Not every news articles can be insightful and may not meet your expectation but you should not dismiss them for the reason previously stated.

Ex-mafia boss' ndrangheta: 'The Netherlands in top 3 most contaminated countries'

The Netherlands is one of the most contaminated countries by the Calabrese 'ndrangheta, because of its strategic location as a transit port of drugs and the investment climate. That says former mafia leader Luigi Bonaventura in an exclusive interview in the program Criminal Circles on NPO Radio 1.

"The Netherlands is all in all a good territory for the business, for investments. There are many opportunities. It is one of the most contaminated countries. My top 3 would be: Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands ", says Luigi Bonaventura. Until 2007, he led some 200 Mafiosi in southern Italy for the 'Ndrangheta'. Then he became a spontaneously, and crown-witness in dozens of anti-mafia cases. His testimonies contribute to the arrest and / or conviction of at least 500 criminals.

The port of Rotterdam is of strategic importance. Bonaventura, as a mafia boss, led criminals who organized the drug route through the Netherlands for him. "I want to emphasize that nobody can let cocaine arrive in containers in Rotterdam, without contacts on the spot. That is impossible. You can only do something where you have confidants, who sometimes belong to multiple organizations and who allow the arrival, unloading and sorting of the product. "

"When you talk about the 'ndrangheta' in Europe, then Germany is the most important country, which we can now call her second homeland. We also have to take their presence in Eastern Europe very seriously, "says Bonaventura.

https://www.nporadio1.nl/achtergron...nederland-in-top-3-meest-besmette-landen

A lot of cocaine entering Serbia/Balkans is coming thru Netherlands. One of most powerful serbian organized crime figures is hiding there and running his business from there. Im talking about Filip Korac

Yeah Strax Serbians are the strongest mob from the Balkans in Holland. Stronger than Albanians. Because they are more rooted we have Jugoslavs here since the late 60s.

Here they sell a kilo for 35,000 euros. You think they pay % to 'Ndrangheta ?

It depends a guy like Darko Saric had his own sources for huge shipments in South America. All they need is local dutch contacts for loading, unloading and transport throughout Europe.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...caso-dal-suo-libro-e-nata-bad-blood.html

'' Camorra and 'Ndrangheta partners in business''

by Giuseppe Tallino
The interview with Antonio Nicaso, professor of social history of organized crime at Queen's University. He is among the top experts of 'Ndrangheta

'Follow the money' is no longer enough. To intercept and defeat the mafias, we need more. Criminal organizations have evolved: they have created an international network that moves in silence, sub-track. And to recycle and invest the dirty money exploit 'normative paradises', legal advisors and professionals of high finance: it is the scenario that has traced Antonio Nicaso , professor of social history of organized crime at Queen's University. He is among the top experts of 'Ndrangheta. He has written numerous books with Nicola Gratteri , procurator of the Republic of Catanzaro.

Professor, Nicola Schiavone, neo-repentant of the Casalesi, argued that the current fragility of his (former) clan is likely to open the doors of Casertano to other criminal organizations.
The presence of the 'Ndrangheta in Campania is historically proven: already with Domenico Tripodo has had good relations with the Camorra. Relationships started at the time of cigarette smuggling.

Now, instead, what kind of contact is there between the two systems?
There is a synergistic relationship destined to increase. The 'ndrangheta is active above all in Terra di Lavoro and in Salerno, but in Campania it will not expand to become territorial government: I tend to exclude it. In Sicily, for example, it is expanding in the areas of Vittoria and Ragusa because there is the fruit and vegetable market. And then we must also remember that the 'Ndrangheta provides cocaine to Camorra and Cosa Nostra.

The hypothesis that the local dying mafias are replaced by external gangs is founded?
We must not underestimate these organizations when they are with their backs to the wall. That they are not militarily strong as in the past is confirmed by the facts. But I am able to regenerate myself: I would be well advised to sign their obituary. Erroneously we are led to believe that the mafias exist when they shoot. And instead it is when they do not they are more dangerous: they assert themselves in other forms.

No substitution, therefore, but only collaboration.
A criminal partnership is already underway and will continue to take root in Italy with the involvement of Albanian mafias: they will become the armed wing of historic organizations. For example, they will take care of the transport of cocaine. The traditional groups, on the other hand, will focus on territorial government: they will try to infiltrate institutions, to corrupt them. In short, they will entrust dirty business to emerging structures.

The 'ndrangheta, as already pointed out, is among the main importers of narcotics in Europe. On the littoral Domizio, however, there is another transnational criminal gang that is able to get large quantities of drugs in Italy: I talk about the Nigerian mafia.
One of the most important routes traveled by cocaine starts from Brazil, from the port of Santos, and reaches Central Africa, where there are storage depots controlled by the 'ndrangheta. The Nigerian mafia manages to transfer cocaine from Africa to the Old Continent and does so by agreeing with the 'ndranghetist brokers: they treat prices in the Colombian forest and in Peru.

In practice there is a kind of subcontract: the 'ndrine delegate to the Nigerian mafia a part of the process that the narcotics must take to get to Italy.
Exactly, because they control the routes, which are then the same ones used for illegal immigration. More than clashing now the various criminal groups are willing to do 'network'.
Albanesi e 'ndrangheta, for example, have become partners in many countries of the world. First there was synergy between the Calabrians and the Serbian-Montenegrin mafia. And now they also collaborate with the Nigerian one. The only winning strategy for them is to move on track, to avoid violence. The Duisburg massacre was a boomerang: it made known a phenomenon that was considered marginal.

The mafia has become a global phenomenon.
It's true: the mafias have globalized, but the Antimafia is not.

The crime of mafia association does not appear in the penal code of various countries.
In the Common Law the associative crime is not considered: because it is contrary to culture and the legal system. Participation in criminal activity is punished, but not affiliation. Abroad there are many difficulties. For one thing: it is complicated to apply measures of personal and patrimonial preventions when there is not a law that can identify the mafia of a person.

The mafias make a network between them. But in some cases they have been able to change their structure to creep into other groups recognized by civil society. The Calabrian gangs have created the Saint to affiliate some of its members to Freemasonry.
When I explain the mafias to my students, I use the formula of water. The two hydrogen atoms represent violence, a factor common to all criminal organizations. The difference is the atom of oxygen which is the relationship with power, the external competition, the collusions. The mafias, without the relationship with the majority of a country, with representatives of politics, could not resist.

They need the 'power' made up.
The mafias have never been revolutionary, but reactionary and phenomena of ruling class: they are the armed wing of power. In the 1960s, when funds arrived for the South, the 'ndrangheta changes the nature of its structure: it passes from a fabric based on the friendships functional to the bond of blood. Become familistic: relatives, cousins ​​and brothers-in-law begin to affiliate. Feels the need to sit down with the power, to enter into relationships with important exponents of finance and law enforcement. For the 'ndrangheta it was a turning point.

A sort of registration to the tennis club.
The analogy is effective. Call back to what were once the gentlemen's circles, where lawyers and judges sat. The Saint is born with the same reasoning: allows some 'ndranghetisti, initially 33, one for each important family, to enter the elitist club.

Before establishing relations with the 'power', before creating links with foreign organizations, from the south, quickly, have spread their tentacles to the north.
We need to sweep away the culturalist interpretations of the phenomenon: the mafias are not the product of a mentality of the territory. They did not reach the north because of political confinement or forced stay. In the north they moved and rooted because they guaranteed the same conditions they offered in the south: cheap labor and services at bargain prices, like the Casalesi in Modenese. Do you want to spill, recycle, transport inert? We do it, the cosche answered. They were looking for someone to minimize costs and maximize profits. And they found him in the mafia.

Sometimes there are democratic short circuits. It is rare but it happens that to govern "new" forces, at least on paper, far from the old logic.
They look at the national level, but not with great care. The mafias focus on local phenomena. If they have to focus on politics, they prefer to control the municipal administrations and not the election of a representative in Parliament. Exploiting the nominees, they create companies with German partners, now especially Eastern Europe, in order to run into the alternative energy business and other projects that are easily financed by the EU. But these are procedures managed at the local level, not in Brussels.

But in some cases they still try to interact with those who manage public affairs and high-level business.
Yes, but when we refer to money laundering, we do not have to think about what the Schiavone or Morabito do for action: the organizations exploit professionals in the sector. Lawyers who have studies in international law, accountants and financial advisors manage those delicate moments for the clans. Outside Italy there is an alarming scenario. There are lawyers who even set tariffs to recycle money: the mafias pay between 20 and 25% of the amount they want to "clean" and invest.

To fight them, therefore, 'follow the money'.
Follow the money was a great strategy. But now it is no longer effective. And I explain why: there are banks that have many branches in off-shore countries. Imagine this scenario: The brokers who manage the money of a mafia family deposit 30 million euros in a facility where no one asks me the origin of money. With the money I deposit, I ask another branch, located in a different country, for a loan. If I have to open a restaurant I do not do it with the proceeds of the drug, but with a mortgage. So the bank gives me ten million euros and it does so because he knows I have 30 deposited as collateral.

And the investment superficially appears clean.
Exact. For the investigative apparatuses to retrace these steps is a great challenge: today one of the problems to be faced with urgency are the 'normative paradises'. I refer to those countries where there are mild anti-mafia laws. It is difficult to investigate: banks respond to cost-benefit criteria. Bad money drives out the good one: dirty money easily enters the legal economy. This is the strength of the mafias. They have less and less need to use weapons

Where the bullets do not arrive, the money arrives.
And where it's needed Google arrives as well. Some mafiosi in wiretapping boast of what is written about them on the net: "Just type our name to see what we are made of."

One of his books, 'Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War', inspired the TV series of the same name (in Italy the first season is visible on Netflix). Some cinematic interpretations of the 'mafia world' push youngsters to imitate criminal behavior represented in those films. But in Bad Blood the presence of malfeasance is not all-encompassing.
There is indeed a struggle. It is wrong to represent only evil. Some series determine forms of emulation, also because the conflict that the writer creates is between the bad and the worst. And there is no alternative. Instead, every context expresses evil, but also good. To tell only the evil is counterproductive: in those cases it should be the viewer to identify the good independently. But he does not always have the chance to do it. It is necessary to tell the territory's ability to react: when it is said that Sicily has invented the mafia, it must be added that it has also created the Antimafia.

Are we condemned to relate the war to the gangs forever or sooner or later we will succeed in winning it?
If we were to think that Cosa nostra are the Riina and Provenzano we will never win. The strength of the mafia lies in its ability to manage relationships with men who have power. It is used to attack assets, the banks that recycle, the professionals who clean the money. The plot must be hit. The mafias represent a phenomenon that has more than 150 years: they are a ballast for the south.

Casalesi and Cosa Nostra, according to the investigation of the DDA, over the years have managed to place politicians close to them in top positions of the Government.
Calabria, on the other hand, is a border territory. The 'ndrines have taken on another strategy. If we look at the list of loose municipalities we see that the Camorra has Councils infiltrated in Campania, the mafia in Sicily, the 'Ndrangheta, however, in addition to its region of origin, has agencies in Emilia Romagna, Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy. They have not looked at the highest systems, in parliamentary elections, but at local realities. Also because Parliament has never paid real attention to the fight against organized crime. What we have in terms of anti-mafia legislation are emergency measures. They are the result of emotional reactions related to striking facts. After the massacre of Ciaculli we have the parliamentary anti-mafia commission, with the murders of Pio La Torre and Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa the Rognoni-La Torre law, and following the massacres of Palermo, the awarding legislation. The mafias in Italy are from the Bourbon period, but we introduce measures to fight them only since 1960 and as 'response'. We never sat around a table to deal with the issue in a structural way.

But we have excellent investigators.
In the world we are the leaders in the fight against organized crime, but it is a skill born from the emergency. There has never been a political will to fight criminal organizations, because it would be necessary to face all that support them from the outside.

Today it is said that the most precious currency is information.
And in fact the 'ndrangheta already uses the darknet and the undernet. In a recent Eurojust operation, a broker says he can pay in bitcoins. Crime knows how to adapt. I can combine old and new. The 'ndrangheta is a daughter of the beautiful reformed society, the camorra of the early nineteenth century, and continues to have the rules that the camorra, however, has lost. He acquired them in the 'penal baths', where there was a common detention. The Camorra campana has influenced 'ndrangheta and Cosa nostra.

If the Casalesi are in crisis it is precisely because they have expanded their sweaters: everyone or almost can enter that organization. Instead of becoming a ragarrista is a very complicated procedure.
They took the point. The Calabrian is the only mafia organization that has managed to keep alive the semantic ritual of the Reformed Society. They modified it, but the core is that. I repeat: they combine tradition and innovation. In Canada, Australia and Germany they still have initiation rites. They are used to create identity.

The mafias are conservative phenomena. Europe, where the main business of the gangs is concentrated, is punctually shaken by Islamic terrorism. Italy is so far the only one, among the most important nations of the Old Continent, not to have suffered attacks. Is there a strong presence of the mafias?
That there are synergies between criminal organizations and terrorists is true. The Camorra, in Campania, in some cases has provided them with false documents. The 'Ndrangheta has for years had relations with Middle Eastern and South American terrorists. They are organizations that finance themselves with the 'toll': the drug passes through their territories, like the migrants that cross Syria. And to guarantee transit, they receive money. I do not know if these relationships have had a role or not to prevent attacks in Italy. Credit must also be given. But the problem is complex. We are in the minefield of hypotheses. The level of our investigators, of service men is very high. Everywhere our capacity in this sector is well known, because for some time we face, unfortunately, such phenomena. If this analytical-investigative capacity could be added a strong and continuous political will to defeat the mafias, things could change. You could do a lot more.

Published: 07 January 2019

by Francesca Panfili
The power of Calabrian crime unveiled by the investigations

There is a common thread that unites the German territory with the Calabrian territory and, unfortunately, often passes through the powerful presence of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany. A presence that sees the Italian mafias invest millions of euros per year beyond the Alps and that is confirmed not only by the estimates made by the German Ministry of Justice, but also by recent investigations conducted by the district attorney of Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria on the role of Italian mafias in Germany. From these surveys it emerges how the Italian gangs have been restructured after the Duisburg massacre of 15 August 2007, always reusing the same schemes of 'immersion' capillary in the territory. This reorganization involves the recycling of money and the detection of commercial businesses managed by clan families, such as restaurants, bars, ice cream parlors and pizzerias, financed by the huge profits from drug trafficking. The last blitz coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate led to the arrest of a dozen members of the Calabrian clans who were active on the territory of the Bundestag and on an international scale. The Prosecutor had already spoken about the mafia business in the German territoryGiovanni Bombardieri and the Assistant Prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo who declare last December: "The affairs established by various members of well-known families of the 'Calabrian Ndrangheta operating above all in the heart of Locride, dedicated to international drug trafficking, have been identified abroad. , recycling, reinvestment of significant financial capital, especially in the commercial and catering sectors, relying on logistic bases not only in Calabria but also in other Italian regions as well as in the Netherlands and Germany and equipped with a real fleet of vehicles to get cocaine to its destination ".
The same scenario also emerged from the Stige survey conducted by the prosecutor Nicola Gratteriand by the addition Vincenzo Luberto who investigated the role of the clans of Cirò and the lower Ionian Cosenza with the German territory. What emerges from this operation is a dense network of economic ties that unite this part of Italy to Germany through the intermediation of a character, Mario Lavorato , known in the news for his relationship with the powerful cosca of Farao-Marincola di Cirò . Worked it was already finished under investigation in the 90s and was then acquitted. Of his role also spoke several repentants such as the Sicilian Gioacchino Sghembri and Domenico Critelli , deceased boss of Cariati known as 'Saragat'.
This time Mario Lavoratoit would have favored the commercial expansion and the export on the German territory of the products of the 'ndranghetiste families, imposing their purchase to restaurants, bars and pizzerias managed by Italians. To do so, Lavorato would use an association known as Armig of which he is the inspiration, which collects the various Calabrian catering activities in Germany between the cities of Frankfurt and Offenbach and the area of ​​Baden Wuttemberg. For magistrates Nicola Gratteri and Vincenzo Luberto , 'Don Mario' would have used the association to facilitate the interests of the Cossack gangs of which he claimed to be a friend in telephone interception. 'That's my family'said Lavorato in wiretapping in which he also challenged magistrates and authorities. Mario Lavorato's project would not only be limited to the sale of food and wines from the companies of the cirotani clans, but would also extend to German tourism in cities such as Cariati, Rossano and Mandatoriccio where its 'friends' are owners of accommodation facilities and restaurants. In 2017 Mario Lavoratohe managed to bring the mayor of Offenbach and the tourism industry executives of the German town touring the central-northern Ionian area to forge new collaborations and convince the German administrators to create tours and vacations organized in these places controlled by the Faraos and the Marincolos. Of these family settlements in Germany since the 90s, several repenters spoke, including Heicko Kschinna who defined Giuseppe Farao and Cataldo Marincola as the bosses of the Calabrian mafia in Stuttgart and the former killer Giorgio Basile , originally from Corigliano, who spoke of the police German said:"The police never wanted to believe us, but the Germans must convince themselves that there, wherever there is a pizzeria, there is the 'Ndrangheta".

https://blogs.20minutos.es/quefuede...no-en-la-carcel-por-tratos-con-la-mafia/

What happened to ... Vincenzo Iaquinta: the Italian world champion in prison for deals with the Mafia

We have seen athletes with problems with justice go through the blog, but I remember, none of them for their dealings with the mafia. This is the case of Vincenzo Iaquinta.

Who was it ?: An Italian striker from the mid-90s at the beginning of this decade.

Why is he remembered ?: For being the world champion with the Italian national team and player of the caliber of Juventus of Turin.

What became of him ?: He retired in 2013 in the ranks of Juve. After hanging his boots, he got the title of coach, but his legal problems have stopped him.

Did you know ...?: I explain to you what is the problem with the justice: on October 28, in the context of a macro trial against the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia of Calabria (where Iaquinta is natural), the footballer He was sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of illegal possession of arms, while the player's father, Giuseppe, was sentenced to 19 years in prison, accused of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta.


- The player denies any relationship with the mafia and ensures that he was convicted only for being Calabrian.

- Reach fame in his time at Udinese, where he made the leap to Juve in 2007.

- The Turin team paid 11.3 million euros for their services.

- He was part of the Italian team that won the World Cup in 2006: he played five games and scored a goal against Ghana in the first phase.

- He was also in the 2010 World Cup, where he started. The 2008 European Championship was lost due to injury.

- The goal against Ghana of the 2006 World Cup was the first of the six that he got with the Azzurra .

- In the 2010 World Cup he also scored a goal: it was a penalty against New Zealand, in the first phase.

- He is married and has four children.

- It measures 1.89 meters.

Biography, palmares, statistics: Vincenzo Iaquinta was born in Crotone, Calabria, Italy, on November 21, 1979. He debuted as a professional in 1996 at Reggiolo. In 1998 he landed at Padova and later, that year, he went to Castel di Sangro. In 2000 he signed for Udinese, where he spent seven years. He then spent four and a half seasons at Juventus, because in 2012 he was loaned to Cesena. He returned to Juve in June of that year, but retired soon after. In his palmares he has a scudetto with Juventus. With Italy he played 40 games and scored six goals. He won, as I was saying, a World Cup.

From "Coca Tauro" to other ports, cocaine is the business of the ndrangheta
Domenico Latino analyzed the Italian Port Security report on Italian port security 2018 in Gazzetta del Sud

Of editorial board - January 4, 2019

The traffic of cocaine is still firmly in the hands of the ndragheta. And 'this is the main fact that emerges from the report of " Italian port security " analyzed by Domenico Latino on the issue today of the Southern Journal .

One of the novelties in the traffic of white powder is the search by families of new routes and ports in order to make the detection of loads by the investigators more difficult.
The report reads: «Among all the various mafia-type organizations in Italy, in fact, the Calabrian has managed to acquire almost total control of this traffic, pushing other criminal organizations, Italian or foreign, to specialize in the traffic of other drugs or in other illicit traffics. The peculiarity of the 'Ndrangheta is that the detention of this monopoly allows it to care less than other trades, such as that of foreign manufactured tobacco, preferring to leave this type of activity in Camorra and Puglia mafias, almost to divide up the proceeds for a peaceful modus vivendi. The acquisition of this substantial monopoly was possible thanks to the creation of solid relations with the South American cartels that made the 'Ndrangheta
among the most important mafia organizations in the world, with ramifications also in Central and Northern Italy and in the rest of Europe (as well as in the rest of the world). Therefore, it is the other Italian mafia organizations that have to turn to the Calabrian clans for the purchase of cocaine consignments ".
Gioia Tauro, according to the study published by Clarissa Spada and Francesco Marone and edited by Lorenzo Vidino, continues to be the main gateway to white powder in Italy.

"And it is precisely in this way - the authors write - that the port of Gioia Tauro increases even more its importance in the world chessboard of traffic. As known, in fact, it also constitutes the largest entrance door to cocaine, so much so as to be sometimes called "Coca Tauro". A port which has now become fundamental for the 'Ndrangheta, where the most important families of the Gioia Tauro plain - Piromalli, Pesce, Molè, Bellocco - dominate and succeed in penetrating the management of the port on several levels ».
The strong crackdown on Gioia Tauro has meant that the 'ndrangheta has gradually started to look elsewhere, looking for new points of arrival, where to get its "white gold" from South America. "The various gangs have thus thought to address the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans have managed to create and cement have made these areas a crossroads of sorting ", moreover, closer" to the remunerative dealing channels ".

The impressive checks carried out over the years in the Calabria airport have pushed the clans to diversify the routes and try to find new points of arrival for cocaine. "The various gangs have thus thought to address the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans managed to create and cement have made these areas a sort of crossroads ".

Analyzing the report he writes this morning Latino in Gazzetta del sud: "The container is certainly the most widely used means of transporting coca, concealed behind cover loads, sophisticated double doppers developed to circumvent the X-ray controls or even , in empty containers. For some years the technique of rip-off system has been adopted, which consists in positioning the drug lot in bags in front of the container ship, in such a way as to be easily extracted from "infidel" port operators. Another one concerns transshipment operations off the coasts on smaller boats, often fishing boats. It also happens that the drugs are thrown into the sea from the mother ship, equipped with GPS, so as to intercept them. Finally,

I would love to see more of these Ndrangheta snitches and if they talked numbers. Like in El CHapos trial now all the snitches they tell how much kilos/tons they moved. How much money they made, how much people they killed.. I Would love to see an ex Ndrina confirm the numbers the media says the earn, the 50 billion dollar a year,.. Hear from them if its completly false or close to the truth.

In the early hours of today, Thursday, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catanzaro, supported by the military from the special wards of the Arma, led the operation "Reventinum".

Twelve people arrested on charges of mafia-type criminal association. On the basis of what emerged during the investigation, two clans of the 'Ndrangheta would have fought in a bloody way to acquire dominion over the Presila Catanzaro mountains. The investigation has resulted in the blitz taken at dawn in Calabria and in some northern regions.

The declarations that the young 30-year-old repentant Emanuele Mancuso, scion of the powerful Mancuso clan of Limbadi left on many occasions, are destined to open new lines of inquiry.

https://www.quotidianodelsud.it/cal...ele-mancuso-collabora-boss-tremano-leone

New repentant ! This is Francesco Trunfio, considered a member of the powerful Piromalli clan.

https://lacnews24.it/cronaca/ndrangheta-nuovo-pentito-gioia-tauro-trunfio-piromalli_73709/

foreign gangs are usually weak and disorganized in italy, they are puppets of italian oc
anyway nigerian gangs who are the strongest among foreign groups nowadays work more for sicilian mafia and camorra than ndrangheta
several drug dealers in the northern italian cities are nigerians and they work under italian oc that need manpower to deal large amount of drugs and there are not enough local ones

26 year old Antonio Barbieri, nicknamed 'U gnauji´ was shot two times in the head in his Mercedes. He´s fighting for his life. Barbieri recently lived in Germany.

https://altrepagine.it/index.php/no...a-colpi-di-pistola-grave-un-pregiudicato

Over 115 kg of pure cocaine seized in operation against mafia in Italy
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ROME, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Italian police seized over 115 kilograms of pure cocaine in the southern port of Gioia Tauro in a major operation against the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, authorities said on Tuesday.

The drug was hidden aboard a cargo ship inside a container carrying paper reels from San Antonio in Chile. The ship reached Gioia Tauro after a stopover in the Panamanian port of Rodman, and its final destination was the port of Livorno in central Italy.

The cocaine seized would have been worth about 23 million euros (26.3 million U.S. dollars) on the market, Italy's finance military police and customs agency carrying out the operation said in a statement.

The Gioia Tauro port in the Calabria region is considered a major hub for international drug trafficking, and is allegedly under the control of the 'Ndrangheta, currently seen as the most powerful of Italy's three traditional mafia organizations.

According to Italy's anti-drug services, most of the cocaine smuggled in Europe has been delivered from South America to Gioia Tauro port in latest years.

"Almost two tons of cocaine have been seized at the Gioia Tauro port alone in 2017," finance police explained on Tuesday.

"According to the analysis of the Central Directorate for Anti-Drug Services (DCSA), this would amount to 80.98 percent of all cocaine seized across the country in the year," they added.

In its annual report released in mid-2018, the DCSA said Gioia Tauro confirmed to be the main entrance for cocaine to Italy. "The analysis of seizures (of cocaine) carried out in this port area in the last 5 years shows an increasing trend with a peak in 2017."

Italy's finance police on Tuesday also sounded an alarm on allegedly unabated efforts of the 'Ndrangheta to find new entry points to the European continent.

"It seems likely the 'Ndrangheta local branches -- which have almost become sole agents for Latin America drug traffickers in Europe -- are constantly looking for new harbors with a relevant traffic volume and, at the same time, more tenuous controls," they wrote.

Police mentioned the ports of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and of Antwerp in Belgium as examples.

In early December, Italian police coordinated an international anti-mafia operation that busted a major 'Ndrangheta drug smuggling and money laundering ring in Europe.

Some 90 suspects -- 70 of whom were Italian nationals -- were arrested in cooperation with police forces in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2019-01/15/content_74376357.htm

There were also cases where the Calabrians work with chinese importeurs. Italian chinatowns make loads of money both legal and illegal.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-arrest-suspected-sicilian-mobsters-for-drug-smuggling/a-47122157

German police arrest suspected Sicilian mobsters for drug smuggling.
Italian and German police have launched raids against members of the Sicilian Mafia, according to Italian officials. The suspects nabbed in Germany were allegedly linked with Turkish clans and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

He died after four days of agony. Police arrested two youngsters, Cristian Filadoro, 27, and Vincenzo Fornataro, 33, would have confessed during the interrogation. At the base of the crime, according to the first indiscretions, sentimental reasons. Both men have a record for drug dealing, extortion and robbery.

Siderno boss Cosimo Commisso, also known as "The Quail", has been released ! The Godfather served a life sentence since 1998, but was acquitted for not having committed the fact by a Naples judge.

Cosenza: drug dealing and extortion, 17 arrests
Extortion and drug dealing in Cosenza: a vast operation of the Carabinieri in progress..

The way people talk about the Ndrangheta, it would appear that pretty soon the Camorra and cosa nostra will he answering to and buying from them.

They will never answer to 'Ndrangheta. Sicilians have their own territory and Camorra too , no need to asnwer to Calabrians. Sicily is biggest producer of weed in Europe, it is common that they supply 'Ndrangheta with weed in exchange of cocaine.

Seems like a fair arrangement. Have the Sicilians ever made money like the Ndrangheta are making right now? It almost seems unprecedented. Had the American mafia kept up what they were doing before they were just decimated, I’m sure they would rival them in power and influence but clearly the Ndrangheta is one of the top OC groups in the world if not the top OC group. And the crazy part is, there’s little to no articles out online that identify the real top Ndrangheta bosses.

Did the Ndrangheta have to go outside of Italy to really start to grab the control of the cocaine trade in Europe or did they first become a powerhouse in Calabria and then the rest of Italy

sicilian mafia at its peak probably made far more money than today ndrangheta
heroin (the most lucrattive drug at that time) was produced in sicily and distributed in both europe and north america
cocaine is imported by south america not produced in italy

They are big players, but they do not control European cocaine trade. There's not a single group who can do that.