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Re: Ndrangheta News [Re: Hollander] #979771
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Originally Posted by Hollander
A building contractor was killed yesterday evening in Reggio Calabria. The victim, Francesco Cuzzocrea, 61 years already known to the police, was on a piece of land in the north-east of the city when several shots were fired at him.


According to the investigators, Cuzzocrea was affiliated with the Ficara-Latella clan. Already known to the police, between the end of the 1980s (Olimpia Trial) and the beginning of the 90s (Operation Valanidi 1) he was charged in criminal proceedings and sentenced to three years in prison for mafia association. In 2007 he attended a meeting in a restaurant with several bosses and politicians including the senator Sergio De Gregorio.


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On Friday seven leaders were sentenced by the highest court to life in prison.

Rocco and Francesco Cristello , aged 56 and 49,
Claudio Formica , 54,
Leonardo Prestia , 46,
Massimo Zanchin , 44,
Cristian Silvagna , 46
Sergio Sestito , 51,


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For the second time in 2 months, the boss of the 'Ndrangheta Domenico Paviglianiti is released from prison for an end of his sentence.

The man, captured in Spain in '96, in the last months the life sentence had been replaced with 30 years and in August he had been freed and, in less than 24 hours, arrested on the order of the Prosecutor of Bologna, for different counting of the sentence .

Now, on 18 October, a investigating judge received a request for defense, ordering his release. But the prosecutors have appealed.

In the eighties and nineties, Domenico Paviglianiti, 58, was considered a "boss of bosses" of the 'ndrangheta reggina.


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NDRANGHETA, INCREASES THE NUMBER OF PENTITI IN CALABRIA
The 'ndrangheta is today the third criminal organization as a number of collaborators of justice, preceded by a Camorra with 504 and Cosa Nostra with 258, followed instead by the Apulian clans with 167.

The latest "Report on protective measures for collaborators of justice, their effectiveness and the general methods of application" presented to Parliament by the Ministry of the Interior certifies the increase in the collaboration of former members of 'ndrine and locali. Thus stated Giuseppe Lo Re, from the Gazzetta del sud.

In Calabria there are 177 Ndrangheta regrets and the figures are increasing

The snapshot is set at the end of 2018, so the numbers could be further changed in recent months thanks to some other "repentance" managed by the Dda of Reggio and Catanzaro, as well as by other anti-mafia prosecutors that penetrate criminal activities throughout Italy of the 'Ndrangheta , explained the reporter of the Gazzetta.

As for the criminal organization of 'ndrangheta, due to its peculiarities, it is less subject to the phenomenon of Pentitism but in recent years the phenomenon has increased.

The law on the figure of the Collaborator of Justice in Italy is issued in 1980, updated for the first time in 1991, and one last time in 2001. The list therefore starts from the year 1980.


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It was an unprecedentedly large international anti-mafia operation last December, which began in three Dutch pizzerias.
During the coordinated action against the Italian 'Ndrangheta, 84 people were arrested in different countries.
The mafia clan from Calabria dominates drug trafficking to Europe.
61 suspects are now in court in southern Italy.


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'Ndrangheta: for Piana di Gioia Tauro there is a new collaborator of justice
Of Editorial board -31 October 2019

This is Massimiliano Santaiti, belonging to the homonymous' ndrina di Seminara. He would have chosen the path of collaboration
Within the 'ndrangheta, there is a new collaborator of justice in the plain of Gioia Tauro .

The news of his collaboration emerged officially during the "Grifone" appeal process , in which at first instance he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for drug trafficking and arms.

This is Massimiliano Santaiti , belonging to the homonymous clan of Seminara . At this moment involved in two trials brought by the Dda of Reggio Calabria , the first and the second tranche of "Grifone" .

And it was with the magistrates of the anti-mafia prosecutor's office that he started speaking since September 26th, when he signed the first report.

In the document the new collaborator admits that his family belongs to the 'ndrangheta. And he confirms the separation from the clan of his cousin Carmelo Santaiti after his arrest. A detail that allowed the latter's lawyers, lawyers Armando Veneto , Domenico Putrino and Vladimir Solano , to obtain the release from prison .

The process has been updated to November 13 and on this date it is likely that new details will emerge regarding Massimiliano Santaiti's statements .


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Dozens arrested in massive 'Ndrangheta operation
Blow to Calabrian-based mafia's offshoot in Turin area

(ANSA) - Turin, November 5 - Province of Turin Carabinieri police said on Tuesday that they had executed warrants for the arrest of 64 people suspected of belonging to, or being linked to, an offshoot of the Calabrian-based 'ndrangheta mafia in the northern region of Piedmont. The suspects are accused of crimes including mafia association and international drug trafficking.
Finance police informed six people that they are under investigation for allegedly money laundering and the fraudulent transfer of assets as part of the same operation.
Police also seized assets, including bank accounts and shares in companies.
The investigation stemmed from the testimony of a former mobster turned State witness, Domenico Agresta.


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Dozens arrested in massive 'Ndrangheta operation
Blow to Calabrian-based mafia's offshoot in Turin area



'Ndrangheta, the father against the son who collaborates with the magistrates: "I'm bastardazzo wanted to ruin us"
Saverio Agresta, a native of Platì (Reggio Calabria), unleashes himself with his daughter, Mimma. It is November 2, 2016 and comments on that shocking circumstance: on October 7, his son Domenico, 31, nicknamed Micu McDonald, had begun to collaborate with the justice while he was detained in the prison of Saluzzo (Cuneo). Investigators provided a lot of information learned directly from their father and many of his statements provided material for the "Cerbero" investigation that brought 57 people to prison

by Andrea Giambartolomei | 7 NOVEMBER 2019
"'I'm bastard bastard wanted to ruin us. "I'm bastard of shit ". The news of his son's repentance was not taken at all by his father, one of the leaders of the ' Ndrangheta in Volpiano, a village in the province of Turin. "I'm not sleeping at night. I think of all things. He couldn't do a thing of these. This is blind hatred ". And with those words Saverio Agresta , a native of Platì (Reggio Calabria), unleashes himself with his daughter, Mimma. It is November 2, 2016 and comments on that shocking circumstance: on October 7, his son Domenico, 31, nicknamed Micu McDonald, had begun to collaborate with the justice while he was detained in the prison of Saluzzo (Cuneo). Investigators provided a lot of information learned directly from their father and many of his statements provided material for the " Cerbero " investigation that brought 57 people to prison, while four are under house arrest. Many are linked to the local 'ndrangheta of Volpiano and San Giusto Canavese. "The reactions of the relatives to the news of the 'repentance' of Agresta Domenico are particularly significant - the investigating judge Luca Fidelio notes in the precautionary custody order - in which they reflect the previous insertion in organized crime and the concern for information that the collaborator could have revealed to the investigators ".

Despite his young age, Micu McDonald has been in prison for several years. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder committed in Borgiallo in 2008, a few months after his affiliation. In the cell he still climbs the degrees and becomes " godfather ". In 2011 he was arrested for the “ Minotauro operation", The one that revealed the heavy infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Turin and deals a penalty for mafia association. After a few years he began his journey in contrast with that of his family: his ancestors were prominent figures of the 'ndrangheta. And the father's outburst is very eloquent: "Because the jail didn't know how it is, 'I'm bastardazzo, before going to ruin, ah?" And then again: "He doesn't like jail, do you understand? First he combines the messes and then he doesn't like jail ... "I'm a bastard". Later he resumed the speech: "The jail unfortunately is not roses and flowers. He must have known it before he ruined himself that is not roses. First he gets drunk and then he messes. He went to make the mess that seemed to him that he could do what he wants. The jail seemed to him a walk ".

The boss hopes to make his regretful son change his mind. Otherwise, he has a solution: "Everyone knows me there and I just go, then send embassies." Among the acquaintances there would be some relatives: "If someone I know comes in, I tell them: 'See where it is'. Stop. Then once we know where he is, one goes to the prosecutor's office and says, "What are you doing?" But they deny you, they tell you it's not true ". There would also be a problem with the lawyer. The family lawyer would have been rejected because the repentant young man would have named a new one and no one knows who he is, so the family cannot approach him. The hope is that the investigators do not believe in the son and do not let him enter the protection program: "They keep him that way for fifteen days to see if he has said something that is true. If it is not true, they go there and tell him 'Listen, take the baubles and get out of where you came'. ISthey throw it as uncle Rocco threw it". That is Rocco Marando, another penitent of the homonymous clan, also very powerful, linked to the Agrestas. At that point there, the father would re-embrace the prodigal son: "It is not that one abandons him. A moment of despair can happen, isn't it? " His father also feels discouragement, saying he no longer sleeps at night from the thought of his repentant son: "This is blind hatred, Mimma, blind hate! But what hate do your parents have? " And again: "Who are you who allow yourself the luxury of doing this to us. Looks like we sent you to jail. If we sent you to jail you were right. But you went to ruin yourself ". And so, a few weeks later, the attitude changes. On December 15 Saverio Agresta was summoned by the carabinieri and spoke with his wife, Anna Marando, and came to a conclusion: "If he dissociated himself from us,


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The hands of the gangs on the restaurants of the North. The police in Milan carried out a precautionary custody order in Lombardy and Piedmont against nine people held responsible, in various capacities, for criminal association and fraudulent transfer of values.
The investigations shed light on the interests of subjects close to the 'Ndrangheta who reinvested money the result of illegal activities, with the release of large capitals in the large restaurant circuit in Northern Italy. Among the seizures, for over 10 million euros, the company shares of some restaurants of a well-known chain of pizzerias.
Among the seizures, the company shares of some restaurants belonging to the famous chain of "tour-pizza" Tourlé, attributable to Giuseppe Carvelli, multi-judged for drug trafficking "close" to the Calabrian gangs.
Calvelli has behind him a 22-year heap of penalties for international drug trafficking, known connections with the 'Ndrangheta of the Mancuso of Limbadi (Vibo Valentia) and of the Pesce of Rosarno (Reggio Calabria) but investments of millions of euros in a chain of restaurants extended throughout northern Italy. He was arrested in 2008 with 6 kilos of cocaine. Thanks to the award permits and probation in social services, in 2017 he left the prison and asked for an account of the investment, resuming the management of what later became a chain of premises.


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The recent arrests in northern italy have been linked to the powerful drug broker Nicola Assisi, 61, and his son Patrick arrested in Brazil in July.

https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/11101-italy-71-ndrangheta-arrests-in-the-rich-north


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The Italian police have seized a record amount of cocaine. In the port of Gioia Tauro in the southern Italian region of Calabria, a batch of 1200 kilos of cocaine with a market value of more than 250 million euros has been seized. The drugs were hidden in banana boxes and came from South America, police said Thursday.

"It is one of the largest batches of drugs ever on our national territory," the statement said. The 1176 kilos of pure cocaine was discovered on Monday in 144 green packages in a cooled banana container. The drugs had Germany as their final destination.

The container port in Gioia Tauro is considered a notorious transit point for drugs for the Mafia. According to the police, more than 2.5 tonnes of cocaine have been seized there in the last twelve months.

The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta is considered the most powerful criminal organization in the global drug trade.


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The finance guard, the carabinieri and the Dia in Reggio Calabria, with the coordination of the Dda, seized assests for a value of two hundred million euros attributable to four Reggio entrepreneurs. These are Michele and Giuseppe Surace, Andrea Giordano and Carmelo Ficara. The four entrepreneurs involved are suspected of "belonging" to the Tegano and De Stefano crime families.


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The latest book by the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri and professor Antonio Nicaso entitled "The network of the invisibles" ( ed. Mondadori ) was presented last night.
The 'Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful mafias in the world that has been able to create an "invisible network" that connects drug trafficking, arms sales, toxic waste trafficking, recycling with entrepreneurship, freemasonry, finance and politics.
"The new bosses are uncensored, professionals above all suspicion and move the ranks of profits and are carriers of water at the well of the local chief- explained Nicola Gratteri during the La7 broadcast - They are in Calabria, but also in Milan, Turin, Reggio Emilia and Verona ". The book by Gratteri and Nicaso speaks of a 'Ndrangheta that, in the digital age, has all the technologies of high finance to invest, recycle all the proceeds coming from its activities, such as the use of crypto currencies. This is how the two authors wanted to unmask 'Ndrangheta who believes itself invisible within the world.


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Brother of an alleged 'Ndrangheta boss wounded in an ambush in Milan. It would be Damiano Maiolo, brother of Cosimo, considered the "capo società" of Pioltello, a native of Caulonia, one of the two people injured during a shootout in Milan on Saturday evening outside a club.
The other person, a 40-year-old Albanian, hit by a bullet in the abdomen is hospitalized in serious condition. The 40-year-old would instead be a relative of Augustin Leka, who in June 2007 was kneecapped by a commando of which Cosimo Maiolo would also have been a member.


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The latest book by the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri and professor Antonio Nicaso entitled "The network of the invisibles" ( ed. Mondadori ) was presented last night.
The 'Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful mafias in the world that has been able to create an "invisible network" that connects drug trafficking, arms sales, toxic waste trafficking, recycling with entrepreneurship, freemasonry, finance and politics.
"The new bosses are uncensored, professionals above all suspicion and move the ranks of profits and are carriers of water at the well of the local chief- explained Nicola Gratteri during the La7 broadcast - They are in Calabria, but also in Milan, Turin, Reggio Emilia and Verona ". The book by Gratteri and Nicaso speaks of a 'Ndrangheta that, in the digital age, has all the technologies of high finance to invest, recycle all the proceeds coming from its activities, such as the use of crypto currencies. This is how the two authors wanted to unmask 'Ndrangheta who believes itself invisible within the world.



Would love to read this book if it’s translated to English.

Does anyone know if “Mafia Export” has ever been translated to English yet?

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Salvatore Condina, 51-year-old man, was shot dead in Bagnara Calabra, in the Reggio area. The body was found late Wednesday night near his home. According to the first findings, the man, was already known to the police for drug trafficking and other crimes.


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'Ndrangheta, the nephew of the alleged boss Tegano reveals: "The police helped his inaction on several occasions"

22 November 2019
'Ndrangheta, the nephew of the alleged boss Tegano reveals: "The police helped his inaction on several occasions"Roberto Moio
"Unfaithful" law enforcement officers have warned the 80-year-old boss Giovanni Tegano of his imminent arrest, allowing him to escape.

This was stated by justice collaborator Roberto Moio, acquired nephew of the Tegano boss, captured on April 26th 2010 by the staff of the mobile team headed then by the current Palermo commissioner, Renato Cortese, during the hearing of the "Ndrangheta stragista" trial in course in front of the Court of Assizes of Reggio Calabria, presided by Ornella Pastore.

Moio, answering the questions of the deputy prosecutor of the Dda Giuseppe Lombardo, also reported that many 'Ndranghetists often stayed at the former Hotel Miramare without being registered, focusing on the "Tegano system" with the "infidels" servants of the State, made up of exchanging favors , such as hiring in municipalized companies - the 'Leonia' and the 'Multiservizi', already bankrupt - where the Ndrangheta of Archi imposed hiring and supply of goods and services.

But the collaborator also reported a mafia summit held at the home of the boss Tegano, stating that he met one of the leaders of the Sacred Crown in Puglia, Salvatore Annacondia, who also became a collaborator of justice. During that summit, we are in the early 90s, it would have been Annacondia to inform those present of the thesis of the boss Giovanni Brusca according to whom the murders of the judges Falcone and Borsellino represented a "phase of no return" with respect to the terrorist attack on the programmed State by Salvatore Riina, in search of a new "pact". Moio, with reference to the Mafia summit in the house of the Tegano, also stated that the meeting featured elements of the first 'ndrangheta, such as Domenico Paviglianiti, Pasquale Tegano,

"They asked those present what we were doing there - he said - but they didn't record anyone's documents". The boss of Melicucco, Rocco Santo Filippone, a trusted man of the Piromalli of Gioia Tauro, and the boss of the Brancaccio district Giuseppe Graviano are in the process accused.

https://www.lanuovacalabria.it/post...tarono-la-sua-latitanza-in-piu-occasioni


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Drug trafficking from Colombia to Italy: 16 people on trial
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International drug trafficking from Colombia to Italy: 16 people connected to the 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra.

For the international drug traffic coming from the Colombian cartels, the judges ordered the trial for as many as 16 people. All this is part of the "European 'ndrangheta connection" investigation, where people linked to the' Ndrangheta and the Camorra campanian environment are involved.

As reported by "Cronache della Campania", next January, before the tribunal of Locri, they will have to appear:

Serafino Rubino, a 39-year-old fugitive from Caserta
Antonio Barbaro, 41 years old from Locri;
Domenico Barbaro, 37, from Locri;
Giuseppe Campagna, a 46-year-old Neapolitan;
Maria Rosaria Campagna, 50 years old Neapolitan, companion of the mafia boss Salvatore Cappello known as Turi;
Luciano Camporesi, fugitive, 44 years old from Rimini;
Salvatore Santo Cappello, from Naples;
Roberto Esposito, 28 years of Gragnano;
Carmelo Vincenzo Gerasolo, 31 years of Locri;
Domenico Pelle, aka Micu i Mata, 69 years of San Luca;
Giuseppe Pelle, 38 years of Locri;
Antonio Pizzata, aka Piritinu, 31 years of Locri;
Vincenzo Salzano, 51 years old from Naples;
Angelo Sansottera, 70 years of Milan;
Giuseppe Strangio, 24 years old from Locri;
Giorgio Violi, 43 years old from Reggio Calabria.


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Moments of terror this morning in Moncalieri, a town near Turin, an ambush in the street, perhaps due to a settlement of accounts. It happened in Via Sestriere, where a man was hit with three bullets and left on the ground in a pool of blood. The wounded man, about 45 years old, already known to the police was walking along the sidewalk of the Sangone river when a man approached him and shot him. At least three direct hits, which hit him in the legs, thus giving the impression of a punishment, without wanting to kill the offender.


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There is a "logical and sufficient motivation in relation to the evaluation of the evidence" in the life sentence of Francesco Pelle, called "Ciccio Pakistan" for the Christmas massacre of 2006, which marked the resumption of the "Feud of San Luca ".

The reasons of the Cassation judges who confirmed the sentenceagainst the 42-year-old Pelle could be read in tomorrow's edition of the Gazzetta del Sud.

Francesco Pelle was injured during an ambush in July 2006 while he was in his home in Africo. After the sentence of cassation the 42-year-old Pelle took to flight and is currently wanted.


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The 'Ndrangheta fugitive Giuseppe Mancuso, 30, was arrested, perhaps he was preparing an ambush. At the time of the Carabinieri's raid, a 9mm gun ready for use and a precision rifle capable of striking a kilometer away were in its lair in Zacchanopoli,
The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Vibo Valentia had been hunting him since September 2018, or since the day together with his father, Panteleone Mancuso, aka the engineer, they had decided to disappear from circulation. They had just heard of the repentance of one of their relatives, Emanuele Mancuso, now a collaborator of justice. His father was captured a year ago in Rome. Emanuele's brother was hiding inside a small villa on the outskirts of Zaccanopoli, the heart of the province of Vibo Valentia. To protect him was an unsuspected couple made up of a boy of just 19, Francesco Pugliese, and a citizen of the Dominican Republic, Luisa Maria Borrone, 40 years old. The two were arrested for aiding and abetting.
The deputy commander of the Investigative Unit Alessandro Bui explains: “As always happens, the fugitive remains in his territory to maintain control. Through the analysis of the movements in his close relational circle we reached the home of Zaccanopoli but at the time of the raid we did not know who was in it . It was a surprise for them and, above all, for him who did not even have time to move."


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Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia that continues to threaten Europe
Nicola Gratteri and Antonio Nicaso analyze the evolution of one of the richest criminal groups in the world, well rooted in the Old Continent. From our correspondent in Italy Quentin Raverdy
Published on 02/12/2019 at 16:00 | The Point.fr

Heir to 18th century banditry in Calabria, one of the least developed regions of southern Italy , 'Ndrangheta is today a real multinational crime, generating tens of billions of euros in turnover thanks to its multiple activities (kidnapping, drug trafficking, financial investments, etc.). At his service: more than 140 clans and nearly 6,000 affiliates whose appetite has long since crossed the borders of Calabria and Italy to conquer Europe . On the Old Continent, the Calabrian mafia reinvests the lucrative income of its various trades in the legal economy, the nose and the beard of local authorities.

The 'Ndrangheta is today one of the most powerful mafia in the world, present on all continents, but also one of the least known. We are far from the image conveyed by her sisters Neapolitan (Camorra) or Sicilian (Cosa Nostra). An extreme discretion that is his strength, as his incredible ability to adapt to his time while keeping alive the rites and traditions that are the unity of families' ndranghetistes . Nicola Gratteri, a famous Calabrian prosecutor (for thirty years under police protection), and Antonio Nicaso *, a historian of criminal organizations, decipher for Le Point the empire of 'Ndrangheta.

How has ' Ndrangheta become one of the most powerful mafias in the world today?

Nicola Gratteri: From 1975, the 'Ndrangheta started a phase of kidnappings for ransoms. There were 250 in all. Kidnapping money was then invested in cocaine trafficking. While Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia, had engaged in Stragismo (strategy of terror, Ed), the 'Ndrangheta, she sent men to South America to buy cocaine at the lowest price. This explains their power today: with these millions of euros, they were able to buy everything in Rome and beyond, not only in Italy but throughout Europe.
Antonio Nicaso: Today, the money of the 'Ndrangheta enters with an impressive facility in the circuits of the legal economy, there is no resistance. (...) She succeeds in establishing herself outside her territory because she always finds brokers, lawyers, accountants who will guarantee her money laundering and the reinvestment of her money.

Through your work, you show that 'Ndrangheta is not only a threat to Italy.

Nicola Gratteri: Exactly, it's a problem that concerns Europe. Today, while we are discussing, there are dozens of Ndrangheta cells in Germany but also in Switzerland , Spain or the Netherlands. But also in France , where, for example, the Stefano clan works on the Côte d'Azur. The mafias buy everything that goes through their heads: hotels, restaurants, pizzerias, real estate. They also buy bits of newspapers or televisions, which can then affect people's thinking. It becomes very dangerous .

You explain that 'Ndrangheta has an incredible ability to adapt, immersing itself perfectly in the globalized economy.

N.G .: Yes, today, it offers opportunities to the market. That is to say, it succeeds, for example, in providing services at very advantageous prices by providing companies with cheap, hired and underpaid labor. It is like the Chinese when they produce at a low cost and compete with Europeans and Americans.

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A force of adaptation that she applies even within her organization?

A. N .: Ndrangheta becomes more and more post-Fordist in the management of resources. For example, we observe how this mafia now outsources some of its activities to minor groups. The Albanian clans have been dubbed by the 'Ndrangheta and are now busy organizing cocaine shipments from Latin America.

You advance in your last book that 'Ndrangheta is today less violent. Why ?

A. N .: Ndrangheta is now more in the control and management of territory than in subversive violence. She understood the mistake made in Duisburg (a violent settling of accounts between clans, in full street, in 2007, Ed). The people and legislators only notice the existence of mafias when they use violence. So the 'Ndrangheta seeks to' use less arms' not to create a social alarm, which eventually anesthetize the collective conscience against the mafia. Unlike what was done by Cosa Nostra in Sicily or the Camorra in Naples.

The Calabrian Mafia evolves permanently, also on questions of manners. You are addressing the issue of homosexuality, why?

A. N .: Let's say that before it was unthinkable to have a homosexual orientation because one of the conditions was precisely to show himself as "a man". Today, we have seen in our investigations some bosses assert their homosexuality even if they avoided revealing it to others for fear of being killed. Or the example of another arrested boss who has found love letters from one of his affiliates. This continues to be a taboo but this situation is starting to emerge. These elements show that, although it is slower than in society, 'Ndrangheta evolves.

Despite this permanent search for modernity, does' Ndrangheta draw its strength from tradition?

A. N .: Yes. One of its great strengths lies in its ability to combine new and old, tradition and innovation. The most powerful mafias in the world are those who do not neglect their traditions. In 'Ndrangheta, rookies initiation rites, symbols, founding myths are extremely strong elements of unity and identity.

In your opinion, could Europe do more against Calabrian crime?

N. G.: Yes. Because 'Ndrangheta takes advantage of the differences in legislation between the countries of Europe. Italian law against the mafia is the most advanced in the world. But, unfortunately, the tragedy is that other European countries are not equipped from the point of view of law to fight the mafias. And it would require greater awareness on the part of politicians. Unfortunately, our Europe is too weak.

A. N .: While 'Ndrangheta is globalizing, action against the Mafia is struggling to internationalize. It is not enough to fight the 'Ndrangheta in Italy or to hope in the repentance of some children of' ndranghetistes. What we would like is a global anti-'Ndrangheta fight.

In Italy, to fight against the Mafia, the repressive answer is it sufficient? The question of employment, especially in Calabria, is it not essential?

A. N .: It is clear that the 'Ndrangheta tries to somehow condition the territory but especially to guarantee the minimum welfare, which becomes a constraint, a submission. (...) So, when it comes to fighting the 'Ndrangheta, we must not only think about handcuffs and prison sentences, we must also think about school, about education. Also think about the possibility of finding a job, fighting unemployment, which often becomes a reservoir in which criminal organizations seek labor. (...) But this requires attention and a political will that unfortunately do not exist at the moment. The last elections in Italy showed one thing: the fight against the mafia was not part of the

* Authors of many books on 'Ndrangheta, they publish this month (in Italian) La Rete degli invisibili at Mondadori.

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ITALIAN CASSATION SENTENCE
In Frauenfeld it was not 'ndrangheta. And now?
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 2ND 2019 22.5002 DECEMBER 2019 - 22:50
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CC type video with 'Carabinieri di Reggio Calabria' logo showing some men discussing around a table
The images that made the Frauenfeld cell known.

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The device of the sentence with which the Italian Court of Cassation on Friday declared that the organization discovered in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, was not a 'ndrangheta cell was made public. The sentences to the presumed bosses Antonio Nesci and Raffaele Albanese have thus fallen. The TG of the RSI has spoken of it with the president of the Italian parliamentary anti-mafia Commission Nicola Morra.

"The judgments are respected", begins Morra, shifting the reflection on the methods of organized crime that change - with time, corruption has taken the place of intimidation - so as to fall more easily in the article of the Italian Criminal Code on mafia-type association (416 bis).

A video like the one shot in Frauenfeld, in which the suspects talk about weapons, drugs and extortion, is not enough: there is no evidence of the intimidating power exercised over the surrounding community.

In reality, as recalled by the head of the judicial chronicle of the CSR Francesco Lepori, the acquittal of Nesci and Albanese does not put an end to the story: the positions of nine defendants arrested in Switzerland, extradited and convicted at first instance in Italy remain open.

Meanwhile, questions are being asked about the strategy of the Swiss authorities to provide Italy with all the necessary elements so that the Calabrian investigators could guarantee a conviction. At present, Lepori estimates, it was the best feasible.


(1)Interview with Nicola Morra and analysis by Francesco Lepori after the Cassation sentence on the alleged Frauenfeld bosses

In the deepening of CSR, the interview with Nicola Morra and the analysis of Francesco Lepori

The fact

The first section of the Italian Court of Cassation canceled Friday, without postponement, the sentence to 14 of imprisonment issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria for the crime of mafia association against Antonio Nesci.

The seventy year old native of Fabrizia, Vibo Valentia, was accused of belonging to a 'ndrangheta cell discovered in Frauenfeld, Turgovia, as part of the' Helvetia 'operation conducted by the Reggio Calabria district anti-mafia division. The investigators had identified him as "head and promoter of the association". The 75-year-old Raffaele Albanese was also sentenced to 12 years.

As a result of the Cassation sentence, Nesci - who was detained under the 41-bis (hard prison) regime - was immediately released from prison. Albanese, who was under house arrest, is released again.
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I have only heard Nicaso bring up homosexuality in Ndrangheta, he mentions it in one of his books regarding the Woodbridge.

Doesn’t sound like it’s acceptable, is it? Also, haven’t HA in Quebec also have had open homosexual members?

Gianni Versace was Calabrese, he wasn’t Ndrangheta was he, sorry if that sounds dumb.

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Antonio Rao, 67, a native of Reggio Calabria, who lived in Rivalta (Turin) and is considered "a member of the mafia" has been captured in Bolivia.

This was reported by the police chief of Sant Cruz, Miguel Mercado. Rao, Mercado added, "is a very dangerous individual, with a 25-year criminal career linked to drug trafficking and human trafficking". He had taken refuge in Bolivia, from a convicted wife to escape a final sentence of 10 years in prison for sexual violence against minors and drug dealing. The operation that led to his arrest was completed "in less than 12 hours" in collaboration with agents of the Italian section of Interpol who arrived in Santa Cruz last Monday.

They stopped him on Monday before he left for the escape: he already had a plane ticket to Madrid for yesterday, with a false name. Three people, a woman and two men living between Rivalta and Piossasco were investigated for aiding and abetting. They had helped him to go to Spain from which he then moved to Bolivia. They also sent him money to support himself.

Rao was arrested in the Rewind anti-drug operation of the Turin mobile team dating back to 2012. He was the link between Brazilian and Italian traffickers, and names of members of the 'Piedmontese ndrangheta' were also arrested in the blitz. Released, Rao had raped a Romanian minor forcing her to take cocaine.


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As i said multiple times , he is one of the best posters ,if not the best. Quality stuff in every thread.


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A retired anti-mafia prosecutor Enzo Macrì who spent almost 50 years fighting the Italian 'Ndrangheta has revealed how Australias mafia kings were linked to them. New breed of Ndrangheta bosses become police informants as threats to Australia remain, mafia members from prominent Calabrian 'Ndrangheta families in Italy are breaking their code of silence.


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I’m always amazed by the attempts made by better off, wealthy first-world nations (such as Switzerland and Australia) to downplay and even brush off the Mafia’s influence and presence on their national soil.

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