This crisis is also hurting their business like sports betting and even their drugs trafficking.

He is the son of the capobastone Antonio "The accountant" Cordì, he died of cancer in 2005.

Why the Coronavirus crisis can be exploited by the ' ndrangheta

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...s-puo-essere-sfruttata-dalla-ndrangheta/

Police in Buccinasco (Milan) arrested Agostino Catanzariti (72) of Plati. He must serve a residual sentence for mafia association, extortion, false testimony and drug dealing. Catanzariti was for decades the right arm of the Papalia, always present in the criminal organizations of the 'ndrina.

The Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria arrested the boss Cosimo Borghetto , 66, operating in the city of Reggio Calabria, for failure to comply with the requirements imposed by the special surveillance measure with residence obligation to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Borghetto was placed under house arrest.

The district magistrate of Catanzaro released Nazzareno Franzè , 58, who ended up in prison in December. It is one of the first release in Italy motivated due to the coronavirus emergency. He is indicated by the investigating magistrate as top representative of the Lo Bianco-Barba clan of Vibo Valentia.

Cocaine & Corona: How the Pandemic is Squeezing Italian Crime Groups

https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/11905...ndemic-is-squeezing-italian-crime-groups

Three arrests for the murder of Antonio De Pietro, of Nicotera, in the Vibonese area. The blood event took place near the cemetery of Piscopio (fraction of Vibo Valentia) on April 11, 2005.

Michele Fiorillo, 36 years old, aka "Zarrillo" and Rosario Battaglia, 36 years old, aka «Sarino», since they are held accountable, together with Rosario Fiorillo, 31, aka «Pulcino» (at the time he was fifteen-year-old), all from Piscopio and all already detained for other crimes and to be held at the top of the Piscopisani clan.

The arrested allegedly acted in revenge, as the victim was believed to be "guilty" of having an extramarital affair with Rosario Fiorillo's mother, because of which the woman was squandering the family assets. This relationship would have been strongly opposed by Rosario Fiorillo, believed to be the material perpetrator of the crime. The statements of the Vibonese collaborators of justice, Raffaele Moscato and Andrea Mantella are fundamental for the investigation.

Police of Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria) arrested Rocco Molè, 25, son of the boss Girolamo, for drug trafficking. His father serves a life sentence. 537 kilograms of cocaine and over 24 kilograms of marijuana were seized.

How active are clans like the Condellos and Teganos? There doesn’t seem to be much information on them but law enforcement notes that the arrests of Pasquale Condello and Giovanni Tegano were very significant as they were two of the most powerful bosses. They even called Condello a super boss.

Still very active in the city of Reggio Calabria.

The northern zone of the city is run by Condello-Saraceno-Imerti-Fontana
The central zone De Stefano-Tegano-Libri
The southern zone Latella-Ficara.
Sbarre and Gebbione districts by Labate

Some interesting info specifically about the Ndragheta, quick listen.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2XsI1wCLI&list=WL&index=39&t=183s

This one is a little longer and specifically focused on Siderno, includes Toronto mostly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7wwRCGTqo

This one is about the International scope..Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56rw0uCq89Y&list=WL&index=43&t=0s

The level of security against Catanzaro's attorney Nicola Gratteri has been raised from second to first degree. The provincial committees for order and public safety of Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria established it, which met on several occasions to establish the measures to be taken to safeguard the magistrate following warnings of a possible attack against him that emerged after the maxi-operation "Rinascita-Scott" of 18 December against the Vibonese gangs. "In addition to assigning me two armored off-road vehicles, resistant to explosives, a series of safeguards have been adopted to prevent attacks on the journey that I travel daily from home to the office and vice versa," writes the same prosecutor.

Coronavirus, the archbishop's appeal to Reggio Calabria: "Never give in to the 'ndrangheta"
April 01, 2020

The Church in Reggio against usury . Among the social effects that arise from the coronavirus pandemic there is an aspect that concerns those who are unable to make ends meet: mostly shopkeepers, entangled in the running costs of their often family-run business, which can give in to the temptation to ask for support to the 'ndrine .

"A possibility that pains" the Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova who, through the archbishop Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, addresses "a heartfelt appeal to these people in desperation".

Anyone see that documentary on these guys based out of Australia a few years back? I think it was about a chap called manfredi and barbarito and their families are also big in Calabria. Good documentary and would highly recommend it

^ madafferi and barbaro

What family runs Scilla? Would that be Latella-Ficara? And it seems as though the De Stefano family is the powerhouse in the city of Reggio. Perhaps the whole Ndrangheta too. The De Stefanos, Nirtas and Piromallis seem to be the three strongest and possibly richest Ndrangheta clans from everything I’ve read online.

The Court of Freedom of Reggio Calabria has granted house arrest to Antonino Creazzo , an investigator of the district anti-mafia directorate of Reggio "Eyphemos" who hit the political-mafia axis hard in the towns of the Tyrrhenian province of Reggina, Sant'Eufemia in Aspromonte, Sinopoli and San Procopio.

Antonino Creazzo is the brother of Domenico, the mayor of Sant'Eufemia and regional councilor of Calabria (who had been elected in the election of 26 January) also involved, and under house arrest, in the same operation and therefore suspended from the prestigious institutional position.

Creazzo is accused of political-mafia electoral exchange for having worked with some strands of the powerful mafia dynasty of the Alvaros, the historic hegemonic gang of Sinopoli, to convey to the brother candidate at Palazzo Campanella the preferences of the circuits' ndranghetistici in exchange for favors and utility.

Creazzo is the husband of Ivana Fava, daughter of the Carabinieri brigadier Antonino Fava killed in the early 1990s in the dramatic phase of the continental massacres on the Reggio-Palermo axis.

Ivana Fava (also in the Carabinieri with a non-operational role) is not however investigated in the "Eyphemos" operation.

Morabito is also one of the most powerful and wealhiest underworld families in Calabria. The country of origin is Africo in Locride , from which business and offenses are managed in northern Italy and also abroad. In Milan the main allies of the Morabito are the Bruzzanites and the Palamara , clans originating from Africo . But they can count on links with the Pansera, Versace , Zappia, Mollica, Criaco and Scriva. They are also located in the provinces of Varese , Como and Monza and Brianza. In Rome they are reported in the Flaminio district.The Morabito gang has ramifications in South America, Europe and Africa.

In the 80s 'ndrangheta war more than 50 people were killed in Africo .

At risk of infection from Coronavirus, Melicucco boss from prison to house arrest
April 10, 2020

The Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria, at the request of the lawyers Guido Contestabile and Angelo Sorace, granted house arrest for health reasons to the alleged boss of the 'ndrangheta of Melicucco, center of the Plain of Gioia Tauro, Rocco Santo Filippone , 72 years old .

Filippone, a trusted man of the Piromalli clan, is accused in the Court of Assizes in the '' Ndrangheta massacre 'trial, with the ex-chief of command of Brancaccio of Palermo Giuseppe Graviano, following an investigation into the ' Ndrangheta-Cosa Nostra ' relationship in the massacre strategy of the early 90s coordinated by the deputy attorney of the Dda of Reggio Giuseppe Lombardo.

The provision, which will be in force until the Coronavirus emergency persists - the lawyers say - was necessary for the "particularly risky conditions" of their client who is suffering from serious cardio-vascular diseases, as also attested by sanitary facilities of the Turin prison of the 'Vallette' where Filippone was restricted.

Rocco Santo Filippone, whom the investigators of the Reggio Calabria District Prosecutor identify as "the ambassador for private affairs" of the Piromalli gang, and nicknamed "the monk" for his confidentiality, is called to answer for mafia association and to have coordinated the double murder of the carabinieri Antonino Fava and Vincenzo Garofalo on 18 January 1994 near the Scilla motorway junction, in the more general framework of the attempt to disarticulate the state.

The double murder, according to the testimony of the collaborator of justice Consolato Villani, was carried out by Giuseppe Calabrò, nephew of Filippone, known in the 'ndrangheta as a ruthless killer and feared for his propensity to carry out particularly serious criminal actions. Rocco Santo Filippone was assigned to house arrest at his son's home in Rivoli, in the province of Turin.

Antonio Ribecco, 59, died in prison. He was a boss of the Calabrian gangs held in the Voghera prison and was considered the referent of the 'ndrangheta in Umbria. Ribecco died in a hospital in Milan where he had been hospitalized for about a week for Covid-19 and other pathologies.

April 24, 2020, 2:58 p.m.
Crime - Duisburg
fight against Mafia: 14 men accused of cocaine trafficking
Germany

Duisburg (dpa / lnw) - In the fight against the international cocaine trade of the mafia organization `Ngdrangheta, the Duisburg public prosecutor has brought charges against 14 men. The accused between 30 and 56 years of age are accused of participating in the year-long trade in a total of around 680 kg of cocaine, as the Duisburg regional court announced on Friday. It is said that more than 400 kilograms of cocaine were actually transported, and a further 280 kilograms were "concrete negotiations". Eight suspects are in custody, a spokeswoman said.

The indictment also suggests that some of the men are suspected: education and support for a foreign criminal organization, commercial money laundering and fraud, tax evasion and violations of the Arms Act.

The accused are accused - in different offenses - of having traded in cocaine or supported the trade between January 2014 and December 2018. In individual cases, this involved quantities of up to 220 kilograms per crime. The purchase price is said to have been up to 36,000 euros per kilo of cocaine.

Prosecutors assume that drug trafficking in 16 of the accused cases was financed and organized by members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. It is the most powerful mafia organization in the world and controls the international cocaine trade. In Germany it has a firm foothold, is particularly active in NRW.

Five accused men are members of the 'Ndrangheta, according to the indictment. Six are said to have supported the association. The court spokeswoman added that among the three other men were those who, according to the indictment, were working in the background and were supposed to have provided bug-proof cell phones.

The pattern of the crime presumably looked like this: The narcotics are said to have come regularly from South America to Europe - for example to the Netherlands or to Belgium - and then been distributed within Europe. In advance, suppliers agreed on prices and logistics, so-called "brokers" had clarified the desired amount of cocaine with the families of 'Ndrangheta. The drugs are said to have been imported into Europe by air or sea. With a partially sophisticated camouflage: According to the indictment, companies were sometimes founded that officially ordered legal goods such as bananas or wood, in order to then camouflage the cocaine in a joint transport.

Membership
Barbaro 'ndrina – led by Domenico "Aussie" Barbaro (arrested in 2008); originally from Platì
Sergi 'ndrina – led by Paolo Sergi; originally from Platì
Papalia 'ndrina – led by Domenico Papalia; originally from Platì
Trimboli 'ndrina (anglicised in Trimbole) – led by Rocco Trimboli (imprisoned in 2012); originally from Platì
Arena 'ndrina - led by Francesco (Frank) Arena; originally from San Luca
Italiano 'ndrina - led by Domenico Italiano; originally from Palmi
Strangio 'ndrina – led by Domenico Nirta; originally from San Luca
Romeo 'ndrina – led by Unknown; originally from San Luca
Morabito 'ndrina – led by Unknown; originally from Africo
Alvaro 'ndrina – led by Giuseppe Alvaro; originally from Sinopoli

Rivers of drugs from Gioia Tauro, the relations between the Calabrian 'ndrine and the Brazilians
by Arcangelo Badolati - April 27, 2020
'ndrangheta, cocaine, drugs, joy tauro, Calabria, ChronicleGilberto Aparecido dos Santos
The port of Santos. One of the most important and popular ports of Latin America with cargo ships that shuttle from every corner of the world. Ships leaving for Antwerp, Algeciras, Rotterdam, Marseille, Sidney, Melbourne, Genoa and ... Gioia Tauro.

It is precisely among those docks crowded with men and goods that the most powerful drug traffickers on the land of Samba - those of Primeiro Comando da Capital - and the brokers of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta organize shipments to Europe and Australia.

It is from the heart of Brazil, in fact, that hundreds of kilos of cocaine produced and processed in Bolivia have been shipped to Italy. "Stuff" of first quality landed in part, in recent years, in the port of Gioia Tauro.

The city of the State of Sao Paulo, made famous on the planet by the coffee trade and by the great Pele who played for Santos, has become for the Calabrian mafia what was once the Bogotà of "Don Pablo" Escobar Gaviria. It is there, in fact, that our local bosses send their emissaries to deal with the CCP's "cronies".

The last shipment destined for Gioia Tauro was blocked and seized last November by the Brazilian federal police before it left the Paulista port. 200 kilos of "white powder" were crammed into a container. And in a residence in San Paolo, in July 2019, the superboss Nicola Assisi and his son, Patrick, originally from Grimaldi, a small town in the Cosentino area, but operating in Piedmont, were arrested.

The two, long fugitives, have been found in possession of money, drugs and punches useful to seal naval containers. On the following September 16, however, he was arrested by agents of the South American federal police Andre de Oliveira Macedo, called "Andre do Rap", discovered in a villa in Angra dos Reis, a well-known seaside resort about 150 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro.

"According to information from international intelligence agencies, the man was in charge of the CCP group in charge of sending drugs from the port of Santos to Calabria , and from there to the rest of Europe," said the Brazilian commissioner after arrest Fabio Pinheiro Lopes. The intercontinental network of drug trafficking, set up by Calabrian and South American fugitives, has lost another important shirt in recent days. Yes, because thanks to the American Goddess, the Brazilian police arrested in Maputo, Mozambique, Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, better known as "Fuminho", one of the best known narcos in the country and historic leader of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (CCP).

The man was extradited after a few hours to Brazil aboard a plane of the South American Armed Forces with a dozen police officers on board. The Maputo authorities had arrested, after twenty years of hiding, the boss who now seemed impregnable, contesting that he had illegally entered the country.

"Fuminho" like "Andre do Rap" could tell a lot of things about the relationship his organization had with the Calabrians. Will talk? Difficult to answer. It will depend on the offer that will be made in exchange for a possible collaboration. In the marketing of cocaine, in the last thirty years, the 'ndrangheta, as well as with the Brazilians, has flirted with the Colombian cartels of Cali and Medellin, the Autodefendas Unidas de Colombia, the Usuga clan, the Norte del Valle group and of "La Officina"; and with the Mexicans from the Gulf cartel, Sinaloa and Los Zetas.

The designer Gianni Versace met the boss Franco Coco Trovato in Lecco, immediately after the Adduara attack. This was stated by Nino Fiume, a former affiliate of the 'Ndrangheta, in a statement that emerged during the interrogation of the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo as part of the "'Ndrangheta massacre" trial. This was announced by Klaus Davi, who posted on his profile the audio passage that refers to the episode mentioned by the repentant during his deposition in Reggio Calabria. "The interrogation concerned the relationship between Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta," explains Davi.
The repentant Fiume (ex boyfriend of Giorgia De Stefano and son-in-law of Paolo De Stefano, killed in 1985 in Archi) rebuilds the relationship between the two mafia associations. Here is the statement: “I think we are talking about the summer of the Addaura attack. As a reference I have that of Pierino Liandri - right arm of the boss Jimmy Mianio (killed in 1992, ed) - and that of the meeting of the stylist Gianni Versace with the boss Franco Coco, which took place in Lecco at that time ". Nino Fiume has been defined by the PM Giuseppe Lombardo as a 'key' figure to unhinge the mafia power of the powerful De Stefano clan.

Looks like Europe may be coming together to battle the Ndragheta.

https://aboutthemafia.com/the-mafia-eyes-investing-vast-drug-profits-in-australia

Cutro's powerful 'Ndrangheta boss, Nicolino Grande Aracri, has also asked to be released for the danger of contracting the Coronavirus in the Milanese prison of Opera in which he is held under 41 bis.

Nicolino Grande Aracri ( 1959 ), called Il professore or Mano di gomma , capobastone arrested with dowry of " International crime " received by Antonio Pelle and referent for the Crotone, successor to Antonio Ciampà , as well as crime chief of central-northern Calabria. Sentenced to life imprisonment by the court of cassation in the Kyterion trial on 6 June 2019 for the murder of Antonio Dragone in 2004 during the Cutro feud.

During the night, the carabinieri of the ROS of Vibo Valentia and of the Heliborne Squadron Cacciatori di Calabria arrested the fugitive Gregorio Giofrè, 57 years old.
The man was wanted since December 19, 2019, following the precautionary order issued by the investigating judge of Catanzaro, as part of the Rinascita-Scott operation, that led to the custodial measure against 334 people, responsible, for various reasons, for mafia association, murder, drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and other serious crimes.
Giofrè would be a top representative of the club San Gregorio d'Ippona (VV), related to Rosario Fiarè, historical local chief, currently under house arrest.
After the capture of Saverio Razionale and Gregorio Gasparro he had remained the most important exponent of the mafia structure in freedom. The club of San Gregorio d'Ippona, since the 1980s, has been faithful to the Mancusos of Limbadi and its most influential members have been central to allow the Mancusis themselves to manage the Vibonese 'Ndrangheta together.

The Quaestor of Reggio Calabria, Maurizio Vallone, banned the funeral in public and solemn form for the ex-boss Giuseppe Perre, 83 years old, already under special surveillance, accused in the "Mandamento Jonico" trial . The ceremony was therefore held in the early hours of today, in the cemetery of Platì (RC), in a strictly private form. The man had died yesterday from natural causes in his home.

May 5 2020 - undisclosed location in Calabria.
Brief video footage of a carabinieri raid on a fugitive member of the ‘Ndrangheta.

https://m.ilgiornale.it/video/cronache/ndrangheta-cos-i-carabinieri-stanano-latitante-1860503.html

It‘s odd seeing Italian cops all suited up military-style. I’m not denying that mobsters are dangerous, but it ain’t Mexico. Possible PR stunt.