Recent events
On 7 November 2012, an investigation by the Catanzaro DDA revealed the alleged involvement of the cosca for reconstruction work after the earthquake in Abruzzo and the implementation in Rome of the fiber optic network for the Internet and the involvement with Paolo Coraci founder of a Masonic lodge that would have requested electoral support for D'Ambrosio in exchange for contracts in Lazio, Lombardy and Veneto. [11] In the same year the investigation Saggezza of the DDA of Reggio Calabria showed that the link with Italian Freemasonry would be very strong, to the point of constituting a way of infiltration to the most vertex sides of Italian politics and economy [12]
On 17 November 2013, the Grand Orient of Italy suspended a lodge for the first time in its history, in this case the Rocco Verducci lodge based in Gerace , and with the temple in Siderno for a possible involvement of irregularly connected criminals organized in Calabria. The choice of suspension was taken after the last judicial inquiry: the operation Saggezza , in which people affiliated to both the 'ndrangheta and the loggia were arrested [13] .
On January 4, 2016 , the operation Kyterion 2 concludes, directed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro which leads to the arrest of 16 alleged members of the Great Arrojes of Cutro , from the investigations it is possible to deduce presumed attempts to connect with representatives of the Vatican and of the Court of Cassation , as well as the intrusion into Masonic orders and knighthoods by the local leader Nicolino Grande Aracri [14] [15] .
From the Mammasantissima operation of the Ros of the Carabinieri concluded on 15 July 2016, the 2014 minutes of the former Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy Giuliano Di Bernardo ( 1990 - 1993 ), now Grand Master of the regular Grand Lodge of Italy , would emerge, who reported to the public prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo the confidences of Ettore Loizzo, at the time deputy of the Grand Master: «During a meeting of the Grand Orient Council, I urgently announced in '93 after the investigation of the Dr. Cordova on Freemasonry, to my specific request, said that he could state with certainty that in Calabria, out of 32 lodges, 28 were controlled by the 'Ndrangheta. I immediately told him: "And what do you want to do in the face of this disaster?" He replied: "Nothing". I, even more startled, asked why. He replied that he couldn't do anything because otherwise he and his family risked serious reprisals .... From July he began to talk about the relationship between Freemasonry and 'Ndrangheta also the repentant and Freemason Cosimo Virgiglio. He says that the highly politicized Freemasonry uses Calabrian crime to control electoral flows while it is for money laundering. According to the penitent, the loggia of Reggio Calabria would be divided into two parts: a clean and a hidden; the 'ndranghetisti' belong to the second. It also tells of the presence in the lodges of exponents of the Piromalli and the De Stefano. The mixture of criminal elements, with the dowry of the Saint and Masons in Masonic dialect, is called "passage" (referring to the Breccia di Porta Pia ); and technically it would be the Masonic world to enter the ranks of the '[18] [19] .
On January 31, 2017 at the hearing of the anti-mafia commission, former GOI master Giuliano Di Bernardo tells of the links between 'ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and Freemasonry, and that the number 1 of the Calabrian Freemasonry told him that 28 Calabrian lodges out of 32 were infiltrated by the 'ndrangheta [20] [21] .
On May 23, 2018 in the B process enters a computer of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department where the repentant Cosimo Virgiglio and former Mason says that 'ndrina of Molé through the former government minister Claudio Scajola wanted to get to Impregilo also .Racconta of the Molè relations with the covered loggia of Ugolini Giacomo Maria aka Grande Oriente of San Marino [22] .