In their latest report the Dia makes the Mallardo clan one of the most solid organizations not only in Campania but in the entire national territory. The main ability of the Giuglianese clan, part of the Secondigliano Alliance cartel , was to continue to hold control of the territory despite the arrest over the years of all the leaders and regents.

"The monopoly of illicit business in the territories of relevance, a strong economic power and a marked regenerative capacity of the staff despite the two brothers believed to be at the head of the association remain detained". This is the last description that Dia makes of the Mallardo clan. The clan is considered by the Antimafia to be one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Italy, also thanks to its close alliances with the Neapolitan clans of the Contini and Licciardi with whom it forms the Secondigliano Alliance. But also with the Casalesi clans and neighboring gangs such as the Polverino and Ferrara Cacciapuoti families.

Italian police on Friday arrested 40 people in connection to a case of suspected hospital contract rigging involving the Neapolitan Camorra mafia.
Those arrested included suspected members of the Secondigliano Alliance, public officials and businessmen, allegedly involved in bid rigging and the extortion of companies working at hospitals, police said.
The companies operate in the sectors of patient transport, funeral services, construction and cleaning, police said.
Among those arrested is Luigi Cimmino, suspected boss of the Vomero quarter, his son Franco Diego and his right-arm man Andrea Basile.
Trade unionists and entrepreneurs were also arrested including Marco Salvati, owner of a patient transport firm called The Cross of St Pius, as well as the Sacco family, who run hospital cafeterias.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl3Wu9bjDHY

2021 Italian Mafia, Camorra gang/Clan member sIice man's stomach open in Spagnolia Quartieri, Naples


Video of an attack in Naples.
Don’t know of its really camorra related, ya’ll know how people make titles on youtube for views

There's no way to find out?

The second section of the Court of Appeal of Naples has fully acquitted the boss Domenico Pagnozzi, from the accusation of mafia-type association that was contested in the operation " the mountain " on alleged ramifications of the Pagnozzi clan in the Sannio.

In the first instance Pagnozzi was sentenced to 19 years in prison. During the second degree trial the sentence was reduced to 16 years and 10 months. The Cassation had accepted the appeals of Pagnozzi's lawyers, the lawyer Dario Vannetiello and the professor Alfonso Furgiuele, postponing the celebration of the second degree of judgment at a different section of the Naples Court of Appea.

Blackmobs, check your sources before posting. That stupid video was actually in Turkey. Here's the real one: https://youtu.be/MZBkki_1EE4

On Friday Giuseppe Tipaldi was killed in via Janfolla in the Miano district, the 38-year-old was shot and killed in a recreational club at around 2:30 am. This is the second murder in less than 24 hours. A few hours earlier, in fact, Andrea Merolla had been killed in the Fuorigrotta district, 30 year old killed at a gas station. Merolla was the nephew of the boss Vitale Troncone but it is not yet clear whether he was included in the dynamics of the Camorra.

He is not just any character but the son of the ras, that of Giuseppe Tipaldi is an excellent murder. The father of the victim is in fact Ras Gaetano Tipaldi , known as Nanà. Last night a man was killed in a recreational club in via Janfolla near street number 444. Giuseppe Tipaldi , known as Peppe a recchia, fell under the blows of assassins, son of ras Gaetano ally of the Cifrones of the upper part of Miano.

Ras is a term for 'who, within the Camorra clan, possesses a strong but not total authority and is a subordinate of the boss, while exercising his power locally.

Camorra clans in Salerno province.

Ambush in Naples, commando unleashed in a bar: five people hit
Carmine Di Niro - November 24, 2021

An armed commando who entered a bar with spying weapons, opening fire and hitting five people. This is what happened this evening, around 8 pm, inside the “ Roxy bar” in via Silone in Arzano , a town close to the northern area of ??Naples.

The 'gunslingers' shot and wounded five people, transported to nearby hospitals but not in danger of life, at least according to preliminary information.

Two of the five injured, as reported by the carabinieri, are believed to be close to the Arzano 167 clan : in particular, one of the injured is Salvatore Petrillo , a person already known to the police.

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The investigations are obviously still in progress: the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Casoria and the Castello di Cisterna investigative unit are present on the spot for the surveys and to collect any testimonies and images from video surveillance cameras.

The military is trying to reconstruct what happened also to ascertain the likely Camorra-type nature of the criminal action.

" We are decent people, everyone knows us in Arzano ... ", the owner of the bar told the carabinieri in tears, as reported by Ansa. The 'Roxy bar' is located on the ground floor of a six-story building.

Salvatore Petrillo died in hospital

Casalesi ambush with 2 dead: 8 arrests. Principals and killers revealed
The double murder decided after Cicciariello's release

Eight precautionary orders for a double murder that took place 18 years ago in Santa Maria Capua Vetere.

This morning, in the city of the Forum and at the Prison Offices of Sassari, Novara, Parma, Viterbo, Milano Opera, Sulmona (AQ) and Palmi (RC), the Carabinieri of the Caserta Investigation Unit carried out a precautionary custody order, issued by the Court of Naples, at the request of the Neapolitan Anti-Mafia District Directorate, against 8 (eight) persons considered seriously suspected of the double murder in prejudice of Sebastiano Caterino , born in 1955, and Umberto De Falco , born in 1971, consumed in Santa Maria Capua As of October 31, 2003.

In the early 2000s, which ended the "Villa Literno feud" between Bidognetti and the group Ucciero-Tavoletta and after the procedural events that had led to the arrest of several leaders and members of the Casalesi clan, the faction Schiavone is gathered around the figure of Francesco "Cicciariello" Schiavone . The latter, released from the Spoleto prison and after having assumed the criminal direction of the clan, immediately wanted to reaffirm the hegemony of the Casalesi against those who had hindered their rise; among these Sebastiano Caterino who, released from prison in May 2002 and settled in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, formed an autonomous group, of which Umberto De Falco was also part.

On the morning of October 31, 2003, the victims were aboard the Volkswagen "Golf" GTI, driven by Caterino, whose gear was blocked by an Alfa 166 allowing the arrival of another car from which the commando of killers who exploded numerous gunshots at the victims. The Carabinieri rushed to the scene and found Sebastiano Caterino who was now deceased while Umberto De Falco, seriously injured, died a few hours later in the hospital. During the inspection, dozens of cartridge cases attributable to war weapons were found, while the cars used by the command were subsequently found charred in San Tammaro and Grazzanise.

THE LIST OF ARRESTED

ZAGARIA Michele , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on 21 May 1955, detained for another cause at the Sassari Prison;

SCHIAVONE Francesco , born in Casal di Principe (CE) on 6 January 1953, detained for other reasons at the Novara Prison;

MARTINELLI Enrico , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) May 27, 1964, detained for another cause at the Parma Prison;

CATERINO Giuseppe , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on January 19, 1954, detained for other reasons at the Viterbo Prison;

DE LUCA Corrado , born in Sorrento (NA) on 7 May 1967, detained for another cause at the Milan Opera (MI) prison;

SPIERTO Pasquale , born in San Cipriano d'Aversa (CE) on March 30, 1968, detained for another cause at the Prison of Sulmona (AQ);

VIRGILIO Claudio , born in Versmond (Germany) on December 26, 1977, detained for another cause at the Palmi Prison (RC).

MORONESE Agostino , born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere on 20.10.1969.

Thus the Silenzio clan controlled the "Bronx": 26 arrests
The murder of Annamaria Palmieri and all the activities of the clan in the district have been reconstructed

This morning the Flying Squad carried out a precautionary custody order issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples, at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 26 people, considered seriously suspected of participation in a mafia-type criminal association and of association for the purpose drug trafficking, as well as for some crimes of murder, possession and carrying of firearms, and extortion. The investigations reconstruct the current criminal balance in the territory of San Giovanni a Teduccio, characterized by numerous bloody facts caused by the feud, taking place in 2018 despite the arrests and convictions, between different Camorra families, expression of two broader confederations, the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan, which have always contended

In particular, the activities carried out starting from January 2018, following the murder of Annamaria Palmieri, right arm of Maria Domizio, regent of the Formicola clan, reconstruct a violent armed conflict between the Camorra families Silenzio and Formicola, both operating in the sphere of influence and control of the dominant Rinaldi-Formicola-Reale cartel, in turn attributable to the Secondigliano Alliance. There are numerous violent actions reconstructed in the precautionary order through which the Silenzio clan forced entire families to abandon their legitimately occupied homes, in order to guarantee the military control of the so-called Bronx District and the management of the Silenzio family to the members and affiliates of the of all illegal activities,

This context also includes the reconstruction of the evidence relating to the murder of Annamaria Palmieri, which took place on 23 January 2018, which appears to have represented the first striking criminal act aimed at giving a ferocious demonstration of the criminal design of the group, as well as the subsequent criminal actions. attributable to the violent reaction of the Mazzarella cartel and the criminal dynamics related to the control of the import flows from Spain of drugs destined not only to the drug dealing squares of San Giovanni a Teduccio, but also to those of other Neapolitan districts (Barra, Secondigliano), and other municipalities in Campania.

I have a question, do these guys engage in any other rackets like gambling and loansharking? Or are they hooked into the legitimate economy like Cosa Nostra and Ndrangheta? Or is it just drug trafficking with these Camorra guys from Naples?

The clans are capable of getting their hands on the whole city even on its historic hospitals. in October they arrested 40 people in connection to a case of suspected hospital contract rigging. Funeral parlors are also mostly run by the clans and they are huge in the foodindustry, construction, gambling, loansharking.

This week Katia Bidognetti, daughter of Francesco known as ‘Cicciotto ‘e mezzanotte’, ended up in prison , considered by the investigators to be the ruling boss of the Casalesi Camorra clan from Campania.

The 39-year-old was under house arrest in Reggio Emilia with charges - disputed, in various capacities, to 20 other defendants - of extortion against entrepreneurs from Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d'Aversa, Villa Literno, Cellole, Castel Volturno, Acerra and Roma. The Reggio carabinieri carried out the jail order after the six-year sentence for mafia-type association issued on appeal became final. The woman will have to remain in the cell until January 31, 2023, after having already served part of the prison sentence between prison and house arrest.

The new clan and the attack on the Cesarano: 21 arrests
The investigation into the Buonocore-Matrone that have put the clan active in Castellammare, Pompeii and Scafati in difficulty

The investigations carried out by the Carabinieri of the territorial department of Nocera Inferiore and coordinated by the Dda of Salerno culminated today in the execution of a precautionary custody order against 21 people (13 in prison and 8 under house arrest). According to what was reconstructed by the investigations, the head of the mafia organization was the 47-year-old Giuseppe Buonocore, son-in-law of the historic scafatese boss Francesco Matrone known as "Franchino 'a beast", currently detained at 41 bis. Buonocore, since his release at the end of 2016, would have implemented the reorganization of the clan in order to reacquire the criminal control of the Scafatese territory and the management of illicit business, already in the past the prerogative of the father-in-law. To do so, he would have made use of the previous structure of the Matrone clan and of the consolidated relationships with old allies of his father-in-law: among these, according to the reconstruction of the Dda, there would be 61-year-old Ferdinando Cirillo, who for his criminal "authority" would have provided help in terms consulting, mediation and strategic support.

The investigations made it possible to reconstruct the activities of the clan and the sectors of greatest interest, including arms trafficking, control of the slot machine sector and extortion against economic activities in the area, as well as the violent clash with the clan. Loreto-Ridosso, originally from the same area, and the Cesarano clan, historically rooted in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) but for some time present and influential on the Scafatese criminal scene.

Gennaro Matteo, 35, was shot dead in Ponticelli.

The ambush started late yesterday evening in Viale Luca Pacioli. The man, who had a 2015 criminal record for possession of weapons, was riddled with bullets while on the streets.

He was in the company of acquaintances when the killers appeared: Matteo tried to escape so much that he was hit three times in the chest and shoulders. He was accompanied to the nearby Mare hospital by some acquaintances but despite the doctors' attempts to save his life, the man died during the operation.

The dynamics do not seem to leave room for other hypotheses: the Camorra war that has been going on for months between the De Luca Bossa-Minichini clans on the one hand and the De Micco De Martino on the other.

In a sensational blow to the investigation of the DDA of Naples 11 members of the Ponticelli clans, protagonists of the feud were all released at the end of October.

Maria Licciardi was transferred to the hard prison, will spend the 41 bis in the penitentiary of L'Aquila. It's very rare for a woman to end up at 41 bis.

Don't know if you reported this, but here goes.

THE CAMORRA AND THE SACRA CORONA UNITA TEAM UP IN FUEL-SMUGGLING SCHEME, 37 MOBSTERS ARRESTED AND $56 MILLION IN ASSETS SEIZED
April 12th, 2021

The Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri carried out precautionary measures for 45 people as part of an investigation, conducted by the Dda of Potenza and Lecce, on the infiltration of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita in the hydrocarbon sector through nominees and tax evasion. The operation was carried out between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto.

The Casalesi cartel, rooted in Caserta but with ramifications practically everywhere, and the Cicala clan of the Sacra Corona Unita, originally from Taranto, in Puglia, had infiltrated the hydrocarbon sector, upsetting the market with fraud on excise duties and VAT and with intricate systems of false headers to circumvent controls. This emerges from the investigation coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorates of Potenza and Lecce, which led to personal and real precautionary measures for 45 people to the report on the loose for another 71 suspects.

Of the precautionary measures, 26 are in prison, 11 under house arrest, 6 prohibitions of residence and 2 prohibitions of the suspension from the exercise of two members of the Corps for 6 months. The operation began in the early hours of today, April 12, carried out by the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Taranto and Salerno and by the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Salerno between the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto. In addition, seizures of properties, companies, warehouses and fleets of articulated lorries, ordered by the investigating magistrates of Potenza and Lecce, were carried out against the 45 suspects, for a total value of approximately 50 million euros. The accusations are, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at the commission of fraud on excise duties and VAT on mineral oils, fictitious registration of goods and companies, money laundering, self-laundering and use of money of illicit origin.

The investigation, we read in a note signed by the public prosecutor of Potenza, Francesco Curcio, and by the Lecce counterpart, Leonardo Leone De Castris , "confirmed how big organized crime and national mafias, by now, are financed if not in via exclusive, absolutely prevalent way, in one with drug trafficking, through these illicit smuggling activities which, in actuality, have reached gigantic proportions, which had never been reached in the past ".

In Taranto, investigators discovered, the organization revolved around the figure of Michele Cicala, who has ties to members of the Catapano-Leone clan from Taranto. The group, "using an innovative fraudulent know-how in the hydrocarbon smuggling sector, consolidated its business with that of criminal groups operating for some time in the same sectors with companies that already had their own market". He had thus allied himself with the other group, the one operating in the Vallo di Diano, between Basilicata and Campania.

"Basically - explain the Prosecutors - huge quantities of fuel for agricultural use were sold, which as known benefits from particular tax concessions, to subjects who then placed it on the normal market for transport, very often using the so-called white pumps". In practice, the Taranto group provided the Campania / Lucanian group with the names of agricultural entrepreneurs, unaware of all, to whom the companies fictitiously invoiced the sale of agricultural fuel; in reality the product was sold illegally to other economic operators who then placed it on the market, earning about 50% of the actual cost of each liter of petrol.

The group had also devised a system to prevent agricultural entrepreneurs from discovering the scam: "through computer mechanisms, they deceived the telematic system of the Revenue Agency , which was unable to deliver the electronic invoice to the fictitious customer / farmer apparent recipient of the caraburante who, therefore, remained unaware of the fake sale operation carried out using his name ".

The product came out of the tax warehouses with false documents attesting to the transport of agricultural fuel. In case of control by the police, the group used the same stratagem of the organization unveiled a few days ago in Rome: a pump was activated through a device that injected the dye into the vehicle's tank, changing the color and making it look like the agricultural one. Once it arrived in the commercial depots of the suspects, the truck stopped to simulate the unloading of agricultural fuel and the loading of that for transport, and then left again with false documentation. Once reached the final deposit, the transaction was not registered and therefore the black sale was completed. According to the magistrates, this activity yielded about 30 million euros every year.

On the Lucanian side, the investigations focused on the fuel companies of the Petrullo Group, led by Massimo Petrullo, which in recent years had experienced an exponential increase in turnover and investments. It emerged that the economic boom of the company coincided with the entry into the corporate companies of " members of the well-known Caserta family of Diana (of San Cipriano d'Aversa), who had invested in the company, in hidden form, capital from, with reasonable certainty and in any case at the level of circumstantial gravity, from previous illegal activities, especially in the waste trafficking sector, activities of very significant dimensions in relation to which Camorra boss Raffaele Diana had been challenged at the time by the Public Prosecutor of Naples, the aggravating circumstance of the facilitating purpose of the Casalesi clan ".

Over time, the magistrates point out, the Diana family had assumed a predominant role, so much so that Petrullo, now ousted from control, had tried to secretly agree with the Tarantini and had " even hired a killer to kill Diana, an attempt later abandoned " ; the disagreements had not resulted in a war "only because of the mutual interest in not raising excessive alarms about the illegal activities perpetrated, extremely profitable for both sides".

Among the illegal conducts, also "the participation in a tender for the supply of fuels in favor of the Consortium for the Reclamation of the Tyrrhenian Cosentino Basins, awarded through an irregular agreement, guaranteed by the proximity to a representative of local crime, able to impose itself even in a different territory from that of election. The full involvement in this episode of an employee of the Consortium, now subjected to house arrest, has been confirmed ". Finally, the complicity of a carabiniere was discoveredwho allegedly provided the group with information on the investigation in exchange for some cans of fuel which it then resold; the soldier, after the emergence of the elements against him, had already been transferred to another province in non-operational assignment in November 2019.

The operation follows another one in a few days that was carried out by the Guardia di Finanza between Campania, Lazio and Calabria and which revealed the interests of the Camorra (in particular the Moccia clan) and the 'Ndrangheta in the same sector; in that case the pivotal point of the investigation was the heiress and singer Anna Bettozzi who, according to the accusations, with the funds arrived from the Camorra had raised the fortunes of her company, Max Petroli, and had destabilized the market with a round of false invoicing and fulfillment.

With Camorra clans, are members sworn in with a ceremony, or is it just understood that they're members? How exactly does it work? Does anyone know?

Not on the scale of Cutolo's NCO. Cutolo spent a great amount of time researching the 19th century Camorra and reconstructed the old Camorristic ritual of initiation. He took great care in making the ritual a binding social practise. In his cell, he created a ceremony in which the initiate received the award of the primo regalo (first gift) also called abbraccio (embrace) or fiore (flower). He infused the old Camorristic traditions with Catholicism and reconstituted the ritual of initiation of the traditional Camorra.

Through his book of thoughts and poems, Poesie e pensieri and his many interviews with journalists, Cutolo was able to create a strong sense of identity amongst his members. The book was published in Naples in 1980, but never distributed to the public. The book, containing 235 pages of poems and pictures, was seized by the police and censored as an "apology of a criminal organization." According to the Justice department, this book was viewed by NCO members as the "Bible of the NCO" and was particularly popular in prison, due to Cutolo's own distribution by mail. Even though his book was impounded by magistrates within days of its publication, many prisoners, alienated from society both inside and outside jail, wrote to Cutolo and other NCO leaders asking for a copy. Its possession alone would later be considered incriminating evidence.

Thanks for all of your information Hollander, however I'd still like to know what exactly makes someone a member of a Camorra clan. There has to be something that binds these people together, for instance, how does a couple of freelance criminals get absorbed into a Camorra clan? What exactly constitutes membership? Anyway, thanks for your input, as always.

I think what you’re asking has merit but there’s likely no definitive answer. What makes someone a member of the Irish mob? I don’t believe they have any initiation rights. What makes someone a member of Chicago’s splintered GDs? The days of getting jumped in are from the 80s and 90s…

Guess you're right. Judging by the size of a lot of those roundups it seems like nearly everyone in those towns are involved in some way lol.

There is no initiation ceremony like in Cosa Nostra or 'Ndrangheta , thats why Camorra clans appear and disappear every few years , people change sides constantly.There are some Camorra clans that are still present and very powerful after decades.But generally Naples is much more chaotic than Sicily or Calabria

Stefano Bontate once said that in Campania all the principles of Cosa Nostra were treated with contempt.

But there is a stong use of the Catholic code or sacramental practices by affiliates of the Camorra.

Does the money that a Camorra clan make go into a coffer or common fund? These are the type of details that I find the most interesting but are rarely discussed.