The well-known Lo Russo clan had been defunct for several years, but now an operation by the DDA against as many alleged "emissaries" of a criminal group which was deemed by the investigators “ A sub-division of the Lo Russo clan”.

Raffaele Petriccione , Cesare Duro , Giovanni Perfetto , Salvatore Di Vaio , Fabio Pecoraro , Alessandro Festa , Vincenzo Pagliaro and another person ended up in handcuffs . The accusation for all of them is of extortion aggravated by the mafia method. An operation that reveals the operation of the group which includes characters already in the past who ended up in investigations into the local evil, such as Raffaele Petriccione who jumped to the head of the news a few years ago for a daring escape 'enriched' by a gun aimed at the agents, or like Giovanni Perfetto, brother of the better known Raffaele known as 'muss e scign' and uncle of Ciro sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Vincenzo Di Napoli . In the group also Cesare Duro, arrested a few years ago in Frattamaggiore after a daring escape from the police.

Sergio Carparelli,54, was shot dead in Naples, he was close to the Calone clan of Soccavo neighborhood

Naples 'divided' between the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan, the map of the neighborhoods
October 3, 2022



A cartel of families and a historic clan pull the ranks of the Camorra through their enormous criminal and economic power. The two 'titans' are the Secondigliano Alliance and the Mazzarella clan who influence the criminal life in the districts of Naples , leaving, however, a limited decision-making power to the groups subjected to them. Recent judicial investigations and law enforcement operations were analyzed in Dia 's latest semi-annual report .

Therefore the two powerful criminal entities directly or indirectly control the districts of Naples . This organizational structure guarantees federated groups a series of advantages and considerably increases their criminal capacity. Precisely the control of one's own territory confers greater power and compactness from a military point of view , above all, in comparison with competing organizations, thus resulting in a greater force of intimidation resulting from belonging to the criminal cartel.

The Contini, Licciardi and Mallardo families are the main components of the Secondigliano Alliance . These clans have become entrepreneurial realities that control a large part of the economic activities of the city: restaurant chains, entire commercial sectors and the service sector.

Instead, the Mazzarella clan, present in the central and eastern area of ??the city, is interested in weaving alliances with criminal groups in Marigliano, San Giorgio a Cremano and Somma Vesuviana , moreover, they try to get their hands on the public contracts of nearby Salerno through the complacency of some public administrators. Without neglecting the extra-Campania expansionist aims that emerged in the recent judicial police operations that have highlighted the interests in recycling activities in the Castelli Romani area carried out through exponents of the ally D'Amico group .

The map of the clans that control the city of Naples is therefore divided into different macro-areas: the one controlled directly by the Secondigliano Alliance including almost the entire city of Naples and a large part of the province; the area attributable to the clans federated with the Alliance and to the groups falling under their control; the one in which the Alliance shares leadership with the Mazzarella clan falling mainly in the center of the city of Naples. There is also an area of ??exclusive hegemony of the Mazzarella clan , namely Portici and San Giorgio a Cremano.

Therefore, the smaller groups remain the protagonists of almost tribal contrasts marked by shootings, explosions of bombs and fires. These violent incidents are conducted to assert their influence in small parts of the territory where they want to impose their control over extortion and drug dealing. Only in a few sporadic cases the murders are directly referable to the most authoritative organizations and in this case they can be framed in the logic of internal purge imposed precisely to protect the delinquent balance and the major interests linked to big business.

In her Report to Parliament, Dia also explained the transformation of the main Camorra cartels into real business holding companies , capable of becoming integral parts of the legal economy supported by personal ties, very often parental, and connivance in large sectors of entrepreneurship and in public administration.

The economic power of the Campania organizations is mainly ensured by drug trafficking.

Naples, stabs on the soccer field: the grandson of lady Camorra Maria Licciardi immediately released. The father remains in the cell
October 8, 2022

Gennaro Musella, the 19-year-old grandson of Lady Camorra, Maria Licciardi, is already free, accused of attempted murder of a 24-year-old at the end of a soccer match and the wounding of the two brothers. The father, on the other hand, Giuseppe Musella, Licciardi's son, remains in prison. The boy who is presented at the police station accompanied by his lawyer defended himself by saying that he was provoked throughout the race and that the adrenaline at the end of the race took over. He explained that he had used no knife but a piece of iron found on the ground. And so after the long deposition he was released and is being investigated on the loose pending the formulation of the charges for the trial. After two days of being unavailable, the boy presented himself to the police accompanied by his lawyer. With the complicity of his father Giuseppe, (in a state of custody for three days) he had stabbed three brothers from Giugliano on Monday night at the end of the final of a soccer tournament that took place in recent weeks on the San Rocco di Chiaiano field. The 24-year-old Manuel Salzano, from Giugliano is hospitalized at the Cardarelli hospital in a reserved prognosis with deep wounds in the abdomen. While his brothers Antonio and Geatano, who intervened in defense of him, had suffered more minor injuries and after being medicated they were discharged.

This week a 19 year old was shot and wounded. This is Nicola Notturno, son of Enzo and nephew of Gennaro..The latter became a collaborator of justice. A choice already paid for in blood, given that in 2017 it cost the life of another Nicola Notturno, cousin of the victim of the last raid. The young man reached by the assassins, however, is not in danger of life.
Investigators are working to find out if the ambush is also linked to Gennaro Notturno's decision to collaborate with magistrates to illustrate to investigators how drug trafficking was managed. The assassins, in fact, went into action in one of the main drug dealing squares in Europe.

Gennaro Notturno is a real psychopath. He explained in interrogations how he and his companions killed Giulio Ruggiero in 2005. He also told how they then sawed off his head with an electric cutting bench saw. How they started playing football with his head, with some laughing but others throwing up in a corner. And how they then delivered that head to his relatives.

Wiretaps reveal how Kinahan ally Raffaele Imperiale hoped to import 30 tons of coke before ‘retiring’
“We have done so much to get where we are. We can't give up now.”

https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/w...s-of-coke-before-retiring/901715916.html

Just stupid, he had enough to retire anyway if that's what he wanted to do.

They never retire, its always "just this one job".

Imperiale already got a relatively light sentence but this latest bust with those calabrese will put him away for a long time. Pretty stiff sentences for drug trafficking in Italy.

Haha well said..

Camorra: 22-year-old with a precedent killed in the square in the Neapolitan area

NAPLES, OCTOBER 24 – The corpse of a 22-year-old with previous dependents, Alessio Bossis, believed to be affiliated with the De Luca-Bossa clan, was recently found in Volla (Naples) by the Carabinieri who intervened in the forecourt commercial “In Piazza” in via Monteoliveto 41. The young man was the victim of an ambush by unknown persons who killed him with a few gunshots.

The carabinieri of the Torre Annunziata Investigation Unit rushed to the scene. Investigations are ongoing.

Baratto-Volpe Camorra group a criminal group active in the Fuorigrotta district
which falls within the sphere of influence and control of the so-called "Secondigliano Alliance"

Cop among 11 Camorra arrests in Naples
Ex Napoli skipper Bruscolotti among loan sharks' victims

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 25 - A Carabiniere policeman was among 11 people arrested Tuesday in Naples in connection with a loan sharking ring run by the local Camorra mafia.
The officer has been charged with corruption.
Former Napoli soccer team captain Giuseppe Bruscolotti , who handed over the captain's armband to legend Diego Armando Maradona, was among 11 cases of alleged usury of businessmen, police said.

Raffaele 'don Rafele' Ligato died in Opera prison after a long illness. The boss was serving a life sentence in the Milanese penitentiary under the 41bis regime: according to the investigators he was a historic head of the Lubrano-Ligato clan, founded by Vincenzo Lubrano but managed by the second Camorra family. The 74-year-old will be buried in his town of origin, but the Caserta Police Commissioner has banned the public funeral as reported by CasertaNews.

In the Caleno countryside, the Papa and Ligato clans, still carry out a penetrating control of the territory, coming to influence some neighboring areas of lower Lazio with ramifications also in other Italian regions. The group is mainly active in the extortion sector, especially to the detriment of local entrepreneurs and economic operators, but also operates in the trafficking of weapons and drugs and in recycling through apparently legitimate economic activities including supermarkets, construction companies and hospitality companies.

The Nuvoletta family is linked with the Lubrano clan through marriages celebrated between close relatives of their respective chieftains.

Police arrested six members of the Moccia clan. The alleged crimes are of mafia-type association and illegal carrying and possession of war weapons and common firearms and related ammunition.

The Moccia clan

The Moccia clan is considered one of the most powerful mafia groups of the Camorra type operating mostly in the municipalities of Afragola , Acerra , Casoria , Casalnuovo di Napoli , Caivano, Arzano, Frattamaggiore, Grumo Nevano, Frattaminore and Cardito. Over the years it has forcefully entered Lazio , Lombardy and Puglia, taking possession of commercial activities such as fruit and vegetable shops, but also restaurants and night clubs. Other profitable activities of the clan, especially in the city of Rome, where it is firmly established, are the control of building contracts, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking and above all the management of betting shops. .

The founder of the clan was Gennaro Moccia , killed in a Camorra attack in April 1974, probably by a fire group of the Giugliano and Magliulo clan, antagonists of the Moccias.

Following the feud, the Giugliano and Magliulo clan was ousted, thus reuniting, in the following years, Afragola and the neighboring municipalities under the control of a single and powerful clan, the Moccias. The void left by Gennaro Moccia was then filled by his wife, Anna Mazza, the first woman in Italy to have undergone criminal proceedings for mafia crimes . The group has been able to count and count on bosses of the caliber of Gennaro Moccia, Angelo Moccia , Anna Mazza , Luigi Moccia, Vincenzo Moccia and alliances with other clans such as those of Licciardi, Sacco-Bocchetti, the Russo di Nola Clan, the Contini and the Senese clan.

Given the territories controlled by the clan and the areas with which it borders, even if of a Camorra style, the Moccia clan has established business relationships even if there have been several wars with types of mafias such as those of the "Cosa Nostra" and ' ndrangheta, both in the Caserta area with the Casalesi and in northern Italy, in regions such as Lombardy and Piedmont. Furthermore, from the settlement in Rome, the Clan has managed to comfortably fit into the administrative environment, as well as the political one. It manages the market of slot machines, street food trucks, chestnut sellers that can be found at every corner of the most famous squares in Rome. And we can find their acolyte in every street business, such as florists and markets, as in hashish, marijuana and cocaine dealing areas such as Piazza San Lorenzo, local pubs and discos. It is no coincidence that the DIA in the annual reports among all the prominent mafia groups present in the capital, gives a certain weight to the percentage of Moccia's earnings. The Moccia clan has a considerable share of control over the territory of Rome. Where there were and still are groups such as those of the Magliana and “Nuova Magliana”, with Massimo Carminati, who despite being under house arrest holds a certain power and control, the Moccias demonstrate a considerable range of action. Even during the operations of "Mafia Capitale", the Moccia clan had its role and the authorities had a certain foresight, following for some time and knowing a part of their business.

As for Campania, since the 80s "of the reconstruction after the 1980 Irpinia earthquake . Luigi Moccia, was considered by the investigators to be the white collar of the clan, the true mind of the criminal holding, capable of transforming one of the most bloody gangs of the Neapolitan, into a mafia that grows in the apparent tranquility of respectable offices. In fact, the top management of the organization is mainly interested in top-level entrepreneurial affairs, also thanks to the strong penetration force at the local political level. As also stated by the last publication of the DIA, none of the leaders of the clan has ever become repentant, they have only limited themselves to dissociating, thus welding a single criminal continuity in the hinterland of the Neapolitan area.

In Lazio, on the other hand, according to the investigators, the Moccias, in collaboration with the clan of Michele Senese, powerful head of the Roman underworld, originally from Afragola and close to the Moccia, manage and conduct illegal activities and thanks to the complacency of unsuspected figureheads, they also control legal business and economic activities, such as “clean” banks and financial companies.

Naples, 25 arrests today: the Sangermano clan defeated, the patron saint's bow in front of the boss's house



As part of a coordinated investigation by the Naples Anti-Mafia District Directorate, the Carabinieri of the investigative nucleus of the Castello di Cisterna group and staff of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate carried out an order for precautionary custody in prison, issued by the Court of Naples, against 25 subjects affiliated to the Sangermano clan seriously suspected of mafia-type association, extortion, fraudulent transfer of values, illicit competition, usury, self-laundering and carrying and illegal possession of common firearms, the latter crimes aggravated by the purposes and methods mafia.

The investigative activity, carried out from 2016 to 2019, made it possible to highlight the operation of the criminal association, based in San Paolo Bel Sito with interests largely in the countryside of Nola and in a part of the province of Avellino, tending to affirm its hegemonic control over the territory of interest, even with the availability of an important quantity of common firearms.

As a demonstration of the pressing presence of the clan in the area, during the procession of the patron saint of the town, the effigy of the Saint was made to "bow" in front of the house of the clan chief.

During the activities, the carabinieri also executed a preventive seizure decree, for a value of approximately 30 million euros, on properties (land and buildings), companies, cars and financial relationships.

Pasquale Angellotti, 54, former member of Lo Russo clan , was shot dead while he was into a car in the neighborhood of Miano (Naples)

The death of ‘o cecato, not surprisingly, is yet another major murder committed against members of what was once known as the clan dei capitoni. Before him, in fact, had been killed Salvatore Milano, Giuseppe Tipaldi and, above all, Giuseppe Di Napoli and Pasquale Torre, the latter slaughtered together, in an ambush whose dynamics are still to be clarified. Crimes all attributable to the new criminal balances that were created in Miano after the fall of the Lo Russo, balances whose creation would have also contributed to gangs from other districts, such as the scissionists of Scampia and the Mazzarella of the historic center.

Regarding Angellotti, his underworld charisma is undoubted. Considered one of the main assassins of the Lo Russo clan he had managed, however, to escape two life sentences,

Bruno Carbone was arrested in Rome , considered one of the major Neapolitan drug brokers. The 45-year-old had been on the run since 2003, when he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for international drug trafficking along the Spain-Naples-Catania route .

He was the recipient of a precautionary custody order in prison issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples at the request of the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate, facts for which he has already been tried and sentenced in the first and second degree.

For years he would have managed the relationship with the Colombians, he would have supplied drugs to various clans of the Camorra, from the Nuvolettas to the Ciccarellis of Parco Verde, up to the clans of the Rione Traiano . He was captured by the carabinieri of the Naples investigative unit inside Ciampino airport: he was in possession of a false document.

On October 7, a new pre-trial detention order was issued against Bruno Carbone and Raffaele Imperiale. The two super-narcos of Neapolitan origin ended up in the blitz of the Reggio Calabria prosecutor's office which overall led to the arrest of 36 people.

Arrest of mafia drug-trafficker on Europol’s most wanted list shrouded in mystery
Bruno Carbone, right-hand man of mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale, was arrested at Rome airport amid claims he was extradited from Syria

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ols-most-wanted-list-shrouded-in-mystery

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

International cocaine trafficking, the network of narcos Raffaele Imperiale defeated: 28 arrested
International cocaine trafficking and money laundering: dawn blitz by the State Police and Guardia di Finanza, which disrupted the network belonging to the drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale.
Edited by Naples editorial team

International drug trafficking and money laundering, cocaine in this case: maxi-blitz at dawn by the State Police and Guardia di Finanza. From the early hours of the morning a vast operation by the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza has been underway in Naples and in the province: the forming network has been defeated, with an operational base in the province of Naples and headed by the well-known drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale , arrested in Dubai , where he was a fugitive, in August 2021.

Fiamme Gialle and policemen are carrying out an order for the application of personal precautionary measures, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Naples at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples, District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 28 people held responsible, for various reasons, for a purposeful association international drug trafficking and money laundering.

The cocaine arrived in Naples by sea hidden in containers
The investigations made it possible to reveal that Imperiale ensured that the drugs arrived in the main European ports by sea, from South America, hidden in some containers . Once on the mainland, the cocaine was then transported by road by compliant road hauliers and was then hidden in deposits used by the criminal organization spread throughout Italy, between Campania, Calabria, Lazio and Emilia-Romagna.

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They were trying to restore the power of the Schiavone and Bidognetti clans: 37 arrests

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Schiavone-clan-and-Bidognetti-37-arrests/

Pretty confusing there are four Nicola Schiavones playing a role in the Schiavone faction of the Casalesi.

“All I remember is the blood, all that blood,” Giandavide De Pau, the former driver of an Italian Mafia boss, allegedly said after he slaughtered three prostitutes in Rome’s upper-class Prati district last weekend. How a mob driver turned out to be a serial killer.

Read the entire story on Gangsters Inc. https://gangstersinc.org/blog/all-that-blood-driver-for-italian-mafia-boss-turns-out-to-be-seri

The Bidognetti bust


In the photos, top, from left, Katia Bidognetti, Nicola Sergio Kader, Teresa Bidognetti and Giosuè Fioretto; below, from left, Vincenzo D'Angelo, Federico Barrino, Gianluca Bidognetti and Nicola Garofalo

In recent years the business between the Mallardo clan and the Casalesi have increasingly strengthened. Together with the Alliance of Secondigliano they constituted the so-called mixed group which raged on the Domitius-Plegraean coast.

In the blitz carried out, which led to the elimination of the Bidognetti faction, the existence of a Giuglianese wing of the Casalesi was underlined which was headed by Salvatore Sestile , former owner of La Contessa , who died of Covid in February of Last year.

Another contact person of the Casalesi in Giugliano is Giovanni Della Corte (Schiavone faction) .

Gaetano Vitagliano, 48, the reputed cashier of the Amato-Pagano clan, was arrested in Dubai

Operation against the Camorra in Naples: 66 people arrested

The charges are of mafia-type association, extortion and possession of weapons, for various reasons linked to the Camorra cartel called De Luca - Bossa - Casella - Minichini - Rinaldi - Reale

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/operation-against-the-Camorra-in-Naples%2C-66-people-arrested/

The collaborator of justice reported to the judges an episode that took place between March and July 2018 during which he mediated in a dispute between the boss Alfredo Minichini and a childhood friend of his. The victim paid the clan 1500 euros a month, moreover, he continuously received requests from the young man for free goods granted out of fear.

“He had to complain to me about it. I, therefore, had a meeting with Alfredo Minichini obtaining from the latter that he no longer turned to V. to obtain goods or money beyond the monthly quota. He agreed. However , V. he boasted publicly of the favorable treatment he received, also going around saying that his son Michele Minichini was bisexual. Alfredo learned about it… he wanted satisfaction ” , the collaborator of justice tells the magistrates. At that point there was retaliation with gunfire.

Dubai is finally doing something made deals with several western countries. More than 500 drugs dealers have been arrested by Dubai Police in the first six months of 2022 I read.