Italian Mafia boss Raffaele Imperiale becomes government witness in move that shocks narco underworld - Went on epic spending sprees (€7 million in 3 months)
See: https://gangstersinc.org/blog/italian-mafia-boss-raffaele-imperiale-becomes-government-witness

This is huge news and will have a big impact on crime groups in South America and Europe. Irish mob boss Daniel Kinahan must be feeling really sick right now.

big news he also worked with the 'Ndrangheta

Very interesting article (and development) GI.

The other statements come from his companion Bruno Carbone and Raffaele Mauriello. All three belonged to the so-called Separatists (Scissionisti) who were involved in a camorra war over drug trafficking with the Di Lauro clan in northern Naples. They formed an important hub in the international cocaine trade.

Bruno Carbone is also considered one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world. In fact, for years he allegedly managed the relationship with the Colombians. Thanks to his dominant position in Spain, he also facilitated the rise of the sicilian mafia clan "Cappello-Carateddi".

According to what has been learned at the moment, only Imperiale has "repented". But the others will probably follow if they are reliable.
Raffaele Mauriello is a suspect in at least 5 murders in an internal clan feud.

Thanks!

Getting one’s hands bloody - Profile of Camorra Mafia boss Raffaele Mauriello https://gangstersinc.org/blog/getting-one-s-hands-bloody-profile-of-camorra-mafia-boss-raffaele

Raffaele Imperiale pentito, mentions the first names: “Money from drug dealing recycled into gold bars. Every month I spent 400 thousand euros”
editorial board
8 December 2022

It's a raging river Raffaele Imperiale , by now the most famous ex narcos in the world, now repentant, has released the first statements as a collaborator of justice providing the first details on the earnings made in the world of drugs, the money spent to support the business and those for recycling. Four interrogations in the last two months, the first names of the partners and affiliates of the powerful globetrotting narcos appear.

He says he left his partner a cash of 18 million euros. And he says that he spent – ??for years – every month between 350,000 and 400,000 euros a month , money that was used «for the salaries of their members (the high-end ones pocketed up to 20,000 euros a month, complete with thirteenth and fourteenth salaries ), but also for the families of prisoners, for the insurance of cars and trucks to be used to transport cocaine and for the management of ordinary expenses.

Deal money in gold bullion
«I invested in gold bars, I know that they sell foils in Naples. I got the ingots from a company, a foundry in the north near Venice». In this scenario, Imperiale brings up some partners, including Anastasio, Ursini and Genovese, claiming to have invested in an important shopping center (specializing in precious items) in Campania. A deal, that of the bullion, which would have produced revenues of twenty million a month ».

According to the account recorded in the minutes, Imperiale had long since decided not to deal directly with drugs. He worked on various platforms, thanks to encrypted circuits such as Sky ECC, an app used on smartphones for interception-proof conversations: «I had decided to deal only with economic flows» , he explained.

The Imperial narcos: "Even the 'Ndrangheta bought drugs from me"

The newly repentant Raffaele Imperiale talks about relations with the Calabrian gangs and "safe havens" such as Gioia Tauro where to get drugs from South America

The Calabrian gang of the Mammoliti bought hundreds and hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from the drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale who has become a pentito for two months.

This was revealed by the Van Gogh boss himself (so nicknamed for having come into possession of two very precious canvases by the Flemish painter, kept for a long time and then found again) in one of the four reports filed in recent days by the Neapolitan investigating office to the judges of the Naples Review.

Business, Raffaele Imperiale says, accelerated in 2016, after the arrest of Rocco Mammoliti and the takeover of his brother Giuseppe . Relations between Imperiale and the clan worsened after the theft of an important quantity of drugs, 140 kilos.

The Calabrians stole 140 kilograms of cocaine from Imperiale and he severed relations.

Imperiale explains to the Neapolitan magistrates that some Calabrian affiliates had carried out the "coup". The cheat did not go unpunished and even a murder passed off as an account settlement for sentimental affairs escaped us. Imperiale and Giuseppe Mammoliti came to an agreement: they would share the losses.

But in any case, 500 thousand euros did not arrive from Calabria. From that moment on, the Mammoliti began to ask for smaller quantities of cocaine, but always received a refusal from Imperiale.
It was a perfect system, which for years had allowed him to become the point of reference for international drug trafficking in Europe. Logistic bases, or rather "unsuspected houses" located in several parts of Italy. Safe ports, "with large commercial ships that make intercontinental routes" and "changers" , trusted men who turned over money and cleaned it up.

It is Raffaele Imperiale, the boss who also owned two stolen Van Goghs, who told the DDA prosecutors about it. Last November 10, in a report recently filed by the prosecutors, the king of drug trafficking reconstructed in minute detail the modus operandi of the organization he created, which had powerful Neapolitan and Calabrian gangs as 'clients' and in excellent relations with the cartels South Americans.

"Mario Cerrone was initially in charge of logistics and relations with Italian criminal groups, who were then taken over by Daniele Ursini and Bruno Carbone", he explains, admitting that he arrived in Dubai in 2010 , with 100 million worth of cocaine hidden in Naples at the unbeknownst to the Amato-Pagano clan , fruit of his 'business' in Brazil , and from there to have used encrypted platforms to manage his interests in every corner of the world.

Initially, the Amato-Paganos of the Neapolitan neighborhood of Secondigliano "dealed with the distribution on the territory" of his drug. After the cocaine order, “everything fell under the responsibility of Ursini who managed the delivery. He contacted the customer directly and wrote down the quantity delivered and the customer's name. Then at least once a month, even more often, we compared it with the one kept by me, who kept the global accounts of all the operations”.

The work was always on credit “and the quicker the customers paid, the quicker we made further supplies. It was a swirling system in constant motion. The transport of money took place with 'system' machines, therefore with physical movement. The delivery took place in a place identified by the customer, where we usually took care of collecting it, then our money was moved to our house where the money was counted and divided and then kept in special shelves".

The villas available to the organization “were around ten, props for drugs and money, you certainly never managed to enter two of them. In one of those you went to, 250 kilos were not discovered and then sold by the Amato-Paganos” , he says.

The seaways of drug trafficking
Today in Europe, 2,500 euros are earned for every kilo of cocaine. The group transported the drugs through the ports of Gioia Tauro , obviously Naples, Algeciras in Spain , Belgium , Rotterdam , Germany and Latvia.

Imperiale's network managed contacts in the Ivory Coast and in two years it completed countless operations, for tons of cocaine sailing from Turbo, in Colombia and above all from Cristóbal , in Panama , also used as a hub by Brazil and Ecuador , with destination Gioia Tauro .

From Holland the drug traveled by road
“We had at least eight stationary trucks available for transport from the Netherlands, of which at least 3-4 were ready to load. All the carriers had a legitimate cover business, except for one Slovak who worked only for us.

We always worked on credit, the faster the customers paid, the faster we made further supplies. After the payment, the money was moved to one of our houses where it was counted, divided and then kept in special holders. The group had a dozen villas for "support" where up to 10 million in cash could be hidden".

The Italian investigations against Lelluccio allow his name to be compared to those of the criminals believed to be at the head of drug cartels involved in the so-called Mocro War in Holland and Belgium , which caused over 40 deaths.
So it's about Taghi Ridouan and Rico Riquelme Vega: the first awaiting trial, the second captured in Chile in 2017 and extradited to Holland where he was sentenced. Elements that would be attributable to an organization with mafia characteristics made up of criminals of various nationalities all based in the United Arab Emirates.

Are all the rats Italian, or does it just seem like that?

There are still rats in italian mafias more than before especially in the ndragheta thanks to LE pressare.

i think most of them flip because of 41bis

41bis is for sure the main reason why high ranking members flip.

Long terms and 41 bis. Some criminals like Cosimo Di Lauro dont feared the 41 bis but many criminals can't say goodbye to their luxury lives so even a month in 41 bis it's unsustainable for them.

Nabil Bakkali is an important crown witness against those guys he's the first from the Moroccan milieu. There are more Moroccans who made statements but not official.

In his own words Imperiale severed ties with the Amato-Pagano clan, he didn't trust them anymore instead he started to supply cocaine all over Naples.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. The reason I asked is because this guy has connections on several continents and will be snitching on people from several different criminal organizations around the world, in the past rats from the Italian Mafia were only talking about Italy. This doesn't look good because it appears that the other ethnic gangsters are keeping their mouths shut while this lone Italian is singing. But as Hollander pointed out others are ratting too.

Not the ndrangheta guy! Same level cocaine brokers tied to ndrangheta are doing their times without speak.

in italy there are nigerian (black axe/vikings) and albanian turncoats who started to sing after sent to 41bis, like i said the 41bis is a very good reason to flip

Much of the intel in these cases comes from the huge hack of Sky ECC, so internationally many agencies including DEA and FBI are now involved for example the Kinahans face serious sanctions by the US and are likely to end up in a US prison some day.

I think this guy was just so used to such a lavish lifestyle. Funny thing is, he'll probably resurface several years from now running his own clan back in the fold as often happens with turncoats in Italy.

He was already planning to retire one last huge shipment he said than they would have enough.
In the past he also made a deal with authorities involving the two stolen Van Gogh paintings.

Anyone who can afford the lifestyle he had in a place like Dubai already has or had enough to retire.

I wonder if this guy ever met Vito Rizzuto lol

It's official also Carbone repents!

The newly repentant Bruno Carbone spills the beans: "25% shareholder with Imperiale, in Naples drug money was managed by 'Il Bello'"
Antonio Mangione
December 12, 2022

He is considered the loyalist of Raffale Imperiale , his right arm. And in fact he followed him even after his arrest, deciding to pass by the state too. We are talking about Bruno Carbone , Giugliano's narcos also arrested in Dubai and became a collaborator of justice, just like the imperial one. Carbone made some statements to the magistrates. On 22 November, in the magistrates' room of the Rebibbia prison
, in front of the Public Prosecutors dr. Maurizio De Marco and Dr. Lucio Giugliano , Deputy Prosecutors of the Republic at the Court of Naples.

“I and Imperiale were at the head of the organization dedicated to drug dealing”, admits Carbone, who then reveals the names and roles of each participant: “Omitted, he kept the accounts, moved the money electronically, based on our orders. For example, in Naples the money was handed over to a person who deposited it in accounts, and the money
reappeared, for example, in South America. The nickname of the person to whom the money was handed over in Naples is "Il Bello" and after he was arrested, there was another person whose name I can't remember now.

“I started working with Imperiale towards the end of 2014/beginning of 2015, but I'm not sure.
Anyway since just before I moved from Holland to Dubai.
Over time I entered into a partnership with him. I was a 25% shareholder, with another 25% the costs were paid, and the remaining 50% belonged to Imperiale.
Clients of our organization were: San Giovanni a Teduccio, Torre
Annunziata, Melito, Fuorigrotta, the Calabrians, an Apulian and a Roman".

Carbone is a flooded river and tells all the details about who gave support and structures for drugs and money. “There was a cousin of mine, he worked for me, he too starting around 2016, or rather starting from 2017, managed the supports in Campania, in the Castel Volturno, Licola, Lago Patria area. Some clients had direct contact with him. He organized supports and transfers.
As for transport from Holland, I had a company from Slovakia, which worked with me. I confirm that his name is BOBO. We bought the trucks, one was confiscated. They loaded into Holland. They often unloaded in the North (Emilia Romagna) and then from here
the loads passed on to the machines to get to Naples".

Fucking rats

Looks like they didn't have much dealings with Sicilians.