THE GHOST"
'Ndrangheta, four years on the run: it's the hunt for the last super-fugitive Pasquale Bonavota
He is the last Calabrian boss on the loose, among the four most wanted. The designated heir to the clan has been missing since November 2018

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ultimo-superlatitante-pasquale-bonavota/

Mafia, Gratteri: "Riina was stupid and 'Ndrangheta took advantage of it"
January 20, 2023 | 15.29
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The prosecutor of Catanzaro: "While Cosa Nostra was waging the stupid war against the state with massacres, the Calabrian clans became leaders in the importation of cocaine into Europe"

" Riina was an idiot . He was an idiot, he wasn't intelligent. He was just violent . To be a boss you don't have to be violent, you have to be intelligent". This was stated by the prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri, speaking in the Senate at the Sala Caduti of Nassirya at the presentation of the portal 'Scelgo la vita'. And while Cosa Nostra waged, with the massacres, the "stupid war against the State" it was the 'Ndrangheta who took advantage of it , to the point, he recalled, that today "it is the leader in the importation of cocaine in Europe".

The prosecutor then urged Justice Minister Nordio to intervene on prison overcrowding . "There are thousands of kids who are detained because of their drug addiction . What do we want them to do in there? Let's try to get them to go to a therapeutic community - advocated the magistrate -. An inmate in prison costs 200 euros while in a therapeutic community 50 to 80 euros So let's keep these kids in the therapeutic community: out of four, two or three they will make it... And we even save money! These are the things that Nordio should discuss, not leave the overcrowding. Will some escape? Maybe, we'll get them back. It's a risk. But it's not that we don't do things because one can risk running away…”, he added.

anyway we should remember that someone asked Riina to do those things, he didn't do it all by himself, freemasons, politicians and secret services are sure involved in the campaign of Cosa Nostra against the state

Indeed before his death Falcone became more and more isolated in Rome didn't know who he could trust anymore.

Riina was used to do the dirty work and that's it.

Indeed although Provenzano didn't object the massacres he was always the more intelligent mafia boss MMD also. So I agree Riina was an idiot, but everybody was afraid of him even his own men. After the murder of Salvo Lima it became a big mess politically also.

Italy’s highest court confirms sentences for Marsascala mafia extortion beating
The daughter of a ‘Ndrangheta clan boss will serve almost four and a half years in prison for arranging the trip to Malta to extort money, while her partner and two associates will serve over 10 years and eight years respectively for administering a beating to an Italian contractor
The Shift Team
January 23, 2023 14:05
Francesca Rispoli, the daughter of imprisoned ‘Ndrangheta mafia boss Vincenzo Rispoli, has had her four-year, five-month and 10-day sentence for her role in an extortion beating that took place in Malta confirmed.

Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation, the country’s highest court of appeal, has confirmed her original sentence, as well as the sentences of her cohorts, in the Malta operation.

Judges also convicted ‘Ndrangheta associates brothers Michele and Giuseppe Di Novara to eight years each, as well as Giovanni Lillo, Rispoli’s partner, to 10 years and eight months incarceration for carrying out a brutal beating of businessman Giovanni D’Alessandro in Marsascala in January 2020.

All four were also charged with mafia aggravating circumstances over their involvement in a ‘Ndrangheta mafia clan that operates in Legnano, just outside of Milan.

D’Alessandro, who lived in Malta at least at the time and owns Valmeda Srl, a building company that was working at several construction sites in Malta, owed some €3,000 to two of the three assailants for off-the-books illegal work they had done between November 2019 and January 2020.

The three assailants had travelled to Malta on 25 January 2020 on an Air Malta flight from Linate Airport, with tickets booked by the 31-year-old mafia boss’ daughter Francesca Rispoli.

The savage beating they administered D’Alessandro left him hospitalised with broken ribs and teeth.

Anti-mafia prosecutors’ phone taps between the assailants and relatives show how they bragged about brutally punching and kicking the victim, with Lillo giving Rispoli details of the attack saying that “there was blood everywhere and teeth all over the floor”. Lillo also bragged to his wife about having sabotaged D’Alessandro’s heavy machinery.

According to investigations coordinated by Colonel Antonio Coppola and Lieutenant Colonel Cataldo Pantaleo, the three left for Malta at the end of January 2020 with the aim of getting paid by D’Alessandro.

Giuseppe ‘Zio Pino’ Di Novara told Francesca Rispoli in the phone intercepts, “I broke it all…all full of blood… I have the keys and the phone… I have the fanny pack…he doesn’t even have a lira.”

“Love, I went bowling tonight, I got a strike,” a message Lillo sent to his wife said.

“I punched him from underneath,” he then told a friend when he returned to Italy. “His teeth were crushed, I gave him the first punch under the chin and after that he didn’t understand anything.”

The details of the beating have been confirmed in a medical report from Mater Dei Hospital, where the businessman had himself treated that evening.

The report listed, trauma wounds, the loss of several teeth, back abrasions, a hematoma on the left side of the head, a fracture of the 12th rib, a suspected fracture of the tenth rib, and a slight left-sided collapsed lung.

Rispoli is recorded as having encouraged and applauded them, saying in the recording, “This way he’ll know the ‘Ndrangheta still exists”.

After the phone taps, an investigation was conducted by the Carabinieri and arrests were made in September 2020.

The mafia charges come from investigators’ line of reasoning that the perpetrators acted “in order to facilitate the consortium activities of the Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo branch of the ‘Ndrangheta”.

The branch is believed to be the most powerful in Lombardy. It is run by the Rispolis and is linked to the Farao clan in Cirò Marina.

'Ndrangheta: international money laundering and fraud, eleven arrests in Vibo Valentia

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news...d-fraud-eleven-arrests-in-vibo-valentia/

Hungarian and Italian police have carried out an operation against the ‘Ndrangheta criminal organisation. During a joint action day, eight persons were arrested. They are suspected of mafia-type criminal association, international money laundering and fraudulent transfer of values.

The operation is a follow-up to a wider investigation concluded in 2019 against the same criminal organisation.

In addition to the eight arrests, investigators seized assets worth approximately EUR 3 million, including bank accounts, real estate, vehicles and a yacht. Four real estate companies were also seized, three of which in Budapest and one in Milan.

Wow this early morning another major bust !

'Ndrangheta, blow to the gangs of Vibonese: 56 people arrested out of 78 under investigation - LIVE
An operation coordinated by the DDA against the Mancuso, La Rosa, Il Grande and Accorinti clans is underway. The Stillitani entrepreneurs are also in prison. Assets seized for 250 million euros

Blow to the gangs of Limbadi, Nicotera, Tropea, Parghelia and Briatico. Mafia association the main accusation. There are a total of 78 suspects.

The operation affects the provinces of Vibo Valentia, Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Avellino, Benevento, Parma, Milan, Cuneo, L'Aquila, Spoleto and Civitavecchia.

‘Ndrangheta, 56 arrests in many Italian cities

From the early hours of this morning, in Vibo Valentia, Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Avellino, Benevento, Parma, Milan, Cuneo, L’Aquila, Spoleto and Civitavecchia, investigators of the State Police are implementing an application order of precautionary measures ordered against 56 subjects.

They are seriously suspected, for various reasons, of mafia-type criminal association, external competition in mafia association, extortion, illegal carrying and possession of weapons, kidnapping, fraudulent transfer of values, unlawful competition with violence and threats and trafficking of influences unlawful, aggravated by the mafia method and facilitation, as well as corruption, disclosure of official secrecy and criminal association aimed at receiving stolen goods and laundering agricultural machinery, aggravated by transnationality and mafia facilitation.

There are a total of 78 suspects. Here are their names.
In jail
Antonio Accorinti, 43 years old from Briatico; Giuseppe Antonio Accorinti, known as Peppone, 64 years old from Zungri; Pasquale Accorinti, 54, from Ricadi; Vincenzo Barba, alias “Musichiere”, 71 years old from Vibo; Francesco Barbieri, 58 years old from Cessaniti; Michele Bruzzese, 41 years old from Tropea; Vincenzo Octave Calafati, 51 years old from Vibo; ; Antonio Facciolo , 64 years old from Vibo Valentia; Giuseppe Ferraro, 29 years old from Drapia; Damian Zbignev Fialek, 46 years old from Ricadi; Francesco Gargano, 27 years old from Parghelia; Gregorio Giofrè, 60 years of San Gregorio d'Ippona; Egidio the Great, 59 years old from Parghelia; Alessandro La Rosa, 39 years old from Tropea; Antonio La Rosa, aka Ciondolino, 61 years old from Tropea; Domenico La Rosa, alias “Zi Micu”, 85 years old from Tropea; Francesco La Rosa, alias "Bimbo" 52 years of Tropea; Gianfranco La Torre, 56 years old from Ricadi; Fernando Lamonica, 67 years old from Catanzaro; Paolino Lo Bianco, 60 years old from Vibo Valentia; Francesco Lo Scalzo, 41 years old from Tropea; Antonio Mancuso, 40 years old from Limbadi; Diego Mancuso, alias Mazzola, 70 years old from Ricadi; Domenico Mancuso, 48 years old from Nicotera; Luigi Mancuso, 69 years old from Limbadi; Pasquale Megna, 32 years old from Nicotera; Emanuele Melluso, 38 years old from Vibo Marina; Simone Melluso, 38 years old from Briatico; Gaetano Molino, 64 years old from Limbadi; Salvatore Muggeri, 46 years old from Briatico; Gaetano Muscia , 59 years old from Tropea; Alberto Pannace, 40 years of San Gregorio d'Ippona; Domenico Salvatore Polito, 59 years old from Tropea; Giuseppe Prossomariti, 46 years old from Vibo Valentia; Saverio Prostamo, 49 years old from Pizzo; Paolo Ripepi, 58 years old from Ricadi; Pasquale Scordo , 80 years old from Gallico; Emanuele Stillitani, 68 years old from Pizzo; Francescantonio Stillitani, 70 years old from Pizzo; Davide Surace, 38 years old from Tropea; Francesco Taccone , 36 years old from Ricadi;

At home
Pasquale Anastasi , 72 years old from Palmi; Domenico Bevilacqua, understood as "Compare Mimmo", 46 years old from Melito Porto Salvo; Rodolfo Bova, 57 years old from Bagnara Calabra; Gaetano De Luise, 51 years old from Naples; Giacomo Franzoni, meaning Gianfranco, from Briatico; Salvatore Domenico Galati, 56 years old from Monterosso Calabro; Marco German, 59 years old from Malta; Rocco Gramuglia , 54 years old from Bagnara Calabra; Gianluca Guerino, 37 years old from Reggio Calabria; Marcello Guerino, 39 years old from Corniglio (Parma); Massimo Guerino, 46 ??years old from Gioia Tauro; John Izzo, 55 years of Sant'Agata de' Goti; Michele La Robina, 65 years of Arena; William Mc Manus , 56 years old from Malta; Vincenzo Valentini, 36 years old from Rosarno;

The other suspects
Saveria Anjou, 54 years old from Tropea; Francesco Callisto, 35 years old from Lamezia; Tomasina Certo , 59 years old from Tropea; Francesco Cutrì, 52 years old from Reggio; Costantino Gaudioso, 29 years old from Zungri; Carmine Il Grande, 64 years old from Parghelia; Aldo Mangialavori, 45 years old from Rombiolo; Rosa Marchese, 48 years old from Tropea; Giuseppe Mazzitelli, alias “Peppi u coddararu” 33 years old, from Tropea; Antonio Panzitta, 45 years old from Rombiolo; Paolo Potenzoni, 43 years old from Drapia; Maria Antonella Prestia Lamberti, 40 years old from Spilinga; Umberto Pugliese, 38 years old from Spilinga; Demetrio Putortì, 30 years old from Nicotera; Antonio Quadro, 65 years old from Reggio Calabria; Giuseppe Ripepi, 32 years old from Ricadi; Pasquale Scordo , 80 years old from Gallico; Cosma Antonio Storniolo, 58 years old from Nicotera; Diego Surace, 41 years old from Spilinga; Giuseppe Tortora, 75 years old from Mileto; Costantino Trimboli, 61 years old from Reggio Calabria; Rocco Angelo Tritto, 69 years old from Gioia del Colle; Antonio Zangari , 52 years old from Laureana di Borrello.

among the arrested politicians, public officials and employees of the Prefecture

One of the crimes was a major car theft ring throughout Italy sending the cars abroad in particular Romania and Malta.

Anna Sergi reported that drugbroker Giorgio Sale already died in 2015 , semi-unknown in Italy (where he will later be convicted of drug trafficking), but who in Colombia, however, had restaurants, bars, real estate, used for money laundering.
The Sale group was also based in California, I believe his son took over his father's business.

She talked about the 'Ndrangheta with the authorities of Colombia.

The 'Ndrangheta here is different from some European countries and the globalized North (also extended to Australia, for economic and social reasons).

Already from the beginning of this meeting, attended by selected units of Interpol, Fiscalia, and other members of the police forces - we start talking about who is who , in the contemporary 'Ndrangheta, and especially who is not who .
The 'Ndrangheta, here in Colombia is a mostly abstract organization whose structure is little known - and it is of little use to Colombians to know it - which occasionally presents itself with individuals of Italian origin who move in a large and complex drug market. Calabrian crime has been participating in this market for years,whose protagonists, however, are all local .

https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/ndrangheta-colombia-i-can-e-i-calabresi-affari-narcos/

Actually, the vehicles in question are believed to include agriculture and other heavy machinery.

'Ndrangheta, "Aemilia": over 8 million confiscated from Antonio Muto of the Cutro clan
01 February 2023

These are assets for an estimated value of around 8,500,000 euros confiscated from a prominent exponent of the autonomous 'Ndrangheta association, active in the territories of Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena and Piacenza, historically linked to the Cutro gang (KR) headed by to Nicolino Grande Aracri .

Antonio Muto , born in 1955, definitively sentenced on 7 May 2022 to 10 years and 8 months' imprisonment as part of the " Aemilia " operation for mafia-type association, is currently in prison.

The figure of the convict is that of a very active participant in the Emilian 'Ndrangheta association, observing the hierarchies and rules dictated by the bosses, faithful to the directives received, shared and implemented, a link between the mafia clan and representatives of local institutions, thus allowing the strengthening and the economic expansion of the partnership, clearly entrepreneurial.

The investigations carried out by the DIA made it possible to identify a set of assets which the convict had access to and demonstrate that their value was disproportionate to the income declared and the economic activity carried out.

The confiscation order affected 50 properties including a luxury villa in Reggio Emilia, industrial warehouses, land, a real estate company, a vehicle and 12 bank relationships. The entire assets, which passed definitively into the hands of the State, will be administered by the National Agency for Seized and Confiscated Assets.

Blow against the 'Ndrangheta: Edgardo Greco arrested in France, he had been a fugitive for 17 years
"The arrests of dangerous fugitives continue - commented Minister Piantedosi - demonstrating that the strong action of the State against all forms of organized crime never suffers setbacks"

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news...-edgardo-greco-era-latitante-da-17-anni/

'Ndrangheta: 45 mn in assets seized in Italy and US
From two construction and real estate entrepreneurs

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...357ea2b-3c5c-4c6f-9396-4992aebc8889.html

Italian fugitive Edgardo Greco tracked down as pizza maker after 16 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64495564

The sentence of the Cassation has been postponed to 28 February for Massimiliano Sestito, accused of the murder of the boss Vincenzo Femia.

Sestito escaped from house arrest from his home in Pero, in the province of Milan, in the night between Monday and Tuesday, just before the hearing. He had been under house arrest with an electronic bracelet since the beginning of January. The man has already served 30 years for another murder, that of the police officer Renato Lio in 1991.

At the end of the closed session, the judges of the first criminal section announced that they would postpone the decision on the appeals presented by the defense of Sestito and the co-accused Francesco Pizzata against the conviction issued in October 2021 by the Rome court of appeal.

In the morning the general prosecutor of the Cassation asked for the confirmation of the sentence of life imprisonment for Sestito and 24 years and 8 months for the other defendant.

I think they got it wrong, no way he served 30 years for the murder of a police officer in 1991 if he was free to kill a mob boss in 2013.

He was sentenced to 30 years, but was probably released sooner. I don't know exactly how much you have to serve in Italy, but here it's common an offender will be released at the two-thirds point.

The first civilian infiltrator in the 'ndrangheta.

From infiltrator to narcos, to Mammasantissima the "dangerous life" of Bruno Fuduli

Editorial staff -3 February 2023 15:06
From infiltrator to narcos, to Mammasantissima the "dangerous life" of Bruno Fuduli - Video

by Vincenzo Imperitura

When, in 2018, Bruno Fuduli tries to get closer to the carabinieri del Ros to tell the new folds taken on by the cocaine market on a global level , his life already resembles that of the protagonist of a novel. The first civilian infiltrator in the history of the fight against narcos , Fuduli helped the Italian investigators carry out one of the most important police operations - the Decollo investigation coordinated by the Catanzaro anti-mafia district - in history. Of him the marble company used by the Calabrian clans to transport to the port of Gioia Taurotons of cocaine hidden inside the stones, and used by the carabinieri as a Trojan horse to put an end to the river of cocaine that flooded Europe through the Calabrian port of call . [Continued below]

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Faithful to his "character" Fuduli, a few years later, he will jump the quail passing through the ranks of the bad guys. Arrested in 2010 and sentenced in the first instance for drug trafficking as part of Operation Overloading , in 2018 he reconnected with the investigators to whom he recounted the transformations and evolutions of the cocaine market. At the center of the discussion are the brokers of the clans , who collect the money necessary for the operations, and the paths that must be followed to bring the white powder from the three producing countries ( Colombia, Bolivia and Peru ) to the sales markets in the USA, Europe and Australia.

Florida not suprising, further increasing the total amount of assets seized from the 'Ndrangheta in the last 3 years, inside and outside Italy, to more than 650 million euros.

spanish police along with DEA seized 805 kilos of cocaine on a ship near Dakar (Senegal) and arrested 7 people, 1 italian and 6 gambians; the shipment came from Brazil and managed by 'Ndrangheta

The deputy attorney general Marisa Manzini asked the confirming of the life sentence for the alleged bosses Pino and Luciano Scalise, father and son, already convicted in the first instance as instigators of the murder of the lawyer Francesco Pagliuso which took place on the evening of 9 August 2016 in Lamezia Terme.

The crime would have been committed because the lawyer Pagliuso was held responsible by the Scalise family for having facilitated and favored their rival Domenico Mezzatesta both in the trial which saw the latter, together with his son Giovanni accused of the double murder of Giovanni Vescio and Francesco Iannazzo.

'Ndrangheta fugitive arrested in Bali
32-year-old had been on the run for seven years

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 8 - A member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia who had been on the run for seven years has been arrested by Indonesian police at Bali airport after being tracked down with the help of Italy's Carabinieri police, the force said on Wednesday.
Antonio Strangio, 32, was hit by an Interpol Red Notice and detained after landing.
Allegedly linked to the San Luca 'Ndrangheta clan, he is wanted over accusations of narcotic production and trafficking, with the use of mafia methods an aggravating factor.
His case is related to the Eclissi operation that led to the arrest of 11 people in July 2015.
Strangio fled Italian Italian justice in 2016 and went to Australia where, with the help of the fact he has dual Italian-Australia citizenship, he was able to avoid extradition.
His arrest took place on February 2 but the authorities did not make the news public until now.
The news comes just days after "'Ndrangheta chef" Edgardo Greco, who had been on the run for 17 years, was arrested in Saint Etienne, France.
Greco is set to serve a life sentence for two murders.
Strangio's arrest takes the number of Italian fugitives arrested around the world up to 42 in under three years. (ANSA).