Was he still in the WPP or not? Turncoats here get a new name and new life in a foreign country.

he was the engineer of the Mazzarella clan and he left the WPP a few months ago, in Italy usually the turncoats get a new name and live in the north

Executed after breaking mafia code of silence: Camorra assassins shoot turncoat engineer in the face outside Apple HQ in Naples after he exposed construction racket

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Naples-exposed-construction-racket.html

Naples cops arrest 32 for getting drugs, phones into jails

Drone deliveries by Camorra in 19 jails across Italy

https://www.ansa.it/amp/english/new...494cd0a-5896-4595-8461-6c17e18b91a6.html

Marano, Giaccio murder: three more arrests in the Polverino clan
From editorial board-March 27, 20240

Three new precautionary custody orders for the murder of Giulio Giaccio, killed 26 years ago by a commando of the Polverino clan. The young man was mistaken for a person who allegedly had a relationship with a leading affiliate of the clan. The judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the magistrates of the DDA of Naples (prosecutor Giuseppe Visone), applied the measure of precautionary custody in prison against Luigi De Cristofaro, alias Mellone, Salvatore Simioli, 'o Sciallo, and Raffaele D' Alterio, alias 'a Signurina. Simioli and D'Alterio are already detained for other crimes. These are three prominent figures of the Polverino clan. For the same murder, the conviction has already been requested for Carlo Nappi, Salvatore Cammarota and Roberto Perrone, the latter a collaborator of justice. The collaborators of justice, including Perrone and Simioli, better known as Petruocelo, revealed the background to the murder.

Camorra Boss Turns State's Witness In Italy After 26 Years In Jail

One of Italy's most notorious mafia bosses, Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, has turned state's witness after 26 years behind bars, a judicial source confirmed to AFP Friday.

https://www.barrons.com/news/camorr...in-italy-after-26-years-in-jail-b5529fb3

Wow unbelievable!!

he could say something interesting about the relationship between the Camorra and politics

Huge news indeed, but what he could say that is still relevant after 26 years.

Well Sandokan was alleged to be behind the murder of Bardellino.

Alleged murder of Bardellino, according to some he is still alive, i don't know what to believe in that one. I am sure he was connected to politicians/freemasons that are still free, because they rarely go to prison, but is he willing to talk against them.

He has to be 100% honest if he lies the deal is off the table in no time. He's 70 now saw his son repent after 26 years he had enough of prison lol.

Gratteri: «The web has allowed the Camorra to create an online bank»
by Marco Politano 4 April 2024i n Current NewsReading time: 1 minute

The prosecutor: «We only managed to seize 2 billion»
«An ndrangheta family hired German and Romanian hackers to make financial transactions within 20 minutes in banks located on 3 different continents». This is one of the results of the investigations into the dark web, conducted by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Naples Nicola Gratteri, today at the UN in New York to present the report of the Magna Grecia Foundation on Cyber ??crime. The prosecutor illustrated various examples of cyber crime in action also in Italy.

«In Naples I saw how the Camorra was able to build an online bank which involved countries such as Lithuania and Latvia and with 6,000 customers between Lombardy, Lazio and Campania and laundered something like 3 billion and 600 million euros, of which we only managed to seize 2 billion" explained Gratteri, adding that within the bank a "very sophisticated technology of Israeli production was used that only the most advanced police can afford, because just one of these software costs 5 million euros »

https://www.stylo24.it/gratteri-il-web-ha-consentito-alla-camorra-di-creare-una-banca-online/

‘Market of Fakes’ in Naples, capital of counterfeits and Camorra
Published Sun, Apr 7, 2024 · 03:01 PM\

AS TOP brands such as Gucci and Prada prepare to report billions in sales this month, luxury fakes on the streets of Naples are also yielding a jaw-dropping cash stream – for the mafia.

The teeming southern metropolis is ground zero for Italy’s counterfeit market – estimated to be worth six billion (S$8.8 billion) to seven billion euros – where fake handbags, sunglasses, clothing and shoes flourish, hawked in plain sight to buyers willing to score a knock-off bargain.

“Which brand do you like? What colour, what model?” asks a persistent seller at the “Market of Fakes”, spread out over back alleys near the gritty city’s central train station.

Men arrive hauling overstuffed blue plastic bags, from which emerge Gucci baseball hats, Fendi wallets, Hermes belts and bright orange Louis Vuitton shoeboxes, sold from rickety tables at a fraction of the price of their originals.

Counterfeits are a global phenomenon, whether fake fashion, toys, electronics, food or pharmaceuticals, estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to represent 2.5 per cent of world trade.

But Italy – home of the most luxury fashion brands – is the clear leader in counterfeit seizures within the European Union, accounting for 63 per cent of detained items in 2022, according to a November EU report.

And it’s in Naples where counterfeits find a unique breeding ground, giving it the dubious distinction of being the undisputed European capital of fakes.

The city is home to every phase of the counterfeit fashion supply chain, from manufacturing and warehousing to distribution and sales – all dominated by the region’s home-grown Camorra mafia.

Easy money
While many consumers are unconcerned about counterfeits, the mafia’s handprint has increasingly made them a law enforcement priority.

“Counterfeiting is very important because it’s a warning bell”, signalling more dangerous crimes, said Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe Evangelista, head of operations in Naples for the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s financial crimes police.

While less lucrative than selling drugs, counterfeiting generates cash, helps launder drug money and is relatively low-risk, with jail sentences far below those for more violent crimes. “They’ve already got the clientele… the tourists go by on the street, the bag is bought, and it generates profits for the criminal organisation,” Evangelista told AFP.

Police seizures are frequent and on the rise, including the discovery of a factory producing thousands of counterfeit Napoli banners, jerseys and caps in February.

Interior ministry data shows that between 2018 and 2022, Naples police seized nearly 100 million items worth over 470 million euros – some 14 per cent of the value of all counterfeit goods seized in Italy.

“In Naples, counterfeiting represents a real parallel economic sector” run by local and foreign mafias, a 2021 government report showed. It called the city a “centre of excellence” for fakes.

An artisanal heritage in tailoring and leather, an international port, high unemployment and an influx of cheap foreign labour have all helped counterfeiting flourish – as has the local population’s longstanding tolerance of bending the rules.

Camorra and China
Collaboration between the Camorra and Chinese criminal groups fuels the rigorously controlled system. While higher quality goods are produced locally, most imported goods come from China and Turkey.

Counterfeiters choose busy EU ports, such as Rotterdam, or those with less stringent control such as in Greece or Bulgaria, before reaching Italy by truck.

Once in the Campania region, final finishing takes place in workshops using cheap illegal labour. Labels are frequently shipped separately and sewn on last, making it more difficult for customs to spot fakes.

The mafia also controls distribution, either through its own sales channels or pressuring shop owners to sell fake goods among their genuine items.

A 2022 police investigation found Naples street market sellers paid the mafia up to 200 euros weekly to operate their stands, or were forced to buy their merchandise.

‘Cancer’ in market
Counterfeiting’s negative effect on the economy, notably in terms of lost demand, lost jobs and unpaid taxes, is huge. The Italian government put it at 17 billion euros in 2020 – a year when economic activity heavily contracted due to the coronavirus lockdowns.

There are other consequences: many of Naples’ hundreds of toxic fires each year are due to the disposal of trimming from counterfeit garments and shoes, experts say.

Top brands spend millions to fight counterfeiting. Louis Vuitton brought more than 38,000 anti-counterfeiting procedures globally in 2017, according to its website. Even smaller companies are now setting up legal protection departments, while increasingly investing in tracking technology.

Local businessmen in Naples also established a Museum of the Real and Fake to educate consumers. It closed last year. Its head, Luigi Giamundo, said more than 32,000 small fashion businesses in Campania were threatened by unfair competition, where even raw fabric can be counterfeited.

“It’s a cancer wedging itself into our market”, Giamundo said.

Juna Shehu of Indicam, an Italian association lobbying for intellectual property protection of leading fashion brands, said industry cannot act alone.

Indicam is calling for the EU to harmonise rules on dealing with seized fakes, with some countries currently making brands pay for their storage or destruction.

Educating consumers is also key. A 2023 survey found one-third of EU citizens would consider buying fakes if the originals are too expensive, rising to half of young people.

“This has to be a multidisciplinary approach because counterfeiters are becoming more and more expert,” Shehu told AFP.

Back on the Naples street, many customers seem unconcerned. “It doesn’t bother me,” said Caterina, 17, who bought a fake YSL wallet from a market seller for 11 euros. The original costs more than 300 euros. “Regardless of the label, it’s about whether I like the object.” AFP

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/lifestyle/market-fakes-naples-capital-counterfeits-and-camorra

Counterfeit Currency Crackdown: Dozens Arrested in Italy and France

https://www.ilmattino.it/en/counter...rrested_in_italy_and_france-8042902.html

Turin, Operation Echidna: axis emerged between Camorra and 'Ndrangheta
AMTwo thousand 09 April 2024
The 'Ndrangheta-Camorra axis also appears in the investigation by the Turin DDA and the ROS carabinieri code-named Echidna. Two of the arrested people, Antonio and Luigi Mascolo , originally from Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) and resident in the Turin area, are said to be part of the 'local' 'Ndrangheta group of Volpiano but, according to what can be gleaned from the documents in the proceedings, they worked to help some exponents of the Stabiese Camorra to the point that the investigating judge, in the precautionary custody order, said he was struck by the fact that "despite the distance from their region of origin, these links continued to be active and constant". In particular, these are members of the Vitale family, considered close to the D'Alessandro clan, for example welcoming Luigi 'Gino' Vitale to Leinì to allow him to spend a period of time under house arrest. The name of the actor and singer Mario Merola , the famous 'king of the drama', who died in 2006, also appears in the documents of the subalpine Dda . Antonio Mascolo, 60 years old, in a conversation intercepted in 2021 told of when, on the orders of a person unspecified, put "a gun to his head" because he owed money. But for this reason, he added, he became the target of "two or three clans of Naples". It does not appear that the Turin DDA is carrying out any investigations into the episode. Mario Merola was investigated in two legal proceedings, in 1983 and 1989, and was always completely exonerated.

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...merso-asse-tra-camorra-e-ndrangheta.html

Mafia Association and Extortion: Major Police Operation in Naples

https://www.ilmattino.it/en/mafia_l...icking_11_arrests_in_naples-8057834.html

Ambush on the boss, 3 arrests in the Quartieri Spagnoli. In their area, passers-by were also searched
Three young people were arrested by the police for the wounding of Masiello, dating back to November 2022; the suspects would be part of an emerging criminal group.
By Nico Falco

Three young people were arrested by the State Police for the wounding of Vincenzo Masiello , who was shot on 5 November 2022 in the Quartieri Spagnoli, in the center of Naples: according to the reconstruction of the investigators, the group would have tried to carve out its own space in the criminal dynamics of the area, and for this reason he allegedly shot at the victim, currently detained, believed to be at the top of the crime family that bears his name.

The precautionary custody order in prison was carried out by the Police today, 17 April, on the delegation of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Prosecutor for Juveniles of Naples; the three suspects are seriously accused, for various reasons, of personal injury, carrying and possession of firearms, private violence, robbery, all aggravated also by the mafia methods envisaged by article 416 bis.

From the investigations, conducted by the Flying Squad of the Naples Police Headquarters, it emerged that the three, who are 17, 20 and 22 years old, are part of an emerging criminal group, dedicated to crimes against property, which has established its operational base in vico Lungo San Matteo and has a large availability of weapons; according to what was reconstructed by the investigators, the members of the group, on several occasions and armed with pistols, carried out military control of the area, going so far as to search passers-by who were in their area of ??influence at night to ensure that they were not linked to rival groups.

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Prosecutor Gratteri: "The bosses are called from one prison to another, the system has failed"
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It is difficult to accept that "mafia inmates organize collective calls, even from one prison to another, while outside there is a fight to stem the organisations' profits and crimes". This was stated by the Naples prosecutor Nicola Gratteri in an interview with La Stampa . A reflection on the "failure" of the Italian prison system, among drones, balloons stuffed with devices and SIM cards thrown into the promenade courtyards.

“On average, in each Italian prison facility, there are 100 phones active at any time , ” explains Gratteri. With 190 institutes in our country, the figure is shocking : "It's the harsh reality."

https://internapoli.it/il-procurato...prigione-allaltra-il-sistema-ha-fallito/

Camorra and vote swapping: 7 affiliates of the Fusco-Ponticelli and De Micco-De Martino clan arrested

The seven people arrested at first light today by the carabinieri of the Torre Del Greco company who are executing a precautionary custody order between Ponticelli-Barra-San Giovanni a Teduccio and Cercola are accused of mafia-political electoral exchange.

The provision was issued by the investigating judge of the court of Naples at the request of the Neapolitan DDA.

The seven people who ended up in prison are all accused of political-mafia electoral exchange, criminal association aimed at electoral corruption and possession and carrying of weapons in public places, crimes aggravated by the mafia method and with the aim of facilitating the Camorra-type associations called Fusco-Ponticelli and De Micco-De Martino clans.

Camorra: fugitive boss Francesco Abbinante captured
AMTwo thousand May 10, 2024
The fugitive boss Francesco Abbinante, who escaped capture six months ago, was captured : he was hiding in a house. Carabinieri personnel of the Napoli Stella Company, assisted in the executive phase by those of the Naples Investigative Unit, following uninterrupted investigative activity coordinated by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate, have traced and implemented a precautionary measure in prison against by Francesco Abbinante , 25 years old. Having escaped capture ordered by the Court of Naples following activities directed by the DDA on 7 November, the 25-year-old is believed to be the current regent of the Abbinante clan. In that operation, 37 people under investigation for criminal association aimed at extortion and drug trafficking, belonging to the Abbinante clan, were involved, while the 25-year-old was declared a fugitive on 9 January 2024. The man was tracked down in the municipality of Castel Volturno (Caserta ) and it was only when he entered the house where he was.

Naples pizzeria whose founder cooked for Bill Clinton seized in mafia investigation
Owner of Dal Presidente and his wife among five arrested on suspicion of business being linked to Camorra’s Contini clan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/a...zeria-dal-presidente-mafia-investigation

Naples, hospital in the hands of the Contini clan: 11 arrests

In 2019 the health facility had already ended up at the center of another investigation by the prosecutor's office of the Neapolitan capital

The Contini Camorra clan , a ranking member of the Secondigliano Alliance, kept the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples under control . This is what the Carabinieri discovered who, coordinated by the DDA, carried out 11 arrests (8 in prison and 3 under house arrest). Several seizures were also carried out against members of the criminal organization operating in the Neapolitan capital, specifically in the San Giovanniello, Borgo San Antonio Abate, Ferrovia, Vasto-Arenaccia, Stadera-Poggioreale and Rione Amicizia districts. San Giovanni Bosco had already ended up at the center of another investigation by the Naples Prosecutor's Office in 2019.

The arrests and seizure by the Carabinieri carried out as part of the anti-Camorra blitz are the result of an investigation launched in December 2021 which made it possible to design the top-down structure of the Contini clan, which was entrusted with the management and strategic and economic choices of the criminal organization.
Already in 2019, the Contini clan ended up at the center of a maxi operation that involved the entire Secondigliano Alliance , including the Licciardi and Mallardo families, during which 126 measures were notified by the Carabinieri, the police, the financial police and Dia. precautionary measures (89 in prison and 36 under house arrest and a residence ban in Campania) together with a seizure of assets throughout Italy worth 130 million euros.

The investigators also managed to outline the relationships with the other clans of the Neapolitan criminal galaxy . The clan had also fictitiously registered two car rental companies to frontmen specifically recruited and paid to evade any seizure measures.
The investigation finally returned the alarming picture that had already emerged in 2019 in relation to the San Giovanni Bosco hospital , where the clan still influenced the functional management of the hospital structure which falls within the area of ??influence of the criminal organisation.

Drugs and weapons, anti-Camorra blitz in the Salerno area: 23 arrests

Morning of arrests in the Agro Nocerino Sarnese : at dawn today, Wednesday 12 June, the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Salerno and the State Police of the Salerno Police Headquarters executed an Application Order of personal precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Salerno. The order was issued at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office against 23 people, investigated in the northern area of ??the Agro Nocerino for Camorra-style criminal association , drug dealing, extortion, robberies and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition .

Today, personnel of the Flying Squad of the Salerno Police Headquarters and of the Carabinieri Territorial Department of Nocera Inferiore have carried out an order for the application of personal precautionary measures, issued by the GIP of the Court of Salerno at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of this Prosecutor's Office, in against 23 subjects, 22 of whom were held in prison and 1 under house arrest , under investigation for various reasons for the crimes of mafia-style criminal association, detention for the purpose of dealing narcotic substances, extortion, robberies, receiving stolen goods and illegal possession and carrying of weapons, all aggravated by mafia methods and purposes.

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Double murder in the Caserta area: the Marrandino brothers killed in the street. There is a catch
by FQ | JUNE 15, 2024
Two men killed and found a few tens of meters from each other. It happened in Orta di Atella , in the province of Caserta where a double murder took place just before 2pm today, near the Succivo exit of the 7bis state road. The victims are two brothers . Their names were Marco and Claudio Marrandino, aged 39 and 29 respectively, originally from Cesa . The eldest was a lawyer and entrepreneur with a background in politics. Seven years ago he was also president of the Cesa municipal council, after being elected on a civic list.

A few hours after the ambush, the Marcianise police arrested a 53-year-old worker believed to be the perpetrator of the double murder. According to initial investigations, the man was aboard his car and the two victims in their BMW car. Both cars were stopped and it seems that the three were arguing when the worker, who had no criminal record, pulled out a gun and fired, killing the two brothers.

One of the two bodies was inside a white BMW. While the other was not far away, about ten meters away, immersed in a pool of blood and holding a cell phone in his hand. Among the hypotheses is that it was an ambush by organized crime.
The two deaths occurred a few hours after the arrest of Emanuele Libero Schiavone , son of the Casalesi boss, the repentant Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone and a few days after the raid which took place on his home in Casal di Principe .

Casalesi, here is the current face of Emanuele Libero Schiavone
The image spread on Facebook by the reporter Marilena Natale.

From Mauro Vignola-June 15, 2024

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The current face of Emanuele Libero Schiavone , son of the Casalesi boss Francesco Schiavone “Sandokan” (the latter collaborator of justice since last March) was released today on Facebook by the reporter Marilena Natale . Today Emanuele Libero was arrested together with Francesco Reccia , son of the Casalesi ras Oreste Reccia known as Recchia 'e Lepre.

An operation that comes a few days after the recent armed incursions that took place at night in Casal di Principe, with several shots reported in Piazza Mercato and also in Via Bologna, against the gate of the house where Emanuele Libero Schiavone lives with his brother Ivanhoe . Neither of them wanted to join the protection program, arranged after the clan leader's repentance.

Iovine was made on the same day as Ciro Nuvoletta's murder but that was 1984, not '85.


Antonio Iovine: "It was the entrepreneurs who were looking for the Camorra"
The relationship between the Camorra and entrepreneurs explained by the baby-faced killer, former head of the Casalesi: "They were looking for us". The repentant: "I don't remember how many people I killed"


„It opened a window onto the world of the Camorra. He explained step by step how contracts and relationships with entrepreneurs are managed illegally. Since he started collaborating with justice , Antonio Iovine has been a raging river. The former boss of the Casalesi clan, true "economic minister" of the underworld, now no longer stops in his repentance and continues with confessions.

"At the beginning we didn't look for them. We waited for them, the entrepreneurs, to take the first steps for the contracts, after which we asked them . Then they chose us: each one was looking for a reference with one of us" he revealed Iovine. From entrepreneurship to politics it was a very short step.

"I have never had any kind of problem for the political affiliation of the mayors, on the contrary - he explained - The political position of the mayors was irrelevant for us . Even the children knew it - Iovine exemplified - who in San Cipriano d'Aversa , the real mayor was 'Peppinotto', or rather our Giuseppe Caterino".

Then, the boss explained the reasons for his repentance and recalled his entry into the Camorra. "I started the collaboration to have a better future, to make a change in my life," he told prosecutors in a teleconference at the trial in which, among others, the former mayor of Villa Literno, Enrico Fabozzi, is accused.

"I was affiliated to the Casalesi clan with the sting in 1985, the same day as Nuvoletta 's murder - he said - Antonio Bardellino and Vincenzo De Falco affiliated me. They pricked my finger and made a few drops of blood fall on a holy card I swore an oath whose exact words I don't remember, but in which I promised not to betray the clan."

From that day he began a long and ruthless criminal career. "I have committed many murders, I don't remember them all" , he said again, answering questions from prosecutor Antonello Ardituro. Iovine also attempted to count the number of people he had killed, but was unable to remember them all. He then focused in particular on the first murder in which he took part, that of Ciro Nuvoletta, brother of the Marano boss, Aniello. The murder, Iovine explained, was part of the clash between the Corleonese mafiosi, allies of the Nuvolettas, and the Casalesi group. The Sicilians would have liked Antonio Bardellino to kill Tommaso Buscetta, but Bardellino refused: "For this reason, added Iovine, he himself was later murdered in Brazil."

Every month, he explained, he could count on one hundred thousand euros to pay the "salaries" to his affiliates and to satisfy his personal needs. The boss - believed to be one of the treasurers of the Camorra - paid the families of the detained affiliates and a greater compensation went to those detained in hard prison. The system, Iovine explained, however, broke down in 2010 after the Spartacus appeal ruling, when the clan suffered fragmentation. The last decisive blow may have been given by him with his repentance.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-mafia-clan-control-HOSPITAL-Naples.html

How Italy's Contini mafia clan took over an entire HOSPITAL led by mob boss dubbed 'The Nurse' with ambulances delivering drugs, surgical gloves used in 'murder kits' and fake X-rays for car crash scams

Emanuele Pietro Montefusco, 49, was shot dead in the neighborhood of Ponticelli (Naples); he was a brother of the Camorra boss Salvatore Montefusco