yes, but since there have been no arrests so far it is only speculation; El Flaco's arrest was in another operation and the fact that it is linked to the other is not certain

not always, sometimes they arrest the ship crew only but not the suppliers and wholesalers

https://www.voxnews.al/english/foku...-per-narko-trafikantet-amerikanoj-i38210

Why Catania is an important city for South American drug traffickers (and Albanian criminal groups)
Excerpt 1 from the article:

"In practice, according to the DIA, there is an alliance between Sicilian mafia gangs and drug traffickers from South America.

In recent years, the Catania mafia has taken on an increasingly important role in the organization "Cosa Nostra", the Sicilian mafia, taking advantage of the weakening of the Palermo clans.

The Catania mafia has become allies with several groups such as the Calabrian "Ndrangheta", the Neapolitan "Camorra" clans and Albanian criminal groups.

And at the end of this criminal chain, there are also the drug-trafficking groups of South America, in particular the Mexican "Sinaloa" cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world, which has extended its influence from Mexico. throughout South America and Europe."

Excerpt 2 from article.


"The shipment left in October 2019 after a series of delays due to organizational problems and consisted of 406 kilograms of cocaine.

However, it was a so-called controlled shipment: it means that the entire shipment from Colombia to Catania was followed by the Guardia di Finanza, in cooperation with the Colombian anti-drug police. Then in Catania, the cargo was moved to a warehouse in the suburbs that was identified by "Don Señor".

The latter was given 32 packages of drugs as payment. Among the buyers waiting for the arrival of the drugs, there was also an Italian middleman, known as "Charlie".

His name is Mauro Da Fiume and he was featured in the documents of other investigations because he was connected to the 'Ndrangheta family of Piromalli.

The nickname derives from an import-export company that Da Fiume managed in Barcelona, ??"Charlie Export".

Da Fiume and the envoys of "Flaco", on behalf of the "Sinaloa" cartel, were to meet in Verona, then the meeting was moved to Milan."

Past precedent and possibly intelligence reports undoubtedly led them to this conclusion

Interesting, thanks.

it is true that the Catania mafia has an ever-increasing role in drug trafficking, in recent years the mafia families of Catania have taken on a primary role in the distribution of cocaine (and other drugs) in various Sicilian provinces, Cosa Nostra of Palermo and the clans of Catania practically share the wholesale distribution of the whole of Sicily. Two of the most important seizures of cocaine in Italy, 2 and 5 tons respectively, in recent years were in Sicily

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-stragista-tra-ndrangheta-e-cosa-nostra/

tourism and crime
The summer of '92 at the "Sayonara": in the kingdom of the Mancusos the "massacre summit" between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra
After the massacres, the Nicotera structure becomes the nerve center of the future of Sicilian and Calabrian organized crime

VIBO VALENTIA A secret meeting, with a few high-profile guests, to define the next moves. The recent massacres of Capaci and via d'Amelio had taken away the two judges who were symbols of the fight against Cosa Nostra, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino , and the country was in a phase of absolute uncertainty, shocked by two high-profile murders committed in the space of a few weeks, bringing the State to its knees.
It was the summer of 1992 and "Cosa Nostra", strong in its successes, aimed to further raise the stakes, hitting (as is known) other targets in the rest of the Peninsula. In the meantime, it was still July, and it was looking for allies in Calabria.

The “Sayonara” of Nicotera Marina
The occasion is a meeting organized right here in our region, in Nicotera Marina, the undisputed kingdom of the 'ndrangheta and the already powerful Mancuso clan of Limbadi. The setting is the “Sayonara” tourist facility, where members of the clan and their associates moved around without problems. A hospitality facility historically considered “of the Mancuso clan” , a safe and protected place where criminal members “stayed during periods of inaction and even held real mafia summits in complete tranquility”. The investigators of the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia District Court wrote it down in black and white in the “Imperium” investigation, which merged into the “Maestrale” maxi-trial now being played out in the bunker courtroom in Lamezia Terme, before the judges of the collegiate court of Vibo Valentia.


Operation “Imperium” by the Catanzaro DDA
The Mancusos and the search
Since the 1990s, the “Sayonara” in Nicotera Marina has been of “particular interest because it was historically considered the Mancuso clan’s reception facility, a safe and protected place where criminal exponents stayed during periods of inaction and where they also peacefully held real mafia summits.” The strong bond between the Mancuso family of Limbadi and the facility, as the prosecutors write in the arrest warrant, is also supported by a house search that took place over 10 years ago. It was, in fact, March 28, 2013 when the personnel of the Flying Squad of Vibo Valentia and Catanzaro raided the home of the Marina di Nicotera hamlet after the arrest of the 'ndrangheta boss Pantaleone "Scarpuni" Mancuso (class of '61), which took place on March 7, also extended to a property in Corso Umberto I. On that occasion, copious extra-accounting documentation was found, including a large part regarding the management of the Villaggio Sayonara, the results of which were acquired in the files. A typewritten A4 sheet divided into three distinct columns in which, separately and for each single line, the following had been noted: names of natural and/or legal persons, for a total of n. 38; – the relative reference amount, for a total of 669,600 euros, erroneously indicated as 711,100 euros and, finally, explanatory notes for each name.

The “massacre” summit
«A nephew of Luigi Mancuso, Pantaleone Mancuso, came to Cosenza and told me that Luigi wanted to speak to me in Limbadi (…) I called someone close to me, a certain Umile Arturi… we got in the car and went to Limbadi…». This is the story of Franco Pino, a member of the Cosenza crime family, later a collaborator of justice, whose stories ended up at the center of the investigation into the “'ndrangheta-stragista” by the Anti-Mafia District of Reggio Calabria. «(…) then we found Luigi's nephew and he told us to all go to the Sayonara campsite. It was a tourist place in Nicotera, I don't know if it was owned by the Mancusos, but they moved freely in that area…» Pino continues. Once there, according to the story that ended up in the files and in the reasons for the appeal sentence «(…) there was Nino Pesce, there was also a person, a Calabrian who lived in Milan, but I didn't know him and he was introduced to me, a certain Franco Coco Trovato, that was his name. And there was also the son-in-law of this Coco Trovato. I think his name was Giuseppe De Stefano. And there was obviously Luigi Mancuso…». On that occasion, therefore, Nino Pesce, speaking on behalf of the Piromalli, had affirmed that the Sicilians had asked the Calabrians to participate in the offensive against the State because «it was in everyone's interest to adhere to that proposal if they wanted to prevent legislative hardening, not remembering the collaborator if there was any of the Piromalli at that meeting», we read further.

franco-pine
The stories of Franco Pino
In that famous meeting in '92 at the "Sayonara", however, the Sicilians were not there, but Nino Pesce and Franco Coco Trovato would have spoken for them. A "reported reasoning" according to the repentant Pino, "some reasoning done beforehand, done before sitting down to eat. These were things that they had already discussed for their own business...". The proposal of the Sicilians, brought by the Bruscas on behalf of Totò Riina and submitted to the Calabrian 'ndrangheta, was clear: to hit and attack institutional targets or more simply Carabinieri stations, "the aim was to practically subvert the State and... practically put the State with its back to the wall and force it to negotiate...". The meeting at the Sayonara beach lasted until the afternoon and both that day and on three or four other occasions later, Pino himself would have had the opportunity to discuss the topic with Luigi Mancuso, who would have told him that he did not agree to side against the Institutions and against the Carabinieri. In essence, the boss "never shared an open war against the institutions", also because, in that precise historical phase, Luigi Mancuso saw that proposal as something that would not have been useful. In fact, Calabrian crime, in the shadow of the Cosa Nostra and Corleonesi massacres, prospered and had built "good contacts to fix the trials", as can still be read in the reasons. At the end of that meeting at the "Sayonara", the proposal was not voted on. But, as Pino himself recounted, even though the Cosenza 'ndrangheta represented by him was not in favor, he would still have had to fall in line with the "Calabrian 'Ndrangheta" or the "Calabria 'Ndranghetista". "(...) if Luigi Mancuso had told me: "listen, here the Piromalli are joining, Pesce is joining, I am with Pesce and Piromalli and I am joining too", I would have joined. Reluctantly, but I would have joined too".

The history of the tourist center
The recent history of “Sayonara” has been reconstructed by the DDA. The property, at the end of bankruptcy proceedings, was acquired by Giuseppe Fonti, now on trial in “Maestrale”, as were two other important figures in the history of the tourist facility: Agatino Conti and Francesco Rapisarda, also on trial. In fact, the two of them were entrusted with the company only two months after Fonti’s arrival and on “Luigi Mancuso’s input”. Elements in this sense were provided by Pasquale Megna, collaborator of justice and son of Assunto, a well-known entrepreneur in the fishing sector, brother-in-law of the “Scarpuni” boss because he was married to a sister from Santa Buccafusca. The latter, in particular, was always said to have had a “strong interest in a particular accommodation facility: the Villaggio Sayonara in Nicotera Marina, managed until 26.08.2009 by the company Sayonara Srl declared bankrupt on that date by the Court of Vibo Valentia”. The corporate structure that manages the structure leads straight to the Mancuso clan and in particular to Luigi, “Crimine” for the province of Vibo Valentia and head of the Limbadi local, the “Supremo”. (g.curcio@corrierecal.it)

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...na-arrestato-il-latitante-carmine-siena/

the capture
'Ndrangheta, he was hiding in a house in Cirò Marina: fugitive Carmine Siena arrested
The 32-year-old was convicted in June in the Stige trial against the Crotone 'ndrine for mafia association. Tracked down by the Carabinieri

CROTONE The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Operations Department of the Provincial Command of Crotone have arrested Carmine Siena , 32 years old, sentenced on 11 June, at the end of the criminal proceedings arising from the “Stige” investigation , to 8 years of imprisonment for mafia association, having to serve the residual sentence of 3 years and 25 days of imprisonment. The capture came at the end of an investigative activity started the day after the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of the defendants, sentenced with the abbreviated procedure. Siena had evaded arrest carried out by the Carabinieri between 13 and 18 June, managing to disappear and temporarily disappearing. This morning the man was tracked down in a residential complex in Punta Alice di Cirò Marina , where he was hiding inside a small house owned by a relative of his. The activity of the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit allowed him to be identified and arrested at the end of an operation in which 45 soldiers took part, including 12 from the Carabinieri Helicopter Hunter Squadron "Calabria" of Vibo Valentia, engaged in the services of cordoning off the target and searching the real estate units. After the arrest, Siena was taken to the Catanzaro prison and placed at the disposal of the judicial authority that issued the provision.

https://www.lacnews24.it/cronaca/ex...-vivo-in-auto-e-senza-protezione_194173/

Repentant former 'ndrangheta boss: «I'm scared, they tracked me down. Today I live in a car and without protection»

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...in-italia-per-indagare-sulla-ndrangheta/

the announcement
Brazilian authorities in Italy to investigate 'ndrangheta
They will investigate the case of Vincenzo Pasquino, a collaborator of justice and partner of the alleged boss Rocco Morabito

Brazilian authorities have announced that they will soon travel to Italy for the case of Vincenzo Pasquino , a member of the 'Ndrangheta and associate of the boss Rocco Morabito arrested with him in Brazil in 2021. Pasquino, who is collaborating with justice in Italy, has revealed important details on the links between the 'Ndrangheta and the two main criminal organizations in Brazil, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and the Comando Vermelho (CV). The information was disclosed by the Brazilian Secretary of Public Security, Mário Sarrubbo to TV Globo. In March, Pasquino was extradited to Italy from Brazil, where he had established a base in the San Paolo neighborhood of Tatuapé, called 'Little Italy' by the local prosecutor's office due to the presence of Italian and Brazilian criminals. Pasquino revealed to Italian judges that he had been a member of the 'Ndrangheta since 2011 and that in 2017 he moved to Brazil, where he was responsible for organising the logistics for sending cocaine to Europe.

Last night the attempted murder of a 20-year-old, Pietro Morfei , seriously wounded in the neck during an ambush.It seems that Morfei – in the company of his girlfriend, who was also injured – was aboard his car when he was hit by a shotgun blast loaded with pellets.
Pietro Morfei is the cousin of Alessandro Morfei , the 30-year-old killed during an ambush in Dinami in September 2022 while he was on board his tractor. He was reportedly hit by several shots from a rifle loaded with buckshot at close range. Alessandro's father, Pietro Morfei, believed to be linked to the local 'ndrangheta family of the same name, was also the victim of an ambush, killed in front of a bar in Dinami on 17 July 1998.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-e-reggio-e-i-fantasmi-della-ndrangheta/

the case
Shots and ambushes, the long trail of blood between Vibo and Reggio and the ghosts of the 'ndrangheta
Two dead and one injured in the space of two years between the countryside of Dinami and San Pietro di Caridà. Tonight's target is the cousin of another victim from 2022
Published: 06/08/2024 – 13:01

SAN PIETRO DI CARIDÀ A long trail of blood that hits a relatively limited territory between the provinces of Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia. There could be a common thread that links the ambushes with gunshots that have taken place between San Pietro di Caridà and Dinami in recent years.
The latest, in chronological order, is the attempted murder of a 20-year-old, Pietro Morfei , seriously wounded in the neck during an ambush that took place last night in the small town of Reggio. From an initial reconstruction carried out by the Carabinieri of the Reggio Operations Unit, who are investigating the case, it seems that Morfei – in the company of his girlfriend, who was also injured – was aboard his car when he was hit by a shotgun blast loaded with pellets.

Bonds
Pietro Morfei is the cousin of Alessandro Morfei , the 30-year-old who died following the serious injuries sustained during an ambush in Dinami in September 2022 while he was on board his tractor. The young man was reportedly hit by several shots from a rifle loaded with buckshot at close range. Alessandro's father, Pietro Morfei, believed to be linked to the local 'ndrangheta family of the same name, was also the victim of an ambush, killed in front of a bar in Dinami on 17 July 1998 .

Ghosts of the past
In San Pietro di Caridà, another young man was also murdered, Domenico Oppedisano , the 24-year-old killed last April while driving his Fiat Panda along a farm road in the Prateria district, on the border with the province of Vibo Valentia. Investigators are also examining the family ties between Oppedisano and Alessandro Morfei in this case.
The investigation into the attempted murder of Pietro Morfei, currently coordinated by the Palmi prosecutor's office, could be transferred to the Reggio Calabria DDA. The young man has no criminal record but the manner of the attack and the connections with previous crimes and the family ties could lead investigators to reconstruct a much more complex reality where the influence of the 'ndrangheta clans from both Reggio and Vibo Valentia is strong. The young man, in a reserved prognosis at the Reggio Calabria hospital, will be heard as soon as possible. ( mr )

it seems he had two albanian bodyguards in Brazil

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...pere-le-autorita-brasiliane-da-pasquino/

The Sinaloa boss, José Angel “El Flaco” Rivera Zazueta, a top lieutenant of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, would come to Italy only for the final stages. Based in Asia and living in places such as Taiwan, “El Flaco” had principally focused on managing the Sinaloa Cartel’s synthetic drug trafficking in Asia. The Sinaloa Cartel looked to diversify sources of production, and settled on the Netherlands in 2015. Sinaloa Cartel had also long cooperated with the triads in trying to build up a growing Chinese and Asian cocaine market.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ppello-della-dda-per-31-imputati-i-nomi/

the investigation
'Ndrangheta and fuel, Mancuso clan trial: Dda appeal for 31 defendants – THE NAMES
The operation, which began in 2021, is considered a continuation of Rinascita-Scott. Appeal, among others, for the D'Amicos, Luigi Mancusos and Solanos
Published: 08/08/2024 – 10:53

CATANZARO The prosecutors of the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia District, represented by the acting prosecutor Vincenzo Capomolla and the substitutes Annamaria Frustaci, Antonio De Bernardo and Andrea Buzzelli have filed an appeal for 31 defendants in the “Petrolmafie” trial, born from the homonymous investigation of the Catanzaro Anti-Mafia, which reached a first-instance verdict on 1 December 2023 before the judges of the collegiate court of Vibo Valentia. The operation, which began in 2021, is considered a continuation of Rinascita Scott, the main branch whose first-instance verdict was issued on 20 November . Among the most severe sentences, thirty years for the boss of Limbadi Luigi Mancuso and the entrepreneur Giuseppe D'Amico. The former president of the Province of Vibo Valentia, Salvatore Solano, was sentenced to one year, with a suspended sentence. In total, there were 35 convictions and 23 acquittals.

The DDA has therefore filed an appeal for 31 defendants:
ABER Emanuel Fernando Assunto, class 62 from Catania (acquitted);
AGUÌ Roberto, class of '71 from Bovalino (acquitted);
BETTOZZI Anna, born in '58 from Rome (6 years 1 month);
BONANNO Pietro, class of '81 from Catania (acquitted);
CAMPAJOLA Vincenzo, class of '65 from Naples (acquitted);
CAPRIA Isaia Angelo Antonio, class of '64 from Nicotera (acquitted);
COPPOLA Alberto, class of '67 from Naples (9 years and 10 months);
D'AGOSTINO Felice, class 82 of Terlizzi (6 years and one month);
D'AMICO Antonio, born in '64 from Vibo Valentia (18 years and 10 months);
D'AMICO Giuseppe, born in '72 from Vibo Valentia (30 years old);
DEL VECCHIO Gaetano, class of '62 from Tropea (acquitted);
OF CESARE Virginia, class of '93 from Rome (4 years and 7 months);
FABRETTI Carmelo, born in '80 from Catania (2 years and 2 months);
FOTI Sebastiano, class of '76 from Catania (4 years and 5 months);
FRANCOLINO Antonio, class of '65 from Catanzaro (acquitted);
FRAZZETTO Salvino, class of '59 from Catania (acquitted);
LEONARDI Sergio, class of '78 from Catania (8 years and 10 months);
LO TORTO Sebastiano, born in 1970 from Nicotera (acquitted);
MANCUSO Francesco, class of '57 from Limbadi (10 years and 2 months);
MANCUSO Luigi, class 54 from Limbadi (30 years old);
MORABITO Luciano, class of '58 from Africo (acquitted);
PADURET Irina, Moldovan born in '86 (acquitted);
PORRETTA Francesco Saverio, class of '74 from Milan (acquitted);
PUGLIESE Rosamaria, born in '75 from Vibo Valentia (7 years);
SANTORO Rosario Cristian, class of '95 from Palermo (acquitted);
SCAEVOLA Emanuela, born in '81 from Naples (acquitted);
SCIUTO Damiano, class of '89 from Catania (4 years and 5 months);
SOLANO Salvatore, class of '79 from Vibo Valentia (1 year);
TERRANOVA Giuseppe, class of 73 from Messina (12 years 9 months);
TOTSS Rachid, Moroccan born in '82 (acquitted);
VIVESE Gennaro, born in '67 from Naples (2 years suspended sentence).

https://www.calabriadirettanews.com...ca-a-reggio-indagato-anche-un-sacerdote/

'Ndrangheta and politics in Reggio, a priest also investigated

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...a-prima-emergenza-per-le-grandi-procure/

the analysis Published: 08/13/2024 – 10:34
Ever more rooted and ever richer, 'ndrangheta is the first emergency for the major prosecutors
The strength of the Calabrian clans confirmed by the hearings in the Anti-Mafia of the heads of the investigative offices of the most important cities in Italy

LAMEZIA TERME The vocation and national projection of the 'ndrangheta . In the 13 months since its installation, one fact emerges from the activity of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission of the current legislature , a commission led by the Melonian Chiara Colosimo: the Calabrian clans have now put down roots in most of the Italian regions, in some in a regime that could be defined as a monopoly and in others cohabiting with other mafias and with native organizations. These criminal dynamics, which confirm the ability of the 'ndrangheta to expand beyond the borders of its land of origin while generally maintaining contacts with the "mother house" Calabria, were outlined by the public prosecutors of the most important Italian cities heard by the Bicameral from July 2023 until the last days before the summer break of 2024 . Analyses that have also served to raise the level of attention on the risk of infiltration of the 'ndrangheta, and not only obviously, in the contracts of the Pnrr, the Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina and in the next Jubilee , in light of the now established leap in quality of the clans, less inclined to violence and more inclined to a low profile, to immersion and to the search for business and deals through contact in all national territories with "white collars" and with parts of the institutions and politics.

The hearings
Significant in this respect is an excursus of the hearings of the various "non-Calabrian" prosecutors (as far as Calabria is concerned, the only hearing in September 2023 concerned the chief prosecutor of the Dda of Reggio Giovanni Bombardier i, now destined for Turin). The head of the DNA Giovanni Melillo drew the line , in the debut hearing of the Anti-Mafia, in June 2023: Melillo defined the 'ndrangheta, together with the Camorra, a «gigantic hub of illegal services for the business world. The entire system of false invoicing, the management of gigantic networks of so-called shell companies, that is, companies that do nothing but produce false invoicing, the cash transport services needed to recover the carousel's profit, which are cross-border frauds, the very ramifications of the 'ndrangheta in northern Italy and in Europe, follow the logic and routes of the constellations of companies that are continually suspended between systematic recourse to false invoicing, tax fraud, fraudulent bankruptcies and insolvencies almost always to the detriment of the treasury». On 12 July 2023 , Rome's chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi spoke, with reference to the criminal "map" of the Capital, of "a series of mafia-type criminal organisations, some of which are directly descended from and sometimes directly connected to traditional mafia parent companies (Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'ndrangheta) which operate throughout the regional territory, largely with the same systems with which they operated and continue to operate in their original territories": the dissolution of the Municipalities of Anzio and Nettuno, "infiltrated" by the 'ndrangheta, was also recalled at this meeting (the commissioners of the two Municipalities were also subsequently heard by the Bicameral Commission but the sessions were classified). In turn , Marcello Viola, the prosecutor of Milan , confirmed to the Anti-Mafia on August 1, 2023 – «the first of all» – the presence of the 'ndrangheta, characterized by «an accentuation of the entrepreneurial character which pushed the District Anti-Mafia Directorate towards the need to deal with financial crimes characterized by the aggravating circumstance of mafia». A leap in time of a few months and here is the trace of the 'ndrangheta that reappears – February 2024 – in the hearings of the then prosecutor of Bologna Giuseppe Amato and the prosecutor of Reggio Emilia Gaetano Paci , who recalled the investigation and the subsequent Aemilia trial, which – explained Paci in particular, addressing the Parliamentary Commission – «you know very well to be certainly the zenith of the procedural and judicial investigation regarding the penetration and consolidation of the 'ndrangheta clans of the Cutro side of the Alto Jonio Catanzarese in Emilia-Romagna».


The headquarters of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission
The alliances
On March 13, 2024, it was then the turn of the prosecutor of Genoa Nicola Piacente , who defined the 'ndrangheta as " likely also in Liguria the most structured and present criminal organization, an organization that "at least within the territory of the district of the Court of Appeal of Genoa acts alone in a monopoly regime with regards to the management and trafficking of drugs". On June 27, it was instead the prosecutor of Trento, Sandro Raimondi , who reported in the Antimafia, of the "presence, since the 1980s, of characters connected to very important families in Calabria, such as the Serraino and Iamonte families, the area heads of the Cardeto area and other locations", and to recall the "Perfido" investigation into the appetites of the clans originating from Calabria in the exploitation of porphyry quarries, with many contacts also with local administrators (in particular the Municipality of Lona Loses). Last but not least, the Public Prosecutor of Venice Bruno Cherchi: heard by the Bicameral on July 17, Cherchi spoke of «a presence of the 'ndrangheta, especially in the Veronese and Padua area, which dates back to about 30-40 years ago, we are already at least at the second generation and in some cases the third of subjects who are now sedentary, but who have never interrupted relations with their places of origin». In short, many signs of an ever deeper penetration of the 'ndrangheta in the Italian regions. And where there are no roots, there are alliances in the name of business, like the one that the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia described to the Antimafia on July 13, 2023 , according to whom « Cosa Nostra returns to manage… reconnecting and reopening relations with the 'ndrangheta . We have very recent investigations that show us how the importation is mediated and agreed with 'ndrangheta families in order to be able to return to the international markets, because if it is true that the 'ndrangheta has substantially the monopoly of the brokerage of narcotics , especially from South America, it is also true that a big brand like that of Cosa Nostra is not abandoned and therefore there is also an interest of the 'ndrangheta to realign and create business together, and the places where business is created are dangerous for the security of the State because they are criminal businesses that strengthen both organizations". (ac)

https://www.telemia.it/scarcerato-f...a-in-liberta-dopo-tredici-anni-di-41bis/


Francesco Pesce released from prison: 'Ndrangheta boss returns to freedom after thirteen years of 41bis

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...-nelle-escursioni-sulla-costa-degli-dei/

the investigation
The "tribute" to La Rosa and the customers of the lido: the interests of the 'ndrangheta in the excursions on the Costa degli Dei
The business of crime in tourism and “boat trips”. The role of the Bonavitas of Briatico and the relationships with the Tropea gang
Published: 12/08/2024 – 18:33
VIBO VALENTIA Three euros per passenger, if you are a “friend” only one euro. A tax to be paid to the 'ndrina La Rosa di Tropea to “stop” in the port of the Pearl of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The system is described by investigators in the Maestrale Carthago investigation, from which the interests of the 'ndrangheta in the tourist industry emerge. In addition to the indirect control of the villages, organised crime has also infiltrated the sector of scheduled excursions . After all, from the coast of Vibo Valentia, both from the port of Tropea and from that of Vibo Marina, ships depart for the Aeolian Islands, among the most popular summer destinations for tourists. An economic trip too “attractive” not to attract the attention of the 'ndrangheta.

The Bonavita gang behind the excursion company
Two gangs, a well-known beach club and a summer excursion company. They are the “protagonists” of the system behind a company, according to investigators, linked to the 'ndrina Bonavita of Briatico. The latter was seized last March together with the motorboat used for passenger transport. According to investigators, behind the company there would be Giuseppe Armando Bonavita known as “Armando” and Roberta Bonavita, both children of the deceased Pino Bonavita, believed to be at the top of the homonymous 'ndrina of Briatico. The gang would be closely linked and “dependent” on the Zungri club and, in particular, on Francesco Barbieri, presumed head of the 'ndrina of Cessaniti. Both of Pino Bonavita's children have been sent for trial in the trial underway in the bunker courtroom of Lamezia.

The links with the Zungri club and the La Rosa 'ndrina
The alleged front men, according to investigators, "constantly contacted them to receive instructions regarding the organization of work, management of employees and company accounting". The investigations revealed that the Bonavita brothers " effectively managed the company ", but "under the directives of the dominus Francesco Barbieri", indicated by investigators as the "pro tempore boss" of the Zungri premises. Bonavita then allegedly used his ties with the La Rosas to favor the company on two occasions: the mooring of the boat at the port of Tropea and the agreement with a tourist information company . The gang allegedly pressured the infopoint to favor the company, making the La Rosas intercede after the first "refusals".

The "tribute" to be paid to the gang and the business with the Briatico beach
"Don't worry, Antonio (La Rosa, ed.) has an appointment tomorrow evening, he also spoke about the port, don't worry... eee these are serious people, they're not stupid". Also regarding the mooring of the boat in the port of Tropea, the investigators reconstruct, it was necessary to first go to the La Rosas, paying them "a tribute" . "These - we read in the intercepted conversations - if they want a euro you have to give it to them, that's it! Like all the ships give it to them..." The investigators reconstruct the scheme: all the boats in the port had to pay 3 euros for each passenger , while their company "thanks to the membership of the two gangs to the 'ndrangheta of Vibo Valentia and the excellent friendship" would have had to pay only 1 euro. Even a well-known beach in Briatico would have been in "business" with the Bonavita gang, with an agreement to send tourists and passengers every day for excursions. The same "Armando", in a speech intercepted by the investigators, is said to have reassured Francesco Barbieri of the village in question that " it is already taking care of sending its clients to the boat to go on excursions and that this practice is already well established ". ( Ma.Ru. )

Antonio Nicaso: '''Ndrangheta changed after Duisburg. Facts are needed to fight it''
Jamil El Sadi August 15, 2024
Exclusive interview with the professor expert in organized crime, 17 years after the mafia massacre in Germany

It is the night between August 14 and 15, 2007. Marco Marmo, Francesco Pergola, Tommaso Venturi, Marco Pergola, Francesco Giorni and Sebastiano Strangio leave the Italian restaurant "Da Bruno" in Duisburg, a city outside the district that overlooks the Rhine, in Germany. Suddenly they are hit by a hail of bullets that mows them down one by one. It is 02:24. This moment will mark Germany forever.
?The massacre matured in the context of the San Luca feud between the Nirta-Strangio group and the opposing Pelle-Vottari-Romeo group to which the victims belonged. That massacre, in fact, was the response to the murder of Maria Strangio, killed on Christmas Day 2006 in an ambush actually aimed at the woman's husband, Giovanni Luca Nirta , and Francesco Colorisi, who was injured on that occasion along with the minor Domenico Nirta. According to investigators, in order to get revenge, the 'ndrina sacrificed the tacit agreement not to raise too much dust in the internal affairs of the clans, breaking what until then had been a tradition: Pelle-Vottari-Romeo on one side and Nirta-Strangio on the other leave the dead killed with a certain discretion. And they don't even spare holidays. In fact, crimes are committed on special occasions precisely to leave an indelible memory of the tragedy. The violence that exploded that night revealed to the entire world how deep-rooted and pervasive the presence of the 'Ndrangheta was even in towns apparently far from their criminal epicenter. Germany, known for its stability and security, suddenly found itself having to deal with an uncomfortable reality: the presence of a powerful and organized criminal network, capable of striking with unprecedented ferocity even outside the Italian borders. Seventeen years later, the memory of that infernal night remains a powerful warning of how the 'Ndrangheta has permeated even outside of Italy. To analyze the Duisburg massacre and the criminal evolution of the 'Ndrangheta, we interviewed Professor Antonio Nicaso : one of the leading international experts on the criminal phenomenon, as well as co-author of dozens of books on the 'Ndrangheta together with the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri. Professor, the Duisburg massacre turned the spotlight on the infiltration of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany. And it also marked the height of the San Luca feud between the opposing Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Vottari gangs. 17 years later, what has changed?

The 'Ndrangheta, after the Duisburg massacre, has become more cautious, more attentive. It has realized that exporting to Germany a feud that had roots in the heart of stone of Aspromonte was not a very wise decision. Just consult Google to understand how the 'Ndrangheta after Duisburg has become more visible to the world. Before, it had always been underestimated for a long time, as if it were a less important mafia, rooted essentially in Calabria. Duisburg has somehow "cleared" it, so much so that it is possible to argue without fear of contradiction that there is a "before" and an "after" Duisburg, at least as far as the perception of the phenomenon outside Italy is concerned. Today the 'Ndrangheta is a criminal organization present in at least 50 countries, increasingly involved in international drug trafficking and ready to explore the new frontiers of the digital world.

In his latest book, written together with the Prosecutor of Naples Nicola Gratteri - "Il Grifone" (ed. Mondadori) -, he tells the story of the evolution of the mafia in the cyberspace era. How did the 'Ndrangheta reconcile the tradition of mafia organizations with technological innovation?
It has always had a great ability to adapt to new situations and has always reconciled tradition and innovation. But I must say that I did not expect such a sudden adaptation in the world of technological innovation. I did not expect the transfer to Calabria of computer pirates capable of mining cryptocurrencies and investing huge sums of money on clandestine trading platforms. I still remember a statement recorded by the police in a town in the Como area, in which a member of a 'Ndrangheta family warned against the use of cell phones, claiming that they were like having a Carabiniere in your pocket.

https://www.antimafiaduemila.com/ho...rg-per-contrastarla-servono-i-fatti.html

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...rava-per-i-mancuso-il-nome-ha-un-prezzo/

Mistral Carthago
'Ndrangheta, the lands and the “share” of Ascone. «He worked for the Mancusos, the name has a price»
In the bunker courtroom, the story of the former scion of the powerful Limbadi clan on the relationships of the "bosses" with "U Pinnularu". «He created trouble with everyone»
Published: 08/16/2024 – 10:31

LAMEZIA TERME «They extorted that Moisè because, after the fact, they realized too late that he had taken the land, but they scolded him right away. Evidently Ascone didn't want the land and neither did my uncle so they took some money». This was stated in a link to the bunker courtroom by the collaborator of justice Emanuele Mancuso, former scion of the eponymous 'ndrangheta clan of Limbadi. The young man spoke during the "Maestrale" trial taking place before the judges of the Court of Vibo Valentia.

The process
When questioned by the prosecutor of the anti-mafia pool of the Catanzaro DDA, Antonio De Bernardo, Mancuso illustrated the details related to the land sales by the defendant Salvatore Ascone “U Pinnularu”. «There was more than a question of a piece of land» the collaborator of justice explained further «we went with Ascone among these olive trees and he said to him: “how dare you take the land?” and then “you know that everything here is of interest to us?”. In short, all this stuff here, the usual speech about Ascone, I went there as a representative». When the prosecutor asks Ascone on «the behalf of who had gone to this individual», the repentant's answer is clear: «Always on behalf of the Mancuso family. He can't operate like this alone». And again: «As long as he sells a kilo of cocaine, oh well, he'll give us the money for the prisoners and he won't do anything with it, then he'll do everything else for the family».

«I kept 500 euros»
The story of the former Mancuso scion continues: « Then they came to an agreement. If I remember correctly, there were 10 thousand, of which 8 thousand went to Uncle Diego and 2 thousand remained in Ascone and he paid them in two or three installments. I remember that I kept 500 euros to pay some fines. I remember that». «That day he said: “OK, I'm going to the bank, I'll borrow it, because I've already spent a lot of money buying”, here and there and he said “if I had known I wouldn't have even taken it”. Then they came to an agreement for the money, it was in two installments, if I remember correctly, and he, this Moisè, said that they were going to do the financing, I don't remember what he said exactly and, then, he first gave one part and then another part of the money». Mancuso remembers that the delivery of the money was in cash and that the part for Uncle Diego was delivered by him . "I took them to something, to Eden. I kept 500 euros, I remember, because there were some fines that I had to pay, because the car was registered to some clean family member of mine, in short."

Drugs hidden in holes
In his story, again on the PM's input, collaborator Mancuso recalls another episode related to the sale of a piece of land. "Ascone had already taken the land. This guy didn't want to sell in any way, if I remember correctly, and then, in the end, they made amends and he gave the share only to Diego, then, with this guy. I think that the land cost around 180/200 thousand euros. I remember that Ascone had the land, he already cultivated it there, because he had entered I don't know how many plots of land. He always had trouble with people, because he would free their sheep, maybe they would come in, dig holes, hide weapons galore, cocaine, but I'm not talking about a few kilos of cocaine or a few thousand euros in cash or two weapons! I'm talking about industrial-level quantities, doctor." In his story, Mancuso provides further details. "It was just after the curve, going down from his house in Limbadi, in his countryside, near Chindamo, on the opposite side of the road, you enter a little road on the right, where he kept the animals. There is a gate, I don't know if they had put it there or not, but they would open it, go in and I noticed one thing in particular: his son Rocco was making holes with the drill. He says: "but who makes all these holes?" And don't "muccinare", Ascone replied to me. They made the holes to hide this stuff". "Then he bought that land for about 180 - 200 thousand euros. That land was big, yes. Then he sent some cheeses to my uncle".

«He paid his dues like anyone else»
"I remember that I spoke with uncle Diego," the collaborator continued, "I told him that it was more convenient to take the drugs in that case because, if Ripepi resold them at a higher price, rather than earning twenty, he would have earned 30, he says: "what do you need to have them right away, rather than 30 in fifteen - twenty days" and the uncle, since he trusted me, said: "yes, yes, that's fine" ". The reference is to the "quota" that Ascone, like anyone else, would have had to pay to the Mancusos for the purchase of the land. Because, Mancuso explained, "it was worth much more than 180 thousand euros and normally if you use the surname Mancuso, you are still part of the gang, you still have to pay, the principle was the same for everyone". ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...piegare-gli-imprenditori-delle-preserre/

the investigation
Bullets and painted crosses: the 'Ndrangheta's threats to "bend" the entrepreneurs of the Preserre
The complaint of the traders and suppliers imposed by the Maiolos on the shops of Acquaro. «I'll get it to you from the other side of the river»
Published: 08/14/2024 – 18:52

VIBO VALENTIA A bottle of gasoline with a lighter, three crosses painted on the garage and two cartridges. The hands of the 'ndrangheta on the shops in the town and, above all, on the management of suppliers. And to those who were not inclined to bow their heads, explicit threats with the intention of "bending" the entrepreneurs of the area . This is the climate that has been experienced over the years in the Preserre, the scene of a bloody feud between the Maiolo and Loielo clans, the two clans that ended up in the sights of the DDA last May. With the operation, which led to the arrest of 14 people, the Maiolo clan in particular was "decapitated", at the top of which, according to investigators, there are Angelo and Francesco Maiolo. The two brothers were particularly active in the import/export of products abroad, but they also managed the trade of the towns of the Preserre, imposing suppliers on the traders of the town of Acquaro and the surrounding area.

The threats: petrol and three painted crosses
The contested facts date back to 2018, when two entrepreneurs reported to the police some threats received. A bottle containing flammable liquid with a lighter attached and, a few months later, three crosses painted on the garages . Next to the front door there were also two bullet casings: explicit threats that convinced the Carabinieri to investigate the situation further. The investigations revealed that both businesses, from the day after the intimidations suffered, registered a company from Soriano among their suppliers. It is the entrepreneur himself who said that a few days earlier a boy had shown up at the shop to offer his products. The investigators reconstruct that Angelo Maiolo himself had participated "in silence" in the scene, apparently as a "simple" companion .

"Next time I'll shoot you in the head in the square"
The clan's modus operandi would later emerge from wiretaps. A " real lesson on how to bend entrepreneurs " by Angelo Maiolo to one of his associates, who had recently started selling eggs. The alleged boss of the Preserre explains that, in their absence (as prisoners, ed.) he would have had to "threaten the various shopkeepers with a firearm". "It's always us - he explains to his associate - because if you at the time..., I wasn't there, that other one wasn't there, you stopped the van " next time I'll shoot you in the head in the square, next time you come here I'll shoot you in the head, you won't bring any eggs here.... Full stop, I have to eat, and live too, I have two children, go f*** you and your mother, go sell the eggs in your village " .

A “silent” intimidating message
In the conversation Maiolo also allegedly referred to one of the two entrepreneurs who had reported the threats. " As soon as I see you don't buy the egg (blasphemy) I'll have it delivered to you from the other side of the river " he allegedly told his associate, referring to the victim. A way of saying, investigators emphasize, that he would "blow up his shop if he bought the eggs from another vendor". For the investigating judge, it was "a 'silent' intimidating message", that is, without an explicit request, but considered sufficient given the "intimidating force" of the clan. ( Ma.Ru. )

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ove-piu-di-un-milione-di-euro-al-giorno/

“Capital Laundry”
The 'ndrangheta pact in Rome, the "black bank" moves more than a million euros a day
The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate considers it an "innovative system of fraud against the State"
Published: 08/19/2024 – 7:00

ROME Tourists crowd the main streets of the eternal city, life flows between shopping in the luxury streets, visits to the monuments, selfies at the Colosseum while in the suburbs, far from prying eyes, black plots are woven by the Calabrian organized crime, the Albanian one and the so-called " Roman Camorra " run by men born in Campania and then moved to the capital. The mafia intrigues in Rome, the streets filled with drugs, the shops used as washing machines to clean dirty money have also occupied the journalists of Report , busy reconstructing the business and interests of the clans active in the "Grande raccordo criminale". Not only Rome. The Calabrian mala has apparently extended its tentacles trying to infiltrate the municipalities of Anzio and Nettuno as well .
«Capital Laundry»
All the huge proceeds from illicit activities must be laundered. It is clear and evident that laundering dirty money to reintroduce into the market in the form of investments is not a simple operation. Just as it is not a given to invade the territory in which a certain criminal clan operates, without stepping on the toes of the boss of the moment. To regulate this balance, which would otherwise become precarious, the criminal groups have made an unwritten pact of non-belligerence and public utility . The journalists of the Sole 24 Ore, Ivan Ciammarusti and Sara Monaci, believe that the handshake serves to channel all the profits into what is called the “ Laundry Capital ”, « a system of prolonged consumption laundering in which Roman crime, fixers, professionals and entrepreneurs play a role ». A sort of middle world within the middle world, with « a potential capacity to move more than a million euros a day ».
From what emerges from the work of the reporters, the “Lavanderia Capitale” would represent a very complex mechanism within which false invoices and phantom operations gravitate, which are then merged into a “ black bank ”. «From here, funding is made available to colluding companies». The system created would favor the financing of the underground economy of the company. « It liquidates suppliers illegally, pays irregular labor and can encourage forms of corruption », the colluding company receives invoices from phantom companies and pays money for fake operations or consultancy that were never carried out « for an amount equal to the dirty funds received ». A dark labyrinth made invisible to the police.
The DIA believes that « the innovative system of fraud against the State presupposes the occurrence of two essential conditions: a huge economic liquidity that will be collected with the transfer of the provision originating from the criminal families and the participation of colluding officials who compete to ensure the apparent legitimacy of the operations». (fb)

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...nti-il-pentito-peppone-voleva-uccidermi/

mistral-carthago
'Ndrangheta, the Casamonica affair and the “strained” relationship with Accorinti. The repentant: «Peppone wanted to kill me»
In the bunker courtroom the story of the repentant class of '64 from Ionadi. "They use people and then kill them, they always do this"
Published: 08/17/2024 – 17:31

LAMEZIA TERME «I have been collaborating since January, February 2005. I chose to do it because there were problems that weighed on my family and on me. I was scared, the word was that they wanted to kill me. I worked for some families, with the Accorinti of Zungri and with Giuseppe and Ambrogio Accorinti. At the time there was also Raffaele Fiamingo, who was then murdered too, with many people, but the one who wanted to hurt me was Giuseppe Accorinti, the Accorinti family in short».
Speaking before the judges of the collegiate court of Vibo Valentia is Angiolino Servello , born in 1964 in Ionadi, a collaborator of justice called to testify in the “Maestrale-Carthago” trial that arose from the investigation of the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Commission. In the bunker courtroom, questioned by the PM of the anti-mafia pool Annamaria Frustaci, he began to illustrate his path of collaboration with justice, but also the details related to some of the defendants in the trial.

The choice
"I came into contact with the Accorinti family, I've known them for many years, for about forty years, but I came into contact for drug deals in 1999" Servello explained again "we met with Ambrogio Accorinti in the prison of Vibo Valentia. Once we got out, again in 1999, we resumed the agreements, we met outside and we started working with drugs". Then the meeting with his brother, Peppone Accorinti. "I went to visit him with Ambrogio because Peppone was a fugitive, I saw a campaign, I can't tell you exactly where, because I don't remember it exactly, and since we already knew each other, at the time he was a friend of my brother. We also started drug deals with him, once he was free, me, him and Raffaele Fiamingo". And again: «The three of us met in Mesiano di Filandari, with a fourth accomplice, who was from San Giovanni, Rocco Cristello, who was in Milan, and from there the drug trafficking, cocaine, started, which we did with Peppone Accorinti and Raffaele Fiamingo, where I was mainly involved in sales».

Drug-related business
During his deposition, the collaborator of justice illustrated the details related to drug trafficking. "They took care of giving me the cocaine and I took care of selling it, I had a big business in Rome, and so it was, we continued to do this work". Then the murder of Fiamingo caused the relationship to deteriorate. "We lost ourselves a bit with Accorinti, because he was down, seeing a bit of the situation of his friend who had been killed. I worked anyway, I always went in his name because I didn't know this Cristello, I met him through them. I went there, I told them 'give me ten kilos of cocaine, give me twenty kilos of cocaine', whatever I needed, I took it and went away, and so on".

The Casamonica “question”
And again: "We had a connection with the Casamonica family in Rome, where I sold cocaine even in large quantities, at the level of ten, fifteen kilos, and there was a pending debt to be recovered in money. They dragged it out, dragged it out, dragged it out, but Peppone said: 'No, let's all go, let's get the money, let's go, let's kill them, let's do it', and there was a bit of a squabble between me, between him, between this Casamonica and so on" the informer explained again. This episode, according to the informer Servello, had strained relations with Peppone Accorinti. "I remember that after a while they arrested us all and we found ourselves in the prison in Vibo and, during the conversations, I saw him a bit cold, they spoke badly of me almost giving reason to the Casamonicas, like that he had paid for the drugs, but it was not true at all". Then, according to the repentant's story, "my wife who came to talk to me said that they wanted to kill me in prison, there were already rumors going around, and so I decided to collaborate with justice." Then Servello's outburst: "They do these things, they work like this, they use people and kill them. I have been collaborating for twenty years and I collaborate in front of the whole world, like this, openly, but they are worse than the collaborators, they are scoundrels who use people and kill them." ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )

https://www.zoom24.it/2024/08/20/in...a-ristorazione-dettagli/#google_vignette

'Ndrangheta Infiltration in Public Procurement and Catering (DETAILS)

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...torsioni-e-interessi-nella-ristorazione/

the investigation
'Ndrangheta in Emilia Romagna, the expansion of the 'ndrine between extortion and interests in the restaurant business
Over the years, crime has become increasingly entrenched between Modena, Bologna and Reggio Emilia. The warning from prosecutors and recent operations
Published: 08/19/2024 – 18:44

«Emilia Romagna is heavily infiltrated by the 'ndrangheta and the Camorra». The alarm was raised a few months ago by Giuseppe Amato, the prosecutor of Bologna, on the pervasiveness of organised crime in Emilia. A rich territory with favourable economic development could not fail to attract the attention of the Calabrian mafia, which has already “crossed” regional borders to expand to the north since the last century . «Ten years ago we came here to say that the 'ndrangheta was here and they treated us like Martians» said a few years ago the former prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri, who had also tried to warn in time of the risk of infiltration of Calabrian crime. Since then the 'ndrangheta has become increasingly rooted in the economy of Emilia-Romagna, exploiting the most fruitful and profitable sectors such as contracts, tourism and catering .

From Aemilia to Minefield: the operations
Aemilia, Black Monkey, Minefield. These are just some of the anti-ndrangheta operations in Emilia-Romagna. The first major trial against the 'ndrine rooted in the Emilia region began in 2015: 239 defendants, with the 'ndrangheta of Cutro and the Grande Aracri family in the crosshairs. Over 700 years of prison were handed down by the judges, who confirmed the impressive "colonization" of the Cutro family in the territories of Modena and Reggio Emilia in particular. The presence of the Grande Aracris was already reported in the 1980s, so much so that they founded a real club in the Emilian city. A few days ago, another police operation led to the arrest of three people , linked to the 'ndrangheta, for extortion and threats in Reggio Emilia. Among them, the son of a convicted criminal in Aemilia and some individuals already involved in Minefield, the operation that in February brought to light a circle of illicit business, aimed at money laundering and false invoices, which still saw the 'ndrangheta of Cutro as the protagonist.

Interests in catering
The arrest of Saverio Giampà, a 60-year-old originally from Catanzaro and considered by investigators to be close to the 'ndrangheta, dates back to July 25. The Bologna prosecutor's office is accusing him of fictitious ownership and an attempted extortion , which led to the investigation thanks to the victim's complaint. Giampà is said to have fictitiously managed two ice cream parlors and threatened to kill the owner of a "competing" business. The 60-year-old from Catanzaro is not the only example of 'ndrangheta infiltration in Bologna's restaurant scene , a rapidly growing sector exploited by the mafia to launder money. The tourist boom in the city of Bologna has convinced local politicians to invest in the so-called "foodification", a phenomenon that aims to put food at the center of development. An opportunity for the 'ndrangheta, which has shifted its attention to the restaurants in the center. An investigation carried out by Libera Bologna shows how many premises in the centre, in difficulty due to covid, have been taken over at low prices. Among the buyers there are also people linked to Calabrian crime: a phenomenon on which the Emilian Prosecutors have now turned their attention. ( Ma.Ru. )

Fugitive Italian crime leader arrested in Slovenia

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/fugitive-italian-crime-leader-arrested-slovenia

No name? That sucks.

Salvatore Roberto Perricciolo

Thanks, another one for my collection lol

Salvatore Perricciolo was at the top of a criminal organization dedicated to the purchase, transport and resale of cocaine in the provinces of Macerata, Ancona and Fermo (Marche region), he is also involved in another proceeding linked to mafia-type crimes in Perugia.