Italian police on Thursday seized assets worth 20 million euros (about 21 million dollars) from the Mallardo Camorra clan in the cities of Caserta, Naples and Rome. Police uncovered what they called "a criminal holding company" that "accumulated enormous wealth" by laundering the Mallardo clan’s illicit gains, mostly via the construction sector.The Mallardo clan plays a key role in the criminal balance of power in the region, according to a 2016 report by the DIA.
4 convicted for Naples prosecutor bomb plot Inc. arms trafficker Amilcare Monti Condesnitt
(ANSA) - Bari, February 28 - A judge on Tuesday convicted four people for planning a Camorra Neapolitan mafia bomb attack on Naples chief prosecutor Giovanni Colangelo. The four, including noted arms trafficker Amilcare Monti Condesnitt, were sentenced to terms ranging from five years and four months to four years and eight months for possessing half a tonne of TNT. Colangelo recently said "I'll continue my work" despite death threats from the Casalesi clan of the Camorra - the clan that has forced writer Roberto Saviano into a police protection programme.
New arrest order for Rosaria 'Zi' Pagano, sister of the boss Cesare Pagano and sister-in-law of former boss Raffaele Amato. She is considered the new ruler of the clan. Pagano will have to serve her sentence of 2 years and 11 months in prison because of the offense of money laundering, committed in May 2003 in Naples.
Politicians among 69 Camorra arrests Entrepreneurs also implicated over alleged corruption
(ANSA) - Naples, March 15 - Naples finance police on Wednesday executed 69 arrest warrants in relation to a probe into the Zagaria faction of the infamous Casalesi clan of the Camorra mafia. Politicians and entrepreneurs were among the people arrested. They are accused of crimes including corruption, bid rigging and external participation in mafia association.
30 Camorra arrests in Naples area (2) Structure of Orlando clan reconstructed
(ANSA) - Naples, April 18 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 30 people north of Naples suspected of belonging to the local Camorra mafia. The 30 are suspected of mafia conspiracy, extortion, drug trafficking and possessing war-grade weapons, police said. The investigation, police said, led them to reconstruct the structure of the infamous Orlando clan, led by a fugitive, and showed them the provenance of the clan's money.
Two men killed near Naples (3) Hit on father and son in bar-tobacconist's at Giugliano
(ANSA) - Naples, May 25 - Two men, a father and son, were killed by one or more hitmen while playing on slot machines in a bar and tobacconist's in the historic centre of Giugliano near Naples Thursday, police sources said. The victims were named as Vincenzo and Emanuele Staderini, originally from Naples, who had lived in Giugliano for more than 10 years.
Murder in the night in Torre Annunziata, in the Naples area. The victim's name was Alberto Benvenuto Musto, 32, already known to the police. The man, while traveling on board a Lancia in the company of a 33 year old, was approached by two persons riding a scooter with their faces hidden by helmets. The two began to fire at Musto, without giving him a chance. The police have found 10 9mm shell casings.
Marco Di Lauro spent his 13th birthday on the run. He turned 37, his latest track leads to the Vesuvius area. Number two on the most wanted list after MMD.
The Camorra turns to teenagers to enforce its rule of organised crime
Print edition | Europe Jun 22nd 2017 | NAPLES LESS than a hundred yards away, Via San Biagio dei Librai in the centre of Naples bustles with activity. Tourists buy souvenirs and munch pizza, oblivious to the meaning of the coded graffiti on the street’s peeling walls. But in a side alley, all is solemn hush. Beyond a door, in a courtyard, stands a tall metal cabinet displaying a ceramic bust of a young man, surrounded by fresh white roses. If not for his hipster beard and haircut, it could be the shrine of a long-dead saint.
The building that surrounds the courtyard is the redoubt of one of the many warring clans of Italy’s oldest yet least-cohesive mafia, the Camorra. The young man to whom the shrine is dedicated is Emanuele Sibillo, the archetype of a new breed of Neapolitan gangster. He was murdered in 2015 at the age of 19 in a nearby street that forms part of the territory of a rival crew.
Naples has seldom been free of turf wars. But recent months have seen a surge in violence. In 11 days, between May 25th and June 4th, eight people were shot dead in the city and its surrounding province. The police sent reinforcements to the area, even though the army had already been deployed. Much of the recent violence is the work of clans like the one led by Emanuele Sibillo and his brother. Some of these so-called “baby gangs” have members as young as 12. On May 24th the Carabinieri, Italy’s semi-militarised police, arrested an alleged “baby boss” who is only 16. The son of a jailed Camorra chief, the boy is accused of killing two of his subordinates last year. They had reportedly demanded a bigger share of the proceeds from drug-trafficking, which is the Camorra’s lifeblood.
As the head of the Italian state police, Franco Gabrielli, acknowledged, the baby gangs are a perverse result of successful policing. The courts have locked up so many veteran clan bosses in recent years that the task of holding Naples in thrall to the Camorra has fallen to ever-younger, more reckless affiliates. (If they are under 14, they cannot be held criminally liable for their misdeeds.)
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Their favourite technique for asserting dominance is the stesa, a term that comes from stendere (“to stretch out”): the baby gang erupts into a crowded square, riding mopeds and firing at random, usually in the air. People dive for cover or prostrate themselves in fear of their lives. In a piazza in the Sanità area, a monument has been erected to another young Neapolitan. Genny Cesarano, aged 17, was fatally shot during a stesa in the piazza in 2015. After a recent spate of such shooting parties, the police blanketed the district with patrols and roadblocks. But there have been three more since. Carmela Manco, a volunteer social worker since the 1980s, recalls with a wistful smile the days when the Camorra would alert her in time to get children off the streets: “They rang us. A voice would say, ‘Attenzione, che piove’ [‘Watch out. It’s going to rain’]. Ms Manco runs L’Oasi, a sports and cultural centre in the San Giovanni a Teduccio district intended for children of camorristi and others close to the underworld. “We have kids here who can’t read or write, but sing Stravinsky,” she says. The aim is to keep the children off the streets so they do not drift into theft, drug-peddling or other routes to jail or an early death. The families are not always helpful. At one point the father of one of her charges murdered the father of another. San Giovanni a Teduccio has so far been free of baby gangs. But Father Gaetano Romano, the parish priest, wonders for how long. The dominant local clan has lately clashed with the Sibillo crew and its allies. “My fear is that there will be repercussions here,” he says. Underpinning the Camorra’s grip on the young is its ability to offer extremely lucrative work in a region where the employment rate among 15- to 24-year-olds is under 12%. A frequent complaint is that the Camorra provides the jobs that the state fails to. But, argues Francesco Grillo, a Neapolitan economist, Italian governments have invested heavily in Naples over the years. The only effect has been to sustain a ruling class all too often complicit with the Camorra.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Young blood"
The State Police have arrested the baby boss Alessio Angrisano, 20, sought since last January. A fugitive believed by investigators to head the clan of Vanella Grassi, also called the "shot" of Scampia: Angrisano was tracked down and captured by agents of Scampia police and the crime prevention unit in Villaricca (Naples).
A young man of 15 years was wounded in the left buttock by a gunshot fired during an ambush in Naples against a former associate justice. The boy was playing football with friends. The target, unharmed, fled in the police station of Marianella.
14 ARRESTED IN SPAIN IN EU OPERATION AGAINST CAMORRA GANG
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish police have arrested 14 people in the northeastern city of Barcelona as part of a European operation against the Camorra organized crime gang.
The State prosecutors' office said there were also arrests in Italy and Germany in the Europol-coordinated operation Wednesday against drug-trafficking and money laundering.
Civil Guard police said 10 Italians, a Chilean, a Colombian, a Spaniard and a Venezuelan were arrested in Barcelona.
Police in Barcelona said several premises, including store rooms and restaurants, were being raided.
Officers arrested 18 suspects in Italy, 12 in Spain and three in Germany. Spain was their “strategic” location because they think they can go “about their business under less scrutiny”.
Salvatore Polverino aka "Toratto", son of the fugitive boss Antonio, was arrested along with a contractor, Antonio Visconti, for fictitious interposition of goods aggravated by the mafia method. His father has been sentenced to 25 years.
Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
turncoat walking around like that in Italy ? Well...
"A fish with his mouth closed never get's caught"
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Ambush in Agerola, the turncoat Antonio "'o Fasano" Fontana, 59, was shot dead before the eyes of his wife in front of pizzeria "Li Galli". Fontana, of Castellammare di Stabia, was considered by investigators, an affiliate in the past to the clan Di Somma-Maresca.
turncoat walking around like that in Italy ? Well...
Many turncoats get tired of the wpp after a while and go back to their old lifestyle despite the danger. His brother, Luciano, had also repented. He started to rebuild the cartel that tried to take the place of the clan D'Alessandro in Castellammare.
The Carabinieri in the hinterland north of Naples arrested 10 suspects believed linked to the Camorra clans of "Orlando" and "Nuvoletta-Lubrano". The charges, for various reasons, are mafia-type association and extortion by mafia purposes. They discovered an arsenal with four Kalashnikovs, a machine gun, a rifle, 3 semi-automatic and about 600 cartridges found in a garage.
Great post Hollander. Crazy to think about kids as young as 12-15 being involved.
According to Saviano the greatest change in the Camorra is related to the generations. The heads today are delegating to very young people who control the territory. They give power to kids who are 15 to 20 years-old.
The 22-year-old Moroccan Enis Mahmoudi was shot dead friday night in Giugliano. The young man was believed to be close to the Paparella group and may have been eliminated on the order of the historic leg of the Secondigliano Alliance to stop the rise of the new group.
In Salerno a 35 year old was killed while on board his scooter. Ciro D'Onofrio, was approached by one or more killers, the ambush was late Sunday evening while there were several people on the street. Investigators look at different trails, including drug trafficking.
Arrested in Italy, a leader of the Neapolitan Camorra Giuseppe Simioli, head of the 'Polverino clan', lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain
Efe / Madrid 28.08.2017 | 11:27 Agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard and the Carabinieri Weapon have arrested in Italy the leader of the "clan Polverino" of the Neapolitan camorra, Giuseppe Simioli, alias "Peruociolo", in search and capture since 2010 and that Lived on horseback between his country of origin and Spain.
According to the Directorate General of the Civil Guard, the arrested had four arrest warrants and faces in Italy requests for 24 years in prison for crimes of illicit association, drug trafficking and arms trafficking .
The first investigations against the clan began in the year 2009, when the Benemérita began to look for its clan leaders who lived between Spain and Italy.
After the arrest in 2012 of the leader of the band, Giuseppe Polverino, the agents focused their investigation on Giuseppe Simioli, who was suspected that had taken the reins of this clan of the camorra.
In order to obtain information about their whereabouts, the investigators focused the monitoring and control work on residents or temporary visitors in Spain who could maintain some kind of relationship with Simioli.
In this way, a woman who had a relationship with him was located and discovered that she alternated a month of residence in Spain with three in Italy and that she adopted several measures of security during her travels, such as constantly changing vehicles.
The same method continued in May of this year to travel from Barcelona to a locality to the south of Rome, where it was stopped thanks to the collaboration between the agents of the UCO and the Carabinieri.
Since 2008, the UCO has detained in Spain more than 100 members of Italian organizations - Camorra, "Cosa Nostra", l'Ndrangueta - and collaborates with the Italian security forces, who have detained more than 400 members of these Clans.
Two men shot dead in the center of Napels. The victims are Salvatore Dragonetti and Edoardo Amoruso, the latter brother-in-law of the Giuliano brothers, former bosses of the Forcella district.
