http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/mafia-...216-guemgq.html

Mafia kingpin Rocco Arico guilty of extortion, faces deportation

More on the Brunswick crew.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/convic...214-gucm8f.html

Coincidence, I just bought a book "the gangland war" based on the Australian crime groups kingpin Carl Williams, Moran family and the Ndrangheta "Benvenuto" crime family. Can't wait to read it.

Watch the first season of underbelly an Australian tv serie. Apart the benvenuto family,all the caracthers (williams, Moran ecc) are well defined.

Giuseppe Costa, who has been collaborating with the authorities for years, spills about Antonio Commisso in particular.

https://shar.es/19yZbU

Thanks Furio, I didn't know there was a TV series on them.

I find that informants in the Ndrangheta are few compared to other large crime families. Similar to Bucetta, I think the reason he is talking is because they killed most of his family.It would be interesting if we were to know more on their inner networks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters...ve-oil-U-S.html

Italian police break mafia ring exporting fake olive oil to U.S.

http://mediacalabria.it/assets-worth-5-mn-euros-seized-from-ndrangheta-boss/

Assets worth 5 mn euros seized from ndrangheta boss

What did the article say Hollander? My Italian is a little rusty

Are they alleging that the 'Ndrangheta have contacts with corrupt FBI agents or something like that?

Yes. A member of the Piromallis, Rosario Vizzari, who lives in NY for 20 years had contacts within the FBI. So the heads of the clan knew they were being targeted by Italian investigators.

@Hollander

What exactly do the Piromallis do in NY? Is it just, like a coordination/command post type thing?

Didn't know there been there 20years already, lol

Which investigations were they tipped off too? In Italy or America? Or both?

@ Billy

I've been meaning to ask you, you know I had all kinda problems signing up, I'll try again, it's still a go? The site I mean...

Billy the article say that 'a capo del fbi' aka high ranking fbi agent said to the piromalli to dont go on italy because there are investigations on them and that the fbi chief "want make a career on your skin".

These guys control the huge Gioia Tauro port, in NY they are involved in import/export. They also have a presence in Philly.

I've sent you a PM Cabrini.

Wow, that would be quite unprecedented to have a high ranking FBI official in the pocket of a mafia organization. Can't think of an example of something like that happening before, does anyone else?

John Connoly e John Morris in Boston with Bulger and Flemmi from 1975 to 1995 or barboza and flemmi with sa paul rico in the 60s;Greg Scarpa Sr and Lyn devecchio are the examples that come to my mind.
Anyway the article say of a generic capo del fbi aka chief of the fbi so Billy dont make him more important respect what they are.

Good question, I would say if the feds are in the know on both sides.

They knew about the op last month.

Italian police, FBI in 'Ndrangheta op
33 arrests in Piromalli clan

(ANSA) - Rome, January 26 - Italian police and the FBI on Thursday carried out operations against one of the most powerful clans in Italy's strongest and richest mafia, the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta.
Some 33 people were arrested in probes into the Piromalli clan's business interests in Italy and the US, including around the massive Gioia Tauro container port and across the wealthy Lombard belt, where the clan exercised "radical control over business apparatus and the real-estate and agri-food sectors including Milan's fruit and vegetable market". The Piromallis' agri-food interests amounted to an annual 16 billion euros, police said, while their US interests were centred on "massive" penetration of the olive-oil market.
The ringleader of the operations was Antonio Piromalli, 45, son of one of the historic leaders of the clan, 72-year-old Pino, who has been held in the top security '41 bis' mafia jail regime for over 20 years.
Police seized some 40 million euros in assets.

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/03/...-arena/3429168/

Biggest wind farm in Europe runned by the Ndrangheta.

The truckdriver Domenico Stambè, 55, was shot dead in Vibo Valentia. His brothers, Angelo and Nazzareno, respectively 40 and 47, were arrested a few years ago by the police of Asti provincial command aboard a Fiat Ducato with inside a veritable arsenal of 20 guns, 13 pistols and ammunition.

http://www.standard.net.au/story/4384210...lients/?cs=4162

Fugitive Calabrian mafia figure was one of slain gangland lawyer's final clients

'Ndrangheta boss Vottari arrested over mafia feud
Feud culminated in 2007 Duisburg massacre

(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, March 22 - Santo Vottari, a 45-year-old 'Ndrangheta boss on Italy's most-wanted list, was arrested by Carabinieri police on Wednesday in a bunker in the Reggio Calabria area, sources said. Vottari is considered the head of a clan that was involved in the San Luca feud, principally between the Pelle-Vottari and Nirta-Strangio clans, which culminated in a 2007 massacre in the German city of Duisburg in which six people were murdered. Vottari had been on the run since 2007 and must serve a 10-year term for criminal association.
The fugitive boss was found inside a hide-out carved out inside a bunker in the Calabrian town of Benestare. Interior Minister Marco Minniti complimented police on their "excellent" work.
Carabinieri Commander-in-Chief Tullio Del Sette congratulated police on Vottari's arrest and on that of two members of another 'Ndrangheta clan, Salvatore Etzi and Salvatore Palumbo, which he said had "inflicted a heavy blow" on the Calabrian mafia.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_...c1035cc6bf.html

Video of Santo Vottari's arrest: