Over 10 arrests in Belgrade,only 2 Serbians , rest of them are Italians,they were one of top dealers of cocaine in Serbia. One of them was married to sister of 'Ndrangheta boss. Huge arrests


According to police,group bought 86,7% pure cocaine in Amsterdam for 33,000e per kilo. Then transported it via Germany to Austria,where some of it went to Italy and some to Balkans.

33 per kilo is pretty expensive in Amsterdam, especially if you got Ndrangheta contacts. I know some guys who gets it delivered here to sweden for 34-35 thousand euros, and its usually 85-90%

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/24/le...al-and-flourishing/#.WzAT1kB3Q3I.twitter

Lessons from the case against the Calabrian mafia: Organized crime is global, and flourishing

Great article ! Thanks for posting

My pleasure Strax.

Wow, I would like to know more on the buying of Thailands and Indonesias government debt.. Thats real power if you ask me.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42794848

Italian mafia: How crime families went global

'Ndrangheta bust in Crotone

(ANSA) - Rome, June 28 - Italian police on Thursday arrested several people as they broke up a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia organisation operating in the city of Crotone.
Those arrested have been charged with a series of crimes including personal injuries, robbery and weapons possession.
'Ndrangheta, Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, has a chokehold on the European cocaine market.

Source : http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...f052790-d096-42fe-b2c6-5bfc50703e4c.html

Wow.. the son of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso, alias the engineer, would have started to collaborate with the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro. The news is resounding and if confirmed it would have disruptive effects.

Emanuele Mancuso, scion of the homonymous family of Limbadi, would have repented. The thirty-year-old son of Pantaleone Mancuso would already be in Rebibbia prison under protection program. Emanuele is also the nephew of the historical leaders of the cosca, Luigi, Antonio and Giovanni Mancuso.

The District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro and the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri would have the key to accessing the most unspeakable secrets of one of the most powerful gangs of the Calabrese 'ndrangheta. So they are trembling, but also the leaders of the other Vibonese clans, the entrepreneurs and the "white-collar workers" who with the family of Limbadi have made business.

There is no doubt that Emanuele Mancuso is aware of several things. He will certainly be able to tell about the new family structure, the alleged fractures that have characterized the life of the clan in recent years. Real or alleged frictions that have come out recently, too.

https://shoc.rusi.org/informer/mafia-connection-explaining-bad-governance-northern-italy

The Mafia Connection: Explaining Bad Governance in Northern Italy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...backed-by-politician-with-links-to-mafia

Matteo Salvini backed by politician 'with links to mafia'

http://www.liberainternational.eu/?p=2706

An interessting read.. It needs to be translated though

''Ndrangheta in Juve ticket-touting for 10 yrs'
Ties between Calabrian Mob bosses and ultra leaders

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...df48268-4782-495f-8e2e-b63a86c98341.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.2a32543c9bea

Facing down the Mafia, and misogyny, in Southern Italy

Broad operation of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria 38 people arrested, held responsible, for various reasons, mafia-type association, association aimed international drug trafficking, attempted murder, extortion, port and possession of weapons, damage and other crimes.
There are two dangerous gangs of the 'ndrangheta of Rosarno, both devoted to extortion and importation of tons of pure cocaine from South America and hashish from Spain and Morocco, destined to Lombardy, Piedmont and Sicily. In the investigation has also emerged the violent opposition between the two groups, both intent on imposing the criminal scene of Rosarno and to acquire the mafia control of the territory with aggressive intimidation, damage and ambushes with firearms and explosives.

Because he violated his parole the court of surveillance decided this morning the legendary boss Rocco Papalia has to work for two years in prison. In March he had been driven a car, despite having the ban and not having a driving license, and a few weeks later he had railed against the journalists in front of the house in via Nearco, partly his home and partly confiscated.
Against the decision, the Papalia family, through the lawyers Ambra Giovene and Annarita Franchi, will immediately appeal.

Three thousand marijuana plants have been discovered and seized by the Guardia di Finanza in Roccaforte del Greco. The financial police, who operated with the helicopters of the Air Section of Lamezia Terme, have identified the plantation of cannabis of the "skunk" type, with shrubs in some parts more than two meters high, in a soil half hidden by a dense bush. The quantity of seized marijuana, from which more than 1,500 kilograms of narcotic substance could have been obtained, once it had been placed on the market, would have yielded over 10 million euro.

An operation by the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria is under way for the execution of 13 precautionary custody orders against entrepreneurs and alleged 'ndranghetisti. The investigations, coordinated by the DDA of Reggio Calabria, according to the investigators, would have allowed to ascertain the systematic infiltration of the Calabrian gangs in the works necessary for the construction of wind farms in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Crotone and Vibo Valentia.

Operation against the feared Casamonica clan in Rome, Reggio Calabria and Cosenza.
31 people ended up in handcuffs while six other people are currently wanted. The charge against them is to have formed and took part - in competition and with different roles - to a mafia association, the Casamonica clan, dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, usury: all with the aggravating factor of the Mafia method.
The thesis of the investigators is that at the head of the clan there is Giuseppe Casamonica, recently released from prison after about 10 years of imprisonment.
The Sinti gypsies are allied with the ´ndrangheta.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-31-members-notorious-mob-arrested.html

More on the Casamonica clan.
Italian police search the gaudy homes of mafia mobsters as 31 members of Rome's notorious Casamonica clan are arrested in huge crackdown

https://nypost.com/2018/07/19/wife-of-italian-gangster-sold-out-mafia-members-for-revenge/

Wife of Italian gangster sold out mafia members for revenge

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...0727505-6ed4-45bc-af12-f3b61892d873.html

Mafia code of silence reigns in Rome

Fabio Giuseppe Gioffrè, 39, was shot dead in the town of Seminara (Reggio Calabria); in the ambush was seriously injured a 10 years old boy. The Gioffrè clan was involved in a bloody feud.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44873067

The mafia murders that brought down Slovakia's government

Italian police bust 'Ndrangheta cannabis plantation with 26,000 plants

https://www.thelocal.it/20180723/it...ta-cannabis-plantation-with-26000-plants

Operation of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia, coordinated by the DDA reggina, with three arrests for homicide, port and possession of clandestine and war weapons, receiving stolen goods, committed with the mafia method and purposes.
The investigations made it possible to identify the instigators and perpetrators of the murder of Giuseppe Canale, a member of the Condello-Chirico gang, killed on 12 August 2011, in the middle of day by two vibonese killers hired by the Reggio group.

https://thevision.com/attualita/frutta-connection/


In this article this guy Silvio Aquino they say he is one of the biggest drug traffickers in Europe.. Then they say they had followed him for 8 months and they counted 2.4 ton cocaine he had bought for 21k euro and sold 28k... I mean this cant be a big shot in the game as they say? Are they exaggerating Ndranghetas "dominance" on cocaine as they are doing with guys like this..

Okey this guy wasnt in ndrangheta but he was Calabrian and had ties to them i think.

The Aquino murder was ordered by a Neapolitan.

Interresting. But what do you think of my question? the whole exaggeration thing?

It´s impossible to say so many groups involved in the european trade, for example the sicilians are making a comeback. In the South they are big but they rarely supply the northern markets.

@Hollander


Any group or clan in particular driving the Sicilian resurgence?


Also, is it primarily concentrated in Europe?
Or are there markets outside Europe (NYC, Canada,...) they have entered?