Boss of 'Ndrangheta locale is Sicilian ? Is he made both into Sicilian Mafia & 'Ndrangheta ?

He was in ´68 born in Palermo, but emigrated to northern Italy so he was probably only inducted over there in the ´ndrangheta, his son Salvatore is also involved.

The police in the Dominican Republic arrested Marcello Battigaglia, 75, considered the promoter of a criminal association active in Lombardy and dedicated to the import of large quantities of cocaine. The investigations made it possible to ascertain that he was in contact with Calabrian and Latin American criminal groups. He managed cocaine traffic to Italy, in particular to the provinces of Milan, Monza and Como .

In Rome a leader of the Italian crime organization 'Ndrangheta was arrested. Filippo Morgante (48) had been a fugitive for a year. He is considered one of the leaders of the Gallico mafia family. Morgante still has to serve a prison sentence of eighteen years for membership of a criminal organization, forbidden possession of weapons, drug trafficking and intimidation.

"Gangsters have to rot in prison," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said in response to the arrest.

Juventus wiretaps revealed

An investigative report explains how Juventus ultras came to be involved in a trial for alleged mafia ticket touting.

https://www.football-italia.net/129674/juventus-wiretaps-revealed

New blow to the clan Barbaro-Papalia. The Carabinieri have executed in Milan, Como and Reggio Calabria an order for custody against 10 Italians and 4 Moroccans held responsible, for various reasons, of criminal association aimed at drug trafficking and in particular cocaine. The investigations are directed by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Milan and have made it possible to ascertain that the group, set up and organized by 4 brothers managed the cocaine shop using a dense network of Maghreb pushers.
Four members of the family with the same surname: Francesco Barbaro , 32 years old (already in prison for another story); Giuseppe Barbaro , 24-year-old, Salvatore Barbaro, a 30-year-old, and Antonio Barbaro, 33 years old. The latter is considered the leading figure of the organization after the arrest of his brother Francesco. The military captured Antonio and Salvatore Barbaro on the Austrian border, Giuseppe was taken from his apartment in Buccinasco, in the Milan area.

'Ndrangheta, 8 arrests in Milan for three murders between 2008 and 2010: one was the boss Carmelo Novella. The men are held responsible for the murders of Novella, Antonio Tedesco and Rocco Stagno, belonging to the 'locale' of Seregno-Giussano and killed between 2008 and 2010 in the provinces of Milan and Como.
Thanks to the statements of the collaborator of justice, Antonio Belnome, the head of the 'locale' of Giussano, the investigations had allowed to discover that the murder of Carmelo Novella, head of Lombardy, had happened to block his attempt to emancipate from the province of Reggio Calabria.

Soccer player Vincenzo Iaquinta has been sentenced to two years in prison. The 40-fold international of Italy was convicted on Wednesday because of illegal possession of weapons. The former striker was also accused of ties with the 'ndrangheta, but this has not been proven. His father Giuseppe is convicted of his ties with the mafia and disappears behind bars for nineteen years. When the verdict was heard the family made a scene and people spoke shame of the punishments. "This is impossible, they ruin my life on the basis of nothing at all, it is purely because I come from Cutro in Calabria, I suffer as a dog for my family and children, but I did not do anything."

118 terms for over 1,200 yrs in 'Ndrangheta trial

(ANSA) - Reggio Emilia, October 31 - A Reggio Emilia court on Wednday handed down 118 prison terms totalling over 1,200 years in a major trial into the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia's infiltration of the Emilian economy.
The longest term was 21 years and eight months, for Carmine Belfiore. Others convicted included Gaetano Blasco (21 years), Michele Bolognino (20 years and 7 months) and Giuseppe Iaquinta (19 year), a businessman and father of former Italy striker Vincenzo Iaquinta. In ethe fast-track trial, judges gave 16 years and 4 months to Gianluigi Sarcone, and 16 years to both Palmo and Giuseppe Vertinelli.
There were another 24 terms amounting to some 325 years, for crimes committed from jail during the trial.
The sentences corresponded largely to prosecutors' requests.
The trial established there was a large and well-established 'Ndrangheta cell in northern Italy and particularly in the Emilia region around Bologna.

Italian mob boss of 'Ndrangheta dies in prison at 91
ByRenzo Pipoli

View of the Calabrian countryside. The 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization based in Calabria, was traditionally more rural than the Sicilian Mafia and Naples Camorra. The historic leader of the 'Ndrangheta, Francesco Barbaro, died this week. Photo courtesy of valtercirillo/pixabay

Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Francesco Barbaro, the historic boss of the global 'Ndrangheta crime organization based in southern Italy, died Thursday night in prison while serving time over the killing of a police official.

Barbaro, known as "Ciccio 'u Castanu" and the oldest inmate in Italy, died at 91 in a prison in Parma, about 280 miles north of Rome, Gazzetta di Parma reported Friday. He was imprisoned for the 1990 killing of Brigadier Antonino Marino, but previously did a prison stint of more than two decades for kidnapping.

Authorities said "he lead the most powerful and important division of the Calabrian 'ndrangheta."

His son, Rocco, was arrested in May 2017 and was sentenced on Oct. 10 on charges of leading drug trafficking activities between Italy and South America. Another son was recently released from prison due to health issues.

He "was adored like a relic" by great-grandchildren now living throughout the world, Gazzetta di Parma reported.

The 'Ndrangheta is a mafia-like organization based in Calabria, a region of southern Italy. It has in recent history operated independently of the Sicilian Mafia.

Other known organized crime organizations are the Camorra, based in Naples, and the Sacra Corona Unita, in the region of Puglia.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/11/02...-is-infiltrating-countries-across-europe

How Italy's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia group is infiltrating countries across Europe

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‘Ndrangheta leader Giuseppe Pelle ran regional politics on behalf of Calabrian Mafia

http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...heta-s-global-reach#.W919h3R3c9k.twitter

Italian Mafia boss talks about ‘Ndrangheta’s global reach

Cops negotiate end to post office siege
'Ndrangheta convict had held four people in Reggio Emilia

(ANSA) - Bologna, November 5 - Police on Monday ended a post office siege in Reggio Emilia by talking down the hostage taker, an 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia convict.
They took him out after he let them in to the premises following negotiations.
Shortly before the cops were allowed in, the man, Francesco Amato, had let two of his four hostages go.
When they reappeared with Amato, the police were given a round of applause by the people present at the scene.
"He opened the door, let the hostages out and then handed himself over to us," said Reggio Emilia provincial Carabinieri commander, Colonel Cristiano Desideri.
The siege had lasted eight hours. The four women who had been taken hostage were said to be unharmed.
Asked what had persuaded Amato to give in, Desideri said "time, patience and dialogue with the negotiators, who made him understand that he could not get what he wanted", that is a meeting with Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
Initially there were five hostages, but a 54-year-old cashier was let go almost immediately after she had a bad turn and was treated by an emergency medical team.
Amato was convicted last week in the sprawling 'Aemilia' trial on 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia infiltration in the Emilia region. He holed up in the post office early on Monday, taking staff hostage with a knife, local sources said.
Amato allowed all the customers out of the branch before taking hostage five female staff including the woman director.
Police blocked roads and started negotiating, sources told reporters.
After about an hour one of the five hostages, the cashier, was let out of the branch. She fainted as soon as she got out and was treated by an emergency medical team Amato had been on the run since last week's conclusion of the 'Aemilia' trial which handed down 118 sentences totalling over 1,200 years in jail, including the father of former soccer player Vincenzo Iaquinta, who got 19 years.
Iaquinta himself got two years for weapons possession but was cleared of mafia charges.
Amato also got 19 years and has been on the run since the sentence, police said.
Entering the post office, he reportedly said "I'm the one who got 19 years in Aemilia".
He then allegedly threatened those present, saying "I'm going to kill you all".
He was reportedly brandishing a kitchen knife.
If negotiations with Amato had proved fruitless, police said they would have sent in special forces.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...67e59a4-36a9-4f98-ba21-63262a4dc977.html

The Armenian mafia apparently cooperates in Germany with the Italian 'Ndrangheta.

http://www.tellerreport.com/life/--organized-crime-in-germany--mafia-meets-mafia-.B1is8jlp7.html

Carabinieri arrested Antonio Callipari, 25 year old linked by kinship ties to the Nirta "Versu" clan of San Luca and escaped arrest in September 2017, as part of the " Unknown 23 " operation. The wanted person was captured in the early afternoon of Friday, in San Luca in a house from which he attempted in vain escape from a rear exit.
Callipari , according to investigators, would be the "promoter" of the illicit activities of the organization, and is also accused of having committed traffic with the constant availability of weapons . He would also coordinate the supply of cocaine and other drugs from Calabria to Lombardy , using self-equipped double-bottoms, capable of handling up to 50 kilos of coke weekly .

The soldiers of the economic-financial police unit of the Catanzaro finance guard, coordinated and directed by the public prosecutor's office, arrested 24 people in Catanzaro and Lamezia Terme (12 in custody and 12 under house arrest) belonging to a gang of 'ndrangheta and public administrators and seized assets for a value of ten million euro. The details of the operation will be illustrated by the prosecutor of the republic Nicola Gratteri.

Huge operation against online gambling, 68 arrests in Reggio Calabria, Catania and Bari. It´s the new frontier in the fight against the mafia. Assets worth a billion were seized, the famous clans from Calabria, Puglia and Catania control the business of 4.5 billion euros.

From the first light of dawn, an imposing international police operation is underway, coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-terrorism Directorate, which sees jointly employed by the Guardia di Finanza, the
State Police , the Carabinieri and the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the capture of 68 criminals. organized in Puglia, Calabria and Sicily and in the seizure of assets for 1 billion euro in Italy and in many foreign countries.

The alleged offenses are all attributable to the mafia association, the fraudulent transfer of values, to money laundering and self-laundering, to the illegal collection of online bets and the related fraudulent subtraction of the tax revenues from the relative earnings. The ongoing repressive activity comes to the end of complex investigations, delegated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorates. of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Bari, Reggio Calabria and Catania and regards criminal groups that had read and controlled, with mafia methods, the lucrative market of illegal collection of bets on sporting events and not, for a volume of bets greater than 4.5 billions of euros on various online platforms managed by criminal associations. The substantial accumulated earnings, monitored by the Guardia di Finanza, they were then reinvested in real estate assets and financial positions abroad, in the name of persons, foundations and companies, screened with the complicity of a comfortable name. The seizure orders in Italy and abroad are being implemented on these assets, thanks also to the fundamental collaboration of the Authorities
Judicial authorities from Austria, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Netherlands, Curaçao, Serbia, Albania, Spain and Malta, as well as the Eurojust Cooperation Unit. Details of the operation will be announced during a press conference at 11 am, at the offices of the National Anti-Mafia and Counter-terrorism Directorate, in via Giulia, 52 in Rome, in the presence of the National Prosecutor and the District Prosecutors Bari, Reggio Calabria and Catania.

Camorra and 'ndrangheta in Massa-Carrara: 7 arrested for extortion
The criminal group thrown out by the carabinieri is accused of activating a turn of extortion against at least three people, including entrepreneurs and bank managers, in Lunigiana. Two suspects are close to the Camorra and a third person to the 'Ndrangheta.

Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia 'on all continents' and still growing

https://www.thelocal.it/20181128/italys-ndrangheta-mafia-on-all-continents-and-still-growing

The jailing of an Italian restaurateur for money laundering proves that mob activity from Calabria has reached Britain.

Edoardo Archetta first opened the folding doors of his Italian restaurant, Bucci, at 195 Balham High Road in south London, 33 years ago. Over time, it became the kind of establishment that completes a neighbourhood, that “little place I know”, loved by regulars for its homely preparations of risotto ai funghi and calamari al balsamico, and for how it seemed to embody a quality so elusive in restaurants, and even in life: authenticity.

So it is anyone’s guess how Bucci’s patrons digested the news from Southwark crown court earlier this year that Archetta, the man who up until that point had run their favourite bistro, was also the linchpin in a mammoth smuggling and money-laundering operation for the world’s most powerful and murderously ruthless mafia.

Italians Andrea Petraglia, 43, Sergio Franco-Carlevero, 50, Gaetano Di Bello, 53, and 46-year-old Edoardo Archetta funnelled the money through a bureau de change in Paddington, west London. Southwark Crown Court heard the millions of pounds were made through the sale of illegal alcohol on the black market.

ndrangheta is not in asia, that's gratteri fantasy
nigerian mafia is the only present on all continents

Balham bistro used to launder dirty money by notorious Italian Mafia group 'Ndràngheta

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk...otorious-italian-mafia-group-ndrangheta/

Major police action underway here in Holland, Italy, Germany and Belgium against the 'ndrangheta. More to follow..

About 100 arrested !

It concerns dozens of raids in the Netherlands, but more information can not yet be provided by a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service.

In Germany, the raids are focused on the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the mafia has traditionally had a large presence. There were also raids in Bavaria and Thuringia. The raids follow years of investigative work, which also involved officers from Switzerland. The raids are coordinated by the EU's Judicial Cooperation Unit, Eurojust.

In Germany, it's the biggest police operation against a mafia clan by German police on German soil, Der Spiegel news magazine reported. Germany's counter-terrorism unit GSG9 is also involved in the operation. Around 100 locations were raided, among them pizza restaurants, German daily Bild reports.

Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia hit by huge international sweep

Police arrested dozens of people in Europe and South America in a "decisive hit" against Italy's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia group, officials said Thursday.

The international sweep involved police in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium working together against the powerful organised crime syndicate based in southern Italy.

The group was involved in "cocaine trafficking, money laundering, bribery and violence", the European judicial agency Eurojust said in a statement.

It said the operation codenamed "Pollino" followed an investigation that began in 2016, adding that it would give more details at a press conference in The Hague later.

Italian police said 90 people had been arrested so far in the operation targeting the 'Ndrangheta group and its "projections across South America."

The vast anti-mafia operation was carried out by Italy's anti-mafia and anti-terrorism force in collaboration with German, Belgian and Dutch authorities, it said.

Italian media said key organised crime family members were targeted.

The European police agency Europol said it was a "decisive hit against one of the most powerful Italian criminal networks in the world."

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, who is Italian, sent "congraulations" to the police forces involved, adding: "Europe fights 'Ndrangheta criminal groups."

- 'Operates on all continents' -

The 'Ndrangheta -- which derives its meaning from the Greek word for "heroism" -- is made up of numerous village and family-based clans in Calabria, the rural, mountainous and under-developed "toe" of Italy's boot.

Despite intense police attention and frequent arrests, the organisation has continued to extend its reach.

It has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra in influence thanks to its control of the cocaine trade, and is the sole mafia organisation to operate on all continents, according to anti-mafia prosecutors.

The Europe-wide operation came a day after Italian police arrested new Cosa Nostra boss Settimino Mineo and dozens of other suspects in Sicily in a major swoop.

Jeweller Mineo, 80, was detained along with at least 45 others just before he was due to be appointed official heir to notorious mafia boss Toto Riina who died in prison last year.

In Germany, Wednesday's operation focused on restaurants, offices and apartments linked to the mafia group, focusd on the North Rhine-Westphalia region, Der Spiegel reported.

It said 47 suspects had been targeted and 65 premises were being searched, adding that searches were also underway in Spain.

Dutch NOS television said the 'Ndrangheta were mainly active in the Netherlands in drug smuggling through the country's huge flower export market.

Belgian media said the arrests in that country were concentrated in the Limburg area.

Police in several countries including these in Germany raided properties linked to the Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia group

Italian media said key organised crime family members were targeted in the raids, such as this one in Cologne

Before Wednesday's Europe-wide raid, Italian police arrested the new boss of the Sicilian Mafia, Settimino Mineo

Wednesday's operation focused on restaurants, offices and apartments linked to the mafia group, such as this Italian restaurant in Pulheim, western Germany

Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/italys-nd...Llvez3jbr9FSpGMt-uUa_8F6TRx99Z3fBCjE5LFI

47 arrests in Germany,14 in Belgium, 5 in Holland
Some arrests in South America
In addition, up to 4,000 kilograms of cocaine and 140 kilograms of ecstasy pills were confiscated.

Among the suspects the heir of Antonio Pelle.