https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ish-Italys-notorious-housing-estate.html

Good riddance to Gomorrah: Italy will demolish notorious Naples housing estate where feuding drug gangs and blood-soaked violence inspired hit movie and TV series

A car bomb detonated in Scampia Wednesday night, a few steps away from inhabited houses and other parked cars, only a miracle that there were no victims. There is a track now: it is investigated that the motive is a debt for a large unpaid batch of cocaine, an unpaid supply.

Large operation of the Bagnoli carabinieri: 21 members of the Cutolo clan, operating in the Rione Traiano, were arrested.

https://youmedia.fanpage.it/video/aa/XOzTK-SwyvAOgW3F

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/05/274552/police-tangier-italian-national-camorra-mafia/

Police in Tangier Arrest Italian National Suspected of Being Camorra Mafia Leader

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/05/274457/moroccan-police-expertise-high-profile-arrests/

Moroccan Police Prove Their Expertise Again With Two High-Profile Arrests

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/9188876/diego-maradona-documentary-cocaine-mafia-cartels/

HAND OF GODFATHER Diego Maradona documentary unearths his secret links to cocaine and Mafia cartels which supplied the drugs and prostitutes he ‘relied on’

Naples: Camorra mafia's grip hard to fight, says prosecutor
By Le Figaro with AFP published the 07/06/2019 at 15:29

The Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra , is very powerful and its grip on Naples is difficult to fight, lamented this Friday Giovanni Melillo, the prosecutor of this city in southern Italy. The Camorra is so powerful that it manages to destabilize power: "Mafiosos turn violence into a real political power," said Giovanni Melillo before the foreign press in Rome. The parquet floor of Naples is the largest in Italy with 106 magistrates. However, Giovanni Melillo seems disillusioned by saying that "the issue of crime in Naples is not very present in the national public debate".

Born in the early 30's, the Camorra then gradually gains in power and its peak in the 90s. "The Camorra has a very sophisticated structure (...) and it has an excellent background in entrepreneurship," he said. assured the prosecutor. "In general, the Camorra offers illegal services, such as narcotics, or legal but with illegal conditions," continued Giovanni Melillo.

In addition, "she knows the techniques, the meanders (...) of the public administration. The mafia finds new customers there. For example, if you can not get a building permit, the Camorra is there and it is immediately very effective, "explains Giovanni Melillo. According to experts, several hundred mafia families and gangs are present in Naples and its region.

Luigi Torino, 41, was shot Thursday night in Miano, in the Rione San Gaetano area, a northern suburb of Napels. The victim, who has a criminal record, was led to the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital, he was assisted by doctors and is currently hospitalized for observation. It is not life threatening.

Luigi is the son of the ex boss Salvatore Torino who for over ten years is a collaborator of justice.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...8092b04-99bf-420c-a30d-ae35e8e67a6a.html

Two arrested over Camorra-linked former Genoa bridge contractor

Is the Alfieri family still active? I know carmine was the top boss in the Camorra for some time before his arrest. It was even said that he was a billionaire by his own account I believe. I do not know if I believe that at that time a Camorra boss was richer than a top Sicilian boss but we don’t really know. I read somewhere that Michele Zaza was worth hundreds of millions. I might believe that because of the seizures by law enforcement that could back it up.

Was looking back at the thread and I saw this. I know it was talked about but for a ”kingpin”, this number seems extremely low. Maybe he doesn’t want the rest of his unknown assets seized. But if not then there have been bosses within the casalesi like Schiavone who have had way more in personal assets seized.

Its a joke these numbers. I truly believe he wanted make it look like he was not so big shot.

You are probably right. It’s a sick joke if law enforcement even believed that. I bet they were just happy he was cooperating so they tolerated some fabrications like that.

Does anyone have any info on the La Torre clan and if they were ever on the same level as the casalesi clan?

Saviano dedicated a whole Chapter to them... called Mondrangone....

I'll post some stuff when I get a chance...

They are one of the several Camorra clans who operate in Holland since the 80s.

Augusto La Torre for years has been able to count on the great help of Raffaele Barbato , nicknamed Rockefeller . He is a trusted man of the boss, a person who runs business in the Netherlands , who deals with drugs with Venezuelan traffickers and who has interests in the United States and knowledge of Italian-American mobsters. La Torre decided to expand also to Rome , trying to dominate the market square of the capital.

I would love the read it when you get around to posting it. Always enjoy how in detail your posts are.

They sound just as sophisticated as the casalesi. I read that one of the La Torre brothers is a multi billionaire.

“Before clan affiliates started turning state’s witness, no one would have imagined the vast scope of Mondragone dealings. One of Rockefeller’s friends was a certain Raffaele Acconcia. Like Rockefeller, he was born in Mondragone but moved to Holland, where he owned a restaurant chain and, according to pentito Stefano Piccirillo, was an important international drug trafficker. The La Torre treasure is still hidden somewhere in Holland, perhaps in a bank—millions of euros the magistrates have never been able to locate, taken in through mediation and commerce. In Mondragone this alleged stash in a Dutch bank has become a symbol of absolute wealth, trumping all other references to international riches. People no longer say, “He thought I was the Bank of Italy,” but, “He thought I was the Bank of Holland.”
With backing in South America and Holland, the La Torre clan planned to take over cocaine traffic in Rome. All Caserta families consider the capital city an extension of their province, and Rome has become the number one spot for drugs and real estate investments. The La Torres counted on the supply routes along the Domitian “coast; the villas there were essential for contraband cigarettes and all sorts of merchandise. The actor Nino Manfredi had a villa there. Clan representatives went and asked him to sell it. Manfredi resisted in every way he could, but clan pressure intensified; his house was located on a strategic point for mooring the motorboats. They stopped asking him to sell and forced him to hand it over at a price they set. Manfredi even appealed to a Cosa Nostra boss, disclosing the story to Radio News 1 in January 1994, but no Sicilian stepped in to mediate against the powerful Mondragonesi. Only by going on TV and attracting national media attention was he able to make known the pressure the Camorra applied for the sake of strategic interests.
Drug traffic followed on the heels of other commercial routes. Enzo Boccolato, a cousin of the La Torres’ and owner of a restaurant in Germany, decided to export clothing. Together with Antonio La Torre and a Lebanese businessman, he purchased clothing in Puglia—the Campania garment industry was already monopolized by the Secondigliano clans—and resold them in Venezuela through a middleman, a certain Alfredo, who investigations indicated was one of the most important diamond traffickers in Germany. Thanks to Campania Camorra clans, diamonds—which have significant price fluctuations but always maintain a nominal value—quickly became the asset of choice for money laundering. Enzo Boccolato was known in the Venezuela and Frankfurt airports, where he had protectors among the merchandise inspectors”

What book is this from

I would like to the read this book. Does Saviano dedicate a chapter to Zaza at all? I know he was a big player.

Has there ever been a war between the casalesi and the La Torre families being that they’re the top clans in Caserta?

I read about the classless killing Barbato. How did the La Torres react to this?

I read the part about Antonio La Torre being a billionaire real estate investor on wiki. Don’t see any other site that backs that up so it’s safe to say that it’s grossly exaggerated. What clan is the most powerful in the Camorra present day? The Contini?

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...2680654-7caf-4c75-bc2e-342616627f27.html

100 Camorra arrests, Secondigliano hit

That is a huge operation, in total 126 people have been arrested across Italy and abroad. Among the arrested the boss Francesco Mallardo (who was under house arrests), Maria Licciardi (sister of the boss Gennaro) is currently fugitive.

I wasn't aware Maria was already free after her arrest in 2001 so now a fugitive again.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/ne...s-story/ad7f86d98acf6358409774d792580fce

Over 120 arrested in Italian mafia raids