IDK if he's related to San Luca's Romeos, but he's a powerhouse since the 70s. A defense lawyer of Prince Junio ​​Valerio Borghese , involved in the attempted coup of 1970, his entry to the Freemasons dates back to the 80s.
Accused of ties to the 'ndrangheta many times, in July 1993 the judiciary requested authorization for arrest because Romeo was accused of being "leader" of a gang of the' Ndrangheta dedicated to murder, drug trafficking and control of public and private economic activities
In July 2016 he was again notified of an arrest warrant in the "mammasantissima" investigation, as, according to the prosecutor's office, Romeo, Senator Antonio Caridi and former regional councilor Alberto Sarra are at the top of the secret structure that governs the 'Ndrangheta.

I read that Giorgio De Stefano was a cousin of the Paolo so I thought it was the same for the Romeos. How active are they despite being arrested multiple times?

Historically the Romeo are very powerful Sebastiano Romeo held the dote of Vangelo (the Gospel) and I wouldn't be surprised if one of them is Associazione one of the highest ranks. Only 7 people in whole Calabria hold that position among them Antonio Papalia.
In the 70s they created all these ranks to protect them when they deal with other secret organizations and institutions.

Thanks to Carmelo.

A reputed case of 'lupara bianca' in Calabria; Rosario and Salvatore Manfreda, father and son, disappeared from Petilia Policastro (Crotone) and their car was found burned. On October 2018 Massimo Vona, with criminal records disappeared from the same town. His cousin Valentino Vona was killed in an ambush in 2012. Police suspects a feud in the local 'ndrina.

With all of the power and money that the top families have, what would they go to war about? I am aware of the huge war over contracts but the top families like the Romeos, Pesces, De Stefanos appear to be so diplomatic with such political power that they wouldn’t want to risk bad blood to hurt their current status. But they’ll always find a way to kill each other over something. Just the life of crime.

I agree in general murder would be the last resort. But their honor is what counts.

The collaborator of justice Antonio Valerio Friday, April 26th deposed for hours in the hall of the Court of Assizes of Reggio Emilia. With his statements at the trial Aemilia pushed the Antimafia Directorate to reopen the file on the season in which the 'ndrangheta "branded, with blood, the province, before dropping the silence"

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/20...liere-il-male-da-cutro-e-reggio/5139438/

It is in Lebanon, in the Bekaa valley, that the brokers of the 'Ndrangheta seem to have established relationships to obtain soft drugs at competitive prices. Drugs grown in the area in large numbers by local criminal groups that are suspected of financing through Hezbollah militias.

I’ve asked this before, but since we can’t confirm that the ndrangheta supplies 80% of Europe, can anyone confirm that they at least supply most of Europe(more than 50%)?

Interesting turncoats say the the Aquinos of Marina di Gioiosa, the Commissos of Siderno and the Pelle “Gambazza” of San Luca did not take kindly to the Mancusos of Limbadi.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...ngheta-che-voleva-uccidere-i-magistrati/

Man, you keep asking same questions all over again,no one can answer you this.

Is the Ndrangheta any more territorial than the mafia or Camorra? I ask this because they are very diplomatic as well as the mafia. It has been explained to me that a large amount fin the Camorra clans are more like street gangs than mafia families so I would infer that they are more territorial.

In the morning today BC 43 years of Catanzaro and AS, 39 years, of Locri were captured respectively in Taverna (CZ) and in the German town of Moers, located near Duisburg.

The arrests are placed in the context of the massive inter-force police operation European 'Ndrangheta Connection "performed, in December last year, in Italy and in Northern Europe against over 90 people, with the coordination of Eurojust and the Europol Agency, which has affected, among others, many leading exponents of the mafia families of the Ionic district of the province of Reggio Calabria, revealing the interests of the gangs in intercontinental drug trafficking, money laundering and the re-use of illicit proceeds in the catering sector .

This operation was the fruit of years of intense investigative work carried out in the framework of the Joint Investigation Team set up on 18.10.2016, in The Hague (NL), at Eurojust between the Magistrature and Police Forces of Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.

Now the US is not comparable to Italy. But in New York there are 5 families and outside of that there are families all over the country. The power base for the mafia has always been in New York. Is there an equivalent to the 5 families in Calabria or Sicily? For instance, maybe in Palermo there are 3-4 separate families who are the most powerful and everybody in Sicily looks to them.

Historically there are a few families in Calabria who are still respected by everyone they were led by:

Antonio Macrì
Girolamo Piromalli
Paolo De Stefano
Giuseppe "u tiradrittu" Morabito
Pasquale "u supremu" Condello

Bruno Catanzaro and Antonio Strangio were the ones arrested yesterday they were selling the good stuff dutch marijuana called "Amnesia", at a price of 3,000 euros per kg, and hashish, known as "Superpolline".

Amnesia, that's a classic right there

I see that most of those families are from Reggio Calabria. Safe to say that a lot of power is wielded around there. Is there a family that controls Scilla? It’s a huge tourist place.

'Ndrangheta and the port of Melbourne

https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/italian/en/audiotrack/ndrangheta-and-port-melbourne

Milan: corruption between politicians, civil servants, entrepreneurs and mafia. President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana investigated. The governor Fontana investigated for abuse of office after the rain of arrests in politics
Investigations continue into the maxi-investigation on bribes in procurement and corruption that led to the arrest of 28 people
The investigations, concerning alleged bribes and a round of corruption and illicit financing between Milan and Varese and alleged ties also with the 'Ndrangheta, involved ninety-five people, over forty precautionary measures executed including twenty-eight arrests.

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articl...spect-mafia-ties-to-be-extradited.709495

Italian man with suspect Mafia ties to be extradited
He had been arrested on the strength of a European Arrest Warrant

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/...with_suspected_mafia_links_#.XNQ7Uo5KhPY

Malta to extradite Italian gaming employee with suspected mafia links

At the beginning of April, Rocco Morabito, 59 years old from Bovalino, Reggio Calabria, had been arrested by the Locri Carabinieri. in competition committed in mafia mode. Yesterday, another arrest in the Morabito family.

This time, after the son, it is the turn of Giovanni, brother of Giuseppe Morabito, 'u tiradrittu, boss of Africo who tackled business in Buccinasco with the other clan head, Antonio Papalia. During an anti-drug operation, in which the carabinieri, together with the soldiers of the Calabria hunter-assisted squadron, found a bag with about a kilo and a half of marijuana, the police of the Brancaleone and Africo Nuovo Stations arrested Giovanni Morabito, 69, of Africo Nuovo.

The brother of tiradrittu must serve 7 years for mafia association, as part of the proceeding following the Zagara operation conducted by the Milan Public Prosecutor. The 84-year-old tiradrittu, undisputed leader of the 'Ndrangheta, expert narcos and allied with the Bruzzaniti and Palamara clans, was arrested in 2004 after 12 years of inaction at Cardeto, in the Aspromonte mountains. The boss had asked to be able to leave prison (recluse on 41 bis) for serious health problems related to the pathologies he suffers from. The Milan Surveillance Court in 2017 had denied the request, but a year later the Cassation annulled the decision: it will be necessary to re-examine the request.

You have anymore info on these arrest, or iside 2 in general?

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Case of "diverted masonry". It was an active lodge in Trapani between 1980, when it was founded by Gelli , the "venerable master" of the P2 lodge , and 1986, when it was discovered by the police.

Trapani is a small city (73,000 inhabitants) of old and consolidated mafia traditions. In such a city, among the middle class members (traders, professionals, entrepreneurs, public officials, etc.), everyone knows each other and everyone knows everything about everyone.

There were about a hundred members of the lodge (four times the average number in Italian Freemasonry ): this anomaly is also significant, and in fact there were six other lodges that had 15-16 members each: in tolale 200, let's say "Masons" on about 28,000 adult men.

This means 72 "Masons" for every 10,000 adult men. The Italian average is 14 per 10,000.





1986

Following a "tip-off", the police searched the Scontrino cultural center and confiscated the lists of members (about 200) from seven Masonic lodges. Investigators understand that there is also a "covered" lodge, with nearly 100 affiliates not appearing on any list. After a few weeks the first secret names emerge: entrepreneurs, public officials, traders, some mafia bosses.
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 3 December 1986)



1988

The day after the search at the Scontrino the leader of the flying squad Saverio Montalbano had been suspended by the quaestor Gonzales. Official reason: "improper use" of armored cars. Since the investigation was opened, four Quaestors and three leaders of the Flying Squad have changed. The magistrates issue 34 judicial communications that hypothesize the crime of constitution and belonging to a hidden Masonic association. The suspects, among others, the Regional Councilor for Local Authorities Francesco Canino (DC), the former Provincial Councilor for Public Education Salvatore Bambina (DC), the assistant chief assistant, Saverio Bonura, the first head of the prefecture, the commander of the urban police .
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 13 February 1988)

Relations with the Mafia, arms trafficking and drugs are discovered. The suspects reach one hundred and are all affiliated with Isis 2. Among them, the quaestor Giuseppe Varchi (who is enrolled in P2). The hypothesis that the Trapani loggia is a sort of "dome", a super committee that controls the city, takes shape.
(Republic, February 14, 1988)

In an armored cabinet there are secret lists of affiliates, confidential notes, agendas full of the names of fugitive bosses, recommendations, requests for transfers, practices on large contracts, etc.
(gc - Repubblica, 24 March 1988)



1989

Against 24 members of the Masonic lodge judicial communications are issued in which the crime of simple and mafia-type criminal association is hypothesized. According to the investigators, the aims of the association were to protect the mafia in difficulty and to "cover" various types of business (careers, contracts, political elections).
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 11 April 1989)



1993

The hypotheses of the magistracy are confirmed by two repents in the trial against the "teacher" of Isis 2.
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, March 21, 1993) .

The surveys revealed connections with other lodges (Camea, Ciullo d'Alcamo, Armando Diaz) which had become meeting points for politicians, magistrates, drug traffickers, entrepreneurs, mafia bosses, bankers and many professionals, especially notaries, lawyers and engineers .
(Attilio Bolzoni - Repubblica, 15 April 1993)

Among other things, the lodge also controlled the airport of Trapani, where, according to a "repentant" in 1980, the year in which, according to the repentant Marino Mannoia, Andreotti would have landed on a private plane to meet with his Ignazio cousins and Nino Salvo (Cosa Nostra of Salemi).
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 23 April 1993)

For the first time in Italian judicial history, members of Masonic lodges are condemned for "management and organization of secret association". The sentence, issued by the court of Trapani, condemns the "master" Giovanni Grimaudo and his deputy, Natale Torregrossa.
(Francesco Viviano - Repubblica, 6 June 1993

I posted it under that, but in case you did not saw :

Police arrested 27 freemasons on charges of crimes of corruption, bribery, forgery, embezzlement, fraud, trafficking of illicit influences, disclosure of official secrecy, abetting, abuse of office.
Among the arrested the former president of the regional parliament, Francesco Cascio, the former mayor Felice Errante, his deputy Vincenzo Chiofalo, and Luciano Perricone, one of the former mayoral candidates for Castelvetrano, the former regional deputy Giovanni Lo Sciuto, the latter, who was also a member of the regional anti-mafia commission, would be the venerable master of the lodge, the current regional councilor for Education and former rector of the University of Palermo, Roberto Lagalla and 3 policemen, one of them member of the DIA

33 years after the discovery of Iside 2 there are now in Trapani province 500 masons registered in 19 lodges. Being a Mason is not a crime itself. The town of Messina Denaro Castelvetrano is considered the capital of Freemasonry.

Police in Spain seize 2.7 tonnes of hashish
By Euronews
11/05/2019

A three-year joint operation by Spanish and Italian police has resulted in the seizure of 2.7 tonnes of hashish in the Spanish region of Andalusia.

Forty-four people have been arrested and more than 70,000 euros weres seized, along with illegal firearms.

Those arrested were mostly suspected members of the Italian 'Ndrangheta group and the Spanish "Los Castanas Clan".

They face several charges, including belonging to a criminal organisation, money laundering, bribery, possession of illegal weapons and possession of false documents.

Italian police have been cracking down on Mafia groups in recent years, claiming particular success against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eu...ice-in-spain-seize-2-7-tonnes-of-hashish

How can the FBI trace how much money actually belongs to someone in a money laundering scheme? They said they traced 1.5 billion in assets to Matteo Denaro through a businessman but how do they know if most if not all of that even belongs to Denaro?

Spain must be a huge port for drugs even more so than Italy no?