How much business does the ndrangheta do with the Albanians? The Osmani brothers are extremely rich and I wonder if they have more power and money than the top ndrangheta bosses. The answer is probably no to both but they are big time.

they have links mostly because of drugs, ndrangheta sometimes supply albanians with cocaine and albanians sometimes ndrangheta with heroin and weed, at least in the past because the local production of weed increased very much in italy in the latest years, ndrangheta produces weed too nowadays
anyway top ndrangheta bosses are by far more powerful and richer than osmani brothers

NDRANGHETA, ARRESTED, AT AGE 93, THE MOTHER OF THE BOSSES GALLICO (RC)
From The Editor - 21 June 2019

Lucia Giuseppa Morgante, 93, mother of the convicts Domenico and Giuseppe Gallico bosses of the 'Ndrangheta of Palmi, in the plain of Gioia Tauro, was arrested by the Carabinieri on the order of the General Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria and placed under house arrest until December 31 of this year.
The woman, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and mafia association with a final sentence in 2016 together with her two children, had enjoyed the suspension of the sentence for health reasons incompatible with the prison regime.
However, despite her state of health, according to the investigators, she continued in the support activity in the management
of the thigh commanded by her children, and was arrested.

I think they are very close.... heres an article..


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime

I think they are close...


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/kings-of-cocaine-albanian-mafia-uk-drugs-crime

Operation Pollina had the Pelle clan working closely with Albanians...

Thank you Cabrini. Would you say he Ndrangheta’s level of power and wealth is anywhere close to the Sicilians and Camorra at their respective peaks? And what point was the ndrahgheta at their peak?

Do any news outlets have an idea of who was behind the big drug shipment that was intercepted by law enforcement in Philadelphia?

Read this thread: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=973335#Post973335

The Sacra Corona Unita has the closest links to Albania and Montenegro they were even involved in contract killings in Tirana it is a natural gateway for smuggling to Western Europe.

I don’t hear much about the sacra corona. Could they be building up an empire in the shadows like the ndrangheta did for so many years or will they always be behind the other mafia organizations?

Problem for them is they don't control Puglia there are other groups active like the Foggia Society. The latter is seen as the most violent of all mafias. A prosecutor said that the Foggia mafia has some primitive features that recall the American gangsterism of the beginning of the last century.

https://theconversation.com/how-maf...-left-fans-with-a-crisis-of-faith-118136

How mafia and corruption scandals rocked Italian football and left fans with a crisis of faith

Hollander posted it already in new thread. But thanks for sharing anyway! Keep posting articles , articles you post are always a good read

It´s a problem everywhere in football many soccer agents and fifa-uefa officials have shady links. I remember Joca Amsterdam owned several players.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...639f8ec-6977-48b8-8513-b1ca9fcebe4e.html

Ndrangheta boss breaks out of jail in Uruguay
Morabito was awaiting extradition to Italy

It will take them years to catch him again.

Rocco Morabito: Italian mafia boss escapes prison in Uruguay
52-year-old, who had been on the run for more than 20 years before his arrest in 2017, managed to break out through a hole in the building's roof alongside three others

Will Kirby
2 hours ago

A mafia boss, who was once considered in the top five most dangerous Italian fugitives, has escaped from a Uruguayan prison, the country's interior ministry has confirmed.

Rocco Morabito, dubbed the 'cocaine king of Milan', had been the most wanted fugitive member of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful organised crime group and one of the biggest importers of cocaine in Europe.

The 52-year-old broke out of the Central Prison in Montevideo alongside three other inmates, escaping "through a hole in the roof of the building" late on Sunday before robbing the owners of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement.

A nationwide police appeal for information on their whereabouts has been launched.

Morabito was awaiting extradition to Italy for international drug trafficking, having been arrested at a Montevideo hotel in 2017 after living in Uruguay under a false name for 13 years.

Until his arrest, he had been living in a luxurious mansion in a wealthy Punta del Este neighbourhood where he was considered a model citizen, who devoted himself to his work in the soybean business and selling rural properties.

He was discovered with a Brazilian passport in the name of Francisco Attilio Capelletto Souza, a soy trader and a resident of the coastal city of Punta del Este, as well as 13 mobile phones, 12 credit cards and a gun.

Morabito was initially arrested on charges of falsifying identity papers, but has been awaiting extradition on the more serious charges since September 2017.

The three other men who escaped with him were awaiting extradition to Brazil and Argentina, including one on charges of homicide.

"It is disconcerting and serious that a criminal like Rocco Morabito, boss of the 'Ndrangheta, managed to escape from a jail in Uruguay while he was waiting to be extradited to Italy," Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said.

"I make two commitments, First: to shed light on evasion procedures, asking for immediate explanations from the Montevideo government. Second: we will continue to hunt down Morabito, wherever he is, to throw him in jail as he deserves."

Born in Africo in Italy's poor southern region of Calabria, Morabito moved to Milan in his early twenties and rapidly rose through the mafia ranks.

Investigators began tracking him and recorded him regularly delivering cash-filled suitcases to South American drug traffickers in the city centre.

Police attempted to arrest him in October 1994 but he managed to escape and fled the city. He was sentenced in absentia to 28 years in prison the following year, which was later increased to 30 years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ruguay-ndrangheta-calabria-a8972501.html

Those mountains in Italy will keep a man hidden for decades it seems

Hard terrain yea , but main thing is that they have almost complete control of territory and protection from police/masonic lodges/politicians. There is no way they can go on the run for 20+ years on small island as Sicily is.

So if he escaped from a prison in Uruguay Do you guys think that he will come to Sicily to hide or does he stay away?

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...8e82ed0-5441-4d9f-9d9e-31faa3795eee.html

Ndrangheta arrests in Emilia Romagna
Grande Aracri clan members, head of Piacenza city council

How long has Denaro been on the run for?

I was going to ask this too. I really don’t know how it works but I can imagine that he has the connections to find a way back to Italy

he lived in uruguay several years and he has connections in brazil and colombia, i bet he remains in south america to manage cocaine shipments to europe

It seriously blows my mind that Denaro is still on the run after all this time. Goes to show how corrupt Italy is. I’m sure if they really wanted to find him they could.

Since '93 and since 2001 as the boss of Cosa Nostra in the province of Trapani.

They do have massive manhunts for several years now with many arrests including his closest family and men. It's amazing how he evades his capture, it has been close a few times though.

His father was also a wanted man , but died from heart attack while still on the run , they never managed to capture him. Its not unusual for italian mafia members to be on the run for 20+ years.As i said complete control of south italy and protection from politicians and masonic lodges allow them to do so