Melito, Giuseppe Iamonte died after falling off his bike: he was the son of the boss Natale
of GT - 28 August 2019
Seized by illness while riding a bicycle, he crashed his head hard on the asphalt. In very serious conditions, Giuseppe Iamonte, 70, was taken to the hospital in Reggio Calabria, where he was hospitalized in intensive care. Almost two days later he is dead.

The character's caliber, placed by the Dda and the police at the summit of the homonymous clan, triggered the ban on the public celebration of the funeral, which should have been held yesterday.

Sad way to leave this world. Do the Iamontes still have strong ties to the Sicilians?

ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, SAFE HAVENS FOR ITALIAN MAFIA MONEY
2019-08-30
The need of Italian mafia networks to carry out vast money-laundering operations took them to Romania and Bulgaria. They set up companies that not only succeeded in flying under the radar but also won government contracts.

For several months, our grantees Catalin Prisacariu, Sorin Ozon and Stanimir Vangelov investigated how the two countries got more and more appealing for the consiglieri, who were looking for safe destinations for their "dirty money."

Located at the very border of the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria deal with internal rule of law and judiciary issues. They proved, however, to be a haven for Italian businessmen who have set up dozens of companies in order to introduce money, obtained through illegal means in Italy or elsewhere, into the financial system.

Some of the companies didn't even try to cover their tracks. In Romania, the team unveiled that many companies were set up by a single company based at the same address, a poor communist-era small apartment in a grey block of flats. The company was connected to Ndrangheta related Italian nationals, who were arrested, indicted and convicted in their home country.

They also found that some of those companies placed bids for public contracts in association or in competition, depending on the tender. They succeeded in flying under the radar and remaining undetected from Romanian authorities, who awarded them millions of euros in public contracts.

The team discovered that even though public contracting seems to be Ndrangheta's favorite modus operandi in Romania, front companies were also set up to control cigarettes' smuggling and build an illegal cigarettes factory. They even invested enormous amounts of money (at least on paper) in buildings that remain abandoned.

https://www.journalismfund.eu/mafia_money

'Ndrangheta in Canada, so Toronto became a fief of Siderno: names and photos of those arrested

https://www.uk24.co/2019/08/ndrangh...-names-and-photos-of-those-arrested.html

'Ndrangheta, closed the investigation of the Ionian gangs in Belgium, Holland and Germany
2 September 2019

By Vincenzo Imperitura

There were the cosche of San Luca (the Romeo and the Pelle-Vottari), those of Natile and those of Gioiosa (the Ursino): for years, blending with the mass migration that has always linked the southern coast of Reggio to northern Europe, they had settled between Holland, Belgium and the inevitable Germany, recreating the same dynamics of the "mother house" in Calabria, thousands of miles from home. A solid and well-branched network that had been discovered by the anti-mafia district of Reggio Calabria thanks to a long investigation carried out by police men in collaboration with colleagues from Belgium, Holland and Germany since 2016.

Now, a little less than a year after the maxi operation, the Strait district closed its investigations against sixty suspects who have to respond, in various ways, to mafia association, international drug trafficking and money laundering. According to investigators, the group was able to exploit the connections with the world of the central and southern American narcos to flood the Europe of cocaine that came from "friendly ports" in northern Europe. The settlement of the clans in the heart of the industrious northern Europe was made possible by the mountain of money coming from the illicit trafficking that was reinvested to infiltrate the clean economy (mainly, the restaurant sector) thanks to a series of compliant nominees. And if restaurants served to launder money, in the same way, investigators say, those same premises were used as logistic bases where to stow drugs waiting to be sold throughout Europe. An imposing organization that moved like a real holding company, capable of using foreign groups for the work of modifying the means with which to transport cocaine and Italian criminal groups linked to the Camorra and to cosa nostra to place it.

Calabria Editorial 7

https://calabria7.it/ndrangheta-chiuse-le-indagini-sulle-cosche-joniche-in-belgio-olanda-e-germania/

Southern Italian organized crime syndicates planned their strategies in a mansion in Padenghe, on the shores of the Garda Lake (Lombardy).

by Valerio Morabito, 01.09.2019 Bresciaoggi


In a "camouflaged" villa, in a quiet neighborhood of vacation homes, exponents of the 'ndrangheta clans made agreements with members of the Sacra Corona Unita and supported fugitive boss Giuseppe Pesce of the Rosarno-based family of the same name. It is learned from the papers of a recent sentence of the Cassation, which confirms the disturbing rooting of the mafias on Lake Garda.

THE ROOTING of the mafias on Lake Garda and in particular in Valtenesi is "narrated" and certified in the reasons for the sentence of the Court of Cassation which confirmed the sentences to eight of the ten people accused in various capacities of being part of "a type association" ndranghetista aggravated by the availability of weapons ". The trial focused on interceptions made with a bug placed by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the Padenghe home.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...ava-il-vertice-delle-mafie-1.7594133/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...e-patto-di-sangue-sul-lago-1.7594047/amp

He is the son-in-law of Domenico 'The Australian' Barbaro of Buccinasco known boss of the Platì clan who died in 2016.


'Ndrangheta fugitive caught in France
Mario Miceli, 62, on the run since January

(ANSA) - Milan, September 4 - A fugitive member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia was caught in France on Tuesday, police said Wednesday.
Mario Miceli, 62, is set to serve five and a half years for mafia association.
He had been on the run since January.
Miceli was arrested at Arzon.

Was the Ndrangheta as rich and powerful as the Camorra during the 70s or were they still building as an organization at that time? The 70s were a fruitful time for the Camorra with people like Michele Zaza, Carmine Alfieri, Antonio Bardellino and the Nuvoletta brothers at the head of the organization.

I don't know about their wealth at the time, but they were already powerful through their links with the Fascist right and secret services.

Lo spietato is an interesting movie about the 'ndrangheta, available on netflix

They were powerful but nothing major, it was mostly Sicilian Mafia and some Camorra clans back then. The money they got from kidnappings & later drugs was when they got power. Also the state was heavily focused on Sicilian mafia

Yes, based on the life of the playboy Saverio Morabito who became a police informant in the early 1990s.

You’re right, there were some Camorra clans that were as rich and powerful as some of the top Sicilian clans but as a whole they weren’t.

I have heard many times that the Nirta clan is the most powerful in the ndrangheta. At what point did the Nirtas, De Stefanos, Piromallis, Condellos and other powerful ndrangheta clans become just as powerful as the top Sicilian and Camorra clans?

During the 70s they established links with the Colombians already working with the Sicilians.

The Sicilians committed to heroin while Ndrangheta committed to cocaine. They saw it as more profitable. The Nirta clan formerly led bu Antonio is not related to the Nirta clan associated with the Strangio clan and San Luca Feud at all? To be from the same town and have the same last name while not even being related is quite the coincidence with such a distinct last name like that.

Giovanni Tersigni didn't make it. The 36-year-old from Crotone died in the hospital during the night, wounded in the legs and buttocks last night, in Piazza Albani, in the historic center of Crotone, from gunshots.

Tersigni was hit last night at around 7 pm in the "Ferriata" district behind Piazza Duomo. The shooting is still dark and the circumstances are still to be clarified.

The first to arrive at the place were the 118 health workers who in turn alerted the 113. The man had been transported in red code to the Emergency Room of San Giovanni di Dio, but initially he didn't seem in danger of life.

In the area of ​​the Ferriata intervened the agents of the Flying Squad and the Mobile policemen who then went to the hospital to try to hear the wounded and rebuild dynamic and motive.

The top bosses of the Ndrangheta are not seen or heard. When bosses do get arrested, then how does anyone outside of the ndrangheta know if they are the real top bosses or not?

Turncoats and wiretaps otherwise the outside world doesn't know.

Based on those wiretaps, is Giorgio DeStefano still the top Don like many people believed him to be?

Drug baron André de Oliveira Macedo, aka André do Rap, arrested in Brazil, linked to the 'ndrangheta.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.le...e-la-drogue-lie-a-la-ndrangheta-20190915

Detuvieron en Brasil a un líder de la sanguinaria banda PCC que se encargaba de enviar cocaína a Europa
Se trata de André de Oliveira Macedo, alias "André do Rap", capturado por la policía en una mansión en la ciudad de Angra dos Reis. Tenía vínculos con la mafia italiana 'Ndrangheta, a la que enviaba la droga desde el puerto de Santos

https://www.infobae.com/america/ame...se-encargaba-de-enviar-cocaina-a-europa/

'Ndrangheta, Cassation says "no" to special surveillance for the Papalia boss
16 September 2019
'ndrangheta, milano, Rocco Papalia, Reggio, Calabria, CronacaRocco Papalia
No special surveillance for Rocco Papalia , called the 'godfather' of Buccinasco (Milan), considered one of the most important leaders of the 'Ndrangheta in the
north and released in May 2017 after 26 years of detention.

This was confirmed by the Supreme Court declaring "inadmissible" an appeal by the Milan Public Prosecutor against a decision of the Milan Court of Appeal that had revoked the public safety prevention measure, for lack of social dangerousness.

In the meantime, in July 2018, the Supervisory Court of Milan ordered, for the boss, the security measure of the "work house", comparable to a prison, for two years.

In rejecting the appeal by the General Prosecutor, the Supreme Court explains that second instance judges correctly justified the no to special surveillance by clarifying that "the significant elements of the criminal caliber" of Papalia "date back to the early 2000s" and has already served a "detention more than twenty years".

Will there ever be another war the size of the ndrangheta war between the De Stefanos and Condellos? I think it is too hard to get away with so many murders in Europe present day.

Interesting new book 'Quando la 'ndrangheta scoprì l'America' by Antonio Nicaso ! How the Calabrian-Americans like Costello and Anastasia influenced the 'ndrangheta.

Allarme Dia: ''La 'Ndrangheta mira a conquistare i porti del Nord Europa''
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Published: 14 February 2019
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by Davide de Bari
In the Dia report, relations with local companies abroad and narcos in Mexico and Colombia


"Mexico continues to be an area of ​​interest for Italian criminal organizations, representing, together with Colombia, one of the main areas of production and transit of cocaine destined to supply not only US and Canadian markets, but also European ones".

It is from this consideration that the last report of the first half of 2018 of the Dia (Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate) starts, in dealing with the theme of the links between the 'Ndrangheta and the cartels of Mexican and Colombian narcos.

Analysts highlight how the "Gulf and Los Zetas cartel would have established alliances with representatives of Italian organized crime, in particular with the Calabrese one". Not only.

These relations would also extend to "forms of mutual assistance, to give refuge to fugitives".

The routes of drug trafficking affecting Mexico would be divided into three directions: from the Atlantic ports of Mexico towards some West African and European countries of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, from the Mexican ports of the Pacific towards, across the strait of Panama, of Europe (Poland, Baltic countries, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania) and from the Mexican ports of the Pacific directly to the countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia), following the Pacific route.

While the Colombian narcos, through "agreements", have "allowed" the "Ndrangheta to" take a leading role in trafficking to Europe ". The report, however, underlined the presence of "Cosa Nostra which, for some time, has been trying to recover a more important role in drug trafficking,

( Why people argue against this, is truly beyond my comprehension..)



With regard to North America, with particular reference to Canada, Dia highlighted "the pressure exerted by other organizations for the control of the territory, in particular of the 'Ndrangheta, which would be replacing Sicilian rivals in controlling traffic and drug dealing of drugs.

( Also, havent we been saying this same shit for YEARS now?)


At the same time, the 'Ndrangheta would be equally active in the recycling and re-employment of illicit capital ".

The organized crime in Calabria also in Canada has "replicated" the same "structure of the areas of origin" and for this "The Canadian locals would ensure, in fact, to the Calabrian gangs, functional support to the laundering of illicit proceeds and drug trafficking".

In addition to this, cocaine “produced in Colombia would pass through Venezuela, for the subsequent passage to the USA and Canada ". Also in Australia, the 'Ndrangheta "is the main mafia organization of Italian origin present on that Continent".

Also in this case “the association would have links with the Calabrian clans for the coordinated execution of criminal activities at an international level. Among the illicit sectors of interest, the import of drugs from Europe, China and South America, of synthetic drugs, precursors and cocaine, is prominent ".

The tentacles of the 'Ndrangheta in Europe
and to the geographical position of Germany, which borders with Holland, another point of support for drugs from South America ”.


The Netherlands is precisely one of the countries on which the attention of the investigators is concentrated, in particular with respect to the international port of Rotterdam, particularly exploited in drug trafficking.

Belgium is also in a strategic position and due to its port importance in Antwerp "it is also a strategic junction for numerous traditional illegal activities, including the narcotrafficio from South America".


In fact, the investigations conducted in Italy "have highlighted the strong propensity of the 'Ndrangheta to establish criminal contexts in the countries of Northern Europe, where for some time exponents of Ionian-Reggio have entered various economic sectors".


Furthermore, it confirms "the existence of a dense network of relationships in several European states, including Spain, identified by the 'Ndrangheta as an area of ​​drug transit and for the reinvestment of illicit capital, as well as for the refuge of fugitives".


In France, on the other hand, the investigations "confirm the presence of a second generation of 'Ndranghetist criminals" and that "the considerable criminal interests of the' Ndrangheta would have led to the establishment of superordinate structures of coordination, between the peripheral units and the parent company of Reggio Emilia" .


According to the document, in Austria the gangs "using nominees who had moved into the territory" would have succeeded "in investing, even in this country, the proceeds of illegal activities". Not only.


The investigations indicate the presence of the 'Ndrangheta also "in the field of betting and online games". As for the Slovak Republic, thanks to the investigations on the report Jan Kuciak, killed on February 22 last, the "expansionist aims of the 'Ndrangheta became evident precisely in the semester" and "the interest of the gangs towards European funds was highlighted" for agriculture ".

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they wouldn't last 2 months nowadays if they became so violent again, it's not 1980 or early 90 anymore (and not mexico lol)

There is a case from few years ago , where 'Ndrangheta ndrina in Milan stole from another 'ndrina cocaine thats worth 200,000$ , they made deal over it rather than going to war. Its in their best interest to stay under the radar and not attract any attention. Back in 80-90s there would be huge war over that much cocaine

yeah, through the 1980s and the early 1990 some year in milan there were 100 organized crime-related murders and it's a northern city

They figured out more murders more turncoats like in New York.