28 arrested in Rome Camorra probe
Boss Michele Senese ran cartel in capital, late Diabolik in gang

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/ge...86c05d8-dc90-42e7-b0af-95100d1b6df2.html

Drug dealing and Camorra, Carmela D'Amico in prison
The 44-year-old was joined by a provision issued by the general prosecutor. She will have to serve two years and 6 months, transferred to a cell in Santa Maria Capua Vetere. About four months was the distance from prison for Carmela D'Amico, 44, belonging to the homonymous crime family of Ponticelli. She was released from prison in August after three years and 4 months of uninterrupted detention.
According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, in the past the woman would have managed a "square organized to sell mainly cocaine" but where "hashish was also sold". That square was believed to be attributable to Carmela, one of the sisters of Nunzia D'Amico, the woman known as the 'passilona', murdered in 2015 and the sister of the bosses Giuseppe and Antonio, both inmates.

Hunt for the narcos of the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale is in the sights of the Prosecutor's Office
Alessandro Caracciolo -29 December 2020

Hunt for the narcos of the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale in the sights of the magistrates. Yesterday the chief prosecutor Giovanni Melillo held a press videoconference after the arrest of the boss Antonio Di Martino . At that time, the head of the Naples Prosecutor's Office also announced the goals of the Prosecutor's Office: “ Imperiale , one of the great drug trafficking brokers worldwide. We discount the defects and limitations of the collaboration provided by the authorities of other states, in particular the United Arab Emirates ”.

WHO IS RAFFAELE IMPERIALE
Imperiale's life seems to come straight out of a Netflix script. Son of a wealthy builder from Castellammare di Stabia. 'Lello Ferrarelle' since he was a boy suffered a flash kidnapping that never completely convinced the investigators who followed the case.

He is barely twenty when he moves to his brother in Amsterdam. Perhaps it is there between the channels that he understands the importance of certain channels. On Dutch soil he was introduced by a Moccia man to Elio Amato ( Raffaele's brother , head of the Scissionists) who introduces himself as Giancarlo and books a load to be sent to Secondigliano.

THE SECONDIGLIANO FAIDA AND THE ROLE OF 'FERRARELLE'
From then on it is the rise of that boy from Castellammare who makes millions thanks to the criminal organization created by Paolo Di Lauro . At the time in the Ciruzzo or 'millionaire clan there were Raffaele Amato, Maurizio Prestieri, Rosario Pariante, Enrico D'Avanzo, Raffaele Abbinante, Gennaro Marino and Antonio Leonardi . Imperiale becomes the referent of Secondigliano which deals directly with the cartels.

So powerful that when the feud breaks out, both the Di Lauro and the Scissionists know well that the outcome of the dispute will be decided on the basis of who chooses 'O Lello. A forecast that materializes when Imperiale continues to supply the 'split' at least until 2008 in its golden hiding in Dubai which still lasts today.

In the last days of 2020 they captured a fugitive boss.

Infrared drones were needed to capture Armando Di Martino, 40, considered by investigators to be the regent of the homonymous clan in the Stabia area. A fugitive for two years, Di Martino was arrested in the forest around the town of Gragnano, not far from his home. The video shows the escape and the moment of capture taken by the drones.

Video: https://www.napolitoday.it/cronaca/arresto-latitante-antonio-di-martino-droni-napoli.html

Camorra, acquitted entrepreneur believed to be linked to the Casalesi clan
by Editorial staff
Tue January 12, 2021 16:42

The third criminal section of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere acquitted the entrepreneur Luciano Cantone from the accusation of mafia association and fictitious registration of assets attributable to the Casalesi clan. The same accusations were also addressed to Mario Cantone, brother of Luciano, who committed suicide by hanging himself, in February 2014, in the prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere where he had been imprisoned since June 2013, after being arrested as part of a vast anticamorra operation. Also acquitted three collaborators of Cantone, Luca D'Errico, Ferdinando Galluccio and Anita Turro, also defended by the two lawyers of the entrepreneur, the lawyers Francesco Liguori and Francesco Angelino. The Cantone brothers were accused by the collaborator of justice Nicola Schiavone, son of the chieftain Francesco Schiavone, known as “Sandokan”.

Camorra, vast operation against the Casalesi: 34 arrests and seizures for 8 million euros
Alberto Raucci -January 20, 2021

The soldiers of the Provincial Command of Florence and the SCICO of the Financial Police, as part of a coordinated service from the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Florence, are giving execution to an order of the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Florence Court which has 34 precautionary measures were ordered against as many people accused of being linked to the Campania Camorra clan of the "Casalesi".

The suspects, in recent years, would have operated in the Tuscan territory, both through companies operating mainly in the construction sector and through investments in the real estate sector.
Activities are underway in the provinces of Florence, Lucca, Pistoia, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Ferrara, Bologna, Rome, Isernia and Caserta, with the collaboration of the Departments of the Body competent for the territory and the ROAN of Naples.

The hands of the Casalesi on food distribution: 12 precautionary measures in the Zagaria group. This morning, the Carabinieri of the ROS and the Penitentiary Police of the NIC - Central Investigative Unit -, executed an application order of precautionary measures issued by the Court of Naples, at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples - District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 12 subjects, held responsible for mafia-type criminal association, money laundering and fictitious registration of assets aggravated for the purpose of facilitating the Casalesi clan - Zagaria Group .

The investigations of the ROS and the NIC from which the provision arises, carried out between February 2016 and May 2019, have documented how Filippo Capaldo, nephew and designated heir of Michele Zagaria, up to the subjection to the prison regime of 41 bis, with the collaboration of the brothers Nicola and Mario Francesco and his associates Paolo Siciliano and Alfonso Ottimo , has directed the clan assuming a dominant position in the sector of large food distribution.

The Casalesi also enriched themselves with online poker. In the context of the operation called Pokerissimo they seized assests from Antonio Tancredi.

The 54-year-old from Potenza has already been investigated by various public prosecutors of the territory for crimes related to illicit gaming, also perpetrated through the development and management of complex computer systems for organizing and collecting the game active on foreign platforms. Over time, these have catalyzed the interests of important Calabrian and Campania criminal gangs, including the Casalesi clan, yielding high earnings.

In particular, from previous investigations Tancredi, appeared to be a real point of reference, for his technical and managerial skills, for associations, including mafia members. The clans turned to Tancredi when they wanted to manage illegal online gaming which, through the avoidance of the payment of taxes due, became one of the most profitable businesses managed by organized crime for the Casalesi too.

Blow to the Camorra of the lower Lazio, 19 arrests against the 2 clans. In Santi Cosma and Damiano, Castelforte, Minturno and neighboring municipalities, about 200 Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Latina, with the help of helicopters and canine units of the Arma, carried out an order issued by the GIP at the Court of Rome, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate.

The accusations against the suspects are, for various reasons, of mafia-type criminal association, association aimed at the sale of drugs, illegal possession of common guns, extortion, robbery, damage and fire, all crimes aggravated by the mafia method.

Clan headed by Antonio Antinozzi who, following a split from the Mendico-Riccardi clan, had formed an autochthonous group structured on a family basis. He used violent methods and intimidation. He used weapons and explosive devices creating a climate of subjugation and silence among the population. The existence of two associations dedicated to drug trafficking was therefore established.

Already in 2007 they had been recognized as belonging to the Mendico-Riccardi clan whose existence had been established by the Latina Court of Assizes following the 1990s investigation, also conducted by the Latina Investigative Unit.

The relative sentence, issued on 17 July 2009, confirmed by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome on 15 October 2010 and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 2012, had recognized the existence until 2001, in the territory of the province of Latina, of a mafia-like organization. It was connected to the largest criminal organization of the Casalesi clan, promoted directly and organized by Ettore Mendico and Orlandino Riccarci and to which Antonio Antinozzi , among others, belonged.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the Camorra made important investments in the production of personal protective equipment and obtained contracts , through some apparently " clean " companies, which also managed to grab public contracts for supplies to hospitals. This was stated by the president of the Naples Court of Appeal Giuseppe De Carolis di Possedi during the press conference to present the judicial year 2021.

"It is a worrying fact - said De Carolis - due to the pandemic, the Camorra was able to launder the proceeds of its illegal activities where at that time it was more convenient, making them available when they were not available, obtaining immediate benefits". During the crises, then added the Attorney General of Naples Luigi Riello, "as in this period of pandemic and as happened for the earthquake of 1980, the mafias shoot less" but are "more aggressive in grabbing the cake of public funding" .

Blitz in Scampia, Secondigliano and Torre: 20 arrested. Involved family close to the Di Lauro.
considered members of three distinct criminal groups of drug traffickers, with
operational bases in Torre Annunziata and in the Neapolitan districts of Scampia and Secondigliano.

The first of the criminal groups is attributable to the Genovese family , already the subject of
previous legal proceedings for illicit affairs with the “ Gallo-Cavalieri ” clan of Torre
Annunziata.

In particular, the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Naples was able to reconstruct the
trafficking of Genovese Franco , promoter of the criminal association, who had purchased
lots of hashish to be transferred first to Sicily, through the intermediation of an exponent
of the Cappello clan. in Catania, and later in Malta, where one of his associates
put them in the local drug market.

At the same time, the attention of the Fiamme Gialle focused on a second
criminal group , composed of the Manzi / Dannier families , operating in the districts of Scampia and
Secondigliano.

The Dannier family is historically inserted in the panorama of drug trafficking and is
considered close to the Di Lauro clan .

The GICO of Naples focused on a third and last criminal group, composed exclusively of members
of the Dannier family, who turned out to be skilled drug "brokers", boasting numerous "references"
among the exponents of the Spanish supplier cartels and among several affiliates of Camorra clans
of the Neapolitan area.

Twist in the murder of the 'Celestial Houses', Gennaro Marino 'McKay' acquitted, former member of the Di Lauro clan board and absolute master of what was considered the 'crown jewel' of the clan, namely the square of the Celestial Houses. The trial is that for the murder of Massimo Mele which took place on 7 October 2003 in Secondigliano. Marino was indicated by the public prosecutor as the instigator of the crime (the material perpetrator Vincenzo Vitale will later be killed in an ambush) and had asked for the penalty of thirty years in prison for him.

Investigation literally shattered thanks to the arguments of Marino's defenders who highlighted how the declarations of the repentant were very contradictory and related to mere conjecture. The repentants attributed the crime to Mele's excessive desire for autonomy, which reached the point of questioning the leadership of the brothers Gennaro and Gaetano Marino.

The defense attributed the crime to Vitale's desire for revenge against Mele for the advances made by the latter to Vitale's wife. That evening Vitale would have acted on his own, finding Mele in the street and killing him. Arguments that convinced the judges who thus acquitted ' McKay ' of all charges .

The three nephews of Casalese boss Michele Zagaria were released from prison. Arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros in recent weeks. All stopped as part of an investigation by the DDA of Naples, because they would have infiltrated the clan in the business of food distribution. Accused of de facto control of important supermarket chains operating in the provinces of Caserta and Naples.

The Naples Review Court has in fact annulled the precautionary custody order for Filippo Capaldo, son of Beatrice Zagaria, Michele's sister. Considered by the investigators to be the successor designated by the boss, from whom he inherited the same entrepreneurial ability.

VERY powerful guy.

The boss of the Casalesi clan Pasquale Zagaria , known as “Bin Laden”, brother of the chieftain Michele Zagaria , was released from prison . Following the appeal presented by his lawyers, the lawyers Angelo Raucci and Andrea Imperato , the "economic mind" of the Casalesi has obtained from the Supreme Court a recalculation of the years of imprisonment to be served.

Zagaria was held at 41bis in the Milano Opera prison since last September 22nd. There he returned after 5 months of home care granted at the beginning of the pandemic for the serious pathology he is suffering from.

During his detention in various Italian prisons he suffered "inhuman and degrading treatment" and for this reason the surveillance magistrate of Cuneo Stefania Bologna reduced the sentence of 210 days to Pasquale Zagaria, brother of the boss Michele Zagaria, one of the four leaders of the Casal di Principe mafia federation.

Two days ago Vincenzo De Luca (40) was shot dead in Scampia in the area known as 'la 33'. De Luca,, considered by investigators to be close to the boss Abbinante, was hit while he was in a social club. Antonio Abbinante was released from prison only a week ago from the Catania prison where he was held.

Charred body found in car near Naples
Victim may have been tortured

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 24 - The charred body of a man was found on Wednesday in a car that was set alight in a supermarket car park in the province of Naples town of Afragola.
Police are investigating and they have not ruled out the hypothesis that the victim may have been tortured before being killed, sources said. (ANSA).

Captured Vincenzo Ciriello , a 60-year-old Neapolitan considered a prominent member of the Mazzarella clan, inserted by the Ministry of the Interior in the list of dangerous fugitives. Ciriello - known as “o'zullus” - was captured in France by the National Fugitives Research Brigade, on input from the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Naples.

The military gave their French colleagues specific indications regarding the location of the subject, as part of a detailed investigation coordinated by the magistrates of the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office - District Anti-Mafia Directorate. Ciriello was arrested in Avignon. He is now in prison, awaiting the extradition order. Ciriello worked in his brother's pizzeria.

Vincenzo Ciriello was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Mazzarella and Montescuro groups who had business aims in the port of Naples were involved in the process.

The Zagaria brothers acquitted: Pasquale, Carmine and Antonio were accused of extortion. Brothers of the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, and for Filippo, Raffaele and Francesco Capaldo , nephews of the boss (they are the children of Beatrice Zagaria), and for the other three defendants Ciro Benenati, Pasquale Fontana and Nicola Diana.
The Attorney General had asked for sentences of six to 14 years in prison for all, but the appellate magistrates shared the approach of the defendants of the accused, who were betting on the unreliability of Battaglia, which emerged from the statements of the repentant Massimiliano Caterino, former right arm of the boss Michele Zagaria, who had told that Battaglia was a friend of the Zagaria brothers so much that he also took part in the wedding of Carmine Zagaria.

Agreement between the Mazzarella clan and the allies for the control of the historic center of Naples

https://internapoli.it/clan-mazzarella-alleanze-napoli/

A man died and another was injured in an ambush in the night in Naples. After a report to 113, the police found two people on the ground in via Esopo, in the district of Ponticelli.

Giulio Fiorentino, 30, born in Torre del Greco, was taken to the Villa Betania clinic, where he died shortly after from gunshot wounds. Vincenzo Di Costanzo, 24, transported to the Ospedale del Mare, suffered injuries to his legs and groin. Operated, it is not considered life threatening. Both victims, according to police reports, are already known to the police.

Camorra 'eminence grise' gunned down in Naples
Hit on mediator could signal fresh turf war say cops

(ANSA) - NAPLES, MAR 16 - A 77-year-old Camorra member gunned down in an ambush in Naples Monday night was considered an "eminence grise" in the Neapolitan Mob, police said Tuesday.
Antonio Volpe, hit by a hail of bullets by hitmen on a scooter in the Fuorigrotta quarter, was a senior advisor to the Baratto-Bianco-Volpe clans, police said.
Volpe was the brother-in-law of Antonio Bianco, believed to be a top lieutenant of the two brothers who run the Baratto family.
The hit on Volpe could be part of a fresh turf war, police said.
He had been a mediator in many disputes, they said.
Volpe was injured in another attempt on his life in 2005.
(ANSA).

The news of Giuseppe Simioli 's repentance could have a disruptive effect on the 'System' of Marano, already, orphan of the historic bosses. 'O Petrucelo could tell the secrets of the clan who led and managed the drug trade for years. In 2008 he became the right hand of Giuseppe Polverino , the chieftain nicknamed called Peppe 'o Barone.

He and 'o Baron were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Giuseppe Candela. The sentence was pronounced in December 2019 by the Court of the Assizes of Naples. Candela was murdered in the center of Marano, in July 2009, on the specific order of the boss, who had decreed his death during a summit in Spain.

On behalf of the Polverinos, Simioli took care of the hashish traffic on the Spain-Italy axis, taking care of all phases. From the collection of money, the so-called puntante, passing to the negotiation of prices, to the payment, to the withdrawal of the drug. Finally, then, to transport and distribution in the Italian channels.

His trips to Spain were frequent to take care of the trafficking in person, as well as to be close to his loved ones. For years he had led a double life, in fact, he kept a wife and a child in Marano and at the same time he had an affair with a Hispanic-Brazilian with whom he had 2 children. In the province of Rome he was taking a hiding in the countryside, conducted in a personal resort built in the countryside complete with a hot tub.

After the arrests of recent years, the Orlando-Nuvoletta-Polverino criminal group can consider itself seriously in trouble. On November 27, 2018, Antonio Orlando, aka Mazzolino , boss of the homonymous clan who became a fugitive 15 before, was arrested. On November 8 of the same year, the handcuffs were also triggered for Angelo Orlando , accused of having contributed to the operation and strengthening of the Orlando clan.

Naples, shooting starts again: the victim of the attack Ciro Cotugno, 47, wounded by gunshots in the Ponticelli district. The man was under house arrest in his home in via San Michele. Hospitalized at Cardarelli with a reserved prognosis, he undergoes a delicate surgery.

They tried to kill Giuseppe Moccia in Rome he was wounded by gun shots.
A heavy name, a family distantly linked to the historic Camorra organization of the Moccia di Afragola clan. With a history of drugs, 38-year-old Giuseppe Moccia had recently been released from prison.
The Moccia clan, as documented by numerous investigations, is a historic Camorra organization protagonist of heated feuds between the end of the 80s and the early 90s. It is still operating in the municipalities of the Neapolitan province of Afragola, Casoria, Arzano, Caivano, Cardito, Crispano, Frattamaggiore and Frattaminore as well as, in recent years, also in the Roman territory. The fulcrum of this association was Gennaro Moccia, assassinated on May 31, 1976 in an ambush due to the contrasts between his hegemony and the opposing Giugliano clan which, at the time, controlled the territory of Afragola.

Gasoline that smelled of the Camorra, 45 arrests against the 'oil' clans
Of internapoli -April 12, 2021130 0

Petrol that smelled of the Camorra, 45 arrests against the 'oil' clans. From the early hours of this morning, in the provinces of Salerno, Brescia, Naples, Caserta, Cosenza and Taranto, the soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno and Taranto and the Carabinieri
of the Provincial Command of Salerno are engaged in an operation coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorates of Potenza and Lecce. Executed of two application ordinances of personal and real precautionary measures.

Issued by the respective GIP against 45 people, under investigation for criminal association with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method, aimed at the commission of serious crimes against property, such as fraud in the field of excise duties and VAT on fuels, fictitious registration of goods and companies, fraud against the state. A further 71 people also involved, reported on the loose for crimes connected to those of an associative nature.
The investigative activities have in fact ascertained the infiltration of the Casalesi clan and the Cicala clan in the lucrative hydrocarbon market in the territories of Vallo di Diano and Tarantino.

Italy: Camorra mafia appeals to youths
Italy’s Camorra mafia honors its dead with wall murals, but priests warn against glorifying criminals. This idolization of “false heroes” is meant to lure young people into partaking in organized crime.

https://www.dw.com/en/italy-camorra-mafia-appeals-to-youths/av-56884867

An ambush against a repentant of the Camorra. Carmine Amoruso was the target of the hit men who fired 5 gunshots in the ambush last Tuesday. The man from Poggiomarino was in the car with his brother when he was attacked in San Marzano sul Sarno, as reported by FanPage. After the ambush, the man stole the car of an innocent passing motorist, after which he went to the hospital.

The 36-year-old collaborator of justice had in the past been linked to the Giugliano di Poggiomarino clan. Then the investigation was transferred to the Antimafia given the modalities of the assassination attempt. Amoruso had been wounded by a bullet in the left shoulder blade, he is not in danger of life.

Carmine Amoruso escaped an ambush in 2009, when an innocent Nicola Nappo died in his place. It was July 6 when the killers opened fire near a bar in Poggiomarino, killing the 23-year-old and seriously injuring an 18-year-old who was with him. It was a tragic mistake in person, due to a similarity. According to the investigators, that murder was decided by the Cesarano clan.

Camorra, arrests throughout Italy: blow to the Fabbrocino clan and its rivals

From the first light of dawn, the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Naples are carrying out, in the provinces of Naples, Salerno, Imperia, Cosenza, Ancona and Reggio Emilia, an order for the application of the precautionary measure of custody in prison issued by the Gip office of the Court of Naples at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples - District Anti-Mafia Directorate - against 26 subjects, seriously suspected, for various reasons, of having been part of two distinct criminal organizations operating on Poggiomarino and in the neighboring Neapolitan municipalities, in struggle among them for the hegemony on the territory.

The association historically present in that territory, attributable to the Fabbrocino clan, has been flanked and opposed by a new criminal entity, with the aim of seeking autonomous criminal spaces. In this context, activities connected with numerous extortions and intimidations were documented, an important trafficking of narcotic substances, ascertaining supply channels also with the Calabrian 'ndrine.
At the same time, a preventive seizure of assets and financial relationships is underway for a total estimated value of approximately 50 million euros.

Murder a little while ago in Naples. A man was shot dead in the Miano neighborhood . On the spot the carabinieri for the findings of the case. It should be a Camorra-style ambush. The raid took place in via Vittorio Veneto. An ambulance was also on site but the rescue was useless. The victim is called Salvatore Milano , from Secondigliano. He was killed by killers while he was in a coffee shop ( bar Rosetta ). In recent times he had been seen in company with some members of the Cifrone clan , heirs of the Lo Russo in the area north of Naples. Milan is not new to the news, he has several precedents. There was also a crowd of onlookers who flocked to the scene after the shots.
Salvatore Milano, born on March 13, 1961, was already the victim of an ambush in September last year in Giugliano. The convict had told the investigators that he had been the victim of a robbery but his version did not convince the investigators. He went to the emergency room of the Pozzuoli hospital with a gunshot wound to his shoulder. The victim, medicated and questioned in the immediacy of the facts, claimed to have been injured by a commando of bandits while he was inside his car in Giugliano.

Ovens of gold and money for Colombian and Neapolitan narcos: well-known entrepreneur acquitted
Of internapoli -April 23, 2021491 0

He ended up in prison three years ago, accused of having participated in a mega association operating between Colombia, Spain, Holland and Italy , aimed at importing large quantities of cocaine from South America , with an operational base. and logistics in Naples and in the province.
Fabrizio Ventura , Milanese entrepreneur, owner of VCG, international leader in the production of furnaces used for the melting of precious metals, for the goldsmith and dental industry, immediately decided to rely on the judicial care of the lawyers Dario Vannetiello and Giusida Sanseverino.
Just the entrepreneurial activity led overseas and to establish relationships with Colombian entrepreneurs, without realizing that in 2014 they were under investigation for international cocaine trafficking even with subjects of Campania crime.

The dense network of investigations also traps the entrepreneur Ventura who, after years of investigative activity, with hours and hours of intercepted conversations and stalking, is arrested.
According to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, Ventura received large sums of money from the drug trafficking organization and then sent them to Colombia, hidden inside the ovens produced by his company, also by making the frame in gold. All under the cover of legitimate oven shipments to Colombia.

Thanks to the painstaking defensive work carried out by the lawyers Vannetiello and Sanseverino, the Neapolitan Court, in the context of an appeal decision that was characterized by dozens of convictions, ended up convincing itself about Ventura's extraneousness to the criminal team, resulting in acquittal and immediate release.