More Than 300 Mob Arrests in 4 Countries

[mafiastudent]

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/1 ... rests.html

MILAN — Police on Thursday arrested more than 300 suspected members of the ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Bulgaria in a major mafia crackdown.

In Italy alone, 2,500 officers participated in raids that also targeted property valued at 15 million euros ($16.7 million), focusing on the Calabrian town of Vibo Valentina, but extending through much of the country.

The arrested included a former lawmaker, an ex-regional official, a mayor in Calabria, a political party official and a Carabinieri commander previously assigned to the Calabrian capital.

The suspects were being held on suspicion of extortion, murder money-laundering and belonging to a Mafia organization.

‘’It is the biggest operation since the maxi-trial of Palermo,’’ anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri told the news agency ANSA. He referred to a trial against the Sicilian mafia that lasted from 1986 to early 1992 that led to the convictions of more than 300 people, considered the most significant trial ever against the Sicilian Mafia.

‘’We have completely disrupted the clans of Vibo province, but Italian regions were involved from the Alps to Sicily,’’ Gratteri said

The Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta has increasingly eclipsed the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in power and wealth, infiltrating all sectors of Italian economic and political life. From Calabria, it has spread its tentacles to northern Italy, where it migrated in the 1970s and 1980s, to Germany, and as far away as Canada and Australia.

[Wiseguy]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

[Bklyn21]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Its really Mind blowing ! Like you said , This is involving a fraction of the Clans , Syndicates . The entire global structure and Network covering all the Clans and Syndicates is unfathomable . There is literally hundreds of thousands of people intertwined in a global network basically established and run like a World government

[Ivan]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

[Bklyn21]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

Definitely Penny ante compared to this ! Probably way less than Penny ante lol...

[scagghiuni]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

american mafia lost the political connections, italian mafia groups in italy are still strongly connected with the politics and the freemasons who are the real power in italy that's why they are still extremely powerful

[Amershire_Ed]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

american mafia lost the political connections, italian mafia groups in italy are still strongly connected with the politics and the freemasons who are the real power in italy that's why they are still extremely powerful

Yeah with every Ndrangheta bust there’s always a handful of city officials or politicians involved. These guys also work with nearly every major international criminal organization. They launder money for everyone. The Russians, Nigerians, the Chinese, the Mexicans, the Colombians. None of the NY families do business on such a scale with as many international groups.

[Ivan]

american mafia lost the political connections, italian mafia groups in italy are still strongly connected with the politics and the freemasons who are the real power in italy that's why they are still extremely powerful

There's a reference in Godfather 3 about the main villain's (Lucchesi's) Masonic ties. Vincent mentions he's part of P2. Thought that was interesting.

[Pogo The Clown]

There's a reference in Godfather 3 about the main villain's (Lucchesi's) Masonic ties. Vincent mentions he's part of P2. Thought that was interesting.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.


Pogo

[Ivan]

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

You left out the condescending "You understand guns."

I like how the main villains in 1 and 3 (Barzini and Lucchesi) are onscreen for like five minutes and barely developed.

[scagghiuni]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

american mafia lost the political connections, italian mafia groups in italy are still strongly connected with the politics and the freemasons who are the real power in italy that's why they are still extremely powerful

Yeah with every Ndrangheta bust there’s always a handful of city officials or politicians involved. These guys also work with nearly every major international criminal organization. They launder money for everyone. The Russians, Nigerians, the Chinese, the Mexicans, the Colombians. None of the NY families do business on such a scale with as many international groups.

not only the ndrangheta, all italian mafia groups in italy have this kind of links... anyway never heard ndrangheta launders money for other criminal groups, it usually launders its own money, or at most in cooperation with other italian groups like cosa nostra or camorra

[Amershire_Ed]

Just shows the scope of the problem over there. And this was involving only some of the clans in one of the Italian crime syndicates.

Even the Genovese Family seems penny-ante compared to this stuff. Just my opinion.

american mafia lost the political connections, italian mafia groups in italy are still strongly connected with the politics and the freemasons who are the real power in italy that's why they are still extremely powerful

Yeah with every Ndrangheta bust there’s always a handful of city officials or politicians involved. These guys also work with nearly every major international criminal organization. They launder money for everyone. The Russians, Nigerians, the Chinese, the Mexicans, the Colombians. None of the NY families do business on such a scale with as many international groups.

not only the ndrangheta, all italian mafia groups in italy have this kind of links... anyway never heard ndrangheta launders money for other criminal groups, it usually launders its own money, or at most in cooperation with other italian groups like cosa nostra or camorra

The other Italian syndicates are powerful but the Ndrangheta is on another level right now. Yeah they started out laundering their own money but they became so good at it that those other groups started getting them to wash their stuff as well. The Sicilians owed the Colombians a bunch of money after Toto Riina was taken down, and the Calabrians covered their debt. And that’s how they became the number 1 importer of cocaine in Europe. I know at one point the Calabrians were the only group in the world getting shipments on credit from the various Central and South American organizations. Everyone else had to pay up front.

[CabriniGreen]

The Sicilians owed the Colombians a bunch of money after Toto Riina was taken down, and the Calabrians covered their debt. And that’s how they became the number 1 importer of cocaine in Europe. I know at one point the Calabrians were the only group in the world getting shipments on credit from the various Central and South American organizations. Everyone else had to pay up front.

Is this why the Caruanas-Cuntrera were handling shipments for a consortium of 6 clans from Calabria?

I've read it in multiple places..... this would have been at least by 1994..... that's when that huge 5400 kilo shipment got lost... I've always pegged that as the "Moment" for ndrangheta... my opinion...

[CabriniGreen]

I mentioned this locale before....

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=4741&p=112072&hili ... ia#p112072

[roydemeo]

there varuous things that made the ndrangheta more dangerous and hard tohit respect Cosa Nostra,Camorra or the American Mafia.

1)it's extremely flexible: 7 men of honor or ndranghetisti can create a ndrina and 7 ndrine can create a Locale,if in the Locate there are 7 members with the rank of Santa calle Santisti they can create a santa and so on.Al members are independent but maintains ties to Calabria;
2)it's constantly evolving:while the mafia structure is the same from a century the ndrangheta ranks and structure continue to change.After the division in 2 sociaties Minor and Major over the years new ranks have been discovered such as:
Padrino (Godfather) or Quintino
Crociata (Crusade) (discovered in 2010)
Stella (discovered in 2010)
Bartolo (discovered in 2010)
Mammasantissima or Mamma (discovered in 2010)
Infinito (Infinite) (discovered in 2010)
Conte Ugolino (discovered in 2010)
3)Being based on blood ties it is difficult to penetrate and those who are born inside the ndrangheta become a man of honor because they are raised to follow the family tradition and for end a faida or strengthen the bonds between the ndrine the weddings are frequent.
4)it is a criminal organization that operates in the shadows and that manages to recruit both members of the police force, politicians and Masons.For example due to a leak, the blitz that led to the arrest of 300 people was anticipated by one day, it was discovered that Giamborino, a politician and lawyer, is formally affiliated with the Locale di Piscopio.