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[AustraliaSteve]

Working with a bit more information, and it seems Madaferri and Di Pietro are their own seperate ‘ndrine in Victoria. While they definitely maintain links to other clans, they themselves are their own thing, separated from the Alvaro clan in Adelaide and Victoria, the Plati Barbaros and the Sidernese. Also have learned it’s relatively common for cartels to maintain links with a range of different customers in an area, so while Comanchero OMCG have been developing their own links, there are still preferred Calabrian buyers linked to Australia that get their own drugs without paying “the commission”.

Delving a lot more into the academic publications have offered more insight as well, albeit on a more macro scale.

At some point in the near future my partner and I are taking the kids on a trip to Canberra (Australian capital). I plan to make a point on visiting the National Archives and spend some time reading what’s available on Angelo Delfino, among myriad other things.

[AustraliaSteve]

The arrests resulting from Operation Eureka have an Australian connection; a Canberra based ‘ndrine was one of the groups receiving the cocaine that was coming from Ecuador via China, organised by the San Luca clans. The San Luca connection makes me think of the Romeo and Pelle clans, with the Plati connection being the obvious Barbaro/Sergi/Trimboli combine.
Dr Sergi has made a reference to a NSW man of Calabrian origin who has links to ‘ndrine here and now San Luca having recently moved back to Bianco, RC. Interesting developments to keep an eye on.

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The Australian man is Pasquale Bevilacqua - https://reggio.gazzettadelsud.it/artico ... 5c7ce8429/ who now lives in Bianco

[AustraliaSteve]

Thanks Calabrianwatch. From what I can see his company, Bevilacqua Investments Pty Ltd was de registered in 2017 but he now operates as a sole trader. Guy’s a millionaire.

In other news the wine company founded by Tony Sergi, now known as Warburn Estate, has filed for insolvency. The company was founded as Vignali Wines in 1975 by Al Grassby, bankrolled by Aussie Bob Trimbole. Sergi became a millionaire from its flagship budget wines, Gossips and Rumours. The site of the original estate at Tharbogang, Griffith is allegedly the location where the murders of Donald Mackay and Patrick Keegan were decided and planned. The Sergi family still owns the company as the proceedings get underway.

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Dominic Perre is dead https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-09/ ... /102320068

[AustraliaSteve]

Dominic Perre is dead https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-09/ ... /102320068

Just about to post this. Barry Moyse blocked his proper prosecution in the ‘90s and it took far longer than it should have for Perre to face justice. Here’s another article on the death.

NCA bomber Domenic Perre dies after life sentence for 1994 attack

The man convicted of the National Crime Authority bombing in Adelaide in 1994 has died.

Domenic Perre's death has sparked mixed reactions from the family of his victims, and has prompted a message from his relatives.

Perre was transferred from the infirmity in Yatala Prison to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in mid-April, and suffered a suspected heart attack overnight.

Domenic Perre killed two people in the NCA bombing.
Domenic Perre was charged months after the bombing but these charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence. (Nine)
The 65-year-old was last year given a mandatory life sentence over the bombing.

Detective Geoffrey Bowen was killed when a parcel bomb built and sent by Perre exploded in his CBD office March 2, 1994.

Perre's passing has helped bring closure to the Bowen Family, Geoffrey's wife, Jane Bowen-Sutton said.

"He's a convicted murderer, whether he lives or dies is kind of inconsequential to us," she said.

"(But) it will be good to tell my grandchildren now that the end of the story, the person who murdered their grandfather has now gone."

Lawyer Peter Wallis, who died in 2018, was also injured in the blast, losing an eye and sustaining severe burns.

Wallis' daughter, Genevieve, said the blast impacted her father for his entire life.

"It affected Dad every day for the rest of his life," she said.

"He showed great strength during that time and was able to keep surviving.

"(Perre) has now passed as a convicted criminal, guilty of murder and attempted murder, and that is the way most of Australia's public will remember him by."

Detective Sergeant Geoffrey Bowen was killed in the blast. (9News)
Perre's son took to social media following his father's death with a message to anyone posting "horrible comments" about it.

"I pray the same happens to your children," he wrote.

Justice Kevin Nicholson confirmed the 65-year-old's mandatory sentence in the South Australian Supreme Court for murder and attempted murder in October 2022.

Perre was already behind bars for drug offences, so Nicholson extended his existing non-parole period by 30 years and seven months.

Prosecutors had argued the bombing was a personal attack on Bowen, due to his investigations into the family's drug business.


The postage satchel used to deliver the bomb. (SA Police)
The postage satchel used to deliver the bomb. (SA Police)


"Mr Perre wanted to kill Mr Bowen but intended the NCA bomb to do its work and kill whomever it did," the judge said.

Perre had been charged with murder shortly after the bombing in 1994, however these charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence.

He was re-arrested in 2018 after a two-year joint investigation, by a number of state and federal authorities including the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.

Convicted NCA bomber Domenic Perre is out of hospital and back behind bars after heart surgery.
Convicted NCA bomber Domenic Perre is out of hospital and back behind bars after heart surgery. (9News)
Perre was set to contest his conviction.

[AustraliaSteve]

Domenic Perre

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Domenic Perre and his mail bomb

[AustraliaSteve]

Also news in the Ricardo Barbaro case. Apparently it’s come out that he and Ellie Price (his victims) where shaking down a brothel owner she considered her “sugar daddy”.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/melb ... a11da863ef

Protip: never post the words “sugar daddy” on twitter unless you want to receive “dm me baby” several times. Gross.

[AustraliaSteve]

The Ellie Price murder trial against Ricky Barbaro continues; he still insists on a plea of not guilty. On an interesting side-note, Barbaros barrister Mark Gumbleton also represented Aaron Ong in the Paul Virgona murder,a case he lost and Ong and his co-accused were both convicted.
Virgona was a fruiterer who had no criminal record, but he was executed in his vehicle by two men with links to the Mongols OMCG. Some of the avenues investigators pursued was that the murder was a case of mistaken identity, or if his fruit and veg company had been having issues with crime figures also associated with the Melbourne fruit and vegetable markets.

Anyway, I can’t remember if this has been posted, but there was a segment on Channel 9’s “A Current Affair” titled “The neighbours from hell”. The neighbours in question are Eva Barbaro (I think either the third or fourth of Joe’s wives…?) and Harley Barbaro, patched Mongol and brother of Ricardo, Rosario and Pasquale (the latter two dead).

https://youtu.be/DtmS3-9SAKo]

[AustraliaSteve]

Also, a contact is providing me with a bit more info on Pasquale Bevilacqua, who is apparently known in certain circles as a significant investor in the ASX. Like I said earlier, a millionaire.

I’ll post more soon.

[AustraliaSteve]

Examining links between the San Luca Strangio/Nirta clan and cells operating especially in Canberra, but also a stronghold in Perth. With the Operation Eureka developments, it’s shown that there has been substantial trafficking of Coke to Australia directly from Ecuador. Reports state that money was laundered through the Bianco restaurant, as well as property and tourism sectors. So it would suggest that Pasquale Bevilacqua was acting as point man in Calabria on behalf of the Australian group, or simply facilitating the laundering of funds.

The Nirta branch maintained a Canberra ‘ndrine headed by Domenic Nirta since at least the 1980s, when they were ensured in Operation Seville. More attention should have been afforded to the discovery of the “rules of the Sgarro” initiation rites discovered in Nirta’s house in 1980. There in conflicting information about him, but I understand that he is married into the Barbaro family, either the Il Principale branch or Little Trees Frank. His sister is married to Stefano Pelle, who was involved in the Griffith/Canberra insurance frauds with Antonio Panhellenic (the Pangello family is another important family in Australian ‘ndrangheta circles).

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Stefano Pelle was also famous for having tried to punch journalists during Bob Trimbole's funerals in 1987


Speaking of Domenico Nirta, I never really knew if he was from the 'ndrina La Maggiore or the 'ndrina Nirta/Strangio. In Calabria, the Pelles are rather allied with the Maggiore, but according to the Italian wikipedia of the 'ndrina Pelle/Strangio, Nirta would be from this clan. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrina_Strangio

You have more info ?

[AustraliaSteve]

That’s funny Fabien, it’s something I’m literally trying to dig into atm. I’ll report back if I find anything.

[AustraliaSteve]

In her (fantastic) book, Dr Sergi name checks the Maggiore as the faction active in Canberra. The Nirta/Pelle connection is interesting and has been a thing for some time. This article details some connections from 1980. No Strangio connections apparent…?
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/125630606

But forty years later, the Operation Eureka revelations show the Strangio/Nirta partnership active and based around Perth.

The intermarriages between the Nirta and Pelle families in Australia are 4 decades old, so trying to detail how they fit in today is a struggle. Australia is both connected to Calabria and it’s very own thing. They took their weed profits and invested, vaguely similar to the Prohibition era dynamics.

Look at the Alvaro family from Sinopoli. Paul Alvaro named in 2015 as a Cobabastone in Adelaide, and the family operates a very successful construction company and a law firm.

It’s like pulling on a string.