THE BLACK HAND FORUM

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The obituaries in print for the Ontario-based John Papalia, Dominic Musitano Sr. (father of Pat, Angelo, and Dominic Jr.), and Giacomo Luppino all generally mentioned surviving relatives in Australia.

Yeah the migrant families moved all over and the Papalias were surely connected at some stage so are the Commisso between Perth and Toronto, but the Luppino not sure - it is quite contested in Australia already right (his ndrangheta status, notwithstanding Italian sources) - he does go around with people from Oppido too, so it might well as be, he is not from Oppido though that I know of, but village next door I think

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Word has it that the 14 N'drine in Australia report to Buffalo.
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:lol:

Just to make it confusing a little more, there is members of the Papalia, Musitano and Commisso families in Australia :mrgreen:

There is also a Diego "Danny" Luppino in Melbourne but I'm not sure he's a relative to the Luppinos of Hamilton/Oppido Mamertina

and Anna Sergi has a new article out on this, in fact raising some doubts. https://icalabresi.it/rubriche/australia-ndrangheta-porta-accanto-an0m-e-100-anni-ndrine/

ahahhahaahahah good one!

Word has it that the 14 N'drine in Australia report to Buffalo.

there is a lot that doesn't quite add up in their claims but anyway....

The first ndrina was formed in 1922 so its strage the numbers of 5000 members. They also killed the first polotician Donald Mckay in 1977.

they said that they can only confirm that 14 of them belong to Ndrangheta, but I think most likely the rest also are affiliated with it. And then they speak about some 5,000 members, can't believe that's referring to full members of Ndrangheta. Maybe they include the close associates as well.

New findings of something we already knew

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/afp-target-italian-organised-crime-and-money-laundering-year-operation

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/thousands-of-italian-mafia-operating-in-australia-federal-police-say

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-07/afp-target-italian-mafia-ndrangheta-activities-in-australia/101131092

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10890613/AFP-investigates-mafia-Australia-including-Ndrangheta-crime-group-thanks-AN0M-app.html

among others....

they speak about 51 groups and 14 ndrangheta ones, about 5000 members - a lot...so we wait for more...