News from Italy

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They offered Matteo Messina Denaro's brother-in-law a million for a million euros. And the release. It is the figure that was offered to Matteo Messina Denaro's brother-in-law, Guttadauro, for information on the fugitive. He tells it "The doubt."

Filippo Guttadauro, currently not detained, but interned since January 2016 - date of the end of the sentence for a mafia-type association - at the "work house" in Tolmezzo.

these guttadauro's are very serious and rich people, they belong to multiple families... giuseppe 'the doctor' guttadauro is the boss of brancaccio family , carlo guttadauro is a capodecina of bagheria family and filippo guttadauro a member of castelvetrano family
involved in tons of sectors, they dominate the fish markets in half italy, constructions, waste disposal, on-line gambling, renewable energy

Giuseppe "The Doctor" Guttadaruo is boss of Roccella family , the Brancaccio mandamento

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Orazio Pino, turncoat and ex member of the Santapaola crime family was shot dead in the town of Chiavari (Genoa) where he lived; he left the witness protection program years ago

Credits to Carmelo.

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Turncoat Leonardo Messina,who left witness protection program few years ago , disappeared 3 months ago. Could be lupara bianca.

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Turncoat Leonardo Messina,who left witness protection program few years ago , disappeared 3 months ago. Could be lupara bianca.

where do you read it? never heard any news about it in italy, he was important almost like buscetta

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Turncoat Leonardo Messina,who left witness protection program few years ago , disappeared 3 months ago. Could be lupara bianca.

where do you read it? never heard any news about it in italy, he was important almost like buscetta

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edi ... u/5122046/

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Didnt know Messina was missing, good article. Thats big.

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Brother of former Sicilian mayor killed

Palermo, May 8 - The brother of a former mayor in Sicily was killed by gunshot wounds near Palermo on Wednesday. Antonino Di Liberto, 49, was murdered at Belmonte Mezzagno, about 20 km from the Sicilian capital. His body was found face down in his car parked in Via Umbria, police said. He was the brother of the former mayor of the town, Pietro Di Liberto. He worked as an engineer for a firm which lost a contract from power giant Enel because it was accused of having family links to Cosa Nostra. Carabinieri are leading the murder probe.

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Brother of former Sicilian mayor killed

Palermo, May 8 - The brother of a former mayor in Sicily was killed by gunshot wounds near Palermo on Wednesday. Antonino Di Liberto, 49, was murdered at Belmonte Mezzagno, about 20 km from the Sicilian capital. His body was found face down in his car parked in Via Umbria, police said. He was the brother of the former mayor of the town, Pietro Di Liberto. He worked as an engineer for a firm which lost a contract from power giant Enel because it was accused of having family links to Cosa Nostra. Carabinieri are leading the murder probe.

I think he was killed because of his cousin , who is a pentito.

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Italian anti-mafia champion sentenced for corruption

Sicilian member of Italy’s employers’ organization found guilty of links to the mob.

A former anti-mafia champion, Antonello Montante, was sentenced to 14 years in jail on Friday for a string of offences including corruption, according to Italian media reports.

Montante, who has always denied the charges against him, was the national spokesman on legal issues for Italy's employers’ organization, Confindustria, as well as the head of its Sicilian branch.

The sentence was tougher than expected as the prosecution had asked for 10 years. It could have been higher still; the jail time was cut by a third because of the type of trial Montante agreed to. Without that, he would have been jailed for 21 years: “Almost like a murder,” complained Giuseppe Panepinto, one of his lawyers, who said an appeal would be launched.

A probe was launched in 2015 after a string of mafia turncoats told prosecutors that, despite his attacks on organized crime, Montante was actually involved with Sicilian mob bosses — in particular Vincenzo Arnone and his father Paolino, who were best men at Montante's wedding in December 1980.

As part of the investigation, prosecutors uncovered what they dubbed "the Montante system" — a complex web of informants whose job it was to provide the former Confindustria man with information on his rivals and on the probe into his alleged mob links.

Prosecutors said they found a haul of documents in January 2016 in a room in Montante's villa at Serradifalco, near Caltanissetta in central Sicily. There were dossiers on politicians, prosecutors, investigators and others full of details collected by his informants. The suspicion is that the dossiers were to be used for blackmail, wrote the daily La Stampa.

The sentence “shows the gravity of the so-called Montante system,” said Nicola Morra, chairman of the Italian parliament's anti-mafia commission. However, Montante's lawyer Panepinto said his client had been set up by the mafia.

It's not the first time an anti-corruption figure has been arrested for such offences. In 2015 Roberto Helg, then head of Palermo’s chamber of commerce and a leading figure in the fight against corruption, was arrested after pocketing €100,000 extorted from a local businessman, although in that case the mafia was not involved.

Prosecutors have long denounced attempts by the mafia to infiltrate anti-corruption efforts in a bid to delegitimize them.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/antonel ... bbjTAiHfCM

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Not really Italy but France. Giuseppe Cortese a leader of the Ndrangheta was arrested in Mâcon (Center-East of France at about 2 hours from Lyon).

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/g ... 093013.php

I translate the article:

Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of the Ndrangheta, was arrested Thursday by the police of the Central Office of fight against organized crime.

Nice trick of the investigators of the National Fugitive Research Brigade (BNRF). A member of the Calabrian mafia, the dreaded Ndrangheta, 53, is presented this Friday morning at the public prosecutor's office in Dijon (Côte d'Or). Giuseppe Cortese was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant, which targeted 31 people, who are members of a network that specializes in the importation of Colombian cocaine.

Everything was done in the utmost secrecy to foil the informants of the mafia that is infiltrating the police and the entire Italian society. On Tuesday, at 3 am, the Italian police transmit the order to arrest the man at the Central Office of fight against organized crime (OCLCO) in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and indicate that Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of this mafia association and specialized in traffic finance, just went to France to go to Switzerland.

BNRF investigators locate his Porsche 911 on the side of Mâcon. A team from the Research and Intervention Brigade goes to the parking lot of a hotel in the industrial zone of the city and finds the car. "The officials have discreetly monitored the entrance of the establishment because the rule on the arrest of fugitives is not to attempt anything if we do not see them," said the Parisian source close to the file.
Given to the Italian authorities within 40 days

Thursday morning, Giuseppe Cortese, accompanied by another mafia, leaves the hotel. The police give him no chance and handcuff him. In the next few hours, the mobster will be incarcerated and handed over to the Italian authorities in the next forty days.

Ndrangheta is one of the criminal organizations that controls a large proportion of cocaine imports into Europe. She is a major interlocutor for South American cartels. And often traffickers are forced to pay them a fee to be able to

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I've been keeping up with the latest developments.... interesting stuff....

'Ndrangheta
'Ndrangheta, not just Gioia Tauro: the ports of Europe for cosche drugs. Ros Blitz with 30 arrests

The watchword was to diversify. The drug business is managed with the same mentality of a company that has to optimize profits and reduce risks as much as possible.

by Lucio Musolino June 13, 2019

The watchword was to diversify. The drug trade is run by the 'Ndrangheta with the same mentality of a company that needs to maximize profits and reduce the risks as possible. This is why the "Edera" investigation, which this morning led to the arrest of 30 people on suspicion of criminal association aimed at the international traffic of cocaine, has once again demonstrated how the port of Gioia Tauro is not the only one system through which the Calabrian gangs bring cocaine into Europe. Indeed, the drug coming from Colombia and Ecuador also passed through the ports of Rotterdam , in Holland, and Antwerp in Belgium.

The operation, conducted by the Carabinieri del Ros , took place in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Milan, Bergamo, Bologna and Padua. At the request of the Reggio Emilia Dda, the investigating judge also ordered two arrests in the Netherlands, one in Colombia and one in France. Altogether 58 subjects are registered in the register of suspects by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri , by the adjunct Giuseppe Lombardo and by the prosecutor Antonio De Bernardo , now in service to the Dda of Catanzaro. The investigation starts from the "Reale" operation and started in 2010 thanks to an environmental interception recorded in the home of the boss Giuseppe Pelle called "Gambazza".


"He had intention - Bombardieri explained during the press conference - to create new traffic channels in Northern Italy. For this reason he had put himself in contact with subjects linked to the Barbaro clan of Platì ”. In fact, from interceptions it emerged that the Pelle had planned to obtain supplies abroad "of a load of drugs - it is written in the order of custody - for a value of 250 thousand euros, transported in suitcases prepared and embarked on airplanes Italy . Once the load had started, the suppliers would notify the buyers, also by fax, indicating the name to which the suitcase was associated when traveling. Once in Italy, one of the most probable airports in Milan, this load would have been shared with other buyers ".

And it is at this point that what the suspects call "an organized team" of people who "would have taken the suitcase at the airport and, after passing drug checks with the complicity of personnel inside the airport, would come into play". , would have delivered it to people of trust of the boss Giuseppe Pelle ". Men of the clan who "would then transport their part to Calabria, implementing every trick to make the vehicle on which the cargo would have been transported undetectable".


For the prosecutors, the drug purchased in South America was intended for sale mainly in Lombardy thanks to the local 'ndrangheta linked to the Calabrians. But also in Venetowhere the Locride bosses have stable relationships with qualified local criminals. The traffic was managed by four criminal groups, functionally connected to each other for the performance of illegal activities. Some were active in the importation of cocaine that passed through airports or via road transport via Spain and those who, in response to the gangs of Platì, traded wholesale in Lombardy. The third association, rooted in Calabria, instead, was led by Domenico Ficara and the former fugitives Santo Scipione and Domenico Trimboli (the latter became a collaborator of justice after the arrest in 2013).

Having lived in Colombia for decades, it was Scipione and Trimboli who dealt with relations with the narcos by buying cocaine in South America and then exporting it to Canada and Italy. They were the 180 kilos of cocaine, hidden inside a container of coffee, which on 5 May 2013 were seized at the port of Gioia Tauro. "The container number was taken to Italy by an emissary of Jegua (a Colombian supplier, ed). - reported the former 'ndrangheta broker Domenico Trimboli - Drug withdrawal was to be assured by Piromalli". Finally, the fourth criminal group was managed according to investigators by Domenico Strangio with subjects linked to the thighs of Gioia Tauro and Rosarno able, between 2011 and 2013, to import the drugs from Colombia and Ecuador and to get it into Europe through not only the Calabrian port but also those of Antwerp and Rotterdam.


"This operation - the Bombardieri prosecutor said - once again underlines the ability of the 'Ndrangheta to be flexible and flexible on every transnational criminal scenario , and in particular in the dynamics of international drug trafficking. Among the arrested there is the presence of historical surnames of the Ionian reggiana Ndrangheta, such as the Pelle 'Gambazza' of San Luca and the Trimboli and the Barbaro 'Castani' of Plati ', able to organize a real network and criminal interests with other families of 'ndrangheta of the plain of Gioia Tauro and of Reggio Calabria ”.

According to deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, "the investigation connotes the univocal character of the 'ndrangheta with respect to the fragmentation of other forms of organized crime. Bovalino, Buccinasco, Ventimiglia, Brescia, Padua, Ecuador, Belgium, Holland, Germany are the areas where the presence of 'ndrangheta envoys' is now established, each with a task to be performed strictly. The surveys also highlighted the continuous exchange by the arrested of particularly sophisticated communication tools . A problem that requires an increasingly strong integration of the various police forces and new legal instruments at international level ”.

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Arrests in Côte d'Ivoire also
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/afriq ... JUiOh-OrMY

Cocaine trafficking involving the Italian mafias of Camorra and 'Ndrangheta was dismantled in early June 2019 in Côte d'Ivoire. Ten suspects were arrested in Abidjan: "6 Italians, 1 Franco-Turkish and 3 Ivorians, including 2 women, suspected of being the brains of international cocaine trafficking," said Commissioner Adomo Bonaventure, director of Transnational Organized Crime Unit (UCT). In September 2018, the Brazilian police discovered 1.19 tons of cocaine hidden in construction equipment on the port of Santos to Abidjan. The investigation determined that the drug had to pass through Côte d'Ivoire, before being sent to Italy, and more particularly to Calabria. The drug arrives by boat in the Gulf of Guinea.
"Spaghetti Connection"

This operation was carried out thanks to the cooperation between the Ivorian, French, Italian and Brazilian police. "We have evidence that the goods were destined for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra and that Italian nationals, Ivorian residents for more or less for a long time, were at the origin of the traffic ", says Silvain Coué, French liaison officer who took part in this dismantling dubbed" Spaghetti Connection ". According to him, the cocaine seized in Santos in Brazil is bought 2.5 million euros in South America to be resold 250 million in Europe.

"For 20 years, West Africa has become, if not a hub, a very important rebound zone for traffickers.This operation proves that if they thought that Côte d'Ivoire and Africa would 'West could be a sanctuary, they were wrong,' says Silvain Coué. It is true that the international mafias profit from the weakness of the States of the region, and from the facility to find "hired hands" because of the poverty of the population.

This dismantling is the third of its kind in Côte d'Ivoire in less than three years, and the largest by its magnitude. But seizures, even spectacular, are just a drop in the ocean of traffic. As early as 2009, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated that about 250 tons of cocaine had already passed through this route.

The criminologist Xavier Raufer already stated in 2013 that "the profits related to the trafficking of cocaine are so huge that the lengthening of the sectors and, consequently, the price of transport are not a problem". At the slightest problem, "new roads are already being opened by Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes or by Libya, vast marquetry tribes at war," concluded the criminologist.
Traffic that funds jihadist groups

For more than 20 years, West Africa has been one of the major cocaine routes through the Sahel to Europe. Even before the Malian conflict, drugs arrived by air in Mauritania or northern Mali (on clandestine tracks in the desert). Once received, and sometimes transformed on site, the drug was transported by road, particularly via the Sahel, to the southern shores of the Mediterranean.

The academic and Islamologist Mathieu Guidère said from the beginning of the conflict in the Sahel: "The French military intervention in Mali was a kick in the anthill, which totally disrupted the trafficking of drugs, weapons and immigration underground, blowing up all the networks that passed through northern Mali. " And the researcher explains: "The traffickers pay the Islamist movements a 10% right of way based on the overall value of the cargo, some armed groups providing in addition, against payment, a protection of the convoy."

Drug trafficking, as well as arms and human beings (or fake medicines) in the region, contributes to the financing of the various armed groups in the Sahel, facing poverty and major governance problems. The military budget of many of the countries in the zone is most often lower than the selling price of a few tons of cocaine in Europe.

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This is crazy...

Three turncoats who had to testify at the 'Ndrangheta stragista trial, concerning the attack against the government of Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta clans, occult masonic lodges and secret services at the beginning of the 1990s, disappeared some months ago and both central service, police and lawyers can't find them; astonishingly the Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Graviano, a defendant in the trial, currently in the prison of Terni under 41-bis, told the prosecutor he knows where they could be. The turncoats who left the witness protection program some years ago and untraceable are Leonardo Messina (ex capodecina of San Cataldo crime family), Gioacchino Pennino (ex member of Brancaccio family and freemason) and Vincenzo Grimaldi, ex member of the 'Ndrangheta clan Piromalli-Molè.
The turncoat Marino Pulito, ex member of the Sacra Corona Unita, who testimonied in the same trial, is also untraceable since November 2018.

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considering what they are talking about i would be surprised if they are still alive... anyway never heard on italian news, and it is a very important fact, or at least it should be

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considering what they are talking about i would be surprised if they are still alive... anyway never heard on italian news, and it is a very important fact, or at least it should be

Its high risk to be witness on trial against secret services and masonic lodges, what do you think who is behind the disappearances?

https://www.ternitoday.it/cronaca/boss- ... io-pentito

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/dossier ... -roma.html