More Than 300 Mob Arrests in 4 Countries

[CabriniGreen]

Trequartino?

[roydemeo]

Trequartino?

Santa,Vangelo,Quartino e Trequartino,Padrino o Quintino was the highstes level of the ndrangheta before the others was were discovered.

[TommyGambino]

Surely they don't mean 300 actual members?

[CabriniGreen]

lol, what happened to the article I posted?

[CabriniGreen]

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.

I appreciated this post, I always wondered how they came up with 49 members as a requirement.... thanks for the clarification..

[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.

I appreciated this post, I always wondered how they came up with 49 members as a requirement.... thanks for the clarification..

You re welcome Cabrini.

[scagghiuni]

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.

yes, ndrangheta is the most powerful nowadays, anyway i think the calabrians domination over cocaine started when the colombian cartels (cali/medellin) disappeared, sicilians were close to them, today most of cocaine producers are paramilitary groups like farc and eln that are strongly linked with the calabrians, the debt you're talking about has nothing to do with this (it happened in 2001)

[roydemeo]

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.

yes, ndrangheta is the most powerful nowadays, anyway i think the calabrians domination over cocaine started when the colombian cartels (cali/medellin) disappeared, sicilians were close to them, today most of cocaine producers are paramilitary groups like farc and eln that are strongly linked with the calabrians, the debt you're talking about has nothing to do with this (it happened in 2001)

Nope. The ndrangheta enter in drug trade in the 1970s thanks to the money made with kidnappings.
When the Sicilian Mafia declared war to the italian State and was almost disbanded the ndrangheta filled the void and plus many mafiosi wasnt seen as trusted partners and must leave some hostages as guarantee of the payments for the drugs while ndranghetisti can buy huge quantity on the base of their word.

[scagghiuni]

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.

yes, ndrangheta is the most powerful nowadays, anyway i think the calabrians domination over cocaine started when the colombian cartels (cali/medellin) disappeared, sicilians were close to them, today most of cocaine producers are paramilitary groups like farc and eln that are strongly linked with the calabrians, the debt you're talking about has nothing to do with this (it happened in 2001)

Nope. The ndrangheta enter in drug trade in the 1970s thanks to the money made with kidnappings.
When the Sicilian Mafia declared war to the italian State and was almost disbanded the ndrangheta filled the void and plus many mafiosi wasnt seen as trusted partners and must leave some hostages as guarantee of the payments for the drugs while ndranghetisti can buy huge quantity on the base of their word.

sicilian mafia was never almost disbanded, it was just weakened, anyway in the same period 1994, the colombian cartels were dismantled, in the early '90 sicilian mafia was still the major player in cocaine trafficking and caruana-cuntrera's were never hurt so much by le, they just lost the connections with the cartels, but of course the governemt pressure on sicilians contributed much too

[Amershire_Ed]

Another reason the Calabrians are so hard to investigate and convict is most of the clans have strong familial ties holding them together. Take your standard American Cosa Nostra Crew from one of the 5 families. Maybe a couple guys are related, but there’s a decent chance most of the guys in the crew aren’t actually blood related. The Ndrangheta clans are made up of actual family members. Uncles, cousins, brothers, in-laws, etc. They arrange marriages for their daughters when they are 13 and 14 with other clans to strengthen alliances and build power. It’s wild.

[roydemeo]

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.

yes, ndrangheta is the most powerful nowadays, anyway i think the calabrians domination over cocaine started when the colombian cartels (cali/medellin) disappeared, sicilians were close to them, today most of cocaine producers are paramilitary groups like farc and eln that are strongly linked with the calabrians, the debt you're talking about has nothing to do with this (it happened in 2001)

Nope. The ndrangheta enter in drug trade in the 1970s thanks to the money made with kidnappings.
When the Sicilian Mafia declared war to the italian State and was almost disbanded the ndrangheta filled the void and plus many mafiosi wasnt seen as trusted partners and must leave some hostages as guarantee of the payments for the drugs while ndranghetisti can buy huge quantity on the base of their word.

sicilian mafia was never almost disbanded, it was just weakened, anyway in the same period 1994, the colombian cartels were dismantled, in the early '90 sicilian mafia was still the major player in cocaine trafficking and caruana-cuntrera's were never hurt so much by le, they just lost the connections with the cartels, but of course the governemt pressure on sicilians contributed much too

Roberto Pannunzi,calabrian man with ties with Siderno group was an important drug broker for both ndrangheta and sicilian mafia from the early 1980s.

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Pannunzi

Pannunzi started to contact Colombian traffickers in Venezuela, Amsterdam and Madrid.
He moved to Colombia where he would become one of the most important cocaine brokers for both the Sicilian Mafiaand the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta with the Colombian cocaine cartels.
According to the deputy chief prosecutor in Reggio Calabria, Nicola Gratteri, Pannunzi would become "the only one who can sell both to the 'Ndrangheta and to Cosa Nostra. He is definitely the most powerful drug broker in the world".According to crime writer Roberto Saviano, he traded cocaine to rival Italian crime families: "He collected money from the various families, often rival families.

At the height of his criminal career he was trading 1,500 to 2,000 kilograms of cocaine a month. On a tapped phone, he was overheard boasting of the ease and confidence with which he handled his Colombian suppliers. To reinforce the bonds with his Colombian suppliers, Pannunzi arranged his son Alessandro Pannunzi's marriage with a notorious family from the Medellín Cartel.

[The Greek]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ousin.html

A gay mafia hitman was murdered by his own cousin because an Italian mob boss regarded his lifestyle as a 'disgrace', it has emerged.

Andrea Mantella told Italian authorities that he had arranged the killing of Filippo Gangitano in 2002 after mobsters said his cousin's homosexuality 'could not be tolerated'.

Mantella was told it was up to him to 'wash' the honour of his family and his protests were waved away, according to La Repubblica.

After failing to convince mob bosses to have Gangitano expelled instead, Mantella had him lured to a farm where he was shot dead and buried in an unmarked grave.

'We could not afford to have or have had a gay man in the gang', Mantella said he was told by bosses of the 'Ndrangheta gang.

Gangitano had been living with his partner in the town of Vibo Valentia but mobsters believed his lifestyle was a 'disgrace'.

Mantella is currently in prison for his role in the mafia but has become a government mole in a major anti-mob operation.

His evidence is linked to a huge government raid in which 334 people were arrested in early-morning swoops last week.

Some arrests were also carried out in Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria.

The 'Ndrangheta is based in the southern region of Calabria, the toe of Italy's boot, and has surpassed Sicily's more famous Cosa Nostra to become the most powerful mafia group in the country.

Italian investigators say the group, which is made up of dozens of smaller clans that all answer nominally to senior leaders in Calabria, is now Europe's top cocaine broker.

The suspects were facing a raft of possible charges including mafia conspiracy, murder, extortion, loan sharking, corporate fraud and money laundering.

Politicians were involved, as well as lawyers, accountants, public officials, court clerks,' said prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, who led the investigation

'All people who had jobs and did not need to put themselves at the service of the 'Ndrangheta.

'The mobsters are not in a position to carry out sophisticated money laundering. To do that they need professionals,' he added.

Among those arrested on Thursday were a former lawmaker from Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, the centre-left mayor of a Calabrian coastal town and a senior official in the Carabinieri police.

'This has inflicted a very hard blow on the 'Ndrangheta,' said interior minister Luciana Lamorgese.

Gratteri, the prosecutor, said it was the largest haul of suspected mobsters in Italy since a massive anti-mafia swoop in Sicily in 1984.

That led to the so-called Palermo maxi-trial when more than 450 members of Cosa Nostra were tried.

The Palermo trial marked a turning point in the battle against the Sicilian crime gang, and their influence has waned dramatically over the past three decades, allowing 'Ndrangheta to surge to prominence.

[scagghiuni]

the totò riina/cosa nostra strategy anyway influenced italian politics so much at the point forza italia was formed by a mafia man (senator dell'utri) and berlusconi became prime minister, all that massacres in the early '90 were isntigated by politicians and freemasons, not cosa nostra only, the truth is still far to be showed

[AntComello]

so how will this big takedown affect Ndrangheta? Almost as many people as the maxi trials and look what that did to Cosa Nostra.