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Mafia boss Francesco di Carlo has died from CORID-19.
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Dozens of mafia bosses could be released in Italy over fears they will catch coronavirus in jail - with three top mobsters from Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta clans already set free
Three infamous mobsters from notorious Italian mafia clans have been released
All of the gangsters are under house arrest and judges say they can't escape
There are an estimated 70 mobsters locked up in Italian jails who fall into the 'high risk' category for Covid-19
By RYAN FAHEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:21 EDT, 23 April 2020 | UPDATED: 12:02 EDT, 23 April 2020
Dozens of mafia dons could be released in Italy over fears they could catch coronavirus in jail, it has emerged.
Three mob bosses from the infamous Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta clans have already been allowed to leave jail, and are now under house arrest. All releases have been due to concerns regarding the inmates' health conditions.
On Wednesday, a judge in Milan ordered 78-year-old Francesco Bonura, a Cosa Nostra boss, to serve his sentence at home.
The mobster will be allowed to attend health appointments despite still having years to serve on his 23-year sentence.
Bonura was one of three joint chief dons of the Cosa Nostra, sentenced to 18 years and eight months in Opera Prison in Milan in 2002, according to Italian Insider.
Far from his first stretch, Bonura was also one of several Sicilian mobsters convicted for mafia association during Palermo's landmark Maxi trial in 1992. The trial was the largest ever court proceeding against the mob and several judges were executed in the six years it ran.
At the trial, key informant Tommaso Buscetta called Bonura a 'valiant' mobster.
Magistrate Antonino Di Matteo called Bonura's release a 'serious offence against the memory of the victims,' in reference to murders committed while Bonura was in charge.
Security officials prepare for the transfer of 60 prisoners from Melfi prison to other penitentiaries in Italy, after the 9 March revolt, which was triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, in Melfi, Potenza, Italy, 17 March 2020 +3
Security officials prepare for the transfer of 60 prisoners from Melfi prison to other penitentiaries in Italy, after the 9 March revolt, which was triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, in Melfi, Potenza, Italy, 17 March 2020
Rocco Santo Filippone, 72, a boss who was tried in the early 1990s 'Ndrangheta Massacre' trial for the murder of two Carabinieri officers, has been spared the remainder of his stint in jail because he suffers from a cardiovascular disease that could prove fatal if he were infected with Covid-19.
Vincenzino Iannazzo, 65, the head of the Lamezia Terme clan, who was serving a 14 years and six months sentence, has also been placed under house arrest.
Rocco Santo Filippone: The bloodsoaked mafia 'Monk'
Prosecutors allege that Rocco Santo Filippone is a boss of the Piromalli gang, one of the most feared clans of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria.
The gang took hold of the Gioia Tauro port in the mid 90s, using it to traffic illegal goods and drugs.
Fillipone earned his nickname for his 'confidentiality', according to reports.
He was jailed for ordering his ruthless grandson to kill two Carabinieri officers Antonino Fava and Vincenzo Garofalo on January 18, 1994.
Judges have weighed up the chances of the veteran gangsters escaping and said it will be impossible for them to leave the house or meet others, unless for 'health reasons.
'It is a very alarming situation,' Leo Beneduci, secretary general of Osapp, Italy’s largest prison police officers’ union, told the Guardian. 'Members of the penitentiary police have begun reporting detainees who embrace each other with the alleged goal of increasing the possibility of contracting the virus and getting released from prison.'
According to an internal memo seen by the Guardian there are 74 high-profile dons whose ages and health conditions make them particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus.
The septuagenarians, all currently held under the 41-bis protocols which can suspend certain prison regulations by ministerial decree, include bosses of the Bellocco clan of the ’Ndrangheta and the Sicilian 'boss of bosses' Nitto Santapaola.
Italian Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede, said the government had not approved the releases.
'The risk is that we’ll find the mafia virus on the streets alongside Covid-19,' Lirio Abbate, journalist and national editor of L’Espresso, told the Guardian.
'It would be a double pandemic that we mustn’t allow to happen.'
It comes days after anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano, who wrote the script for Italian crime drama Gomorrah, claimed the Mafia is handing out food to Italy's needy and offering interest-free loans to impose control over people's lives and capitalise on the country's coronavirus crisis.
Saviano told journalists that at the most basic level, the mob is handing out groceries to the poorest Italians to ensure favours once the crisis is over.
He added they are also preparing to snatch up struggling businesses as the country awaits European funding to boost its battered economy.
Saviano, who is currently under police protection in New York after the release of the series, is an expert on mafia groups and how they have successfully expanded beyond drugs and other illegal activity to worm their way into otherwise legitimate businesses and sectors across the world.
His fears have been echoed by both anti-mafia investigators and politicians as the virus batters Italy.
Earlier this month, Pope Francis slammed 'the mafiosi and the loan sharks' who are exploiting the pandemic to make a quick profit.
How the 'Ndrangheta cocaine crime network extends around the world
A major police operation in 2018 targeted the 'Ndrangheta families based in the southern Italian city of Locri in the Calabria region - the rural, mountainous and under-developed 'toe' of Italy's boot and the heartland of the worldwide crime group.
Despite intense police attention and frequent arrests, the 'Ndrangheta - which derives its meaning from the Greek word for 'heroism' - has continued to extend its reach.
Notoriously ruthless, the 'Ndrangheta has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra to operate on all continents thanks to the wealth it has amassed as the principal importer and wholesaler of cocaine produced in Latin America and smuggled into Europe via north Africa and southern Italy.
That trade is worth billions and previous police operations have indicated that the 'Ndrangheta has well-established links with Colombian producer cartels, Mexican crime gangs and mafia families in New York and other parts of North America.
In 2016, a suspected 'Ndrangheta boss, Ernesto Fazzalari (pictured), was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder
Santo Vottari was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade
In 2016, a suspected 'Ndrangheta boss, Ernesto Fazzalari (left), was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder. A year later, another suspected boss of the crime clan, Santo Vottari (right), was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade
The organisation's tight clan-based structure has made it hard to penetrate, but police have made some in roads in recent years.
In 2015, 163 people were arrested in a major crackdown on the notorious mafia gang, which by that time had become the most powerful crime organisation in the country.
In another sting that year, police snatched assets worth £1.4billion from the 'Ndrangheta, which included more than 1,500 betting shops, 82 online gambling sites and almost 60 companies.
In 2016, one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses Ernesto Fazzalari was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder.
The 'Ndrangheta member was captured in an apartment in a remote part of the southern region of Calabria.
On the run since 1996, he was convicted in absentia in 1999 of mafia association, kidnapping, illegal possession of weapons and a double homicide linked to a bloody 1989-91 feud which left 32 people dead in his home town of Taurianova.
His arrest was hailed by the government as a significant victory for the state in its battle against the powerful mafia group.
In 2017, another suspected boss of the crime clan, Santo Vottari, was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade.
He was arrested hiding behind a trap door of a bunker having gone to ground over a 2007 massacre in Germany.
Vottari was convicted in absentia in 2009 of being one of the heads of an 'Ndrangheta clan whose feud with local rivals culminated in the Duisburg killings.
He was given a prison term of 10 years and eight months, two years after he went on the run.
Vottari was one of 31 people sentenced to prison terms in 2009 in connection with the Duisburg killings, which happened after a vendetta between two clans based in the same village, San Luca, spiralled out of control.
The feud between the Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Vottari clans reportedly began with an egg-throwing prank in 1991. Reprisals escalated after the killing, on Christmas Day, 2006, of Maria Strangio, the wife of clan leader Giovanni Nirta.
The feud was blamed for at least 16 deaths in total, with the killings in Germany bringing it to international attention.
Giovanni Strangio was convicted in 2011 of being the mastermind and one of the authors of the Duisburg killings.
He was sentenced to life in prison. Seven others were given life sentences linked to the feud at the same trial.
Notoriously ruthless, the 'Ndrangheta has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra in influence thanks to its control of Europe's cocaine trade.
The organisation is made up of numerous village and family-based clans based in the rural, mountainous and under-developed 'toe' of Italy's boot.
The name 'Ndrangheta comes from the Greek for courage or loyalty and the organisation's secretive culture and brutal enforcement of codes of silence have made it very difficult to penetrate.
But authorities claimed a major breakthrough in 2016 when they captured Ernesto Fazzalari, whom they described as the last senior 'Ndrangheta fugitive still at large.
Dozens of mafia bosses could be released in Italy over fears they will catch coronavirus in jail - with three top mobsters from Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta clans already set free
Three infamous mobsters from notorious Italian mafia clans have been released
All of the gangsters are under house arrest and judges say they can't escape
There are an estimated 70 mobsters locked up in Italian jails who fall into the 'high risk' category for Covid-19
By RYAN FAHEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:21 EDT, 23 April 2020 | UPDATED: 12:02 EDT, 23 April 2020
Dozens of mafia dons could be released in Italy over fears they could catch coronavirus in jail, it has emerged.
Three mob bosses from the infamous Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta clans have already been allowed to leave jail, and are now under house arrest. All releases have been due to concerns regarding the inmates' health conditions.
On Wednesday, a judge in Milan ordered 78-year-old Francesco Bonura, a Cosa Nostra boss, to serve his sentence at home.
The mobster will be allowed to attend health appointments despite still having years to serve on his 23-year sentence.
Bonura was one of three joint chief dons of the Cosa Nostra, sentenced to 18 years and eight months in Opera Prison in Milan in 2002, according to Italian Insider.
Far from his first stretch, Bonura was also one of several Sicilian mobsters convicted for mafia association during Palermo's landmark Maxi trial in 1992. The trial was the largest ever court proceeding against the mob and several judges were executed in the six years it ran.
At the trial, key informant Tommaso Buscetta called Bonura a 'valiant' mobster.
Magistrate Antonino Di Matteo called Bonura's release a 'serious offence against the memory of the victims,' in reference to murders committed while Bonura was in charge.
Security officials prepare for the transfer of 60 prisoners from Melfi prison to other penitentiaries in Italy, after the 9 March revolt, which was triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, in Melfi, Potenza, Italy, 17 March 2020 +3
Security officials prepare for the transfer of 60 prisoners from Melfi prison to other penitentiaries in Italy, after the 9 March revolt, which was triggered by the coronavirus lockdown, in Melfi, Potenza, Italy, 17 March 2020
Rocco Santo Filippone, 72, a boss who was tried in the early 1990s 'Ndrangheta Massacre' trial for the murder of two Carabinieri officers, has been spared the remainder of his stint in jail because he suffers from a cardiovascular disease that could prove fatal if he were infected with Covid-19.
Vincenzino Iannazzo, 65, the head of the Lamezia Terme clan, who was serving a 14 years and six months sentence, has also been placed under house arrest.
Rocco Santo Filippone: The bloodsoaked mafia 'Monk'
Prosecutors allege that Rocco Santo Filippone is a boss of the Piromalli gang, one of the most feared clans of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria.
The gang took hold of the Gioia Tauro port in the mid 90s, using it to traffic illegal goods and drugs.
Fillipone earned his nickname for his 'confidentiality', according to reports.
He was jailed for ordering his ruthless grandson to kill two Carabinieri officers Antonino Fava and Vincenzo Garofalo on January 18, 1994.
Judges have weighed up the chances of the veteran gangsters escaping and said it will be impossible for them to leave the house or meet others, unless for 'health reasons.
'It is a very alarming situation,' Leo Beneduci, secretary general of Osapp, Italy’s largest prison police officers’ union, told the Guardian. 'Members of the penitentiary police have begun reporting detainees who embrace each other with the alleged goal of increasing the possibility of contracting the virus and getting released from prison.'
According to an internal memo seen by the Guardian there are 74 high-profile dons whose ages and health conditions make them particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus.
The septuagenarians, all currently held under the 41-bis protocols which can suspend certain prison regulations by ministerial decree, include bosses of the Bellocco clan of the ’Ndrangheta and the Sicilian 'boss of bosses' Nitto Santapaola.
Italian Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede, said the government had not approved the releases.
'The risk is that we’ll find the mafia virus on the streets alongside Covid-19,' Lirio Abbate, journalist and national editor of L’Espresso, told the Guardian.
'It would be a double pandemic that we mustn’t allow to happen.'
It comes days after anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano, who wrote the script for Italian crime drama Gomorrah, claimed the Mafia is handing out food to Italy's needy and offering interest-free loans to impose control over people's lives and capitalise on the country's coronavirus crisis.
Saviano told journalists that at the most basic level, the mob is handing out groceries to the poorest Italians to ensure favours once the crisis is over.
He added they are also preparing to snatch up struggling businesses as the country awaits European funding to boost its battered economy.
Saviano, who is currently under police protection in New York after the release of the series, is an expert on mafia groups and how they have successfully expanded beyond drugs and other illegal activity to worm their way into otherwise legitimate businesses and sectors across the world.
His fears have been echoed by both anti-mafia investigators and politicians as the virus batters Italy.
Earlier this month, Pope Francis slammed 'the mafiosi and the loan sharks' who are exploiting the pandemic to make a quick profit.
How the 'Ndrangheta cocaine crime network extends around the world
A major police operation in 2018 targeted the 'Ndrangheta families based in the southern Italian city of Locri in the Calabria region - the rural, mountainous and under-developed 'toe' of Italy's boot and the heartland of the worldwide crime group.
Despite intense police attention and frequent arrests, the 'Ndrangheta - which derives its meaning from the Greek word for 'heroism' - has continued to extend its reach.
Notoriously ruthless, the 'Ndrangheta has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra to operate on all continents thanks to the wealth it has amassed as the principal importer and wholesaler of cocaine produced in Latin America and smuggled into Europe via north Africa and southern Italy.
That trade is worth billions and previous police operations have indicated that the 'Ndrangheta has well-established links with Colombian producer cartels, Mexican crime gangs and mafia families in New York and other parts of North America.
In 2016, a suspected 'Ndrangheta boss, Ernesto Fazzalari (pictured), was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder
Santo Vottari was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade
In 2016, a suspected 'Ndrangheta boss, Ernesto Fazzalari (left), was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder. A year later, another suspected boss of the crime clan, Santo Vottari (right), was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade
The organisation's tight clan-based structure has made it hard to penetrate, but police have made some in roads in recent years.
In 2015, 163 people were arrested in a major crackdown on the notorious mafia gang, which by that time had become the most powerful crime organisation in the country.
In another sting that year, police snatched assets worth £1.4billion from the 'Ndrangheta, which included more than 1,500 betting shops, 82 online gambling sites and almost 60 companies.
In 2016, one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses Ernesto Fazzalari was arrested after two decades on the run, fleeing a life sentence for murder.
The 'Ndrangheta member was captured in an apartment in a remote part of the southern region of Calabria.
On the run since 1996, he was convicted in absentia in 1999 of mafia association, kidnapping, illegal possession of weapons and a double homicide linked to a bloody 1989-91 feud which left 32 people dead in his home town of Taurianova.
His arrest was hailed by the government as a significant victory for the state in its battle against the powerful mafia group.
In 2017, another suspected boss of the crime clan, Santo Vottari, was detained in Calabria having been on the run for a decade.
He was arrested hiding behind a trap door of a bunker having gone to ground over a 2007 massacre in Germany.
Vottari was convicted in absentia in 2009 of being one of the heads of an 'Ndrangheta clan whose feud with local rivals culminated in the Duisburg killings.
He was given a prison term of 10 years and eight months, two years after he went on the run.
Vottari was one of 31 people sentenced to prison terms in 2009 in connection with the Duisburg killings, which happened after a vendetta between two clans based in the same village, San Luca, spiralled out of control.
The feud between the Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Vottari clans reportedly began with an egg-throwing prank in 1991. Reprisals escalated after the killing, on Christmas Day, 2006, of Maria Strangio, the wife of clan leader Giovanni Nirta.
The feud was blamed for at least 16 deaths in total, with the killings in Germany bringing it to international attention.
Giovanni Strangio was convicted in 2011 of being the mastermind and one of the authors of the Duisburg killings.
He was sentenced to life in prison. Seven others were given life sentences linked to the feud at the same trial.
Notoriously ruthless, the 'Ndrangheta has surpassed Sicily's Cosa Nostra and the Naples-based Camorra in influence thanks to its control of Europe's cocaine trade.
The organisation is made up of numerous village and family-based clans based in the rural, mountainous and under-developed 'toe' of Italy's boot.
The name 'Ndrangheta comes from the Greek for courage or loyalty and the organisation's secretive culture and brutal enforcement of codes of silence have made it very difficult to penetrate.
But authorities claimed a major breakthrough in 2016 when they captured Ernesto Fazzalari, whom they described as the last senior 'Ndrangheta fugitive still at large.
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Dal 'porco' al morto che camminaaleksandrored wrote: ↑Tue May 29, 2018 8:16 am 29 May 2018 - Mafia, trial of the Bagheria clans: over 50 years requested for 6 defendants - Names and photos
Over 50 years of imprisonment were requested for six defendants in the trial of the Bagheria clan mafia resulting from the operation called Reset 2.
The highest sentence, 20 years, has been requested for Carmelo Bartolone, considered a capomafia of the Bagheria thigh. The pm Francesca Mazzocco asked 12 years for Pietro Flamia, 7 for Luigi Di Salvo and Rosario La Mantia, 6 for Alessandro Vega, 2 for Antonio Lepre. They are accused for various reasons of mafia association and extortion.
For the seventh defendant, Gioacchino Di Bella, the acquittal was requested. Another 16 have chosen the abbreviated rite and 5 have been convicted in the first degree.
In both processes the Municipalities of Bagheria, Altavilla Milicia, Ficarazzi, Santa Flavia, the Pio La Torre study center, Confindustria of Palermo, Addiopizzo, Confcommercio and Confesercenti were established as civil parties.
Carmelo Bartolone
Pietro Flamia
Luigi Di Salvo
Rosario La Mantia
Gioacchino Di Bella
Mafia di Bagheria, tutti condannati
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Italian police nab 91 mafia suspects in 'mega-raid'
Dozens of alleged members of the Sicilian mafia were arrested across the entire country. Authorities are concerned organized crime may be using the pandemic to increase its power even as violent crime drops.
https://www.dw.com/en/italian-police-na ... a-53414320
Dozens of alleged members of the Sicilian mafia were arrested across the entire country. Authorities are concerned organized crime may be using the pandemic to increase its power even as violent crime drops.
https://www.dw.com/en/italian-police-na ... a-53414320
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Mafia, the Castellammare del Golfo family in business with the American clans: 14 arrests, in the cell the regent Domingo
https://www.news1.news/en/2020/06/mafia ... mingo.html
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The article dates from 1994 so it's completely dated, but I wanted to know if anyone had more info on this Calogero Pulci? I ask because he was arrested in my city ... I'm sorry if it's too old but I wasn't sure where to ask. I translate the article for those who are lazy to do it. https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article ... XsYRgfissM
The Grenoble SRPJ police officers arrested on June 2 in Rives (Isère) a suspected member of the Sicilian Mafia. Calogero Pulci, 33, from the town of Sommatino (Italy), had been wanted by Interpol for two years. Two international arrest warrants had been issued against him by the Italian justice for "murder, extortion under threat of attacks and violation of the legislation on arms". Calogero Pulci, who was arrested on the platform of the Rives station where he had gone to pick up a friend, had probably been staying for several months with relatives living in Isère. The police seized from him a false residence permit and another of social security, also falsified.
According to Italian police and justice reports, Calogero Pulci is considered a "dangerous character". He is also designated as the head of the mafia family of Sommatino _ a town of 8,000 inhabitants _ and one of the most powerful "heads" of the Italian organization. This character has been mentioned on several occasions by Leonardo Messina and Antonio Calderone, two former members of the Mafia, now "repentant". The latter had notably declared that their organization had "relays" in Grenoble and in particular they had appointed Giacomo Pagano (Le Monde 23 February 1993).
The arrest of Calogero Pulci thus confirms the suspicions which have weighed for several months on the role that the capital of the Alps could play as a "relay city" for the Sicilian Mafia. A parliamentary report presented at the beginning of 1993 by François d'Aubert (UDF) and Bertrand Galley (PS) had underlined certain disturbing elements concerning this city. They had advanced the thesis according to which the agglomeration of Grenoble and the department of Isère could serve as "a hub between Germany and Italy of a traffic where it could be question of sale of arms, circulation of 'dirty money and use of the Grenoble area as a logistical rear base for the Italian Mafia and in particular the Sicilian ".
The Grenoble SRPJ police officers arrested on June 2 in Rives (Isère) a suspected member of the Sicilian Mafia. Calogero Pulci, 33, from the town of Sommatino (Italy), had been wanted by Interpol for two years. Two international arrest warrants had been issued against him by the Italian justice for "murder, extortion under threat of attacks and violation of the legislation on arms". Calogero Pulci, who was arrested on the platform of the Rives station where he had gone to pick up a friend, had probably been staying for several months with relatives living in Isère. The police seized from him a false residence permit and another of social security, also falsified.
According to Italian police and justice reports, Calogero Pulci is considered a "dangerous character". He is also designated as the head of the mafia family of Sommatino _ a town of 8,000 inhabitants _ and one of the most powerful "heads" of the Italian organization. This character has been mentioned on several occasions by Leonardo Messina and Antonio Calderone, two former members of the Mafia, now "repentant". The latter had notably declared that their organization had "relays" in Grenoble and in particular they had appointed Giacomo Pagano (Le Monde 23 February 1993).
The arrest of Calogero Pulci thus confirms the suspicions which have weighed for several months on the role that the capital of the Alps could play as a "relay city" for the Sicilian Mafia. A parliamentary report presented at the beginning of 1993 by François d'Aubert (UDF) and Bertrand Galley (PS) had underlined certain disturbing elements concerning this city. They had advanced the thesis according to which the agglomeration of Grenoble and the department of Isère could serve as "a hub between Germany and Italy of a traffic where it could be question of sale of arms, circulation of 'dirty money and use of the Grenoble area as a logistical rear base for the Italian Mafia and in particular the Sicilian ".
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Cosa Nostra mobster arrested in Italy at Brazil's request
The son of a former boss of Cosa Nostra was arrested on Wednesday (5), in southern Italy, after an international arrest warrant issued by the Justice of Brazil. Leonardo Badalamenti, 60, son of Gaetano “Tano” Badalamenti (1923-2004), was detained at his mother's home in Castellammare del Golfo, a municipality of 15,000 inhabitants located on the island of Sicily, the birthplace of Cosa Nostra.
He is accused of a criminal association linked to drug trafficking and misrepresentation. His father was one of the leaders of the Sicilian mafia in the 1970s and was responsible for the murder of Italian activist Peppino Impastato, which occurred on May 9, 1978.
Badalamenti had fled to Brazil during the war for control of the Cosa Nostra unleashed by the Corleone clan, led by Salvatore “Totò” Riina (1930-2017), and lived in the country with the false identity of Carlos Massetti.
He was arrested in 2009, accused of gangstering, corruption and financial crimes, but was eventually released. Badalamenti had been on the run since 2017, when a court in São Paulo (SP) issued an arrest warrant against him.
The suspect was only identified by the Italian police after an unusual episode: even though he was a fugitive, he broke into a family home seized by the Cinisi Prefecture, next to Castellammare del Golfo, last week and changed the lock on the door to repossess the property. The case attracted the attention of the Carabineros Weapon, which discovered that Massetti was, in fact, Badalamenti.
"Leonardo Badalamenti's arrest is important news," commented Italian center-left senator Assuntela Messina, a member of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission. He was transferred to Pagliarelli prison in Palermo, where he will await the processing of an extradition request to Brazil. (ANSA).
The son of a former boss of Cosa Nostra was arrested on Wednesday (5), in southern Italy, after an international arrest warrant issued by the Justice of Brazil. Leonardo Badalamenti, 60, son of Gaetano “Tano” Badalamenti (1923-2004), was detained at his mother's home in Castellammare del Golfo, a municipality of 15,000 inhabitants located on the island of Sicily, the birthplace of Cosa Nostra.
He is accused of a criminal association linked to drug trafficking and misrepresentation. His father was one of the leaders of the Sicilian mafia in the 1970s and was responsible for the murder of Italian activist Peppino Impastato, which occurred on May 9, 1978.
Badalamenti had fled to Brazil during the war for control of the Cosa Nostra unleashed by the Corleone clan, led by Salvatore “Totò” Riina (1930-2017), and lived in the country with the false identity of Carlos Massetti.
He was arrested in 2009, accused of gangstering, corruption and financial crimes, but was eventually released. Badalamenti had been on the run since 2017, when a court in São Paulo (SP) issued an arrest warrant against him.
The suspect was only identified by the Italian police after an unusual episode: even though he was a fugitive, he broke into a family home seized by the Cinisi Prefecture, next to Castellammare del Golfo, last week and changed the lock on the door to repossess the property. The case attracted the attention of the Carabineros Weapon, which discovered that Massetti was, in fact, Badalamenti.
"Leonardo Badalamenti's arrest is important news," commented Italian center-left senator Assuntela Messina, a member of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission. He was transferred to Pagliarelli prison in Palermo, where he will await the processing of an extradition request to Brazil. (ANSA).
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Another article (I didn't see it posted here). It's in Italian but i was able to translate it. If anyone wants it posted here, I can copy it over
https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/operazione-magma-argentina/
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'Ndrangheta in Argentina: brokers in Buenos Aires fall
The 'Ndrangheta exists in Argentina and can count on key contacts between entrepreneurs and institutions: arrests between white-collar workers in Buenos Aires and drug trafficking brokers
30 July 2020 | by Cecilia Anesi, Ivan Ruiz
https://irpimedia.irpi.eu/operazione-magma-argentina/
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'Ndrangheta in Argentina: brokers in Buenos Aires fall
The 'Ndrangheta exists in Argentina and can count on key contacts between entrepreneurs and institutions: arrests between white-collar workers in Buenos Aires and drug trafficking brokers
30 July 2020 | by Cecilia Anesi, Ivan Ruiz
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Camorra, the boss Raffaele Cutolo transferred from Parma prison to the hospital where Toto Riina died: it's serious
Raffaele Cutolo is hospitalized in serious condition in hospital. The founder of the New Organized Camorra , 78, was again transferred from Parma prison to hospital on Thursday, apparently due to a worsening of health conditions and respiratory problems. Cutolo's lawyer, Gaetano Aufiero: «We don't know exactly what his conditions are. They tell us that the situation is under control, and continue to claim that he refuses to take the exams. But we believe that he is not lucid », explains the lawyer, reporting that his wife went to see him on June 22 and Cutolo would not have recognized her. In June, the Supervisory Court of Bologna rejected the defense's appeal for postponement of the execution of the sentence, for health reasons.Cutolo is detained at 41 bis .
The Supervisory Judges
“We have repeatedly asked the surveillance magistrate - adds the lawyer - to appoint an expert and we have no answers. I appointed a biased consultant, a geriatrician from Parma, but the director of the prison rejected the authorization for the visit for reasons of expediency, which we do not understand what they are. I also asked for the possibility of bringing the wife's monthly interview, scheduled at the end of the month, to the days of hospitalization, so that the wife can try to convince him to take the exams and this is not authorized. Finally, with a series of documents I solicited the setting of the hearing on the complaint, in Rome, against 41 bis, and still nothing ». Cutolo had already been hospitalized for a period in hospital at the beginning of the year. The judges of the Surveillance had defined his conditions as incompatible with prison,
In June, the Bologna Court of Surveillance rejected the defense's appeal for postponement of the execution of the sentence, advanced precisely for health reasons. Cutolo has been detained for years under the 41 bis regime, but his clinical situation, the judges concluded, is not incompatible with detention: his pathologies are treatable even in a prison environment. Furthermore, his criminal charisma, the court noted, has by no means waned. Indeed: many groups that refer to his name still see a symbol in the elderly boss, despite his age. And in many years of detention "he has never shown any sign of detachment from his criminal choices." In essence, there is still a danger of recidivism for a man who in the 1980s was considered the undisputed leader of
The defense is of different opinion: «We have repeatedly asked the surveillance magistrate - said the lawyer Aufiero - to appoint an expert to assess his conditions, but we have not received any answers. I appointed a biased consultant, a geriatrician from Parma, but the prison director rejected the authorization for the visit for reasons of expediency, which we do not understand what they may be. I also asked for the possibility of anticipating the monthly interview of the wife, scheduled for the end of the month, to these days of hospitalization. You might try to get him to take the tests the doctors have prescribed for him, but we're not authorized to do that either. Finally, with a series of documents I solicited the setting of the hearing on the complaint, in Rome, against 41 bis, and still nothing ». Cutolo has been hospitalized since Thursday in the prison ward ofSalvatore Riina
Raffaele Cutolo is hospitalized in serious condition in hospital. The founder of the New Organized Camorra , 78, was again transferred from Parma prison to hospital on Thursday, apparently due to a worsening of health conditions and respiratory problems. Cutolo's lawyer, Gaetano Aufiero: «We don't know exactly what his conditions are. They tell us that the situation is under control, and continue to claim that he refuses to take the exams. But we believe that he is not lucid », explains the lawyer, reporting that his wife went to see him on June 22 and Cutolo would not have recognized her. In June, the Supervisory Court of Bologna rejected the defense's appeal for postponement of the execution of the sentence, for health reasons.Cutolo is detained at 41 bis .
The Supervisory Judges
“We have repeatedly asked the surveillance magistrate - adds the lawyer - to appoint an expert and we have no answers. I appointed a biased consultant, a geriatrician from Parma, but the director of the prison rejected the authorization for the visit for reasons of expediency, which we do not understand what they are. I also asked for the possibility of bringing the wife's monthly interview, scheduled at the end of the month, to the days of hospitalization, so that the wife can try to convince him to take the exams and this is not authorized. Finally, with a series of documents I solicited the setting of the hearing on the complaint, in Rome, against 41 bis, and still nothing ». Cutolo had already been hospitalized for a period in hospital at the beginning of the year. The judges of the Surveillance had defined his conditions as incompatible with prison,
In June, the Bologna Court of Surveillance rejected the defense's appeal for postponement of the execution of the sentence, advanced precisely for health reasons. Cutolo has been detained for years under the 41 bis regime, but his clinical situation, the judges concluded, is not incompatible with detention: his pathologies are treatable even in a prison environment. Furthermore, his criminal charisma, the court noted, has by no means waned. Indeed: many groups that refer to his name still see a symbol in the elderly boss, despite his age. And in many years of detention "he has never shown any sign of detachment from his criminal choices." In essence, there is still a danger of recidivism for a man who in the 1980s was considered the undisputed leader of
The defense is of different opinion: «We have repeatedly asked the surveillance magistrate - said the lawyer Aufiero - to appoint an expert to assess his conditions, but we have not received any answers. I appointed a biased consultant, a geriatrician from Parma, but the prison director rejected the authorization for the visit for reasons of expediency, which we do not understand what they may be. I also asked for the possibility of anticipating the monthly interview of the wife, scheduled for the end of the month, to these days of hospitalization. You might try to get him to take the tests the doctors have prescribed for him, but we're not authorized to do that either. Finally, with a series of documents I solicited the setting of the hearing on the complaint, in Rome, against 41 bis, and still nothing ». Cutolo has been hospitalized since Thursday in the prison ward ofSalvatore Riina