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Raffaele Ganci died yesterday https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cron ... c153.shtml
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Eleven members of Rome-based mafia clan face trial over electricity theft
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To Everyone: Writing this from memory, but within the last 7 to 10 days (not more than that), there was an article regarding a huge, huge bust in Italy regarding something like half billion dollars in cocaine from Columbia. The bust involved a number of nations, including Italy, the U.S., and Columbia. However, it was one of those 5 or 6 paragraph articles that gave no details on who was arrested or what criminal organizations were involved. IIRC, it truly was a big bust; I would assume (and I know that can be problematic) it would have HAD to involve the Ndrangheta.
I bring this to the Forum because I believe (and I could have missed it) I have not seen any thread on this somewhat historic bust .......
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6/14/22
I bring this to the Forum because I believe (and I could have missed it) I have not seen any thread on this somewhat historic bust .......
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BeatiPaoli
6/14/22
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/it ... 022-06-07/BeatiPaoli wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:51 pm To Everyone: Writing this from memory, but within the last 7 to 10 days (not more than that), there was an article regarding a huge, huge bust in Italy regarding something like half billion dollars in cocaine from Columbia. The bust involved a number of nations, including Italy, the U.S., and Columbia. However, it was one of those 5 or 6 paragraph articles that gave no details on who was arrested or what criminal organizations were involved. IIRC, it truly was a big bust; I would assume (and I know that can be problematic) it would have HAD to involve the Ndrangheta.
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The Mafia Built A Port. Now It's a Global Cocaine Hub.
The 'Ndrangheta helped build the port of Gioia Tauro in the 1990s. An organised crime expert tells VICE World News it's the beating heart of the world's most influential mafia group.
By Max Daly
July 1, 2022
A port the Calabrian mafia helped to build has become so crucial to organised crime that it accounts for almost all of the cocaine seized entering Italy by sea.
A new report by the country’s anti-drug unit revealed 97 percent of the almost 14 tons of cocaine coming into Italy via the Mediterranean sea last year was discovered in Gioia Tauro, a port in the southwest region of Calabria – an area dominated by the ‘Ndrangheta, the world’s most influential mafia organisation. The gangsters not only funded part of the building of the port, companies controlled by them were involved in its construction and its operation.
In the last two years, as cocaine seizures have fallen in the two other main west coast ports of Genoa and Livorno, they have risen in Gioia Tauro. A total of 13.3 tons of cocaine was intercepted at the port – situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy’s “toe” – in 2021, almost six times the 2.3 tons seized there in 2011. Gioia Tauro’s importance as a destination for cocaine from South America now means that Calabria accounts for two thirds of all the cocaine seized by land, air and sea in Italy.
The volume of drugs seized at ports often reflects the amount of drugs being smuggled through them. It is estimated that for every kilo that is found by the authorities, on average another five kilos goes undetected into the hands of criminal gangs – meaning that statistically the equivalent of around 70 million gram bags of high purity cocaine was successfully smuggled through Gioia Tauro last year.
The anti-drug unit’s report said the amount of cocaine seized at Gioia Tauro “confirms the fundamental and primary role that this port continues to play” in Italy’s illegal drug industry.
The report said the port is increasingly being used as a waypoint for the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs onwards to ports in the Balkans, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea, with a rising number of cocaine seized on its way from Gioia Tauro to Turkey, a country where gangs are increasingly involved in trafficking the stimulant drug.
As soon as the port opened for business in 1995, the most powerful local ‘Ndrangheta clans in the area, the Piromalli-Molé family in Gioia Tauro and the Pesce family in Rosarno, had started to wet their beaks by demanding a security tax of $1.50 from the port’s operators for every container.
A report on mafia influence in Gioia Tauro prepared for the European Commission in 2012 concluded that the “internationalisation of ‘Ndrangheta activity in the 1990s went in parallel with the construction of Gioia Tauro”. It said organised crime had “enjoyed a bonanza” as a result of the port operations, in which “the entire gamut of internal or subcontracted activities is mafia influenced, from the management of distribution and forwarding to customs control and container storage”. During one trial, it was found that 35 percent of businesses operating at the port had links to mafia.
Anna Sergi, a criminology and organised crime professor at the University of Essex who specialises in the ‘Ndrangheta, said national police forces and Europol estimate the Calabrian mafia controls around two thirds of Europe's cocaine trade.
“Gioia Tauro is home for the ’Ndrangheta. It has always been a huge investment for the clans, to import cocaine themselves and also to offer protection and services to newcomers who wanted to import cocaine and anything else,” she said. “’Ndrangheta clans have exploited Gioia Tauro not just through trafficking, but also through interfering in the hiring process at the port and via higher levels of corruption.”
One police investigation last year which resulted in the arrest of 49 people uncovered the infiltration of one of Gioia Tauro’s three towns, Rosarno, by the ‘Ndrangheta, which had managed to control official bodies by influencing local elections. In another case, port authorities found evidence that a laboratory for refining, preparing and packaging cocaine bricks was being set up within the port by a team of South Americans linked to the mafia.
There has been a string of police operations and trials targeting and exposing the mafia’s influence on Gioia Tauro, as well as some huge seizures of drugs at the port. In December last year Italian police discovered three tons of cocaine hidden in two shipments of bananas, peanuts and washing machines.
In her new book about her time growing up near Gioia Tauro and researching the ‘Ndrangheta, Chasing the Mafia: ‘Ndrangheta, memories and journeys, Sergi explained: “The port of Gioia Tauro was built and sustained, especially in its early days in the 1990s, with the money and in the interest of some of the most important clans of the ‘Ndrangheta.”
She said Gioia Tauro was a unique port in terms of its organised crime set up. Gangsters have influence in seaports around the world, from Brooklyn and Montreal to Liverpool and Genoa, but Gioia Tauro stands alone because the port, the surrounding region and its incoming drug trade is so dominated by the ‘Ndrangheta.
“The money that bought the drugs in the first place comes from the same territory where the drugs arrive and are initially distributed. The cocaine investors are not always the distributors, but in Gioia Tauro they are.
“The ‘Ndrangheta clans invest, import and receive, as well as distribute wholesale. And it is not always like this, not even for the ‘Ndrangheta clans active in other places. This gives them a powerful grip on both the cocaine and the territory.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qa3a/ ... rt-cocaine
The 'Ndrangheta helped build the port of Gioia Tauro in the 1990s. An organised crime expert tells VICE World News it's the beating heart of the world's most influential mafia group.
By Max Daly
July 1, 2022
A port the Calabrian mafia helped to build has become so crucial to organised crime that it accounts for almost all of the cocaine seized entering Italy by sea.
A new report by the country’s anti-drug unit revealed 97 percent of the almost 14 tons of cocaine coming into Italy via the Mediterranean sea last year was discovered in Gioia Tauro, a port in the southwest region of Calabria – an area dominated by the ‘Ndrangheta, the world’s most influential mafia organisation. The gangsters not only funded part of the building of the port, companies controlled by them were involved in its construction and its operation.
In the last two years, as cocaine seizures have fallen in the two other main west coast ports of Genoa and Livorno, they have risen in Gioia Tauro. A total of 13.3 tons of cocaine was intercepted at the port – situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy’s “toe” – in 2021, almost six times the 2.3 tons seized there in 2011. Gioia Tauro’s importance as a destination for cocaine from South America now means that Calabria accounts for two thirds of all the cocaine seized by land, air and sea in Italy.
The volume of drugs seized at ports often reflects the amount of drugs being smuggled through them. It is estimated that for every kilo that is found by the authorities, on average another five kilos goes undetected into the hands of criminal gangs – meaning that statistically the equivalent of around 70 million gram bags of high purity cocaine was successfully smuggled through Gioia Tauro last year.
The anti-drug unit’s report said the amount of cocaine seized at Gioia Tauro “confirms the fundamental and primary role that this port continues to play” in Italy’s illegal drug industry.
The report said the port is increasingly being used as a waypoint for the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs onwards to ports in the Balkans, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea, with a rising number of cocaine seized on its way from Gioia Tauro to Turkey, a country where gangs are increasingly involved in trafficking the stimulant drug.
As soon as the port opened for business in 1995, the most powerful local ‘Ndrangheta clans in the area, the Piromalli-Molé family in Gioia Tauro and the Pesce family in Rosarno, had started to wet their beaks by demanding a security tax of $1.50 from the port’s operators for every container.
A report on mafia influence in Gioia Tauro prepared for the European Commission in 2012 concluded that the “internationalisation of ‘Ndrangheta activity in the 1990s went in parallel with the construction of Gioia Tauro”. It said organised crime had “enjoyed a bonanza” as a result of the port operations, in which “the entire gamut of internal or subcontracted activities is mafia influenced, from the management of distribution and forwarding to customs control and container storage”. During one trial, it was found that 35 percent of businesses operating at the port had links to mafia.
Anna Sergi, a criminology and organised crime professor at the University of Essex who specialises in the ‘Ndrangheta, said national police forces and Europol estimate the Calabrian mafia controls around two thirds of Europe's cocaine trade.
“Gioia Tauro is home for the ’Ndrangheta. It has always been a huge investment for the clans, to import cocaine themselves and also to offer protection and services to newcomers who wanted to import cocaine and anything else,” she said. “’Ndrangheta clans have exploited Gioia Tauro not just through trafficking, but also through interfering in the hiring process at the port and via higher levels of corruption.”
One police investigation last year which resulted in the arrest of 49 people uncovered the infiltration of one of Gioia Tauro’s three towns, Rosarno, by the ‘Ndrangheta, which had managed to control official bodies by influencing local elections. In another case, port authorities found evidence that a laboratory for refining, preparing and packaging cocaine bricks was being set up within the port by a team of South Americans linked to the mafia.
There has been a string of police operations and trials targeting and exposing the mafia’s influence on Gioia Tauro, as well as some huge seizures of drugs at the port. In December last year Italian police discovered three tons of cocaine hidden in two shipments of bananas, peanuts and washing machines.
In her new book about her time growing up near Gioia Tauro and researching the ‘Ndrangheta, Chasing the Mafia: ‘Ndrangheta, memories and journeys, Sergi explained: “The port of Gioia Tauro was built and sustained, especially in its early days in the 1990s, with the money and in the interest of some of the most important clans of the ‘Ndrangheta.”
She said Gioia Tauro was a unique port in terms of its organised crime set up. Gangsters have influence in seaports around the world, from Brooklyn and Montreal to Liverpool and Genoa, but Gioia Tauro stands alone because the port, the surrounding region and its incoming drug trade is so dominated by the ‘Ndrangheta.
“The money that bought the drugs in the first place comes from the same territory where the drugs arrive and are initially distributed. The cocaine investors are not always the distributors, but in Gioia Tauro they are.
“The ‘Ndrangheta clans invest, import and receive, as well as distribute wholesale. And it is not always like this, not even for the ‘Ndrangheta clans active in other places. This gives them a powerful grip on both the cocaine and the territory.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qa3a/ ... rt-cocaine
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yes, the book is out!
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Italian arrested in Goiás (Brazil) is a member of the 'feared' mafia that controls international drug trafficking and lived in a luxury house, says PF
Italian mafia called 'Ndrangheta controls a significant part of the cocaine traffic that leaves Brazil for Europe, according to the PF. Video taken by police shows the pattern of the house in which Italian lived.
Italian Joseph Bruzzese, arrested in Goiânia during an operation by the Federal Police (PF) this Wednesday (24), is a member of the feared Italian mafia called 'Ndrangheta, which controls a significant part of the cocaine traffic that leaves Brazil for Europe, according to PF.
According to the Federal Police, Bruzzese remains in prison and at the disposal of justice. The g1 did not locate his defense to manifest until the last update of this report.
So far, two people have been arrested in the operation, called La Spezia: the Italian in Goiânia and his partner in Santa Catarina.
In addition to the arrest, the PF seized cars, computers, cell phones and notes at the Italian's residence. Video taken by police shows that the house has two floors, luxury furniture and a large swimming pool next to the living room.
The Federal Police found that the group used the ports of Espírito Santo to ship large amounts of cocaine to Italy, hidden in marble and granite floors.
Investigation started in 2020
According to the Federal Police, the investigation began with information received from Italy regarding a seizure of 338 kilos of cocaine that took place in the Italian port of La Spezia.
The drug was seized on December 28, 2020 and was hidden between granite floors, produced and shipped in Espírito Santo. Four people were arrested in the act at the time, one Brazilian, one Italian and two Albanian.
Video and images of the luxury house where he lived:
https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2 ... z-pf.ghtml
Italian mafia called 'Ndrangheta controls a significant part of the cocaine traffic that leaves Brazil for Europe, according to the PF. Video taken by police shows the pattern of the house in which Italian lived.
Italian Joseph Bruzzese, arrested in Goiânia during an operation by the Federal Police (PF) this Wednesday (24), is a member of the feared Italian mafia called 'Ndrangheta, which controls a significant part of the cocaine traffic that leaves Brazil for Europe, according to PF.
According to the Federal Police, Bruzzese remains in prison and at the disposal of justice. The g1 did not locate his defense to manifest until the last update of this report.
So far, two people have been arrested in the operation, called La Spezia: the Italian in Goiânia and his partner in Santa Catarina.
In addition to the arrest, the PF seized cars, computers, cell phones and notes at the Italian's residence. Video taken by police shows that the house has two floors, luxury furniture and a large swimming pool next to the living room.
The Federal Police found that the group used the ports of Espírito Santo to ship large amounts of cocaine to Italy, hidden in marble and granite floors.
Investigation started in 2020
According to the Federal Police, the investigation began with information received from Italy regarding a seizure of 338 kilos of cocaine that took place in the Italian port of La Spezia.
The drug was seized on December 28, 2020 and was hidden between granite floors, produced and shipped in Espírito Santo. Four people were arrested in the act at the time, one Brazilian, one Italian and two Albanian.
Video and images of the luxury house where he lived:
https://g1.globo.com/go/goias/noticia/2 ... z-pf.ghtml
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Carabinieri, State and finance police on Thursday executed over 200 arrest warrants in a huge operation coordinated by DDA anti-mafia investigators targetting Calabria's 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate. Local politicians, including Marcello Manna, the mayor of the town of Rende, entrepreneurs, professionals and figures from the criminal world of the province of Cosenza were among those arrested. Manna was put under house arrest. Assets worth 72 million euros were seized as part of the operation. (ANSA).
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/genera ... f8dd4.html
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/genera ... f8dd4.html
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Spain arrests 32 allegedly linked to Italy's 'ndrangheta mob
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go ... b-90205147
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go ... b-90205147
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Police arrest 35 suspected mafia members in Sicily
The suspects were arrested in operations aimed at capturing mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who has been on the run since 1993. Police have conducted a number of raids on suspected mafia members over the past week.
https://www.dw.com/en/police-arrest-35- ... a-63032518
The suspects were arrested in operations aimed at capturing mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who has been on the run since 1993. Police have conducted a number of raids on suspected mafia members over the past week.
https://www.dw.com/en/police-arrest-35- ... a-63032518
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Sicily, center-right candidate arrested for exchange vote
(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 23 – The carabinieri of Palermo arrested Salvatore Ferrigno, 62, a candidate for the Sicilian regional parliament in the upcoming elections in the Popular Autonomists of Raffaele Lombardo, a list of the coalition that supports the former president of the Senate Renato Schifani in the race for the presidency of the Sicilian Region. The aspiring deputy is accused of political-mafia electoral exchange. Together with him, the boss Giuseppe Lo Duca and Piera Lo Iacono, who allegedly acted as intermediary between the politician and the mafia, ended up in prison. Yesterday the arrest for corruption of the regional candidate for FdI Barbara Mirabella.
https://sicilylab.com/sicily-center-rig ... ange-vote/
(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 23 – The carabinieri of Palermo arrested Salvatore Ferrigno, 62, a candidate for the Sicilian regional parliament in the upcoming elections in the Popular Autonomists of Raffaele Lombardo, a list of the coalition that supports the former president of the Senate Renato Schifani in the race for the presidency of the Sicilian Region. The aspiring deputy is accused of political-mafia electoral exchange. Together with him, the boss Giuseppe Lo Duca and Piera Lo Iacono, who allegedly acted as intermediary between the politician and the mafia, ended up in prison. Yesterday the arrest for corruption of the regional candidate for FdI Barbara Mirabella.
https://sicilylab.com/sicily-center-rig ... ange-vote/
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Scagghiuni -- do you know which Family Giuseppe LoDuca is boss of?
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Looks like Carini B.....
At the basis of the agreements between Ferrigno and the boss of Carini Giuseppe Lo Duca there would also be a sum of money equal to 20 thousand euros for each of the countries in which Lo Duca would have had to support the candidate by putting pressure on the voters. The money was then reduced to 5 thousand euros. The suspects are to be considered innocent until the final sentence.