Australian authorities suspect that the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta are behind recent violent attacks on pizzerias in Melbourne. The attacks are part of an extortion scheme targeting local food wholesalers, restaurants, and even supermarkets. Known to its members in Australia as the L’Onorata Societa the criminal organization has established powerful connections … [Read more…]
Major mafia raids were conducted this morning in a joint operation between the FBI and Italian Police targeting the Gambino crime family of the New York mafia and the Calabrian Mafia or Ndrangheta in Italy. The two notorious organized crime families were involved in a drug trafficking operation that operated a new drug smuggling … [Read more…]
Michele Morelli an alleged mafia hit man for the Sacra Corona Unita was caught on camera seemingly running out of bullets as he attempts to finish off a mob hit. The Sacra Corona Unita or Puglian Mafia is a often lesser known Italian mafia organization as its size and power is not as sizeable … [Read more…]
Reputed Ndrangheta or Calabrian mafia leader Carmelo Bruzzese captured in Toronto is now facing deportation back to Italy. Italian authorities raided the home of Bruzzese in Italy locating a sophisticated secret bunker containing water , food, and a air filtration system but the mobster was no where to be found. He had fled to … [Read more…]
After being on the run for almost twenty years Sicilian Mafia also known as Cosa Nostra boss Domenico Rancadore was found hiding in London,England. He was living the quiet life with his family as a business man under the name of Marc Skinner in a modest house in Uxbridge. Neighbors say that they had … [Read more…]
Italian authorities executed two seperate raids on the Mafia taking down more then 100 reputed mobsters. Two seperate investigations against the Sicilian Mafia in Rome and the Calabrian Mafia in Lamezia Terme led to the takedowns. The raid in Rome included 50 reputed members of the D’Agati, Fasciani, and Triassi clans of the Sicilian … [Read more…]
A crime cell from the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta was uncovered operating in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Giuseppe Bruzzese was caught by a surveillance device located in a business owned by the Commisso Clan in Siderno, Calabria speaking with a top boss from the Ndrangheta about a dispute between two different Canadian … [Read more…]
The decimation of the Rosarno Clan of the Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia by Italian authorities continued with the surrender of acting boss Giuseppe Pesce. After being on the run for the last three years Pesce accompanied by lawyers turned himself into authorities telling his defense lawyers “Enough, Im tired of running” asking them to … [Read more…]
The ongoing Montreal Mafia war between the Rizzuto crime family from the Sicilian Mafia and a breakaway group allegedly led by Raynald Desjardins with the backing of the Ndrangheta has seemingly spread into Italy. Juan Ramon Fernandez was shot to death along with another man in a mob linked hit outside Palermo, Sicily. Fernandez … [Read more…]
Domenico Trimboli a powerful captain in the Calabrian Mafia also known as the Ndrangheta has been arrested in Colombia. He is known as a top drug trafficker for the Ndrangheta and leads a big part of the organization’s international drug trade. Italian authorities claimed that Trimboli arranged cocaine shipments of up to two and … [Read more…]
Italian authorities have arrested the reputed boss of the Nirta-Strangio clan of the Calabrian Mafia or Ndrangheta. Sebastiano Strangio was found in Northern Italy living under a new name using fake paperwork. He is suspected of playing a leading role in the massacre of six Pelle-Votari clan mobsters outside of a pizzeria in Germany … [Read more…]
Italian authorities learned of a plot by the reputed head of the Cosa Nostra to kill Nino Di Matteo an Italian prosecutor. Matteo Messina Denaro one of the top ten most wanted men in the world ordered the hit on Matteo according to letters revealed this week. Denaro has been a fugitive since 1993 … [Read more…]
Naples authorities have arrested Gennaro Trambarulo a high ranking member of the Neapolitan Mafia also known as the Camorra. Trambarulo is an alleged leader in the so called “mixed group” a sort of commission which oversees the operations of the criminal organization. This ruling commission was made up of heads from the three principle … [Read more…]
Gianni Nicchi was sentenced to ten years in prison Wednesday in Palermo. The 31-year-old Nicchi is a boss in the Sicilian mafia also known as Cosa Nostra and was dubbed the boy wonder of the Sicilian mafia. He climbed through mob ranks quickly after the arrest of Salvatore Lo Piccolo then the “boss of … [Read more…]