Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay Miyamato Musashi Maxi-Trial Following a three-year legal process that saw 416 members and associates of the ‘ndrangheta arrested in December 2019, over two hundred defendants were found guilty and given a combined sentence of 2,100 years. For Italian magistrates…...
Nicola Gratteri
Latest ‘Ndrangheta Sweep
In the early morning hours of June 27, 2023, a major operation took place aimed at the Calabrian mafia, the ‘ndrangheta. The Carabinieri del Ros arrested 43 people with warrants issued by the Catanzaro Anti-mafia District Directorate (DDA) and more specifically, at the direction of Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri. The arrests…...
‘Ndrangheta Encroachment of New York
In March 2020, the Central Operations Service in Catanzaro, Calabria received some interesting reports from the FBI in New York. Specifically, they inquired about Teodoro Matozzo from Satriano, a small town in Catanzaro. Apparently, Matozzo was operating in New York and had links to the Gambino and Colombo families. Equally…...
Dismantling ‘Ndrangheta
“It crushes the region. We are always getting poorer, but this is what they want. The weaker we are, the less likely we are to resist. The ‘Ndrangheta has got inside of us. Inside our minds…” – Gaetano Saffioto, Calabrian businessman ‘Ndrangheta ‘Ndrangheta derives from the Greek word, andragathizesthai ,…...