2. CRIMINALITY ORGANIZED CALABRESE a. Analysis of the phenomenon and evolutionary profiles In the second half of 2022 the situation of organized crime in Calabria would remain substantially unchanged compared to the previous period of the year.

However, the elements which emerged from the investigations concluded in the period under review, better described in the following paragraphs, showed some aspects of interest which, from a careful analysis, could reveal possible developments of the 'ndranghetist groups in the various contexts of reference.

In the central mandate of Reggio Calabria, the mafia clan ALVARO of Sinopoli has evidenced its expansion attempt also on the mafia clans conterminations such as the NASONE-GAIETTI of Scilla, in which a series of contrasts were recorded.

Also in the province of Reggio Calabria and, in particular, in the Tyrrhenian mandate has witnessed the change of regency of the mafia clan BELLOCCO of Rosarno following the death, for natural causes, of the historical summit with a succession - as from tradition - in family line.

Moreover, always with reference to the aforementioned consortium, there would have emerged unpublished relations with representatives of the SPADA clan, hegemon in Ostia (RM) and along the Lazio coast, matured inside the prison during the period of detention of the respective vertices (operation "Blu Night).

The mafia clan BELLOCCO further confirmed its vocation to infiltrate the economic and entrepreneurial sectors also in the provinces of northern Italy (operation "Return").

Invaried, in fact, the tendency to infiltrate the areas of public administration thanks to the involvement of unfaithful officials and local public administrators (operations "Tre CrociCavalieri di Gioia" and "New Line".

In the field of drugs, the mafia clans of 'ndrangheta have proven their unique ability to engage in functional relationships with Italian organizations (Cosa Nostra and Camorra) and foreign (in early Albanians) as documented by the results of the operations "Magma 2" of the drug industry DDA of Reggio Calabria and "Acheron" coordinated by that of Palermo.

In the area of the Jonic Mandament, within the mafia clan CORDIE of Locri, there was a renewal of his leadership because of the continuous, incisive activities of contrast, which led to the affirmation of certain young levers of the same mafia house (operation "New Generation-Riscatto 2").

As a result of the precautionary measures resulting from the investigations that have hit the most qualified levels of the 'ndrangheta clans, in the semester under review it has witnessed the statement, although it does not constitute an element of novelty, of female figures at the top of some sodalizi, as happened to the mafia clan BELLOCCO, in which a woman has been entrusted with the "common case" established for the maintenance of the

And again, for the mafia clan ROSMINI-SERRAINO, at whose summit of the sodalizio still a woman guaranteed stability and continuity to the delicate balances of the clan (operation "Revolve").

The investigations concluded in the semester in disamina, within the district of the Court of Appeal of Catanzaro, allowed to identify then a structural variant of the 'ndrangheta

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in the province of Cosenza, articulated according to a confederative model composed of 7 criminal groups.

Outside the region of origin, the Calabrian mafia clans, as well as significantly infiltrate the main economic and productive sectors, replicate the mafia models based on traditional identity values, with "projections" that always refer to the Crimine, as a unitary body of summit, which adopts and imposes the main strategies, directs disputes and establishes the suppression or constitution of new premises.

The investigations concluded today have, in fact, allowed to identify in North Italy 46 local, of which 25 in Lombardy, 16 in Piedmont, 3 in Liguria, 1 in Veneto, 1 in Valle d'Aosta and 1 in Trentino Alto Adige1.

More recently, even in Emilia Romagna the investigation activities have gradually unveiled a remarkable incisivity of the 'ndrangheta and, in particular, of the clan GRANDE ARACRI of Cutro (KR).

The results obtained on the research and capture of the complainants were also important: in fact, several members of the Calabrian mafia clans have been given justice in the six-month period, which, for a long time, have been subject to the execution of the restrictive measures issued to them.2

Among others, the capture in Turkey of a latitante3 belonging to the mafia clan PELLE of San Luca performed, the 11 novembre 2022, thanks to the elements acquired by the DIA, as part of some investigations, shared with the Polizia di Stato of Reggio Calabria and with the I-CAN Unit of the International Police Cooperation Service of the Directorate Criminal Police officer.

With regard to the prevention activity Antimafia carried out by Prefects both in the Region of origin, and in those of projection, once again the strong propensity of the 'ndrines to infiltrate the administrative bodies and the electoral partners of local authorities4 was documented in order to acquire control of public resources and financial flows, state and community, also functional to increase its prestige and social consent.

The graphic representation, which follows the positioning on map of the components of 'ndrangheta, is to be considered merely indicative.

The 6 luglio 2022, arrived at the airport of Rome-Fiumicino, extradited from Brazil, an international drug dealer arrested the 25 maggio 2021, during a joint operation of the Carabinieri of Reggio Calabria with the Brazilian Federal Authorities, as hit by a ruling of pre-trial detention issued by the Procura General of Reggio Calabria.

The man, inserted in the list of the most dangerous persons of the "Special Research Programme" of the Ministry of the Interior, will have to pay a final penalty of 30 years of imprisonment.

The 11 ottobre 2022, in Malaga (Spain), as part of the I-CAN project, the Spanish police, in collaboration with the Guardia di Finanza, the International Police Cooperation Service and the Polizia di Stato of Florence and Livorno, was under arrest an international cocaine trafficker, originally from Melito Porto Salvo (RC), who had long transplanted to Tuscany.

The man, latitante since 2021 since he was subtracted to capture in the context of the operation "Molo 13" coordinated by the DDA of Catanzaro, was linked to the mafia clan GALLACE of Guardavalle (CZ), sentenced to the penalty of 14 years and 4 months of imprisonment, as well as the recipient of two European arrest warrants for criminal conspiracy aimed at importing drugs from South America.

Irreperible from 5 dicembre 2018 since it escaped the execution of ruling of pre-trial detention issued by the GIP of the Reggio Calabria Tribunal in the context of the operation "Pollino-European 'ndrangheta Connection", coordinated by the Procura District Antimafia bra.

In the semester under review in Calabria were extended (ex art. 143 T.U.E.L.) with the measures of the 29 dicembre 2022 the Municipalities of Rosarno (RC), Nocera Terinese (CZ) and Simeri Crichi (CZ), while with decree of the 23 novembre 2022 was dissolved the Municipality of Cosoleto (RC).

In Lazio, with the decrees of the 23 novembre 2022, the City councils of Anzio and Neptune (RM).

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The drug industry remains the major criminal sector for 'ndrangheta.

In the context of global drug trafficking, the Calabrian doctrines have long played a recognised role of universal level since they are reliable on the criminal level, which can be found on the financial level and capable of managing a complex and reliable chain of logistics for transoceanic transport, from South American countries to Europe, drug burdens.

Negli ultimi anni, anche alcune aree dell'Africa occidentale e, in particolare, la Costa d'Avorio, la Guinea-Bissau e il Ghana, sono divenute per le cosche di 'ndrangheta uno snodo logistico sempre più strategico per i traffici di stupefacenti.

In this context, the port of Gioia Tauro remains a nerve center for the supply of drugs and not only for the mafia clans of 'ndrangheta but, as emerged in the operation "Tre Croci-Cavalli di Gioia"5, also for other Italian and foreign criminal matrices.

The attention of the organized Calabrian crime remains high also in the management of illegal waste traffic.

In fact, in addition to what has already emerged in the operation "Mala Pigna" of October 2021 that it concerned the only mafia clan PIROMALLI, the 3 ottobre 2022 the Carabinieri have distracted another criminal conspiracy aimed at illicit trafficking of waste operating in the province of Crotone (operation "Black Wood").

Immuted is also the interest of the 'ndrangheta in the usury and in the racket of the extortion, as supported by the Prefect of Reggio Calabria, specifying6 also that "the extortive phenomenon is a constant in damage of the economic operators of the territory.

Among the positive aspects, there is a greater tendency to denounce such crimes [..]".

As can be seen in the results of the investigations concluded in the semester in question, the attention of the mafia clans to the management of the bathing areas7 is confirmed, mainly implemented through various methods of conditioning of the procedures of assignment of the state concessions.

Considerable and widely documented the presence of the 'ndrangheta in the field of building and housing, as can be seen from the operations "Blu Notte" and "Return" and in the investigation "Planning" conducted by the DIA and the Guardia di Finanza.

Also unchanged the operation of the Calabrian mafia clans in the control and management of the wooded heritage and the guardianship, through the imposition of the lace also on the sale of the lands, however abusive guardianship and illicit activity already emerged in previous investigations, and very widespread among all the sodalizi of 'ndrangheta active in the plain of Gioia Tauro8.

For details please refer to the section on the Tirrenic Mandamento.

During the interview with the DIA Operational Centre.

Following the "New Line" operations of this semester and "Lampetra" of the second half of 2021, important interests have emerged also from the mafia clan NASONE-GAIETTI, active in Scilla (RC).

The results of the operations "Vecchia Guardia" of 2014 and "Quieto vivere" of 2018, against the mafia clan CIANCIMAIO-HONOMANN of San Matino di Taurianova (RC) and in the semester under review the operations "Blu Night" and "Return" to the mafia clan BELLOCCO.

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RELAZIONE SEMESTRALE AL PARLAMENTO Gli interessi verso il settore edile sono documentati nell'ambito della citata operazione "Planning"9, conclusa dalla DIA e dalla Guardia di finanza, con cui sarebbe stata individuata un'associazione per delinquere composta anche da imprenditori attivi nel settore edile e della grande distribuzione alimentare - taluni già coinvolti in indagini o colpiti da misure di prevenzione - che avrebbero stretto una pluralità di accordi con famiglie di 'ndrangheta, agevolando l'infiltrazione delle consorterie in quei settori tramite la compartecipazione occulta di loro esponenti alle iniziative economiche, gestite ed organizzate per il tramite di imprese fittiziamente intestate a terzi ovvero mediante l'affidamento di numerosi servizi e forniture ad altri imprenditori espressione diretta dell'associazione criminale.

Abroad, the Calabrian mafia clans, as well as showing that it has been able to take advantage of the disarmament between the different legal orders by reinvesting the illegally accumulated capitals in countries where the collaboration between the Judicial Authorities is absent or more difficult, are particularly prone to drug trafficking, extortion activities and the money laundering.

The 19 dicembre 2022, in fact, the DDA of Catanzaro has concluded an anti-drug operation, started on input of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in order to some extortive episodes committed in the area of Manhattan would document the involvement of the mafia clan CORIGLIANO-COMITO of Rocca di Neto (KR).

N. 4670/2019 RGNR DDA n. 3266/2020 RGIP DDA and n. 52/2021 R OCC DDA issued by the Reggio Court Calabria the 6 luglio 2022.

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In the field of drug trafficking, the 12 luglio 2022, was completed an anti-drug investigation of the DDA of Turin10, initiated following the declaration of latigation of an exponent of a group 'ndranghetista, active in the Piedmontese capital, who had taken refuge in Iberian territory.

This, located in Barcelona and under arrest the 22 giugno 2022 for mafia association aimed at the traffic of narcotic substances, was the head of an association dedicated to the import of large narcotic loads on the axis Spain-Italy.

The 6 settembre 2022, the operation "Metropoli-Hidden Economy" of the DDA of Milan11 documented how some affiliates to a 'ndranghetista' consortium, rooted in the Lombard context, had planned the import from the Iberian territory of a load of 140 kg. of hashish, then seized on the border between Spain and France.

The analogies, in both measures issued by the Judicial Authorities of Turin and Milan, concerned the planned import and delivery of substantial quantities of narcotic substance from Spain and the relative payment methods that would be carried out, by Chinese citizens, through the well-known cd circuit.

"hawala"12.

OCC. n. 17923/20 RGRN and n. 12599120 RGGIP issued by the Court of Turin.

n. 16976/2022 RGNR crime suspected stop placed the 30 agosto 2022 from the DDA in Milan, performed the 6 settembre 2022.

The GIP of Milan the 9 settembre 2022 issued the order of non-validation of the above-mentioned decree (not revising the invoked assumption of the danger of escape) providing, however, the contextual application of personal precautionary measure (OCC no.

16976/22 RGNR – 14915/22 RG GIP) for all the hypotheses of blaming the original order of DDA.

This mechanism is a kind of submerged banking network, based on trust between affiliates, and is often used by ethnic groups to transfer money, even ingenious, into their countries of origin (Africa, Asia and the Middle East) without using the official channels (financial intermediaries and/or money transfer agencies) that leave track of the movement.

In summary, with the "hawala" system, a person operating in Europe (so-called broker-hawala to which the cash is delivered from a potential customer) gives indications to a counterpart (resident in the foreign country where the money is transferred) so that he delivers the same sum of money (decurred of his commission) to the recipient.

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