International Organised Crime
On the 24th August, Presiding Judge Ben Adachi of the Fukuoka District Court, sentenced Satoru Nomura, the 74-year-old head of the Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture-based Kudo-kai, to death.
A Camorra investigator describes the Mazzarella Camorra family, that has its stronghold in the Luzzatti district of Naples, as a “a big sleeping bear,” lying low as it awaits the next move of the enemy, the Secondigliano Alliance. It’s a game of wait-and-see, as the clan wins time for the new generation of Mazzarella bosses to take over the reins of the clan.
The prison sentence for the 70-year-old boss Leo Sutera, believed to be the head of the Sambuca mafia clan and very loyal to the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, was reduced on appeal from 18 years to 14 years and 6 months. The Palermo court of appeal also confirmed the prison sentences of three mafia collaborators … Read more
Thirty years ago, on the 21st July 1991, Fabio De Pandi and his family were getting into the car to return home. They had been visiting some friends who lived in Rione Traiano, Soccavo district, on the western outskirts of Naples. Suddenly all hell broke loose. A mafioso from the Puccinelli Camorra clan unleashed a … Read more
Domenico Paviglianiti, the alleged “boss of the bosses” of the ‘Ndrangheta , one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, was arrested on the 10th August in Madrid.
