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Although the legal definition of the 'Ndrangheta as a hierarchical structure is legally attractive because of the wider possibilities in Italian criminal law to convict criminals from different clans through the doctrine of criminal association, criminologists have challenged the view of the 'Ndrangheta as a stable, monolithic criminal association.
The structure of the 'Ndrangheta.Local 'ndrina are the building blocks, at the base of the hierarchy. The 'ndrina (Italian:, plural: 'ndrine; Calabrian: [ɳˈɖɽiːna], plural: 'ndrini) is the basic unit of the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria, made up of blood relatives, and is the equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia’s "family" or cosca.
Derived from the Greek word andragathía (meaning courage or loyalty), the 'Ndrangheta formed in the 1890s in Calabria. The 'Ndrangheta consists of 160 cells and approximately 6,000 members, although worldwide estimates put core membership at around 10,000. [26] The group specializes in political corruption and cocaine trafficking.
The Camera di Controllo (Board of Control), is a collegial body of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria in Southern Italy. It is also known as La Provincia (the Province) or Camera di Compensazione (compensation board).
The 'ndrina (plural: 'ndrine) is the basic unit in the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization from Calabria. Province of Catanzaro. Badolato. Gallelli; Borgia ...
La Santa is a secret society within the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organisation in Calabria ().The name probably derives from the shortening of mamma santissima. [1] In mafia slang, the expression is used to refer to mafia chiefs.
A second 'Ndrangheta war was triggered by the marriage between Giuseppina Condello – the sister of the Condello brothers, underbosses of De Stefano – and Antonio Imerti, the leader of a neighbouring 'ndrina in Villa San Giovanni. The conflict exploded in 1985, two years after the marriage and saw practically all the 'ndrine in the city of ...
The Vangelo is a high rank within the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organisation in Calabria . Vangelo literally means Gospel [1] and a member is called a vangelista (plural: vangelisti). The rank was established around 1978, when the rank of santista (a member of La Santa) became inflated because the original membership of 33 expanded. [2]