Banda della Magliana

Roma, pregiudicato giustiziato in auto

Un agguato vero e proprio, da tempo a Roma la criminalità non si esprimeva così: in pieno giorno, con due sicari che sembrano sbucare dal nulla, alla vittima neanche il tempo di realizzare cosa stesse succedendo. A rimanere ucciso, freddato da un colpo di pistola alla testa mentre si trovava nella sua auto, una Mercedes, è Umberto Morzilli, 51 anni, un pregiudicato, diranno poco dopo gli investigatori della polizia 'molto conosciuto' e legato alla Banda della Magliana. Ma non solo. Il suo nome, lo scorso anno a luglio, piomba nell'inchiesta della procura romana sul crack finanziario di Danilo Coppola.

Su questa circostanza, però, gli avvocati Michele Gentiloni e Gaetano Pecorella, difensori dell'immobiliarista, smentiscono che "il signor Umberto Morzilli risulti indagato o comunque collegato con alcuno dei filoni di indagine relativi a Coppola". Questa mattina a Roma, davanti al corpo di Morzilli, in piazza delle Camelie, nella zona periferica di Centocelle, gli investigatori della squadra mobile capiscono di trovarsi di fronte ad un caso 'delicato e difficile'. Il nome di Umberto Morzilli, imprenditore, Umbertino per gli amici, era entrato più volte a far parte di inchieste sia sulla malavita della capitale sia in quelle che hanno riguardato gli intrecci economici tra la criminalità e il mondo della finanza. Umberto Morzilli, da sempre legato, secondo gli inquirenti, alla banda della Magliana e ad Enrico Nicoletti finì nel luglio 2007 nel registro degli indagati della procura di Roma che indagava su Danilo Coppola. 'Umbertino' aveva già alle spalle una condanna a tre anni di reclusione per tentata estorsione nell'ambito di un'inchiesta che coinvolgeva anche i figli di Enrico Nicoletti, Tony e Massimo, arrestati insieme a lui nel maggio 2003. In quell'occasione Morzilli e gli altri furono accusati di estorsione e riciclaggio. I carabinieri all'epoca li accusarono di aver chiesto una tangente di 200 mila euro ad un commerciante, pagata per metà prima della denuncia e di aver fatto esplodere un ordigno all'interno di un negozio della vittima dell'estorsione.

Gli inquirenti della procura romana, invece, nel 2007 accertarono che Morzilli tra il 1999 e il 2001 ebbe rapporti di affari con Coppola in relazione all'acquisto, da parte dell'immobiliarista, di due alberghi il 'Daniel's' e un altro nella zona della Romanina. E altre carte, sequestrate poi dal nucleo valutario della Guardia di Finanza, all'epoca dell'arresto di Coppola, sembrano intrecciare ancor di più l'immobiliarista romano, Morzilli e la malavita. Carte che riguarderebbero alcuni affari di compravendita di due terreni, uno alle porte di Roma l'altro a Torgiano in Umbria, effettuati da una società riconducibile a Coppola. Terreni di una società, la Toro '91, il cui socio di maggioranza era proprio Morzilli. Cinque mesi dopo l'acquisto dei due terreni, avvenuto alla fine del 2002, Morzilli finì in carcere con i figli di Nicoletti. Le indagini della polizia sull'agguato di questa mattina sono coordinate dal sostituto procuratore della Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, Giovanni di Leo. Le ipotesi degli inquirenti sono per ora quelle di una 'vendetta' o di un 'regolamento di conti'. Gli investigatori della squadra mobile romana, coordinati dal vice questore Vittorio Rizzi, stanno valutando tutte le probabili piste che possano portare ai due killer, dal racket delle estorsioni, al traffico di droga o del riciclaggio. Morzilli ultimanente si dedicava più intensamente al settore immobiliare ed aveva effettuato alcune speculazioni ma, sospira a sera un investigarore, allo stato non c'é un 'episodio scatenante' che possa far convergere le indagini su un versante piuttosto che un altro. La vita di 'Umbertino' bisogna 'rivisitarla tutta'. E tutti, amici, conoscenti, soci e 'avversari' saranno messi sotto il fuoco incrociato delle indagini.

http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/not...l_17094573.html

This post has been edited by x-man on Mar 7 2008, 06:19 AM

the banda della magliana still exist, of course thet don't control rome like 20-30 years ago but they mange some economic activities for the camorra, the nicoletti family (enrico and his sons-arrested 2006) are good alliances of the casalesi clan that control much of rome activities.
they are still very dangerous and have high connections as we can see from the latest event that i posted above.

x-man

powerful Casamonica clan boss was arrested last night in his luxurios villa in roma.

This post has been edited by x-man on May 30 2008, 06:33 AM

ciao


i do not know too much of the banda della magliani although was aware of their influences in the eighties etc but they were obviously involved in much goings on - did they have a connection in any way with the Bologna train bomb?

interested to learn more about magliani guys if possible

p.s.recently saw the movie Romanza Criminale which was based on the magliani, liked the movie though




buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao

I don't know about Bologna train bomb...but noways the casamonica clan and the nicoletti clan are their main power (maybe the only true remain of the banda della magliana) as i can imagine.

they have good links to the camorra (mainly to the casalesi clan) and some links to the calabrese clans that according to reports are in the top in roma.

also still have connections to political system and to lot of big businessmen (real estate mainly) according to news.

x-man

This post has been edited by x-man on May 30 2008, 06:56 AM

ciao

i have been researching more into the banda and their exploits are very interesting indeed. i can recommend a look at this to other forum members. i am sure they find their research as interesting as i did. quite a crew, believe me! Especially info on de Pedis (Dandi) and Abbatino (freddo) Calvi, Sindona, Bologna, the Pope, its all there. Enjoy.

buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao

i have been researching more into the banda and their exploits are very interesting indeed. i can recommend a look at this to other forum members. i am sure they find their research as interesting as i did. quite a crew, believe me! Especially info on de Pedis (Dandi) and Abbatino (freddo) Calvi, Sindona, Bologna, the Pope, its all there. Enjoy.

buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao amici

here is something interesting just come up which might be of interest concerning my friends of the Banda della magliana - trust me, as i said before, worth a look

'The king is dead. Long Live the king'


From Times OnlineJune 23, 2008

Police in Rome re-open kidnap case 25 years onRichard Owen in Rome
Twenty five years after the mysterious kidnapping in Rome of a teenage girl magistrates have re-opened the inquiry into the crime, which is thought to be linked to the attempt on the life of John Paul II in 1981.

Police said a woman member of the Banda della Magliana (Magliana Gang), Rome's most notorious underworld gang, had come forward to testify that she was involved in the kidnapping of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15 year old daughter of a Vatican employee, on 22 June 1983.

Reports said the woman, said to be the wife of a gang leader, had driven one of the cars used in the abduction. She had given police "other details" of the crime which justified re-opening the inquiry.

Ms Orlandi disappeared after taking flute lessons at a music school near Piazza Navona in the centre of Rome. She told her sister she had been offered a summer job by a cosmetics firm and was meeting its representative. She was later seen by eyewitnesses getting into "a dark BMW", and has not been seen since, even though Rome was plastered with "missing" posters and Pope John Paul appealed for her release.

The Orlandi family subsequently received anonymous phone calls from the alleged kidnappers -some with rough Roman accents - offering to release their daughter in exchange for Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish extremist who shot John Paul II in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981 and was imprisoned in a high security jail.

Secret negotiations came to nothing however. Judge Ferdinando Imposimato, who led the investigation, has suggested Ms Orlandi became "integrated" into the Grey Wolves, the far-right Turkish group to which Agca belonged, and is living as a Muslim in Turkey or Paris under an assumed name.

There have however been reported sightings in Rome of Ms Orlandi - who would now be forty if alive - although none has ever been confirmed. While in prison in Italy Agca, who has since been extradited to Turkey, told an interviewer he had no "direct knowledge" of Ms Orlandi's fate, but believed she was alive and "living in a cloistered convent".

The suggestion that the Magliana Gang was involved in the kidnapping surfaced three years ago when an anonymous caller to "Chi L'Ha Visto?",an Italian TV programme on missing persons, suggested the clue to the mystery lay in the fact that Enrico De Pedis, the Magliana Gang boss, was buried in the crypt of the church of Saint Apollinaris, next to the music school which Ms Orlandi attended. It remains unclear why a top criminal involved in drugs and prostitution rackets was given the honour of burial in a crypt normally reserved for cardinals, saints and martyrs.

Natalina Orlandi, Emanuela's sister, said "We have never lost hope that Emanuela will be found". Maria Orlandi, her mother, said she hoped Pope Benedict XVI would now issue an appeal to other witnesses to "search their consciences"and "break their silence" about Ms Orlandi's fate.

2008-06-24 16:01
Vatican: Church defends Marcinkus
Ex- Vatican bank chief linked to kidnapping 25 years ago
(ANSA) - Vatican City, June 24 - The Vatican has lashed out at allegations that a former head of the Vatican bank may have been involved with the kidnapping of a 15-year old girl 25 years ago.

The Vatican said the accusations were ''infamous and without foundation'' and made against someone ''who has been dead for some time and cannot defend themself''.

''We do not wish to interfere in any way with the efforts of the judiciary to ascertain facts and responsibilites.... but at the same time we cannot help but express our firm disapproval for the way certain information has been made public, in a manner more bent on sensationalism than ethical and professional sincerity''. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, disappeared in May 1985 and has never been seen or heard of since. It was initially thought that she was taken hostage in order to be exchanged with Ali' Agca, the Turkish terrorist who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981.

Recent testimony leaked to the press claimed that she was kidnapped by a renowned gangster acting on orders from Msgr. Paul Marcinkus, the then-head of the Istitito per le Opere Religiose - the Institute for Religious Works - also known as the Vatican bank.

The testimony reportedly came from Sabrina Minardi, the one-time wife of former soccer star Bruno Giordano who later became the girlfriend of Enrico De Pedis, a leader of the notorious Rome Magliana gang in the 1980s.

According to press reports, Minardi told investigators that De Pedis kidnapped Orlandi and later killed her, dumping her body in a cement mixer.

She said she thought De Pedis did it as a favor to Marcinkus, who was allegedly involved in laundering the Magliana gang's illegal earnings abroad and wanted to ''send a message high up''.

De Pedis was gunned down in broad daylight on a central Rome street in 1990. Msgr. Marcinkus had resigned his IOR position a year earlier and six months after De Pedis' death he returned to his native Chicago, in United States.

Msgr. Marcinkus later retired to Arizona, where he died in February 2006.

The Vatican official sparked controversy for his involvement with Roberto Calvi, the chairman of Milan's private Banco Ambrosiano who was dubbed ''God's banker''.

Calvi, a member of the secret P2 Masonic lodge of Lucio Gelli, was found hanged in London in June 1982, triggering the nation's biggest postwar banking scandal. According to Magliana gang supergrass Antonio Mancini, De Pedis did kidnap Orlandi but to extort money from the Vatican to make up for the huge amount of cash it lost through Calvi. Sicily's Cosa Nostra is also believed to have lost a lot of money through Calvi and some believe may have been behind his 'suicide'. Investigators are believed to be somewhat sceptical of Minardi's testimony because she also reportedly claims that Orlandi was thrown into the cement mixer along with the 11-year-old son of another Magliana gang member who disappeared in 1993, three years after De Pedis was killed and ten years after Orlandi was kidnapped.

Orlandi's family has also expressed its doubts on the validity of Minardi's testimony.

The appearance of her testimony in the press prompted an investigation by police who searched the offices of the AGI Italian news agency, which may be accused of violating court secrecy.

Despite his criminal record, De Pedis was buried in a crypt in the Church of St Apollinaire, near the central Piazza Navona, next to members of the clergy and the nobility.

The interment was said to have been authorised by the late Cardinal Ugo Poletti, who at the time was Vicar of Rome, in recognition of the ''offerings'' De Pedis had made.

According to fellow gang member Mancini, De Pedis ''was very religious, he killed people but he was a religious person''.

ciao amici

'..he killed people, but he was very religious'. Che saggio


Buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao amici

these boys really were the biz! this is from the Daily Express UK today


FOREIGN NEWS: TOMB CLUE TO KIDNAP



MYSTERY: A Vatican bank chief was caught up in a kidnap scandal
Sunday June 29,2008
By Nick Pisa A GANGSTER’S body is to be exhumed in the latest chapter of 25-year-old Vatican mystery.

Enrico De Pedis was shot by his own gang in 1990. His former lover Sabrina Minardi has claimed that Vatican bank chief Paul Marcinkus ordered De Pedis to kidnap schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi, 15, in 1983.

Two years ago a caller to an Italian TV programme said the mystery would be solved if the De Pedis tomb in Rome was opened.

There has been speculation that Miss Orlandi’s body may have been hidden there.

The daughter of a Vatican employee, she was kidnapped two years after a failed attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II to which Marcinkus was linked.

Ms Minardi told prosecutors: “The girl was kidnapped to give a message to someone. The order came from Marcinkus.”

Marcinkus, who died two years ago, was questioned about laundering Mafia money through the Vatican Bank and in 1982 was linked to the death of banker Roberto Calvi in London."

Buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao amici

sorry about this, but further to this interesting story on the disappearance of emanuela orlandi, a monsigneur on behalf of the church said of Enrico de Pedis, that he made many 'concrete initiatives' on its behalf.

It has recently been suggested by a source that de Pedis 'dumped orlandi's body into a cement mixer' - is there some connection? (sorry, couldn't help myself)

buona fortuna

'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao amici

the story of the burial of enrico de pedis aka renatino, one of the leaders of Rome's Banada della magliana, goes on.

Following potential 'new leads' on the disappearance of emanueal orlandi, the family of de pedis have decided to allow the tomb to be opened and they wish renatino to be cremated and buried elsewhere - yet that decision will lie with the Holy See, as de pedis was allowed burial in this famous church from the highest levels, as he was a great benefactor - obviously in his spare time.

For me, whatever the rights and wrongs, the church have allowed renatino burial here for 'his services' and there he should be allowed to rest - as for the orlandi case, and the suggestion she co-habits the tomb with him - the Holy See can settle that one, but maybe not.

it has been suggested in some quarters that the magliana was an instrument of the church - interesting hypothesis indeed, but plausible in some respects given 'their work' in that domain

in a short time, the magliana were involved in some of italy's most spectacular crimes in recent history - as it operated, it became perhaps a little too hot to handle, but others would have a different view no doubt - but their links to other 'organizations' is undoubted and well accepted

i am looking forward to seeing how this one runs - it has everything

buona fortuna

'the king is dead. long live the king'

hollander/bagheriaboy,

do you know if enrico nicoletti and his sons are still in prison? and if yes- when they will finished their arrest?


thanks

ciao amici

just returned i'll be back


'The king is dead. Long live the king'

ciao amici


Ooh dear - i too much out of touch, but i only remember they got out about 2005/6 and were under pressure for mafia association. I am sure I heard something recently concerning house arrest but i am not sure who that involves. Sorry about that muddle but will try to find out more accurate info

Buona fortuna


'The king is dead. Long live the king'

yea, there isn't good information about it , i also think that they are under house arrest.

i also keep searching.


thanks , i appreciate your help.


x-man

ciao amici


you know i have always had my thoughts about the Banda - did the chicken come before the egg?

the magliana were great servants to many a group, be it the state, or other factions with their own agendas - was this something which grew, or was it a seed that was nurtured

finally, although i know of the problems that existed within the group etc, but from a height, their demise was as quick as their birth

had this group outlived their usefulness? yes, there are splinters now, but to have come and gone so relatively quickly having been involved in some very, very heavy events? this always puzzles me, plus the lack of info available- strange

food for thought

buona fortuna


'The king is dead. Long live the king'

enrico nicoletti

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=DmnO80K-eA0&feature=related

this the man , very big and powerful shark...his sons know half of the world.

$$$

l'ultimo boss della Magliana Emidio Salomone (55) was killed on the outskirts of Rome two days ago.

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http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=796a9eb...a5a4231dede7419

Emidio Salomone ucciso l'ultimo boss della Magliana Esecuzione alla periferia di Roma
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Emidio Salomone, 55 anni, freddato da due killer davanti ad una sala giochi
Arrestato in Danimarca nel 2005, era stato rimesso in libertà dopo una decisione del Riesame
Ucciso l'ultimo boss della Magliana
Esecuzione alla periferia di Roma
Era sospettato di gestire estorsioni, usura e traffico di droga ad Ostia

Ucciso l'ultimo boss della Magliana Esecuzione alla periferia di Roma

La vittima dell'agguato sul marciapiedi davanti alla sala giochi
ROMA - Emidio Salomone era l'ultimo erede della Banda della Magliana. Due uomini l'hanno ucciso questa sera davanti ad una sala giochi ad Acilia, nella perfieria di Roma. Gli hanno sparato in faccia: è stata un'esecuzione. L'hanno chiamato per nome; lui si è girato e uno dei due killer ha mirato al volto facendo fuoco due volte. Emidio Salomone è caduto tra le urla della gente che affollava la strada.

Cinquantacinque anni, Salomone era considerato ancora un boss della banda criminale egemone a Roma tra gli anni '70 e '80. Al blitz del 2004 contro la malavita del nuovo "Romanzo criminale", Salomone fu l'unico a sfuggire. Fu arrestato qualche mese dopo in Danimarca ma una decisione del Tribunale del Riesame di Roma revocò l'ordinanza di custodia cautelare e, tra molte polemiche, il pregiudicato venne rimesso in libertà prima ancora di essere estradato. Ritornato in Italia, aveva ripreso le redine del racket delle estorsioni, dell'usura e del traffico di droga ad Ostia.

Quel novembre 2004, il giorno del bliz contro gli eredi della banda della Magliana, finirono in manette in 18. Salomone no: lui riuscì a scappare. Lo ripresero in Danimarca ma il giudice lo liberò poco dopo. In galera invece finirono tra gli altri Roberto Pergola, 50 anni detto "er Negro", e Luciano Crialesi, 53 anni. Gestivano una serie di business paralleli che andavano dal racket dei videopoker all'usura, dai lucrosissimi chioschi in concessione sul litorale (almeno 300 mila euro di guadagno all'anno), al traffico di droga.

Sigilli al tesoro della donna boss

http://iltempo.ilsole24ore.com/roma/2009/0...onna_boss.shtml


the nicoletti family now works hard with the ndrangheta...also with the casalesi.

X

Mafia turf war claims six victims on Rome's streets
By Michael Day in Milan, The Independent
Thursday, 7 July 2011

A cold-blooded execution in broad daylight in a busy Rome street – the sixth in just a month – has confirmed fears that the capital is facing a vicious turf war between rival organised crime factions.

The re-emerging spectre of the notorious Magliana gang appears to be at the centre of the violence, after it was revealed that the dead man, 33-year-old Flavio Simmi, had links to the organisation, which was a byword for brutality in its 1980s heyday.

Mr Simmi was shot nine times by an assailant on a motor scooter as he got out of his car on Tuesday morning to examine a burst tyre on his car while driving in Rome's Prati district.

Travelling with Mr Simmi, his wife Paola Petti, who works in the press office of the Prime Minister's official Palazzo Chigi residence, escaped unhurt.

The Magliana gang was behind the kidnapping and murder in 1983 of the daughter of a Vatican official. Her body was thrown into a cement mixer.

She had been abducted, it is believed, on the behest of Turkish extremists, who wanted to use her as a bargaining tool to win release of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

It was thought the group had withered away after the jailing and deaths of senior members.

Experts writing in Italian newspapers yesterday suggested the upsurge in violence was due to younger elements in the Magliana gang fighting over the drug trade, or possibly because of conflict between the re-emerging Roman gangsters and members of southern mafia groups such as 'Nrangheta, which have a strong presence in the city.

Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, called for a meeting with interior minister Roberto Maroni, and said that the capital, "could not be allowed become a Wild West theatre of violence".

ciao amici

whoaaaaa! Sorry Junior but the kidnapping you refer to of schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi is proving to be not so simple as you put it in your article. What you state here is pure speculation, and the most recent revelation is that Orlandi is in an asylum in London under the supervision of a couple of doctors and four nurses !!! Mmmmmm?

The Magliana are definitely an interesting bunch, and I have always said that they were to eventualy to become a tool of the state, and when they had outelived their usefulness......end of the line guys.

What we seeing today ? To many, the Magliana have become folk heroes - anti establishment - an alternative to the grubby state, and such lofty morals will no doubt appeal to kids from this current lost generation - much the same way as Denaro has inspired the mafia young guns.

Good to see the Magliana getting into the news again as their story is one of the greats of modern time with its political connections and intrigue. A story i suggest you should all follow-up on

buona fortuna

'the king is dead. long live the king'

Rome mayor calls for anti-mafia reinforcements
'Gangs more active than normal' says Alemanno

(ANSA) - Rome, November 24 - Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno requested reinforcements to battle organized crime in the capital on Thursday in meetings with Italy's new interior minister. "Local gangs are more active and virulent than normal," said the mayor, voicing concerns that the mafia was gaining a foothold in Rome as extortion and drug trafficking seemed to be on the rise. His statements came amid fears that a gang war is brewing in the area, where the growing murder rate is the highest in the country. The latest instance was a drug-related double homicide in the Roman port town of Ostia on Tuesday. Italian police on Monday arrested 24 people linked to the Neapolitan Camorra mafia accused of trafficking narcotics and counterfeit goods from Naples to Rome.

Following his meeting with Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri, Alemanno said his request for more resources was received positively.

http://wwwext.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche...l_14780745.html

32 arrests in major drug-trafficking bust
Gang 'brought drugs from Albania and Spain'

(ANSA) - Rome, April 18 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested 32 people across Italy suspected of trafficking drugs from Albania and Spain.

Police said the gang distributed drugs in Rome and was also involved in arms trafficking.

About 600,000 euros was seized along with 50 kg of drugs and "dozens of firearms", police said.

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/en...st_6736449.html

At the head of the gang Fortunato Stassi, sicilian-born from Trapani linked with the mafia families

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Millions seized in Magliana gang bust
Car dealerships used as laundering front

(ANSA) - Rome, May 3 - Police on Thursday seized assests worth two million euros from suspects linked to the now-defunct Rome-based Magliana crime gang who allegedly laundered drug money at car dealerships. Suspects including a local car dealer are linked to Enrico Nicoletti, the former Magliana gang treasurer, who returned to prison two months ago to serve a residual sentence of six and a half years. Police seized Porsches, Jaguars and vintage cars from two car dealerships suspected as a front for money laundering.

The car dealer is said to have also maintained close ties with the Naples-based Camorra mafia and the rival Rome-based Casamonica clan, who police say has some of the biggest drug and loan-sharking rackets in the capital. Other seized assets included numerous bank accounts and transaction records from a variety of businesses in and around Rome, including a fishing company.

The Magliana gang was the most feared criminal organization in Rome in the 1970s and 1980s. It was feared not just for the robberies and murders it committed but also for its presumed links with the Mafia, freemasonry and rightwing extremists. photo: archive pic of Porsche

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/en...st_6810697.html