Giuseppe Pelle

Giuseppe Pelle (born in San Luca, Calabria, August 20, 1960) is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. He is the son of Antonio Pelle, also known as Ntoni Gambazza, the capo crimine, the ceremonial head of the 'Ndrangheta.

Giuseppe was the second-born son of the undisputed leader of one of the most powerful clans of San Luca, Antonio Pelle and Giuseppa Giampaolo. His older brother Salvatore Pelle, wanted since 1991, was arrested on March 10, 2007, making Giuseppe the acting boss of the clan. One of the four sons of Antonio Pelle, Giuseppe married Marianna Barbaro, a daughter of the ‘Ndrangheta boss Francesco Barbaro from Platì, securing a tight alliance between these two powerful 'ndrine.

In March 2010, the police managed to place a bug in the home of Pelle. "In the house they talked about the 'Ndrangheta twelve hours a day," according to prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, "they felt safe and discussed freely." In just over a month hundreds of meetings were recorded between mafiosi, politicians, entrepreneurs, professionals, businessmen and middlemen of any kind, and even people with links to intelligence services.

The conversations confirmed the existence of La Provincia, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta, formed at the end of the Second 'Ndrangheta war in September 1991 to avoid further internal conflicts. They also confirmed that Giuseppe Pelle had succeeded his father and that he was in charge of managing the affairs of the 'Ndrangheta clans on the Ionic side (the Aspromonte mountains and Locride) of Calabria, together with Rocco Morabito, who had succeeded his father Giuseppe Morabito 'u tiradrittu'. (Other so-called mandamenti are those for the Tyrrhenian side (the plains of Gioia Tauro) and one central mandamento for the city of Reggio Calabria)

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