Mala del Brenta
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| Founded by | Felice Maniero |
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| Founding location | Campolongo Maggiore, Padua, Italy |
| Years active | 1970s– present |
| Territory | Northeast Italy (as well Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Emilia-Romagna), and Croatia |
| Ethnicity | People of Venetian and Italian descent |
| Membership (est.) | c. 400-500 full members |
| Criminal activities | Racketeering, drug trafficking, gambling, kidnapping, extortion, pimping, murder, fraud, loan sharking, bribery, fencing, robbery, car hijacking and money laundering |
| Allies | Cosa Nostra and Nuova Camorra Organizzata |
| Rivals | Various gangs, mainly Romani, in Veneto |
The Mala del Brenta, also known as Mafia veneta (Venetian mafia) or Mafia del Piovese, is a criminal organisation based in the Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia north-eastern Italy.
The criminal organization's structure is like a Cosa Nostra and Camorra model, but more violent. It is considered by the Italian government and Prefecture of Venice as including all the characteristics of Article 416 bis-cp,[2] the legislative definition of a mafia-type organisation with Mafia (Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Camorra) affiliations within Italy.[3] It has been referred to by several different names including: Mafia del Brenta, Malavita del Brenta, Mala or Mafia del Piovese, or simply Malavita.
In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of high-ranking members of the Sicilian Mafia were sent in solitary confinement in various provincial towns in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions; mostly around the cities of Vicenza, Padua, Trieste and Venice, in an attempt to isolate powerful Sicilian ringleaders from other members in the Mafia. The most notable Sicilian mafiosi included: Salvatore Contorno, Gaetano Fidanzati, Antonino Duca and Gaetano and Salvatore Badalamenti, and Giuseppe Madonia.[4] Veneti malavitosi, or underworld figures and bandits from the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, bega to seek contact with these Sicilian criminals and eventually organized themselves, obtaining enough power to take the reins of the organization. What started as a small gang of criminals controlling racketeering along the Riviera del Brenta between Padua and Venice, became an international syndicate under the "boss" Felice Maniero.
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