[1] In October 1969, Nirta participated in the infamous Montalto meeting near the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Polsi in the municipality of San Luca.
[1] The historical pre-eminence of the San Luca family within the 'Ndrangheta is such that every new group or locale must obtain its authorization to operate, and every group belonging to the 'Ndrangheta "still has to deposit a small percentage of illicit proceeds to the principale of San Luca as a tribute of sorts, in recognition of the latter's primordial supremacy".
[2] In the words of a study published in 2005 by Italy's domestic intelligence service, San Luca is "the cradle of [the 'Ndrangheta] and its epicentre".
He mediated the peace between the Paolo De Stefano and the Antonio Imerti–Pasquale Condello clans in the Second 'Ndrangheta war that raged from 1985 to 1991 and left some 600 dead.
[6] He became a member of Camera di Controllo, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta formed at the end of the war in September 1991, to avoid further internal conflicts.