Di Lauro clan

The clan operates in the neighbourhoods of Secondigliano, Scampìa, Miano, Marianella, Piscinola, and in the adjacent municipalities of Casavatore, Melito, Arzano, Villaricca and Mugnano (all in the province of Naples).

[citation needed] Despite this setback, the clan increased its power and the arrested members were replaced by several of Di Lauro's ten sons: Cosimo (b.

According to the Anti-mafia authorities reports made in 2021, after more than a decade of a great weakening of the organization, thanks to the arrests of most of its members, the clan would in fact making a comeback, having an increasingly entrepreneurial vocation, and less and less engaged in extortion and other "street crimes".

The Di Lauros would maintain its authority and economic solidity through recurrent remodeling its internal structures but in particular in new entrepreneurial strategies functional to money laundering.

The organization's new leadership, which according to authorities is now headed by one of the sons of Paolo Di Lauro, is investing mainly in the international smuggling of foreign manufactured tobaccos and at the same time it is relaunching the counterfeiting affair all over Europe.

[10] On 12 July 2019, the Italian police confiscated €300 million, including 600 houses, lands, 16 cars and bank accounts belonging to Antonio Passarelli, a businessman believed to be connected to the Di Lauro clan.