In Piedmont the contact person was their cousin Rocco Lo Presti, historic 'Ndrangheta boss of Bardonecchia and Val di Susa.
A few months earlier the boss had confided to the Carabinieri captain Angelo Jannone that he feared for his life having mediated the release from kidnapping of the young Brescian Roberta Ghidini.
[3] In 1994, with the law enforcement operation The Flowers of the Night of San Vito, 370 precautionary custody orders were issued in Lombardy.
The operation shed light on how deeply rooted the 'Ndrangheta was in the region, especially in the Como and Varese areas and thus revealed the prominent role that Giuseppe Mazzaferro had there.
[7] The Operation Ossessione ended on 29 January 2019, leading to the arrest of 25 people, including alleged members of the Mancuso 'ndrina in association with Albanian criminals (Elisabeta Kotja), Moroccans and Colombian, Venezuelan (Clara Ines Garcia Rebolledo) and Dominican narcos for an international drug trafficking including Albanian and Moroccan cocaine and hashish and with the criminal Giuseppe Campisi together with the Mazzaferros for the Milan hinterland and Carlo Cuccia and Ivo Menotta as custodians of the weapons in Tradate.