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Di Lauro clan
The Di Lauro clan (Italian pronunciation: [di ˈlauro]) is an Italian crime clan, part of the Camorra in Naples. 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). At its peak, between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, the organisation was earning more than €500,000 a day from the sale of drugs alone, making Secondigliano the largest open-air drug market in Europe. The founder of the clan is Paolo Di Lauro (known as "Ciruzzo il milionario"), from Via Cupa dell'Arco, in Secondigliano.
The Italian Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia ("Antimafia District Directorate") first investigated the clan in 2002, which led to the imprisonment of its most influential members, including Abbinante clan boss Raffaele "Papale e Marano" Abbinante, who was aligned with Di Lauro. However, Paolo Di Lauro managed to stay free.[citation needed] Despite this setback, the clan increased its power and the arrested members were replaced by several of Di Lauro's ten sons, including Cosimo (b. 1973), Ciro (b. 1978) and Marco (b. 1980). Their connections with other clans were strengthened in the Secondigliano Alliance. The clan's "old guard" lost its power, and some of Di Lauro's former allies formed a rival alliance (Scissionisti di Secondigliano) and started a bloody power struggle in 2004 known as the Scampia feud.
According to the Anti-mafia authorities reports made in 2021, much work had been done to weaken the organization. However, despite the arrests of most of its members, the clan was in fact making a comeback, shifting to an increasingly business-oriented model, and scaling back their involvement in extortion and other "street crimes". The Di Lauros would maintain their authority and economic solidity through recurrent remodeling of their internal structures but in particular in new methods of laundering money. 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 is relaunching their counterfeiting operations all over Europe.
In the early 2000s, the clan's drug revenue was estimated by Italian investigators to be worth about €200 million per year. Under the rule of Paolo Di Lauro, Secondigliano, the clan's stronghold, became the largest open-air narcotics market in Europe.
The Di Lauro clan funneled the money into real estate, buying dozens of flats in Naples, shops in France and the Netherlands, as well as businesses importing fur, fake fur and lingerie. Cosimo Di Lauro sometimes travelled to Paris to control the business of the clan in France. The clan also produces counterfeit clothes in the Netherlands. According to the pentito Antonio Accurso, the Di Lauro clan also has ties to the Sacra Corona Unita and Ciro Contini, a member of the Contini Clan, regarding drug trafficking.
On 12 July 2019, the Italian police confiscated €300 million, including 600 properties, 16 vehicles and numerous bank accounts belonging to Antonio Passarelli, a businessman believed to be connected to the Di Lauro clan. Additionally, in October 2021, the Spanish police arrested a suspected member of the organization in Málaga, who was in charge of the tobacco smuggling activities for the organization in Spain.
In May 2026, Italian authorities carried out a major anti-drug operation against a subgroup linked to the Di Lauro clan, leading to the arrest of 14 people. The investigation focused on a trafficking network operating mainly in the districts of Secondigliano and Vasto-Arenaccia, with activities extending to the province of Reggio Emilia. According to investigators, the group was headed by Vincenzo Di Lauro, son of Paolo Di Lauro, and coordinated operationally by Raffaele Paolo, known as “O’ rockets,” who resumed managing drug distribution after his release from prison in 2019. The organization maintained stable connections with Albanian criminal groups, which supplied cocaine and hashish imported from abroad. The inquiry, conducted between 2020 and 2023, involved surveillance operations, wiretaps, arrests in flagrante, and the seizure of several kilograms of narcotics.
In the years when Paolo Di Lauro was in charge of the clan, he decreed several orders of conduct for his affiliates, among them, that it was forbidden to assassinate each other for economic reasons, if there were economic problems among the members or affiliates, a meeting of the organization's top management was called for a negotiation. Another rule was in relation to the constant territorial wars between the Camorra clans: in the Di Lauro clan, it was not allowed to assassinate members of rival clans for this reason, unless the entire chamber formed by all the clan leaders gave authorization to do so. The clan however is quite strict about extramarital affairs of its members and courting the partner of its members or affiliates. In this case, the murder of those who broke one of these two rules is allowed.
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Di Lauro clan
The Di Lauro clan (Italian pronunciation: [di ˈlauro]) is an Italian crime clan, part of the Camorra in Naples. 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). At its peak, between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, the organisation was earning more than €500,000 a day from the sale of drugs alone, making Secondigliano the largest open-air drug market in Europe. The founder of the clan is Paolo Di Lauro (known as "Ciruzzo il milionario"), from Via Cupa dell'Arco, in Secondigliano.
The Italian Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia ("Antimafia District Directorate") first investigated the clan in 2002, which led to the imprisonment of its most influential members, including Abbinante clan boss Raffaele "Papale e Marano" Abbinante, who was aligned with Di Lauro. However, Paolo Di Lauro managed to stay free.[citation needed] Despite this setback, the clan increased its power and the arrested members were replaced by several of Di Lauro's ten sons, including Cosimo (b. 1973), Ciro (b. 1978) and Marco (b. 1980). Their connections with other clans were strengthened in the Secondigliano Alliance. The clan's "old guard" lost its power, and some of Di Lauro's former allies formed a rival alliance (Scissionisti di Secondigliano) and started a bloody power struggle in 2004 known as the Scampia feud.
According to the Anti-mafia authorities reports made in 2021, much work had been done to weaken the organization. However, despite the arrests of most of its members, the clan was in fact making a comeback, shifting to an increasingly business-oriented model, and scaling back their involvement in extortion and other "street crimes". The Di Lauros would maintain their authority and economic solidity through recurrent remodeling of their internal structures but in particular in new methods of laundering money. 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 is relaunching their counterfeiting operations all over Europe.
In the early 2000s, the clan's drug revenue was estimated by Italian investigators to be worth about €200 million per year. Under the rule of Paolo Di Lauro, Secondigliano, the clan's stronghold, became the largest open-air narcotics market in Europe.
The Di Lauro clan funneled the money into real estate, buying dozens of flats in Naples, shops in France and the Netherlands, as well as businesses importing fur, fake fur and lingerie. Cosimo Di Lauro sometimes travelled to Paris to control the business of the clan in France. The clan also produces counterfeit clothes in the Netherlands. According to the pentito Antonio Accurso, the Di Lauro clan also has ties to the Sacra Corona Unita and Ciro Contini, a member of the Contini Clan, regarding drug trafficking.
On 12 July 2019, the Italian police confiscated €300 million, including 600 properties, 16 vehicles and numerous bank accounts belonging to Antonio Passarelli, a businessman believed to be connected to the Di Lauro clan. Additionally, in October 2021, the Spanish police arrested a suspected member of the organization in Málaga, who was in charge of the tobacco smuggling activities for the organization in Spain.
In May 2026, Italian authorities carried out a major anti-drug operation against a subgroup linked to the Di Lauro clan, leading to the arrest of 14 people. The investigation focused on a trafficking network operating mainly in the districts of Secondigliano and Vasto-Arenaccia, with activities extending to the province of Reggio Emilia. According to investigators, the group was headed by Vincenzo Di Lauro, son of Paolo Di Lauro, and coordinated operationally by Raffaele Paolo, known as “O’ rockets,” who resumed managing drug distribution after his release from prison in 2019. The organization maintained stable connections with Albanian criminal groups, which supplied cocaine and hashish imported from abroad. The inquiry, conducted between 2020 and 2023, involved surveillance operations, wiretaps, arrests in flagrante, and the seizure of several kilograms of narcotics.
In the years when Paolo Di Lauro was in charge of the clan, he decreed several orders of conduct for his affiliates, among them, that it was forbidden to assassinate each other for economic reasons, if there were economic problems among the members or affiliates, a meeting of the organization's top management was called for a negotiation. Another rule was in relation to the constant territorial wars between the Camorra clans: in the Di Lauro clan, it was not allowed to assassinate members of rival clans for this reason, unless the entire chamber formed by all the clan leaders gave authorization to do so. The clan however is quite strict about extramarital affairs of its members and courting the partner of its members or affiliates. In this case, the murder of those who broke one of these two rules is allowed.