The Catania Mafia family is a crime family of the Cosa Nostra based in Catania, Sicily, founded around 1925 by Antonino Saitta. It evolved into a powerful and violent faction under leaders Giuseppe Calderone and Benedetto Santapaola, controlling extortion, drug trafficking, and legitimate business infiltration. The organization remains active, currently dominated by the Santapaola-Ercolano clan.
CRIMENET has extracted 53 linkages for this organization, including 43 cooperative ties across 22 organizations, 6 conflicts across 3 organizations, 4 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
Investigations by Italian anti-mafia authorities... revealed that the Santapaola Mafia family has played a central role in transnational criminal activities, with Malta emerging as a strategic hub for its illicit operations.