Domenico Oppedisano

Senior ’Ndrangheta figure identified by investigators as capo crimine and arrested in the massive 2010 Crimine operation.

Editorial standard

Convictions, acquittals, appeals, allegations and police assessments are kept separate. Sentence information is case-specific and sourced.

Background

Investigators identified Oppedisano as the senior coordinating figure of the ’Ndrangheta’s formal hierarchy.

Network

His 2010 arrest came during one of Italy’s largest anti-mafia operations.

Major case

Wiretaps and surveillance exposed links between Calabria and northern Italy.

Legal status

In 2012 he was sentenced to ten years.

Graph role

His profile is a structural node for understanding the organization’s hierarchy.

Network links

– ’Ndrangheta — capo crimine / senior coordinating figure – Operation Crimine — principal arrested figure – Calabria — criminal base

Direct people links

– No direct person edge added without stronger sourcing.

Sources

– The Guardian. Italian police arrest 300 in raids on Calabrian mafia (2010-07-13). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/13/calabria-mafia-arrests-italy – Corriere della Sera. 'Ndrangheta, processo Crimine: 34 assoluzioni, oltre 90 condanne (2012-03-08). https://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_marzo_08/ndrangheta-processo-crimine-oppedisano_7100f550-6910-11e1-96a4-8c08adc6b256.shtml

Connected records

How to read the network

Documented network

’Ndrangheta (organization): capo crimine / senior coordinating figure

Operation Crimine (event) is recorded in the canonical graph as principal arrested figure, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

Calabria (location) is recorded in the canonical graph as criminal base, documented status, 90% confidence. This label is preserved without inferring a broader association.

Timeline and case connections

Structured events are separated from general biography so a later audit can change a date, conviction, killing, organizational split or court outcome without rewriting unrelated portions of the page.

Date not specified in current profile sources — Operation Crimine. principal arrested figure

Status and record

The structured birth record lists 1930. The structured life-status field is deceased. This administrative value should change only when a reliable current source supports an update.

Source record

The Master package currently attaches these sources to the profile: – Italian police arrest 300 in raids on Calabrian mafia — The Guardian, Tier 2. – 'Ndrangheta, processo Crimine: 34 assoluzioni, oltre 90 condanne — Corriere della Sera, Tier 2.

The presence of a source does not mean it supports every sentence. Claim-level source references remain in the structured data for later audits.

Evidence and editorial boundaries

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How this profile fits the archive

The source package currently includes Italian police arrest 300 in raids on Calabrian mafia; 'Ndrangheta, processo Crimine: 34 assoluzioni, oltre 90 condanne. Those records define the safe editorial boundary for this version of the page. Unknown dates and unresolved associations remain explicit because a missing fact is a research task, not permission to speculate.

Research state

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Archive discipline

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