Domenic Gatto

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Domenic Gatto

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Domenic "Mick" Gatto (Born circa 1952) is an Italian-Australian former heavyweight boxer and a professional mediator within the building industry in Melbourne. He is also known as a member of Melbourne's underworld, and was an associate of the murdered Alphonse Gangitano and Graham Kinniburgh.

He has convictions for burglary, assaulting police, possessing firearms, and obtaining financial advantage by deception.

Gatto runs a company called Arbitrations and Mediations. At a building industry royal commission in 2002 he was named as a standover man by prosecutors who were investigating illegal payments made to unions.

[edit] Murder acquittal

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In 2004 he was charged with the murder of suspected underworld hitman Andrew Veniamin but was found not guilty. During the trial, Gatto claimed he had acted in self defence after Veniamin pulled out a .38 and threatened to kill him. Gatto claims that during a struggle he was able to turn the gun around on Veniamin and fire one shot into his neck, and one shot in the eye. He also claimed that during the argument, Veniamin had implicated himself in the deaths of Dino Dibra, Paul Kallipolitis and Graham Kinniburgh.

In October 2005 he purchased a A$2 million home in Lower Plenty.