Salvatore Aquino

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Salvatore Aquino (born February 29, 1944 in Gioiosa Ionica), also known as "Turi", is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. He is the boss of the Aquino 'ndrina from Gioiosa Ionica.^[1] The clan is opposed to the Mazzaferro clan from the same town.^[2]

He became a member of La Provincia, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta formed at the end of the Second 'Ndrangheta war in September 1991, to avoid further internal conflicts.^[3]

He was arrested on February 13, 1999, in Marina di Gioiosa Jonica. He was sentenced to 15 years for criminal association and international drug trafficking in the Nord-Sud trial in Milan.^[1]^[4] He was involved in running a heroin lab in Rota d'Imagna in the province of Bergamo that was discovered in 1990.^[5]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 (Italian) Gli affari "puliti" degli Aquino nel nome e per conto di Turi, Gazzetta del Sud, July 17, 2010
↑ (Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 136
↑ (Italian) Sentenza procedimento penale Olimpia, Tribunale di Reggio Calabria, January 19, 1999
↑ (Italian) Acquisiti altri due immobili confiscati alla cosca Aquino, ReggioPress, July 22, 2009
↑ (Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 137

(Italian) Gratteri, Nicola & Antonio Nicaso (2006). Fratelli di Sangue, Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore ISBN 88-8101-373-8

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