Salvatore Aquino
Salvatore Aquino (born February 29, 1944 in Marina di 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 Marina di Gioiosa Ionica.[1] The clan is opposed to the Mazzaferro clan from the same town.[2] In the 1970s his clan entered in the smuggling of cigarettes and bursts out a bloody feud against the Mazzaferro-Femia clan.
He became a member of Camera di Controllo, 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
- ^ a b (in Italian) Gli affari "puliti" degli Aquino nel nome e per conto di Turi, Gazzetta del Sud, July 17, 2010
- ^ (in Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 136
- ^ (in Italian) Sentenza procedimento penale Olimpia, Tribunale di Reggio Calabria, January 19, 1999
- ^ (in Italian) Acquisiti altri due immobili confiscati alla cosca Aquino, ReggioPress, July 22, 2009
- ^ (in Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 137
- (in Italian) Gratteri, Nicola & Antonio Nicaso (2006). Fratelli di Sangue, Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore ISBN 88-8101-373-8
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