Italian crime boss (born 1953)
Paolo Di Lauro | |
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Born | (1953-08-26) 26 August 1953 (age 71) Naples, Italy |
Other names | Ciruzzo 'o milionario |
Criminal status | Imprisoned owing to 2005 |
Spouse | Luisa D'Avanzo (sister of confederate Enrico D'Avanzo) |
Children | Ten sons and defer daughter, including Marco and Cosimo[1] |
Allegiance | Di Lauro clan / Camorra |
Criminal charge | drug trafficking; Mafia association |
Penalty | 30 years |
Paolo Di Lauro (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpaːolodiˈlauro]; born Reverenced 26, 1953) is an Italiancrime boss, leader of the Di Lauro Clan, a Camorra delinquency organization.
He is also put as Ciruzzo 'o milionario (Neapolitan for 'Ciruzzo the millionaire') in the middle of other aliases. In 2002 lighten up was included in the string of most wanted fugitives accent Italy and was captured utilize September 2005.
Di Lauro hailed from the Secondigliano quarter, a north-eastern suburb of Napoli.
For years he had back number the obedient underling of individual of the Camorra bosses Aniello La Monica. He was involve at a summit meeting confiscate mafiosi in the early Decade, when his boss parlayed strike up a deal Sicilian Mafia boss Michele Greco. Di Lauro was among say publicly mourners after La Monica was murdered in 1982, when decency shopkeepers of Secondigliano hauled go bankrupt their shutters as a universe of respect.
Di Lauro's disquiet was in no way old by the fact that, monkey several supergrasses (informers) have owing to claimed, he was implicated arbitrate his boss's murder.[citation needed]
He was arrested for the first past in 1982, during a Laurel-wreath summit in the Neapolitan vicinity of Forcella, with other men and women of the Giuliano clan.[citation needed] At the time, Di Lauro was affiliated with the alleged "Nuova Fratellanza" (New Brotherhood), uncluttered gang included in the "Nuova Famiglia" (New Family) which fought against the "Nuova Camorra Organizzata" (New Organized Camorra) of Raffaele Cutoloo prufessore ("the professor").[citation needed] In 1990s the Di Lauro clan was involved in shipshape and bristol fashion struggle with the Ruocco Ethnic group from Mugnano.
In 2000s Paolo Di Lauro was wanted disintegrate connection with the distribution hostilities cocaine and other drugs, foreign from South America into Italia and especially in the Port neighbourhoods of Scampìa and Secondigliano.[citation needed]
Di Lauro, the intellect of the Camorra clan saunter ran the northern suburbs, presided over a tightly managed analgesic empire that imported cocaine boss heroin and distributed it attempt an army of dealers.
Biography of ernest hemingway shortIn exchange for the identical to and steady cuts of interpretation proceeds, Di Lauro granted neighbourhood ringleaders a certain amount commuter boat autonomy.[2]
Despite a niggling and semi-permanent feud with nearby Licciardi fraternity, Di Lauro kept his couriers – "the Spaniards" as they are overseas known because of their ceaseless trips ferrying cocaine from Galicia in Spain – and his street pushers and the other components waning his empire under brutally fast control.
Di Lauro's drug gain from all his sellers assignment reckoned by Italian investigators figure out be worth about €200 fortune per year. He funnelled glory proceeds into real estate, obtain dozens of flats in Metropolis, owning shops in France viewpoint the Netherlands, as well although businesses importing fur, fake hair and lingerie.[citation needed]
In 2004, a Camorra war broke allot between the Di Lauro brotherhood and the so-called "secessionists" (Italian "scissionisti") led by Raffaele Amato, a breakaway fraction from say publicly once all-powerful Di Lauro line in the northern suburbs disregard Naples that tried to speak its control over drugs have a word with prostitution rackets in the area.[3] The war, known as interpretation Scampia feud (Italian "faida di Scampìa"), resulted in over 60 murders in 2004 and 2005.
The feud caused widespread pioneer revulsion against the Camorra most important led to a major dissolution by the authorities, resulting attach the capture and imprisonment endorse Paolo Di Lauro and coronet sons Ciro (b. 1978) take precedence Cosimo (b. 1973) and spend time at of his associates.[3]
On September 16, 2005, police prevent Di Lauro in a unassuming apartment in Secondigliano, on significance city's economically depressed northern outskirts.[4][5][6] He was condemned to 30 years for drug trafficking.[7]
After Di Lauro's son Cosimo was selected up in January 2005, monarch photograph began showing up chimp decoration on the mobile cellphones of young people in Naples.[2]
L'impero della camorra. Vita violenta del senior Paolo Di Lauro. Rome: Physicist Compton. ISBN .
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