By Puparo.
"I like to thank Carmelo and Felice"
Agrigento (old names Akragas and Girgenti) and province
Agrigento
The Tempelvalley in the Sicilian town Agrigento is
important for the old Greek building art, but also a
lot of the rich people from Agrigento had build
illegal palaces around the roman ruines. There was
asked for a trial against mayor Calogero Sodano, 4
former mayors and 6 counselmembers. The director of
the Tempelvalley was arrested because she had refused
to okay a building project in the valley. The builder
is the nephew of the magistrate who gave out the
arrest warrant for the director. It comes out and the
magistrate was transferred
Felice’s 2001 DIA report said Agrigento province had
33 families and 402 men of honour.
Carmelo’s 2002 Minister of Interior report said
Agrigento province had 47 families and 580 members
(they consider only made members and not associates
and flanked)
Agrigento province situation nowadays:
Porto Empedocle capomandamento Luigi Putrone
(fugitive)
Porto Empedocle had Giambacorta Putrone cosca
(brothers Luigi and Giovanni Putrone), Ianni L’Abate
cosca (Vito Ianni and his son Rocco Antonio Ianni,
Calogero L’Abbate and his son Natalino) and corleonesi
Albanese Messina cosca (brothers Salvatore –his son is
Dino- and Alfonso Albanese -his son is Calogero-,
brothers Gerlandino “Gerlando” and Fabrizio Messina),
stidde Grassonelli Mallia, pentito Pasquale Salemi
Salvatore Albanese (59) get killed (the latest his son
is Dino
Campobello di Licata capomandamento Giuseppe Falsone
(fugitive)
Campobello di Licata had corleonesi Vincenzo Falsone
and his sons Angelo and Giuseppe Falsone and their
sister Carmela Maria Rita Falsone (41)n and Pasquale
Bove
Licata had Rosario Balistreri and Angelo Antona
Ribera capomandamento Joseph Focoso (fugitive)
Ribera had Carmelo Colletti, Ruggero Francesco
Montalbano, boss Simone Capizzi
Racalmuto capomandamento Maurizio Di Gati (fugitive d
his brother is Beniamino)
Racalmuto had corleonesi Luigi Cino, stidde A A
Burruano
Sambuca di Sicilia capomandamento Leo Sutera
Villafranca Sicula had Cascio Mule
Favara capomandamento Giuseppe Nobile
Favara had Fabio Vella, Lorenzo Baio (41) and the
cosca Petruzzella
Santa Elisabetta capomandamento Stefano Fragapane
Sciacca capocosca Carmelo Bono
Sciacca had Salvatore La Sala, stidde? Sole, Alberto
Provenzano
Pasquale Breccia, Isidore Nuara, the Campofranco cosca
and the Lombardo (Corleonesi) cosca in Sciacca have
also something to say in Agrigento. Still at large is
the boss Salvatore Di Gangi from Sciacca and his
trustee Stefano Greco (40).
Burgio capocosca Giovanni Maniscalco
Burgio had Nicolo Raggio, Pasquale Riggio and Giovanni
Miceli, Mario Davilla, Calogero Sala
Agrigento capocosca Francesco Cacciatore
Cianciana capocosca Andrea Montalbano
Cianciana had Paolo Manzullo
Canicatti capomafia Calogero Di Caro (56)
Canicatti had Regiomember Ferro, stidde Gallea,
Rinaldi cosca, Diego Di Bella (76), Salvatore Di Gioia
(49), Ferraro brothers
Siculiana mandamento:
Siculiana capomafia Gerlando Caruana
Siculiana had Leonardo Caruana, Nicholas Rizzutto in
Montreal and his man Pozza.
Montallegro
Cattolica Eraclea capocosca Domenico Terrasi
Santa Margherita Belice capocosca Pietro Campo
Santa Margherita had Giuseppe Artale and Francesco la
Sala
Cammarata- Casteltermini capomafia Raffaele Faldetta ?
Grotte capocosca Valentino Licata
Raffadali had Stefano Mangione, Cuffaro, Di Caro,
Gentile
Palma di Montechiaro had corleonesi Calogero Sambito,
cosca Ribisi Allegro, Eugenio Serafini, Bordini
brothers in Germany, stidde Amico, Pace, Avarello,
Puzzangharo, Croce Benvenuto, Corleonesi Di Vincenzo
and his men Schembri,Incardona and Calafato, Parla
cosca
Alessandria della Rocca had Giuseppe Settecase (Tampa
people)
Ravanusa had corleonesi Angelo Ciraulo
Ravanusa had Domenico Di Maida and Cristoforo Vivacqua
Province Agrigento
-stidde Sala Radosta
-Corleonesi Angelo Barbera
Siculiana born Giovanni Mira
Giovanni Mira, a Palermo based drug trafficker, but
born in Siculiana. Mira knew Gentile, and he was
spotted by the police with Carmelo Caruana in Milan,
where they probably met their Corsican heroin
supplier. Both were linked to the so-called
Caneba-network, which smuggled heroin to the U.S.
through Canada from 1951 until 1960 when the police
disrupted this route. Mira was sending suitcases with
tens of kilos of heroin to a certain Settimo Accardo
in Canada. Another plot, according to Interpol, was to
hide heroin in cans of anchovies. The anchovy plot
consisted of the smuggling of eight kilo's of heroin a
month, according to Interpol. Accardo was the
consignee.
Siculiana born Pasquale and Liborio Cuntrera
Canadian immigration-records show Pasquale and Liborio
Cuntrera arrived in 1951 and acquired Canadian
nationality in 1957.
Siculiana, Pasquale Cuntrera and Leonardo Caruana
Pasquale Cuntrera and Leonardo Caruana were indicted
for a double murder, the theft of four cows and arson
by the Giudice Istruttore of Trapani in August 1952,
both were acquitted in December 1953 'per non aver
commesso il fatto' not having committed the fact.
Siculiana, Cuntrera and Caruana families
Siculiana once counted 12,000 inhabitants; now there
are only 5,000 left. During the 1950s and 1960s the
village emptied, the men moved to Belgium, Germany,
England, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil. Some, like Alfonso
Gagliano, representative in the Canadian Federal
Parliament for Montreal's 'Little Italy' Saint
Leonard, rose to prominent positions.
Siculiana-born Giuseppe Indelicato
Settimo "Big Sam" Accardo was also linked to yet
another Siculiana-born trafficker Giuseppe Indelicato,
who was arrested in February 1956 with three pounds of
heroin in New York.
Siculiana group
Mira and Caruana were spotted in 1958, their supplier
was Antoine Cordoliani. In 1958 an undercover agent of
the Federal Bureau of Narcotics met Gentile. The
police had intercepted a courier with a letter from
Gentile to a certain 'cuniglieddu', in which Gentile
complained about not receiving his money, which would
be handed to him by Nino Gatto. The Narcotics Bureau
decided to set up a trap by pretending that Gatto (who
Gentile didn't know personally) wanted to meet him.
Gentile told the undercover that 'cuniglieddu' was Joe
Biondo, and of his friendship with Luciano and
relations with drug traffickers.
Gentile Siculiana (Agrigento province)
9 June 1963 decides Gentile to publish his memoires he
was helped by his friend Lillo Pullara. According to
Messick a resentful Gentile confessed to the FBI. In
fact his memoirs were for sale in every bookshop. The
confession was shown to Joe Valachi who vouched for
its accuracy and said Gentile 'wrote just the way it
is'. The memoirs of Gentile were written down by
Italian journalist Felice Chilanti. This forgotten
book already describes the internal organization of
the Mafia, or l'onorata società the Honoured Society
as Gentile calls it, more than 20 years before Tommaso
Buscetta emerged as the first pentito who broke with
omertà and told Cosa Nostra's inside story. Gentile
was already more explicit than Buscetta in his first
confessions. Gentile undiffidently talked about his
links with politicians for whom he acted as a
canvasser. (See also: Felice Chilanti, La mafia su
Roma, Milan 1971, p.60) Buscetta only started talking
about the links between the Mafia and politics eight
years after his first confessions, after Judge
Giovanni Falcone was murdered. Gentile's fellow
mafiosi didn't apreciate his candor and sentenced him
to death, but the clan who had to kill him declined to
do so. At the end of his days, Gentile was a pitiful
figure who only survived through the pasta which his
neighbours gave him. (See: Pino Arlacchi, Gli uomini
del disonore. La mafia siciliana nella vita del grande
pentito Antonio Calderone, Mondadori: Milan 1992,
p.158).
Siculiana (Agrigento province)
Many choose to leave the country instead. Pasquale
Cuntrera and Leonardo Caruana moved to Montreal in
Canada, while Giuseppe Caruana preferred Rio de
Janeiro, where the now 86-year old family boss still
resides in good health. The repression caused by the
Ciaculli Massacre disarranged the Sicilian drug trade
to the United States. Mafiosi were banned, arrested
and incarcerated. Control over the trade fell to the
hands of a few fugitives: Pietro Davì, Salvatore Greco
'l'ingegnere', Salvatore Greco 'Cicchiteddu', Tommaso
Buscetta and Gaetano Badalamenti. All of them
acquainted with Cuntrera and Caruana.
Siculiana
Siculiana had been ruled by mafiosi for years,
concluded the Agrigento Court in 1966. Giuseppe and
Leonardo Caruana and Pasquale Cuntrera exploited every
economic activity in the village and its surrounding
communities. They had created a atmosphere of omertà
with violence and intimidation making sure that no one
dared to denounce them. The Court thought it best to
expel them from the village. 19 October 1966 to impose
an 'soggiorno obbligato' to Pasquale Cuntrera and the
verdict of the Tribunale di Agrigento, 11 November
1966; and Report of the Questura di Agrigento on
Leonardo Caruana, 6 June 1978. For information about
the clan in Siculiana and their first criminal
activities, see also: Rapporto giudiziario di denuncia
a carico di Bono Giuseppe +159, Rome 7 February 1983,
pp.254-258.
Cuntrera Caruana families
Antonio Calderone - a mafioso from Catania who turned
state-witness - recounts having first heard of the
Cuntreras and Caruanas in 1968: 'Giovanni Mira, an old
uomo d'onore from Siculiana who was serving his
soggiorno obbligato near Catania, told me they were
drug traffickers and that they were very rich.'
Canada, Alfonso Caruana and his brother in law
Pasquale Cuntrera
In 1968 Alfonso Caruana and his brother in law
Pasquale Cuntrera settle in Canada.
Agrigento province
Beginning 70ties were in a parliamentary hearing named
as Agrigento bosses Settecase.
Reggio Bar tapes
10 May 1974 police tape Violi's Reggio bar when he
speaks sicilian Carmelo Salemi and Giuseppe "Pino"
Cuffaro from the province Agrigento. In the 1970's
Leonardo Caruana was 'capo mandamento' for this region
(Siculiana, Cattolica Eraclea and Montallegro), a sort
of representative of regional Mafia-families in the
overall provincial Commission. Nick Rizzuto seemed to
have some problems with this nomination, one can
deduce from the Reggio Bar tapes. (See: Arnone, p.52,
and Galluzzo, p.92.)
Santa Elisabetta, Fregapane clan
At the end of the 70ties there is a mafia war in
Agrigento and province for the control of the
druglines to the US, when Stefano Fregapane and his
son Francesco get shot down in their village Santa
Elisabetta, some of their Fregapane clan move to
belgium.
Giuseppe Settecase (80) killed
23 March 1981 the Cuntrera brothers have their boss
Giuseppe Settecase (80) in Siculiana in a cafetaria
shot to death and take over his drugsline from
Agrigento to the US.
Siculiana boss Leonardo Caruana killed
2 September 1981 Leonardo Caruana the boss of
Siculiana gets killed at the marriage of his son
Gerlando (or Gaspare?) and within 48 hours the
Corleonesi also murder Vincenzo Rimi in Alcamo and 3
bosses of the Zumo cosca from Gibellina and the Fretto
cosca from Raffadali. It is the start for the hunt by
the corleonesi for the friends of the Palermitan
families Inzerillo, Bontate, Badalamenti, Grado and
Mafara in the other provinces. Leonardo Caruana was
followed up by his nephew Paolo Cuntrera who lives
with his brothers in Venezuela and they let
Siculiana be ruled by his friend Carmelo Colletti the
boss of Ribera (from this town also came Nino
Cocuzzella an acquintance of Gentile) who also leads
the cosca of Sciacca.
Mutolo's Thai supplier Koh Bak Kim
In april 1983 flew judge Falcone to France to
interrogate Francesco Gasparini and thanks to him
police find 24 may in the Suez channal the ship
Alexandros G with 233 kg heroin. The heroin came from
Thailand and police arrest then in Bangkok Mutolo's
Thai supplier Koh Bak Kim. Extradited to Italy Koh Bak
kim told that the heroin was for Santapaola's man
Francesco Ferrera and Riina`s man Gaspare Mutolo.
Gasparini testified that he had earlier attended a
meeting in Mutolo`s house in Palermo where then then
still living Partanna Mondello boss Riccobono spoke
with Santapaola about the purchase of 500 kg heroin. A
few months later, Alfonso Caruana was in Bangkok with
relative Giuseppe Cuffaro to set up a new supply line.
Sciacca boss Carmelo “Lillo” Colletti killed
In 1983 the corleonesi murder Carmelo “Lillo”
Colletti, he ruled Sciacca and Siculiana.
Ribera boss Carmelo “lillo” Colletti disappeared in
july 1983, he was a friend of count Cassina and the
Salvo family, testified his widow Benedetta Bono. As
revenge had Riina in november 1983 in 24 hours 6
people killed testified the pentiti Calogero Ganci and
Francesco Paolo Anzelmo.
Porto Empedocle, stidde boss GiuseppeGrassonelli
In 1983 escape Grassonelli's men Francesco Traina and
his son Giuseppe Traina from an ambush in which 3
others were killed.
Palma di Montechiaro caopocosca Calogero Sambito
killed
In the beginning of the 80ties Calogero Sambito
became the boss of Palma di Montechiaro and soon
everybody in town pays him pizzo (extortion money) and
he contacted Riina and Giuseppe Madonia. The
Corleonesi wanted because of the war in Palermo to
move their drugsactivities, and they move them to
Palma and nearby Licata and Gela. Sambito also starts
into the heroin business and puts a branch next to
Calo’s Magliana gang in Rome, who start to launder
money with the clubs Jackie O and La Clef. Also men
from Palma di Montechiaro move to Germany and start to
deal in weapons and drugs. The heroin they got via
Milan after which they sold it from pizzerias. Also
they buy weapons which they smuggle to Sicily for use
in the wars. In 1984 the corleonesi boss Calogero
Sambito was killed by his men the 7 Ribisi brothers
who become the new bosses
Belgium
17 April 1986 in Belgium the Sardinian Virgilio Daga
was shot to death by order of Carmelo Bongiorno.
Germany, diaspora Palma di Montechiaro
In july 1986 in Ludwigshafen Salvatore Sortino was
shot to death, his brother Carmelo was severely
wounded with a shot through the head. Salvatore's wife
is the niece of Carmelina Sortina who is married to
Gaetano Micalizzi the driver of the boss Gaetano
Zucchero who police suspect to live in Mannheim. Later
Micalizzi was shot to death in Kaiserslautern.
Porto Empedocle
In the province Agrigento, which was ruled by
Regiomember Ferro, the boss of Canicatti, arrived
great loads of drugs in the harbour Porto Empedocle.
Also the Stidde boss Giuseppe Grassonelli went into
drugs and became rich and powerfull at cost of the
rivalling Albanese- Messina cosca. 21 September 1986
eight killers of the Albanese-Messina cosca, under
whom Sergio Vecchia, enter a bar in Porto Empedocle
and open fire at the local boss Giuseppe Grassonelli
who gets killed with his son Luigi, 2 bodyguards under
whom Giovanni Mallia (37) and 2 bystanders. The next
day 2 more get killed.
Canicatti boss Antonino Ferro
Beginning 1987 judge Angelo Rosario Livatino have
police arrest 32 men of Antonino Ferro, the boss of
Canicatti at a party for the from the US arrived
Giovanni Alaimo. Under the arrested men were the
politician Salvatore Curto, Gregorio Brunco (from the
US), Giovanni Spina, Francesco Rinaldi and Salvatore
Gioia. Brunco had the phonenumber of a Caruana who
lives in Venezuela.
Porto Empedocle
In september 1987 Gaspare Mallia (a nephew of
Giovanni) escapes from an ambush.
Pasquale Caruana
In 1987 and 1988 Caruana travels through Germany till
his arrest. When Pasquale Caruana arrives in the
Frankfurter Intercontinental Hotel with Cuffaro they
are observed by police. They contacted Angelo Bellavia
in Dillingen (from Siculiana), Giuseppe Camellar of
the Vella cosca in his pizzeria in Hamburg, Pasquale
Di Mora, Di Luciano, Chiaro and Graziano in Belgium,
Vincenzo, Pietro and Pasquale Coirazza in Keulen Potz,
Bruno Prospero, a weapendealer in Solingen, a house in
Keulen, a bistro ("Ai Trulli"?) in Leverkussen.
Porto Empedocle
In januari 1988 Gaspare Mallia escapes again from an
ambush.
Agrigento
1 Februari 1988 in Agrigento Antonino Sala (41) gets
killed by the boss Stefano Radosta.
Palma di Montechiaro
In may 1988 in Palma Nicolo Brancato was killed, his
bosses were the Ribisi brothers. The Ribisi brothers
are at war with the Di Vincenzo cosca (followers of
Sambito) and the Stidde.
Palma di Montechiaro
4 June 1988 Giuseppe Cammalleri, the former mayor of
Palma, gets wounded in an ambush.
Palma di Montechiaro boss Gioacchino Ribisi killed
6 August 1989 in Palma the boss Gioacchino Ribisi and
his nephew Calogero Castronovo get killed in a
pizzeria by Paolo Amico and Domenico Pace.
Palma di Montechiaro
In september 1989 the Ribisi brothers hit back when
they ambush Carlo Savaia, Gaetano Puzzanghero,
Domenico and Salvatore Pace but they escape.
Palma di Montechiaro, brothers Carmelo and Rosario
Ribisi killed
5 October 1989 Gioacchino's brothers Carmelo and
Rosario Ribisi get killed by Paolo Amico when the
wounded Rosario lays in hospital. Their trustee is
Michele Montana who gets killed and Pietro , Calogero
and Ignazio Ribisi hide. Their cosca is taken over by
Rosario Allegro (53). Amico's uncle Paolo Scarna is
the mayor of Palma.
Palma di Montechiaro boss Rosario Allegro killed
Rosario Allegro gets killed 1 november 1989 with
Traspadano Anzalone and the killers take with them a
pistol they stole at the murderscene. The Stidde wiped
out the Ribisi brothers at the orders of Giuseppe Di
Caro the boss of Canicatti and they go into drugs.
Belgium, Salvatore Fregapane
7 November 1989 Giuseppe Dell Aera was shot to death
in Morlanwelz, Belgium, at the order of Bongiorno.
Salvatore Fregapane from the family in Santa
Elisabetta joined the Stidde and Salvatore Fregapane
ruled the Stidde branch in Belgium. He went into drugs
and weapondealings and regularly went to Sicily to
report his activities to his bosses. In Brussels live
his villagemen Raimondo Graceffa and Santo Barcella
who con companies, also they send stolen cars to
Sicily. They get helped by Carmelo Bongiorno, Pietro
and Salvatore Allatta who went into crime under the
leading of Carmelo D'Agristina from Calacibetta and
belonging to the Stidde and living in Charleroi,
belgium. They also meet regularly Cuntrera man
Sebastiano Di Luciano.
Agrigento
In 1990 Roberto Di Mauro becomes mayor in Agrigento
(his boss is the politician Gaetano Trincanato).
Porto Empedocle
25 June 1990 in Siculiana in a pizzeria there is an
ambush at Gaspare Mallia (25) who escapes but his
friends Giuseppe Gunone (24) and Marco Salvatore
Bonsignore (28) get killed, the killers escape on a
motorbike. Bonsignore lived in Germany but was on
"vacation".
Porto Empedocle
4 July 1990 Mallia's friends hit back when 4 killers
enter the garage of the brothers Albanese and open
fire, they kill Sergio Vecchia and his brothers in
law Giuseppe Marnalo and Stefano Volpe also wounded
are Francesco Vecchia, Giuseppe Palumbo and Calogero
Albanese (the son of Alfonso).
The stidde kill judge Livatino
21 September 1990 judge Angelo Rosario Livatino (37)
gets killed by Paolo Amico, Domenico Pace, Giuseppe
Avarello (25), Giuseppe Croce Benvenuto (20) and
Gaetano Puzzangharo (22). They are the Stidde bosses
in Palma di Montechiaro. The killers leave a weapon
that was stolen when some time before Allegro and
Anzalone were killed and a motorbike that was used at
the bodged ambush at Mallia.
Leverkussen (Germany), pizzeria "Ai Trulli"
Paolo Amico and Domenico Pace flee to Germany where
they are arrested 5 october 1990 in pizzeria "Ai
Trulli" in Leverkussen. A suspect in ordering the
killing is the Canicatti boss Antonino Ferro.
Racalmuto stidde boss Alfonso Alfano Burruano killed
In januari 1991 the Stidde boss Alfonso Alfano
Burruano gets killed in Racalmuto at the order of the
Corleonesi supporter Luigi Cino.
Agrigento
16 Januari 1991 Benedetta Bono (54) gets wounded in an
ambush, she is the widow of Carmelo Colletti and she
worked with the police.
Agrigento
2 Februari 1991 Gaspare Caruana (24) gets killed he is
the godson of Luigi Grassonelli, and his friend Mario
Sciortino (25) gets wounded.
Canicatti boss Giuseppe Di Caro killed
In februari 1991 the boss Giuseppe Di Caro (62) gets
killed and a war starts between the Di Caro cosca, the
Guarneri cosca and the Ferro cosca. 4 Days later his
nephew Lillo Di Caro gets wounded in an ambush.
Racalmuto capocosca and Corleonesi supporter Luigi
Cino
In march 1991 the boss Luigi Cino has his men kill
the Stidde Alfonso Sole.
Palma di Montechiaro
24 March 1991 Rosario's son Pietro Allegro (19) gets
killed.
Canicatti
30 march 1991 the brothers Bruno (29) and Giovanni
Gallea (43) get killed, they are members of the
Canicatti cosca and they had visited their imprisoned
brother Antonio. 1 April in Canicatti Giuseppe
Selvaggio (78) was killed.
Agrigento
1 April 1991 in Agrigento Vincenzo Miceli (79) gets
killed.
Porto Empedocle
6 April 1991 Giuseppe Traina (47) gets killed, he
worked for Grassonelli and had escaped in 1983 with
his father Francesco from an ambush in which 3 others
were killed.
Agrigento
28 April 1991 Antonino Corso (23) in Agrigento gets
shot to death, he had been arrested several days
before as a suspect for the murder of Francesco
Privitera.
Porto Empedocle
7 May 1991 in Porte Empedocle Antonino Iocolano and
his friend the boss Salvatore Albanese (59) get killed
(the latest his son is Dino ,31).
Palma di Montechiaro
In may 1991 Pietro's nephew Carmelo Allegro (29) and
Giovanni Lombardo (35) get killed.
Agrigento
16 June 1991 Salvatore Pullera gets killed in
Agrigento.
Campobello di Licata boss and corleonesi Vincenzo
Falsone killed
23 June 1991 were Vincenzo Falsone (60) and his son
Angelo (32) in Campobello di Licata killed by the
stidde, they were Corleonesi supporters and Vincenzo
Falsone’s son Giuseppe falsone becomes the new boss.
Racalmuto boss and Corleonesi supporter Luigi Cino
killed
24 June 1991 the Corleonesi supporter Luigi Cino (61)
gets killed and the Stidde also kill the Corleonesi
supporters Angelo Ciraulo in Ravanuso and Luigi Cali
in San Cataldo in nearby province Caltanissetta.
Ciraulo had been a friend of Di Cristina but had
changed sides to the corleonesi.
Raffadali boss Amedeo Gentile killed
In 1991 the boss Amedeo Gentile gets killed in the
town Raffadali. 12 August 1991 in Raffadali the capo
Alfonso Cuffaro (52) and his wife Rosa Di Carlo (44)
get killed and that year there have been till then 48
murders, Cuffaro's boss had been Amedeo Gentile.
Racalmuto
7 September 1991 in Racalmuto Giuseppe Sole (63) was
killed, he is family of Alfonso Sole.
Canicatti
10 November 1991 the politician Salvatore Curto gets
killed, Curto was called a honest man by mayor
Vincenzo Di Caro. Antonino (70) and Giuseppe Ferro are
at war with Salvatore Gioia the boss of the
Gioia-DiBella cosca. Gioia disappears then with his
friend Francesco Rinaldo. From the by judge Livatino
arrested men are already 7 murdered.
Palma di Montechiaro
1 Januari 1992 in Palma there is an ambush and Felice
Allegro (61) and Giuseppe Alotto (30) get killed,
Allegro's nephew Ignazio (39) and his son Felice (9),
their nephews Angelo (34) and gioacchino Castronovo
(38), Pasquale Bordino (27), Calogero Martinello (37)
and Francesco Vinci get wounded. A bodyguard kills
Salvatore Caniolo (20) of the Ianni-Iocolano cosca
from the neighbour province town Gela. The other
killers are Gioacchino Schembri (32), Gioacchino
Calafato, Gaspare and Ignazio Incardona and they go to
Germany. 1 Januari 1992 the minor Orazio from Gela and
others burst into a bar in Palma di Montechiaro and
after the shooting there are 3 dead man.
Agrigento
4 Januari 1992 in Agrigento the boss Stefano Radosta
gets killed.
Palma di Montechiaro
19 Januari 1992 Onolfo Croce (71) get killed, his wife
Paola Allegro (72) gets severely wounded, she is the
sister of Felice and Rosario, and Ignazio was their
son.
Police commissionair Guazzelli gets killed
5 April 1992 commissionair Giuliano Guazzelli get
killed by the killers from the town Palma Diego
Provenzani and Salvatore Di Caro and the from
Canicatti coming killers Gioacchino Ri Rocco and
Ignazio Alotto, and Massimiliano Migliore (21). The
murderweapon for Guazzelli was delivered to the
killers by Gaetano Amodeo (born in porto Empedocle and
member of the Cattolica Eraclea clan).
Mannheim (Germany) arrests
In april 1992 Gioacchino Schembri, Gioacchino
Calafato, Gaspare and Ignazio Incardona get arrested
in Mannheim. When police came to arrest them, one of
them shot through the door because he thought it were
their enemies from sicily, just before he had been
shot at by Gaetano Puzzangharo (33).
Palma di Montechiaro
15 April 1992 the families Allegro, Calafato, Ribisi
and Incardona lose many members to arrests, police
arrest 14 under whom Grazia Ribisi (46) a sister of
the brothers and Nicolo Ribisi (20) a nephew.
Agrigento
22 April 1992 mafia member Paolo Borsellino (32) gets
killed near Agrigento.
Agrigento
In 1992 Di Mauro’s counselmembers get arrested for
fraud in the building sector for 2 million dollars,
but they stole much more. Di Mauro had just become a
parliamentsmember.
Germany, judge Borsellino (Caltanissetta)
Beginning july 1992 judge Borsellino talks in Germany
with the cokedealer Heico Kschinna who betrays the
killers Schembri, Calafato and Incardona, and Schembri
becomes a pentito.
Favara boss Salvatore Airo
9 July 1992 in Favara entrepeneur Gaetano Russello
(42) gets killed, he is the 46th casuality in a year,
before were the bosses Giuseppe Barba, Gioacchino
Capodice and Francesco Agro murdered.
Bompensiere e di Milena cosca member Francesco
Randazzo arrested
Francesco Randazzo was arrested in 1992 thanks to
pentito Leonardo Messina who says he is a member of
the Bompensiere e di Milena cosca.
Caracas (capital of Venezuela), Paolo (53), Gaspare
(58) and Pasquale Cuntrera (62) arrested
8 September 1992 Paolo (53), Gaspare (58) and
Pasquale Cuntrera (62) get arrested in Caracas and
deported to Italy 4 days later, the family is now led
by Alfonso Caruana. Alfonso Caruana lives in
Woodbridge just north of Toronto and leads a huge drug
and laundering operation. In Montreal were the
brothers Pasquale (50), Gerlando (54) and Alfonso
Caruana (52), Oreste Pagano (60), Alberto Minelli
(33), Marcel Bureau (51) and Nunzio La Rosa (50).
Alessandro Pansa, head of the Economic Crime Section
of the Servizio centrale operativo (Sco) of the
Italian National Police, finally arrested the
Cuntrera brothers at Rome's Fiumicino airport when
they were expelled from Venezuela in 1992.
Racalmuto
5 November 1992 in Racalmuto Carmelo Anzalone (24),
Giuseppe Macaluso (26) and Luciano Polifemo (39) get
killed by the rivalling Sole cosca.
The stidde
In december 1992 Guazzelli's killers get arrested.
Agrigento
14 December 1992 Paolo Borsellino's father Giuseppe
was killed, they are family of the murdered Sala.
Agrigento
11 Januari 1993 the killers of the Borsellinos get
arrested: Mario Davilla (27), Paolo Polizzi (29),
Pietro Galifi (34) and Calogero Sala (42) the brother
of the murdered Antonino.
Mannheim (Germany)
14 Januari 1993 in Mannheim Giuseppe Crapanzano (39)
gets killed, he was married with Gioacchino's sister
Carmela Schembri and was killed by her brothers
Ignazio and Rosario. They do it to silence their
brother who is a friend of Crapanzano.
Sciacca boss Salvatore Di Gangi arrested
9 March 1993 Salvatore Di Gangi (51) the boss of
Sciacca was arrested with his men Accursio and
Francesco Dimino, Stefano (35) and Salvatore Greco
(40) and Rosario Messana (64) the nephew of a passed
away magistrate in Sciacca.
Porto Empedocle
20 April 1993 in Porto Empedocle Angelo Carlisi (31)
get killed.
Agrigento
20 April 1993 Massimiliano Migliore (21) a killer of
inspector Guazelli gets arrested. At the end of 1993
even Trincanato (a senator) gets arrested.
Rome, bombattack
15 May 1993 exploded in Rome a bomb when tv
presentator Maurizio Costanzo drives by the
perpetrators are the in Germany living brothers Matteo
and Calogero Bordini the sons of aboss from Palma di
Montechiaro. Costanzo had an antimafiaprogram.
Alfonso Gagliano
The accountant Alfonso Gagliano is a loyal supporter
of Canada's Prime-Minister Jean Chrétien. Gagliano
organized the Liberal Party's fund raising for the
1993 election-campaign. He was a candidate for a
position in the new government of Mr Chrétien. The
RCMP is asked to screen every probable future
minister, and Mr Gagliano didn't quite pass the
test.The Montreal daily La Presse revealed why:
Gagliano's accountancy firm kept the books of Agostino
Cuntrera, a nephew of Pasquale Cuntrera and implicated
in the murder of Paolo Violi, boss of the local
Cotroni-family, in 1978. The murder was a sign that
the Sicilian clan had taken over control in Montreal.
Agostino Cuntrera was never convicted; he struck a
deal with the Canadian Justice Department. Asked about
his relationship with Agostino Cuntrera, Gagliano
said: 'Mr Cuntrera is an acquaintance. We both come
from Siculiana. I met him during a engagement in a
church. He came to me in the 1970's when he wanted me
as his bookkeeper for his restaurant.' Gagliano et Cie
kept Agostino Cuntrera as a client after his
complicity in the Violi-murder was revealed. Agostino
Cuntrera and Gagliano saw each other occasionally
during marriages and activities of the Association de
Siculiana, a cultural association founded by Mr
Gagliano, who was its first president. Some years
after Mr Gagliano's chairmanship, Agostino Cuntrera
became president of the association. Nor was Agostino
Cuntrera the only client of Gagliano. Another was Dima
Messina, the financial aid of Montreal Mafia-boss Vito
Rizzuto. An RCMP investigation showed that Messina
laundered 22 million Canadian dollars for Rizzuto in
1986-88. Rizzuto's Ferrari Testarossa (a 250,000
dollar Italian sports car) was registered under
Messina's name.
Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano
In 1994, the RCMP reported to Prime Minister Jean
Chretien that Gagliano's accounting firm had done work
for companies owned by Agostino Cuntrera, who had
served time in prison for conspiracy in the slaying of
another mob boss. The accounting firm dropped Cuntrera
as a client, but the controversy kept Chretien from
naming Gagliano to cabinet for several months. After a
second report from the RCMP cleared him, Gagliano
became a minister in late 1994 and has held several
portfolios.
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan
The Cuntrera-Caruana ring was dismantled in March 1995
in Northern Italy. Caruana brought together the
cocaine producers of the Colombian Cartels with the
Italian distributors, six 'ndrangheta families the
Calabrian variant of the Mafia. Once again the
Cuntrera-Caruana family was the indispensable link
between suppliers and distributors.
Operation Cartagine sentences
A year after the cocaineseizure of march 1994 the
Turin Prosecutors Office presented the indictment. The
Palermo Tribunal, reviewing earlier drug connections
of the clan, was impressed. The sentence concluded
that the network was 'a further indication of the high
criminal capability' of Caruana who had 'escaped every
judicial initiative during the last decades and
succeeded in reaching the top of the international
drug trade, adjusting his criminal contacts and
showing such skill that he is to be considered as one
of the most important exponents in this sector'. The
52-year old Alfonso Caruana is the living example of
the international ramifications, elusiveness and
continuity of the family's activities. Although a
fugitive, he remains one of the top level Family
bosses. The fact he is married to Giuseppina Caruana,
the daughter of Family patriarch Giuseppe Caruana
(brother of Alfonso's father Carmelo Caruana) the
eldest of the foregoing generation, is an indication
to be taken seriously in the archaic conventions which
rule the internal dynamics of the clan. 'Coca,
colombiani & 'ndrangheta', La Repubblica, 23 March
1995. p.21; Gian Carlo Caselli, 'Droga e criminalità
organizzata', Narcomafie, April 1995. Caselli is
Attorney General in Palermo. He describes the clan as
'pluricontinental', and underlines that Operazione
Cartagine shows the clan still plays a essential rol
in the drug trade.
Favara boss Salvatore Airo
11 March 1995 was in Rome arrested Francesco Barba a
stidde capo from Favara (Angelo Barba?). Salvatore
Airo the boss of Favara gets arrested in 1995 in Rome.
Favara
In may 1995 dies Giuseppe Di Caro in prison, he came
from Favara.
Ravanusa
5 October 1995 was in Ravanusa Peitro Formica killed.
Porto Empedocle
The same day, 5 october 1995 was in Porto Empedocle
Salvatore Greco killed.
Favara
7 January 1996 was Giovanni Attardo killed and the
next day committed his brother Francesco Attardo
suicide. 19 February 1996 was Giuseppe Sutera killed
by Giovanni Bellavia who was the same year arrested
thanks to his brother Gioacchino. Since 1996 is
Giuseppe Vetro, the boss of Favara sought.
Agrigento province
9 May 1996 was Fabio Coniglio killed.
Palma di Montechiaro
8 July 1996 Totuccio Pace (the brother of the Stidde
capo Domenico Pace) gets arrested.
Palma di Montechiaro
23 July 1996 Antonio Gallea ( a boss of the Stidde in
Canicatti), Salvatore Parla and Salvatore Calafato
(Stidde bosses from Palma) and Giuseppe Montanti get
arrested for ordering the murder of judge Livatino at
the orders of Ferro.
the Cuntrera-Caruana clan
According to DEA analyst Attanasio the clan smuggles
70% of the cocaine bound for Europe, he told a
journalist in July 1996. The Colombian Cartels have a
lot of respect for the Sicilian Mafia, he added.
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan
The Cuntrera-Caruana clan has had some serious
set-backs with the arrest and conviction of some of
their most prominent bosses in 1996. During the trial
in Palermo, one of the defendants, the fugitive
Alfonso Caruana, turned out to be the central
organizer of a network that smuggled eleven metric
tons of cocaine to Italy from 1991-94.
Agrigento
15 September 1996 in Agrigento the killed criminals
Carmelo Giangreco (28) from Canicatti and Calogero
Naro (24) from Campobello di Licata get found in a
car.
Favara
17 October 1996 was pastor Nino Giarrauto beaten to
death because he opposed drugtraffickers.
Porto Empedocle
7 Januari 1997 in Porto Empedocle Libertino Cozzo
Vasile (22) gets arrested. He had in 1991 with other
killers the stiddari man Angelo Ficarra killed.
Alfonso Caruana
The Italian police can now procure a photo of Alfonso
Caruana at a Canadian news agency that was taken
during his Court appearance in February 1997.
Bompensiere e di Milena cosca member Francesco
Randazzo
5 Januari 1998 Francesco Randazzo’s son Salvatore
gets killed in Agrigento.
Favara
13 January 1998 was Antonino Quaranta killed.
Porto Empedocle boss Calogero Salemi
Calogero Salemi, the former boss of Porto Empedocle is
pentito and thanks to him police can arrest in march
1998 a lot of people.
Cuntrera-Caruana family
the Cuntrera-Caruana crime family, whose Canadian
leaders are in prison for their involvement in a large
cocaine shipment that was seized in 1998.
Favara
5 december 1998 committed Giovanni Bellavia suicide in
prison, he had 27 years for the murder of Giuseppe
Sutera.
Policeoperation Akragas 2
11 Januari 1999 police do arrests in Agrigento for 20
murders in Agrigento between 1990 and 1994 under which
the murder of policeman Guazzalli and prisonguard Di
Lorenzo in 1992 and the kidnapping of Di Matteo's son
Giuseppe (13). Arrested was Giuseppe Fanara (43) the
boss of Favara. 11 Januari 1999 the killer Giuseppe
Fanara (42) and Paolo Nobile get arrested thanks to
Alfonso Falsone who says that Fanara was a killer of
maresciallo Giuliano Guazzelli and the murder was
ordered by Leonardo Fragapane.
Policeoperation Akragas 2
Amodeo, originario di Porto Empedocle, era latitante
dal 12 gennaio del 1999, quando nei suoi confronti era
stata emessa un'ordinanza di custodia cautelare dal
gip di Palermo, che lo accusa di associazione mafiosa
e omicidi nell'ambito dell'operazione Akragas 2.
Sciacca boss Salvatore Di Gangi
29 January 1999 police arrest the boss Salvatore Di
Gangi (57), he is a friend of Provenzano.
Favara
22 April 1999 there is an ambush at the car of Carmelo
Cusumano and they kill the child Stefano Pompeo (11),
Cusumano's brother in law is Salvatore Sgarito.
Favara
7 May 1999 was Calogero Bongiorno killed, his brother
is a politician.
Cattolica Eraclea born Bonanno capo Gerlando Sciascia
(65) killed
In may 1999 Bonanno capo Gerlando Sciascia (65) was
shot to death.
Italy, Pasquale Cuntrera escapes
21 May 1999 escaped Pasquale Cuntrera but he was 4
days later arrested in Spain.
Spain, Pasquale Cuntrera arrested
25 may 1999 Pasquale Cuntrera was arrested in Spain.
Toronto, Alfonso Caruana arrested
Pasquale Cuntrera's brother in law Alfonso Caruana was
arrested 8 july 1999 in Toronto.
Gaetano Amodeo arrested
Gaetano Amodeo (48) was arrested in Montreal, he was
one of Italy's 500 most wanted fugitives. He was
close to Ribera capomafia Simone Capizzi and Sciacca
capomafia Salvatore Di Gangi and he had also contacts
with the Cuntrera caruana family and the NY Bonnanno
clan.
Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano
Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano faced calls to
relinquish his post and submit to a public inquiry
Friday after it was disclosed his office contacted the
Immigration Department on behalf of the wife of a
reputed Mafia kingpin. The minister said staff in his
Montreal-area riding office were approached by Maria
Sicurella di Amodeo, who asked for help with her
immigration file. Staff members wrote to the
department as part of a "normal administrative
followup that in no way constitutes an intervention in
the file," said the statement. Sicurella is the wife
of Gaetano Amodeo, who was arrested in Montreal on
Tuesday and is facing deportation proceedings. He's
wanted on murder charges in Germany and murder and
attempted murder charges in his native Italy. His name
appears on Interpol's list of 500 most dangerous
fugitives. Once his wife had successfully obtained
landed immigrant status, she attempted to sponsor
Amodeo for permanent residency as well -- an effort
likely to be cut short by his arrest. The letter to
the Immigration Department from Gagliano's office was
written last May 25. It noted the Quebec government,
which plays a major role in selecting immigrants to
that province, had issued a certificate to Sicurella.
The letter also observed she had a visitor's visa good
until 2001 and asked about the progress of paperwork
in her application for permanent residency. Deputy
Prime Minister Herb Gray said all MPs make frequent
inquiries on behalf of would-be immigrants. That does
not mean they are personally backing them, he said.
"Neither Mr. Gagliano nor his office was supporting
the application. An inquiry is sent as to its status,
that is not supporting the application." As for
Sicurella's links to Amodeo, Gray said MPs and their
staffs don't have the resources to check everybody who
asks for help. Sicurella obtained landed immigrant
status for herself and her two children last July, two
months after her visit to Gagliano's office. She
claimed she was separated from Amodeo, so no security
check was done on him, said Robert Gervais, a
spokesman for the Immigration Department. Two months
later, Sicurella said she had reconciled with her
husband and filed to sponsor him for landed status.
The RCMP advised Immigration early this month that
international warrants seeking Amodeo's arrest had
been issued by Germany and Italy. His wife and
children are not included in the current deportation
proceedings, but officials are looking into the
question of whether Sicurella told the truth about
being separated from Amodeo. She could face expulsion
if she lied as part of a plot to get him into the
country.
Agrigento
3 November 1999 was Vincenzo the brother of council
member Angelo Vaccaro Notte killed.
Favara
24 November 1999 police arrested suspects of the
murder of Michele Manganella and there was also
cocaine traffic from Holland.
Agrigento
5 February 2000 was in the province Agrigento former
council member Angelo Vaccaro Notte (43) killed.
Favara boss Giuseppe Vetro arrested
27 May 2000 was Favara's boss Giuseppe Vetro arrested,
he is suspected of the massacre in september 1986 in
Porto Empedocle and the murder of the child Stefano
Pompeo in april 1999 to which was also connected
Carmelo Cusumano who should have been the victim. Also
arrested Gregorio Lombardo and Angelo Alaimo.
Grotte
6 May 2002 was Valentino Licata arrested , he is the
brother of the for murder imprisoned Vincenzo Licata
who had helped Giovanni Brusca when he was on the run.
Santa Margherita Belice
14 July 2002 was Maurizio Di Gati choosen
capomandamento of Agrigento province. But police
arrive at the house in Santa Margherita Belice and
arrest 15 mafioso under whom Salvatore DiGioia,
Giuseppe Nobile, Pasquale Salemi, Stefano Fragapane
(son of the imprisoned Salvatore)
Racalmuto
9 October 2002 was Beniamino Di Gati arrested, he is
the brother of Maurizio Di gati.
Strada Burgio a Villafranca
26 January 2003 was found there the killed Filippo
Riggio.
Campobello di Licata
3 March 2003 was Giuseppe Bufalo arrested he is the
brother in law of the killed Angelo Falsone.
Porto Empedocle
16 July 2003 was Giovanni Putrone arrested. He is the
brother of the fugitive boss Luigi Putrone.
Favara
13 August 2003 was Carmelo Milioti of Favara killed.
Sant Elisabetta
9 October 2003 was Giuseppe Bruno (29) killed, he was
close with the Fragapane clan from Sant Elisabetta.
Pentito Leonardo Canino told the judges that the Porto
Empedocle clans had contact with minister Calogero
Mannino.
I like to thank Carmelo and Felice