Augusto La Torre (
Mondragone
Mondragone (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' or municipality in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region of Campania. It is located about northwest of Naples and about west of Caserta.
History
In the Middle Ages, it was occupied by the Norman ...
, Province of Caserta, September 24, 1962) is an
Italian
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criminal and former
boss. Up until his arrest and subsequent collaboration with Italian justice in January 2003, La Torre was the head of the now defunct
La Torre clan, a powerful Camorra organization whose vast lucrative criminal empire stretched from its base
Mondragone
Mondragone (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' or municipality in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region of Campania. It is located about northwest of Naples and about west of Caserta.
History
In the Middle Ages, it was occupied by the Norman ...
in the hinterland of
Campania
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out into
Aberdeen
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,
Scotland, as well as the
Netherlands.
Criminal career
Augusto La Torre is the son of Tiberio La Torre, also a Camorrista, and Paolina Gravano, his brother is
Antonio La Torre
Antonio La Torre is an Italian multi-billionaire real estate developer, restaurateur and member of the Camorra. He is the brother of Augusto La Torre, the former head of the powerful La Torre clan from Mondragone. In 1984 he moved to Aberdeen i ...
. At a young age, Augusto took over from his father the command of the clan, at the time dominant in the region of Alto Casertano, in lower Lazio and along the whole domitian coast. Over the years La Torre accumulated capital with extortion, drug trafficking, control of various economic activities and contracts. For a time the La Torre clan was hostile to the
Casalesi clan
The Casalesi clan is a clan within the Camorra, an Italian criminal organization, operating from Casal di Principe and San Cipriano d'Aversa in the province of Caserta between Naples and Latium. Formed by Antonio Bardellino, it is a confederatio ...
. One of the great strengths of the La Torre's organization was the alliances with politics, in fact, Mondragone, the clan's stronghold, was the first municipality to be dissolved due to Camorra infiltration in the 1990s.
La Torre was suspected of having hid hundreds of millions of euros in Dutch banks, as the La Torre clan was very active in the
Netherlands in the 1990s, transporting large cocaine shipments from
South America to
Campania
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via the Netherlands.
His organization was also known to launder money in the
Ivory Coast with the help of the former chancellor of
Salerno, Cesare Salomone.
In October 2019, La Torre was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was found guilty of being the instigator and executor of the
Pescopagano massacre The Pescopagano massacre (Italian:''Strage di Pescopagano'') was a massacre perpetrated by the La Torre clan on 24 April 1990 in front of a bar in Pescopagano, in the municipality of Mondragone, located in the province of Caserta, Italy.
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happened on April 24, 1990. According to the investigations reconstruction, the massacre happened because La Torre wanted to "clean up" the Pescopagano area from African drug dealers.
Personal life
Augusto La Torre has a son, Francesco Tiberio La Torre. In a 2017 interview, Francesco declared that found out about his father's "job" in the newspapers when he was 7 years old and just burst into tears, he also explained how it was growing up in Mondragone when the La Torre clan was at its peak, saying that “you could feel the Camorra in the air. You could smell it.“
See also
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List of members of the Camorra
This is a list of members of the Camorra, a Mafia-type organisation in Naples and Campania in Italy.
A
* Enrico Alfano
* Carmine Alfieri
* Raffaele Amato
* Umberto Ammaturo
B
* Luigi Baccante[List of Camorra clans
This is a comprehensive list of Camorra clans and their place of origin. A clan is a basic unit in the Camorra, a criminal organization originating in Campania. Currently it is estimated there are about 111 Camorra clans, and about 7,000 full membe ...]
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Pescopagano massacre The Pescopagano massacre (Italian:''Strage di Pescopagano'') was a massacre perpetrated by the La Torre clan on 24 April 1990 in front of a bar in Pescopagano, in the municipality of Mondragone, located in the province of Caserta, Italy.
Overview
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Antonio La Torre
Antonio La Torre is an Italian multi-billionaire real estate developer, restaurateur and member of the Camorra. He is the brother of Augusto La Torre, the former head of the powerful La Torre clan from Mondragone. In 1984 he moved to Aberdeen i ...
*
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List of most wanted fugitives in Italy
The list of most wanted fugitives in Italy is a most wanted list published by the Italian Interior Ministry. It includes criminals who are considered extremely dangerous by the Polizia di Stato. The list was started in July 1992. There are also l ...
References
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1962 births
Living people
People from the Province of Caserta
Camorristi
La Torre clan
Pentiti