Giuseppe Dell'Aquila (; born March 20, 1962 in
Giugliano in Campania
Giugliano in Campania , also known simply as Giugliano, is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy. , it had some 124,000 inhabitants,[Neapolitan
Neapolitan means of or pertaining to Naples, a city in Italy; or to:
Geography and history
* Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city
* Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and Hig ...]
.
Biography
He was a fugitive since 2002 wanted for Mafia association, robbery, fencing, money laundering and other crimes. He was put on
Italy's most wanted list in March 2011.
Direzione centrale della Polizia Criminale - Programma Speciale di Ricerca - Dell'Aquila Giuseppe
/ref>[Il ras Dell’Aquila ora è un superlatitante]
, Giornale di Napoli, March 17, 2011 On May 25, 2011, the Italian police arrested him in a villa in Varcaturo, 19 miles northwest of Napoli.['One of most dangerous' Mafia bosses arrested]
Daily Telegraph, May 25, 2011
He was allied with the Mallardo clan
The Mallardo clan is a Camorra clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples. The Mallardo clan is also one of the clans that belongs to the Secondigliano Alliance, that is considered by the authorities as th ...
and Contini clan
The Contini clan is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the city of Naples, and more specifically in the area of the Naples Central Station. The clan's traditional powerbase is the Arenaccia district. It also operates in the Poggiorea ...
and one of the leaders of the Secondigliano Alliance
The Secondigliano Alliance ( Italian: Alleanza di Secondigliano) is a strategic alliance of Camorra clans in Naples, Italy and its hinterland which controls drug trafficking and the extortion racket in many areas of Naples since the 1990s. The Alli ...
(Alleanza di Secondigliano), a coalition of powerful Camorra clans which controls drug trafficking and the extortion rackets in many suburbs of Naples that was formed at the end of the 1980s and controlled much of Naples for ten years.[
He worked in the shadows, according to several Camorra turncoats. The ]pentito
''Pentito'' (; lit. "repentant"; plural: ''pentiti'') is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal procedure terminology who were formerly part of criminal organizations and decided to collaborate with a public ...
Salvatore Giuliano said Dell’Aquila was the armed wing of the Contini and Mallardo clans. "He is a ferocious killer of Mallardo, on behalf of whom he committed a hundred murders," according to Giuliano. He has not been charged with any homicide, however. He is active as a money launderer for the proceeds of drug trafficking and extortion.[
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References
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1962 births
Living people
People from Giugliano in Campania
Secondigliano Alliance