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criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia. He was a wanted figure from 1994 and included in the
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 ...
, until his arrest on August 6, 2004.Arrestato Pasquale Tegano ''La Repubblica'', August 6, 2004
With his brother
Giovanni Tegano
Giovanni Tegano (; 8 November 1939 – 7 July 2021) was an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia. He was a fugitive since 1993 and was included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy, until his arrest in ...
'ndrina
The 'ndrina (, plural: ; , plural: ) is the basic unit of the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria, made up of blood relatives, and is the equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia’s "family" or ''cosca''.Varese, How Mafias Migrate'Gratteri & Nicaso ''Fratelli di s ...
. The clan hails from the Archi neighbourhood in the city of Reggio Calabria. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, extortion and mafia association.
Second 'Ndrangheta war
The Tegano clan sided with the De Stefano clan in the
Second 'Ndrangheta war
The Second 'Ndrangheta war was an internal struggle in the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organisation in Calabria (southern Italy). The conflict raged from 1985–1991 in Reggio Calabria. Practically all the 'ndrine in the city of Reggio Calabria gro ...
, which raged from 1985 to 1991. The alliance was sealed by the marriage between Orazio De Stefano and Antonietta Benestare, a niece of Giovanni Tegano on December 2, 1985.Paoli, ''Mafia Brotherhoods'', p. 89 The bloody six-year war between the Condello- Imerti clan and De Stefano allied with the Tegano clan left 621 deaths.Godfather's arrest fuels fear of bloody conflict ''The Observer'', February 24, 2008 La Repubblica, February 19, 2008Relazione annuale Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sul fenomeno della criminalità organizzata mafiosa o similare, July 30, 2003
While the main leaders of De Stefano clan were killed it fell upon the Teganos to wage the war. The Teganos were the key negotiators for the 'pax mafiosa' in Reggio Calabria in the 1990s between the Tegano, De Stefano, Libri and Latella clans on one side and the Imerti, Serraino, Condello and Rosmini clans on the other, in which they divided their spheres of influence in Reggio Calabria. , Antimafia Duemila, N° 41 Agosto-Settembre 2004
Fugitive and arrest
He became a fugitive in 1994, and was arrested on August 6, 2004. At that time, differences between the Tegano clan and the De Stefanos emerged over the division of extortion rackets. The Teganos secured the neutrality of their old enemy