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Giuseppe Coluccio

b. 1966

Italian criminal

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Born 1966. Giuseppe Coluccio is an Italian.

Giuseppe Coluccio (; born 12 April 1966) is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. He was a fugitive and included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy from 2005 until his capture on 7 August 2008, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Born into a 'Ndrangheta family Coluccio was born in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica, a seaside town on southern Italy's Ionian coast. He was the first of three sons born into a traditional 'Ndrangheta family. Before he reached his teens, his father Vincenzo, was murdered in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica during a bloody feud that ravaged competing 'Ndrangheta Mazzaferro clan, in contrast to the clan Aquino. The clan survived and eventually rose to prominence under the leadership of Giuseppe Coluccio. The clan achieved an "unbreakable" monopoly on the sale of fish through the "power of intimidation" that was so strong the fisherman declared it a "law" that they answered to the clan, according to Italian Antimafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri in a dossier for Canadian authorities. Proceeds from the monopoly were invested in a "vast drug-trafficking operation in cocaine."

His first arrest for drug dealing and trafficking was in 1991. Since then, various investigations identified him as a key player in the import of cocaine from Colombia for a cartel of 'Ndrangheta clans in collaboration with Roberto Pannunzi, who brokered the deals in Latin America.

He was also involved in trafficking heroin from Turkey, smuggled in by fishing boats controlled by the Coluccio-Aquino 'Ndrina in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica. He is a cousin of Rocco Aquino and Giuseppe Aquino, the bosses of the Aquino 'ndrina in the town. in Richmond Hill, Ontario—a member of the Siderno Group who later faced Mafia related charges in Italy in 2014 after leaving Canada in 2010, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2018 for corruption.

Coluccio entered on the powerful Camera di controllo – the board of control for 'Ndrangheta clans, comprising six or seven Toronto-area men, who co-ordinate activities and resolves disputes among Calabrian gangsters in Southern Ontario. Police allege Coluccio continued trafficking "substantial quantities" of cocaine and hashish from South America while he was living in Canada. He was extradited from Canada to Italy on 20 August 2008, and incarcerated under the strict Article 41-bis prison regime. Among those detained were sixteen members of the Aquino-Coluccio clan. They were identified and arrested in New York and Calabria.

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Who is Giuseppe Coluccio?

Italian criminal

When was Giuseppe Coluccio born?

Giuseppe Coluccio was born on 12 April 1966 in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica.

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Giuseppe Coluccio is Italian.

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· Wikipedia: Giuseppe Coluccio

· Wikidata: Q3770340

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