Salvatore Aquino

Salvatore Aquino (born February 29, 1944 in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica), also known as "Turi", is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. He is the boss of the Aquino 'ndrina from Marina di Gioiosa Ionica.[1] The clan is opposed to the Mazzaferro clan from the same town.[2] In the 1970s his clan entered in the smuggling of cigarettes and bursts out a bloody feud against the Mazzaferro-Femia clan.

He became a member of Camera di Controllo, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta formed at the end of the Second 'Ndrangheta war in September 1991, to avoid further internal conflicts.[3]

He was arrested on February 13, 1999, in Marina di Gioiosa Jonica. He was sentenced to 15 years for criminal association and international drug trafficking in the Nord-Sud trial in Milan.[1][4] He was involved in running a heroin lab in Rota d'Imagna in the province of Bergamo that was discovered in 1990.[5]

References
  1. (in Italian) Gli affari "puliti" degli Aquino nel nome e per conto di Turi, Gazzetta del Sud, July 17, 2010
  2. (in Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 136
  3. (in Italian) Sentenza procedimento penale Olimpia, Tribunale di Reggio Calabria, January 19, 1999
  4. (in Italian) Acquisiti altri due immobili confiscati alla cosca Aquino, ReggioPress, July 22, 2009
  5. (in Italian) Gratteri & Nicaso, Fratelli di Sangue, p. 137
  • (in Italian) Gratteri, Nicola & Antonio Nicaso (2006). Fratelli di Sangue, Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore ISBN 88-8101-373-8


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