Italian gangsters hiding in Romania

Why the Italian mafia are hiding in Romania?



The language easily understandable to Italians and the large Italian community are the reasons why many Italian gangsters are hiding in Romania. Dozens of members of the most feared dangerous gangs: the Cosa Nostra, Camorra or the Sacra Corona Unita, convicted of serious crimes, have been caught in recent years, in Romania, the newspaper "Adevarul".

They take rent houses especially in big cities where, according to the clerk Affairs of Italy in Bucharest, Paolo Sartori, no one raises the question: "Who is the stranger recently moved nearby." Indeed, he adds Paul Sartori, "members of the Italian Mafia arrived in Romania proceed with caution, not to create disturbance to anyone, immediately integrate into the community, you make it nice and will do anything to interfere least with the authorities."

Often, in order to justify their presence in certain places, they put on small business, either directly or via intermediaries, that is, wives, concubines, etc.. But they do not live in these business-screen, as the Mafia families to which they belong, and help them send enough money. "

The largest number of mobsters caught here had taken refuge there after the accession of Romania to the European Union, since it can be accessed with the ID card. Sartori says that it had entered Romania with false documents, with actual documents that "borrowed from various acquaintances, on which, if it were necessary, would have replaced the photo.

But not only Italians can belong to the Mafia. Paul Sartori says that, years ago, a Romanian who was a full member of the Camorra was arrested near Naples, for drug trafficking.

He started working for the representatives of this clan, and "when he demonstrated his confidence, took the oath esendovi accepted." Sartori also said that this was not a singular case.

On the Peninsula there are enough Romanians working in the service of mafias. They are usually involved in drug trafficking and prostitution. "Many of the Romanians who work with the Italian Mafia do not know who they do. They come to know only when the gang believes that they are useful, "said Sartori.

The mobsters caught in Romania belong to different families: the Camorra, Cosa Nostra or the Sacra Corona Unita.

The newspaper Adevarul mentions some specific cases: On 3 July 2007, the 36-year-old Mario Pascale was captured in Dumbraveni district of Sibiu. He was wanted for murder and belonging to a particularly serious group mafia crime punishable by life imprisonment, after that, on 5 July 1998, along with three accomplices, including his brother, he kidnapped and assaulted horribly Anna Vignola (27 years) and would subsequently buried alive, peche had witnessed a conflict.

The July 1, 2008 Nicodemus Ignatius (47 year old) was arrested in the parking lot Baneasa Airport, immediately after the landing of the plane in which he was traveling his girlfriend, a Romanian settled in Bologna. It was one of the leaders who ran the family business Laudari, specializing in wear, protection fees, kidnapping and extortion, crimes ordered. He was hiding in Constanta and Pitesti.

June 4, 2009 Gaetano Ferone (52 year old) was caught in Braila, on the basis of a warrant of arrest issued February 6, 2009 by the Italian authorities. He is accused of mafia association constitution, whose members were making crimes of blackmail, fraud, fraud, falsification of public and private documents, money laundering. Gaetano Ferone is the second member of the Camorra captured in Romania.

March 15, 2010 Giuseppe Scuderi was captured in Bucharest, while celebrating his wife's birthday. He had been sentenced in Italy to life imprisonment for killing another mobster Italian. He lived for four years in Romania, where he had rented under a false name, an apartment in the sixth district of the capital.

On March 8, 2007 - Antonio Constantini (59 year old), one of the most important leaders of the Sacra Corona Unita, was captured in Craiova. He had been sentenced in Italy to 21 years in prison for murder. It arrived in Romania in 2006 and, under a false name, Gian Carlos, he rented an apartment in Craiova. Constantini controlled in certain areas Pugliese. In Romania took care of business with coffee.