Alfonso Caruana, head of the Caruana-Cuntrera mafia clan
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04 November 2020The 18-year prison sentence for Alfonso Caruana, indicated by investigators as the head of the Caruana - Cuntrera mafia family and nicknamed the 'boss of two worlds' has become final.
Nickname that Caruana contends with Tommaso Buscetta, the boss of Cosa Nostra who died in 2000 in the USA.
The Supreme Court has declared inadmissible the appeal that its lawyers had presented against the sentence pronounced in 2019 by the Turin Court of Appeal.
Caruana, 74, currently in prison, is originally from Castelvetrano (Trapani). He has been active in Italy, South America and Canada, hence the nickname 'boss of two worlds' and is considered one of the leading figures in organized crime. The proceeding that concerned him is the latest line of an investigation by the Carabinieri del Ros and the Piedmontese magistrates, called Carthage, launched in 1994 after the seizure, in Borgaro, a town near Turin, of a 5-ton truck of cocaine from South America.
The ruling of the Supreme Court closes a judicial proceeding initiated by the district anti-mafia management of the Piedmontese capital.