Massimo Carminati was charged with fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, and the bribing of public officials.
14 Facts About Massimo Carminati
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In 2017, Carminati was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
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Massimo Carminati frequented a bar that was a haunt of Rome criminals and political extremists.
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Massimo Carminati became a particular friend of Valerio Fioravanti, leader of the far right terrorist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.
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In 1993, contemporaneously with his trial for Mafia association in Palermo, former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, Sicilian mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti and Massimo Carminati, were charged with the murder of Pecorelli by prosecutors in Perugia.
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Massimo Carminati lost his left eye in a gunfight with border guards in 1981 while attempting to illicitly cross into Switzerland.
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Massimo Carminati was initially acquitted with Andreotti in the killing of Pecorelli, but after a prosecution appeal they were found guilty at re-trial stage trial.
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Massimo Carminati was sentenced to four years in prison for his complicity in a raid on the Banca di Roma strongroom deposit boxes, he was regarded as the mastermind behind the burglary.
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Police reportedly suspect the deposit boxes contained compromising material that Massimo Carminati used to compile dossiers on a number of high officials.
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On 2 December 2014, Massimo Carminati was arrested by the Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale on charges of Mafia association, extortion, fraudulent transfer of assets, bribery, bid rigging and false invoicing, in the Mafia Capitale investigation.
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On 20 July 2017, Massimo Carminati was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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On 11 September 2018, on appeal, Massimo Carminati was sentenced to 14 years and six months.
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On 16 June 2020, Massimo Carminati was released due to the expiry of his pre-trial detention terms.
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Massimo Carminati inspired the character of Samurai in the book Suburra by Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Bonini, from which the 2015 film Suburra by Stefano Sollima was made, in which Samurai is played by Claudio Amendola; the book was followed by the television series directed by Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli and Giuseppe Capotondi, in which the character is played by Francesco Acquaroli.