13 Facts About Pasquale Condello

Pasquale Condello is known as for his role at the top of the crime syndicate.

Pasquale Condello was a fugitive and included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy from 1990 until his capture in February 2008.

Pasquale Condello became a member of Camera di Controllo, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta formed at the end of the war in September 1991, to avoid further internal conflicts.

Pasquale Condello is accused of running a network of extortion and kickbacks on public works contracts, as well as having gotten control of contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to build water purifiers in some Calabrian towns.

Pasquale Condello is regarded as a key figure in trafficking cocaine between Colombia and Italy.

Pasquale Condello has been sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms - plus another 22 years in jail - for murder, mafia association, extortion, money laundering and drug-related offences, including the killing of Lodovico Ligato, a Christian Democrat politician and former head of the Italian State Railways in 1989.

Pasquale Condello managed to get released from detention again and became a fugitive.

On 18 February 2008, Pasquale Condello was captured in a major operation involving over 100 policemen who converged on an apartment in the district of Occhio di Pellaro, on the outskirts of Reggio Calabria.

Pasquale Condello was taken into custody without a struggle, police said.

Pasquale Condello had been trailed for days and was found in the company of his son-in-law and a nephew.

Investigators said that Pasquale Condello had remained in his native Reggio Calabria throughout his time on the run and from there ran his gang's operations not only in Calabria but in Rome and other Italian cities.

Pasquale Condello is married with Maria Morabito and has two daughters and a son.

Caterina Pasquale Condello married Daniele Ionetti, the son of Alfredo Ionetti, considered to be the treasurer of the Pasquale Condello clan.