1. Umberto Ammaturo was included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in May 1993.
19 Facts About Umberto Ammaturo
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Umberto Ammaturo's father ran a wine business that suffered economic difficulties.
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On top of that, his mother died when Umberto was just seven years old, leaving his father to look after seven small children.
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Streetwise and intelligent, young Umberto Ammaturo learned crime as a street urchin.
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Umberto Ammaturo was active in Santa Lucia, the seafront area in Naples.
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Umberto Ammaturo was related to Felice Malvento, a cigarette smuggler with contacts to Sicilian mafiosi such as Tommaso Buscetta.
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In 1965, the handsome Umberto Ammaturo met Pupetta Maresca a former beauty queen who had made international headlines in the 1950s when she killed in revenge the murderer of her husband, a Camorra boss named Pasquale Simonetti.
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Umberto Ammaturo had met a lot of sympathy among ordinary Neapolitans for her deed.
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Umberto Ammaturo received serious police attention when he was arrested again in 1972 with Nunzio Guida, the Camorra's leader in Milan.
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Bardellino and Umberto Ammaturo were involved in many murders of members of the NCO.
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Umberto Ammaturo managed to escape to Africa and then to South America, while Maresca remained in Italy to face the charges.
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Umberto Ammaturo would serve four years in prison from 1982 to 1986.
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Umberto Ammaturo confessed the murder when he decided to become a state witness in June 1993.
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Umberto Ammaturo had made deals with both Raffaele Cutolo's NCO, as well as with the NF.
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Umberto Ammaturo had no specific territory, no crime family and specialised entirely in cocaine trafficking, above all with Bardellino.
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The particular success of Umberto Ammaturo was the result of his innovation to set up a triangular system of cocaine smuggling, involving several African countries as staging posts, rather than just using the traditional South American-European axis.
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Umberto Ammaturo moved to Peru and was arrested again on May 3,1993, in Lima, and extradited to Italy.
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Umberto Ammaturo's testimony resulted in 40 arrests in May 1994, amongst them Michele Zaza and Luigi Giuliano.
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Umberto Ammaturo entered the witness protection program and was provided with a new identity.