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Antonio Bardellino and the strange birth certificate: new doubts about his death
of editorial staff August 1, 2023in Chronicle News
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The boss's wife presented a document with the name of a "ghost" man

The investigation that aims to shed light on the fate of Antonio Bardellino, the founder of the Casalesi clan who according to the sentence of the Spartacus maxi-trial, and also according to a repentant of the caliber of Carmine Schiavone, was born from an at least anomalous birth certificate (but his body was never found) in Brazil in 1988 by Mario Iovine to avenge the murder of his brother Domenico.

The certificate in question has been the subject of investigations by the DNA (with the national prosecutor Giovanni Melillo and the anti-mafia prosecutor Antonello Ardituro), but not only, since the story in some way also involves the prosecutors of Rome and Naples. Presented in 2003 to the registry office of Formia by the wife of the deceased capoclan, acquired by a now deceased financier, the certificate concerns the birth of a child, daughter of the woman and of a man who does not seem to exist: this man's name - indeed he would be called – Marco Bardellino Diana and, despite the investigations of the investigators, no trace of him has been found, as if he were a ghost. The fact is that the mother of that girl (now a woman) is Bardellino's ex-partner (who has two other children, both with maternal surname) and the alleged father bears the surname of the boss – Bardellino – associated with the surname of the latter's mother, Diana. A strange coincidence.

The investigations
During the investigations, the investigators also found other elements - including testimonies whose veracity is being examined - which would seem to lend credence to the hypothesis that in reality Antonio Bardellino was not killed in 1988, but instead fled from Italy to the vault of the Americas.

In recent weeks, during some searches by the police in Formia, a small underground compartment, 170 centimeters high, was discovered in an apartment in the past attributable to the founder of the Casalesi clan which could be one of Bardellino's hideouts. This latest discovery is the result of the investigations by the DDA of Rome and Naples into the attempted murder of Gustavo Bardellino, 43, the boss's nephew, which took place in February 2022.

You also have to know the Casalesi are not some ordinary camorra group, these guys are hardcore.

Murder Bardellino, the reconstruction of the new agreements
Formia - Vincenzo Di Caterino, according to the pentiti, is the pawn that led to the readmission of the Bardellinos into the clan since 2019

02/08/2023 1pm
It is a slow and meticulous work that lies behind the turning point in the investigations into the ambush of Gustavo Bardellino, which are carrying with them investigations into the internal and external reorganization of the Casalesi clan, where between repentance and arrests it has been created for a while a clear power vacuum for years. And it is always the collaborators of justice who offer the evolutionary framework. In the search decrees that brought the DDAs of Rome and Naples to Formia, we already start from an emerging figure, that of Vincenzo Di Caterino, apparently a minor figure, from Santa Maria Capua Vetere, nicknamed o'piatto, very rich, powerful and unscrupulous to the point to weave a renewed pact with the Bardellino family, expelled from the Caserta area and never readmitted. Di Caterino, on the other hand, only looks at money, to do with car showrooms and drugs. He was arrested last year but in the meantime the pentiti continued to speak.

due to consolidated criminal balances that occurred following the upper hand of the group of Casalesi headed by Francesco Schiavone known as Sandokan, Mario Iovine, Vincenzo De Falco over the faction headed by Antonio Bardellino, with whom a violent confrontation had taken place at the end of the 1980s aimed at the territorial dominance of the association". The Dda believes that since 2019 a new pact has been born between the Bardellinos (especially the cousins ??Calisto and Gustavo), and the rising star Vincenzo Di Caterino, apparently the only one able to digest a rapprochement with the exiled Bardellino . The crimes with the mafia method configured in the search decree would have been committed between Casal di Principe and Formia, including the south of the Pontine as a whole.

Among the pentiti who provided the magistrates with information on the new arrangements is Antonio Lanza, former head of the Bidognetti area. The former affiliate, speaking to the public prosecutor Maurizio Giordano about the role that Vincenzo Di Caterino, alias 'o platter, would have had in the clan, revealed, among other things, links between the underworld of the Aversano countryside and the Roman one: « Di Caterino is an affiliate of the Schiavones and dealt in drugs and weapons for them. Before my last release – Lanza recounted – he carried out extortion together with Vincenzo Cirillo, brother of Francesco known as 'coscia fina' », sentenced to 30 years for the murder of Domenico Noviello. Lanza stated that, between 2021 and 2022, Di Caterino also became close to extra-regional mafia groups: "I learned that he carried out activities related to drugs and weapons also for the Spada, active in the areas of Frosinone and Rome". Bonds that were not shared, however, by Lanza, who for this reason was removed from the fief of the Aversano countryside. Lanza's story, if it were to be ascertained by the investigators, would demonstrate how the Casalesi mafia, especially the one represented by the new recruits, is now willing to relate to other structures with which it would hardly have collaborated until a few years ago. Lanza, alias 'o Piotta, 47, began collaborating with the Naples DDA at the beginning of 2023; in November 2022 he was among the 37 suspects reached by the precautionary custody order of the investigation aimed at dismantling the Bidognetti gangs (of which he was a part) and Schiavone, which had reorganized involving historic affiliates released from prison and new associates. The investigation that brought Lanza into play also involved Di Caterino, accused by the DDA of Naples of having been part of the Schiavone group.

Casalesi VIPs Vincenzo Di Caterino and Giovanni Della Corte

Bardellino investigation: yet another mysterious and disturbing detail on the house in Via dei Pini 7, where the hideout-bunker was found

To be investigated for aiding and abetting with the mafia aggravating circumstance, in the context of the lead raids that hit Gustavo Bardellino on the late afternoon of 15 February 2022 (Luigi Diana and Giovanni Lubello also under investigation for the attempted murder, read the in-depth link highlighted below ) , also the 81-year-old Vito Iacopino , the man who appears to be domiciled in Formia in the apartment in Via dei Pini 7, in the Villaggio del Sole, where the Carabinieri and the Police found the hideout-bunker attributable to the boss Antonio Bardellino , officially killed in 1988, and for which the DDA hypothesizes a different fate: perhaps "Uncle Antonio", the Camorra boss who also swore allegiance to Totò Riina's Cosa Nostra, would never die and would continue to live, going to Formia several times .

Moreover, his second wife, Rita De Vita, with their children, has been spotted several times in the apartment in recent years: most recently on 30 August 2022 when the woman, immortalized by the video surveillance of the complex, entered the villa, despite the stable is still owned by the Italian American Vito Iacopino. The woman turns out to have been the owner of the apartment that once belonged to the manager linked to the Bardellinos, Aldo Ferrucci , the manager of the Formian disco "Seven up", which exploded in 1985 when Bardellino's power was beginning to waver.

Vito Iacopino , born in Palermiti in the province of Cosenza, and residing in Lynfield in Massachusetts (USA), bought the apartment from the children of his brother Antonio Iacopino, who had bought it through a third person (a certain Antonio Nanni, originally from the province Romana) from De Vita and died in a car accident in 1995.

The Italian-American told the Carabinieri in Formia that he had bought his villa in the Villaggio del Sole from "an important criminal whose wife is called Rita De Vita" . Iacopino talks about the sale to the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Formia after, in the night between 14 and 15 July last, the district of the Villaggio del Sole had been the subject of thefts by thieves: among the houses receiving an attempted break-in there is the villa in Via dei Pini 7 which hides Antonio Bardellino's bunker. In reality, Iacopino's house is at the center of the complex and more sheltered than other more exposed ones.

During the on-site investigations by the Carabinieri, Iacopino, speaking of how he bought the house, refers to the "important criminal". Iacopino bought the villa from this criminal whom he himself met when he lived in the Dominican Republic where he ran a nightclub. Iacopino sold the aforementioned disco in exchange for a lot of money and the property of the "Villaggio del Sole" in Formia. From there he would remain in respectful relations with Rita De Vita , who is still a resident of Santo Domingo together with her children from the founding boss of the Casalesi clan. It is not known at the moment whether her daughter, registered in the Municipality of Formia in 2003, also lives with her, whose father is the non-existent "Marco Bardellino Diana" .

Finally, one last detail that adds mystery to the mystery: the condominium expenses of the villa in Via dei Pini 7 appear to be paid by a man residing in Rome : AT

Hunt for mafioso Antonio Bardellino, the truth on the PCs and mobile phones of 13 suspects
Also under the lens of the yellow flames are pendrives, tablets and CDs

From Giuseppe Tallino-6 October 2023

CASAL DI PRINCIPE– According to the judges who dealt with the Spartacus trial, Antonio Bardellino was killed in 1988 in Brazil by Mario Iovine on the orders of Francesco Sandokan Schiavone. For the public prosecutor Vincenzo Ranieri, however, it is probable that the San Cipriano d'Aversa boss, if he is not still alive now, died many years after the date indicated in the historic ruling on the Casalesi clan. A thesis which, if it were to prove solid, would force investigators (and journalists) to rewrite the criminal history of Caserta over the last 30 years. The work carried out so far by Dia, the yellow flames, policemen and carabinieri, aimed at shedding light on this intricate affair, last July triggered numerous searches in the homes and offices of relatives of the boss, of his historic supporters, who could have had contacts with him after 1988,

For all the material that was seized during those checks, technical and unrepeatable investigations will begin next week. Telephones, computers, pen drives, tablets, CDs and DVDs taken from the homes of Romolo Corvino, Giuseppina Arrichiello (44 years old, originally from Casale but resident in Sulmona), Salvatore Calisto Bardellino (60 years old, from Casal di Principe), Maria Immacolata Bretto (76 years old), Salvatore Bretto (50 years old), Salvatore Bardellino (80 years old), Maria Concetta Caccavale (80 years old), all from San Cipriano d'Aversa, Ernesto Bardellino (55 years old), Calisto Bardellino (58 years old) , and Antonio Bardellino (53 years old), all from Mondragone, Rosa Bardellino (61 years old), Antonietta Bardellino (64 years old, from Quarto), and Gilda Bardellino (58 years old, from San Cipriano).

The analysis activities were entrusted to the section of the fourth group of the Special Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Information Technologies led by Colonel Bruno Pagano. In addition to collecting evidence to demonstrate the fallacy of the thesis of Antonio Bardellino being murdered in South America 35 years ago, the examination of these devices is also aimed at verifying the hypothesized criminal pact that would have been made recently between the Casalesi clan, through those who for the DDA are two of its leading exponents, namely Romolo Corvino (56 years old), and Vincenzo Di Caterino (39 years old), and the nephews of the Bardellino boss who, after the alleged assassination of their uncle, moved to Formia, namely Calisto Bardellino , 53 years old, and Gustavo Bardellino, 43 years old,

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I believe it's very possible that he is still alive. Many will laugh and say nonsense but Favoccia said what he said. Why would he say it if it's bullshit? Maybe it is, but in this case it makes sense. I have full faith in Hollander here. He will find him. He will google his way into Bardellino's personal toilet

Immacolata Bretto is the first wife of Antonio Bardellino , boss of bosses throughout the Eighties and commander in chief together with Carmine Alfieri bearers of the mega cartel of the so-called Old Camorra , which federated under the banner of the New Family, to wage a war to the death that left hundreds and hundreds of deaths throughout Campania.
But the surname Bretto appeared very recently in statements by collaborators of justice such as Nicola Schiavone, son of Francesco Schiavone Sandokan , who, in an interrogation said that with the Bretto family the clan had reached a balance , to the point that this peace, this concord closed a central story in the history of the Casalesi clan.

BTW Carmine Alfieri is also still alive at 80.

Intersting stuff Hollander. Thanks

Carmine Alfieri (born February 18, 1943) is an Italian Camorra boss, who rose from Piazzolla di Nola to become one of the most powerful members of Neapolitan Camorra in the 1980s. As boss of the Alfieri clan, he was one of the most influential and powerful Camorra bosses from 1984 until his arrest in 1992.[1] Alfieri's nickname is 'o 'ntufato, the angry one, thanks to the dissatisfied, angry sneer he wears constantly.[2]

Alfieri was born in Saviano, near Naples. The Camorra entered in his life when he was only seven. In 1953, he took an oath with his brother Salvatore, to avenge the killing of their father Antonio Alfieri. Three years later, in 1956, Salvatore Alfieri killed the murderer of his father.[3] In the 1960s Carmine was first arrested. In 1974, he was initiated in the Camorra as uomo d'onore (man of honour). In 1978 he was charged for homicide and in 1981 for mafia association.[4]

In the 1980s he was among the founders of the Nuova Famiglia, which was opposed to the then dominant Nuova Camorra Organizzata of Raffaele Cutolo. The rivalry caused a ferocious war with a huge number of victims, including Carmine's brother Salvatore. The Alfieri clan of the 1980s and 1990s exhibited a hubris and a penchant for wanton violence that compared favorably with Cosa Nostra’s spectacular assassinations. According to police estimates, Alfieri’s killers alone counted as many as 500 murders during the decade 1983-93. For instance, Domenico Cuomo, Alfieri's main hitman confessed to have committed over 90 murders within the same period.[5][6]

Hollander what did Antonio Iovine say about Bardellino when he flipped? Surely he would know the truth?

Only Mario Iovine who (allegedly) killed Bardellino did know, and he has been killed years ago...Probably nobody else knows for sure.

From what I can gather Antonio Iovine and many other major pentiti aren't very helpful. The government expects these guys to bring the whole ship down and they only get peanuts. Good for them.