Prosecutors in Reggio Calabria only learned about Santo Rumbo’s high ranking by chance, when they overheard two ’Ndrangheta bosses in Canada talking about him on a wiretap. One mentioned that Rumbo was given a higher dote than his brother, who’d held the Vangelo until he died.

If Rumbo did hold a ranking of Trequartino before the age of 30, this would have been an extraordinarily rapid rise through the mafia ranks.