Camorrist brothers at the origin of the organization of the Brazilian PCC

On February 8, 1983, in the harsh European winter, Italian businessman Presta Luigi, owner of a famous jewelry store, was kidnapped in Naples by seven armed people. Some wore masks. The gang demanded 1.7 billion lire, the currency at the time, to free him. The ransom was paid after intense negotiations. The kidnappers made several calls to Luigi's wife and insisted on receiving 10 billion lire. But they agreed to reduce the value. The victim was released on March 14 of that year in San Nicola Arcella, province of Cosenza, Calabria.

Three Camorra brothers led the kidnapping and fled to Brazil in May 1983. Two of them, Renato and Bruno Torsi, were captured in São Paulo. Ten years later they were trapped side by side with founders of the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital). Both were sent to the House of Custody and Treatment of Taubaté, in Vale do Paraíba, birthplace of the PCC, created in that unit on August 31, 1993. The two Camorristas played a decisive role in the organization and structuring of the largest criminal faction in Brazil..

Big Brother Mizael
Camorristas saw the birth of the PCC in Taubaté up close. Their best friend in prison was Mizael | Aparecido da Silva, aka Miza, one of the eight founders of the Primeira Comando da Capital and the creator of the faction's statute. During the time they spent together in prison, the Torsi explained to Mizael that a criminal organization has a duty to help the families of its associates and hire lawyers to defend its imprisoned and freed members. The brothers also guided Mizael to charge PCC faction factions a monthly fee to help strengthen the group as a company, making profits, investing money from illicit activities - such as kidnappings, robberies and drug trafficking - and even laundering capital, along the lines of of the Camorra. Mizael and the Torsi considered each other more than friends.