http://www.journaldequebec.com/2013/02/01/la-serie-noire-se-poursuitThe building contractor who was the target of a shooting in Laval yesterday, was involved in the importation of cocaine and money laundering in the mafia.
Tonino Callocchia, 51, was hit by several bullets firearm in the parking lot of the restaurant Youlios, at 2033, boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest, to 10:10.
The life of the President of Construction TDP is not in danger, the Sûreté du Québec. Laval police transferred the investigation to the SQ because this other attack seems to fit into the context of return at the helm of mobster Vito Rizzuto and purge those who have been unfaithful.
The day before, Vincenzo Scuderi, barons associated with Giuseppe De Vito and Raynald Desjardins - rivals sponsor - has succumbed to the bullets of a sniper in the borough of Saint-Léonard.
Troublesome case
Tonino Callocchia nearly suffered the same fate as his former co-defendants, Walter Ricardo Gutierrez, killed in LaSalle, July 12.
The two men were among the forty mafia arrested in 1994 for laundering millions of dollars from a false counter exchange that RCMP had opened downtown.
This daring police investigation and embarrassing for a particular underworld revealed that parents of Vito Rizzuto had bank accounts in Switzerland.
Callocchia was considered a close Vincenzo "Jimmy" Di Maulo, was also arrested in this case and imprisoned for murder. This is the brother of "Joe" Di Maulo, shot in Blainville in November because of his alleged disloyalty to Vito Rizzuto.
In 1998, Callocchia also sentenced to 10 years in prison for importing cocaine with Laval of Calabrian origin Vincenzo Armeni, serving the largest penalty ever imposed on a dealer in the country at 19 years.
Even if the Italian mob rule accounts in its ranks, it is now business team with bikers and street gangs in Montreal in a broad new alliance, revealed in the Journal SPVM's chief, Marc Parent.
Pierre de Champlain, a former intelligence analyst for the RCMP believes this suggests that Vito Rizzuto "has indeed regained control of the situation and managed to convince the leaders of the other formations of the need to maintain a certain cohesiveness that will benefit them. "
"That only a charismatic leader of the caliber of Rizzuto can successfully do that," he added.
