If someone understand french, you should listen to the interview. You can find it on the internet with google. Its called Narcos PQ
Vito Rizzuto still resonates in the United States: listen to the last episode of the Narcos PQ podcast A famous policeman remembers his intelligence
Monday, May 6, 2019 01:00 UPDATE Monday, May 6, 2019 01:00 The name Vito Rizzuto, the last godfather of the Montreal mafia, still rings in the offices of the American drug police, who consider him one of the smartest criminals of his time.
This is what can be learned from an interview with Mike Vigil, the former chief of international operations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
It is broadcast today in the fourth episode of Narcos PQ , a podcast produced by our Investigation Bureau.
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The US agency dedicated to the eradication of drug trafficking began to take an interest in Rizzuto during the war that shook the New York mafia 40 years ago. It was in 1981 that the Montreal criminal committed the triple murder of three rivals of the Bonanno family.
"He laundered money with the help of companies, through the trafficking of diamonds and gold, but it was his many fictitious companies that allowed him to leach out very large amounts of money," he says. former agent.
"He was probably smarter than the mafia."
Mike Vigil also claims that the DEA's surveillance operations prove that the late godfather was doing business with the Colombian drug cartels, including the Medellin cartel led by Baron Pablo Escobar.
To his knowledge, Rizzuto has never met Escobar in person, as this kind of meeting would have been too compromising for the Mafioso.
"He let his associates take care of this so as not to expose themselves too much," says the man who hunted down the biggest drug traffickers, including the Mexican El Chapo Guzman, from the Sinaloa cartel.
Politicians in his pocket
The former DEA officer says he has proof that Vito Rizzuto has succeeded in corrupting politicians.
"I will not name names, but he had politicians and policemen in his pocket. He had managed to bribe several people. "
He paints an extremely dark portrait of the activities of his clan in Montreal from the early 1980s until his death from pneumonia on December 23, 2013.
"He blew so much blood, he imported so many drugs that poisoned so many Canadians. He alone has damaged the social fabric of this beautiful country. "
