Montreal Mafia: Alessandro Sucapane can return home
Alessandro Sucapane, 54, former partner of the late rebel clan leader of the Montreal mafia Giuseppe de Vito, may leave the half-way house where he has been living for six months and return home.
The Parole Board of Canada considers that he has made a lot of progress and no longer poses a risk to society. She therefore grants him full parole.
For its part, an investigator from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told the Commission three months ago that Sucapane is no longer a subject of interest to the federal police and that it has reason to believe that he retired from the Montreal Mafia.
"You said you have been withdrawn since 2013 and others have taken your place. You now want to dedicate yourself to your job as manager, salesman and businessman, and make your family your priority. In addition, your friend's death and incarceration influenced your decision to stay away from the criminal scene, "commissioners wrote in a five-page decision on May 27.
Friend with Ponytail
In January 2015, Sucapane was sentenced to 10 years as a penitentiary for gangsterism, drug trafficking and cannabis production. He had been arrested the previous year as part of a major RCMP investigation called Clemenza. This investigation was aimed at emerging mafia clans attempting to take the place of the Rizzuto after they had been squashed during Operation Coliseum in November 2006.
Sucapane was the right arm of Giuseppe De Vito who, according to the police, was part of an alliance that attempted a coup against the clan of the Sicilians in 2010 and 2011. From Vito, aka Ponytail, because of this hair that he always wore a ponytail, died poisoned by cyanide which was poured into his smoothie, at Donnacona Penitentiary in 2013.
During his hearing before the commissioners last December, Sucapane told De Vito that he was a very good friend, but disassociated himself from the "political gestures" of the latter.
Sucapane also asserted that a contractor owed him a fairly large debt and this probably tickles the commissioners who took the trouble to include it in their decision. Sucapane is ready to reduce the amount of the debt, to settle the file, and the commissioners require that he discloses all its financial transactions, including the possible settlement of this financial dispute.
Sucapane will also have to avoid anyone whom he knows is involved in criminal activities and not to frequent the bars.
