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Place of Birth: Rosarno, Calabria, Italy
About Umberto Bellocco
- Umberto Bellocco (Italian pronunciation: [um'b?rto bel'l?kko]; born December 17, 1937 in Rosarno) is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, a mafia-type organisation in Calabria.
- He belongs to and was the boss of the Bellocco 'ndrina based in Rosarno. In the beginning of the 1980s he was involved in setting up the Sacra Corona Unita (SCU), a mafia-type organization in Apulia, to counter the growing influence of the Camorra.
- On his instigation Giuseppe Rogoli imported the codes, structure and initiation rites of the 'Ndrangheta to be used by the SCU.He was arrested in June 1983 in Lecce in Apulia.
- He was sentenced to three years for illegal possession of firearms.
- In the subsequent years he received multiple charges for murder, extortion, drug trafficking and Mafia association.
- At some point he was charged with 14 murders.
- However, many charges resulted in acquittal in appeal.
- He was sentenced to 14 years for drug trafficking.
- In July 1988 he was released because the terms for detention expired, and became a fugitive.He became a member of Camera di Controllo, a provincial commission of the 'Ndrangheta formed at the end of the Second 'Ndrangheta war in September 1991, to avoid further internal conflicts.He was arrested again on February 18, 1993.
- and is currently in prison.
- He was succeeded as acting boss by his cousin Gregorio Bellocco, arrested in February 2005, and Giuseppe Bellocco, arrested in July 2007.
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