(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 23 – Former Brenta crime boss Felice Maniero has been given a new identity as part of his witness protection program after his previous cover as Luca Mori became public knowledge, his defence lawyer Orlando Iorio told ANSA on Thursday.
The procedure lasted a while and was completed recently, said Iorio.
On Monday, Maniero is set to appear under his previous name at the hearing of a trial being held in Brescia in which he is accused of hitting a plainclothes police officer during a fight.
Maniero led a mafia-style gang that ran rackets in the Brenta area of Veneto in the 70s and 80s which he allowed police to dismantle after confessing his crimes.
In 2023, Maniero, 70, finished serving a four-year prison term for abusing his former partner Marta Bisello.
He is currently being monitored with an anti-stalking electronic bracelet after allegedly hitting a woman who is a family member, according to a report published by Venice daily Il Gazzettino on Thursday.
Maniero was first jailed in 1995 for bank robbery, murder, assault, assault of an officer, and grand theft auto.
During his time in jail he turned State’s evidence against other gangsters.
He was released in 2010 but rearrested on charges of mistreating his partner in Brescia in October 2019.
Maniero was once one of Italy’s most feared crime bosses, outside traditional southern mafias including Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta, Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, Campania’s Camorra and Puglia’s Sacra Corona Unita. (ANSA).
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The procedure lasted a while and was completed recently, said Iorio.
On Monday, Maniero is set to appear under his previous name at the hearing of a trial being held in Brescia in which he is accused of hitting a plainclothes police officer during a fight.
Maniero led a mafia-style gang that ran rackets in the Brenta area of Veneto in the 70s and 80s which he allowed police to dismantle after confessing his crimes.
In 2023, Maniero, 70, finished serving a four-year prison term for abusing his former partner Marta Bisello.
He is currently being monitored with an anti-stalking electronic bracelet after allegedly hitting a woman who is a family member, according to a report published by Venice daily Il Gazzettino on Thursday.
Maniero was first jailed in 1995 for bank robbery, murder, assault, assault of an officer, and grand theft auto.
During his time in jail he turned State’s evidence against other gangsters.
He was released in 2010 but rearrested on charges of mistreating his partner in Brescia in October 2019.
Maniero was once one of Italy’s most feared crime bosses, outside traditional southern mafias including Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta, Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, Campania’s Camorra and Puglia’s Sacra Corona Unita. (ANSA).
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