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Salvatore Miceli (born April 12, 1946, in Salemi) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was on the "Most wanted list" of the Italian Ministry of the Interior from 2001 until his arrest in Venezuela in June 2009. Some Mafia turncoats (pentiti) referred to Miceli as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, due to his frequent trips abroad. Others called him "the chicken that lays golden eggs", referring to his lucrative drug business.〔 ==Drug trafficker== Miceli was born in Salemi, Italy, in the province of Trapani. He was the grandson of the notorious heroin trafficker Salvatore Zizzo.〔 (Relazione conclusiva ), Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sul fenomeno della criminalità organizzata mafiosa o similare, January 2006〕 Together with Roberto Pannunzi, he is considered to be the intermediary between the Mafia and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta clans with Colombian cocaine cartels.〔Forgione, ''( Mafia export )'', p. 51-58〕 The two had met when they were living in Toronto (Canada) in the 1960s an 1970s. The became close friends and Pannunzi became the godfather of Miceli's first born. The relation between the Calabrian and the Sicilian mafioso also was very useful for drug trafficking.〔 Both were involved in a cocaine trafficking network with Mariano Agate, the Mafia boss of Mazara del Vallo and Calabrian clans of Marando, Trimboli and Barbaro from Platì.〔 (Italia. Uno degli affari di Cosa Nostra e 'Ndrangheta insieme ), ADUC droghe, May 30, 2003〕〔 (La joint venture della droga ), Antimafia Duemila, N° 33 Luglio-Agosto 2003〕 When one ot the cocaine transports to Greece went wrong, Miceli was taken hostage by the Colombian suppliers. He was moved towards a hacienda in the Colombian jungle and only to be released when the damage of losing 900 kilogrammes of cocaine, some 22.5 million US dollars, would be repaid . He was only released when Pannunzi guaranteed the money through his Calabrian contacts.〔 The entire ring was dismantled in May 2003 – but Miceli remained at large. His wife Veronica Dudzinski and his sons Ivano and Mario Miceli were arrested in May 2003, when the cocaine trafficking network was disrupted.〔 (Dalla cella dava ordini al figlio laureato ), Il Messaggero, June 1, 2003〕 In the beginning of the 1990s, after a failed cocaine transport, Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca also had condemned Miceli to death. However, he was saved thanks to the intervention of Vincenzo Sinacori and Matteo Messina Denaro – the boss of Castelvetrano – who made clear that Miceli belonged to the Mafia in the province of Trapani, and that the "palermitani" could not act against him without the permission of the Mafia bosses of Trapani.〔〔 (Salvatore Miceli, 'il ministro degli Esteri' di Cosa Nostra ), La Repubblica, June 21, 2009〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salvatore Miceli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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