He has always been loyal to the Di Lauros, never abandoning them despite feuds and splits. The informants point to him as the true right-hand man of Marco Di Lauro, the phantom boss captured yesterday. Yet Salvatore Tamburrino, 42, unknowingly led to his boss's capture yesterday. Phone calls between clan members that took place after the man killed his wife in Melito that morning out of jealousy and then fled, led investigators to find the boss's hideout. Precisely because Tamburrino was considered the closest to Marco, the other members went into a frenzy, starting to call each other and perhaps even the boss himself. They made a mistake they had never made in the 14 years they had always managed to cover up "F4"'s fugitive status. But who is Salvatore Tamburrino? In 2004, he was arrested in the so-called "night of the handcuffs" against the Di Lauro clan, which triggered Marco's fugitive status. After a stint in prison, he was released in 2007 and was ambushed during the height of the Scampia feud. He was in the Terzo Mondo area of Secondigliano when he was ambushed. He was seriously injured but managed to escape. His killers were intercepted and arrested by the Carabinieri immediately after the attack. They were Francesco Raia, 30, and Massimiliano Vinciguerra, 32, linked to the Amato-Pagano Scissionisti. They were in a car speeding away from the scene of the shooting. Inside the car, the CIO patrol recovered a .357 Magnum pistol, later found stolen, "still warm." The same weapon had shortly before been used to seriously wound Salvatore Tamburino. The man was a close friend of the sons of boss Paolo Di Lauro, with Cosimo and especially with Marco, and more recently with Salvatore 'Terremoto'. In this regard, the repentant Antonio Accurso o' puorco, former regent of the Vanella Grassi clan and brother of the other 'ghost' boss Umberto Accurso, arrested two years ago, recounted: "...he took part in drug trafficking only for the clan. I met him twice after his recent release from prison. Currently, the Di Lauro clan, and therefore Salvatore, carry out so-called handovers, that is, they sell drugs, cocaine and weed, to private individuals and even to people in Bari who are friends of Giovanni Cortese. Cortese himself told me this... he told me about his friends in Puglia. I didn't go into more detail about the city of Puglia, as it wasn't a matter of interest to me. I supplied the cocaine to Salvatore Di Lauro, whom I met twice; while the weed was supplied by the Lo Russos, namely Luciano Pompeo. The first time was in the winter of 2013-2014, about a week after his release from prison. The meeting took place at the Villa Comunale. From Arzano, he and his brother Giuseppe were present, accompanied by Giovanni Cortese and Salvatore Tamburrino. I was accompanied by Fabio Di Natale. It was said that for the cocaine I had to continue as I was already doing with Cortese, that is, I would supply it to him at 42 euros per kilo...". Regarding Tamburino, the informer Mario Pacciarelli told investigators: "He often spoke with us about Vanella about the level of drugs we had to supply to the Di Lauro clan." He was currently still on trial for arbitrary exercise of his rights, for a case that began as extortion but was later downgraded, against the owner of a car dealership. He was also acquitted of the charge of being one of the clan's killers and a member of the death squad that killed Federico Bizzarro in Qualiano in 2004.
Chronicles of Campania
Naples, "He met him every night, then decided to eliminate him": the informants recount the Zinco crime.
For years, it remained one of the most significant crimes in the criminal underworld of western Naples. The murder of Rodolfo Zinco, known in the…
