Camorra, the summits at Tony Colombo's record company in Secondigliano: the accusations of the repentant Tamburrino

The confessions of Salvatore Tamburrino, a former confidant of Marco Di Lauro, arrested for killing his partner Norina Matuozzo, sparked investigations into the Camorra ring created by Di Lauro, along with the Licciardis and Vinella Grassi families.

Placing at the center of the investigation the role of money launderers and entrepreneurs of the clan of singer Tony Colombo and his wife Tina Rispoli and their ties with F2, namely Vincenzo Di Lauro.

There are 41 suspects in the major investigation by the Naples DDA, who appear in the more than 1800-page precautionary order signed by investigating judge Luca Della Ragione.

 "Vincenzo Di Lauro's supermarket - the repentant explained in 2019 - He's in a club owned by Tina Rispoli, who has money from her late husband, Gaetano Marino. Enzo Di Lauro wanted to form a partnership with Tina Rispoli, possibly exploiting Tony Colombo's media exposure, to exploit a clothing brand under the Corleone name.

In 2012-2013, after the death of her husband, Tina Rispoli "she lived in the Celesti buildings and she became the owner of her husband's drug dealing square", according to the collaborator of justice.

Tony Colombo beaten by the Rispoli brothers

"I know that Tony Colombo was beaten by the Rispoli brothers after his relationship with Tina became official, but it was always for financial reasons, because at that point she started financing the singer and no longer her brothers."

Then there are references to the opening of the record company in Secondigliano, which was the target of a Camorra raid: "Regarding the shots fired at Tony Colombo's record company," Tamburrino reported, "from what I learned from Raffaele Rispoli, they were fired by Gennaro Casaburi, Vincenzo Rispoli's brother-in-law, precisely because of a heated argument between the two over drug issues."

 Meetings between Vincenzo Di Lauro and the Giontas in Secondigliano

Meetings between the new boss Vincenzo Di Lauro and prominent Camorra members, such as the Gionta clan of Torre Annunziata, reportedly took place outside Tony Colombo and Tina Rispoli's record company. So much so that the singer asked Di Lauro Jr. not to go there anymore because he was afraid.

According to the Antimafia, however, that of Tony Colombo and Tina Rispoli is "a conscious contribution" to the Di Lauro clan. In particular in the management of the Corleone clothing brand, registered by the neomelodic singer, but - as reconstructed by the Carabinieri of the ROS - printed and distributed by Vincenzo Di Lauro through the "Different 360" shop of Secondigliano.

The chat between Tony Colombo and Tina Rispoli after the seizure of cigarettes in Acerra

On December 7, 2018, during the investigations, the Guardia di Finanza seized a 30-ton load of contraband Marco Regina cigarettes in the Acerra warehouse. Tony Colombo's chats would reveal his and his wife Tina Rispoli's involvement: "We lost everything." "Did you hear? They took Raffaele's warehouse." And Tina's response: "Oh my God. Are you sure that's it?" "Yes," Tony Colombo replies, "with all the machinery. The Acerra warehouse."

In February 2016, Di Lauro—according to the investigation—opened the retail clothing store in the Secondigliano neighborhood of Naples. It's clear from the wiretap that Tony Colombo "played a central role in the creation of the brand, of which he is the trademark holder, and that Di Lauro was financially involved not only in distribution through the store, but also by financing the brand's printing on clothing with checks, a decision he always shared with Tony Colombo."

The products, consisting of clothing and accessories, are also advertised by Colombo himself in national newspapers.

The Camorra cigarette factory was also allegedly financed by the neomelodic singer Tony Colombo and his wife Tina Rispoli, widow of a boss, and was located in Acerra at number 62, Via Varignano.

 In the Acerra factory 400 cases of cigarettes are produced per day

. Here, starting from the chopped, dried and shredded tobacco, the cigarettes destined for the retail distributors would have been packaged. And for this reason, in a box in the northern district of Napoli of Secondigliano, in via Antonio Tagliamonte, the boss Vincenzo Di Lauro, also reached by the precautionary measure issued by the investigating judge Luca Della Ragione, had for example stored a thousand kilos of contraband foreign manufactured tobacco.

The factory is said to have employed 11 foreign citizens as laborers. According to investigators' estimates, the factory produced approximately 400 cases of cigarettes per day with the Regina and Diana brand, 4000 kilos of product in total.

For the magistrates: from neomelodic and wife conscious contribution to clan

The two suspects - according to what is written in the investigation documents - have great notoriety, "both on social media and in the press and finally, inevitably, on national television programs, especially after the celebration of their wedding, after a long cohabitation that also sealed a business relationship" between the neomelodic and his wife, widow of Gaetano Marino, boss of camorra killed in an ambush in Terracina, in the province of Latina, in 2012.

A marriage that the two "they decided to turn it into a high-profile media event, not only for the picturesque celebration of the civil rite in the Maschio Angioino but also for the organization of a musical event in Piazza del Plebiscito."

The two financed the "legal economic initiatives (entrepreneurial in the field of marketing clothing, food products, and drinks, including under its own brands) and illegal ones (Tele and narcotics) of the clan and attributable to Vincenzo Di Lauro" as the clan's boss. In this way, they provided "a concrete, specific, conscious, and voluntary contribution, aimed at demonstrating actual causal relevance, as a necessary condition for the preservation or strengthening of the association's operational capabilities."

During the investigations it also emerged that Vincenzo Di Lauro "used Tony Colombo's record company as a reference point for confidential meetings with top officials of other criminal organizations."

Rispoli, for his part, "she appears to be the owner of considerable economic fortune thanks to the position she derives from being the widow of one of the founders of the Marino clan, a historic Camorra consortium established in the Case Celesti of Scampia thanks to the large amounts of illicit capital that her husband left her and that she herself tried to make profitable through a series of economic initiatives.

She has been the owner of significant real estate and financial assets since the period in which her husband Gaetano Marino operated as head of the eponymous clan and neither Marino nor Rispoli had any other legitimate income of their own."