Fabio Santangelo, the Mafia Broker with the Scarface Myth, Arrested
The director of the latest drug trafficking between Sicily and Calabria is Fabio Santangelo, the most experienced broker on the Palermo scene, a “freelance” criminal at the service of the highest bidder in Cosa Nostra, investigators describe him as the only one capable of starting serious negotiations with Calabrian suppliers. In the living room of his house, in the Passo di Rigano district of Palermo, he kept a large poster of Scarface and a reproduction of the Last Supper. He also ended up in handcuffs in the blitz of the economic-financial police unit of Palermo: the investigation coordinated by the district anti-mafia directorate led to eight arrests and the seizure of one and a half million euros