Deportation ordered on Mafia charge - thestar.com: "Carlo Figliomeni, 42, who applied for Canadian citizenship in 2003, has 15 days to appeal the decision.
An Immigration and Refugee Board hearing in January was told Figliomeni didn’t tell Canadian authorities when he immigrated in 1988 that he had a record in Italy for stashing weapons for criminals connected to the ‘Ndrangheta, a strain of organized crime with roots in southern Italy.
Figliomeni, who originally settled with his wife and in-laws, argued before the board he has never been a member of the ‘Ndrangheta or any related organization.
The hearing was told he stashed the weapons during a bloody war between the Costa and Commisso clans in the southern Italian province of Calabria in the early 1990s.
Italian police suspected he and family members sided with the Commisso forces.
Figliomeni was convicted in Italy of possessing illegal, unregistered guns found hidden on his parents’ property in the town of Locri.
He also convicted of Mafia associations, a crime in Italy, and sentenced to two years and two months in custody.
The Mafia associations charge was later overturned in court.
The Costa-Commisso feud began when the two clans each sought to control heroin and cocaine trafficking routes around the southern Italian city of Siderno.
It spilled into the Greater Toronto Area in 1991, when recent immigrant Giovanni Costa was killed in a drive-by shooting near his home on White Blvd. in Thornhill.
Costa wasn’t considered a criminal but police said he was killed because some of his relatives were involved in the drug trade."
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