Maurizio Abbatino

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maurizio Abbatino
Occupation	Mobster
Date Of Birth	Jul 19, 1954(1954-07-19)
Age	70
Birthplace	Rome
Country	Italy
Birth City	Lazio
Horoscope	Cancer

Maurizio Abbatino Biography

Maurizio Abbatino is one of the most popular and richest Mobster who was born on July 19, 1954 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Maurizio abbatino, Italian pronunciation: [mau’rittsjo abba’ti:no] – born 19 July 1954, is an ex- criminal from Italy. He was one of the original bosses at the Banda della Magliana. This criminal organization, based in Rome, was particularly active in the late 1970s and early 1990s. After his 1992 arrest, he became a pentito (a collaborator in justice).

Maurizio Proietti (known as Er Pescetto) and Fernando Proietti (known as Er Pugile) were the two criminals responsible for Er Negro’s death. They also planned to eliminate Domenico Zumpano (a friend and bodyguard for Giuseppucci), but they were unable to locate him. A nearby police officer noticed that the two were carrying guns and stopped them. The side effect was that it temporarily protected them from the Banda della Magliana’s revenge. Instead, they decided to target Enrico Proietti (known as Er Cane), who was a cousin to the killers, but was not involved in the assassination. Crispino and his men approach Er Cane in a car on 27 October 1980. However, Er Cane, who is heavily wounded, manages to flee. After more attacks on clan members, the gang was able to locate Maurizio Erasto, who had been released from prison. On 16 March 1981, Abbatino led an expedition, while Antonio Mancini and Marcello Colafigli, reached Mario and Maurizio Proietti as they returned home with their families. Er Pescetto was killed in the ensuing shootout, while his brother Mario was still able to escape. The gang didn’t know that a police unit was nearby and called for reinforcements immediately after hearing the gunshots. Crispino and his men had to flee to avoid being caught. The two shooters were wounded in a standoff with police officers, but they eventually surrendered to the police and were taken into custody. The war with the Proietti Clan came to an end when Fernando Er Pugile (second killer of Giuseppucci) was captured and killed in his car by EdoardoToscano.

At around the same time, another fracture occurred within the gang. The group known as “i Testaccini”, so called because most of them were from and operated in the Testaccio neighborhood, represented by Danilo Abbruciati and Enrico De Pedis, gradually distanced themselves from the rest of the gang. They began investing money in real estate and construction firms, became very close to the Sicilian Mafia (in particular Pippo Calò) and several entrepreneurs who were suspected of being linked to the Mafia such as Flavio Carboni. The Testaccini, more so than the rest of the gang, benefited from protection and collusion of important personalities, and many of their members were often able to entirely avoid jail time. The division began to manifest itself after Domenico Balducci, a usurer and entrepreneur as well as a member of the gang, was killed by members of the Testaccini on 16 October 1981, on the orders of Pippo Calò and Danilo Abbruciati. Abbatino’s group, referred to as “i Maglianesi” was not informed of the decision to kill Balducci and they requested an immediate meeting with the Testaccini. There, Abbatino and his men accused the Testaccini of being traitors, exploiting the entire organization for their own goals and putting the security of its members at risk for the sake of pleasing the Sicilian Mafia, while not adequately contributing to the economic help for imprisoned members and even committing murders of high-profile criminals such as Balducci without first informing the rest of the organization. The Testaccini promised to settle everything, but by now the two groups had reached a breaking point. When Abbruciati later died under mysterious circumstances in Milan while shooting the vice-president of the Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Rosone, an act for which again Abbatino was not informed, the Maglianesi held meetings in which they decided the Testaccini were no longer trustworthy and resolved to eliminate all of its most prominent members, even though they continued to operate alongside them in drug trafficking for the time being.

After the death of Giuseppucci, Abbatino emerged as the most capable and determined leader of the organization, but his position was soon challenged. Nicolino Selis, due to his friendship with NCO Boss Raffaele Cutolo, reportedly acted as if he was the leader of the whole group: he began pretending more money for himself and his group, started recruiting criminals in jail to be only loyal to him and even began organizing drug shipments without informing the rest of the gang. He even went so far as to order the death of Danilo Abbruciati on behalf of Selis. The rest of the Banda della Magliana began seeing Selis as more of a puppet in the hands of the NCO rather than one of their own, and so they secretly sided with Abbruciati. Selis exited the psychiatric hospital he was put in after a false psychiatric evaluation on 3 February 1981, and disappeared after he was led to an appointment by Abbatino and his men. Selis’ body has never been found. That same night, Selis’ right-hand man, Antonio Leccese, was shot dead as he returned home. More of Selis’ lieutenants would later be killed in the following periods, which coupled with the murder of Vincenzo Casillo on 29 January 1983, ended the NCO’s presence in Rome. One of the few who survived was Fulvio Lucioli, Selis’ personal driver who would later become the first “pentito” of the Banda della Magliana.

Abbatino was responsible for drug trafficking by overseeing distribution in Magliana, Monteverde and other neighborhoods. Along with EdoardoToscano and RaffaelePernasetti, VittorioCarnovale, he was also one of the main criminals in the gang. Crispino was a man of action, unlike Giuseppucci who preferred to stay in the shadows to avoid being too visible to the police, and was constantly on the frontlines, ever since Franco Nicolini’s first high-profile killing. He was the undisputed king, or bookmaking, of the city. Because they wanted total control over Rome’s betting shops, Giuseppucci & Selis ordered Crispino’s assassination. As Nicolini was leaving theTor di Valle Racingcourse, heading towards the parking lot, he encountered Giuseppucci’s men, who opened fire on his body. Nicolini tried to flee, but Abbatino’s car blocked his path and Giovanni Piconi and Edoardo Toscano killed him. The Banda della Magliana grew in power and soon took control of almost the entire city’s gambling and drug trade operations. Abbatino killed Claudio Vannicola, and Angelo De Angelis, who were two of the most prominent drug dealers at the time. Abbatino, unlike Giuseppucci, was not interested in politics. However, he participated in a series meetings with Aldo Semerari (criminologist, psychiatrist, and neofascist) and was directly involved in corruption of judges, doctors, and politicians.

Maurizio Abbatino Net Worth

Maurizio Abbatino is one of the richest Mobster from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maurizio Abbatino 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abbatino was born in Magliana and grew up in that neighborhood. He attended Palestrina, a school in the province of Rome. His grandmother was his paternal grandmother. Abbatino started committing crimes in early 1970s. In 1972, he was first arrested for robbery and resisting arrest. His second arrest was for double murder two years later. He was released immediately after his second arrest, this time for double murder. The underworld of Rome in those years was chaotic. There were many groups called “batterie” that consisted of 2-4 people each. They dealt mostly with gambling and robberies. Crispino is Abbatino’s nickname from the underworld, due to his black, curly hair. Abbatino had a passion for fast cars and was a skilled driver. Many batterie used him to escape police officers in their robberies because of his ability to evade the police. Abbatino was skilled, but also cold- and calculating. He led his own batteria at the age of 21. This group included several people that he would later include in the Banda della Magliana’s future project.

Banda della Magliana wanted to start new, lucrative illicit businesses. They lacked the funds to do so. Giuseppucci suggested to both groups a way to raise enough money to fund their future operations. He proposed the kidnapping and ransom payment of duke Massimiliano Grazoli Lante della Rore. Giuseppucci had previously been involved in kidnappings and he saw him as an easy target because he was rich but did not have an escort. On the night of 7/11 1977 Giuseppucci’s and Abbatino’s men ambushed the duke while he was returning from the countryside. Crispino led the operation. The duke was taken into Rome and temporarily held there by his men. However, due to inexperience with kidnapping and difficulty finding safe locations to hold the hostage, the group asked for help from a Montespaccato gang who then hidden the duke in the campanian country. Banda della Magliana initially requested 10 billion to release the hostage. However, the request was reduced over time to 1.5 billion through negotiations. After following complicated instructions, the son of the duke delivered the money to Abbatino and his henchmen on 14 February 1978. However, the duke was not there. The duke’s son had seen one of the Montespaccato henchmen unmasked, so the duke had had to be killed in order to identify them. Crispino went to the country house where the duke was kept to take a photograph of him to show his family that he was still living. However, the Montespaccato members murdered Crispino and buried him somewhere in Campania. His body was never found.

Following the slow but steady takeover of much of Rome’s underworld by the Banda, one of the very few groups remaining who remained independent and competed with the group was the Proietti Clan, an association of several brothers and cousins who had a heavy influence in Roman betting shops (they were particularly close to Franco Nicolini). When Nicolini was murdered and the Banda della Magliana took complete control over Roman betting shops, the Proietti’s suddenly and completely lost all privileges derived from them. The Proietti’s answer arrived on 13 September 1980 when Franco Giuseppucci was shot dead as he entered his car to return home. Giuseppucci’s death came as a massive shock to the Banda della Magliana members and after an emergency meeting, it was agreed by all members that the Proietti Clan had to be exterminated, setting off Rome’s first gang war.

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In contrast to the Testaccini which invested in legit businesses and became involved in money laundering, Abbatino’s group was the one most responsible for murders and drug trafficking, activitie which attracted much more police attention. Most of the members were usually arrested only for a few months at a time before being released for lack of evidence. Abbatino in particular wanted to solve the problem once and for all by faking medical documents, for which he had paid corrupt medics and he even bought a pacemaker using the gang’s money to simulate a heart condition. He had almost succeeded in being granted permanent house arrest until Fulvio Lucioli, known as “Er Sorcio”, decided to cooperate with authorities and Abbatino was accused of over a dozen murders, and so he was moved from the private clinic back into prison, alongside most of the high ranking members of the organization. Amidst the increasing tensions between the Maglianesi and Testaccini, Abbatino’s extended period of detention meant his role had to be temporarily filled by other people who were at the time free — such as Claudio Sicilia — and who now found Abbatino to be an inconvenient obstacle. Rumours and accusations abounded: Abbatino was accused by his men of ignoring their needs, spending the organization’s money for his medical equipment while not doing enough to help those who had gotten in trouble for earlier crimes. But most of all he was accused to be a traitor because Abbatino, despite having accepted the plan to eliminate the Testaccini, spoke in favor of Enrico De Pedis due to their long- standing friendship. De Pedis was instead hated by Marcello Colafigli and Edoardo Toscano, two other high ranking members of the Maglianesi.

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The Banda della Magliana was formed after a casual encounter between Crispino and another exponent of the Roman underworld, Franco Giuseppucci, known as Er Negro. Giuseppucci at the time was well known for having a mobile home in which several criminals stored their weapons. Though he stopped using the mobile home due to police investigations, he maintained this role of weapons keeper. One day, he was given a bag containing weapons belonging to his friend Enrico De Pedis, another respected criminal of the period. The car was stolen by another street criminal, unaware of who the owner was or what the car contained, but once he found the weapons he sold them immediately.While moving the weapons in his car, he stopped at a cafe to buy a snack. Giovanni Tigani — better known as ‘Paperino’ — stole the car, with the keys still inside, unaware of who the owner was or what the car contained. “Er Negro” immediately began searching for the car and weapons and he discovered they were given to Emilio Castelletti, one of the criminals working for Abbatino.