Editing Giuseppe Piromalli (born 1945) (section)

==Arrest==
He was arrested at dawn on March 11, 1999, in a secret hideout concealed in a derelict hut that turned out to be fortified complex packed with hidden rooms, protected by electronic metal shutters and a remote operated secret escape route. He was unarmed and did not oppose arrest. In his bedroom there was an altar dedicated to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_Our_Lady_of_Polsi Madonna of Polsi], in the municipality of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luca San Luca], where the chiefs of the 'Ndrangheta ''locali'' meet regularly during the September Feast.<span style="font-size:11px;line-height:0px;"> </span>He was incarcerated under the strict [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_41-bis_prison_regime article 41-bis prison regime]. He nevertheless keeps on conducting his business and direct the clan outside.

The Piromalli clan tried to relax the strict regime for their boss. One of the plots was to deliver votes to Berlusconi’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Freedom People of Freedom] (Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) coalition during the election campaign in 2008 in return for a relaxation of Piromalli’s prison stature. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aldo_Miccich%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1 Aldo Micciché], a businessman who moved to Venezuela after being convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy in Italy, planned to fill in 50,000 blank ballot slips for Italian voters in Latin America obtained from corrupt officials. Micciché asked two leading members of the Piromalli clan to visit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Dell%27Utri Marcello Dell'Utri] – Berlusconi's right-hand man – at his Milan office. Dell'Utri was taped after the meeting complimenting Micciché for introducing him to two 'good picciotti,' a Sicilian expression used to describe low-level mafiosi
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