429:, as part of Project Colisée. Renda was held at the Rivière des Praires jail while awaiting trial where he shared the same wing with Nicolo Rizzuto. On October 23, 2007, a series of coordinated police raids took place in Italy, France and Switzerland where banks worth €500 million (the equivalent to CA$ 700 million) were frozen where companies and properties worth US$ 212 million were seized with the police forces stating that Renda had running from Montreal a complex money laundering operation in Europe. In connection with the investigation, the Italian government issued extradition requests with Canada for Nicolo Rizzuto, Renda, Sollecito and Arcadi. Colonel Paolo La Forgia of the
336:. He was the owner of a construction company, Renda Construction, and the co-owner of a funeral home, the Loreto. Along with Vito, Renda was also a major shareholder in BT Céramique, a firm which laid the tiles for the federal ministry of justice in Ottawa with the American embassy and the Casino de Montreal. The firm of BT Céramique was later found to have engaged in tax fraud in a hostile audit by the Canada Revenue Agency with the firm not paying hundreds of thousands in sales taxes due to the federal government.
454:. He then phoned his wife to say he would be picking up steaks for dinner. While driving on Albert-Prévost Avenue, he pulled over for a car with flashing lights that resembled a civilian police car. Instead, he was forced at gunpoint by two men into their car. After not arriving home by 3 pm, Renda's son-in-law decided to search for him by tracing his usual route and found Renda's vehicle parked with its windows down and keys in the ignition, with Renda nowhere to be seen. Renda is believed to have been
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reported about his efforts to recover money from a failed financer, John
Xanthoudakis. Bel Balso began by saying "I wanna take care of it, but it's just-" when Renda interrupted to admonish him "yes, but not this way. I'm sorry, you have to tell me, 'yes' or 'no'". On 30 August 2006, Domenico Marci,
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family-controlled bars and cafés...He carried himself with a
Zenlike air of casual success and often appeared at the Consenza Social Club in a stylist sports jacket and open business shirt...". After Rizzuto was arrested in 2004, a committee of caretaker leaders for Vito Rizzuto was formed of Renda,
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on the other. A Montreal police reported noted: "It is interesting to note that these properties on
Antoine-Berthelet Avenue are part of a real estate development created and managed by Paolo Renda and that the majority of the lots and homes have been sold to persons suspected of criminal activity".
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for his heavy drinking and his tendency to engage in rash, violent acts, saying he was likely to "attract attention". Renda was especially critical of the incident in April 2004 where
Giordano shot an Iranian drug dealer, Javad Mohammad Nozarian, at the Globe restaurant in public as showing bad
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Rizzuto family soldier, was killed in a case of mistaken identity with the real target being Aracdi. Renda was one of the Rizzuto family leaders who attended an emergency meeting to discuss what to do in response, where he pressed for patience from the younger leaders such as
465:, who were both murdered in the 1970s. Renda's disappearance occurred almost a year after Nicolo Rizzuto's grandson Nicolo was murdered, and six months after his disappearance, Nicolo would be murdered at his home. His murder is generally believed to have been a
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that he needed to "talk" to a real estate agent Félix Plyas about his claims that a
Montreal businessman was linked to the Mafia. In response, Del Balso made a threatening phone call to Plyas telling him that he could not use "our name" as "we don't want that".
276:, who was murdered in the United States in 1933. The elder Renda had moved with the elder Rizzuto to New York in 1924, but then went to Argentina and returned to Italy in 1936 where he married Domenica. Paolo immigrated to Canada in 1954 and married
332:. During the funeral service, the Rizzuto delegation were observed speaking with the leaders of several Ontario outlaw biker gangs who also attended the funeral. Renda was a regular of the Consenza Social Club where he usually spoke with Vito and
406:. During the meeting, Renda advised Aracdi to return to Italy, saying to him: "See, what you gota do now, find an island, take your wife and leave". After Marci's murder, Renda was always seen in public with at least five bodyguards.
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means no ransom notes, no body, no answers, no sense of closure, no funeral or flowers on a grave. Nothing, but loss and fear". Renda's murder was a major blow to the prestige of the
Rizzuto family, and the renegade faction led by
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272:. He came from an important Mafia clan as his father, Calogero Renda, was married to Domenica Manno, the daughter of a locally powerful Mafia boss. Calogero Renda was a cousin to Vito Rizzuto Sr., the father of
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583:(in French). journaldemontreal.com. 2 September 2018.
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Business Or Blood Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War
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544:. Toronto: Random House of Canada.
525:. Toronto: Random House of Canada.
495:Renda's family tried to have Paolo
581:"Mafioso déclaré mort par la cour"
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922:. The Globe and Mail. 2006-11-23
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1193:Missing person cases in Canada
1089:. Montreal Gazette. 2016-05-27
1026:. Montreal Gazette. 2013-01-09
509:List of people who disappeared
288:in 1968 with the intention of
206:Served two years' imprisonment
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1066:"Ontario mobsters on the run"
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67:May 20, 2010 (aged 70)
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638:Noël, André (2010-05-22).
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236:mobster who served as
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284:of his hair salon in
190:Conspiracy to commit
70:Saint-Leonard, Quebec
1228:Rizzuto crime family
975:. Global. 2013-01-23
463:Cotroni crime family
242:Rizzuto crime family
177:Rizzuto crime family
87:on September 2, 2018
427:Francesco Del Balso
399:Francesco Del Balso
383:Francesco Del Balso
358:Francesco Del Balso
290:defrauding insurers
1168:Canadian gangsters
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442:in February 2010.
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1188:Missing gangsters
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89:(2018-09-02)
1178:Consiglieri
1163:2018 deaths
1153:1939 births
646:(in French)
486:'Ndrangheta
305:consigliere
297:Paolo Violi
238:consigliere
217:Paolo Renda
124:consigliere
106:Citizenship
96:Nationality
64:Disappeared
23:Paolo Renda
1147:Categories
1093:2016-05-28
1072:2016-05-28
1051:2016-05-27
1030:2016-05-28
979:2016-05-28
926:2016-05-28
650:2016-05-28
560:References
173:Allegiance
44:1939-09-10
644:La Presse
456:kidnapped
301:Venezuela
260:Biography
244:based in
153:Relatives
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