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Umberto Bellocco

Umberto Bellocco (17 December 1937-22 October 2022) was an Italian 'Ndrangheta boss and the Capobastone of the Bellocco 'ndrina from the 1960s to 1993, preceding Gregorio Bellocco.

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Umberto Bellocco was born in Rosarno, Calabria, Italy in 1937, and he founded the Bellocco 'ndrina clan of the 'Ndrangheta during the 1960s before cofounding the Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia in the 1980s. He was arrested in Lecce in 1983, and he was acquitted of 14 murders, though he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for drug trafficking. Bellocco was released in 1988, and he was rearrested in 1993 and died in 2022 at the age of 84.

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