![]() Giomino Commisso | Giovanni "Johnny" Commisso, 58, of Vaughan was charged by the OPP with trafficking almost a million cigarettes. Police conducted a month-long investigation into the distribution of unstamped cigarettes in the GTA. A total of 907,000 contraband cigarettes were seized. If sold the cigarettes would represent a loss of $279,339 in tax revenues. Jing Git Wong, 47, of Toronto, has also been charged with one count of trafficking in contraband tobacco. | ![]() Cosimo Commisso |
![]() Giuseppe “The Master” Commisso, of Siderno, Italy, boss of the powerful Siderno clan of the 'Ndrangheta. | Giovanni "Johnny" Commisso is intimately connected to the Commisso crime family. He was implicated in a diesel theft ring in the early 2000s and a RCMP investigation involving a stock "pump and dump" probe featured in The Toronto Star in 2008. That scam involved Michael Ciavarella and Anneillo Peluso "high-ranking members of Cosimo Commisso's organized crime group." The Siderno Group refers to a Ndrangheta group primarily based in Canada and the US, and Australia. Members migrated to Toronto first in the 1950s from Siderno, which is on Calabria's Ionian coast. | ![]() Siderno coat of arms. |
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