Brandon Vito Hughes

Giulo DeCotiis and Paolo DeCotiis were introduced to Rocco Dipopolo and Damiano Dipopolo through architect Oberto Oberti. The Dipopolos found their assassin through their connections with the Rizzuto Crime family - Luigi Salvatore Pasquale. Pasquale had an accomplice. days after the murder of Hughes, Pasquale fled to Italy, where he lived in the vicinity of Palermo. In 2011, extradition proceedings were initiated to bring Pasquale to face trial in Canada for the murder of Brandon Vito Hughes. Cops had strong fingerprint evidence against the hit man. Pasquale was murdered in November 2011 outside a villa near Palermo.

Giulo DeCotiis

In February 2003, Paolo De Cotiis approached Brandon Hughes at a nightclub on Granville and threatened "to get" him and his family. Brandon Hughes' killers were waiting for him on July 23, 2009. After coming home from Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks, Hughes was gunned down outside his North Vancouver home. His father Kevin ran out to the front gate and tried in vain to save his son. Brandon Vito Hughes was pronounced dead in hospital.

Call IHIT at 1-877-551-4448, IHIT File#2009-6580, or anonymously at Crime Stoppers.

IHIT issued a plea for information. "The investigation remains open and active, time and distance can be a factor in our favor in historical investigations."

Hughes was 28 when he was murdered.

Donato Decotiis said threats had been made against him and his family, including Hughes, due to a long family feud.

Rocco Dipopolo

Donato Decotiis was warned that thugs linked to the Hells Angels had been hired. Don Decotiis, Hayley Winter, Ivano Decotiis.

Damiano Dipopolo

Dec. 11, 2005. Vancouver Province. A long-running feud in a family whose name is tied to some of Vancouver's biggest real-estate developments has once again spilled into B.C. Supreme Court. It comes with allegations of threats, assaults, intimidation - and a contract to kill a family member. In an unusual civil suit, Donato Decotiis, then 44, sought a court injunction and damages to protect himself from eight family members named in a statement of claim. The suit alleges that the eight Decotiis family defendants "have engaged, hired or employed the defendants Rocco Dipopolo and Damiano Dipopolo to assault, threaten and/or intimidate the plaintiff as an integral part of efforts to intimidate the plaintiff, to interfere in the business, commercial and leisure activities of the plaintiff and to injure the plaintiff." VPD investigated an incident between Donato Decotiis and the Dipopolos. No charges were laid.

[18] At some point, on a date which was not clear in the evidence, Mr. Dipopolo won $80,000 in a lottery. He gave his twin brother $30,000 as a gift. [48] At some point, Mr. Dipopolo acquired a one-third interest in a company called Liquid Zoo Holdings Ltd.

On August 23, 2005, Mr. Dipopolo, together with the two other shareholders in Liquid Zoo Holdings Ltd., Messrs. Bruneau and Raffael, signed a promissory note for $350,000 payable to Amacon Management. [62] Liquid Zoo Holdings executed a mortgage dated May 12, 2006, in favour of Amacon for the amount of $650,000. However, this mortgage was not registered until more than one year later, on August 10, 2007. Mr. Dipopolo appeared to consider the mortgage to be further security for Amacon's $350,000 loan to the three Liquid Zoo Holdings shareholders made about one year earlier, in August 2005.In July 2005 the Kelowna newspaper reported; "The biker gang owns more than 20 homes in the city and more than a dozen businesses including Champagne Charlies on Lawrence Ave., Digstown Clothing on Pandosy St., Pier Marine Pub in Westbank and Splash's Nite Club on Leon Ave."

Marcello DeCotiis, Lilliana DeCotiis. Lilliana De Cotiis runs the hospitality division of real estate developer Amacon, which she co-owns with eldest sibling Teresa and older brothers Donato, Luca and Marcello.

For more than 40 years Amalio DeCotiis and his two brothers ran Amacon Developments, a company they founded together after emigrating from Italy in 1959. Amacon was named after father Amalio and mother Concetta. Amalio was part of the first generation of De Cotiises to arrive in Vancouver. He came with parents Donato and Teresa and three sisters and brothers Marcangelo, Inno, Vito and Michael in a staggered migration. Eldest brother Marcangelo had a falling out with his brothers that devolved into legal action. Vito died in his 30s.

Inno created his own real estate development company and named it by spelling his name backwards: Onni. He died in 2020. The company is run by sons Rossano DeCotiis and Morris DeCotiis.

Youngest brother Michael founded and still runs Pinnacle International.

Sunday, July 26, 2009. The targeted murder of Brandon Vito Hughes was preceded by a tense family feud that included death threats within the De Cotiis clan. Hughes was found gravely wounded outside 1956 Jones Ave. in North Vancouver. Hughes is grandson of the late construction mogul Marcangelo De Cotiis, whose widow, Addolorata De Cotiis, owns the home at 1956 Jones Ave. Siblings of the De Cotiis family own Onni Group, Pinnacle International and Amacon.

Brandon Vito Hughes

August 6th, 2010. B.C. Court of Appeal issues ruling in De Cotiis family feud. Donato De Cotiis's lawsuit against companies controlled by his uncles Amalio, Inno, and Mike was dismissed. Donato De Cotiis's deceased father Marcangelo, a construction magnate, was also listed as a plaintiff."This dispute is only part of a larger family feud that unfolded against a backdrop of profitable corporations and partnerships," Newbury wrote in the court's reasons for judgment. This lawsuit was a spinoff of another major dispute, which was addressed in a 1995 B.C. Supreme Court decision.

Connected with disgraced realtor Shahin Behroyan is agent Teresa Decotiis. She was directly involved in Behroyan's $75k scam for half. The Decotiis hired HA Damiano Dipopolo and his brother Rocco in a bitter family feud. Brandon Vito Hughes is thereafter whacked after multiple threats. The Decotiis family financed the Hells Angels expansion into Kelowna for seven figures, unsecured.

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Teresa Decotiis was directly involved, along with her siblings, as management of Amacon, the corporate entity that cut the cheques to Dipopolo. Teresa Decotiis has bitched to the cops multiple times about this blogger's true facts. She managed 80 votes running for West Vancouver mayor in 2022. In an e-mail she states "Brandon Hughes had an ex girlfriend that did that to him. It's very sad as he was a nice boy who got caught with many girl friends and the wrong crowd, I was not close to him. "

Ex-wife chases ex-Hells Angels rat Steven Gault for child support

Rat Steven Gault owes $487k in child support, his ex-wife says. Her problem is that he’s in witness protection and he's not coming out to save his life. Steven 'Hannibal' Gault was, until now, among the most notorious rats in the history of the HAMC in Canada. Gault testified in 2008 that he had received more than $1m for his undercover work with cops that landed 21 bikers behind bars. Steven Gault was still a teenager in North Bay when he started sharing information with the cops. Among those he helped put behind bars was his brother-in-law. Gault became an outlaw biker with the Satan’s Choice MC and later prospected into the HAMC by 2000. He attained his patches in 2002 and was always a rat.

Gault told his cop handlers he had been approached by Mark Stephenson, president of the Oshawa HA and Remond Akleh, a former Oshawa HA who transferred to the Nomads with a plot to kill Frank Lenti. Gault spent 14 days on the witness stand. Both men were acquitted and Steven Gault disappeared into witness protection.

Mark Stephenson was freed after spending 2 1/2 years in pretrial custody.

Killer Mike busted after Grammy wins

Killer Mike was arrested at the Grammy Awards on Sunday after the rapper won three Grammy awards. Cops said Killer Mike was detained after an altercation inside the arena around 4 p.m. He was booked on a misdemeanor and released.

Mafia take hit in Myanmar - update II

Bai Suocheng, Wei Chaoren and Liu Zhengxiang led three of four families which ruled Laukkaing on Myanmar's north-eastern border with China with an iron fist. The four families took over control of Laukkaing in 2009. Liu Guoxi, who led the fourth family, died in 2020. They were taken to China on a chartered flight with 7 other gangsters. It is another sign of the pending downfall of Myanmar's military regime.

An alliance of three regional ethnic minority groups has taken over key towns close to the Chinese border since fighting broke out in late October. The rebels said their goal is to end the “oppressive military dictatorship” in Myanmar. In Laukkaing, they have freed workers from scam call centers and seized members of ruling families who are sometimes handed over to Chinese authorities. The mafia families have enjoyed near complete autonomy in the region in return for their support of Myanmar’s military junta. But now they find themselves on the wrong side. Rebels raided the notorious Crouching Tiger Villa.

3 years after a military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratic government, it’s ethnic rebels who are the biggest threat to the ruling junta. They’ve notched battlefield victories that experts say have pushed the junta into its limit. The country’s oldest and most powerful ethnic armed group is Karen National Union, or KNU. They have growing numbers of troops, guns and grenades. They control territory, collect taxes, and run schools and hospitals. “We are doing this revolution to get peace,” said P’doh Saw Thaw Thi Bwe. “But not just for our territory. For everyone.”

Photos by Chinese cops showed them with a couple in front of a border gate. They are Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen, son and granddaughter of one of the warlords in the area, who has run the town of Laukkaing for 14 years. Myanmar military published a photo of an autopsy being conducted in the back of a van on the body of a man. It was the warlord himself - Ming Xuechang who 'killed himself' after being arrested.

Ming Xuechang was a key henchman of Bai Suocheng, who heads one of the '4 families'. The other three families are headed by Wei Chaoren, Liu Guoxi and Liu Zhengxiang. All are local Kokang people. Developed to take advantage of Chinese demand for gambling, which is illegal in China, casinos evolved into lucrative fronts for money laundering, trafficking and in particular as a home for dozens of scam centres that fleeced Chinese and others daily. Ming Xuechang ran one of the most notorious of these scam centers, called Crouching Tiger Villa. Reports are vague but there was a 'bloodbath' there. Ming Xuechang also ran local police. Under their rule, the remote impoverished backwater of Laukkaing was transformed into a gaudy tourist casino hub of high-rise towers, bars, and red-light districts.

Bai Yincang, son of Bai Suocheng.

Garcia Arevalo and Harpreet Singh Majhu - dead hitmen revisited

On May 11, 2016, a week after Koç's murder, farmer Boota Poonia found the body of Orosman Garcia Aravela in his blueberry field.

Turkish drug trafficker Cetin Koç was sitting in his car in Dubai in 2016 when two hit men fired automatic weapons. Cetin Koç was hit seven times in the head and twice in the chest.

2 Brothers Keepers were hired by Iranian assassin Naji Sharifi Zindashti.

Harpreet Singh Majhu’s remains were found in a burnt-out car in Agassiz on June 10, 2016. Naji Sharifi Zindashti is in Iran and organizes assassinations of dissidents on behalf of the Iranian government.

See ----->Naji Sharifi Zindashti - Iranian assassin

Venezuela blasts narco jet registered in Belize

A twin-engine Gulfstream 200 or G-2 aircraft with registration V3-GRS, was detected by Venezuelan radar entering the country’s airspace without authorization, and it was ultimately shot down in Zulia, Venezuela, by the country’s military. This is the same aircraft that was intercepted in Belize with 70 bales of  cocaine onboard in 2020. The plane had been confiscated and sold by the Government of Belize to an unknown buyer in Cozumel, Mexico. It likely won't be sold to drug traffickers this time.

Mafia boss Marco Raduano recaptured after jail break

Marco Raduano, 41, boss of the Gargano Mafia in the southern Italian region of Puglia, was caught outside a luxury restaurant in Bastia, Corsica. He was reeled in by the same anti-mafia unit that captured Matteo Messina Denaro.

Budget cuts meant 50 guards were watching 180 prisoners, many of whom are some of Italy’s most notorious mafiosi.

Marco Raduano escaped from the Badu’e Carros top security prison in Sardinia. He went unnoticed for two hours because no one was watching security footage. Cameras captured the boss of the Sacra Corona Unita Mafia clan scaling down a stone wall using a rope of bedsheets before running off.

Raduano was arrested in 2018 and jailed for 18 years for cocaine trafficking. He is facing murder charges. The crime lord presides over a notoriously violent criminal clan that’s known for shattering its victims’ skulls with shotgun blasts to deprive families of open-casket funerals. The Sacra Corona Unita consists of about 50 clans with 2,000 members and specializes in extortion, smuggling cigarettes, drugs, and people.

The Sacra Corona Unita collects payoffs from other criminal groups for landing rights on the coast of Italy.