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.
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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. |
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Donato Decotiis was warned that thugs linked to the Hells Angels had been hired.
Don Decotiis, Hayley Winter, Ivano Decotiis. |
Damiano Dipopolo |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. "
Affidavit #2 of Gurtaj Singh Sandher, made Sept 3, 2024. 
