Ignazio and Nino Salvo
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Ignazio Salvo and his cousin Nino Salvo were two wealthy businessmen from the town of Salemi in the Italian province of Trapani. They had strong political connections with the Christian Democracy part
Nino Salvo
Front page of the newspaper L'Ora about the arrest of the Salvo cousins
Maxi Trial
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The Maxi Trial was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo, Sicily. The trial lasted from 10 February 1986 to 30 January 1992, and was held in a bunker-style courthouse
Ignazio and Nino Salvo
…with the Christian Democracy party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC), in particular with the former mayor of Palermo, Salvo Lima, and Giulio Andreotti. At the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia in the mid-1980s, they were convicted of association with Mafia members. Salvo Lima arranged an unusually lucrative concession…
A hearing of the Maxi Trial