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An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced Camorra boss Maria Lessiardi, one of the few women to lead the mafia clan, to nearly 13 years in prison, media reports said.

Licciardi, 71, was known as “Little One” because of her short stature. Arrested in August 2021. Trying to get to Spain, ostensibly to visit his daughter.

“He was not wearing an eyelash when officers blocked him and served a warrant signed by the Naples prosecutors’ office,” the ANSA news agency reported at the time of his arrest.

At the time, the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgues Appreciated the arrest.“Commitment of judiciary and police forces to confront Kimura organizations that control vast areas.”

ANSA said he was found guilty of being the leader of the Kimura clan founded by his brothers and sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison.

He took over the clan in Secondagliano, a suburb of Naples, after the death of his brother Gennaro in prison in 1994.

The Italian Ministry of the Interior has also described it as such. “Strategic Head” A group of families known as the “Secondigliano Alliance” is said to control a large part of organized crime in Naples.

I 2001He was included in Italy’s 30 most wanted fugitives.

She had previously served eight years in prison.

Licciardi was the inspiration for the chain-smoking female mob boss in the TV series “Gomorrah” According to journalist Roberto Saviano, who wrote the book about the Naples mafia on which it was based.

Naples has been the traditional base of the Mafia-type Camorra syndicate, an umbrella for many different clans.

Police in Italy, Spain and Germany in 2017 32 people arrested A European operation against the Kimura clan is suspected of drug trafficking and money laundering.