Nino Rotolo

Antonino "Nino" Rotolo (born January 3, 1946) is an Italian Mafia boss from the Pagliarelli area in Palermo that traditionally was under the control of the Motisi Mafia family. Rotolo was the underboss of Matteo Motisi, but according to some pentiti he was the de facto leader representing the mandamento on the Sicilian Mafia Commission. In 2006, the police deduced that Rotolo - number 25 in the numbered code of Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano - had become a key figure in Cosa Nostra's hierarchy.

Rotolo was a loyal ally of the Corleonesi of Totò Riina in the Second Mafia War. According to the pentito Giuseppe Marchese he was part of the hit team that killed Stefano Bontade and he strangled Santo Inzerillo, the brother of Salvatore Inzerillo, with his own hands on May 26, 1981, when Inzerillo came to a meeting to ask clarifications about the killing of his relatives.

Rotolo was actively involved in heroin trafficking in the 1980s. According to Tommaso Buscetta, three Palermo Mafia families dominated heroin trafficking around 1980: the Porta Nuova family with Nunzio La Mattina as the main organizer; the Brancaccio with Giuseppe Savoca and the Pagliarelli family with Antonino Rotolo. Rotolo received morphine base from the Turkish trafficker Yasar Avni Mussulullu who delivered the shipments close to the coast of Sicily on Rotolo's indications where they were picked by smaller fishing boats. The morphine base was refined into heroin at laboratories on Sicily and smuggled to the United States to feed the famous Pizza Connection. One of Rotolo's heroin refiners was Francesco Marino Mannoia after Bontade was killed. Rotolo was also managing the money flow of the proceeds through Swiss bank accounts.

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