Zaza ’s cunning helped him to slowly emerge from the shadow of his Mafia protectors . The Marano agreement between Sicilians and Neapolitans was wound up at a second Marano meeting in 1979 , partly because Zaza had become uncontrollable . Mafia supergrass Tommaso Buscetta remembered : “ According to what Stefano Bontade told me , laughing , Michele Zaza used every trick in the book to unload his own cigarettes rather than those of the Palermo families . ” At the end of the 1970s two different types of Camorra organisations were beginning to take shape . On the hand there was the '' Nuova Camorra Organizzata '' ( NCO ) under the leadership of Raffaele Cutolo . The NCO type gangs were mainly involved in cocaine dealing and protection rackets , preserving a strong regional sense of identity . In contrast , the business-oriented gangs linked to the Mafia like Zaza ’s organisation , were involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking , but soon moved on to invest in real estate and construction firms , in particular when the reconstruction after the November 1980 Irpinia earthquake provided ample opportunity to rake off public contracts
1980 Irpinia earthquake
1980 Irpinia earthquake
Michele Zaza