The triple killing wiped out the Maisto clan from the crime scene in Giugliano, now dominated by the Mallardos.
The three clans together formed a coalition called the Secondigliano Alliance, in order to gain a stranglehold in the drug trafficking and extortion rackets in Naples and dominated the Neapolitan underworld during the 1990s.
[2] Mallardo was soon added to the list of thirty most dangerous fugitives in Italy and eventually arrested in August 2003.
[3] On May 10, 2011, the Italian police seized assets worth 600 million euros allegedly belonging to the Mallardos.
The measure concerns a total of 112 properties, 15 companies, numerous bank accounts, 4 luxury cars and 2 horse stables.