Salvatore Pelle (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre ˈpɛlle]; born December 4, 1957, in San Luca), also known as Sarvu Gambazza ("Salvo Bad Leg") is an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria.
[1] In the 1990s, he was involved in importing tonnes of hashish for the Pelle and Romeo clans in San Luca from Lebanon with Georges Semaan, a Lebanese arms and drug trafficker.
Loads were delivered in Apulia and Calabria, with the help of the Sacra Corona Unita and Giuseppe Morabito, the 'Ndrangheta boss from Africo, and Salvatore Pisano.
His younger brother Giuseppe Pelle actively tried to get Salvatore transferred from the Rebibbia prison in Rome to one close to his hometown.
Prior to the regional elections of March 2010 politicians visited the house of Giuseppe Pelle offering favourable treatment for Salvatore and public works contracts if his brother would deliver votes, which he did.