A man who was under house arrest after being sentenced to 9 years for money laundering was gunned down dead in an ambush at his home in Rome. Reports Ansa news
Police say Silvio Fanella, 41, a convicted money launderer was murdered by a trio of mob hitmen , but was able to shoot and seriously wound one of the three triggerman
Fanella was sentenced by a Rome court to nine years in jail in a case of racketeering and money laundering involving telecommunications companies Telecom Italia Sparkle and Fastweb.
He was a treasurer for Gennaro Mokbel,a big-league businessman who was one of the masterminds of the two-billion-euro Telecom-Fastweb fraud.
The wounded gunman was taken to Gemelli hospital in Rome and arrested on orders of Anti-Mafia prosecutors.
Two other triggermen were seen speeding away from the murder scene said witnesses.
