‘Main man’ in alleged mafia drug plot offers $1m surety for ‘boss’

Giovanni Arico, 72, a part-owner of Tripodi funerals in Coburg, is the father-in-law of the alleged boss of Salvatore “Sam” Formica, 34, a pizza chef from Niddrie, in Melbourne’s northwest suburbs, according to documents filed in the Supreme Court in Cairns during his successful bail bid.Calabrian born Mr Arico, a former owner of La Porchetta restaurant at Highpoint in suburban Maribyrnong, has said he will put up $1m of equity in the home in the inner-northern Melbourne suburb of Brunswick West…



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