Career
He belonged to the Cataldo "ndrina based in Locri. The Cataldo clan allied with the Marafioti family, is involved in a long blood feud with the Cordì "ndrina, both based in Loci, since the end of the 1960s. A series of hostilities continued until 1975 when the adversaries, weakened by losses on both sides, agreed to call a truce.
Marafioti became some kind of honorary president of the clan.
In the 1970s, the Cataldos allied themselves with the De Stefano "ndrina. The attack broke the truce between the Cataldo and Cordì families that had been reached in 1975.
A few months later he was arrested. He was sentenced to 24 years.
Among other things, he was convicted for ordering the killing of Antonio Macrì, the historical "Ndrangheta boss in the 1960s, who was killed in 1975.
In 2009, he was released from prison after he served his sentence inflicted upon him in the trial against "Ndrangheta clans in the Locride. On May 10, 2011, he died from a heart failure in his house in Locri.
