Drug smuggling

RCMP expected to arrest suspected leader of Montreal Mafia in organized crime bust linked to drug smuggling

The RCMP is carrying out a series of arrests in the Montreal area in what the Mounties are calling the third and last phase of an investigation into the Mafia in Montreal that began several years ago.

Included among the people the RCMP expects to arrest is Liborio (Pancho) Cuntrera, a man who police sources have often described as a potential leader within what remain‎s of the Rizzuto organization.

Cuntrera is the son of a now deceased member of the Rizzuto organization who was gunned down in St-Leonard when the Mafia clan was under pressure from rivals about five years ago. He also represents the second generation of a group of well known wealthy international drug smugglers known in many part of the world as the Cuntrera-Caruana organization.