Giovanni Melluso

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Giovanni Melluso (born 1956) is an Italian criminal. He became a significant informant against the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), a Camorra organization in Naples. He would be used by the Italian Justice Department to testify about the NCO's show business connections in Northern Italy, during the three-year-long trial against Cutolo's NCO which began in 1983. However, many of his accusations were later proven to be unfounded. He is particularly infamous for the frame-up of the popular Italian talk show host, Enzo Tortora, whom he falsely accused of cocaine trafficking and NCO membership. Melluso was known by his multiple nicknames, "Gianni il Bello", or "Cha-cha-cha", both of which meant "handsome" (the latter expression having that meaning in the Southern Italy slang of the time).

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