So what apparently happened is they did some kind of agreement. Dino had a $400,000 shipment in some warehouse somewhere and it stayed there for like, three days…and on the third day when the cocaine guy went to pick it up, the police were there.
So they were blaming each other. Dino was saying, ‘You should have picked it up [on] the first day and it never would have happened – you shouldn’t have let it sit there…’
There was a lot of heat on Dino. This was a week before he died. It was a Wednesday. His wife and his daughter went to Ballet lessons. He was watching Hockey [on TV].
His wife found him that night.
She had his daughter in her arms – luckily, thank god, his daughter was sleeping so she didn’t see her dad. There was blood [everywhere]…on the ceiling. It was horrible.
They’d pumped 10 bullets in his head.
There was no force of entry in his house…and it was the winter, so you could see there would [have been] footprints [in the snow outside]- but there were none.
They had somebody…an inside person. It was probably someone who was watching hockey with him and said, ‘Hey look, Dino, I’m gonna go to the bathroom…’ They shot him from behind.
The detective told us that the remote control was loose in his hand…they say that if they shoot you from the front you [see it coming and] tense your muscles and [he would have gripped] that remote control [tightly at the point of death]. So they shot him from behind…he didn’t see anything…”
Note: Cigarette smuggling is the illicit transportation of cigarettes from an administrative division with low taxation to a division with high taxation for sale and consumption.
The practice, commonly used by Organized Crime Syndicates and Rebel Groups, is a form of tax evasion.
In Canada, between 63 to 79% of the price of a package of cigarettes is tax. As of 2009, illegal cigarettes were believed to be a $1.5 billion industry in Canada.
