Overview

• Italian authorities located the 38-year-old Albanian national in Abu Dhabi about 10 days ago with assistance from international police cooperation, according to the reports.
• Prosecutors accuse Sinomati of ordering the September 20, 2020 killing of Selavdi “Passerotto” Shehaj on Torvaianica beach.
• Investigators say Sinomati tasked Raoul Esteban Calderón with the hit and arranged a €150,000 cash payment for the execution.
• Calderón and Giuseppe Molisso have already received first-instance life sentences for the Shehaj murder, and Calderón was also sentenced to life for the 2019 killing of Fabrizio “Diabolik” Piscitelli.
• Sinomati is separately accused of supplying cocaine to a Rome network led by Molisso and Leandro Bennato that police dismantled on March 18, 2025, while investigators are examining a possible link between the same milieu and the October 16 assault on Ranucci near his home.