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Alleged Mafia leader Andrea (Andrew) Scoppa walked out of the Montreal courthouse a free man on Friday after the Crown announced it would no longer prosecute him on charges alleging he was distributing cocaine to dealers while using condominiums inside the Tour des Canadiens as his base of operations.

Scoppa’s release will probably throw another twist into the ever-changing mysterious saga of who actually controls the Montreal Mafia. In February, Leonardo Rizzuto, 48, and Stefano Sollecito, 50, were released from detention after they were acquitted of charges of gangsterism and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine. Both men were alleged by police to be the leaders of the Montreal Mafia when they were arrested in 2015.

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Scoppa was arrested in 2017 and, during his bail hearing, held over the course of two days in April last year, Sûreté du Québec Det-Sgt. Christian Ouimet testified about Scoppa’s place in Montreal’s organized crime circles.