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Reputed gangland kingpin Cosimo Commisso has wiggled out of a long jolt in an Italian prison as a judge torpedoed a prosecution appeal.

For decades, the Commisso family lorded over the city’s underworld with tentacles stretching from Italy across southern Ontario.

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The 70-year-old crime lord had spent 26 years in an Italian prison after he was convicted of five murders and three attempted murders between May 1989 and July 1991.

On Wednesday, Italy’s Court of Cassation confirmed that the appeal Commisso won a year ago was valid and an appeal by the general prosecutor of Naples was tossed.

It was ruled that Commisso had no hand in the underworld settling of accounts, the Gazzetta del Sud reported.

Calling Commisso a “boss of two worlds,” the slayings were called the “Feud of Siderno”.

However, the suspected mob lord remains in jail on other matters but local sources say he remains atop ‘Ndrangheta.