09-01-2024 by redazione
Those who have been frequenting Malindi and the Kenyan coast for many years cannot have forgotten that controversial, brilliant and in his own way likeable character Mario Mele. Arriving a few years earlier, in 2012, in the resort town with entrepreneurial proclamations and a waving professionalism in the field of night entertainment and discos, he launched into the construction of a 'cathedral' in the sand dunes of the Malindi Gulf beach.
After only two seasons, amidst failures, temporary closures, creativity, discreet women in cages and quarrels between 'Italian style' partners, his Pata Pata closed its doors, but the indomitable Mario launched into another adventure, 'Mario's Budda', a lounge bar with his trademark: leather sofas and women's thighs stuck on them. 'Hard worker' was said of him, while at the same time he opened a bar downstairs where at seven in the morning he was already 'on the dance floor' with breakfasts and proper coffee. Only to move upstairs in the evening to party and continue working like a madman.
A professional, even in tax fraud, according to the Italian tax authorities and the complaints of his employees: 17 million euro ended up who knows where and a denunciation for criminal conspiracy that allowed Interpol, with the help of the Kenyan police, to pick him up.
The Court of Nuoro had already sentenced him to four years imprisonment for documentary bankruptcy following the bankruptcy of two discotheques in Sardinia.
He was not helped by certain 'over-the-top' attitudes in Kenya and by flaunting his wealthy and pyrotechnic life a little too much.
A life of work but also of excesses that led him to pulmonary complications, undoubtedly aggravated by the stress of the years between pre-trial detentions and trials in his native Sardinia, for which, as reported this morning by the Unione Sarda, 'Mario Pata Pata' died at the age of just 62, after being hospitalised in Turin.
NEWS
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Mario Mele has returned to "his home" in Sardinia.
The popular owner and manager of Mario's Lounge Bar and Buddha's Malindi has been transferred from the prison in Civitavecchia, where he was detained for more than a month, to the...
LAST NEWS
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The Court of Malindi was waiting for him this morning, escorted by the authorities, in order to exercise the order not to extradite.
The Judge of Nairobi, following the Interpol investigation, expect him next April 12 the official questioning.
The...
NEWS
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For those who live or frequent Malindi the story of Mario Mele, manager of Pata Pata bar in the Nakumatt mall, it's not a mystery.
That journeyman active part of the night life (in Italian ran the premises of Sardinia,...
NEWS
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He still has many dark contours, the story starring our compatriot Mario Mele, fifty-six of Nuoro, a resident of Malindi for the past seven years. After the raid in his club, Mario's (ex Pata Pata) inside the Oasis shopping center...
NEWS
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Still postponed the transfer in Sardinia of Mario Mele, a former resident of Malindi owner of Mario's Lounge at the Nakumatt, arrested by Interpol on 29 March during a joint operation with the police in the coastal region of Kenya.
Mario Mele, owner of Mario's Bar of Malindi and other members of Mario's Budda's within the Oasis Shopping Center (Nakumatt) has returned to liberty, awaiting the trial involving him with the charge of tax evasion and Of a criminal association.
NEWS
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Mario Mele's relatives reiterate with serenity and firmness to the claims of a supposed friend and former partner of the Malindine bar owner at Nakumatt.
"Mario is fine, he is not at all dissatisfied with being back in Nuoro so...
LATEST NEWS
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End of transmission, at least for now.
This was confirmed by the Head of the Narcotics Kenya: "We delivered the three Italian to the authorities who will deport them". It has been replied to the newspaper "The Star" and other newspapers online,...
PEOPLE
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If Watamu nights of music and fun have their natural home to Come Back Club it is due mainly to an Italian professional who wanted him to that place, she saw him completely rebuild and become the place "cult" of...
NEWS
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This also happens in Kenya: the national head of the Tax Office, the Kenya Revenue Autjority, was...
ECONOMY
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The Kenyan government has signed an agreement with 26 other African states to combat tax ...
Kuki Gallmann had "a story to tell".
This novel is his story.
NEWS
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The name is Africa Academy for Tax and Financial Crime Investigation, the partnership created between Germany, Italy and Kenya on 13 June in Berlin, under the supervision of the International Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
EDITORIAL
by Freddie del Curatolo
Still not got the official news of the extradition of Mario's Lounge Bar manager.
According to the newspaper "The Star" had already been shipped to Italy, according to his lawyer John Kaminwa there is a request from the Court of...
