sentences:  Despite being jailed, in 2004 he was accused of running an international cocaine trafficking ring with several 'Ndrangheta clans (the Marando, Trimboli and Barbaro clans from Platì in particular), supported by his son Epifanio Agate and Salvatore Miceli, a fugitive in Colombia.Although incarcerated under the strict 41-bis prison regime he instructed his son on how to run the business.Agate died at home on 3 April 2013.