Police uncover mafia plot to kill ecstasy importers in jail POLICE fear for the safety of convicted drug importer Pasquale Barbaro and an associate in maximum security at Victoria's Barwon Jail amid intelligence that an Italian crime group wants them dead over a massive ecstasy shipment that went wrong in 2007. The Australian has learnt police visited Barbaro and a cousin, Saverio Zirilli, in jail last week to tell them officers had thwarted a plot last December to murder them inside the state's most secure prison.