Luciano Carnevale

Luciano is forceful, controlling, and strongly focused on ensuring that Emilio's concert takes place as scheduled. Even a threat against his performer's life does not persuade him to cancel the event.

He presents himself as a businessman protecting a major professional commitment. His insistence on continuing the concert, however, places him in conflict with people more concerned about Emilio's safety.

Beneath his professional exterior, Luciano is calculating and involved in organized crime. He treats Emilio's music career as a convenient mechanism for conducting illegal business internationally.

Luciano has no supernatural abilities. His influence comes from money, business connections, criminal contacts, and his position within Emilio's professional organization.

He is affiliated with the Italian Mafia and uses Emilio's international concerts to conceal illegal transactions. His criminal connections allow him to participate in a sophisticated deal involving technology with potentially significant military applications.

Luciano accompanies Emilio to Japan as his producer and insists that the scheduled concert proceed despite a threatening letter. His position initially gives him a plausible financial reason for resisting cancellation.

As Conan investigates, the apparent threat against Emilio becomes intertwined with Arsène Lupin III's unusual theft of the Cherry Sapphire and a separate criminal operation involving arms dealer Alan Smithee.

Luciano is exposed as a Mafia-connected producer using Emilio's concerts as cover for illegal deals. He possesses a fragment of Vespania's unusual ore, whose electromagnetic properties could enable advanced stealth technology, and intends to sell it through an arrangement involving Smithee.

Lupin's thefts form part of a larger operation designed to expose the deal and recover the stolen Vespanian material before it can be sold.

Emilio Baretti is the singer Luciano produces. [Luciano Carnevale's criminal exploitation of Emilio Baretti's tours drives Emilio to fabricate a death threat in an attempt to cancel the Japanese concert.](#spoiler)

Claudia Belucci manages Emilio and is more concerned about the singer's immediate welfare than Luciano appears to be.

Alan Smithee is connected to Luciano through the illegal transaction involving the stolen Vespanian ore.

Arsène Lupin III works to expose Luciano's operation and recover the Vespanian material.

Conan Edogawa investigates the circumstances surrounding Emilio's concert and eventually becomes involved in the wider conspiracy.