TONotice of conclusion of investigations for Michele D’Alba, well-known entrepreneur from Foggia of the “Tre Fiammelle”, a company hit by an anti-mafia interdiction. According to the accusation, D’Alba favored some members of the Foggiana Society by not reporting the extortion. On a racket list seized by the police from the city’s clans it was written: “Three Flames, 4 thousand every three months”.
The notice of conclusion of the investigations speaks of “the crime of aggravated and continued aiding and abetting, pursuant to articles. 81, 378, 416 bis. 1 cp”. In essence, based on what the Bari anti-mafia district directorateD’Alba allegedly “with multiple executive actions of the same criminal plan”, repeatedly failed “to report to the Authorities that he was subjected to extortion and to pay, for this reason, periodic sums of cash in favor of the mafia-type association called Società Foggiana, delivering them to exponents of the sub-division of the association called battery Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanzaincluding convicted criminals Francesco Tizzano and Ernesto Gattaboth convicted, with a final sentence, for the crime of mafia-type association in the context of the Tenth Action criminal proceeding (nr. 5557/17 DDA)”.
The fact is “aggravated pursuant to art. 416 bis. 1 of the criminal code, because it was committed in order to facilitate the mafia-type association called Società Foggiana, whose existence and operation in Foggia constitutes a well-known fact attested by multiple and concordant sentences which have become final”.
This is by virtue of the “belonging of Tizzano and Gatta to the Moretti-Pellegrino-Lanza group – we read again -, a judicially recognized sub-articulation of the Foggia Society, to the extortion practice as the operational method of the association program; to the flow of illicit proceeds into the common fund of the association, for the maintenance of the association’s purposes. Act committed in Foggia, from a period close to the month of September 2017 until 16.4.2020”.
The story of Tizzano and Gatta is well known to investigators. The two “Morettians” were arrested and then definitively sentenced to 14 and 10 years for extortion at the RSA “Il Sorriso” in Foggia owned by Paolo Telesforo, once D’Alba’s partner in the management of “Don Uva”. According to the wiretaps, the mafiosi would have knocked on D’Alba as they were unable to reach Telesforo. “Alba must keep this ball”, one of the phrases picked up by investigators of the time.
The issue also ended up in the anti-mafia interdiction papers that hit the D’Alba family. In addition to “Tre Fiammelle”, active in various entities including the Municipality of Foggia where it deals with maintenance of greenery and so on, the same provision also reached his son’s “Lavit spa”. Lorenzo D’Albaan industrial laundry giant in the Asi area.
The State, through this affair, sends a clear signal against silence. Those who do not report are put on a par with the mafia organization given the serious accusation of aiding and abetting aggravated by the mafia.
Not too long ago, a story relating to D’Alba was mentioned by the chief prosecutor of the Bari DDA, Roberto Rossi before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the mafia phenomenon. “In Foggia – said the magistrate – there is a newspaper, the attackwhich is financed by an entrepreneur close to the criminal world who is playing a game through various insults and a dissuasive activity with respect to anti-mafia principles”.
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