Negotiated checks of people with criminal records that flowed into the personal bank accounts of the Sagliocchi family. This is what emerged in the trial on the infiltration of the Casalesi clan, in particular of the boss Michele Zagaria, in the car park in Via San Carlo in Caserta.
The lieutenant of the Guardia di Finanza of Rome, who conducted the investigations, heard before the first section of the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, presided over by judge Sergio Enea with Giuseppe Zullo and Norma Cardullo on the side, revealed the background of the investigation coordinated by Dda Neapolitan, in particular the bank checks carried out on the current accounts of the Sagliocchi family unit.
“We have considered the statements of Francesco Zagaria (justice collaborator) regarding the negotiation of bank cheques. In practice, members of the Casalesi clan gave Sagliocchi checks which he then transferred to his bank account. From the Sagliocchi personal current account the huge financial resources flowed into the current accounts of his children and wife. The credit installments ranged from 500 euros to 15,000 euros. The subjects who paid were close to clans, not only that of the Casalesi but also the Mazzarella clan. The legal precedents that these people had were for criminal offences, crimes against property and crimes relating to drugs”.
We return to the courtroom in May for the military’s cross-examination. Michele Patrizio Sagliocchi, the boss Michele Zagaria, the current director of the Municipality of Caserta Francesco Biondi, the architect Carmine Domenico Nocera, Gaetano Riccardi nephew of Sagliocchi, Fabio Fontana, Teresa Capaldo, accused in various capacities of association to crime with the aggravating circumstance of mafia facilitation, corruption, self-laundering, false ideology, fraudulent transfer of values.
The defense team includes lawyers Giovanni Cantelli, Giuseppe Stellato, Enzo Di Vaio, Guido Diana, Michele Di Fraia, Paolo Di Furia, Emilio Martino, Alfonso Quarto, Alessandro Barbieri, Mauro Iodice, Stefano Montone, Giuseppe Ceceri. The Municipality of Caserta formed a civil party represented by the lawyer Lidia Gallo.
