May 22, 2024, 3.28pm
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PALERMO – There was a lot of money circulating in the drug dealing square. Between Viale Giuseppe Di Vittorio and Antonio Trimarchi passage, in Sperone, the drug network was in operation 24 hours a day. They confirm it the banknotes and accounts seized by the policemen of the Palermo flying squad.
Family entanglements
Drugs were a family business. First of all, blood. They would be managing the sale Pietro Argeri and Gaetano Ingrassia, who dictated the orders despite being under house arrest. Scroll through the list of those arrested and the parental plot emerges.
Pietro Argeri is the son of Nicola and brother of Samuele, as well as husband of Maria Chiappara who in turn is Sebastiano’s sister. Francesco and Antonio Messina are brothers, both sons of Salvatore Messina, who is married to Daniela Chiovaro, sister of Paolo Chiovaro. Giuseppe and Vincenzo Lucchese are brothers.
Davide Giuseppe Arduino and Alessio Salvo Caruso would have been supervising the square and guaranteeing drug supplies, by virtue of their alleged belonging to the Brancaccio district. Mafia family as well as blood.
Bedbugs on the scooter
The investigation started by placing a GPS and a bug in the Honda Sh scooter by Davide Anselmo. And it turned out that he often moved along the axis of Viale XXIV Maggio. The drugs were hidden in the undergrowth, wrapped in medicine paper.
The sale of cocaine and hashish was booming. At Alessio Caruso’s housewho escaped the ambush that cost the life of the boss Giancarlo Romano, there were 55 thousand euros in cash. In a photo shot via WhatsApp by Maria Chiappara of her husband Pietro Argeri 20 thousand euros were immortalized in 20 and 50 banknotes.
Drug accounting
A few months ago Samuele Ingrassia ended up in prison. The investigators would have intercepted the handover. Pietro Argeri asked Alessio Ingrassia to send him the accounting.
Via chat they were sent three screenshots with names and numbers. It’s accounting – from petrol costs to the salaries of pushers – now in the hands of the prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy Marzia Sabella. Today’s raid does not close the investigation.
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May 22, 2024, 3.28pm
