Eleven and a half years of imprisonment. This was the request of the Attorney General Luigi Musto in his indictment in the trial which is being celebrated before the fifth section of the Court of Appeal of Naples against the relatives and loyalists of Antonio Iovine.
4 years of imprisonment were requested for Enrichetta Avallone, wife of the boss Antonio Iovine for the crime of association with reclassification of the crime as attempted private violence; 1 year and 4 months of imprisonment for Anna Iovine, sister of the clan leader; 6 years and 6 months of imprisonment for Renato Grasso; acquittal for Marcellino Barracca, Alessandro Di Rosa, Massimiliano Grassi. The attorney general requested confirmation of the confiscation for the brothers Giuseppe and Armando Di Chiara. We return to the courtroom in July for the lawyers’ discussions.
The defendants are accused of mafia-style criminal association, money laundering, illicit competition in the video poker and sports betting sectors; private violence for the boss’s wife and sister who ordered her sister-in-law Rosa De Novellis, widow of Carmine Iovine not to set foot in San Cipriano d’Aversa, their territory and to cease the two commercial activities in the underwear sector of which the De Novellis was the starter.
The trial before the fifth section of the Court of Appeal is postponed by the Supreme Court after the first section of the Supreme Court had annulled the 2019 sentence of the Court of Appeal of Naples which sentenced Avallone to 5 years of imprisonment for private violence; Anna Iovine to 2 years’ imprisonment; 3 years of imprisonment for Rosa, Grassi and the Di Chiara brothers; Renato Grasso to 10 years in prison.
The trial involving O’Ninno’s family members and his loyalists originated in 2005 and mostly from the investigations conducted by the Neapolitan DDA for the capture of the then fugitives Francesco Schiavone and Antonio Iovine. The latter, who became clan leader after the capture of many of the leaders of the criminal clan, continued the illicit activities of the ‘family-run’ criminal association even as a fugitive. The boss entrusted the Di Chiara brothers, Di Rosa and Grassi with the reuse of the clan’s money in the construction of a 5-storey building divided into apartments which were then resold to third parties in good faith. Concealment activities were carried out by the building contractors employed by the Camorra in order to conceal the ownership of the assets. For money laundering, an ingenious mechanism was put in place to evade controls also by taking out a mortgage. Renato Grasso was entrusted with the task of managing the video poker and sports betting sector, imposing the clan’s monopoly on the other managers in the sector.
The defense team includes, among others, lawyers Giuseppe Tessitore, Angelo Raucci, Rocco Trombetti, Alfonso Quarto, Umberto Pappadia, Raffaele Mascia, Pasquale Diana, Valerio Spigarelli, Alessandro Iazzetti, Maurizio Giovannone.
