Naples, Adolfo Greco acquitted by the Court of Appeal of the charge of extortion aggravated by the mafia method

The twist comes this afternoon. Adolfo Greco, the defendant who gave his name to the ‘Olimpo’ trial on the Camorra racket in Castellammare di Stabia, was acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Naples on the charge of extortion aggravated by the mafia method “because the fact does not exist”. In the first instance he had been sentenced to […]

The twist comes this afternoon. Adolfo Grecothe accused who gave his name to the ‘Olimpo’ trial on the Camorra racket in Castellammare di Stabia, he was acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Naples from the charge of extortion aggravated by the mafia method “because the fact does not exist”. At first instance he was sentenced to eight years. Greco, who between the 70s and 80s helped Raffaele Cutolo to take possession of the Medici Castle of Ottaviano and then took part in the negotiations between the DC, Cutolo’s Nco and the Red Brigades to free the regional councilor Ciro Cirillo, was accused of two episodes for which, according to the investigative system of the Dda of Naples, would have carved out the role of ‘mediator’ between the clans of the Stabia area and some entrepreneurs extorted and ‘invited’, also by Greco, to pay. The sentences of the co-defendants for the episodes attributed to the milk entrepreneur and Cirio were also quashed, including that inflicted on Umberto Cuomo, who was considered the intermediary between Greco and the Afeltra clan of Pimonte, and that on Michele Carolei, considered a member of the D’Alessandro clan.

The defense theses of Greco’s lawyers, Vincenzo Maiello and Stefano Montone were therefore accepted: Greco was a victim and not an accomplice of the gangs who dictated the good and bad weather in the territory of Stabia and the Lattari Mountains, and all his actions were dictated by the need to preserve companies and businesses from the pressure of the Camorra. A thesis that found very recent confirmation in the precautionary custody order carried out on May 30, which identified the instigators and motive for the murder of PD municipal councilor Gino Tommasino in 2009. Where reference is made to the extortions that two repentants of the D’Alessandro clan, Catello Romano and Renato Cavaliere, carried out against Greco. Imposing 5% on home renovation work and “giving him 48 hours to pay the sum of 50,000.00 euros intended for “Scanzano”, the historic stronghold of the D’ Alessandro family, as the 20,000.00 euros already delivered to Verdoliva were not enough”.

There is the story of Cavaliere Amato’s threats to Greco’s house, and then Romano’s 2006 attack on his son’s gray Audi, which was set on fire. Thus the clan prevailed and Cavaliere received from Greco an envelope with 30 thousand euros “which represents 5 percent of the amount of the works relating to the construction of a three-storey house located on Via Panoramica in Castellammare di Stabia”. For these events, the prosecutor Giuseppe Cimmarotta requested and obtained the arrest of Romano – already in prison for other reasons – who he also accused of Camorra association with the D’Alessandro clan.