They demanded money to keep the prisoners in prison. One, in the past, was considered by investigators to be a person with a leading role in Cosa Nostra Nissena, the other entrepreneur who, a few years ago, was already involved in investigations into scams. Both of them are now called to the stand with a host of civil parties who have asked to appear, including the Municipality.
The fifty-seven-year-old is accused Giuseppe Dell’Astaa person considered by the magistrates to be associated with the mafia and already in the past sentenced to four years continuously for the mafia, and the fifty-four year old Giovambattista Winner (assisted, respectively, by lawyers Dino Milazzo and Davide Anzalone) against whom there are charges of extortion aggravated by mafia methods and aggravated self-laundering in competition.
It is with the abbreviated procedure, conditioning it to an expert opinion on a wiretap in particular among those collected during the investigations by the Carabinieri, that the defense requested that the judgment be held before the preliminary hearing judge Emanuele Carrabotta. And the prosecutors who will support the accusation, Maurizio Bonaccorso and Stefano Strino, have expressed a favorable opinion in this sense. Interception, in particular, collected by investigators thanks to a Trojan sent to Dell’Asta’s mobile phone. And in this sense the task was entrusted to the expert Mattero Terzo, while Dell’Asta’s defense appointed its own consultant for the operations in question, Rita Schifano. And the Municipality (lawyers Daniela Sollima and Roberta Giordano), the building contractor who was allegedly extorted and his brother (lawyer Renata Accardi) and the Rete per la Legalità Sicilia aps association have asked to join the civil action against the two defendants – associations and foundations against racketeering and usury (lawyer Luigi Cuba). According to the breakdown traced by the police and magistrates, the “squeezed” entrepreneur in about fifteen months paid something like over seventy-five thousand euros into the hands of the suspected extortionists with bank transfers in favor of Vincitore, director of “Clis srl”. Money which, in theory, would have been justified as supplies of material which, in reality, would have been phantom. Then, according to the investigators, that money would have been taken and divided between the two accused.
