Rivers of cocaine on the Calabria-Sicily axis: twenty-six convictions

Two hundred and eight years of imprisonment for 26 defendants, with sentences ranging from 3 years and 8 months to 16 years and 4 months, and two acquittals. This is the sentence of the trial born from the Kynara operation of the Catania Flying Squad issued, with the abbreviated procedure, by the investigating judge Pietro Currò, who accepted the requests of the prosecutor Tiziana Laudani. The proceeding was based on the police investigations which culminated, on 15 December 2022, in the arrest of 31 people, some of whom were believed to be affiliated with the Cappello-Bonaccorsi clan, investigated in various capacities for mafia association, criminal association aimed at trafficking and dealing in narcotic substances, carrying and possession of a firearm. From the investigations of the Flying Squad of the Police Headquarters it emerged that every two weeks couriers brought 15-20 kilograms of cocaine from Calabria to Sicily which was distributed in Catania and other provinces of the island as a result of a joint venture between the Calabrian gangs and Michele Vinciguerra, aged 45, head of a branch of the Cappello-Bonaccorsi mafia clan which, after his release from prison in April 2021, dedicated himself to cocaine trafficking. Vinciguerra, who then decided to collaborate with the justice system, was sentenced, in continuation with previous sentences and taking into account the alternative rite, to 16 years and four months in prison. Among the most prominent sentences emerge those of 15 years and four months each Giacomo Ravasco and Saverio Zoccoli. The judge acquitted him for not having committed the crime Luigi Cipolla and Delio Santillo.