There are also Giuseppe Falcomatà, mayor of Reggio Calabria and exponent of the Democratic Party, and Giuseppe Neri, group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the regional council, among those under investigation in the “Ducale” operation investigation. Today, Tuesday 11 June, the ROS carabinieri carried out 14 precautionary measures. The alleged crime against Falcomatà and Neri is a political-mafia electoral exchange. The anti-mafia district directorate of Reggio Calabria had requested the arrest of Neri and Francesco Sera, municipal councilor of the Democratic Party in Reggio Calabria, but the investigating judge did not accept the request. However, no request had been made for Falcomatà.
Investigations and crime hypotheses
The «Ducale» operation was launched as part of an investigation coordinated by the DDA of Reggio Calabria into alleged relations between the ‘Ndrangheta and politics. The DDA investigation, according to what we learn, concerns alleged offenses committed during the 2020 and 2021 regional elections and the 2020 municipal elections in Reggio. Of the fourteen precautionary measures taken today, seven concern precautionary custody in prison, four house arrest. For the other three, however, the measure of the obligation to report to the judicial police was ordered. The people involved in the operation are accused, for various reasons, of the following crimes: mafia-type criminal association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, electoral crimes, corruption for acts contrary to official duties, material and ideological falsehood committed by the public official in public documents.
On the cover: Giuseppe Neri, group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the regional council, e Giuseppe Falcomatà, mayor of Reggio Calabria
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