ROME «Rome is a particular city, it has neither the mafia, nor the camorra, nor the ‘ndrangheta. He takes everything he can get». To pronounce the sentence, during a phone call with the journalist Alberto Nerazzini, he is a person close to Fabrizio Piscitelli said “Diabolik” considered an important figure in drug trafficking in Rome, murdered on 7 August 2019 in the Parco degli Acquedotti in the capital. “Rome, open city” is the title of the first investigation of a new format broadcast on La7 written and conducted by Corrado Formigli and Alberto Nerazzini. The “confession” made on the telephone is strong, it excludes the dominance of one association over the other but does not exclude the presence of criminal cells. In the alleys of the eternal city, black plots woven by Calabrian and Albanian organized crime and the so-called “Roman Camorra” run by men born in Campania and then moved to the capital are knotted. On the other hand, Report has also recently dealt with the mafia connections in Rome, the streets filled with drugs, the shops used as washing machines to clean up dirty money and the summits to forge new alliances and divide up the areas of competence. That has reconstructed the affairs and interests of the gangs active in the “Great Criminal Connection”. The spotlight shines on the affairs of one of the most dangerous ‘Ndrangheta families, that of the Alvaro di Sinopolisettled in the capital for some time. Antonio Carzo and Vincenzo Alvaro, belonging to historic Reggio families, would be at the top of the “local” that had been operating in Rome since 2015 after having obtained the official investiture from the parent company in Calabria. «We in Rome are an offshoot of down there», they said in an interception.
The “Offshoot”
It is November 9, 2022 when the Dia, the anti-mafia investigative directorate, intervenes in northern Rome to carry out a series of arrests that follow those carried out with the maxi investigation called “Offshoot“, which had hit the first ‘ndrangheta “local” in the capital. The partnership, as we said, would have its own leader Antonio Carzo And Vincenzo Alvaro. The. was also involved in the blitz of the men and women of the anti-mafia Great Cellini coffeesubject to preventive seizure by the Court of Reggio Calabria in 2009 and then confiscated in the trial “Relaunch” celebrated in Rome. In this proceeding «the fictitious title of Tortuga emerged and Vincenzo Alvaro was the recipient of a precautionary custody order in June 2011, then sentenced in 2014 with the aggravating mafia charge to seven years of imprisonment. The crime was declared extinguished by statute of limitations in October 2020 because the aggravating mafia factor no longer existed and the crime itself was extinguished, but the confiscation was confirmed”.
The process
The ordinary trial resulting from the investigation is underway before the eighth criminal section of the Court of Rome “Offshoot” of the defendants who opted for the ordinary procedure: among them also Vincenzo Alvaro. In the investigation, coordinated by the deputy prosecutors Michele Prestipino and Ilaria Calò with the prosecutors Giovanni Musarò, Francesco Minisci and Stefano Luciani, the charges of mafia association, sale and detention for the purposes of drug dealing, extortion are contested in various capacities aggravated and illegal possession of a firearm, fictitious registration of assets, fraud against the State aggravated with the aim of facilitating the ‘Ndrangheta, aggravated money laundering, aggravated aiding and abetting and external competition in a mafia association. In the last hearing, Lieutenant Colonel of the Carabinieri Sergio Bovio reviewed the story relating to the Gran Caffè Cellini, recalling how the business was purchased «on 16 February 2006 for the sum of 107,500 euros». (fb)
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