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Since the early hours of this morning, more 100 financial of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catania, with the support and collaboration of SCICO (Central Organized Crime Investigation Service), are executing aorder of safety measures issued by the GIP in the local court, at the request of the Catania Prosecutor – District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against 18 people, arrested, for various reasons, for criminal association of the mafia type, extortion, usury, bid rigging, personal assistance and complicity, possession and carrying of firearms.
the subject people a research since GICO of the Catania PEF core I am 37, belonging OR however traceable ai clan Mafia type “Laudani” me “Santapaola”.
At the same time, the preventive seizure, for a total value of one million euros, of the shares and corporate assets of the “Midland Srl “, a company operating in the transport logistics sector, whose ownership was fictitiously registered in the name of a nominee of the clan, in order to avoid asset assessments.
The complex investigative activity, carried out by the Catania Economic-Financial Police Unit, involved 37 subjects and was conventionally called “Report”, in reference to the orders that Horace Scuto (alias “The glazier”) – regent of the “clan Laudani ”for the illuminated territory and detained in Caltanissetta – handed over to his associates through “pizzini” hidden in packets of fruit juices or chocolate bars and which were taken from prison thanks to the help of Valentina scuto. The proven communication system has allowed Scuto Orazio to issue directives to its closest associates externally, both in relation to the management of Friscus Srl, and in relation to some initiatives to be undertaken in the context of criminal activities attributable to the group. .
The investigations, carried out by the specialized units of the GICO of Catania, revealed the operational methods of some of the most operational groups belonging to the “Laudani” clan, including the one headed by Orazio Scuto and physically managed in the territory by Litter “Rino” Messina, in addition to tracking serious episodes of extortion against businessmen in Catania by members of the “Santapaola clan”.
In particular, researchers from the PEF Nucleus of Catania have rebuilt, first, the network of illicit interests of the “Laudani clan”, active in extortion and with interests in the sector related to bankruptcy proceedings.
In detail, during the investigations, in the first place, 8 extortion episodes were found, in some cases carried out by members of the clan to the detriment of businessmen and professionals to finance the association while, in other circumstances, the members of the criminal association acted to unlawfully favor businessmen, who in the face of unpaid commercial credits preferred, instead of proceeding legally, to resort to the intermediation of exponents gangsters to recover the sums, using the force of intimidation linked to the latter’s membership of the criminal organization and in order to speed up the credit collection procedure.
The other sector involved in investigative activities is represented by interference in judicial procedures for the auction of goods.
INTERCEPTIONS
In this context, individuals belonging to or close to the Laudani clan intervened, on several occasions, so that businessmen declared bankrupt – against whom the real estate foreclosure procedure had been activated – could illegally recover the property put up for auction, obtaining a profit. In this context, exponents of the “clan Laudani ”acted, resorting to threats and intimidation, to inhibit the participation of potential bidders in the execution procedure, thus guaranteeing the debtor to obtain, even through fictitious owners, the return of the assets.
In this context, one of the episodes that was the subject of investigative attention by the GICO concerned a real estate auction procedure carried out in the Court of Catania. On this occasion, a businessman, owner of an apartment subject to bankruptcy, requested and obtained the intervention of the aforementioned Litterio “Rino” Messina, in order to alter the procedure for the sale of the property. On that occasion, the group identified a compliant front man and, at the same time, fired potential bidders through the use of intimidation and threats.
In this context, the conduct developed by subjects belonging to the Laudani clan was particularly serious, through which the buyers of the foreclosed property were forced by threats to resell the property, at a base price, to the foreclosed debtor who had requested and obtained the intervention of the first
During the investigations, new crimes committed by exponents of the “clan Santapaola ”for entrepreneurs from Catania. In particular, the investigations revealed a first exorbitant behavior in which Salvatore Mazzaglia and Mirko Pompeo Casesa, have demanded from the businessmen active in the territory of Catania and the province, the payment of a periodic sum of money to guarantee the safety of the construction works.
In addition, the investigations revealed an important availability of weapons of the members of the mafia organization, which were used in the realization of violent episodes and intimidation. Of particular importance, in this context, was the figure of Giacomo Cageggi (alias “The Boxer” or “Rocky”), referring to “clan Laudani ”for Lineri and Misterbianco, several times the protagonist of punitive armed expeditions and intimidation against rival clans.
Custody in prison
- BONACCORSO Carmelo born 12/28/1962 in Catania (CT)
- BONANNO Rosario was born on 10/08/1962 in Catania (CT)
- BRANCATO Girolamo born on 11/20/1973 in Catania (CT)
- CAGGEGI Giacomo born on 04/28/1980 in Catania (CT)
- CARUSO Alberto Gianmarco Angelo born on 03/31/1980 in Catania (CT)
- CASESA Mirko Pompeo born on 03/10/1983 in Catania (CT)
- MAZZAGLIA Salvatore was born on 05/29/1957 in Nicolosi (CT), Italy
- MESSINA Litterio born on 10/16/1962 in Catania (CT)
- PUGLISI Antonino born on 03/08/1965 in Catania (CT)
- SCUTO Orazio Salvatore born 01/01/1959 in Aci Catena (CT)
house arrest
- TIEZZI Dante Giuseppe born 02/12/1962 in Catania (CT)
- SIDOTI Rosaria Gabriella was born in Catania on 07/18/1972
- PAPPALARDO Vincenzo Massimiliano born in Catania on 08/13/1969
- OLD Luca born on 05/02/1974 in Paternò (CT)
- GIUFFRIDA Alfio born on 04/02/1966 in Biancavilla (CT)
- MANNINO Rosario born on 10/06/1964 in Germany (EE)
- PAPPALARDO Gianfranco Antonino born on 10/05/1972 in Paternò (CT)
- SCUTO Valentina Concetta Caterina born on 07/23/1987 in Catania (CT)
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