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Another blitz to try to tighten the circle around Matteo Messina Money. Gangsters, clean businessmen, mayors, and even a manager at the top of a public company. Not only is the mafia in the Palermo DDA investigation that led to the arrest of 13 people believed to be related to Castelvetrano’s fugitive boss. In the investigation, carried out by the Scout Police, there are also Salvatore barone, former chairman of the board of directors and former director of the transport company Atm in Trapani. Barone, who was arrested on charges of mafia association, is also president of the Kaggera social winery in Calatafimi and according to investigators he was in the service of the head of the local mafia family, Nicolò Pidone.
According to Pidone researchers, directly or through his henchman, Gaetano Placenza, a farmer at the top of the company, decided who to hire by choosing staff to help the families of the company. mafia prisoners and he arranged for the exponents of Cosa Nostra to receive money. Between hiring More importantly, aimed at favoring the clans, are those of Verónica Musso, daughter of capo Calogero Musso, a life sentence, former head of Vita’s “family”. Barone also allegedly won votes for the mayor of Calatafimi Segesta (Trapani), Antonino Accardo, now under investigation for electoral corruption. The investigation is coordinated by the Palermo prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi, the deputy Paolo Guido and the prosecutors Francesca Dessì and Piero Padova. Accardo was notified of a warranty notice. From the interceptions, according to the investigators, it appears that he had paid 50 euros per vote for last year’s elections as mayor of the municipality of Calatafimi Segesta (Trapani). A 73-year-old retired teacher, Accardo has some experience as a councilor and councilor in Calatafimi behind him.
In octal there are 13 arrest warrants issued by the DDA magistrates, twenty suspects. The alleged complaints, for various reasons, against the suspects are mafia association, extortion, arson, robbery, personal aid and electoral corruption, aggravated by the mafia method. A series of searches are also underway in the Trapani countryside for weapons. For those who investigate, Pidone, already convicted of a mafia association, is the key figure in the investigation. Considered the head of the Calatafimi clan, organized summits in a dilapidated annex near his farm; there the main decisions regarding the clan were made. Among the suspects also others convicted of mafia such as Rosario Leo, a convict living in Marsala, and a cousin of Stefano Leo, very close to the patron of Mazara del Vallo Vito Gondola, who later passed away, Sergio Giglio, involved in the investigation into the complicity and complicity of the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
However, the investigations also ended unsuspected who, in various ways, favored communications between the head of the Calatafimese family, especially in the period when he was subjected to special surveillance, and other mobsters, including Rosario Leo himself, who was also under special surveillance. Among those who favored the meetings and communications was the 46-year-old agricultural businessman from Vines Domenico Simone, according to the investigations. The businessman Leonardo Urso, of Marsala origin, winemaker, accused of complicity and complicity, and the agricultural businessman Andrea Ingraldo, of Agrigento origin, accused of external competition in a mafia association, for having fictitiously hired Pidone to prove the existence of a position regular work and mitigate the security measure.
The clan, according to the Antimafia, controlled the territory through the execution of “investigations” to reconstruct criminal episodes that occurred in the area and were not “authorized” and intervened with acts of intimidation against those who collaborated with the justice system. The burning of the car of businessman Antonino Caprarotta, sought by Pidone and carried out together with Giuseppe Aceste and Antonino and Giuseppe Fanara, is part of the latter. Caprarotta had denounced the mafia businessman Francesco Isca and other subjects involved in the history of the illicit management of the parking lots of the Calatafimi-Segesta archaeological park. Also among the detainees Giuseppe Gennaro, another member of the Calatafimi mafia family, accused not only of mafia association, but also of stealing a farm tractor, in the interests of the clan together with Francesco Domingo, Sebastiano Stabile and Salvatore Mercadante. In the cell is also the thirty-seven-year-old of Calatafimese Ludovico Chapanello, investigated for having favored the mafia association recovering Pidone’s dependency from errors. Finally, a member of the Penitentiary Police was investigated, who is accused of the crime of revealing an official secret committed to facilitate Cosa Nostra. The investigation revealed that the clan had weapons available. The arrest is motivated by the intention of some suspects to hide and the project of strong reprisals against one of the gangsters who would have come into conflict with the head of the Calatafimi family.
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