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PALERMO – After the surrender last June, the financial investigations into Cosa Nostra betting agencies they continued until today’s bombardment.
By delegation of the Public Ministry, the investigation is coordinated by the Deputy Prosecutor Salvo De Luca and by the alternates Dario Scaletta and Maria Pio Ticino, the financiers of the Palermo provincial command, have executed an order signed by the investigating judge Walter Turturici against fifteen people, among them familiar faces.
You are in jail: Salvatore Rubino, 59, Vincenzo Fiore, 42, Christian Tortora, 44, Rosario Chianello, 48, Michelangelo Guarino, 43, and Giovanni Di Noto, 46.
Nine under house arrest: Salvatore Barrale, 63 years old, Maurizio Di Bella, 46 years old, Pasquale Somma, 50 years old, Giovanni Castagnetta, 36 years old, Davide Catalano, 41 years old (since April 2019 he has received 900 euros per month of citizenship income whose delivery will be suspended), Giacomo Bilello, 36, Pietro Montalto, 31, Antonio Inserra, 55, and Salvatore Lombardo, 36.
They are accused in various ways of criminal association aimed at the abusive exercise of gambling and fraud to the detriment of the State, and fraudulent transfer of values.
The investigating judge ordered the preventive seizure of 6 agencies of bets in Palermo and in the province of Naples, for an estimated total value of around one million euros. More than 100 soldiers are carrying out in Sicily and Campania.
In the first section of the survey called “All inclusive” Five “mafia companies” that had acquired the state concessions granted by the Customs and Monopoly Agency for the collection of sports bets and games ended up seized.
But then, as already reconstructed in this article of the last months, It turned out that there was an illegal and parallel gaming network.
The anti-mafia specialists of the Gico of the economic-financial police unit of Palermo they have developed a second line of research. Two different criminal associations were organized, parallel but both attributable to Salvatore Rubino who, as he had emerged a few months ago, would have used mafia capital for his inauguration. The two organizations executed a betting rounds of no less than 2.5 million euros per month.
The first criminal group, headed by Vincenzo Fiore and Christian Tortora and made up of Salvatore Barrale, Maurizio Di Bella, Pasquale Somma and Giovanni Castagnetta, managed a network of agencies entrusted to trusted people, called teachers.
The second organization, which also managed the betting centers through which the illegal collection operated, had Chianello Rosario and Guarino Michelangelo as prominent figures and made use of the collaboration of Giovanni Di Noto, known as “Gianfranco”, already arrested for charges of being an item. prominent member of the La Noce mafia family.
Davide Catalano, Giacomo Bilello, Pietro Montalto, Antonio Inserra and Salvatore Lombardo were also part of this criminal group.
The illegal collection of bets was carried out by the screen” of agencies authorized by the Monopolies. The counter managers accepted bets that were not handled in the official network but through illegal foreign platforms.
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