Maxi operation against the Lombard clan, involved police and officials

Maxi operation of the carabinieri against the ‘Ndrangheta. In the early hours of Thursday, the military of the provincial command and the department of fight against crime in Milan in fact executed an arrest warrant in prison against 11 people accused, for various reasons, of corruption, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking. drugs, illegal possession and possession of clandestine firearms, arson, aggravated threat, personal assistance and complicity.

Finally, in the sights of the investigators and the investigators were people believed to be close to the local ‘ndrangheta in Legnano Lonate Pozzolo, historically linked to the Farao Marincola clan of Cirò Marina.

The investigation – linked to the “Krimisa” operation, which had led to the arrest of 34 people and had revealed the infiltration of the clan in the institutions with the arrest of a councilor from the municipality of Ferno – “allowed not only to confirm the absolute omnipresence of the mafia association in public apparatus and local administrations, “the military wrote in a note,” but it allowed documenting the power of the ‘Ndrangheta gangs even in foreign territory, confirming once again their transnational vocation. “

The prosecutor’s consultant, the surveyor, and the officials of the

And among the 11 who got into trouble there are also “unsuspected.” As an external consultant for the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Busto Arsizio, owner of a detective agency, who also worked for “an authorized representative of the Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo premises” helping him to look for possible bugs or gps and giving him advice on the ongoing investigations in the building of justice of Varese.

On the same side, again as reconstructed by the investigations, there was also an official from Anas, who more than once would have turned a blind eye after some checks at the construction site of a company – the carabinieri put pencil on role- “attributable to one of the associates” of the clan who did not have the necessary permits to carry out the works of the SS341 in the municipality of Vanzaghello. The surveyor would have produced the reports first and then, in exchange for the promise of an excavator, would have made everything disappear.

The investigation papers also included two local police officers from Ferno and Lonate Pozzolo – currently under investigation – who, according to the investigators, had “relationships” with the clan to “favor an exponent of the mafia association” by revealing the controls on works of building. For this Thursday morning the carabinieri carried out searches in the municipalities.

The punitive expedition

However, not only union with the institutions. Because when it came to flexing their muscles, the clan didn’t care. In January 2020, in fact, members of the Rispoli family – who have always been the guide of the local Legnano Lonate – would have organized a punitive expedition to Malta to take revenge on a businessman who had not paid for work carried out on the island by friends from the attackers themselves. The man was known, beaten to death and forced to pay in cash and by bank transfer.

On that occasion – and it is perhaps the emblematic interception of all the work of investigators and investigators – one of the suspects indulged in a sentence that sums it all up: “The ‘Ndrangheta – he said – is not dead.”