‘Ndrangheta in Lombardy, 11 arrests decapitate the Legnano club. Anas officer and two municipal agents under investigation

Confirmation of a strong presence of the ‘Ndrangheta in the provinces of Milan, Varese, Pavia. It is here where the military of the Command and the Anti-Crime Department, with the support of special units, lovers of dogs and helicopters, carried out a precautionary custody order in prison, issued by the investigating judge of the Lombard capital, against 11 persons. They are held responsible, in various ways, for corruption, extortion, robbery, drug trafficking, illegal possession and possession of clandestine and altered firearms, including a powerful explosive, arson, aggravated threat, personal assistance and complicity.

Driving all aggravated by the “mafia method“Because they were committed, explain the carabinieri,” to facilitate the activities of the consortium of the Legnano local ndrangheta – Lonate Pozzolo“The investigations, supported by the statements of two collaborators of the justice system, have not only confirmed the absolute omnipresence of the mafia association in the public appliances and in local administrations but they have made it possible to document the power of the gangs of ‘Ndrangheta also in foreign territory confirming once again its transnational vocation.

Among the suspects, in fact, there is also an official from Anas and two local police officers from the municipalities of Ferno and Lonate Pozzolo, in the province of Varese. Documented investigations “illicit relationships and conduct of two local policemen of the Union of Municipalities of Ferno and Lonate Pozzolo (under investigation but not subject to enforcement). “They allegedly favored an exponent of the mob’s association with the disclosure of inspections at construction sites, and search activities against the suspects are still ongoing. the Anas official, on the other hand, having intervened in a construction site in Vanzaghello of the company attributable to one of the associates of the crew, checking the absence of the necessary permits for the occupation of the road, he would first have prepared the valuation reports and then , after affiliate intervention, would have canceled them. The surveyor would then make himself available to ensure the completion of the work. Faced with his own corrupt behavior, the official would also have accepted the clan’s promise to give away an excavator.

In the Milan DDA investigation, the complicity activity in favor of the mafia association committed by a external consultant of the Public Ministry Busto Arsizio, already affected by a precautionary measure on July 4, 2019 for other crimes. The suspect was the owner of an investigative agency with which he was a technical advisor to the Varese judicial office, but so was “remediation“In favor of an authorized representative of the local” Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo “for the follow-up of crazy, gps and cameras installed by the police. He periodically provided information on ongoing investigations and technical indications and precautions to be taken to evade investigation activities. In investigations, a violent extortion in Malta in January 2020 by a group of suspected direct expression of the family of Vincenzo Rispoli, “The historical boss of the Legnano club – Lonate Pozzolo”, explain the carabinieri. A businessman for whom some suspects had worked illegally had been brutally beaten for not having paid the agreement. The extreme violence in Malta served not only to punish the delinquent businessman but to confirm, even in foreign territory, that “the ‘Ndrangheta is not dead,” as one of the same suspects reiterated during an intercepted conversation. The numerous findings collected during the research phase confirmed once again the full and current operation of the “Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo” premises.

The activity, coordinated by the Milan DDA, is the natural continuation of the operation “KriMIsaLaunched in April 2017, it culminated in the execution of 34 restrictive precautionary measures on July 4, 2019, when the process of redefining the organizational structures of the ‘Ndrangheta families that make up the premises began. Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo, connected to the Farao-Marincola clan, hegemon of Cirò Marina (Crotone). On this occasion it was possible to demonstrate the ramification infiltration in the local institutional apparatus and the conditioning of the last administrative elections in the municipality of Lonate Pozzolo. In this context, a councilor from the municipality of Ferno was arrested and direct relationships emerged between the main members of the mafia faction and various local administrative officials. During the operation, preventive seizures of assets and companies were made for a total value of approx. 500 thousand euro.