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Others 11 arrests related to local of ‘Ndrangheta Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo. The orders of preventive detention in prison were carried out during the morning of September 3 in the provinces of Milan, Varese, Pavia and Reggio Calabria, by the military of Milan Provincial Command He was born in Milan Crime Fighting Department, with the support of special units, dogs and helicopters. Subjects are responsible, for various reasons, for corruption, extortion, theft, drug trafficking of drugs, illegal possession and possession of illegal and altered firearms, including a powerful explosive, arson, aggravated threat, personal aid and complicity. Driving all aggravated by the “Mob method” because committed in order to facilitate the activities of the local consortium from ‘ndrangheta di Legnano – Lonate Pozzolo.
The activity, coordinated by Milan DDA, it is the natural continuation of the “KriMIsa” operation, began in April 2017 and culminated in the execution of 34 restrictive precautionary measures carried out on July 4, 2019, within which the beginning of the process of redefining the organizational structures of the ‘ndrangheta families that make up the local from Legnano -Lonate Pozzolo linked to the hegemonic Farao-Marincola clan in Cirò Marina. The researchers had documented the branching infiltration into local institutional systems and the conditioning of the last administrative elections in the municipality of Lonate Pozzolo.
INFILTRATION IN INSTITUTIONS –The investigations carried out on September 3, also supported by the contribution of the statements of two collaborators of justice, have allowed not only to confirm theabsolute omnipresence of the mafia association in public apparatus and local administrations but they allowed document the power of the ‘Ndrangheta gangs also in foreign territory confirming once again its transnational vocation.
In particular it was reconstructed the complicity activity in favor of the mafia association committed by an external consultant from the Public Ministry of Busto Arsizio, already affected by a precautionary measure on July 4, 2019 for other crimes. The suspect, as owner of an investigative agency through which he also acted as technical consultant for the Varese judicial office, carried out several “claims” in favor of an authorized exponent of the local “Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo” with the objective of tracking bugs, gps and cameras installed by the Judicial Police. The man also regularly provided information on ongoing investigations and technical indications and precautions to be taken to evade investigation activities.
A ANAS official accused of corruption in favor of a member of the mafia association. The official, in fact, intervened in the construction work of the company attributable to one of the associates of the local ‘Ndrangheta, while noting the absence of the necessary permits for the occupation of the road of the SS 341 of the Municipality of Vanzaghello, had canceled the appraisal reports, initially high, after the affiliate’s intervention. The surveyor also, not just ANAS he had witnessed a false legitimate justification of the work without permits but had made himself available to guarantee the completion of the works by his presence. Faced with his own corrupt behavior, the official had accepted the clan member’s promise of a bulldozer.
EXTORTIONS IN MALTA – Crystallized Finally a violent extortion activity carried out in Malta in January 2020 by a group of suspected direct expression of Vincenzo Rispoli’s family, historical head of the local “Legnano – Lonate Pozzolo”, including a woman, daughter of Vincenzo Rispoli. In particular, the technical activity reveals that the suspects had done “illegal” work on some sites present in various places in the Republic of Malta on behalf of an Italian businessman. However, the non-payment of the agreed emoluments unleashed a true “punitive expedition” in Maltese territory through which the businessman was identified and savagely beaten, forcing him to pay the amount claimed both in cash and by bank transfer. The extreme violence consumed by the suspects in Maltese territory served not only to punish the delinquent businessman but to confirm, even in foreign territory, that “the ‘Ndrangheta is not dead “, as reiterated by one of the same suspects during an intercepted conversation. The numerous evidences collected during the investigation phase did not leave any doubt about the full traceability of the extortion behavior in the interest of the ‘Ndrangheta of Lonatese and Cirotana allowing to confirm, once again, the full and current operation of the “Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo” premises.
Furthermore, the complexity of the investigations coordinated by the Milan PDD made it possible Document complaints and illegal conduct of two agents of the Local Police of the Union of Municipalities of Ferno and Lonate Pozzolo (under investigation but not recipients of coercive measures), functional to favor an exponent of the mafia association through the illegal disclosure of inspection controls at construction sites. Search activities are ongoing against the suspects also at the municipal office
Therefore, it is documented, once again, the ability of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia association to permeate institutional apparatus, as well as the benevolent condescension of public officials to enslave their institutional duties for the purposes of the criminal organization.
In the same investigative context, in addition, the places and subjects assigned to the custody of local weapons were identified (which allowed the total seizure of 10 kilos of high explosive Tutagex 821; 4 pistols and a sawed-off shotgun all with a worn serial number, silencers and hundreds of ammunition); The perpetrators of an arson committed in 2016 against a business located in Lonate Pozzolo were identified and the drug dealing activities not censored by the previous precautionary measure were reconstructed. During the Transaction, liens of assets and companies for a total value of approximately 500 thousand euros.
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