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After the attack, a report was submitted to the Antimafia Commission. Was it useful or a diversion? "A message to journalists investigating crime boss Shehu. The Antimafia Commission fined the report: 150,000 euros for Sangiuliano's audio recordings....
The government's solidarity with Sigfrido Ranucci lasted only a weekend. While investigators search for the instigators and perpetrators of the attack on the journalist and Report presenter, the pressure is returning: the Italian Data Protection Authority has fined RAI 150,000 euros for publishing audio recordings of former minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and his wife Federica Corsini.
The news was announced in the evening, a few hours after Ranucci, at a press conference in Brussels on press freedom, warned against the political use of authority.
"There are those who are arming the Guarantor against the Report and to send a signal to everyone else."
The move is sure to make a lot of noise. It comes exactly a week after the bomb planted outside Ranucci's house. And it could have been a massacre: the device, albeit rudimentary (although some are already suggesting a considerable level of preparation), was placed next to the journalist's and his daughter's cars, both of which ran on gasoline.
Did the person who planted the device know that the vehicles could explode and cause a massacre? And did they deliberately build a weak weapon to fool the minds of the real organizers?
For now, the Rome prosecutor's investigation is still ongoing and answers will not come soon. But Domani has gained access to an anonymous letter in the investigation files, which points to the Albanian mafia as the perpetrators of the explosion.
The letter, sent twenty hours after the attack to the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, is now part of the case file.
In recent days, the daily newspaper La Repubblica had already reported on "information arriving from Albania" to the anti-mafia unit.
Now the newspaper is able to reveal the content and origin of the letter containing that information, with elements that form a clear investigative track, at least for its author. Because, on the contrary, the prosecution and the investigators are not favoring a single track: nothing is left to chance. Also because, being anonymous, the report could turn out to be a hoax, the reconstruction of a mythomaniac, or even a deviation. The latter has always found excellent interpreters in Italy. And yet, even if it were a hoax to direct the investigation against easy targets, it would be of equal interest: who, and why, has an interest in shifting attention to the Albanian clans?
The letter, sent from an encrypted email address, begins: "The instigator of the attack on journalist Sigfrido Ranucci is the extremely powerful Albanian drug trafficker and very dangerous murderer..."
The first two lines of the anonymous letter sent to the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate do not leave much room for the imagination. The following lines are no less convincing: "the perpetrator of the attack is..."
In short, names, surnames, nicknames and roles in the scheme of the Albanian organized crime organization. We are refraining from full quotes because they are notes written in an unsigned report that is now in the hands of those investigating the bomb that exploded on Thursday, October 16, shortly before 10:30 p.m., outside Ranucci's house. The bosses listed have also established roots in Italy, especially in Tuscany, in the Prato area.
The document is unsigned, but on the second page the author describes himself as a former prosecutor from a prominent Albanian city who had previously been threatened by the same clan with similarly manufactured bombs.
Domani tried to independently verify, including with authoritative investigative sources in Tirana, whether a magistrate with this background existed: there is a magistrate who left the judiciary due to criminal proceedings, but we do not know if he has been the target of threats, as stated in the anonymous letter that investigators are investigating.
However, our findings are positive regarding the two drug lords identified as perpetrators. The same Albanian investigative sources say that both exist, one in particular appears in an old investigation from 12 years ago, suspected of a murder.
There is no trace of them in open sources, nor have they ever been mentioned in any Italian newspaper article. In this sense, the mysterious author of the letter regarding the attack on Ranucci demonstrates detailed knowledge of the Albanian mafia environment, specifically the organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel, Vlora branch.
A brand covered by Report in one of its episodes on Italian centers for the deportation of immigrants in Rama's kingdom.
And it is to the crime cartel that the document refers to Artur Shehu: the two killers are thought to be part of his circle, according to the person who wrote the report sent to Italian detectives. Today, he is a successful entrepreneur, suspected only of being the head of a powerful and feared clan worldwide. He lives in the luxury of his villa in Miami. Shehu has been much talked about in Albania in recent weeks. Because he is the gentleman who is said to have met with half of the Rama government on a Caribbean island to discuss business. This was revealed by Nello Trocchia in his recently published book, Invincibili, an investigation into the Albanian mafia from Italy to the world.
“The attack on Ranucci is also a message to all Italian investigative journalists who investigated Shehu,” the letter in the hands of the detectives says. The author links the bombshell to another event: “a week ago, journalist Nello Trocchia published a book describing a meeting that the Albanian government held with the leader of the Shehu gang on the island of Aruba. The meeting, held in January 2019, was also attended by people from Prime Minister Edi Rama, and the cartels made their demands for billions of dollars in investments in Albania to launder drug money. The book caused quite a stir in Albania and damaged Edi Rama’s image. A week after the book was published, the attack on Ranucci took place.”
Taken together, the news is shocking. Especially given the alleged high-level political protection enjoyed by this drug cartel. Nothing is certain. It's just, as one detective put it, "this is not a simple investigation."
Some go further and argue that there is currently no clear direction to follow. In other words, everything deserves attention, but it is not certain that the situation will be resolved soon. / Adapted from Il Domani /
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