FLASH
Shkruar nga PamfletiAnd to achieve this, they also had the help of Albanian drug trafficking organizations, as they cleaned their dirty money with 'legal' activities, recycling everything.
From a criminal organization in Gargano, they had transformed into a mafia clan or 'military mafia' and business mafia in Pula, evolving to the political-administrative field.
And to achieve this, they also had the help of Albanian drug trafficking organizations, as they cleaned their dirty money with 'legal' activities, recycling everything.
But four days ago, the Bari Antimafia announced the destruction of one of the dangerous mafia clans, called "Li Bergolis" (The Mountaineers), making 39 arrests.
Close business and activity ties also with 'Ndrangheta and 'Camorra'. The investigating authorities described them as "mountaineers who went down to the coast and became international traffickers".
The investigative file, the leaders of the group and the cooperation of the mafia
The investigations are led by the prosecutor of the Bari DDA, Bruna Manganelli and the chief prosecutor Roberto Rossi. The strikes were made in Foggia and Bari, but also in Reggio, where "Ndragheta" operated.
Criminal cooperation has provided them with millions of euros. The investigative authorities said that 10 million euros of various assets have been seized so far.
The case judge for preliminary investigations, Isabella Valenzi, ordered prison terms for 37 suspects and house arrest for two others, including Viestes boss Marco Raduano, who became an associate of justice in recent months after his arrest in Corsica, which gave him end of the clan. Previously, the head of the group Francesco Li Bergolis, known as "Ciccillo", was killed, while the other 3 heads of the family; Franco, Matteo and Armando, the first two respectively sentenced to life imprisonment and the other 27 years.
Since 2009, the war between the Li Bergolis and Romito-Ricucci-Lombardi organizations has left 21 murders and 18 attempted murders, despite many of the leaders being in prison.
During the investigation it turned out that pizza, letters and even mobile phones were used in the prison to maintain a "sustainable communication channel" even "in the context of the prison" aimed at "management of the common fund, financial assistance of incarcerated members", as well as to commit new crimes in gangs and "the development of drug trafficking", writes "Ilfattoquotidiano" .
The words of the national anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo, to one of the defendants, were resounding:
"You don't stop being a mafia member after you get arrested."
Cooperation with Albanians and infiltration into politics
The Li Bergolis family had managed to maintain an "alarmingly pronounced operational vitality" and make "a decisive step in quality in the modernization process." Arriving on the coast, they had taken "control of Viestes", after the armed struggle with the opposing clans, and therefore had occupied "a significant space in the international drug trafficking network", becoming "the interlocutor most reliable" of the Albanian cartels.
Also important 'Ndrangheta gangs in Reggio Calabria, investigators explained.
In-depth intercepts revealed interesting details of criminal activity. Prosecutors believe that Li Bergoli's "penetrating mafia conditioning ability" also had "effects on the local political-administrative apparatus" as demonstrated by the mafia-related dissolution of the municipalities of Monte San Angelo, Mattinata and Manfredonia.
Recruiting minors as a strategy, 48 charges and 3580 pages of files
Not only that, but they had recently launched a new strategy: Recruiting children. 48 charges have been brought against the heads of the organization and members in various capacities, where 25 of the suspects are accused of mafia associations.
The warrant included an impressive amount of investigative material with 3,580 pages of interrogations of 18 law enforcement associates, wiretaps of 75 smartphones, video surveillance of 22 locations and dozens of prison wiretaps.
Investigators also reconstructed how the clan had also developed the ability to recruit minors "by activating a tutorial process" whose reliability was tested by using the recruited youths in theft, robbery and extortion.
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