Drugs and cell phones in Rebibbia prison inmates: 7 arrests, there is also a prison officer

Drugs, cell phones and sim cards to inmates in the Rebibbia prison in Rome. The carabinieri of the Roma Eur company and the Central Investigative Unit of the Penitentiary Police carried out a precautionary custody order issued by the Gip of the Court of Rome against seven people (five in prison and two under house arrest), because they were seriously suspected, at various title of the crimes of drug dealing in competition, introduction of devices suitable for communication and corruption for acts contrary to one’s duties, conduct that also occurred in the current year. The investigative activity, coordinated by the public prosecutor of Rome, called Open Prisons, made it possible to ascertain the existence of drug trafficking, cell phones and sim cards introduced illegally and repeatedly within the prison of Rome Rebibbia. The request for drugs and telephone cards came from some inmates who dealt with the subsequent resale within the G8 department of the Roman prison. other, the involvement of the relatives of some close members who, among other things, used ‘interview packages’ to convey the introduction of drug doses and sim cards. The investigations made it possible to ascertain the involvement of a prison officer, already suspended as a precautionary measure in the administrative stage, seriously suspected for the crimes of participation in the crime of detention for the purpose of drugs and corruption to carry out acts that are contrary to the duties of office, having acted as an intermediary between the inmates and the outside world, to facilitate the illegal introduction into the prison of what was requested and that was subjected to house arrest.