‘Ndrangheta in Rome, Riesame confirms 416bis and measures also for boss Alvaro and others

Also confirmed for the boss Vincenzo Alvaro the precautionary custody order ordered as part of the maxi ‘Offshoot’ investigation of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Rome and of the Dia against the first official ‘local’ of ‘Ndrangheta in the Capital. The judges of the Review Court, who last week already expressed their opinion on the measures ordered by the investigating judge of Rome Gaspare Sturzo against the other boss Antonio Carzo and others arrested, have substantially confirmed the accusatory system including the accusation of 416 bis, the mafia association. The investigations that led to the arrest of over forty people were coordinated by the deputy prosecutors Michele Prestipino and Ilaria Calò and the prosecutors Giovanni Musarò, Francesco Minisci and Stefano Luciani who contest, for various reasons, the accusations of mafia association, transfer and detention for the purpose of drug dealing, aggravated extortion and illegal possession of firearms, fictitious registration of assets, fraud against the State aggravated by the purpose of facilitating the ‘Ndrangheta, aggravated money laundering, aggravated aiding and abetting and external competition in mafia association. head of the ‘ndrina of Rome, according to the accusatory system of the prosecutor of Rome, there were Vincenzo Alvaro and Antonio Carzo: in the summer of 2015 Carzo had received from the parent company of the’ Ndrangheta the authorization to establish a local in the capital , run by Carzo himself and by Alvaro. “We in Rome are an offshoot from below,” they said in an interception. And in the conversations reported in the order of the investigating judge, some of the suspects referred to the work of some magistrates and policemen who had worked first in Calabria and then in Rome: “there is a prosecutor … here in Rome … it was all … the team that was under Calabria. Pignatone, Cortese, Prestipino “…” and these were the ones who fought in our villages … Cosoleto … Sinopoli … our whole family … cursed “.