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Ndrangheta, oil scams, another 45 arrests in Catanzaro

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New Calabrian tranche ofPetrholmfie investigation. A few weeks after the joint DDA operation of Naples, Rome, Catanzaro e Reggio Calabria who uncovered the gigantic oil smuggling deal that the heiress Anna Bettozzi, better known in the entertainment world as Ana Bettz, together with the men of the ‘Ndrangheta and Camorra clans, new arrests are made in Calabria.

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by Andrea Ossino


At the request of the anti-mafia prosecutor of Catanzaro, led by Nicola Gratteri, and by order of the Court, Ros and the Guardia di Finanza notified 45 new precautionary measures at dawn this morning, plus the validation of 11 of the stops already carried out. The final balance is 28 arrests in prison, 21 under house arrest, 4 mandatory residence measures and 3 disqualifications.

Accused in various capacities of mafia-type association, criminal association aimed at committing crimes of extortion, money laundering, reuse of money of illicit origin in economic activities, fictitious registration of assets, evasion of taxes and excise duties also through the issue and use of invoices for non-existent operations (Foi), counterfeiting and use of simplified accompanying documents (Das), for the magistrates all the suspects are directly or indirectly linked to the powerful mafia family of Mancuso and their business.

At the center of the investigation, the interests of the clan in the sector of the sale and distribution of fuel, which reveal – the papers read – “an absolutely alarming cross-section of the interpenetration of the ‘Ndrangheta in the world of entrepreneurship, perpetrated through the use of methodologies – in some ways – less violent than the typical mafia action, but in any case particularly insidious, which see the active involvement of numerous entrepreneurs and professionals, who, through sophisticated fraudulent practices, have been able to ensure the insinuation of Mancuso clan in various sectors of the economy, filling their coffers “.

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Strategies followed almost in streaming by the investigators of Ros and Guardia di Finanza, who recorded step by step the negotiations between entrepreneurs and men of the clans, documenting the ways and methods through which the ‘Ndrangheta today expands in the economic circuit. In the name of business – it emerged from the investigations – the borders between mafias also fall. Entire families of ‘Ndrangheta and Camorra, together with the clan of Afragola dei Moccia, have actively collaborated in the distribution throughout the national territory of smuggled diesel. A phenomenon – the judges write – “absolutely alarming, also by virtue of the ability of individual criminal realities to merge in the implementation of particularly profitable illegal projects and certainly harmful to competition and, more generally, the market”.

That the Mancusos had long since set their sights on the oil business was confirmed recently in the classroom by the repentant Emanuele Mancuso, the first and at the moment the only one of the powerful mafia family of Limbadi. Business, said the collaborator in the Rebirth trial Scott, which would also have been at the center of a meeting between his father, Pantaleone, and the ambassador of Congo. “My family – said the collaborator – had relations with political exponents of the African country and at that time the ambassador and a senior official were hosted twice for lunch in my home. My father, knowing my character, I remember that the morning of the first meeting he said to me: ‘Please, behave yourself today because it is an important day.’ When I asked the reasons for the visit of those people, my mother told me that my father would enter to invest in the oil business. moreover that on one of the two occasions, the ambassador also brought us numerous diplomatic passports “.

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International contacts also emerged during the investigation. In January 2019, in Vibo Valentia, the investigators managed to monitor a meeting with a representative of the hydrocarbon company Kmg, the KazMunaiGaz of Kazakhstan, two brokers now arrested in Milan, Luigi Mancuso of the homonymous family and other characters in the smell of the mafia . The argument is clear: getting oil to Calabria. At the center of the meeting, the possibility of creating a dock for oil tankers that would allow to avoid the overly monitored area of ​​the port of Gioia Tauro.

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