They have created a fiefdom of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy, trial at the start - .
LOCAL about 19 hours agoREPORT

February 21, 2023

The abbreviated trial for Cosimo Maiolo, alleged boss of the restaurant in Pioltello, in the Milanese area, and, among others, for his three sons, Salvatore, Antonio and Omar, for his ten-year-old younger brother, Damiano and for his nephew Giovanni will open in April in Milan.. The various charges are mafia-type criminal association, electoral coercion, drug trafficking, attempted extortion, attempted murder and other crimes all aggravated by the mafia method. The defendants, a dozen in all, were arrested last December as part of an investigation coordinated by the prosecutor of the DDA Paolo Storari and conducted by the State Police.

Undisputed fiefdom of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy
According to the reconstruction of the investigators in the municipality in the province of Milan, the Maiolo-Manno families, related to each other, would have constituted an undisputed fiefdom, headed by Cosimo Maiolo, 58, who has already ended up in prison in the historic blitz "Crimine-Infinito" of 2010, sentenced to over 11 years, with sentence served and special surveillance in progress. The investigation, in addition to having dealt a serious blow to a clan of the 'Ndrangheta that allegedly provided support to a candidate for mayor,unelected, from the centre-right in Pioltello, highlighted how the criminal organization has operated both in the "classic" forms, such as drug trafficking, weapons, requests for protection money, intimidation and usury, and with the more sophisticated ones such as entrepreneurial infiltration , with the creation of "manpower tanks" and "business" on the transport of corpses in the midst of the pandemic, and the pollution of electoral competitions. Prosecutor Storari had requested and obtained immediate proceedings, after which the 10 defendants chose the abbreviated procedure. ( handle )