Anti-mafia operation in Milan: 11 arrests, "No pacts between gangs"
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Oct 25, 2023 - 11:25 am
This was stated by the investigating judge of Milan Tommaso Perna, who rejected over 140 requests for arrests for as many suspects. The judge, in fact, only ordered prison for 11 people, but not for mafia association and only for other crimes. The DDA, therefore, decided, however, to close the investigations, still contesting the "alliance" between the three mafias and to appeal to the Review for the rejected requests for precautionary custody

There is no "pact" between the three mafias, Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra in Lombardy, where an operation by the Carabinieri of Milan and Varese is underway which is leading to the execution of eleven detention orders in prison and the seizure of assets with a total value of over 225 million euros. This was stated by the investigating judge of Milan Tommaso Perna, who rejected over 140 requests for arrests for as many suspects. The judge, in fact, only ordered prison for 11 people, but not for mafia association and only for other crimes. The DDA, therefore, decided, however, to close the investigations, still contesting the "alliance" between the three mafias and to appeal to the Review for the rejected requests for precautionary custody.

The details of the investigation
The Milan prosecutor Marcello Viola also spoke about the "alliance" between the mafias in Lombardy last August during a hearing at the anti-mafia commission. Recent investigations, he said, "have highlighted stable and long-lasting agreements between the 'Ndrangheta, Sicilian crime and the Camorra", a phenomenon which is "particularly alarming as it gives solidity to a transversal network" which operates above all in the "money laundering sector". ". Mafia dynamics which, Viola explained, "define a network that is based on concrete interests". The new investigation, conducted by the Carabinieri and coordinated by the DDA prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti, focuses precisely on this alleged "pact" between mafias, but the accusations of mafia association were all dismantled in the order of investigating judge Perna. The Milanese DDA is now focusing everything on the Review and will try to bring the over 150 suspects to trial, after having closed the investigations with documents notified today, at the same time as the 11 arrests were made. The investigating judge's order had been filed in recent weeks and the investigators, however, decided to resort to the Review first and to close the investigations at the same time as the execution of the few arrests accepted by the judge. In the last half-yearly report the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate had written, among other things, that in Lombardy the "mafia associations would have 'come to terms' to ensure affiliated companies a sort of rotation in the assignment of public contracts, piloting the offers from present and also containing offers that reduce the associated costs".