"The Palagiustizia bar and the Turin prison canteen were the business of the 'Ndrangheta", the number of suspects rises to 17
Among the prominent figures there is also the former president of the Liberamensa cooperative, the investigations closed

In all there are 17 suspects in the maxi-investigation of the anti-mafia district directorate of Turin which discovered the interests of the 'ndrangheta in the management of the bar of the Palace of Justice, assigned by the Municipality of Turin to the LiberaMensa cooperative, which gave work to prisoners and ex-prisoners , until the July 2023 roundup . The same cooperative also managed the Vallette prison bar until its capitulation in the post-covid period.

At the beginning of December 2023, the public prosecutors Paolo Toso and Francesco Pelosi served the notice of conclusion of the investigations, among others, to Rocco Pronestì, Crescenzo D'Alterio (considered Pronestì's man), Rocco Cambrea and Silvana Perrone. The first is a historian belonging to organized crime in Piedmont and for years linked to the major exponents of the local 'Ndrangheta. Having always escaped conviction for mafia association, he has a history of crimes relating to weapons and drug trafficking. In competition with Cambrea (considered "close to the 'Ndrangheta") he is accused of usury and extortion, but also of having organized a clandestine gambling den in the bar in Via Postumia where he dealt with gambling in the mid-90s, before to be convicted in the proceedings called Carthage.