Mafia in Catania, extortion of companies and artists: raid with 22 arrests March 16, 2021 mafia, Catania, Chronicle Military personnel of the Catania financial police are carrying out a precautionary custody order against 22 people as part of an anti-mafia investigation by the Dda of the Etna prosecutor against the Cappello-Carateddi clan in which entrepreneurs and artists are victims .
The crimes hypothesized, for various reasons, are mafia association, corruption, forgery in public deed, fraudulent transfer of values, fraudulent bankruptcy, money laundering, self-laundering, electoral corruption, extortion and obstruction of justice. For the latter two charges, the aggravating circumstance of having favored the mafia is also disputed.
A total of 34 people are investigated. As part of the operation called Sipario, which involves 70 soldiers of the yellow flames, based on investigations by the economic and financial police (Pef) nucleus of the financial police of Catania, shareholdings and assets of three companies in the Etna capital were seized operating in the bar and restaurant sector, for a total estimated value of approximately 5 million euros.
