The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
The meeting between the emissaries of the Mancuso and Mazzei clans at Villa San Giovanni. The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato to use the Locri deposit. Thus the "mafia united" makes business pacts. M ...
Published on: 04/09/2021 - 20:43
by Pablo Petrasso
The embrace between 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra in the name of business
CATANZARO The embrace between Giuseppe D'Amico and Sergio Leonardi, at Villa San Giovanni, is for the anti-mafia magistrates of Catanzaro the seal on the agreement between the clans of Vibo Valentia and those of Catania. 'Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra united in the oil business thanks to the handshake between two "clean" emissaries. The Ros soldiers follow that meeting and record the words of the entrepreneurs. They consider them proof of their insertion in the criminal circuits, at the service of the gangs.

The emissary of the Cosa Nostra from Catania
The D'Amico brothers ( we told you about it here) are considered to belong to the Mancuso clan of Limbadi; Leonardi, on the other hand, "is a subject linked to the Cosa Nostra in Catania, primarily by virtue of the relationships of affinity acquired through his wife", the investigators point out in the decree that led to the arrest of 16 people. The woman is "exempt from criminal and police proceedings" but "belongs to the Sciuto family, historically leader" of the Sciuto-Tigna clan, active in Catania "with an autonomous caliber of mafia organization since the mid-1980s". Leonardi's father-in-law is the "head and founder" of the mafia family. And the Sicilian clan can also exhibit a kinship with a subject "belonging to the Mazzei clan of Cosa Nostra". Leonardi himself, in January 2020, was arrested in the "Vento di Scirocco" investigation,

A story of blood
On the afternoon of 9 July 2019, D'Amico and Leonardi meet at Villa San Giovanni. For about an hour, according to what the investigators note, they discuss the "illicit traffic in fuel in which they were involved." Towards the end of the meeting, the conversation turns to family matters. Leonardi recalls "the episode of the murder of his father-in-law Giuseppe Sciuto, murdered on the morning of 29 December 1992 with nine gunshots to the back and head". Executing him, in front of his wife and children, had been assassins whom he himself had brought into the house. D'Amico shows solidarity, and observes «that such episodes happen" when certain rules are lost "». To this degenerate model of mafia dynamics, D'Amico contrasts "his diplomatic vision of the" just man "who defuses any conflicts without resorting to violent methods, modus operandi characterizing Luigi Mancuso", considered a "man of peace", capable of smoothing out differences. According to Leonardi, the murder of Sciuto is linked "to conflicts that have arisen in the context of internal wars within the clan he belongs to." Someone wanted to "subvert the criminal hierarchy." A behavior that Leonardi summarizes in a few words: "The world is like this (...) nobody wants to stay second (...) the colonel wants to be a general (...) the general wants to be a king". In fact, the murder of Sciuto, aka Pippo Tigna, arises from the clash with the powerful Laudani clan. Two months before the ambush consumed in front of the boss's family, in fact, Gaetano Laudani, son of the chieftain Sebastiano, had been murdered. And the adversaries had decided to consume revenge. In Tigna, released from prison in November 1992, they had asked for the head of the killer Giuseppe Ferone but, one month after that request, still unexecuted, the death plan had been implemented by overwhelming the head of the clan who had not respected the pacts .

In the mafia "everyone has their own step"
This story provokes a response from D'Amico that the magistrates of the DDA of Catanzaro consider "of crucial investigative scope": "But - says the entrepreneur close to the Mancuso clan - we made a choice that ... of a scale ... so we must know that everyone has their own step… understood ». For prosecutors D'Amico, "with these words", he "unequivocally" sculpted his own and interlocutor's belonging to "hierarchically organized criminal structures, within which" everyone has their own step ", and to which the two they had chosen to belong ”. It is (also) in the light of this sentence that the magistrates consider that meeting as the embrace between two mafias. And it is no coincidence that the bearers of this embrace are the D'Amico, "Protagonists - reads the arrest decree - in the birth of a very flourishing (and illegal) commercial link between some Campania wholesalers and some Catania traders". Precisely the people of Catania "will be allowed to procure petroleum products in the Italpetroli tax warehouse in Locri".

The summit with the Sanlucoti in Maierato

The cars arrive at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato
The investigation documents a summit with Catania and Sanlucoti at the Dr Service headquarters in Maierato, another company involved in the “Petrolmafie Spa” operation. The meeting at the company headquarters would be "aimed at reaching a criminal agreement for the management of a fuel depot in Locri". In addition to D'Amico, Roberto Aguì is present, considered «a subject with documented connections with various members of the Pelle di San Luca clan». Aguì, involved in the Mandamento Jonico investigation, was sentenced on 22 June 2020 to 13 years and 6 months of imprisonment ». From Catania, in addition to Sergio Leonardi, two "offenders from Catania belonging to the Pillera mafia clan of Catania" and a man "burdened with various precedents for crimes committed in the energy products sector" also arrive. That the topic of the meeting is oil trafficking is a fact that emerges from D'Amico's words. It is he who points out that "Leonardi was part of a criminal association that marketed hundreds of tankers of petroleum products a day, inside which, at a given moment, some cracks had been created".

"Here they have to do as we say"
The people of Reggio recall an old commercial relationship that had been established in the past between the Sicilians and a tax warehouse in Locri belonging to the Camastra family, a group of entrepreneurs considered close to the Ionica clans. That same area, over the years, has passed to the Italpetroli company, and would be characterized by "criminal management". A fact known to all the participants in what the Catanzaro DDA considers a real summit. On the Calabrian side there is a "criminal syntony", a "commonality of purpose" that leads the interlocutors (the D'Amico and the Sanlucoti) to set up "the conversation on a contrasting scheme between two interest groups, distinguishing a" we "(In which they brought together the Calabrian subjects present) and a" they "(the Sicilian interlocutors) separated, according to them, by unbridgeable distances».
In the past, relations between the two shores of the Strait had been interrupted by the manner of the Sicilians, "considered excessive, and because of their unreliability". "The war" was born precisely for certain behaviors. "I told him at the time - explains one of the intercepted men - that they shouldn't have come with flashy cars ... and they came with two Porsche Cayenne". The Locrians are not convinced to return to business with the people of Catania. But D'Amico supports them («here as we say we must do») and at the same time guarantees that things will change. Because "the Calabrians - the prosecutors write - had to act as a single front". "It's all the same thing - D'Amico ruling - they must understand that we are one way". Because the hugs between the mafias always rest on a (very) subtle balance.

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