The Naples Review Court has decided that Raffaele Imperiale must remain in prison. The request for revocation of the precautionary measure advanced by Imperiale's lawyers was rejected. For the prosecutor of Naples, which filed new documents, Imperiale was not a "simple drug supplier" but " one of the pillars on which the entire Camorra organization of the Di Lauro clan splinters rests ". According to the magistrates without his connections "the Amato clan would have disappeared or perhaps never existed".

The investigations into Imperiale also led to the identification of the drug trafficker's contacts with the criminals believed to be at the head of drug cartels involved in the so-called Mocro War in the Netherlands and Belgium, which resulted in over 40 deaths. These are Taghi Ridouan and Riquelme Vega. The first awaiting trial, the second taken in Chile in 2017 and extradited to the Netherlands where he was recently sentenced.

The DDA also produced the statements of numerous collaborators of justice, first of all Carmine Cerrato, right-hand man of the boss Lello Amato, who told of the encrypted codes with which they spoke to each other, of “disposable” mobile phones.

The Amato Pagano clan without Raffaele Imperiale , the Campania drug trafficker of international standing arrested at the beginning of last August in Dubai where he is still today and for which an extradition request has been forwarded, would have lasted shortly, perhaps not even existed . For the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office, in fact, Imperiale, with his partner Mario Cerrone , who was also the recipient of a simultaneous arrest warrant in prison for criminal association of a Camorra type, is not a "simple drug supplier" but "one of the pillars on which the whole Camorra organization of the 'splinters' of the Di Lauro clan rests ”.