The second section of the Court of Appeal of Naples has fully acquitted the boss Domenico Pagnozzi, from the accusation of mafia-type association that was contested in the operation " the mountain " on alleged ramifications of the Pagnozzi clan in the Sannio.

In the first instance Pagnozzi was sentenced to 19 years in prison. During the second degree trial the sentence was reduced to 16 years and 10 months. The Cassation had accepted the appeals of Pagnozzi's lawyers, the lawyer Dario Vannetiello and the professor Alfonso Furgiuele, postponing the celebration of the second degree of judgment at a different section of the Naples Court of Appea.