Palermo, Corona, the treasurer of the new mafia, arrested. On Facebook it showed Di Maio in his bar 10.02.2022, 22:19,
Officially, he was only the cashier of the Aurora Cafeteria, a renowned bar facing the port of Palermo. In reality, Giuseppe Corona kept other accounts, those of Cosa Nostra. Because he was one of the strong men of the mafia reorganization after the death of Totò Riina: he established strategies and sent messages, even on social networks. As a true godfather 2.0, which aims at communication to reaffirm its renewed ability to relate. Thus, on the Facebook page of the Caffetteria Aurora, Corona was displaying the photo of the grillino Luigi Di Maio who arrived in his bar during the electoral campaign for the last Regionals, it was October 2017. In the shot, we recognize the current vice premier and the Sicilian leader of the Five Star Movement, Giancarlo Cancelleri, posing next to Corona's brother-in-law, Fabio Bonaccorso, is the owner of the restaurant who was kidnapped this morning during a blitz against 28 people (4 under house arrest) .
The investigations of the special unit of currency police, coordinated by the prosecutor headed by Francesco Lo Voi, have revealed a dense network of business around Corona, the mafioso who was looking to the new to try to leave behind his 16 years spent in prison after a conviction for murder. The treasurer of Cosa Nostra invested on behalf of various Mafia families in bars, tobacconists, shops and then in many buildings. A river of money flowed through Palermo, through new unsuspected figureheads and professionals who worked in the shadows. One of these, the lawyer Nico Riccobene, ended up under house arrest. The entrepreneur Giuseppe Tarantino, manager of the Alba bar in Mondello, is among the 19 who received a ban on residence in Palermo, signed by the investigating judge Antonella Consiglio. Secret affairs, which was investigated by the anti-mafia pool composed of the deputy prosecutor Salvatore De Luca and his deputies Roberto Tartaglia, Amelia Luise, Annamaria Picozzi and Siro De Flammineis. A lot of confidentiality, but Corona, the mafia-manager, did not give up on the image. And so on Facebook also ended up the photos of the beautiful catering made by the Aurora Cafe in Villa Niscemi, the representative office of the Municipality of Palermo. As if to say, we arrive everywhere with our new face.
It was November last year, seven months before a Repubblica investigation had revealed who Giuseppe Corona really was, the king of betting at the racecourse, as emerged from some investigations by the district anti-mafia management. A story that had had great uproar in the city, for the provision adopted by the prefect of Palermo Antonella De Miro, an interdict that blocked the management company of the racecourse, now closed due to the risk of mafia infiltration. But the Aurora Cafeteria managed by the “cashier” Corona continued to do great business. And if anyone had any doubts, it was enough to look at the windows of the Aurora Cafeteria, where a beautiful crown stands out. This mafia trying to take back the city is really insidious, other than a liquidity and relationship crisis. After the articles in the Republic, Corona's brother-in-law, who remains free, had sent a letter to our newspaper to reiterate that he was the real owner of the place, and had explained: "Giuseppe Corona is an employee of mine". The mafia 2.0 also makes press releases.
