Angelo Moccia and his wife, an intercepted businessman and his wife: all in audience with the Pope (a public audience with the Pope who obviously did not know who his guests were). It happened a few years ago, as evidenced in a note from the judicial police, according to what emerges from the papers of the raid which culminated in 57 arrests. It happened on March 22, 2017 , according to what emerges from the wiretapping against the entrepreneur Giovanni Esposito.

Mafia association, extortion, use of money, goods or utilities of illicit origin, self-laundering, fictitious registration of goods, corruption, illegal carrying and possession of firearms, receiving stolen goods, aiding and abetting, crimes aggravated by the purpose of facilitating a mafia group. These are the charges disputed in various capacities to the 57 suspects deemed to be affiliated with the Moccia di Afragola clan , a clan that for some time had extended its criminal web going well beyond the borders of the Municipality of the Neapolitan hinterland, with firm branches even to Rome.

A very hard blow, the one inflicted by the district anti-mafia Directorate of Naples, thanks to a joint investigation by the Gico of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples and the Ros of the carabinieri.

Thirty-six precautionary custody orders in prison, 16 under house arrest and five measures of temporary prohibition to carry out business activities: among those arrested there are also Angelo, Luigi and Antonio Moccia and their brother-in-law Filippo Iazzetta , considered to be the leaders of the gang . The leaders of the organization would have managed to manage the criminal group even from prison, giving orders to affiliates in a state of freedom. The group's "white-collar workers" are also targeted: entrepreneurs operating in the sector of waste oils of animal and vegetable origin, in the sector of railway and high-speed contracts.


"The king is dead, long live the king!"