"I'll cut your head off and let your mother find it": boss' Ndranghetista on trial
Indictment of 53-year-old Michele Oppedisano, presumed head of the Pesce clan
Michele Oppedisano on trial. The 53-year-old alleged boss of the Pesce clan, rooted in Brianza, is accused of crimes ranging from mafia association to extortion. His uncle Domenico Oppedisano, "Capo Crimine of the 'Ndrangheta" in Calabria, is also at the bar.
After the blitz baptized 'Infinity', Michele Oppedisano had already been sentenced. The judge for the preliminary hearing in Milan Guido Salvini decided on the new trial, following the investigation of the prosecutors Paola Biondolillo and Sara Ombra on the "strategies of infiltration into the economic-entrepreneurial fabric" in Lombardy by clans and on cases of "protection-extortion" versus "a group of financial promoters".
Based on what emerged during the investigation that led to the arrests in 2021, the 'ndrina headed by Michele Oppedisano would also have set up various companies, including Mcf and Colmet, with the help of a lawyer and an accountant, who they were used to regularize foreign workers on the paper and to issue false invoices. This is one of the intercepted threats from Oppedisano: "I'll cut your head off and let you find it in front of your mother's house attacked in front of the gate".
The trial, which will be held in Monza on December 15, will also have 5 other defendants, including Pasquale Oppedisano, son of Michele, who is also affiliated with the "local 'ndrangheta di Erba", in the province of Como. And again Santo Paviglianiti and Aldo Bosina (for self-laundering), already convicted of illegal waste trafficking as de facto administrator of Ipb Italia, the company that managed the warehouse in via Chiasserini, in Milan, which burned down on 14 October 2018 with a vast fire lasted for days.
The GUP Salvini instead acquitted another accused and sentenced four people with an abbreviated rite, including Domenico Larocca - to 10 years of imprisonment -, Michele Oppedisano's "trusted man", at "complete disposal" in "extortion and money laundering activities ". Two other people have negotiated.
