The Cosa Nostra fish: convictions and confiscated businesses

PALERMO – Fish supplies were a lucrative business for the Porta Nuova bosses. Paolo Calcagno, considered the regent of the district of Porta Nuova, and his right-hand man, Giuseppe Ruggeri, controlled the entire supply chain through the companies "World fish" and "Fresco gel".

The Court presided over by Daniela Vascellaro sentenced them to one year each in prison in continuation with the sentence for mafia inflicted in the main section of the process of which the one defined today was an excerpt.

“In Palermo everything revolves around me, maybe you didn't understand it”, said Ruggeri. In the Capo and Ballarò markets, the mafia control was suffocating. He even went so far as to choose what to sell and at what price. The bosses also decided how the stalls should be set up.