Maxi blitz against the supporters of Messina Money: 12 arrests. There is also the "king of wind"
Seized agricultural activities, the gains were used to cover the lateness of the superboss. In the ordinance check the Senator of Forza Italy Antonio D'Ali, photographed with the mafia

Published 13/03/2018
Last modified on 03/13/2018 at 09:18

There are "heavy" names in the anti-mafia operation that last night has beheaded Cosa Nostra trapanese ready to rise again after the release of recent months. There is the name of the "king of the wind", the Alcamese entrepreneur Vito Nicastri, who after the maxi confiscations suffered had managed to keep hidden a further safe from where he pulled out the money to keep the head of the dome in hiding. Provincial, the boss Matteo Messina Denaro. Money delivered in 2014 by Salemi's mafia boss Michele Gucciardi to Francesco Guttadauro, nephew of the mafia boss of Castelvetrano, that money was expressly said came from Vito Nicastri who was arrested along with his brother Roberto.

The heirs of the mafia boss Leonardo Crimi, his son Salvatore, his wife Concetta Asaro and the homonymous nephew of the deceased boss have ended up in the cell. But among the names cited in the ordinance of the investigating judge Nicastro of the Court of Palermo emerge those of the D'Alì family, the brothers Giacomo and Senator Antonio, former undersecretary inside, followed and photographed to meet the mafia of Vita and Salemi to deal with the sale of land.

The survey was launched in 2014 and took a snapshot of the topical organization of the Trapani area, and in particular that of the agricultural centers of Vita and Salemi, capable of reaching even the most important salons of the province, and as a result the control of agricultural and commercial supply chains. In the background, the aid to continue to guarantee Matteo Messina Denaro, a fugitive since 1993, to whom large amounts of money have been made through controlled activities.

The arrested, also using professionals in the field of agricultural and real estate consulting, among which there would have been a well-known mazarese dealer Salvatore C--------, once the right-hand man of the former governor Totò Cuffaro, have succeeded, through factual societies connected to the mafia organization but fictitiously registered to third parties, to make significant investments in innovative crops for the production of timber as well as in catering. The investigations, also supported by the collaboration of the deceased entrepreneur from Castelvetrano, Lorenzo Cimarosa, cousin of the mafia boss Messina Denaro, and the new repentant Attilio Fogazza and Nicolò Nicolosi, have allowed us to discover how Cosa Nostra trapanese, through the brothers Nicastri, has managed to get their hands on the land possessions belonged to the family of the debt collectors Salvo di Salemi. As if to say that those lands did not have to escape the control of the mafia. All business ordered through the "pizzini" by the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. Boss who has not forgotten the accomplices of all time, a part of the money earned has also gone to Epifanio Agate, son of the late Mafia boss of Mazara, Mariano Agate.

An investigation that goes as far as Trapani, where the new mafia boss, as indicated by the repentant Cimarosa, would be Franco Orlando, former municipal councilor of the PSI, a man of honor reserved for the will of Messina Denaro. And in Trapani the clan appears to have entered into negotiations for the lease of a large land owned by the D'Alìì family, and in September 2014 just Senator D'Alì was seen to meet with the mafia now arrested, among which the Girolamo Scandariato calatafimese, to negotiate the rent of its land destined to house a "paulownia" plant, trees for the production of precious wood. D'Alì, who has not re-nominated for the national elections, after an uninterrupted parliamentary period from 1994,

The operation called "Pionica", from the name of a rich agricultural district of Salemi, was performed in the night by the Carabinieri of the provincial command of Trapani, by the Ros and by the agents of the Dia, saw over 100 men employed, 12 orders of Preliminary custody in prison issued by the investigating magistrate at the request of the prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi and of the adjunct Paolo Guido of the DDA of Palermo. In general for all allegations of mafia association, extortion and aiding as well as a fictitious heading of assets. Three company complexes were seized, including the entire building complex as well as the relative means of work, fictitiously registered to third parties but considered an instrument for the pursuit of the economic aims of the criminal organization.