'Ndrangheta: the safe of the Piscopisan clan hidden in Rosario Fiorillo's bedroom

giuseppe baglivo
April 16, 2019 07:35
The illicit proceeds, according to the "Rimpiazzo" survey and the declarations of the repentant Moscato, also came from commercial activities managed directly by the cosca



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At the disposal of the Piscopisan clan there would have been a "basin" or a veritable safe where to merge the illicit proceeds. This is what emerges from the anti-mafia operation "Rimpiazzo", which hit the active clan in the Piscopio fraction of Vibo Valentia and in Vibo Marina, which reveals details that are completely new about the operating methods of the gang. In the long talk with the investigators the collaborator of justice, Raffaele Moscato , who in the clan had reached the dowry of the "gospel" and, therefore, aware of the most important secrets of the mafia coterie of belonging. The safe had beenplaced by Piscopisani directly in the bedroom of Rosario Fiorillo , 30, called "Pulcino" one of the leaders of the clan together with his cousin Rosario Battaglia, 35, both from Piscopio and both convicted at the first instance to life imprisonment for the murder of Stefanaconi's boss, Fortunato Patania, killed in his fuel station in September 2011. Custodian of the "basin" of the clan, Rosario Fiorillo - according to Moscato's story - he would have written down all the accounting on the notepads kept in a wall safe , installed in the bedroom of his apartment, located in via Fiume in Piscopio.

All this was also due to the fact that the real "accountant" of the clan, or his cousin Michele Fiorillo , aka "Zarrillo", was at the time detained for mafia association in the "Crime" investigation of the Reggio Calabria Dda . "Rosario Fiorillo - explains the collaborator Moscato - kept all the accounts of the amazing substance in his home in his bedroom on Via Fiume. A small room where however there is a picture and behind the picture there is a safe. There were kept notebooks with the money we had to receive, all the money we had put in, all the money we had spent, all the money that had come in and gone out. It was all that marked because Rosario Fiorillo also had to give Michele Fiorillo justification when he left the prison ".

According to Moscato, the main profits of the criminal activity carried out by the Piscopisans came from extortion, from robberies and from the management of drug trafficking , but also from the "management of some commercial activities that the associates managed in first person". The reference, according to the investigators, is: to the American Bar, located in piazza Municipio in Vibo Valentia, managed, personally, by Giovanni Battaglia , brother of Rosario, and also arrested in the "Rimpiazzo" operation.

As for this commercial activity (the fictitious heading of which is disputed with the investigation), the collaborator of justice Raffaele Moscato reported that the profits that derived from it ended up "the expenses of the prisoners"; then the reference to the restaurant-pub called Pequod, located in Vibo Valentia on Corso Vittorio Emanuele Ill, number 261, also managed, in first person, by Giovanni Battaglia; then the reference "to the tire shop located in Vena di Jonadi, attributable to Nazzareno Fiorillo and his son Michele Fiorillo"; the reference to the bar "Dolce vita" located in Vibo Valentia in Viale Affacciorun by a company by Pino Galati of Piscopio , arrested as "head of the" local " of 'Ndrangheta di Piscopio and already convicted of mafia association in the" Crime "trial; finally the reference to the bar located in Piscopio in Piazza San Michele and managed by Giovanni Battaglia.

As for the safe of the clan, effectively the judicial police on 5 April 2017, following a house search, found that in the place indicated by Moscato, hidden by a painting, there was a safe. The collaborator also told of a sort of "mutual aid" that intervened when the organization was short of cash and it was necessary to conclude business regarding the purchase of drugs. In this case it was financed, among others, by Salvatore Tripodi of Portosalvo (not investigated) and by Nazzareno Fiorillo(arrested as head of the "local" of Piscopio) with the proceeds of extortion money. READ ALSO: The drug trafficking of the Piscopisan clan among cocaine, hashish and marijuana


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