Mafia: ties between clan and Freemasonry, eight convictions in Licata
01 June 2021

The Palermo GUP Claudia Rosini sentenced, in abbreviated form, eight of the eleven defendants in the trial to sentences of between 2 years and 4 months and 20 years, which shed light on a business intertwining between the mafia, politics and deviant Freemasonry that involved the mafia clan of Licata . The accusation in the courtroom was represented by the prosecutor Claudio Camilleri. The investigation, called "Sedio-Halycon", was coordinated by the adjunct Paolo Guido and led to the elimination of the Licata "family" between July and August 2019.

The boss of the town of Agrigento, Angelo Occhipinti , accused of mafia, extortion and exchange vote, was sentenced to 20 years , to 10 and 8 months the Grand Master Lucio Lutri, an official of the Region, accused of concurrence in a mafia association, to 12 Giovanni Mugnos, agricultural worker, very loyal to Angelo Lauria, a reserved man of honor of the mafia family who had 10 years and 8 months. Same punishment for Giuseppe Puleri, boss of Campobello and cousin of the Agrogentino boss Falsone. Marco Massaro, accused of aiding and abetting, was instead sentenced to two years and 4 months.

Acquitted Vito Lauria, Giuseppe Galanti and Angelo Graci. According to the accusation "thanks to the relational network at his disposal as venerable Master of the Masonic Thought and Action lodge in Palermo, Lutri would have" acquired and conveyed to members of the mafia family confidential information about the existence of investigative activities against them "and "would have intervened for favors of another nature".