Mafia: infiltrations in two Messina municipalities, mayor and deputy arrested

The Financiers of the Provincial Command of Messina have carried out a precautionary custody order against 7 subjects, under investigation for mafia association and various episodes of crimes against the Public Administration. The investigations focused on the conditioning of the municipal administrations of the Municipalities of Moio Alcantara and Malvagna, centers of the Ionian belt of the Peloritana province, by the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

The investigations have made it possible to shed light on the criminal operations of a decision-making and operational mafia cell completely independent from the branches of the Cosa Nostra in Catania which, in the past, also managed mafia affairs in the territory of the Alcantara valley.

Among the recipients of the precautionary measure, issued by the investigating judge of Messina at the request of the Dda of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the City of the Strait, there are the mayor and the deputy mayor of Moio, together with the head of the Territorial Services and Environment Area of ??the Municipality and the councilor for Public Works of the Municipality of Malvagna.