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'Ndrangheta, Arena's extortions in Bergamo: 38 sentences requested – THE NAMES
These are the defendants who chose the abbreviated trial after the two raids in 2021. 18 years requested for Martino Tarasi
Published: 26/09/2024 – 20:05
The penalties invoked by the deputy prosecutor of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate of Brescia, Claudia Moregola, against the defendants in the trial - in the abbreviated section - born from the investigation renamed "Isola Orobica" are heavy.
This is a trial that brought together the two operations conducted in February and April 2021 with the arrest of dozens of people carried out by the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza. The investigators are sure they have brought to light a system of extortion in the field of road freight transport, as well as a mechanism of false corporate acquisitions, fraudulent bankruptcies, provision of loans at usurious rates and reinvestment of illicit capital, but not only that.
The Arenas
In the sights of the investigators, some members of the Arena clan who, with the complicity of a local entrepreneur, «would have set up a complicated system of fictitious acquisition of a transport company , in order to be able to operate firsthand within the sector and, above all, to be able to launder money from illicit activities. All the crimes were committed with the aim of facilitating the Arena clan of Isola di Capo Rizzuto. The heaviest sentence was invoked for Marino Tarasi – 18 years old – considered by the investigators «a member of the “Arena” clan (Cicala branch) for having married Antonella Arena, son of Giuseppe known as “U piddaro”, who disappeared in 2008 and is believed to be the victim of a lupara bianca».
These, therefore, are the requests for conviction invoked by the prosecutor:
APA Sunday: 1 year and 4 months;
ARENA Antonella: 6 years old
ARENA Salvatore: 6 years and 8 months;
ASTORINO Antonio: 10 and 8 months;
ASTORINO Carmine: 2 years and 8 months;
ASTORINO Salvatore Pietro: 4 years;
BORINI Mirko: 1 year;
BRASACCHIO Carmela: 4 years;
BRASACCHIO Giuseppe: 1 year;
BRASACCHIO Nicola: 5 years and 4 months;
BURATTI Claudia: 1 year and 4 months;
CAMINNECI Michelangelo Lorenzo: 5 years and 4 months;
CAPPA Salvatore: acquittal
CICCONE Antonio: 1 year and 4 months;
DEMASI Orlando: 4 years;
DEMASI Vincenzo: 3 years;
GERALDI Giuseppe: 9 years and 4 months;
GIORDANO Francesco: 2 years;
IANNONE Maria Greca: 2 years and 8 months;
LITTA Luca: 3 years and 6 months;
MATTEO Salvatore: 2 years and 8 months;
NOTARY Mario: 1 year and 2 months;
PAPALEO Giuseppe: 8 years old;
PAPALEO Saint Claudio: 7 years and 4 months;
RIILLO Gregorio: 1 year and 4 months;
SCUMACI Rosario: 5 years and 4 months;
TARASI Alberto: 6 years and 8 months;
TARASI Luigi: 2 years and 8 months;
TARASI Martino: 18 years old;
TONARELLI Giovanni: 8 years old;
TONARELLI Ottavia: 2 years;
VASAPOLLO Antonio: 7 years and 4 months;
VERTERAME Vincenzo: 6 years and 4 months;
VILLIRILLO Antonio: 3 years;
VILLIRILLO Rocco: 5 years and 8 months;
VITTIMBERGA Giuseppe: 1 year and 6 months;
VITTIMBERGA Ilaria: 1 year and 6 months;
VITTIMBERGA Lucia: 1 year and 6 months;
VRENNA Luigi: 3 years and 4 months.
The defense team includes the following lawyers: Sergio Rotundo, Francesco Marzano, Francesca Buonopane, Giuseppe Gervasi, Vincenzo Sorgiovanni, Giuseppe Napoli, Tiziano Saporito.
