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The 'Ndrangheta's "invasive and pervasive" method: how it "polluted" and "colonized" the economic fabric of Rome
The fictitious titles and the capital invested "to alter the legal economy" and "adapt" to the social and economic reality of the capital
Published: 11/13/2024 – 6:50
ROME A real "colonization of the economic fabric", through a penetrating action intended to "occupy market and production areas, polluting the relative social fabric". A way of infiltrating the economic fabric, devising "a new settlement model, but equally invasive and pervasive". In this way the 'ndrangheta was able to "adapt to the peculiarities of the social and economic reality of the capital" . This is what the Roman prosecutors underline in the brief filed in the appeal trial "Propaggine" , which arose from the operation that shed light on the interests of the 'ndrangheta in the capital and which sees exponents of the Alvaro gang in the dock. The investigation, which began in 2022, allowed us to reconstruct the criminal dynamics surrounding the gang active in Sinopoli, Cosoleto and San Procopio and the first "locale" active in Rome, Anzio and Nettuno, which operated in the capital after having obtained official investiture from the parent company in Calabria.
Monopolistic management
The Court of Cassation – as stated in the brief – affirmed the principle of law according to which the crime under art. 416 bis can be configured with reference to a new territorial articulation of the 'ndrangheta if, among other things, the premises «carry out a penetrating action intended to “occupy” market and production areas, polluting the related social fabric ». In reference to the ruling of November 2022, with which the order of the Review Court relating to the position of Vincenzo Alvaro was confirmed, the Court noted that the peculiarity of the 'ndrangheta premises in Rome lies in the fact that «the objective was not and is not that of the physical or moral oppression of those who came into contact with the various characters of the premises, but on the contrary, that of allowing the appropriation of economic sectors that effectively excluded a physiological free market to the full advantage of a “monopolistic” type of management, albeit sectoral . The settlement model of the historical association of reference – the judges noted – adapts, therefore, to the new social and economic reality of reference, thus being enriched with a further content, equally invasive and pervasive».
Fictitious headings and capital invested to alter the legal economy
The Roman prosecutors, repeating the words of the Court of Cassation that ruled in the context of the preliminary hearing, and the considerations of the preliminary hearing judge, highlighted how the Calabrian clans in the Capital were able to expand their influence "when the corporate purpose (or statutory purpose) - to use the preliminary hearing judge's words - of the organization was the infiltration of the economic fabric of the capital through fictitiously registered companies or firms in which illicit capital was invested".
And the appropriation of economic sectors referred to is achieved through continuous fictitious ownership of commercial activities operating in various economic sectors, to the point of achieving a "colonization of the economic fabric": " The 'ndrangheta has moved in recent years by progressively grabbing entire entrepreneurial portions in supplies, in the restaurant sector, in the gambling sector: it has injected enormous capital that has profoundly altered the legal economy but which at the same time guarantees these mafia structures dominant positions through which to entrust support to their associates and the flow of money ready to be invested".
