'Ndrangheta: Supreme Court annuls conviction of alleged boss Alvaro
AMDuemila 06 December 2024
The fifth section of the Court of Cassation has overturned without referral a 15-year prison sentence issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria against the alleged boss of the 'Ndrangheta of Sinopoli, Cosimo Alvaro , 60 years old, known as 'u pelliccia'. The sentence came at the conclusion of the "Eyphemos" trial against 65 people, originally from Sinopoli, Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte and Reggio Calabria, accused, to varying degrees, of association and external aiding in mafia association, political-mafia vote trading, money laundering. Cosimo Alvaro , considered a leading figure in the homonymous Sinopoli 'Ndrangheta clan, whose tentacles have also developed in northern Italy, was released from prison last night after a period of four years of detention. Alvaro was defended in the Court of Cassation by the lawyer Natale Polimeni , of the Reggio Calabria Bar.