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'Ndrangheta, in the “Eni dossier” Gallo's accusations against Mazzagatti: «If the Piromallis organize a scam they do not involve outsiders»
Statements to the prosecutors of Milan by the former super-policeman. "Those who know Oppido Mamertina know". The entrepreneur, however, was acquitted
Published: 03/18/2025 – 6:47
MILAN «I like to understand how the 'ndrangheta works. I am an expert on the 'ndrangheta» , I or until 2010 «until I left the homicide, I made reports for the Dda of Milan». So I like to study the 'ndrangheta, «I told my clients “if I tell you that Carmine Gallo is not connected to the 'ndrangheta it is certain”, because even at the cost of asking my informants around I did it».
It is December 11, 2024 when the suspect Carmine Gallo presents himself to the prosecutors of the Dda of Milan for questioning. The report, together with a huge amount of documents, has been filed together with the others already partly declassified.
From these statements emerges the passion that, for decades, animated the life of Carmine Gallo, struck down by a heart attack last March 9 while he was under house arrest. An illustrious career overshadowed by the recent investigation into alleged dossiers and cyber espionage by the Milan DDA and “Equalize”.
The report for Eni
The questions of the prosecutors Francesco De Tommasi and Antonello Ardituro focus on specific topics, aiming to shed light on some of the aspects that emerged from the investigation, with particular reference to the well-known Eni affair and the report that was allegedly drawn up on behalf of the oil company against Piero Amara, Vincenzo Armanna, the first former external lawyer and the second former manager fired by Eni but both major accusers in the Eni/Shell-Nigeria trial that ended with all acquittals in 2021, and the Calabrian entrepreneur, Francesco Mazzagatti. The prosecutors ask Gallo how the relationship with the oil company began, the former super policeman talks about a man, the owner of a company, who put him in contact with the lawyer Speroni. "When I see him, he already knows my background, and he gives me the assignment and says: 'Through the firm, is that okay? Dentons, I would like to give you an assignment for a financial reconstruction of Amara and Armanna.'" All because, as Gallo explained to the prosecutors, "they had been acquitted, I believe, and wanted to ask for financial damages from Amara and Armanna. So they are asking us for a financial reconstruction and the connections they may have" and in addition a "financial reconstruction of both, the connections they have with people who may have revolved around the Eni affair", the one linked to the investigation into Nigeria, to be clear.
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Gallo's "shadows of 'ndrangheta" on the Calabrian entrepreneur in the report for Eni and the stolen PC at dinner
The "Mazzagatti line"
At this point the former super cop explains to the prosecutors: «In the reconstruction of Amara's assets I also include the thread that intrigued me the most, the Mazzagatti thread». Why? Gallo himself explains it to the prosecutors. «It intrigued me from a former professional point of view, because I say: I worked in Oppido Mamertina, if Mr. Mazzagatti was born there and without art or part he sets up a fruit juice company in the port of Gioia Tauro, at 22/23 years old. He sets it up there and is also arrested for fraud, attributable to the Piromalli group, and then he is acquitted, eh! And so on ...». And again: «Suddenly the company transforms from fruit juices to trading in petroleum products. The company changes headquarters from Gioia Tauro and moves to London ... the thing intrigues me». Gallo's suspicions, in fact, lead him to carry out some investigations and «I verify that in Oppido Mamertina there is a clan, but I already knew that, a 'ndrina called 'ndrina Mazzagatti» and these, he explains to the prosecutors, «are second cousins ??of this Mazzagatti here, and therefore I say “there is something wrong”».
The Crude Oil Cargo Scam
Carmine Gallo talks about the "famous Iranian crude oil shipment, passed off as Iraqi". And it is at this juncture that the prosecutor focuses on Gallo's accusation against the Calabrian entrepreneur. "I acquire the order of the investigating judge of Palmi, and I see that all the members of this organization are Piromalli or linked to them", pages and pages of orders that push Gallo to focus on an element, for him, key: "Anyone who has dealt with the 'ndrangheta knows it: if the Piromalli organize a scam, they don't bring home people who are not linked to them" and "one of them even collaborated, after which he was acquitted, I must say, Mazzagatti", admits Gallo who in any case does not change his position with respect to the Calabrian entrepreneur.
Contacts with the collaborator of justice
Conclusions that, he tells the prosecutors, Gallo drew « through a collaborator of justice, a cousin of Saverio Morabito , I had convinced him in the 90s to collaborate and he collaborated with justice, someone who for better or worse gave me information before». According to Gallo, therefore, this collaborator of justice provides him with compromising details to reconstruct Mazzagatti's profile, «but I didn't include it in the report, no». Gallo himself, responding to the prosecutors, admits to having done research on the SDI (…) I acquired through Eni some documents filed by the Guardia di Finanza who had already carried out the investigations, where it was written that he had been stopped together with the Piromallis and I say: “Porco Giudas!”», with a certain regret for not having “trusted” his own knowledge. Although in the end Mazzagatti will be acquitted of all charges. ( g.curcio@corrierecal.it )
