Salvatore Milano , known as Totuccio, the boss of central Palermo, returns to prison . The financiers of the Economic - Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Palermo, in the context of investigations coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office, have executed the order of the Court of Palermo - Section for Review, which restores the precautionary measure of custody in prison, in relation to the crime of extortion aggravated by the mafia method.

The measure of pre-trial detention was confirmed last September 4 by the Court of Cassation, in acceptance of the appeal of the Public Prosecutor's Office - Dda against the order of the investigating judge which on December 23, at the request of the defense, had granted him in Milan house arrest with electronic bracelet.

The disputed facts date back to the years 2016 and 2017, when the investigations of the Gico financiers made it possible to ascertain the role of Milan regarding an extortion request committed against a well-known commercial activity in the historic city center. In the same procedure, in May 2018, Luigi Salerno and Giuseppe Bosco had already been arrested for other extortionate events.

The sum of between 500 and 1,000 euros was requested as a "repair", necessary to obtain the authorization to carry out trade in the territory of the Porta Nuova district and thus avoid damage and retaliation.

Milano is a historic man of honor belonging to the mafia family of Palermo Center in which he played, among other things, the role of "cashier" of the families of the Porta Nuova mafia district, providing for the sustenance of mafia exponents detained or recently released from prison.

He had already been arrested and definitively convicted by the Palermo Court of Appeal for mafia association following the “Perseo” operation, during which the first attempt to rebuild the Cosa Nostra provincial commission of Palermo was discovered.