The Carabinieri del Ros and the Environmental Protection Command are carrying out a precautionary measure requested by the DDA of Bari against 48 people accused of having favored the activities of a mafia organization.
The accusations against the recipients of the orders, for various reasons, are mafia-type association, money laundering, extortion, illicit competition with threats or violence, kidnapping for the purpose of extortion, illegal possession of weapons and explosives, scams for the achievement of public funds also from the European Union.
The details of the operation will be announced in a press conference scheduled at 11 via the web in which the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho, the Bari prosecutor Roberto Rossi, the commander of Ros Pasquale Angelosanto, the commander of the agri-food protection department participate di Salerno Giorgio Borrelli, the vice president of Eurojust Filippo Spiezia and the deputy general manager of Olaf (European office for the fight against fraud) Ernesto Bianchi.
