(ANSA) - REGGIO CALABRIA, 10 MAY - Operation of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in Rome and its province, in Lazio, and in ReggioCalabria and Calabria for the execution of a security order by the investigating judge of Rome at the request of the Roman DDA against 43 people.
Some are accused of being part of a local 'Ndrangheta, rooted in the capital and aimed at acquiring the management and control of economic activities in various sectors, fish, bakery, pastry, collection of skins and exhausted oils.
searches and seizures are also underway and the execution of precautionary measures arranged by the investigating judge at the request of the Dda Reggio.
The organization, according to what was reported by the investigators, then systematically resorted to fictitious headings in order to shield the real ownership of the assets.
Furthermore, according to what emerged, the organization also proposed the purpose of committing crimes against property, against individual life and safety and in the field of weapons, affirming the hegemonic control of economic activities in the territory, also achieved through agreements with criminal organizations.
In Reggio Calabria, the measures were issued as a result of the investigative coordination with the Rome DDA.
As part of the investigation, called "Propaggine", the mayor of Cosoleto, Antonino Gioffré, was arrested.
His name appears in the list of 34 subjects reached by a custodial order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the Reggio Emilia Dda against Lacosca Alvaro-Penna di Sinopoli.
In the Calabrian vein, 29 people ended up in prison and 5 under house arrest.
Gioffré is accused of political-mafia electoral exchange.
In essence, he would have favored the hiring of another suspect.
The other offenses challenged by the prosecutors are the mafia association, the favoring committed in order to facilitate the activity of the mafia consortium and the possession and sale of common weapons of asparo and aggravated weapons of war.
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