Political-mafia electoral exchange, extortion, possession of weapons and drugs, introduction into prison of telephone devices, with which they managed their affairs from prison: these are some of the charges brought against 12 people seriously suspected of being organizers and affiliates of the "Nardo" Clan operating in the north of the province of Syracuse and considered a branch of the Cosa Nostra family of Catania "Santapaola Ercolano".
Ten of them ended up in prison and two under house arrest, in execution of an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Catania, at the request of the Anti-Mafia District Prosecutor's Office and carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Syracuse. Making use of the force of intimidation deriving from the association bond, the arrested people, according to what emerged from the investigation, they had managed to acquire, directly and indirectly, the management or in any case the control of numerous economic and entrepreneurial activities, mainly in the agro-pastoral sector, in the northern area of the Syracuse province.
the crime of political-mafia electoral exchange is also contested against a mayoral candidate in the last 2022 administrative elections who allegedly accepted the promise of obtaining votes in exchange for money and a commitment to work to facilitate the release of the son of an affiliate.
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