Operation of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department in Rome and its province, in Lazio, and in Reggio Calabria and in Calabria for the execution of a precautionary 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, the withdrawal of skins and exhausted oils.
searches and seizures are also underway and the execution of precautionary measures ordered by the investigating judge at the request of the Reggio Dda.
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 aim of committing crimes against property, against life and individual safety and in the field of weapons, affirming the hegemonic control of economic activities in the territory, also achieved through agreements with organizations homologous criminals.
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 custody order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the Reggio Emilia Dda against the Alvaro-Penna clan of Sinopoli.
In the Calabrian trend, 29 people ended up in prison and 5 under house arrest.
Gioffré is accused of electoral exchange between the political and mafia.
In essence, he would have favored the hiring of another suspect.
The other crimes challenged by the prosecutors are the mafia association, the aiding and abetting committed in order to facilitate the activity of the mafia association and the possession and sale of common firearms and aggravated weapons of war.
