Italy's Top 2 Mafia Bosses Get 30-Year Prison Terms In A Historic Trial, Around 200 Mobsters Convicted
Date
11/20/2023 2:02:19 PM
(MENAFN- Live Mint) "An Italian court on Monday ordered long jail sentences at the end of one of Italy's largest-ever mafia trials against the Ndrangheta crime group 200 mobsters and their white-collar associates were convicted and sentenced by the court in the historic trial court gave 30-year prison terms to two local Calabrian mafia leaders Saverio Razionale and Domenico Bonavota, and imposed the heaviest penalties on them 330 suspected mobsters and their alleged associates had been facing an array of charges, such as extortion, drug trafficking and theft, in a trial that lasted almost three years trial was held in a converted call-centre in the Calabrian city of Lamezia Terme, with metal cages installed for the defendants trial began in January 2021. Since then, the court has heard thousands of hours of testimony, including from more than 50 former mafia operatives turned state witnesses to prosecutors, the Ndrangheta crime group is the most powerful mafia group in Italy, easily eclipsing the more famous Cosa Nostra gang in Sicily Ndrangheta's influence is said to be across the Europe and beyond this Calabrian trial, it was only in 1986 that hundreds of alleged mafiosi were tried simultaneously in Palermo.
The Calabrian trial was focused primarily on one group - the Mancuso clan from the Vibo Valentia province - leaving much of the Ndrangheta's top brass untouched.
Among those convicted was a former politician and lawyer Giancarlo Pittelli. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison for colluding with mafias and passing on information to them.
The Monday's verdicts can be appealed twice Ndrangheta
was entrenched in the local economy, feared by business owners and farmers, and protected by white-collar professionals and politicians Ndrangheta, which was long dismissed as mere livestock thieves, flourished under the radar for decades, as authorities focussed more on efforts against Sicily's Cosa Nostra.(With inputs from agencies)
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