"When entrepreneurs decide to speak, do it for hours. " It is nine o'clock in the evening, and one investigator has just finished listening to the testimonies of various companies from the western side of the province of Agrigento. Feel air turn. Even here, deep in Sicily. few days earlier, on July 4, the Carabinieri of Agrigento and Sciacca literally had beheaded a few districts mafia of 34 alleged men of honor and their supporters were jailed. No coincidence that the operation was called "Checkmate." Three judges involved in the investigation: the prosecutor of the DDA of Palermo and Gianfranco Scarfo Fulantelli and the Assistant Attorney Rita Sciacca Salvatore Vella. The hypothesis accusatory, backed by nearly three years of telephone intercepts and the environment, describes the detailed control of subcontracts in the field of public works and even in some large private investment: the aqueduct of Favara Burgio, other roadworks between Sciacca and Memphis, golf resorts Vegetables of Sir Rocco Forte and other tourism investment. That hypothesis is now confirmed by the testimony of their employers. Not all. There are also those who, says the investigator, "deny the evidence." But others confirm. It 'totally new to this side dell'agrigentino. In the capital, before and after the arrest of former mob boss and now associate justice of Mauritius Di Gati, many entrepreneurs had already decided to report their estortori. In the front row, the provincial president of Confindustria Joseph Catanzaro. The rebellion against slavery lace touches now the territory of the new boss of bosses. Sciacca, the most important, is 30 kilometers from Castelvetrano. The birthplace of Matteo Messina Denaro. Memphis, 11 000 inhabitants and acres on acres of beautiful vineyards, is even closer. And 'the last town in the province of Agrigento. Across the river Belice begins to drill. The "kingdom" of Messina Denaro. It 's a mafia that still scares. Many of the alleged Mafia hit by orders of custody have the pedigree of all criminal respect. In Sciacca, for example, the mobster would Accursio Dimino. In the '80s, back when nobody knew what his role in our (not "officially", at least) was actually a member of Massimo Maria Berruti in a company for the manufacturing of plastic-based Ribera. Berruti was not parliamentary but it was a man close to Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest. Dimino was patiently in prison more than ten years old and has a collaboration with Messina Denaro. E 'in short, a reliable person. The super-boss admires him. He speaks well of him in a "pizzino" found in the farmhouse of the Horse Mountain, where he was arrested Bernardo Provenzano. Just released from prison to offer him the chief commandment. He refuses. Apparently, however, does not give up collecting protection money. In its place was named Gino Guzzo. E 'Montevago, in the middle valley of Belice. Even Gino Guzzo has just been released from prison. E 'reliable. In the interception call it the "doctor" because of the degree in Agronomy. His dream is to become a Mason. The soul is damned for that. It has always been a turn near Messina Denaro. Men of honor calls them "Christians." It 'an old mafia boss: poised, thoughtful. When asked to intervene vigorously on entrepreneurs who do not want to pay, Christian says, "Life is sacred." Among those arrested is Mario
Daville of Burgos. He called him the Knight. Perhaps because he was a Knight Templar, a sort of para-Masonic lodge. Nothing to do, of course, official with the Freemasons. At one time operated a plant for the production of concrete between Burgio and Ribera. Then he sold it to Gino Smeraglia Ribera and went to work at construction sites in Emilia-speed. Three years ago, had already been arrested for a series of fraudulent bankruptcy. An investigation by the Guardia di Finanza called Clink Oil.
A familiar story, that of transition from an industrial plant Daville Gino Smeraglia. However, this had not prevented Smeraglia of sub-contracts Vegetables at the golf resort of Sir Rocco Forte. Despite the so-called Protocol of legality. Subscribed, the prefecture of Agrigento and the City of Sciacca. Smeraglia worked without problems. It seems that its resources are still under construction. Despite the detention order that struck him last July 4.
There have been several acts of intimidation, in Contrada Vegetables. Inside the yard of Sir Rocco. It does not seem that interception in three years if they ever mentioned. In fact, if the assumptions are true of the prosecution, firms close to what we already worked there. Why would they create problems, attract the attention of the investigators? And 'one of our hypotheses, but it is likely that these acts have a different array. Gino
Smeraglia is not the only one of the detainees who worked in the district of vegetables. The riberese Nino Montalbano was there. He was a keeper, despite the relationship with Capizzi. Also them: Capizzi. Family tradition of the Mafia. One must come from a prison. Generations.
Strange people, Capizzi. Feared by all, inside and outside our thing. Despite their specific gravity (and many are almost all in a matter) have never managed to make a career. When it comes to appoint a chief commandment, always affects someone else. So it was in the '80s, when he was chosen the then head of mafia Sciacca, Salvatore Di Gangi. One that was not even born here, came from Madonie. Have now been overtaken by a man who has certainly not their curriculum: the Sicilian Salvatore Imbornone from Lucca.
not trust the Capizzi. Even in our own thing. One day the farmer field of Memphis, among those arrested, gives Capizzi 42 000 €. He wants to provide the concrete company that is making road construction on Sciacca-Memphis. I assure him Capizzi. He pays but gets nothing. It seems that those of the company had already agreed to Palermo. The concrete if they do it alone. Campo wants it back the money, Capizzi do not want it. You send someone to mediate. And to say that did not even have to intervene. The work does not fall within their territory, because had then pocketed the money?
are made so, Capizzi. No one loves them, all they worry. They have no diplomatic skills. They do not look at anybody. Even demanded protection money from Joseph Grigg, that of Despair Castelvetrano. Although Messina Denaro himself is anxious to let them know that Grigg was hers. Get the lace Grigg was like to ask him personally. But go easy to think, with Capizzi. Hard heads, heads riberesi.
Fortunately (at least this one), it seems that the requests are limited to large lace works. It is not fashion, in small towns, extortion door to door. It 'difficult, we all know. Every so often, however, somebody tries. For example, Vito Menfi Bucceri. He wants to make shoes for the country's mafia boss, Anthony Pumilia. It considers weak. Proposes a different government program. It works like this: even the mobsters who want to make promises of a promotion campaign. "When I command you, we will do door to door. And who does not pay close ". He has gone bad.
But when the contracts were at stake larger, extortion did not stop even before the friendship. Or in front of the grotesque. One day, the bugs on the car of a mobster record in a direct act of intimidation. It is to burn the car of an entrepreneur. It is a charge but it is his friend. His brother was baptized the son of the owner. Lose time, until it can refer. At the end is forced. Without the "work", the friend who acts as his chauffeur his wife leaves him and charged. The bug continues to record. The mobster and his unwitting lady passing by the place of the attack. "What is confusing?" Asks the wife. Husband sniffs the air. Maybe he wants to impress. He answers: "the smell, sounds like a burning car."
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