Italian Mafia Trial hands down 2,200 years in Sentences. Even to a Former Right-Wing MP, Lawyer & Masons
In the cover image the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri (L) and the lawyer and former MP Giancarlo Pittelli (R)
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Catanzaro Informa had reported it while the mainstream media continued to ignore or even blame the former Catanzaro prosecutor Nicola Gratteri (now in Naples) who had put him in prison as part of the investigation.
Today, on November, 20, 2023, at the maxi-trial of the Court of Vibo Valentia in the new bunker courtroom set up in the industrial center of Lamezia Terme, Pittelli was among the excellent convicts with a sentence of 11 years in prison.
The judges acquitted the former mayor of Pizzo Gianluca Callipo, the former regional councilor Luigi Incarnato
«The Scottish Rite opens the world’s roads and highways to you».
The statement was reported by L’Espresso and attributed to the lawyer and former Forza Italia parliamentarian Giancarlo Pittelli, arrested as part of the investigations by the Carabinieri del Ros regarding a «heap of relationships between the ‘big men’ of the ‘Ndrangheta Calabrian and the ‘big men’ of Freemasonry, all well inserted in strategic contexts (judicial, armed forces, banking, hospitals and so on), is the effect of the pactum sceleris by virtue of which Pittelli – writes the investigating judge in the order – permanently linked to the context of the ‘Ndrangheta Freemason’, permanently at the disposal of the bosses of the ‘mammasantissima’ and the ‘Crimine’ of the Mancusos”. Where Crime means the Dome of the ‘Ndrangheta.
The former deputy and senator of Forza Italia, who then approached the Brothers of Italy with the esteem of the leader Giorgia Meloni in 2017, before ending up in handcuffs in 2019 and returning to Forza Italia in 2021, with his intercepted sentences brought up with that ancient wicked pact between the most influential Freemasons and politics, but he did it while he was intercepted for an investigation for mafia ius of which he was today found guilty by the Calabrian Court.
But in the spontaneous declarations at the trial he said completely different things which we report precisely to give him a guarantee of impartiality while awaiting the almost obvious appeal that his lawyers will make against the sentence…
After claiming that the investigation had “devastated his family and professional life”, Pittelli stated that “since the start of this very sad affair I have been portrayed as a liaison between organized crime, the political world, the business world , the world of Freemasonry. I think it is the most terrible accusation, if I may say so, that can be made against a citizen of this country.”
He then added: “In my professional, political and human life, I have never acted in violation of the law. First, specific accusations were made against me in relation to individual facts. As the preliminary investigation flowed, with its trial events and precautionary incidents, the individual issues were dismantled, an attempt was made to portray me as someone who was capable of fixing trials. Well, I know absolutely nothing about these trials and when it was possible to identify a specific trial that I would have accommodated, it turned out that the magistrates that I would have bribed are among the most honest and upright people in the District and beyond”.
“I – added Pittelli – was a member of Freemasonry from 1988 to 1993. I had no time left to dedicate myself to the institution and I decided to stop. In 2017, following the insistence of some professional friends, I understood that returning to the association could create different relationships for me given the cessation of political activity and a significant decrease in my firm’s business. I have never been part of secret, irregular or occult Masonic lodges, the existence of which I also deny.”
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Italian Mafia Trial hands down 2,200 years in Sentences.
by Russia Today
An Italian court sentenced 207 members and associates of the ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization to a total of over 2,200 years on Monday, concluding the first phase of the largest mafia trial the country has seen in nearly four decades.
Defendants were charged with a laundry list of crimes including murder, drug trafficking, bribery, extortion, and criminal association.
The trial focused on the Mancuso family, one of the most powerful in the ‘Ndrangheta, though family boss Luigi Mancuso will be tried separately after his nephew turned state’s evidence. Alleged clan bosses Saverio Razionale, Paolino Lo Bianco, and Domenico Bonavota received the harshest sentences at 30 years each.
“We have finally demonstrated that there was a network of white-collar workers, entrepreneurs, and politicians doing business with the Calabrian clans,” prosecutor Nicola Gratteri told The Guardian on Monday, adding that his office was “very satisfied” with the results.
High-profile individuals found to be ensnared in the criminal group’s operations included former Forza Italia MP and Berlusconi deputy Giancarlo Pittelli, who was sentenced to 11 years for allegedly collaborating with the ’Ndrangheta and having political ties with the Mancuso family. A police chief, mayors, local councilors, and high-profile businessmen were also sentenced.
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Millions of euros in property and cash were seized in the course of the investigation, titled ‘Operation Rinascita-Scott’, which culminated in the arrest of over 400 suspects across Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, and Switzerland in 2019.
Flush with funds from controlling 80% of Europe’s cocaine traffic, the organization had allegedly bought up numerous legal businesses to help launder their illicit cash, from hotels and restaurants to car dealerships.
The trial began in January 2021 in Calabria, the ‘Ndrangheta’s regional stronghold, in a bunker-style courtroom built for the occasion in the city of Lamezia Terme.
Prosecutor Vincenzo Capomolla hailed the verdict for liberating the province of Vibo Valentia from the crime ring, which he said was “so deep-rooted, widespread, alarming and disturbing that I believe it can be said that there was no area of life, of its economic and social fabric, that was not conditioned by the intimidation of such a dangerous organization.”
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In addition to the 207 individuals sentenced on Monday, 70 others had been sentenced in 2021 after opting for a speedy trial, a procedure that eliminates the judicial debate phase in exchange for a reduced sentence. Another 131 were acquitted or let off the hook by the statute of limitations, according to Italian media. Most reportedly plan to appeal their convictions.
The ‘Ndrangheta is the most powerful criminal group in the world, with operations on all inhabited continents and an estimated €53 billion ($58 billion) in annual profits, according to Demoskopita Research Institute.
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