The drug trafficker who wanted to buy Napoli football
AGI – Money, lots of it. And the ease of moving them from one part of the world to another to ‘clean up’ them with a click. For this reason Raffaele Imperiale, the drug trafficker with ties to the mafias all over the world who had ‘invested’ in two stolen Van Goghs, was also ready to buy Napoli.
“Cerrone and Imperiale have a crazy economic availability, they also wanted to buy Napoli Calcio“, a justice collaborator tells the prosecutors. The two are in prison on charges of criminal association of the mafia type and international drug trafficking, the first in Dubai awaiting extradition.
The minutes are dated January 20 of this year, signed by Gennaro Carra, son-in-law of Salvatore Cutolo, boss of the Rione Traiano, western district of Naples, “I met Imperiale thanks to Mario Cerrone, in 2006, during a meeting at home of the father-in-law Cerrone – says Carra – the friendship relations between Imperiale, Cerrone and Carra’s father-in-law began that year and were cemented by a gift. Imperiale and Cerrone gave my father-in-law, Cutolo Salvatore, a Glock submachine gun as a sign of respect as head of the Rione Traiano “.
These statements are actually dated March 16: “He had direct relations in South America, they said they had ships with containers, first with a stop in Spain and then in Holland and from there with import export trucks from the Pompeii flower market” .