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The 79-year-old Salvatore Di Gangi, believed to be the boss of Sciacca close to Tot Riina, had recently been released from prison for cognitive impairment while serving a 17-year sentence in Asti. The unclear dynamics and the investigators investigate to reconstruct the latest movements
For decades it has been an indicator as the boss of Sciacca, a populous port town in the Agrigento area. Salvatore Di Gangi, 79, was considered one of Tot Riina’s loyalists and, lately, he was in a cell in Asti to serve a 17-year sentence for mafia, inflicted with the abbreviated rite, at the end of the Montagna trial. Then, however, the Palermo Court of Appeal decided to release him on the basis of an appraisal which attested to his cognitive deficits. Last night, however, he was run over on a railway track in Genoa and investigators do not rule out any track because the dynamics are unclear. For this reason, efforts are being made to reconstruct all Di Gangi’s last movements since he left the Piedmontese prison.
Who was
Di Gangi, in his eighties, was born in Polizzi Generosa, in the Palermo area. According to anti-mafia investigators, he was a former bank employee who later became a construction developer. Since the early nineties, his name has been present in several judicial inquiries concerning the Agrigento area. Di Gangi, was in trouble again last October as part of the investigation on the Torre Macauda resort, a luxury hotel in Sciacca already at the center of several mafia investigations. According to the accusations of the economic and financial police unit of the financial police of Palermo, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, the Saccense clan would have regained possession of the tourist complex that had been confiscated from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Montalbano. For this reason, they hypothesized realities ranging from external competition in mafia association to fraudulent and false transfer of values. Salvatore Di Gangi, according to the investigators, would have been one of the real owners of the structure and, for this reason, a search had been ordered in his cell in Asti. The investigation, very complex, it had also led to searches in Veneto, in two UniCredit branches in Palermo and to the notification of eight notices of guarantee among others to Di Gangi, to his son Alessandro, to an official of the bank.
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