‘Ndrangheta in Verona, the blackmailed builder: “I feared violence, I armed myself with a knife”
“I have not reported all the episodes of which I consider myself a victim as I feared the reactions of these subjects, who I suspect belong to organized crime Calabrian “. He was afraid of “suffering violence”, so he even “armed himself with a knife”.
No collaboration
Maxi Taurus trial against the infiltration of Calabrian organized crime: to testify for hours, Wednesday, it was Alessandro Arcamonethe only entrepreneur given that it is a civil party that the “numerous other victims” of the alleged ‘Ndrangheta cell active in the Veronese area they did not have the courage to come out, for fear of immediate intimidation and work repercussions: “In all cases closed by the prosecution – revealed the GUP Luca Marini in the reasons for the sentences in abbreviated form – there was no spontaneous collaboration of entrepreneurs with the police ”.
“The evidence of the threats”
Arcamone, on the other hand, at a certain point decided to denounce: «There is a way and a way to obtain the payment of a credit. It is true that I had contracted a debt of 40-50 thousand euros, but this money was solicited from me illegally. What does it mean? My former partner also owes me money, but to get it I resorted to the law, I sued, I wrote letters … “. For the builder Arcamone, this means legality,”certainly not how a me happened“. The construction company Arca Costruzioni srl was attributable to him and, in recent times, he has already done so news by request of the alleged bribe on the former Tiberghien. It happened in 2018, when Arcamone filed a civil action against the former deputy mayor Vito Giacino and his wife Alessandra Lodi: according to the accusations, the couple (which, however, was later acquitted for this affair) should be forced to the entrepreneur, interested in the redevelopment of the former Tiberghien area, to promise the donation of 80 thousand euros to remove restrictions and change the building index. Arcamone had claimed to be “in possession of the recorded evidence of the threats”: in May 2018, however, the judge ruled that the alleged extortion “does not exist”.
Protection
But that is quite another story compared to the facts for which Arcamone was heard in the classroom of Court of Assizes of Verona before the Scaligero Collegiate Court chaired by judge Pasquale Laganà. In the Taurus case, according to the Venice DDA that conducted the investigations, “we are faced with an entrepreneur who intentionally turned to subjects with a clear criminal profile – and precisely because they are connected to the Calabrian mafia crime – in order to obtain protection because of intimidation by other criminals ».
Extortion aggravated
In concrete terms, Cesare Cipriani to get the money from Arcamone would have turned to Agostino Napoli: the builder, who learned that “Naples was a dangerous subject connected to the Calabrian mafia“, Instead of addressing the police” he turned to Santo Tirotta to act as mediator. ” Accused of extortion aggravated by the mafia method against ArcamoneCipriani (according to the prosecutor, “his historical supplier”), Naples (former supplier sentenced in abbreviated to 8 years), Giuseppe Versace, Tirotta (already years convicted in abbreviated to 6 years), Mario Gerace, Antonio Albanese are accused, because ” in competition with each other and with others unidentified subjects, with threats and violence, forced Arcamone to pay the sum of 12 thousand euros, as a pretext – hypothesizes the accusation – attributing the undue donations to a credit of Cipriani against Arcamone of 40-50 thousand euros, a credit which Cipriani instead claimed satisfaction in the appropriate legal offices “. As proof of this, in his long deposition yesterday in the courtroom, answering the questions of President Laganà, the manufacturer revealed: “I was convinced that my donations of money were used to cover part of the debt I contracted with Cipriani in 2012so I was amazed when the latter insinuated himself as a creditor in the bankruptcy of my company (Arca srl,
ed) “. The alleged blackmail against Arcamone, who already exists for these facts was compensated in abbreviated form for 25 thousand euros, which lasted from 2014 to 2016: “I’ll know who I am!” Naples would have addressed him, while the subsequent intimidations in Arcamone would have had the Naples tobacconist’s as their theater, the restaurant run by Arcamone’s son in Valeggio, the home of Versace. “The ways in which they presented themselves in my office – for Arcamone – have generated strong fears for my safety and that of my family”.
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March 24, 2022 (change March 24, 2022 | 19:52)
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