Former leftwing cooperatives boss
Salvatore Buzzi was ordered back to jail Tuesday to serve the
remaining four years of a lengthy prison term for the Mondo di
Mezzo graft case.
A surveillance court rejected Buzzi's plea to be allowed to
serve the time outside prison.
Buzzi, 69, was one of the two ringleaders in the
sprawling Rome graft case dubbed Middle World after the
demi-monde of white-collar criminals and delinquents that
inhabited it.
The other ringleader in the notorious case is former rightist
militant and ex-gangster Massimo Carminati, 67, currently free
after serving 10 years for the massive political-business
racketeering case in the Italian capital.
The case was initially dubbed 'Mafia Capitale' because
prosecutors said the affair, in which a gang got its hands on
city contracts worth millions, ranging from the running of Roma
and migrant camps to waste management and maintaining green
areas, regarded organized crime.
But the supreme Cassation Court quashed mafia convictions in
2019 and ordered an appeals court to reset jail terms in the
case.
Carminati, a former rightist NAR militant and ex-member of the
infamous Magliana Gang, has been released due to time served and
good conduct.
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