Palermo police on Wednesday arrested
19 Cosa Nostra suspects including some Corleone bosses who had
been released after serving prison time but had gone back to
their criminal activities, police sources said.
"In particular, during this investigation, the desire of some of
the suspects emerged, after having served a period of detention,
to consolidate their positions of power also through the control
and management, within the district area, of productive
activities linked in particular to the construction sector", the
investigators stated.
Among the 19 arrested in Palermo in the anti-mafia operation of
the Police was the boss Franco Bonura who after being released
from prison is said to have "been particularly active in the
reorganization of a qualified relational network with the aim of
reaffirming his strength and interference, but also with the aim
of sharing the economic benefits of the aforementioned business
initiatives".
Together with Bonura, co-bosses Agostino Sansone and Girolamo
Buscemi were also arrested.
They are all part of the list of Cosa Nostra high-ups released
from prison.
During the investigation coordinated by the prosecutor Maurizio
de Lucia, the deputy Marzia Sabella and the substitute Giovanni
Antoci of the district anti-mafia directorate, "sporadic
meetings in premises to establish and consolidate relationships
with Sicilian exponents of political and business life were
documented. Meetings that also took place in an agricultural
tract of land in the Passo di Rigano area".
The organization controlled production activities in the
construction sector, favoring companies connected to
entrepreneurs who were the subject of the current precautionary
measure, police said. Also under seizure is the Notr3 nightclub,
where a young man, Lino Celesia, was murdered in December two
years ago at the height of an argument.
According to investigators, the club could be linked to the
Sansone family.
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