Drugs between Morocco and Benevento, Colombo's wife acquitted: discounts for everyone

Benevento. Operazione Higado: sconti di pena in Appello per 14 presunti organizzatori del traffico di stupefacente, unica assoluzione per Rosa Perone – difesa dall’avvocato Dario Vannetiello – moglie del narcotrafficante Giovanni Colombo. Si è concluso oggi pomeriggio innanzi alla  Corte di Appello di Napoli – V sezione, presidente Toscano, il processo a carico di 14 imputati, accusati di far parte di una articolata associazione dedita al traffico internazionale di stupefacenti, acquistati in Marocco e piazzati nelle città di Benevento, Napoli e le rispettive province. Il processo scaturisce dall’Operazione Higado che portò all’arresto – tra gli altri – dei fratelli Colombo di Montesarchio, in provincia di Benevento, ritenuti i promotori di un traffico internazionale di droga tra il 2014 e il 2015. Nel giudizio undici imputati su 14 hanno deciso di rinunciare ai motivi di Appello, ammettendo le proprie responsabilità. I giudici hanno confermato l’impianto accusatori, pur riformando la sentenza di primo grado con vistosi sconti di pena.
The only acquittal for 'not having committed the crime' was reserved for Rosa Perone, wife of Giovanni Colombo, defended by the lawyer Vannetiello. Perone had been sentenced, in the first instance, to 6 years of imprisonment, for having traded and sold large quantities of narcotic substances. Already in the first instance Rosa Perone obtained acquittal from the charge of having been part of the criminal association headed by her husband. The judges of the second instance fully shared the defense arguments supported by the lawyer Dario Vannetiello also giving back her freedom to Perone Rosa.
The Court of Appeal, at the end of the trial, reformed the first-instance sentence also for the other defendants, reducing the sentence of Giovanni Colombo, 51 years old, considered the promoter of international drug trafficking, from 16 years to 10 years of imprisonment, and reducing the sentence of his brother Pasquale (58 years old) from 9 years to 7 years - both defended by the lawyer Vittorio Fucci, the two main defendants did not renounce the reasons for acquittal - and Paolo Taverna from 6 years and 6 months to 4 years and 4 months of imprisonment. Michele De Lucia, 54 years old, and Carmelo Colombo, 29 years old, both from Montesarchio, defended by the lawyer Vittorio Fucci, had already been acquitted in the first-instance trial of the charge of international drug trafficking and aggravated drug dealing. The trial, which sees the Colombo brothers and other people as defendants, is based on telephone and environmental interceptions as well as on various seizures of tons of narcotics on the Italy-Spain axis.
The Court of Appeal of Naples granted the mitigating circumstances prevailing over the aggravating circumstance of the large quantity, adjusted the sentences and convicted:

Pink Fibula Acquittal

Minauro Antonio 10 years (18 years)
Mesaud Luafi 6 years (11 years)
Birds Diego 4 years and 10 months (7 years and 4 months)
Little birds Letizia 4 years and 10 months (7 years and 4 months)
By Donato Gianfranco 2 years (3 years)
Colombo Giovanni 10 years (15 years and 8 months)
Luciano Pietro 2 years and 10 months (4 years and 4 months)
Moio Michele 6 years (11 years)
Colombo Pasquale 7 years (8 years 8 months)
Taverna Paolo 4 years and 10 months (6 years and 10 months)
Giuseppe Maglione 2 years and 8 months (first degree confirmation)