Ferdinando Varlese, the businessman arrested as part of the investigation into Camorra infiltration of the Morandi Bridge construction site, was reorganizing with his sons to set up a new company after the anti-mafia ban. Varlese talks about it first with his daughter: “…now let's sort this thing out…then we'll have a coffee…let's think about it for a moment…then you take it and manage it…you manage it…through…for example, what can I tell you…Ramona…is…Eleonora…and…this cousin of Eleonora's…and we'll move forward…I'm always here…” Then he talks to his son: “…we're trying to sort these things out a bit and renew everything as we agreed…”…”…”…let's see if we can do everything from scratch, do you understand or not…let's say…with Marco as the new administrator”… “now let's try to move forward, then let me sort out some of the situations because here too, let's say, maybe I still have to sort out other situations…do you understand how it is…then I'll let you know…then I said let's create a new company and…let's get started, okay?” The entrepreneur is linked to the D'Amico clan, who are fighting with the Rinaldi clan for control of the Rione Villa. After the anti-mafia ban issued by the Genoa prefect, Ferdinando Varlese, the businessman arrested as part of the investigation stemming from anti-mafia checks on the Morandi Bridge construction site, was forming a new company to continue working in the same sector. The new company was reportedly registered under the names of relatives and trusted individuals. According to investigators, Consiglia Marigliano (Varlese's mother-in-law, under house arrest) was a "conscious front" for Varlese's activities, knowing she was acting as a front. After administrative checks, the prosecutor's office also opened an extortion investigation against Varlese. The investigation aimed to determine whether he had pressured Omini, the lead contractor, to secure the work. The investigation revealed no pressure, and the prosecutor's office requested the case be closed.
The actual administrator of 'Tecnodem srl' of Naples, the company involved in the reconstruction of the Morandi bridge, arrested today by the DIA as part of an investigation coordinated by the DDA of Genoa, had already been convicted of criminal association and attempted extortion in competition. In that proceeding, affiliates of the Misso-Mazzarella-Sarno clan, belonging to the Camorra organization 'Nuova Famiglia', were involved, with the aggravating circumstance of having committed the crime with mafia methods. In another proceeding, relations of the arrested administrator, resident in Rapallo, with the Camorra clan D'Amico, to whom he is linked by close family ties, would have emerged. The investigations, delegated by the DDA of the Genoa prosecutor's office to the local Dia Operations Center, proceeding from the beginning of the demolition works in parallel with the administrative checks, have allowed - as stated in a note from the Dia - to collect "evidence on the actions of the two arrested who, acting in complicity with each other and by prior agreement, in order to evade the rules on patrimonial preventive measures, have fictitiously attributed to the woman the formal ownership of 'Tecnodem Srl', as the sole partner, administrator and representative, while maintaining the effective ownership of the same in the man's hands". It was contested by the Genoa district prosecutor's office and recognized by the investigating judge "the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act to facilitate the Camorra clan D'Amico of the Rione Villa of Naples". The investigations began at the beginning of the demolition works of the Morandi, in parallel with the administrative investigations, allowing evidence to be collected on the actions of the two arrested today who, acting in complicity with each other and by agreement, in order to evade the rules on patrimonial preventive measures, fictitiously attributed to the woman the formal ownership of Tecnodem Srl as the sole partner, administrator and representative, and instead maintained the effective ownership in the man's hands, thus integrating the crime of fraudulent transfer of assets. The District Attorney's Office of Genoa contested and the investigating judge recognized the aggravating circumstance of having committed the act to facilitate the Camorra clan 'D'Amico' of the Rione Villa of Naples. The investigations revealed the plan studied by the two which therefore envisaged the woman as a 'conscious screen' for the man's activities. After the company had been excluded from the subcontract for the demolition of the Morandi bridge, it had already taken steps to form a new company as soon as possible, composed of relatives or trusted people, to continue to operate in the same sector.
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