Castellammare di Stabia. After a slight setback, the Olimpo trial resumes, which sees the defendants, together with the entrepreneur Adolfo Greco, some exponents of organized crime in the Stabia area: Raffaele Carolei, Michele Carolei, Luigi Di Martino, Umberto Cuomo, Attilio Di Somma. Adolfo Greco, once again, decided not to participate in the video conference from Secondigliano prison. Di Somma Attilio and Carolei Michele, both detained in the same prison, did not give up. Present, in the video conference, Di Martino Luigi detained in the Milan prison under the 41 bis regime, or hard prison. Present in the courtroom were the prosecutor Cimmarotta, the defendants Carolei Raffaele and Cuomo Umberto. This morning, the new judging panel presided over by Judge Iannone, heard the first witness from the judicial police, the inspector of the Naples Flying Squad Albrizio Diego, coordinator of the investigative action. The judicial police officer recounted the genesis of the investigation, which began in March 2013 from the statements of justice collaborator Salvatore Belviso. An examination that lasted more than an hour during which the witness answered the prosecutor's questions. There was no shortage of controversy from the defense of the entrepreneur assisted by lawyers Maiello and Stravino. And it is Stravino himself who becomes furious when the witness comments on a statement made by a collaborator of justice in the 80s in which he claimed that Adolfo Greco was the contact person for the Nuova Camorra Organizzata in Castellammare di Stabia. “Let's start by commenting on the sentences – says Stravino – the inspector said that a collaborator of justice testified saying that Greco was the NCO's contact. It is a fact excluded by a court ruling. Absurd". It was not a simple investigation – the witness reported – it was extremely complex and lasted over three years. The breadth of the investigation was also due to the fact that Greco's business interests are so extensive that they even go beyond the Province of Naples, where the entrepreneur was initially seen as a victim of organized crime, for which he filed a civil suit against the clans, but was later also considered the perpetrator. A good part of the deposition focused on the story of the extortion of the entrepreneur Giuseppe Imperati by the Afeltra Clan, where the entrepreneur had asked Greco for help following the theft of two trucks loaded with goods. Specifically, Imperati had asked for advice on how to deal with the delicate issue. “We are faced with a festival of personal considerations – exclaimed the lawyer Maiello – This is not how you conduct examinations with respect to hypotheses of crimes limited to a precise time”. The police inspector, after the defense's attacks, simply limited himself to replying that he was reporting statements by Greco taken from the wiretapping activity. “Since a transcription activity is underway, then the qualified witness should be prohibited from dwelling on content that is not official today” – Maiello reiterated. The entire volume of interceptions is currently not available to the parties. Last July the Court appointed experts who are working on transcribing the phone calls from the monitored users. Thus, the public prosecutor Cimmarotta proposed the suspension of the witness' testimony pending the transcripts. “We are defending a detained defendant and the trial is urgent. I don’t think all the witnesses indicated by the public prosecutor have to answer questions related to the wiretaps,” said Greco’s lawyer, Stravino. “Let’s proceed immediately because it’s urgent. We cannot refer you to an activity that the prosecutor could have carried out with an evidentiary incident during the preliminary investigation phase. He could have proceeded with the transcriptions with an evidentiary incident, today the trial cannot be postponed". The court will return on October 15th.(emidav)
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