The trial against 11 people accused, on various counts, of fictitious ownership of assets attributable to the Casalesi killer Giuseppe Setola ends with a ruling of no case to answer due to the statute of limitations, with the exclusion of the mafia aggravation.
This is the verdict pronounced by the panel presided over by Judge Giovanni Caparco, of the court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, at the end of the trial that saw in the dock with the head of the clan's massacre wing his brother Pasquale, his sister Immacolata; his wife Stefania Martinelli; Massimiliano, Francesco and Cipriano Pagano, owners of General Impianti; Lucia Caterino; Mario, Emilio, Giovanna, Lucia and Fortunata Baldascino; Domenico Massaro; Antonietta D'Aniello; Salvatore D'Aniello; Giovanni Diana, Giovanni Visone and Annamaria Serao.
According to the initial thesis of the Antimafia, the boss's sister, together with her husband Mario Baldascino, would have purchased goods for a value higher than their family income considered barely sufficient for survival. As for General Impianti, however, according to the DDA it would have been fictitiously registered to the Paganos by Pasquale Setola, with the company headquarters even being maintained at his home. A thesis that gradually wavered during the trial with the same DDA prosecutor who had requested, at the end of his closing speech, a sentence of no case to answer for all the defendants, with the exclusion of the mafia aggravation.
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