Camorra, the new course of the Mallardo clan of Giugliano had the task of restoring peace between the criminal families and trying to make more money through extortion
This morning, the DIA Operations Center in Naples carried out 25 precautionary measures (17 in prison and 8 under house arrest) ordered by order issued by the GIP at the Court of Naples, at the request of the Public Prosecutor of Naples - District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
The defendants are charged, to varying degrees, with criminal association of a Camorra-type nature because, following preliminary investigations, they have received serious evidence of guilt for belonging to the Mallardo clan, operating in Giugliano in Campania and surrounding municipalities and confederated with the Contini and Licciardi clans in the so-called “Secondigliano Alliance”.
Furthermore, they are charged, to varying degrees, with multiple extortionist conducts, illegal possession and carrying of firearms, false declarations in documents intended for the judicial authorities, personal favouritism, fictitious registration of assets, use of money of illicit origin, self-laundering, aggravated fraud for the purpose of obtaining public funds, all crimes aggravated by the mafia method.
The investigations conducted are considered, at present, useful for reconstructing the organizational chart of the Mallardo clan. The main suspect, already sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment for murder, was serving his sentence under house arrest (for health reasons) in a municipality in Piedmont for a period and had been authorized to go to Giugliano in Campania for a few days a month to undergo dental treatment (moreover, to justify his absence during a check by the Carabinieri at the home where he was held under house arrest, he presented a false medical certificate drawn up by a compliant dentist who was also arrested).
The aforementioned, during the days of his stay in Giugliano, organized summits with the other affiliates and managed the proceeds of the illicit activities which flowed into a common fund from which the affiliates drew money both for their own sustenance and for that of the prisoners and their families.
The same suspect, according to the investigative findings assessed by the investigating judge, has therefore become the "regent" of the clan, capable of aggregating around himself a series of affiliates through whom he managed criminal activities, in particular extortion at construction sites, both in the city territory of Giugliano and in the territories of Licola, Varcaturo and Lago Patria, or the so-called "coastal strip".
To manage the clan, he made use, among others, of his closest relatives including his wife, one of his sisters and his brother-in-law, who were also arrested because they had serious evidence of participation in the organization.
The clan's designated regent was committed to resolving internal conflicts, managing relations with the splinter group of the "palazzine" of Giugliano, both in consolidating the historic relationships of the Mallardo clan with the Neapolitan clans of the Contini and Licciardi who together form the so-called Secondigliano Alliance.
The investigations also revealed some fictitious ownership of assets, in particular, a betting agency (actually attributable to the clan's regent but formally registered to his daughter-in-law and managed by his son) and other assets fictitiously registered to front men. These assets were subjected to preventive seizure.
Article published on 7 June 2022 - 07:26
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