Camorra, sentence for the repentant former councilor. For the judges he is 'unreliable'. Three and a half years for Cassandra together with the boss Michele Zagaria.
He decided to cooperate with justice, but when it came to the crunch, he failed to reveal the most significant financial details of his relationship with Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria, and was therefore convicted and his assets confiscated.
This is what emerges from the reasons for the conviction of Luigi Cassandra, businessman and former councilor of the municipality of Trentola Ducenta (Caserta). Cassandra was sentenced in May by the Court of Appeal of Naples (the reasons were only recently filed), along the lines of the first-instance decision of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere in 2016, to three years and six months in prison for fictitious registration and money laundering with mafia-related aggravating circumstances, along with his wife Marisa Costanzo, who received one year and four months, and the Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria (three years and six months).
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According to the anti-Camorra Prosecutor's Office, Cassandra would be one of Zagaria's historical front men. The case concerns in particular the Night&Day tourist complex built by Cassandra with Zagaria's money, proceeds from the clan's illicit activities.
On appeal, Cassandra admitted that she had been part of the clan from 2000 to 2011, but that the tourist complex had been built before and without the boss's money.
The second-instance judges deemed these statements "exclusively defensive" and made to "avoid the confiscation of the tourist complex and its assets." For this reason, they did not grant Cassandra either the mitigating circumstance of cooperation or any other general grounds. Indeed, the judges described the personalities of both Cassandra and Zagaria as "alarming."
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