Lieutenant of the Carabinieri Giuseppe Bucolo, arrested this morning as part of the investigation into Baratto-Volpe clan There were also other carabinieri in the service of the Puccinelli clan of the Traiano district in Fuorigrotta.
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Word of the repentant Gennaro Carra. The collaborator of justice speaks of meetings in a "basso" of Fuorigrotta in which members of the Camorra of the neighborhood also took part. One of these soldiers - says the 'repentant' - would have also received a gift, a scooter, for his son. The scooter, however, was registered to Alessandro Volpe (now arrested) and the fines were sent to him.
“At Christmas and Easter – explains Gennaro Carra – he received washing machines and cell phones from Volpe Antonio in exchange for immunity”The collaborator of justice also informed the investigators that he learned of his arrest from Bucolo himself: “I knew about 2 weeks before that I was going to be arrested”, says Carra who also reports having learned of the operation that concerned him while he was in company, among
the other, of a representative of the local Municipality.
In the investigation into the illegal activities of the Calascioni clan Fuorigrotta the former Napoli captain Giuseppe Bruscolotti also appears among the victims of the loan sharking ring discovered by the Carabinieri who, coordinated by the DDA, executed 11 precautionary measures.
The provisions issued by the investigating judge Leda Rossetti concern the heads of the two families and also the soldier for whom house arrest has been ordered: he is Giuseppe Bucolo, 56 years old, lieutenant, originally from Catania and in service with the company of BagnoliThe order paints a dark picture of the public official who allegedly pocketed Camorra money – clan after clan – for almost twenty years.
To shed light on the dirty business of the camorra he is a collaborator of justice, Gennaro Carra: explains that Bruscolotti he turned to the Volpes when he found himself in financial difficulty; he says he was present, on one occasion, when the former blue flag went to Antonio Volpe (murdered at 77 years old, in a crowd, in March 2021) to pay the installment of a 140 thousand euro loan, granted to a 20% rate, intended for the opening of a betting center: “I commented to Volpe – the 'pentito' reports – that the interest rate applied was benevolent, and Volpe replied that he had done so because it was the captain of Napoli”.
But according to investigators the rates even exceeded 40%. The investigations started precisely in relation to the affair in which Bruscolotti was the protagonist: through telephone and environmental interceptions, the Carabinieri – coordinated by the PMs – identified 15 victims, and 39 more are discovered by a sort of "ledger", seized in a search, on July 15, 2020, in a home and in a tobacconist.
The repentant Carra: “The Barattos don’t deal in drugs”
According to Carra, the other Camorra group, the Barattos, also deals with usury (“they don't deal in drugs”, he says): they are linked, he says, to a well-known funeral home that was the boss in Fuorigrotta until three years ago, when the Curia took over the management.
In 2018, the Barattos also allegedly started a new and profitable illicit activity with “ghost” companies registered to front men set up to issue false invoices for traders who were thus able to evade VAT.
Finally, Carra also speaks of the involvement of the "unfaithful" carabiniere in an ugly news story that shook Napoli and Italy: the wounding, on September 24, 2015, of a policeman engaged, with a colleague, in an anti-racket operation. The superintendent Nicola Barbato he was hit by gunshots fired by an affiliate, Raffaele Rende, then arrested and convicted.
The repentant Carra: “I was surprised that a carabiniere could go that far”
“Rende, after the fact,” Carra says, “brought the gun to Volpe (Antonio, later killed) and the latter called Bucolo Giuseppe to make it disappear. I went to Volpe to claim my weapon but he told me he had entrusted it to Bucolo. I was surprised that a carabiniere could go that far, given that that weapon had been fired at a policeman.”
Article published on 25 October 2022 - 22:15
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