Naples. Naples' most entrepreneurial Camorra clan returns to court on July 15th before preliminary hearing judge Nicola Marrone for the preliminary hearing of the first part of the mega-trial.
A decision will have to be made on the new charges formulated by the Naples DDA and on the exceptions of their lawyers, and possibly proceed with the first defense speeches, after the prosecutors have proceeded with their marathon prosecution requesting that all the defendants be sent to trial in the preliminary hearing held in the Nunker courtroom in Poggioreale.
As you may recall, this is one of ten other strands. 140 suspects, 1000 pages of precautionary measures, 130 charges and 40 precautionary measures.
According to investigators, the Contini clan would have recycled in companies of the economic fabric of Campania and beyond.
The list includes members of the Contini clan, complacent entrepreneurs, front men, business intermediaries, for a dizzying amount of money that led the Carabinieri and the Finance Police to also carry out a series of seizures for a total of 8,4 million euros.
Eight years of investigations, for this strand (there are 10 other strands, a real empire) carried out through analysis of tax documents, tax audits, stakeouts, telephone and environmental interceptions, testimonies of injured parties and collaborators of justice.
The crimes contested by the investigators are various: counterfeiting and marketing of watches with a counterfeit brand, fictitious registration of assets, undue compensations, fraudulent transfer of values, money laundering, self-laundering and reinvestment of large amounts of capital, issuing and use of false invoices, fraudulent declarations through other devices, false declarations, undue compensation, possession and trafficking of firearms, aggravated extortion, assault and attempted murder, all aggravated by the mafia method to favor the powerful clan of the Contini Clan of the Secondigliano Alliance (Mallardo and Licciardi).
According to investigators, "a real entrepreneurial/criminal group was formed consisting of various companies operating in Italy and abroad created and/or purchased" by Antonio Festa, his son Gennaro Festa and Salvatore D'Amelio, all thanks to the collaboration of various professionals including Michele Tecchia, all through the "fictitious and fiduciary imposition of numerous front men".
Extremely high standard of living, investments in multiple economic sectors, yet the members of the Festa Group appeared, according to investigators, to “lack a solid economic base”.
The hypothesis is that the members of the group had managed to "create a dense network of companies registered under front names, into which the proceeds of various illicit activities, from counterfeiting to tax fraud, and consequent money laundering activities, flowed".
In the defense pool: Lawyer Arturo Cola, Lawyer Gaetano Manzi, Lawyer Giovanni Cerino, Lawyer Vincenzo Romano, Lawyer Claudio Davino, Lawyer Massimo Viscusi, Lawyer Domenico Vincenzo Ferraro, Lawyer Gianluca Gambogi, Lawyer Leopoldo Perone, Lawyer and others.
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