Pagani, the Fezza-De Vivo clan tried to influence the vote: 8 arrests

The Fezza-De Vivo Camorra clan allegedly tried to influence the elections administrative elections in the municipality of Pagani, imposing the vote in favor of their own candidates, external to the coalition that later resulted victorious, and then attempting to establish links with the latter.

This emerged from the investigations of the Salerno District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which culminated in the execution of an order issued by the preliminary investigations judge of the Court of Salerno and carried out by the Carabinieri of Nocera Inferiore.

There are eight people under investigation, three of whom have been placed in pre-trial detention in prison and five under house arrest. Among the suspects is Alfonso Marrazzo, an entrepreneur with a first-degree conviction for external association with a mafia organization and, in the past, a municipal councilor of Pagani for approximately 20 years, as well as an environmental councilor until 2016.

The charges, to varying degrees, include the crimes of electoral conditioning through threats, ideological forgery, bid rigging, fraud in public supplies, corruption and personal aiding and abetting, with the aggravating circumstance of facilitating the Fezza-De Vivo clan active in Pagani and surrounding areas.

According to the reconstruction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Salerno, the Fezza-De Vivo clan, through Marrazzo and the Pedema cooperative of which he was president, tried to infiltrate the economic and administrative system of the municipal administration.

In particular, Marrazzo, through the cooperative, allegedly managed to illegitimately obtain municipal public contracts, such as the management of the cemetery, the street cleaning service and other urgent services, including those related to the Covid emergency, in particular for sanitization, carried out in violation of the tender specifications.