Pagani, the clan had its candidates voted who did not win

The Fezza-De Vivo clan allegedly tried to influence the local elections in the Municipality of Pagani, favoring some candidates. The latter, however, were not affiliated with the winning administration. Subsequently, the clan allegedly attempted to establish relationships with the new municipal administration.

This is what emerged from the investigation by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Salerno, which today led the Carabinieri of the Territorial Department of Nocera Inferiore to execute eight precautionary measures (3 in prison and 5 under house arrest) against as many suspects.

The charges include crimes such as electoral conditioning through threats, ideological falsehood, bid rigging, fraud in public supplies, corruption and personal favoring. All the conduct is aggravated by the aim of facilitating the clan, active in Pagani and surrounding areas.

At the center of the investigation is the former city councilor and assessor Alfonso Marrazzo who allegedly obtained contracts on behalf of the Fezza-De Vivo clan. And in fact the accusation, currently shared by the GIP but subject to further evaluations in the subsequent phases of the trial, concerns the economic and entrepreneurial influence of the Fezza-De Vivo clan, which through the entrepreneur Alfonso Marrazzo.

Marrazzo, already convicted in the first instance for external competition in mafia association and for about 20 years a municipal councilor of Pagani, as well as environmental assessor until 2016 — allegedly used the PE.DE.MA. cooperative, of which he was president, to infiltrate the economic and administrative fabric of the municipal body.

In particular, Marrazzo, thanks to PE.DE.MA., allegedly obtained municipal public contracts in an illicit manner, including the management of the cemetery, the street cleaning service and other urgent public services, including those connected to the Covid-19 emergency, especially sanitation activities, carried out in violation of the tender specifications.

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The Fezza-De Vivo clan allegedly emptied the municipal coffers of Pagani through a network of rigged contracts, stealing large sums of money intended for essential public services.

The rigged tenders would have been only the tip of the iceberg of a larger corruption system, through which the clan would have laundered dirty money and financed other illicit activities.

Due to the rigged tenders, the citizens of Pagani would have found themselves paying higher taxes for poor quality services, while the illicit proceeds ended up in the clan's pockets.

Pretrial detention in prison:

1. Alfonso Marrazzo born in Pagani on 25.10.1973,

2. Claudio De Cola born in Carmagnola (TO) on 27.07.1976,

3. Bonaventura Tramontano born in Pagani on 18.01.1955.

House arrest:

4. Pietro Buonocore born in Pagani on 20.09.1968,

5. Aniello Giordano born in Pagani on 31.01.1964,

6. Giuseppe Serritiello born in Salerno on 30.08.1956,

7. Matteo De Feo born in San Marzano sul Sarno on 30.11.1965,

8. Dario Ippolito born in Pagani on 10.10.1992.