Naples – Carabiniere in the pay of the 167 clan of Arzano: the Marshal of the Carabinieri and the bosses Giuseppe and Mariano Monfregolo arrested.
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The investigations started from the statements of collaborators of justice Pasquale and Pietro Cristiano who also revealed some implications of the 2019 municipal elections. A thousand euros a month and other gifts received from the clan in exchange for favors and benefits.
This is the accusation brought against a lieutenant of the Carabinieri by the informers at the time of the contested events, who was serving at the Arzano branch and is currently serving at the DIA in Naples, and who was arrested as part of an investigation that led to the execution of a series of prison warrants that hit the “167 clan”, an offshoot of the Amato-Pagano clan.
The soldier was on duty at the DIA in Naples
According to the reconstruction of the collaborators of justice, the non-commissioned officer would have received the money every month for years, from the regents on duty. But in addition to the "month", there would also have been extra gifts.
The carabiniere in the service of the clan - investigators reconstruct - would also have been paid with clothes, bottles of wine, up to house maintenance or painting, changing tires, spare parts for the cars of his family or people close to him.
"But he only wanted money" can be read in the reports of the collaborators of justice that were included in the provision. The recipients of the order, in addition to the soldier of the Arma, are people at the top of the organization.
Aldo Bianco and Giuseppe and Mariano Monfregolo also arrested
It's about Aldo Bianco and Giuseppe and Mariano Monfregolo. The investigators reconstruct some episodes that start from 2016, when the soldier allegedly omitted and delayed entering the provision of application of special surveillance against Pasquale Cristiano into the database.
Collaborator who, although under house arrest, was also the protagonist of a parade through the city aboard a Ferrari during his son's communion. The soldier would also have drawn up a false report of good conduct for Cristiano himself, during the period in which he was under special surveillance.
But the investigation also revealed that on December 4, 2017, the lieutenant failed to execute an arrest warrant issued by the Naples Prosecutor's Office against some members of the criminal group.
A few months later, on February 5, 2018, he allegedly warned, through Domenico Russo and Pietro and Pasquale Cristiano (father and son, both collaborators of justice, investigated in the provision but not recipients of a precautionary measure), of the imminent execution of an order against them, thus allowing the escape and fugitive status of two suspects.
Not to mention that he allegedly made some evidence disappear from Russo's hideout, who was on the run, and the removal of the recording device for the video surveillance system. But also how the investigators allegedly disguised the operations of installing the cameras to monitor the home of Christian.
The statements of the repentant Pasquale Cristiano are fundamental
The ordinance also mentions a bankrupt Casavatore company whose ashes were allegedly targeted by an Arzano business group in the food sales sector.
The Cristianos also spoke about the municipal elections and made explicit references to the candidates in the running supported by the various criminal factions who, according to the informants, had gone as far as the ballot stage with the indication of voting for the losers, so much so that Pasquale Cristiano expressed satisfaction at having spent his offices well in the electoral competition.
In various capacities, the crimes of revealing official secrets, corruption for an act contrary to official duties, but also mafia association and purpose have been contested. According to rumors, the order would be only a fragment of an investigation that could spread like wildfire.
Article published on March 18, 2025 - 15pm
