Migrant scam, a corrupt policeman paid the bribe to the Fabbrocino clan

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Naples – Disturbing details are emerging from wiretaps in the investigation that led to 45 precautionary measures in San Giuseppe Vesuviano and surrounding municipalities for migrant fraud.

From reading the 320 pages of the precautionary order signed by the investigating judge Maria Laura Ciollaro, at the request of the DDA of Naples in addition to the three arrested lawyers Vincenzo Sangiovanni (42 years old), indicated as the promoter of the association, Gaetano Cola (37 years)
Annunziata Aniello (39 years old and the policeman Mario Nippoli, on duty at the Poggioreale police station and placed under house arrest, the disturbing figure of another police officer on duty at the San Giuseppe Vesuviano police station emerges.

The man is under investigation in a probe into the Camorra and the Fabbrocino clan , and the informant Rosario Giugliano , the former boss of Poggiomarino, has also spoken about him . A wiretapped conversation reveals how the illegal migrant permit business worth over a million euros, managed by the police officer and the lawyer Vincenzo Sangiovanni , identified as the chief promoter of the scammers, attracted the attention of organized crime, leading to an extortion attempt.

The policeman, however, with a bold move, would have succeeded not only in reducing the demands of the clans, who had asked for 100 thousand euros, but also in pocketing a part of the money intended for the criminals.

The Camorra had asked for a bribe of 100 thousand euros from the lawyer

According to what was reconstructed through the intercepted conversations, the enormous extent of the illicit profits – estimated between 1 million and 400 thousand and 1 million and 500 thousand euros – had not gone unnoticed by the local Camorra. The clans had asked for a bribe of 100 thousand euros from the lawyer involved in the affair.

This is where the alleged cunning of the policeman comes into play. In the intercepted conversation, one of the interlocutors (another policeman also on duty in San Giuseppe Vesuviano) tells how his colleague intervened directly, dealing with the Camorristi and reducing their demands to just 10 thousand euros.

However, he then allegedly made his business partner lawyer believe that the sum to be paid was 30 thousand euros, thus pocketing the difference of 20 thousand euros to the detriment of his accomplice.

The indignation of the policeman intercepted on the behavior of his colleague:

The story, reconstructed in detail from wiretaps, reveals the cynicism and casualness with which illicit business and relationships with criminals were handled. In one passage of the conversation between the two police officers, even disdain (or feigned disdain) for the situation and the behavior of the investigated colleague emerges: "The thing that hurt me, that hurt me was 'you paid us the bribe, eh, the police, you paid us the bribe, your colleague came to bring them to me' and I felt bad. I don't want to do anything more because of these vicissitudes, but hearing that I, a police officer, went to pay the bribe to a Camorrista, I felt bad because I, who thought a certain way and did certain types of work, then hearing that I went to pay the extortion, you understand?"

The conversation between the two agents, one of whom reports the story told to him by a man from the Fabbrocino clan, casts a further shadow on the criminal infiltration and corruption that permeated the system, highlighting the depth of a business that generated huge profits at the cost of serious crimes.

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