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

Napoli – Disturbing details emerge from wiretaps in the investigation that led to 45 precautionary measures in San Giuseppe Vesuviano and surrounding municipalities for the migrant scam.

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 an inquiry into the Camorra and the Fabbrocino clan and the repentant also spoke about him Rosary Giugliano, or minor, former boss of Poggiomarino. An intercepted conversation reveals how the illegal deal on the business of permits to migrants worth over a million euros, managed by the policeman and the lawyer Vincenzo Sangiovanni, indicated as the chief promoter of the scam organizers, had 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 the wiretaps, reveals the cynicism and ease with which illicit business and relationships with crime were managed. In a passage of the dialogue between the two policemen, even the indignation (or simulation of it) emerges for the situation and for the behavior of the investigated colleague: “the thing that hurt me, that hurt me '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 policeman, went to pay the bribe to a Camorrista made me feel bad because I who thought in a certain way and did certain types of work then hearing that I went to pay the extortion, 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.