Naples – A dramatic turn of events has struck at the Supreme Court of Cassation for Vincenzo Caiazzo, considered by investigators to be a key figure in the Licciardi criminal network. The First Section of the Supreme Court has overturned, with a referral, the order by which the Naples Review Court had confirmed the seriousness of the evidence against him.
The charge is very serious: criminal conspiracy for the purpose of drug trafficking, aggravated by mafia methods, on behalf of the historic Secondigliano clan.
The Supreme Court's decision
The Supreme Court of Cassation accepted the arguments of Caiazzo's defense attorney, Luigi Senese, overturning the previous decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals. In effect, the preliminary hearing order that found the evidence of Caiazzo's role in drug trafficking to be solid was annulled.
Now the ball is back in Naples' court: the Court of Review, with a different composition, will have to set a new hearing—already scheduled for November 28th—and proceed with a new assessment, adhering to the principles established by the "ermines."
The role in the clan's organizational chart
According to the Naples DDA (District Anti-Mafia Directorate), Vincenzo Caiazzo is not a common member.
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A role, therefore, that would place him at the top levels of the management of illicit businesses, first and foremost the importation and distribution of narcotics.
Victory over murder charges
This isn't the first recent legal success for Caiazzo's defense. Caiazzo himself, again assisted by attorney Senese, had already obtained the dismissal of another serious charge by the Naples Review Court: that of his participation in the murder of Domenico Gargiulo, 28, which occurred on September 6, 2019.
Gargiulo, known in criminal circles as "the Immortal"—a nickname eerily identical to that of Ciro Di Marzio's character in the series "Gomorrah"—was killed in an ambush. For that crime, Caiazzo had been arrested last April in a raid by the Naples Flying Squad along with five other people, including Antonio Bruno himself. The preliminary investigations court, however, had already found the evidence to be unfounded for the murder charge against Caiazzo.
Despite his victory in the Supreme Court on the drug charge and his previous victory on the murder charge, Vincenzo Caiazzo remains in prison, burdened by another precautionary measure for mafia-type criminal association. On November 28th, therefore, a new crucial issue regarding his pre-trial detention on drug trafficking will be played out.
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