Eight convictions, one acquittal: the judicial raid against the Angelino clan. Weapons, widespread racketeering, systematic threats: a territory under pressure to secure control of criminal activities in Caivano.
The preliminary investigations judge, largely accepting the position of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, handed down eight convictions against the men of the clan led by Antonio Angelino, known as “Tibiuccio.”
However, the sentences are lower than the requests made by the public prosecutor, who in his closing speech had asked for much heavier sentences.
The defendants were charged, to varying degrees, with mafia association, extortion, and attempted extortion, crimes contested in the Caivano area between 2021 and 2022, thanks in part to the infamous "protection list."
Repentant Barra: "Angelino earned €20 a month while on the run."
The convictions are part of a heavy evidentiary framework, supported by the statements of justice collaborator Giovanni Barra, who reconstructed key moments in the clan's management before the magistrates.
Barra recounts a meeting on July 6, 2023, when the boss Angelino – then a fugitive – showed up armed with a Kalashnikov and a 9x21 pistol, furious at not having received the usual sum of €20.000, considered a steady income from drug trafficking and extortion.
“Angelino didn't need the extortion list: he knew by heart all the victims who had to pay,” the collaborator declared.
After the boss's arrest, Barra reported that he personally collected the list of extortion payments from Assunta Reccia, to ensure that the extortion program continued without interruption:
“I told her, 'We're here now.' She needed to talk to me; I was Angelino's contact.”
The repentant then confirmed an attempt at internal reorganization of the racket:
“I suggested to Angelino that I take care of all the extortion: I would fix the country and send him 30.000 euros a month.”
A sentence that weighs heavily
Even with lighter sentences than the prosecution had proposed, the sentence portrays a solid, widespread criminal system capable of maintaining control of the territory even while its leader was on the run.
The trial, now in its first instance, represents a crucial step in the strategy to combat the Camorra in Caivano, an area suffocated for years by extortion, illicit trafficking, and a "geography of protection rackets" that is now finding, at least in part, an answer in the courts.
The sentences
Giovanni Cipolletti – 13 years old
Antonio Angelino – 10 years and 6 months (PM request: 18 years)
Michele Leodato – 8 years and 8 months
Ferdinando Sorvillo – 8 years and 2 months
Gaetano Angelino – 8 years and 2 months
Aniello Leodato – 8 years old (PM request: 12 years old)
Raffaele Lionelli – 8 years old
Massimiliano Volpicelli – 5 years and 2 months
Ferdinando Grimaldi Capitello – acquitted
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