Secret services again protagonists in the “Mala Pigna” process, that is being celebrated in Palmi. The collaborator of justice was first pulled inside Cosimo Virgiglioasserting that he was part of it when he was driving a company within the port of Gioia Tauro. For services, the then entrepreneur of Rosarno would have had the task “… to view certain trafficking also to sensitive countries …”. Everything would have happened, among other things, while Virgiglio – condemned for external competition in the “Maestro” process – guaranteed the imports of goods counterfeited by China on behalf of the boss Rocco Molè.
In the hearing of June 4, however, he was called to testify to another collaborator of justice, Antonio Russoa small scammer at the service of the Clan of Gioia Tauro, sentenced in the “Easy” trial. And he also said he came into contact with some exponents of the Italian secret services. The issue is introduced by responding to a prosecutor’s application regarding alleged contacts between Rocco Delfino, the main attacker in the trial, and subjects of the institutions.
Secret services and Ciccio Pesce
“… I was hooked by the secret services – says Russo – that we say he wanted information from me and paid me. He had come to me because in an interception he understood that I was in difficulty with people because I was under wear and therefore he wanted me to make the name of the wear and tears and much more. I told him that I didn’t care, but he said to me: “But why don’t you come? With us there is Rocco Delfino, there is a certain fish as well”, I don’t remember the name now … so much so that they had offered me 70 thousand euros at that time if I told him where Ciccio Pesce was hidden “. Francesco Pesce, called “Testuni”, at the time of the facts was one of the most sought after fugitives in Italy, who escaped the arrests of the “All Inside” operation, which had beheaded the house of ‘Ndrangheta di Rosarno. Pesce was arrested on August 10, 2011.
“I said to him:” … I don’t care about this, I don’t want to have anything to do “… and then they arrested me in 2011 and I lost contacts … they had offered me 70,000 euros, if I told him where Ciccio Pesce was hidden,” because I don’t know these things, ask them to the Rosarnesi “”.
The gangs and purple basketball
The events of Rocco Delfino, in the testimony of Russo, also intertwine with the end of the historical alliance between the Pyrromalli and the Molè and with the Viola Basket of Reggio Calabria. “Then, first – explains the collaborator – as long as there were the Molè (Delfino, ed) was with the Molè, then from what I heard in prison for a sponsor that he had done to the basketball team, the Viola Basket of Reggio Calabria, told me GG. C. (Former Viola Manager arrested in 2014 for a round of scams on cars, editor’s note) who had passed with the Pyromalli and who also to captivate the sympathy of Gioacchino Piromalli “The lawyer”, had made him a sponsor quite substantial for … the team, the purple basketball “.
“Here, this explains it well – asks the prosecutor – So as long as Rocco Molè was alive until February 1, 2008, was Rocco Delfino tied to the Molè?”. «Yes – Russo replies – then most have all passed with the Pyromalli. … of those who were with the Molè … ». “So – underlines the prosecutor – was not formally, but in fact he managed the viola basketball Gioacchino Piromalli?”.
Russo: «Yes, occult partner, I said … the president was Muscolino … Gian Cesare, he was my schoolmate … It was to say a loyal to Gioacchino Piromalli. He was an entrepreneur … he had a problem once with a person of Gioia Tauro and the lawyer led him to live in the building where he had the study, until nobody touched a hair … I know why the intervention of … Girolamo Piromalli, called “Mommino”, was also asked, with whom we had a frequency … “.
Judicial administrators
Finally, the prosecutor introduces the question of the seizure of a supermarket of Gioia Tauro, a south idea, which would have been managed in a hidden way by Rocco Molè. The figures of the judicial administrators and their alleged conditioning by the clans emerge in Russo’s examination. Among these Giovanni Zumbo, sentenced to 11 years in the “small wagon” trial and also attributed to “Gotha”.
“First we had Scarigi, curator and Menduri … and then … they seem to me that they were affected by a further seizure and Gianni Zumbo took over … at that time that we provided him the milk had come to visit us Rocco (Molè, ed) to give the milk even if he was under curate that the curator had paid for it and Giovanni Zumbo always paid us … all the curators had the first curators … In Gioia Tauro on June 23, ’93, they wanted to do clean and felt the owners of the activities … they wanted to command for which they were summoned to the countryside by Pino Piromalli, from fugitive and … all three then made themselves available to Pino Piromalli saying that they would not have created problems for anyone and that we did not have to create problems for him and we did not create Dr. … Giovanni Zumbo. For another kidnapping … he did what Rocco Molè doctor said, he had no autonomy … ».