Ended with 45 convictionsthe appeal process of the “impasse” anti -drug operation conducted by Finance Guard of Messina which in 2022 resulted in a series of arrests. At the center of the investigation, aOrganization that traveled drugs and who had his headquarters in the carousel district.
The Court of Appeal, chaired by the judge Caterina Manganohas remodeled the sentence for 36 defendants confirming the first instance sentence for another 9. Sentenced to 17 years of age Giovambattista Cuscinàconsidered at the head of the organization, also reduced for Francesco Cuscinà sentenced to 12 years. The investigation, coordinated by the Messina District Anti -Mafia Directorate, also made it possible to discover the supply channels in Calabria and Catania.
To the investigations and interceptions were added the declarations of the collaborators of justice who allowed investigators to reconstruct a dense network of reports and illegal business of the Association Which, as contested by the accusation, could boast on stable supply channels to guarantee the constant flow of drugs of various types, from cocaine, marijuana and hashish.