The entrepreneurs Alessandro Rovetta and Francesco Vecchio would have been killed on October 31, 1990 at the Magara steelworks website in Catania from the mafia for the refusal to give in to the requests of ‘lace’. And after the double murder, the company decided to “correspond to Cosa Nostra a billion lire from provisions in black specially created in the management” of the company. A payment for which he would have made a Role from the mediator Vincenzo Vinciullo, 81 years old, who is investigated, and a search is underway in Messina carried out by the Dia and the Interforze Judicial Police Unit of the Prosecutor General of Catania.
It is the reconstruction of the double murder made by the Prosecutor General of Catania who on 9 January last had the investigation for which there were several archives. The file is coordinated by the prosecutor General Carmelo Zuccaro and by two of his substitutes: Nicolò Marino and Giovannella Saminaci.
According to the accusation, after the double murder Amato Stabiumi and Ettore Lonati of Alfa Acciai, a Brescia company that after the death of Rovetta held the majority shares of Megara, would have decided to give in to the pressure of the gang, paying “a billion lire in black”. To mediate the payment, contest the PG of Catania, would have been the Entrepreneur Messinatoday 81 years old, Vincenzo Vinciullo, who had played in the past the role of megara commercial agent, now called Acciaierie Sicilia.
For the Etna Public Prosecutor’s Office, Vinciullo would have had the role of ‘negotiator’ among the top of the Megara, passed under the control of the Bresciana Alfa Acciaia, and the provincial leaders of Cosa Nostra of Palermo, Caltanissetta and Catania. According to the accusation, the extortion activity would then “go on for years”. The name of Vinciullo is contained in the ‘Grande East’ information, a vast investigation, before the Dia and then of the Ros, on the family of Cosa Nostra of Caltanissetta, based on the declarations of the infiltrate Luigi Ilardo killed by the mafia in Catania, and in the correspondence on ‘Pizzini’ that the Capomafia Bernardo Provenzano received and sent through Simone Castello.
The investigation into the double murder, after a cancellation with a postponement of a previous storage by the Cassation for the failure to notify the request to the civil parties, had returned to the Prosecutor of Catania who had asked for, and obtained, from the investigating judge the storage of the positions of the first five suspects. The investigating magistrate Marina Rizza wrote that “there were no circumstantial elements in support of their sharing” to the double murder, but ordered new investigations believing that from a declaration of collaborators of justice it would “emerge involvement in the affair of Aldo Ercolano and Orazio Privitera”.
In March 2023, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic asked for a precautionary measure for Carmelo Privitera, investigated with Francesco Rapisarda, for which no request was submitted for his age, 80 years old and subsequently a new storage. Also against this decision, the lawyers of the offended parties, the brothers Pierpaolo and Salvatore Vecchio, assisted by lawyers Enzo Mellia and Giuseppe Lo Faro presented opposition. The Mobile Team of the Police Headquarters investigated the double murder.
The avocation of the investigation, on January 9, 2025, was signed by the prosecutor General Carmelo Zuccaro who assigned the file to the substitutes Nicolò Marino and Giovannella Scampinaci. The general prosecutor motivated by stating that “the investigations carried out by the prosecutor did not develop the theme placed by the investigating judge” on the “dynamics between Aldo Ercolano and Orazio Privitera”. According to the repentant Eugenio Sturiale, “Herculaneum would have commissioned him to be the Rovetta murder so that it was more difficult to trace the Catanese ‘family’ of Cosa Nostra as a principal”. And this, he wrote the PG, “also for the local gangling environment” because The decision to kill the owner of a company that was under the ‘protection’ of Cosa Nostra and with which companies controlled by those ‘families’ did business “.
According to the general prosecutor, the track indicated by Sturiale “finds significant, albeit partial, finds in the declarations of Giuseppe Ferone” and, underlined the PG, was not an obstacle that Orazio Privitera was detained, so much so that Ferone indicates in “his brother, Carmelo Privitera, among the material executors of the twofold crime”.