The crimes, in various capacities hypothesized against them range from the “mafia -type association”, “extortion”, “usury”, “fictitious header of goods”, “undue access to devices suitable for communication by detained subjects”, up to “detention of firearms”.
8 were arrested (6 in prison and 2 under house arrest) in the district of Lamezia Terme From the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Catanzaro and agents of the State Police of Catanzaro and Lamezia Terme, with the coordination of the Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti -Mafia Directorate of Catanzaro. The preventive seizure of an car rental company and a sum of money for an amount of € 7,820.00.
The names of the arrested
In prison:
Francesco Amantea;
Antonio Iannazzo;
Francesco Iannazzo;
Pierdomenico Iannazzo;
Vincenzo Iannazzo;
Giovannina Rizzo.
Under house arrest:
Emanuele Iannazzo;
Giuseppe Ruffo.
The crimes of 2024 and the decimation of the Iannazzo-Annizza-Daponte gang
The investigation – conducted by the investigative nucleus of Lamezia Terme from June 2020 to September 2023, through technical activities and enriched by emergencies of other criminal proceedings concerning criminal facts that occurred in 2024 – has made it possible to ascertain the persistent operation of the Iannazzo gang, in a phase following the execution of larger police operations that led, on May 14, 2015 and 22 February 2015, to the decimation of the decimation of the decimation. Associative team Iannazzo-Annizza-Daponte.
The “Andromeda” operation and the attempt to reorganize
The peculiar historical moment framed by the investigation is that following the execution of the precautionary measures of the “Andromeda” procedure, characterized by the decimation of the aforementioned membership team ‘Ndranghetista and the consequent efforts of the family association to reorganize and resume illegal activities constituting the social program.
The condemnation of the head and the detention of the affiliates
These efforts have been made more complicated by excessive events pearly vitality of the clan such as the judgment passage of the sentences of condemnation of the head of the chief and the detention of the other affiliates.
The boss’s wife and his trusty man
In this moment of fibrillation of the group, the figures of the boss’s wife and of one of his most trusted men, never involved in previous judicial events, were fundamental. The latter had taken on the face of facing the momentary lack of economic resources and the related need to find funds to bear the legal expenses and the support of prisonerscollecting money from extorted or conniving subjects and leading fictitiously registered economic activities to third parties.
The headquarters between Sambiase and Sant’Eufemia
In fact, the criminal organization operating in the neighborhoods of Sambiase and Sant’Eufemia di Lamezia Terme (including the industrial area), in a more reduced subjective composition due to the detention of most of the affiliates, through the wife of the Capocosca, continued to exercise control of the territory, intervening in the quarrels and in the civil disputes between private individuals or ensuring “protection” from aggression. to the heritage and personal safety, and to carry out extortion and usury activities, reinvesting the capital accumulated in comfortable companies managed in a hidden way, but in fact formally made to “fictitious” third parties.
The car rental company and the figurehead
Specifically, it emerged that the mafia association, also in order to evade the provisions of the legal in the field of property prevention measures, fictitiously attributed the shares of a car hire company, present in the airport area, to a figurehead who managed the company assisted by his wife, employee of the company, carrying out the directives and operating under the control of the owners and hidden directors, who were collecting the Dividends proceeds of the activity.
Directives from prison
Some directives on the management of family affairs also came from prison, where the boss’s son was able, through a cell phone hidden in the cell, to communicate outside.
The extortion to the entrepreneur
In the documents of the file, there are episodes of extortion, of which the last in order of time, attempted against a construction entrepreneur who had just bought a shed in the industrial area. On another occasion, the arrested today, with explicit and implicit threats of violent actions against the person or his assets in the event of refusal that would have been perpetrated by representatives of the Iannazzo-Connizza-Daponte gang, forced a debtor of the car hire to pay a sum of money greater than € 2,150, as a collection of a controversial credit without resorting to legal shares.