On 7 June 2024, sentence no. 28/2024 of the Court of Catanzaro became final and irrevocable, which in the operation called “Imponimento” acquitted Dominic Fraoneaccountant, former councilor of the Province of Vibo Valentia, from the infamous accusation of external competition in mafia association and from the crime of fictitious registration of assets with the aggravating circumstance of mafia facilitation with the full formula because the facts do not exist. The District Attorney of Catanzaro has not appealed against the sentence of full acquittal because the fact does not exist. Domenico Fraone thanks his lawyers Avv.ti Guido Contestabile, Atty. Serena Lacaria and Lawyer Francis Matthew Wet and Lawyer Mario Wet who have always believed in his innocence.
The judicial ordeal that began in the operation called “Imponimento” on the night of 07/21/2020 is over, when following investigations conducted by the Guardia di Finanza, Domenico Fraone was arrested by 100 soldiers with the help of a helicopter in execution of a hasty arrest order issued by the DDA of Catanzaro and was transported to the prison of Siano awaiting transfer to other penitentiary institutions. Following the arrest, all assets were seized and the family company was placed under judicial administration; the name of Domenico Fraone, son of the Carabinieri, and the honor of the family have been tarnished by the false accusations that have been published in all the local newspapers, given also the public relevance of the public office held. Domenico Fraone became seriously ill with fulminant acute promyelocytic leukemia on 17.9.2021. Domenico Fraone wishes to clarify that the release of the assets had been ordered on 9.2.2023 by the Court of Catanzaro, also following a report by the Attorney General of the Court of Cassation who had deemed the contested crimes non-existent and not even abstractly conceivable, but the company was returned with debts of over six million euros for tax documents issued by the Revenue Agency of Vibo Valentia during the judicial administration that did not challenge them. Domenico Fraone still cannot explain how the investigators could have mistaken clear and evident extortions suffered by him at the hands of top members of the consorteries in favor of very specific individuals, many resulting from the CNR, from the arrest order and from the interception compendium, with a contribution that Domenico Fraone would have made to the local gangs. In practice, the victim was confused with the executioner..
The defense has demonstrated that in all the contested episodes Fraone had been the victim of requests and impositions by the clans and that this was evident from the same investigations by the Guardia di Finanza. Domenico Fraone cannot explain howand to date no action has been taken against the perpetrators of the impositions that he promptly denounced; evidently behind some subjects there are hidden interests too strong to be revealed. How to destroy the reputation, the professional, economic, personal and family life of a professional, “the perfect formula”.