More than three hundred years in prison. This is the amount of the punishment requests put forward by the Rome Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office against 24 defendants, including several Calabrians from the province of Reggio Calabria who include leading exponents of an alleged, powerful and branched ‘Ndrangheta clan originating from Platì. The very heavy penalties, including 5 to 20 years in prison, were advanced in the indictment of the anti-mafia prosecutor at the “Anemone” trial, the maxi blitz that took place in Rome in July 2025. A detailed investigation which, according to the investigators, would have lifted the lid on the alleged drug trafficking control system imposed by the Marando family, originally from Platì, in the Roman district of San Basilio.
NAMES AND REQUESTS
The heaviest requests concern Rosario Marando, 58 years old, originally from Platì and indicated by investigators as the top figure of the organisation, and his son Francesco Marando, 29 years old. Two decades of prison were also requested for Marco Bettini, Marco Lenti and Arjan Sagajeva, while for Antonio, Luigi and other members of the Marando family the requests were lower.
Among the recipients of the punishment requests are also Marco Lenti, 38 years old, Alessio Di Pietro, 25 years old, and Federico Mennuni, 29 years old, arrested in Spain, in Ibiza, in August 2025 after evading the execution of the precautionary measures of the “Anemone” operation. For Lenti the public prosecution has requested 20 years of imprisonment, while for Di Pietro the request is 16 years and for Mennuni 8 years, as well as a fine of 40 thousand euros. The capture of the three came thanks to a joint operation between the ROS carabinieri and the Spanish police.
Finally, these are the other sentencing requests: 16 years for Alessio Di Pietro, Beqir Mema and Pasquale Trimboli; 14 years and 8 months for Riza Muco and Gian Claudio Vannicola; 14 years for Fatjon Berisha, alias Bledar; 13 years, 4 months and 24 days for Marco Altomare; 12 years and 8 months for Angelo Turone; 12 years for Domenico Natale Perre; 10 years for Antonio Marando, Luigi Marando and Antonio Callipari; 8 years for Alessio Cervellini, Federico Mennuni, Maurizio Miconi, Elis Roga and Stefano Sbardella; 7 years and 4 months for Francesco Mozzetta; 6 years for Domenico Pangallo.
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