From the first light of dawn In Siderno, Placanica, Riace and Cauloniathe Carabinieri of the Compagnia di Locri – with the support of the Roccella Jonica company – performed a device order of precautionary measures personal, issued by the investigating judge of Reggio Calabria at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti -Mafia Directorate directed by Giuseppe Lombardo, towards 5 people (of which 4 in prison and 1 under house arrest)held responsible in competition with each other and in execution of the same criminal design, of the crimes of extortion aggravated by the mafia method and disturbed freedom of the enchantments.
The investigations, conducted by the military of the Operational and Radiomobile Unit of the Carabinieri Company of Locri, starting from March 2023, have paid attention to the annious plague of the crime of extortion aggravated by the mafia method, placed in place to the detriment of entrepreneurs of the locride, engaged in the sector of public contracts.
The investigations originated from the declarations made by a manager of a technical office of a municipality in Locridewho reported, albeit de-report, of the impossibility externalized by the owner of “Done“Of a construction company in the area, to adhere to an invitation to participate in a contract procedure, concerning the renovation of some roads of the Municipality of Siderno (RC). The reason for the impossibility would have been to be found in the threats that the professional would have suffered, by not better precise subjects, interested in carrying out the”Work“In Siderno.
He was documented a “encounter“which took place in March 2023, in a property directly attributable to one of the suspects, To force the entrepreneur and indirectly his son (formal owner of the company), not to participate in a tender for the renovation of the road surface in the municipality of Siderno.
Furthermorethe role of “intermediary“Carried out by the entrepreneur’s brotherwho would have led the latter not to participate in the tender, assuming a situation of concrete danger for the company, otherwise.
Finally, the use of the method and the conditions of the mafia mold association was found such as, in particular, the methods of convening the offended person (at a place unknown to him), in the presence of a group of individuals, some not known to him but with criminal curriculum, representing the contiguity of some with the local of ‘ndrangheta of Siderno.