Former Forza Italia MP Giancarlo
Pittelli was given a jail term of 11 years by a court in Lamezia
Terme on Monday as judges started to read out the sentences for
338 defendants in the so-called Rinascita Scott 'maxi' trial
against alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta mafia in the Calabian
province of Vibo Valentia and the mob's white-collar
facilitators.
Prosecutors had requested a prison term of 17 years for him.
Carabinieri police Lieutenant Colonel Giorgio Naselli was
sentenced to two years and six months in jail, much less than
the eight years requested, former Finance Police Officer Michele
Marinaro got 10 years and six months, compared to the 17 years
requested, and former regional councillor Pietro Giamborino was
sentenced to 18 months, while prosecutors had wanted him put
away for 20 years.
The court gave 30 years to Saverio Razionale and Domenico
Bonavota, the bosses of the San Gregorio and Sant'Onofrio clans.
The former mayor of the town of Pizzo, Gianluca Callipo, was
acquitted after prosecutors had requested an 18-year sentence
for him.
The court is handing down its rulings in a specially set-up
'bunker' courtroom in Lamezia Terme after two years and 10
months of hearings.
The 'Ndrangheta is widely considered to have become Italy's most
powerful organized-crime syndicate thanks to its control over
much of the cocaine that arrives in Europe and its reach has
stretched outside its base in the southern region of Calabria
and gone beyond the country's borders.
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