Naples prosecutors on Tuesday
placed Alfonso Papa, a former MP in ex-premier Silvio
Berlusconi's now-defunct People of Freedom (PdL) party, and his
father Giovanni Papa under house arrest on suspicion of
corruption and aiding and abetting the Belforte clan of the
Neapolitan Camorra mafia.
The Papas are accused of taking money and other assets in
exchange for favors extended to entrepreneurs Angelo and Roberto
Grillo, who are thought to be linked to the Belforte clan of the
Camorra.
Prosecutors in June charged office-cleaning magnate Angelo
Grillo with ordering the September 2006, murder of a mobster who
tried to extort protection money from him.
Mobster Angelo Cortese, 41, was gunned down after he asked
for protection money from Grillo's Cesap cleaning firm, which
did extensive business with provincial administrations and other
public agencies, police sources said.
Grillo has been held in jail since November as part of an
inquiry into extortion involving lucrative contracts with the
Caserta provincial health authority.
Alfonso Papa is no stranger to the prosecution.
In 2011 he was at the center of an influence-peddling case
known as the P4 affair. According to prosecutors, he used
classified information about ongoing investigations to
blackmail businessmen.
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