(see related)The top ranks of
the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) knew Quarto Mayor
Rosa Capuozzo was being blackmailed by an M5S member there
linked to the Camorra mafia but they kept it quiet, Democratic
Party (PD) Senator Franco Mirabelli said Tuesday.
"(M5S chiefs Beppe) Grillo and (Gianroberto) Casaleggio
expelled Capuozzo...and we will ask she be heard by the
parliamentary anti-Mafia commission," said Mirabelli, who is the
PD caucus leader on that commission.
"We need to know the truth because you can't get away with
it just by expelling people," he told Sky TG24 news channel.
"National M5S executives are clearly involved," he said.
"Both (Luigi) Di Maio and (Roberto) Fico knew about this
issue since November, as is made clear in the wiretaps," he
said.
"But none of them reported it to police".
M5S bigwigs earlier on Tuesday denied knowing about the
goings-on in Quarto.
Fico, chair of the parliamentary oversight commission on
RAI State TV, said neither he nor Lower House Deputy Speaker
Luigi Di Maio "ever knew about any blackmail, threat or
trade-off via threats to obtain something".
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