An alleged Rome crime syndicate
which prosecutors say has been muscling in on city contracts has
business ties with the powerful Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta
mafia, a court said Friday.
"Massimo Carminati's clan has been in business with the
Mancuso 'Ndrangheta clan for years," the court wrote in its
opinion as to why it declined to let jailed suspects Rocco
Rotolo and Salvatore Ruggiero out on bail.
Justice Minister Andrea Orlando in December ordered Italy's
tough '41-bis' maximum security prison regime for Carminati, a
former right-wing terrorist and gangster who is the alleged
ringleader of a Rome-based crime syndicate allegedly involving
politicians, businessmen, and civil servants including former
mayor, Gianni Alemanno.
Prosecutors believe Rotolo and Ruggiero are the connecting
link between the Rome mob and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.
Carminati's crime syndicate muscled in on profitable city
contracts in construction, waste management, parks maintenance,
and immigrant and refugee reception centers (CIEs), prosecutors
said.
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