(ANSA) Rome, April 17 - Prosecutors asked a court Friday
to convict two bosses of the vicious Casalesi clan of the
Camorra for alleged defamation and slander of anti-corruption
czar Raffaele Cantone and to hand them a six year prison
sentence.
The Rome prosecutors asked the sentence be handed down to
Casalesi kingpins Antonio Iovine and Francesco Bidognetti as
well as their lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, for defaming Cantone
and a prosecutor in Reggio Calabria, Federico Cafiero de Raho.
The three all were charged with using "mafia methods".
Cantone worked for many years as a magistrate fighting the
Camorra, the Naples version of the Mafia, before he was
appointed as a special national crimefighter against corruption.
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