The mayor of a small town near
Naples, Orta di Atella, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly
conspiring with Neapolitan Camorra mafia bosses to turn it into
a concrete dormitory serving Naples and other cities via a raft
of illegal construction schemes backed by the Mob.
Angelo Brancaccio, who served as Orta's first citizen for 18
years, was arrested on suspicion of Camorra-style criminal
association.
Prosecutors say Brancaccio and his alleged gangster
accomplices, including the notorious Casalesi clan, "covered 80%
of the town in concrete while not putting in primary services
like sewers and roads".
Flats were sold at "rock-bottom" prices to attract families
from Naples, Caserta and other nearby cities, they said.
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