Former economy undersecretary
and ex-People of Freedom (PdL) coordinator Nicola Cosentino on
Wednesday got seven and a half years in jail for extortion and
illegal competition with mafia links.
His brothers, Giovanni and Antonio, got nine and a half years
and five years, four months respectively from the court in Santa
Maria Capua Vetere near Naples.
The case against former Caserta prefect and ex-PdL MP Maria
Elena Stasi timed out.
In November a court in Caserta near Naples sentenced
Cosentino to nine years in prison and banned him from holding
public office for life for colluding with the Neapolitan Camorra
mafia.
Cosentino - who was elected MP four times between 1996-2008
as a member of three-time premier Silvio Berlusconi's
now-defunct PdL - was sentenced to four years in prison last
June for corrupting a prison guard.
The former MP was also involved in the so-called Eco4 trial
on alleged Camorra infiltration into Caserta-area consortiums.
He was arrested in April 2014 along with 12 others for
alleged extortion and unfair competition in favor of his family
petrol pump business in the southern Campania region.
Also on his rap sheet is a March 2013 arrest on suspicion
of collusion with the powerful Casalesi clan of the Neapolitan
Camorra mafia, whose death threats have forced anti-mafia writer
Roberto Saviano into 24-hour police protection.
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