A prosecutor on Thursday asked a
court to sentence the two ringleaders in the Capital Mafia case,
Massimo Carminati and Salvatore Buzzi, to 28 years and 26 years
and three months respectively for their part in the sprawling
graft case. Carminati exulted, arms raised as if he had scored a
goal, when the request was read out and the prosecutor asked
that he be recognised as an habitual criminal. Carminati, a
former rightist terrorist and gangster, and Buzzi, a former
leftwing cooperatives chief, are accused of leading a criminal
organisation that muscled in on a slew of lucrative city of Rome
contracts. The pair allegedly boasted they could make more money
out of running Roma and migrant camps than they could have got
out of drug trafficking. Carminati was allegedly the brains
behind the operation and Buzzi his main business arm. In all,
for the 46 defendants, prosecutors asked for a total of 515
years in prison.
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