Massimo Carminati, a former gangster
and ex-member of the NAR right-wing terrorist group, was found
guilty by a Rome court on Thursday over allegations he was part
of an organisation that muscled in on city contracts worth
millions.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Another ringleader of the so-called Capital Mafia, leftwing
cooperatives chief Salvatore Buzzi, got 19 years.
The accusation of mafia association was scrubbed for 19
defendants in the so-called Capital Mafia case, including
ringleaders Carminati and Buzzi, by Thursday's ruling.
Former Rome migrants panel chief Luca Odevaine got six and a
half years while former Rome council assembly chair Mirko
Coratti of the centre-left Democratic Party got six years.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was in court for the reading out of
the sentences. The city is a civil plaintiff.
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