Two more arrests in Rome mafia case 'Ndrangheta link-update2

(ANSA) - Rome, December 11 - Carabinieri on Thursday arrested two more people as part of a massive probe into an suspected mafia organisation that allegedly muscled in on Rome city contracts in waste management, transportation, and migrant reception centers. Rocco Rotolo and Salvatore Ruggiero are accused of mafia association and are suspected of linking cooperatives controlled by Roman mobsters with the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta syndicate.
    Ruggiero, whom investigators say is linked to the Mancuso clan of the Calabrian mob, has been employed since 2009 in a company called Roma Multiservizi SpA, which is partially owned by the city of Rome. Its president since 2013 was Franco Panzironi, who has been arrested on charges of mafia association, corruption and bid-rigging.
    Panzironi is thought to be the right-hand man of ex rightwing terrorist and gangster Massimo Carminati, the alleged leader of the Rome mob who is now also behind bars. As well, investigators said Panzironi was an employee in 1998-1999 of the June 29 Cooperative led by fellow jailed suspect Salvatore Buzzi, a former manslaughter convict who headed several cooperatives implicated in the mafia probe.
    Buzzi was wiretapped apparently boasting about how much profit his gang was making by scamming city reception centres for refugees and migrants.
    "Do you have any idea how much I make on these immigrants?" Buzzi allegedly said in a wiretap from early 2013 contained in prosecution documents.
    "Drug trafficking is not as profitable. We closed this year with turnover of 40 million but...our profits all came from the gypsies (Roma people), the housing emergency and the immigrants".