Three charged in Naples mob slaying

(ANSA) - Naples, June 24 - Investigating magistrates Tuesday completed a seven-year probe by charging Angelo Grillo, an office-cleaning magnate allegedly linked to the Camorra, with ordering the murder of a mobster who tried to extort protection money.
    Grillo has been held in jail since November as part of an inquiry into extortion involving lucrative contracts with the Caserta provincial health authority. Also charged with the Sept. 16, 2006, murder of Angelo Cortese at Montedecoro were Giorgio and Clemente D'Albenzio, two brothers aged 54 and 59, both also already in prison and considered veteran members of the Belforte clan of the Camorra in the mafia-infested Marcianise area.
    Cortese, 41, was gunned down after he asked Grillo for protection money from Grillo's Cesap cleaning firm, which did extensive business with provincial administrations and other public agencies, police sources said.
    Police allege that Grillo was at the time close to the Belforte clan while Cortese was working for the rival Piccolo clan. Clan boss Salvatore Belforte reportedly agreed to a request from Grillo to "remove the problem" and ordered his men to shoot and kill Cortese, police sources said.
    Two members of a four-man hit team that killed Cortese subsequently turned state's evidence and alleged that Grillo instigated the slaying.
    In 2013, police arrested Belforte and two of the alleged hitmen for the murder but an earlier indictment against Grillo and the D'Albenzio brothers was rejected by an appeal court and the Supreme Court.
    Police continued to investigate, leading to the present indictment.