Rome mob 'in business with 'Ndrangheta'

(ANSA) - Rome, January 9 - An alleged Rome crime syndicate which prosecutors say has been muscling in on city contracts has business ties with the powerful Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, a court said Friday.
    "Massimo Carminati's clan has been in business with the Mancuso 'Ndrangheta clan for years," the court wrote in its opinion as to why it declined to let jailed suspects Rocco Rotolo and Salvatore Ruggiero out on bail.
    Justice Minister Andrea Orlando in December ordered Italy's tough '41-bis' maximum security prison regime for Carminati, a former right-wing terrorist and gangster who is the alleged ringleader of a Rome-based crime syndicate allegedly involving politicians, businessmen, and civil servants including former mayor, Gianni Alemanno.
    Prosecutors believe Rotolo and Ruggiero are the connecting link between the Rome mob and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.
    Carminati's crime syndicate muscled in on profitable city contracts in construction, waste management, parks maintenance, and immigrant and refugee reception centers (CIEs), prosecutors said.