(ANSA) - Rome, April 27 - 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.
They requested 19 and a half years for Luca Gramazaio, a
former Rome and Lazio regional councillor, and 21 years for
Franco Panzironi, former CEO of municipal waste management
company AMA.
Carminati 28 yrs asked, Buzzi 26 yrs (4)
For part in Capital Mafia case