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24 October 2019The Naples mobile team, delegated by the Neapolitan Dda, carried out an order for the application of personal precautionary measures issued by the investigating judge against 23 persons for mafia-type association, aggravated extortion, receiving and usury. The investigations, which took place from 2016 to 2017, thanks to wiretapping, telephone and environmental and to the declarations of numerous collaborators of justice, made it possible to reconstruct the existence and operation of a criminal organization active in the Sant'Erasmo district , headed by Carmine Montescuro, nicknamed o 'munuzz'.

Montescuro as mediator between the clans at the head
Montescuro, according to the character investigators of considerable criminal charisma, as well as performing, for at least twenty years, the role of mediator in the controversies that arose between the various Camorra organizations, would also direct an autonomous group that acts following the common patterns of the mafia organizations , imposing itself on the territory and controlling all its illegal activities. It would also have "the availability of a common fund and weapons, has relations with other criminal organizations, provides for the technical defense of the affiliates and the maintenance of the prisoners and their families, as well as the payment of a salary to the members and has the capacity to infiltrate the productive fabric with a remarkable recycling activity ", reads the release of the operation, called 'Little Switzerland'.

The proceeds of extortion
The interim order reconstructs numerous relationships related to the Montescuro clan and intended to ensure the organization of illicit proceeds, in particular extortion to merchants and entrepreneurs operating in the Port area. From the elements reported in the precautionary provision it appears that extortion was also committed against the entrepreneurs involved in the renovation and maintenance of the roadway which starts from Via Marina and also involves the port area up to the eastern area. The proceeds of the extortions to the construction sites committed by the Montescuro clan have been divided among the various criminal organizations, recipients of a quota determined on the basis of the influence on the territory. In this way, Carmine Montescuro would have succeeded in maintaining the balance between the various associations, avoiding the emergence of conflicts, and at the same time guaranteeing the regular execution of extortion activities and the participation of all in illicit profits, so that some collaborators of justice, by virtue of their neutral position, they indicated that the Montescuro clan operated in S. Erasmo, as, indeed, a 'small Switzerland'.

An organization rooted in the commercial fabric
The modalities and the capillarity with which the extortion activity was carried out represent a clear symptom of the complete conspiracy of the social and economic fabric to the will of the organization, so that different are the entrepreneurs, victims of actions and manifestations of violence, which, subjected to a condition of total psychic and physical subjection, they denied having suffered extortion requests. The interim order was issued, in fact, as well as for the associative offense, also for 12 episodes of extortion consumed and 3 attempts at extortion, all committed against the contracting companies of the works of remaking the road artery, as well as a cooperative of former prisoners and a notary. The participation in the extortion activities in a direct or indirect manner of the heads of many of the organizations operating in the area, even in contrast with each other, has meant that among the recipients of the precautionary measure there are the major exponents of Neapolitan organized crime.