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15 January 2020 The Messina clans are betting on EU money which, according to the Ros and Finance investigation which led to the arrest of 94 people today, would have unduly pocketed European funds for over 5.5 million euros, putting hundreds of swindles were signed by the Agency for agricultural disbursements (AGEA), the body that provides EU funds to agricultural producers.


The suspects are 194 in total. Of the 94 measures issued 48 are measures of pre-trial detention in prison, the others of house arrest. The leaders of the Mafia families of the Batanesi and Bontempo Scavo, gregarious, extortors and "colonels" of the two historical clans of the Nebrodi, ended up in the cell. The accusations are, in various capacities, of mafia association, aggravated fraud, fictitious registration of assets, extortion, drug trafficking. The investigation also involves unsuspected entrepreneurs and professionals such as a notary accused of external competition in a mafia association. The investigating magistrate of Messina who issued the order, Sergio Mastroeni, analyzed over 30 thousand pages of judicial documents. The investigation was carried out by the Carabinieri del Ros, the provincial command of Messina and the Agro-food Protection Command and by the Financiers of the provincial command. of Messina.