• Mafia, the hands of the clans on betting: 40 million euros seized

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June 18, 2020 They would receive money to pilot, delay or reveal details of investigations on the Di Cosola clan, providing on some occasions a copy of the reports of the collaborators of justice. For the crimes of external competition in mafia association, corruption in judicial documents revealing the secret of office, the carabinieri, at the disposal of the DDA of Bari, arrested two CCs of the Giovinazzo station. In jail, by order issued by the investigating magistrate of Bari Marco Galesi, a merchant and a convicted member of the clan, accused of mafia association, also ended up.

The investigations, coordinated by the prosecutor Federico Perrone Capano, found that the two carabinieri, both officers, on several occasions, would "receive money and other utilities to omit or delay acts of their office and to perform acts contrary to the duties of the office, to the in order to facilitate some belonging to the local branch of the Di Cosola clan ". In turn, the convicted person involved in the investigation, through the trader, would have induced the two carabinieri to reveal information relating to judicial police operations also on ongoing investigations, to provide details on the service shifts of the colleagues of the station and on the times in which the controls against the affiliates subjected to coercive measures would take place, as well as to deliver, on three separate occasions, electronic and paper documents containing recordings and minutes of declarations made by collaborators of justice.