From the first light of dawn, the State Police of Palermo is carrying out a vast anti-Mafia operation against the mafia of Brancaccio.
The subjects involved will have to answer, for various reasons, for mafia association, extortion, criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, self-laundering, fraudulent damage to insured assets and more. The provision of "Catch of suspect of crime", ordered by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Palermo Prosecutor's Office which coordinated the investigations, is carried out by the policemen of the mobile squad.
Today's operation is the culmination of a complex investigation, carried out by the Palermo Flying Squad on the mafia district of Brancaccio and on the mafia families of Corso dei Mille and Roccella, which made an unprecedented radiograph of Cosa Nostra and its criminal interests.
Alongside the historic interests for robberies and drug dealing, which is also widely controlled through the use of middle managers, it emerged that even the lucrative insurance scam market attracted mafia attention.
From this point of view, it was found that "Cosa Nostra" had extended its "longa manus" also to the criminal phenomenon of insurance fraud, carried out through the violent criminal conduct of the so-called "bone breakers" and the "sacrifice" of victims chosen in contexts social degraded, willing to have caused very serious fractures. This is a bleak criminal cross section already discovered by the State Police in August 2018 and April 2019, which led to the arrest of dozens of unscrupulous criminals.
It has now emerged that the Cosa Nostra coffers benefited from the lavish liquidation of the damage resulting from the fake incidents, which received large sums after deducting the "expenses" of a few thousand euros to be allocated to the "bone breakers" and other participants in the scene During today's operation, massive seizures of movable and immovable property are also underway.