In the Maxi trial, Riina was sentenced in absentia to two life sentences. [24] Riina pinned his hopes on the lengthy appeals process that had often freed convicted mobsters, and he suspended the campaign of assassinations against officials while cases went to higher courts. When the convictions were upheld by the Supreme Court of Cassation on 30 January 1992,[1][41] the Council of Patrons, led by Riina, responded by ordering the assassination of Salvatore Lima (on the grounds that he was an ally of Giulio Andreotti) and Falcone. After several years of investigations by the anti-mafia pool, the trial opened on 10 February 1986. The president of the court was Alfonso Giordano, flanked by two other judges who were “deputies” if something fatal happened to Giordano before the end of a long trial. [32] The defendants are charged with 120 murders, drug trafficking, extortion, and the new law that criminalizes being a member of the mafia, the first time that law has been put to trial. The trial took place in an octagonal bunker-shaped building built next to Ucciardone prison. It could house hundreds of people, including defendants, witnesses, lawyers, politicians and police officers. It has a computerized document archiving system and a structure capable of withstanding missile attacks. [33] [34] From Italy to Japan: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Groups Around the World In a verdict read in the Sicilian capital Palermo, Judge Angelo Pellino said that three former police investigators and a close associate of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had committed no crime in the case that captured Italy. Academic John Dickie joins elite special forces unit searching for secret mafia bunkers The `Ndrangheta rose to prominence after the maxi trials of the late 1980s, which significantly weakened the Cosa Nostra mafia families in Sicily. The defendants in this case ranged from businessmen to politicians. Over the next two years, 355 alleged members will be tried for their involvement.
The ongoing trial began in January 2021 and anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri was in charge throughout the case. Due to his efforts to defeat the group, Gratteri has been forced to live under police escort for the past 30 years. On March 31, 1980, the politician Pio La Torre initiated a bill that introduced a new crime into the Italian legal system, the mafia conspiracy and the possibility for the courts to confiscate and confiscate the property of the people of the mafia conspiracy. [9] With the inclusion of the mafia conspiracy in Article 416bis of the Italian Penal Code, a serious gap has been filled. Despite its obvious danger, mafia conspiracy has not been recognized as a criminal phenomenon by the penal code. As a result, many judges did not consider the mafia to be a criminal organization. The provisions of article 416 of the Criminal Code relating to mafia-type associations make it possible to deal with local and limited phenomena of related crime, but not with organized crime. [10] In the early 1970s, Luciano Leggio was the head of the Corleonesi clan and a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission, and he forged a coalition of mafia clans known as Corleonesi with himself as leader. He launched a campaign to dominate Cosa Nostra and its drug trafficking. Leggio was imprisoned in 1974, so he acted through his deputy Salvatore Riina, to whom he eventually handed over control. The Corleonesi bribed financially weak Palermo clans into the herd, infiltrated members of other clans, and secretly recruited new members.
[3] In 1977, the Corleonesi expelled Gaetano Badalamenti from the commission on trumped-up charges of concealing drug revenues. [4] In April 1981, the Corleonesi assassinated rival Commissioner Stefano Bontade, and the second Mafia war began in earnest. [5] Hundreds of enemy mafiosi and their relatives have been murdered,[6] sometimes by traitors in their own clans. By manipulating the rules of the mafia and eliminating its rivals, the Corleonesi completely dominated the commission. Riina used his power over the commission to replace the bosses of certain clans with handpicked leaders. [7] In the end, the Corleonesi faction won and Riina effectively became the “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian mafia. The Calabrian process affects a large number of employees and does not target the highest hierarchies of the `Ndrangheta clans, as in the case of Palermo. According to prosecutors, talks between the Mafia and the Italian state began after Judge Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were murdered by a bomb under a highway in 1992. This is the largest trial against organized crime in Italy since that of the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra in the late 1980s. The Calabrian mafia `Ndrangheta, one of the most powerful in the world, was tried in early 2021. As of November, approximately 70 convictions have been handed down and 355 accused remain unconvicted.
Our correspondent Louise Malnoy met the protagonists of this so-called “maxi” process, in which many southern Italians place their hopes. The Ndrangheta Mafia is one of the largest and most powerful organized crime groups in Italy, consisting of more than 150 families. The present study focused specifically on the Mancuso family. In December 2019, 2,500 police officers searched many of the group`s hideouts as part of a massive operation. ROME, Nov 8 (Reuters) – An Italian judge has found 70 defendants guilty of the first conviction in one of the country`s largest mafia trials. In the early 1980s, the Bonanno family was expelled from the commission due to the infiltration of Donnie Brasco, and although Rastelli was one of the men initially charged, this withdrawal from the commission actually allowed Rastelli to be removed from the commission process, as he was later charged with separate extortion. Having already lost their seat on the Commission, the Bonannos have suffered less exposure than other families in this case. [17] [18] The basis for the Maxi trial was provided in the preliminary investigation phase of the Palermo anti-mafia pool, founded by Judge Rocco Chinnici and composed of Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Giuseppe Di Lello and Leonardo Guarnotta.
After the assassination of Chinnici in July 1983, his successor Antonino Caponnetto was at the head of the pool.[1] .