Mafia, Dia and Dda operation in Rome. The sons of Enrico Nicoletti and Michele Senese also arrested
In the sights of the investigators, two criminal associations that were laundering huge profits through a submerged strategy, progressively infiltrating seemingly legal business activities in fields such as film, construction, logistics, and the car and fuel trade
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There are also the sons of the former historical member of the Banda della Magliana Enrico Nicoletti and of the boss Michele Senese, Antonio Nicoletti and Vincenzo Senese, among those arrested in the maxi operation of the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia, coordinated by the DDA of Rome, which led to 18 measures, 16 in prison and two under house arrest, and to seizures of over 130 million euro. The charges brought, for various reasons and according to the positions, are of criminal association with mafia aggravation, aimed at committing crimes of extortion, usury, weapons, fictitious registration of assets, money laundering, self-laundering and re-investment in economic activities of illicit proceeds, aggravated by the purpose of having facilitated the Mazzarella-D'Amico Camorra clans, the Mancuso and Mazzaferro 'ndrangheta cosche and the Senese clan.
Money laundering through 'fictitious' companies
.In the course of the investigation, launched in 2018 by the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate - Rome Operations Centre, with the coordination of the Dda under Assistant Prosecutor Ilaria Calò, elements were collected on two criminal associations that through a strategy of submergence recovered huge profits, progressively infiltrating apparently legal business activities in multiple fields such as cinematography, construction, logistics, car and hydrocarbon trading. Thus, numerous 'fictitious' companies were set up to issue false invoices with the support of, among others, entrepreneurs and freelancers.
Sons of Art
.Accused of being at the head of the first association, on which the investigation focused from the beginning, are Antonio Nicoletti, son of Enrico Nicoletti, and Pasquale Lombardi, together with subjects such as Salvatore D'Amico and his son Umberto, and Umberto Luongo. According to the prosecution, a complex network of 'paper' companies registered in the name of nominees through which huge sums of money from the Campania clans were laundered, was allegedly created with the participation of numerous individuals belonging to the native Roman and Camorra-based criminal circles.
