Rome, camorra and 'ndrangheta money laundering with the Capitoline mafia and the subversive right wing

The presence in Rome of recognised 'capì' and the awareness of them in dealing with an autonomous organised criminal structure is a specific feature of the identified criminal associations.

The investigations also revealed the convergence of other mafia structures such as the Casalesi clan and the 'ndrangheta cosche Morabito, Mancuso and Piromalli.

The 'system' outlined in the investigations is the synthesis, amalgamated over time, of the interests of mafia-type associations operating in the Capitoline metropolitan area.

Rome has historically represented the point of contact between business, politics and mafias.The territorial extension, which is difficult to control precisely because of its size, the presence of all the institutions necessary to guide political and other choices, the existence of pockets capable of expressing a control of the territory, albeit partial and crude, and at the same time the historical permanence of key elements of the main Italian mafia systems, are all elements that have driven the parties concerned to seek a stable equilibrium to which they can subjugate mafia interests.

Not only Antonio Nicoletti played a key role in this plot, but also other prominent figures in the Roman criminal milieu such as Roberto Macori. The latter represents the hub of eclecticism: having matured in the subversive right wing in Rome, in the shadow of Massimo Carminati, he first became the alter ego of Gennaro Mokbel, and then linked up with Michele Senese.

In essence, the existence of a complex organised structure emerged.

The Neapolitan and Casalese camorra groups, exponents of 'ndrangheta clans, exponents of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, in thirty years of stable presence on the Lazio territory, have developed the capacity to integrate in an organised and structured manner with native criminal groups.

We have therefore witnessed operational methods that have slowly abdicated control of the territory, as a physical space, in order to attack the economic-financial space.

Co-existence has favoured integrations that have progressively structured themselves into a real 'system'. It is an atypical system, created around the synthesis of the mafias established in the Roman metropolitan area with the criticalities of a multi-layered territory.

According to the Dia, the investigative findings photograph the full awareness of the suspects, from a criminal point of view, of the need to overcome the logic of geographical control and the progression towards an organisational model in which the associative paradigm becomes a system.

Macori, formerly a reference point of the D'Amico, has become, over time, the main reference point for the Calabrian Morabito and Mancuso clans in the management of economic interests in what is the current frontier, as demonstrated by numerous investigations, of all the main Italian mafia associations: the marketing of oil products, within the dynamics of which the Neapolitan clans certainly play a key role, but which sees, as a pivot point, the Roman system.