Carabinieri police on Wednesday served 12 arrest warrants on detained members of the crime syndicate over the case.
The warrants were issued on charges of mafia association, illegal detention of weapons, extortion and fraud, among others, investigative sources said of the episode dates back to June 20, 2022.
Investigators learned that an office at the cemetery of Palma Campania near Naples was allegedly used by the Fabbrocino clan to summon local entrepreneurs and demand the payment of protection money.
It was also used as a listening point for locals who asked clan affiliates to solve personal problems in exchange for money, investigators said.
Locals allegedly went to the office to ask for help over personal matters including unpaid debts or to solve workplace issues, among other things.
The father said he had been hit four times by the two men in wiretapped conversations with clan members and asked them “to make them disappear for good”.
But members of the Fabbrocino clan reassured the man with an affiliate saying they would be “warned”, and it would not be necessary to “make them disappear”.
The arrest warrants were served, among others, on Biagio Bifulco, the detained head of the Fabbrocino clan of Palma Campania, who allegedly managed the criminal family from prison.
Wiretapped conversations in the arrest order allegedly show a transport business owner describe paying 4000 euros a month to Bifulco, who “ordered” a local company to use that transport company.
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