moles of the DDA process
finally sentenced to seven years for Cuffaro
Rome, 01/22/2011
The Supreme Court has made the final sentence of seven years' imprisonment for aiding and abetting aggravated what our investigation and disclosure of secrets given in the process 'the moles dda' against Salvatore Cuffaro, a former senator and now governor of Sicily.
In particular, the Second Criminal Chamber, chaired by Anthony Edwards has rejected the appeal of Cuffaro thus confirming 'the verdict on 23 January by the appeal court in Palermo.
He also spent several hours in meditation this morning to pray in the church in Rome's former President the Region of Sicily, Salvatore Cuffaro, pending the verdict of the judges of the Supreme Court.
Cuffaro on appeal was sentenced to seven years in prison for aiding and abetting aggravated Cosa Nostra and the revelation of secret proceedings. Cuffaro, as he had already 'made yesterday, this morning, and' went to pray in the Church of Minerva in the Capital. The ruling and 'expected shortly. A
Cuffaro denies the prosecution of the crime of breach of the confidentiality of investigations, accusing him of having made it known to the boss of Brancaccio, Giuseppe Guttadauro, through his friend and former city councilor UDC health, Domenico Miceli (sentenced to 8 years), which in 'the boss' house had been installed and burning bugs In this way the investigation.
Cuffaro had learned by former police sergeant, Antonio Borzacchelli, then elect a regional member, the existence of bugging devices placed by investigators in the home of Ros Guttadauro.
Cuffaro The prosecutor also argued that he would meet in the back of a shop Bagheria Michele Aiello, who was charged in the same trial on charges of Mafia association and found a front of the boss Bernardo Provenzano.
Cuffaro's version is that the meeting with the concerned regional tariff Aiello, Aiello was at the time as owner of a clinic Bagheria the forefront of cancer treatment.
History process, the split in
Attorney In addition to political controversy, culminated in the resignation of Salvatore Cuffaro, President of the Region after the conviction of first degree with 5 years for aiding and abetting, the investigation of 'moles' in the DDA had also caused a rift within the Public Prosecutor in Palermo, between the "Casella" and "grassiani. Cuffaro was initially investigated and interrogated, July 1, 2003, in the event of the crime of collusion with the Mafia.
According pm, he wanted to help from outside, in a systematic way, the Mafia organization, for example by winning a contest to two doctors recommended by your doctor-boss Giuseppe Guttadauro and accepting the constraints the latter in the appointment of primary hospitals, facilitating a variant of the Master Plan to enable the realization of Palermo, on a boss's wife, Gisella Greek, a hypermarket: Cuffaro was boycotted for that reason the permissions for the construction of another shopping center, Villabate, not far from Brancaccio.
also Guttadauro would get through Cuffaro, Mimmo Miceli's candidacy, which the surgeon would direct expression mafia. One of the main favor, then, would have allowed the state to discover the bug that the boss was in the lounge.
The prosecution of the Mafia was, however ', wrecked in front of developments in the investigation: it was discovered a second episode of the revelations of secrets, attributed to Cuffaro, and coordinated by the pool and adding Grasso Giuseppe Pignatone had preferred to focus on specific episodes and were considered reliable. The episode Guttadauro had become so 'one of the two aspects of the new challenge of aiding and abetting aggravated authorities must and disclosure of secrets of the Cosa Nostra.
Faced with the demand for external storage of the survey had dissociated the prosecutor Gaetano Paci, who in the summer of 2004, had left the pool, which included Nino Di Matteo, Maurizio De Lucia and Michele Prestipino. At the end of 2006 had also left Di Matteo, who had wanted to challenge the governor is open competition classroom.
of these crimes, however, Cuffaro and 'was then called to account, however, and is' currently on trial before the Court of Palermo, where the prosecutor has asked for his sentence to 10 years.
Story of a lengthy investigation
The story of 'moles' in the DDA in Palermo involving Senator Salvatore Cuffaro and on which you and 'the Supreme Court ruled today, and' daughter of the investigation originally called "Ice "Guttadauro to Joseph, a surgeon Civic Hospital of Palermo and sentenced in the process" Golden Market "as a regent of the mafia family of Roccella.
Guttadauro, was held in the summer 1999, when the carabinieri del Ros they placed eight bugs in a house still empty, convinced that the boss would not be expected to be monitored so far in advance. To place the 'bugs' was a marshal expert in this branch: Giorgio Riolo. At the end of 2000, Guttadauro was released in advance, for good behavior, and fearing further investigations Blind 'his apartment in Via De Cosmi, in the center of Palermo, and decided that he or one of his family, his wife Gisella and Greek son Francis had always had to stay home to avoid "surprises".
But the surprises, that 'the' bugs ', already' there and allowed the police to listen to the meetings with other mobsters. Guttadauro meanwhile become head of the district Brancaccio Mafia, extortion, and hold in February 2001, received at home two of his former medical students of the Third Division of Surgery of the Civic: Domenico "Mimmo" Miceli and Salvatore "Salvo" Aragon. The first policy was then active in the CDU, the second was already 'convicted in conspiracy with the Mafia, after operating the fugitive Salvatore Enzo Brusca, John's brother, in order to avoid a murder conviction. With them, Guttadauro talked about politics, candidates, business related to a mall to be completed on a plot of the boss's wife, competitions for primary physicians and jobs, but also of 41 and a life sentence, which the boss would be abolished. And he spoke well of Cuffaro, at that time about to run for the presidency of the Region.
Guttadauro sought contact with him, and allegedly Miceli, an aspiring regional member, had agreed, along with Aragon, to act as an intermediary. The plays at home Guttadauro stopped suddenly June 15, 2001: Three days before, Aragon was the boss went home alone and had warned against tapping that would have been made between it and Guttadauro Miceli. "To him - specifically 'Aragon - Toto told you that'." That would be for investigators Cuffaro.
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