A lawyer for former rightist
militant, gangster and Mondo di Mezzo graft case ringleader
Massimo Carminati said Wednesday they were expecting authorities
to revoke his 41-bis tough jail regime for mafiosi after the
cassation Court ruled out mafia charges in the sprawling
corruption case.
"We are expecting that the 41 bis, or the tough jail regime,
will be immediately revoked, and if that were not to happen we
are ready to appeal," said Cesare Placanica.
"In these hours we are also weighing whether to present a
plea for him to be released from prison pending the Rome court
of appeal's decision on the shortening of his term".
At the appeals level, former gangster and ex-member of the
NAR right-wing terrorist group Carminati was given a term of 14
years and six months.
The term of the other ringleader, leftwing cooperatives chief
Salvatore Buzzi, was 18 years, four months.
The case was initially nicknamed 'Capital Mafia' after
prosecutors said it regarded organized crime.
In the first sentence, judges had said there were two
separate criminal organisations in the case and they were not
mafia-like in nature.
But the appeals verdict said that mafia association was
involved, before the supreme court reversed that reversal.
The ringleaders were caught on a wiretap saying they could
make more on Roma and migrant camps than from drugs.
Mondo di Mezzo refers to Carminati's nickname for the
demi-monde he operated in.
Some former members of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
were also involved in the 'Mondo di Mezzo' case and in February
former centre-right Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno got six years for
illegal financing corruption in a separate case linked to it.
In Italy sentences do not usually become effective until the
appeals process has been exhausted.
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