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Checkmate: 15 convictions and five acquittals

You close the process, "Checkmate" is a total of 170 years in prison for the defendants. Acquitted Mimmo Sandulli councilor: "I always had faith in justice and law," his words after the sentence.

E 'was issued after 14 days of deliberation the decision of the trial "Checkmate" which was celebrated with the ordinary at the Court of Sciacca. Five
the acquittals and 15 convictions and the prosecution's largely confirmed against the accused, although compared to the demands of the prosecution, the sentences were milder. Acquaintance: the municipal council of Sciacca Domenico Sandulli group of loyalists to Sciacca, Biagio Smeraglia, Nicholas Di Martino, Antonino May and Rosario Cascio.
condemns: Vito Bucceri 12 years, Cascio Vitino 12 years and 6 months, John Field in 13 years and 4 months, Philip Field in 12 years, Pasquale Ciaccio to 14 years and 8 months, Jose Clemente 4 years, 11 years Daville Mario, John Derelict to 15 years, Sciacca Michele Di Leo at 9 years and 3 months, the former superboss Giuseppe Falsone to 10 years and 6 months (which combine all the sentences already inflicted), Francesco Fontana in 12 years and 6 months, Giuseppe La Rocca at 14, Thomas Militello to 6 years to 11 years and Monreale Giuseppe Antonio Perricone to 12 years and 6 months.
Prosecutors in Palermo were the DDA and Rita Fulantelli Emanuele Rav. They were then issued a total of 170 years and 3 months in prison in the presence of 384 years requested by prosecutors.
The anti-mafia operation "Checkmate" was conducted by police in July 2008.
The first part of the investigation it was closed just a year ago when some defendants had chosen to be judged by the summary procedure. Since February 2010, therefore, to February 2011.
In February of 2010 were in fact issued a total of 120 years in prison for the defendants in the trial who had opted for the abbreviated trial.
The highest penalty was imposed on Gino Guzzo, Montevago, considered the ruler of the Mafia family of Belize, who was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment, 13 years and 8 months Paul Capizzi, 70, of Ribera, while his nephew Franco Capizzi was sentenced to 12 years. Eleven years and 4 months, the penalty for Accursio Dimino, Sciacca, and Salvatore Imbornone of Ribera. The others convicted are Raffaele Sala, 9 years and 8 months, 8 years and 8 months by Jerome Sala, Antonio for 10 years Pumilia and Anthony Gulotta, a year and 7 months for Anthony Montalbano. Calogero Rizzuto, who was also involved in the investigation but then became associate justice, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months.
had been acquitted but Joseph and Michael Barreca, Giuseppe Orlando, Leonardo Taormina, Gaspar Schiro, James Corso, Michael Giambrone, the brothers Paul and Joseph Capizzi, and Peter Derelict Gaspar Schiro, who died recently.
The anti-mafia operation "Checkmate" brought the issue a total of 33 arrest warrants against suspected members of the mafia gangs because they were accused of having driven procurement. The operation made it possible to identify dozens of incidents of extortion against businesses in the province of Agrigento and verify the assignment of certain contracts. Investigators have turned the spotlight over time mainly on the work that led to the construction and implementation of Verdura Golf Resort, the dam "Favara" by Burgio and interchange at State Road 115, recently opened in the presence of two Ministers of the Republic.
formation of the Court announced the sentence early, had passed just 10 in the morning. The closed session was started last January 28 and then lasted nearly two weeks. To follow in detail what were the demands of the prosecution for the 20 defendants: Vito Bucceri 20 anni; Rosario Cascio 27 anni; Vitino Cascio 21 anni; Giovanni Campo 18 anni; Filippo Campo 18 anni; Pasquale Ciaccio 24 anni; Giuseppe Clemente 12 anni; Mario Davilla 21 anni; Giovanni Derelitto 27 anni; Michele Di Leo 21 anni; Nicolò Di Martino 10 anni; Giuseppe Falsone 21 anni; Francesco Fontana 21 anni; Giuseppe La Rocca 20 anni; Antonino Maggio 21 anni; Tommaso Militello 18 anni; Giuseppe Monreale 21 anni; Antonio Perricone 24 anni; Domenico Sandullo 4 anni; Biagio Smeraglia 18 anni.
Soddisfazione per il risultato raggiunto è stata espressa non solo dal mondo della magistratura, il processo si è concluso in tempi record (in attesa di eventuali appelli una volta conosciute le motivazioni della sentenza) but also from the political world.
Joseph Marinello, a member of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia "is a credit to the excellent work done by the police and prosecutors. We believe that the timely response of the State in terms of fighting organized crime is increasingly seen as a precondition for the development of a southern European context and that far from today's increasingly negative effect on the economy of our country estate. It 'obvious that there will be other sets of proceedings, but already that today is an important day in the history of our country. "
The work of the security forces continues as it is never possible to lower the guard. The recent arrests of several superboss have not only confirmed the high degree of complacency that occurs between the underworld and the world of institutions, with a mafia increasingly facing the business, to the great works and procurement, to the boundaries for which is not always easy and not always clearly distinguish between good and evil.
Fund and not to cut economically or legislatively, the work of the investigators, courts and all law enforcement is the real giant step forward in the fight against organized crime. The arrests and the anti-Mafia operations will then be accordingly. And in our Agrigento region, unfortunately, there is still need much.

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