Overview
- Judicial orders include 19 held in custody, 6 under house arrest, and 25 detained on fermo pending convalidation within 48 hours.
- The investigation was led by Palermo’s DDA under Prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia with more than 350 State Police officers executing the operation.
- Suspects face accusations including mafia association, extortion, fictitious registration of assets, drug-trafficking conspiracy, and dealing.
- Prosecutors say the probe mapped a major mandamento’s organigram and traced supply links to Camorra groups that funneled narcotics into Palermo and Catania.
- Seizures during the inquiry included about 250 kilograms of hashish and four kilograms of cocaine, with prior months yielding 12 arrests and exposing a Palermo–Trapani pipeline sourcing drugs from the Marsala area.