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Rosario D’Onofrio, a former army officer and chief prosecutor in The Hague, was arrested for international drug trafficking: here are the details on the investigation, which also led to an employee of a funeral home
Rosario D’Onofrio, a former soldier and chief prosecutor of the Italian Arbitrators Association (Aia), was arrested as part of an investigation into international drug trafficking. D’Onofrio resigned. This article, published on November 10, details the investigation that led to the precautionary measure against him.
These are the hardest days of the pandemic. March 30, 2020. Italy is blocked, half of Europe is paralyzed by the lockdown, but business cannot stop. But how? Using the only means that, in the midst of a pandemic with thousands of deaths, can go unnoticed and above all immune from the controls of the police: a hearse.
This also emerges in the maze of the maxi drug operation of the financiers of the Provincial Command of Milan, as part of the Madera investigation, coordinated by prosecutors Rosario Ferracane and Sara Ombra of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate which led to the issue of 42 pre-trial detention orders (26 in prison) for international drug trafficking narcotics.
Among the narcos ended up in the cell is the 45-year-old Giovanni Tilleni, employee of a funeral home. It is he, with messages exchanged in an encrypted chat (but violated by the Gico soldiers of the Guardia di Finanza), who brags because despite the controls his vehicle is never stopped. “It’s full of cc, police, army. Only the hearses do not stop. You know how I enjoy it when they let us through. I could bring the world … ». At that point his interlocutor jokes: “The smoke, put it with the dead, between”. And Tilleni replies: «I’m thinking about it …».
In another conversation of 22 April 2020, Tilleni, as the investigating judge Massimo Baraldo writes, “showed interest in the acquisition of a dozen kilos but reserved the right to evaluate whether, given the restrictions in place due to Covid 19, he could risk going to Inveruno with the means used for funeral transport “:” I have to see if I can go with the hearse but it is difficult that I am there “. But this wasn’t the only method the gang devised to escape Covid restrictions.
Among those arrested there is, in fact, also the former army officer – and chief prosecutor of The Hague, the Italian Arbitrators Association, Rosario D’Onofrio. The soldier was suspended for disciplinary reasons: he allegedly falsely declared that he had a medical degree, thus posing as a medical officer. D’Onofrio, however, would have done lend a camouflage from a fellow soldier to turn during lockdown e thus transporting loads of drugs. On April 1, 2020, after being stopped in a check, he telephones his partner and boasts: «Oh, the local police just stopped me. He saw me in uniform, the badge, greeted me militarily and said: “no, no, thank you … have a nice day!”
The investigation revolves around the drug trafficker Cesare Guido, already arrested by the prosecutor of Monza in flagrantee with a shipment of drugs in his fictitious company, and the network that was based in Spain and allowed to import tons of hashish and marijuana. Decisive were the chats decrypted by investigators who revealed the entire network. Among those arrested was the drug trafficker Giovanni Neviera, believed to be affiliated with a Mafia clan from Bari, the Abbaticchio, and already convicted of mafia association and drug trafficking.
In the acts and, in particular, in the intercepted conversations there is also talk of a person close to Sfera Ebbastathe 29-year-old trapper, and another who looks after the interests of Izianother 27-year-old rapper. Both are not under investigation. From the papers of the investigation two references emerge in the conversations in which suspects speak of a person close to Sfera Ebbasta, as a possible “client”, and of another who looks after Izi’s interests. According to what has been specified, however, these are “de relato” references, contained in the precautionary order, and both artists are not investigated.
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