A reputed leading Naples criminal activity organization employer was detained Saturday as she will board a trip to Spain, Italian authorities claimed.
Inside Priest Luciana Lamorgese applauded the apprehension of Maria Licciardi, 70, by Carabinieri police officers on orders of Naples district attorneys.
Authorities from the paramilitary Carabinieri” s unique procedures system that executed the apprehension weren’t instantly offered for information. Yet the Carabinieri press workplace published a send off by the Italian information firm ANSA claiming Licciardi was snatched at Rome’s Ciampino Airport terminal as she signed in baggage for a trip to Spain.
Private investigators have actually declared that Licciardi ran extortion noises as head of the Licciardi Camorra criminal activity organization clan.
” She really did not bat an eyelash when the police officers obstructed her as well as offered the warrant authorized by the Naples district attorneys’ workplace,” ANSA claimed.
When initial detained in 2001 after she was quit as she drove an auto near Naples, Licciardi had actually figured amongst Italy’s top-30 desired fugitives. She was launched from jail in 2009 after offering time for sentences of Mafia-connected criminal activities.
Nicknamed “‘ a piccirella,” (” a child”) by mobsters for her tiny develop, Licciardi was among the victors in a long-running blood fight in between partnerships of clans that left Naples cluttered almost day-to-day with bodies previously this century, district attorneys state.
Naples district attorneys, in a 2009 meeting with The AP, defined Licciardi as a real “madrina, “or” godmother,” in the Camorra organization. Her bro was a clan employer as well as she chose for the criminal activity household in addition to various other clan managers, district attorneys claimed.
The extortion of regional company owner, medicine trafficking as well as the seepage of public jobs agreements are standard resources of immoral income for the Naples’- based Camorra, among Italy’s significant criminal activity organizations.
