Five Reputed Mafia Members Charged With Mayors Murder

Five reputed members of the Emmanuello and Cammarata clans of Cosa Nostra have been charged for their alleged roles in the 1992 murder of Riesi Mayor Vincenzo Napolitano who was thought to have been allied with a rival crime family.

Italian paramilitary police arrested Pino and Vincenzo Cammarata, Davide Emmanuello, Salvatore Fiandaca and Nunzio Cascin on Monday. They have been accused by anti-mafia investigators of killing Napolitano during a feud in which investigators say he took the side of the Riggio crime organization, a rival clan and was killed in front of the town hall in 1992.

"According to investigators, Napolitano helped two people associated with the Riggio mafia organization avoid arrest and helped launder money made from companies involved in public works projects." He was mayor of Riesi, a town in the western Sicilian interior, southeast of Palermo, between 1989 and 1991.

Source: Adnkronos

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