Overview
- Judge Emanuele Mancini recognized the prosecutors’ central charge that a mafia-type association linked Cosa Nostra, ’ndrangheta and Camorra operations in Lombardy.
- Sixty-two defendants were convicted under the abbreviated procedure, with the harshest sentence of 16 years imposed on alleged ’ndrangheta figure Massimo Rosi.
- Forty-five additional defendants were ordered to face an ordinary trial in the maxi-case arising from the DDA’s Hydra investigation involving 145 people.
- Of the 80 who opted for the abbreviated route, 18 were acquitted, nine reached plea agreements, and 11 were dismissed at the preliminary hearing.
- The case relies on Carabinieri investigations and recent cooperating-witness testimony, following 2023 detention denials later upheld by review courts, with most suspects currently in custody.