Sicily, Italy,
arrested the nephew of
Mafia boss Provenzano
PALERMO – Has been arrested by the police Carmelo Gariffo, 47 years, accused of mafia association.
His name turns out in the “pizzini”, the little letters of paper founded in broods of the boss Provenzano at the moment of his arrest.
The
pizzini were the method used from the boss in order to communicate outside and to give the orders to his men.
The names of the persons were replaced from numbers. The enquirers have identified the
number behind which the name of Carmelo Gariffo was hidden.
The man, that lives in
Corleone (Palermo), was the person who collected “pizzini” to the old corleonese godfather, and his arrest is the first investigative result after the discovery of letters guarded in the masseria in which Provenzano lived.
Finally the police has succeeded showing the responsibility of the nephew of the godfather of Corleone on which already they had been under way surveyings.
Gariffo was true and just a secretary of the boss, managed appointments, receiving “pizzini” from several of gregari scattered in all the Sicily and organizing also the medical controls to which Provenzano is subordinate during the last few
years after the participation to the prostate surgical operation made in Marseilles.
From the inquiry we know also that in many cases beside the number “code” of Gariffo appears in “pizzini” an other number, that would cover the name of a doctor.
It could be the doctor who “had in cure” the boss during the furtiveness.
Carmelo Gariffo already in the past was arrested for mafia association and remained in jail until a few years ago, when discounted the sentence that it had been inflicted. The man was returned to Corleone and had begun, second the accusation, to take care of the family of the boss and its furtiveness.
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