Naples Court Sentences Camorra Member Nicola Schiavone to Six Years in Prison

The Naples judge Giovanni Vinciguerra has sentenced 46-year-old Nicola Schiavone, known as "o russ", nephew of the Casalesi clan leader Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone, to six years in prison for mafia association. Nicola was considered an entrepreneur always at the service of the gang, through which he was able to secure numerous public contracts. The sentence follows the one already given in the "Normandia 2" trial. At the end of the summary trial, the same Schiavone (defended by Carlo De Stavola and Mario Griffo) was acquitted of fictitious registration; Isodoro and Luigi Schiavone (defended by Mario Griffo), Nicola's father and brother respectively, who were charged with money laundering with the mafia aggravating circumstance, were also acquitted for not having committed the crime, while Vincenzo Mosca was sentenced to three years and Nicola Ucciero to four years. The prosecutor Graziella Arlomede had asked for eight years for Nicola Schiavone and six years for his close relatives. Schiavone ended up in prison on November 21, 2022, along with Ucciero for his involvement in the clan, from which he had never distanced himself. Sentenced to ten years in prison in the trial against the clan named "Normandia 2", he was released in 2019, and with an anonymous phone call to the press, he announced his return to the Caserta area. Moreover, he decided to summon various entrepreneurs, all considered, in various ways, beneficiaries of an economic-criminal agreement with the Casalesi clan to obtain supplies of building materials or the execution of public contracts. Among those summoned were also those who had borrowed money, in order to ask for its return. According to the DDA, Schiavone managed through a frontman a company active in the public contracts sector, which was involved in construction works with the public administration through reliance contracts, not having SOA certifications, as the company was newly established.