Province of Enna The main Mafia organization active in the ennese territory is Cosa Nostra, a natural propagation of the adjoining criminal expressions of Nigeria, Messina and, above all, Catania.

The latter have carried out a process of progressive expansion, especially in the north-east part of the ennese, tightening relationships of collaboration with local crime and taking advantage of the affievolite capabilities of the ennesi sodalizi greatly resized by the numerous arrests.

The mafia joints would not be varied compared to the past and the provincial territory appears divided into 5 historical families acting between Enna,

The 24 agosto 2022, unknown applied fire to the car of the father of a municipal councilman of the Municipality of Gela; the 5 ottobre 2022 two subjects were taken under arrest since they were held responsible for the painful fire of 2 cars and 1 moped, committed to Gela the 12 giugno 2022, one of which was subjected to Surveillance Special.

The 8 ottobre 2022 a manager of the Sicilian Region Coordination Association of Antiracket and Usury "Rete per la Legalità" reported that, the 29 settembre 2022, had been threatened by a local prejudice.

The 27 dicembre 2022 in the territory of Gela, in Contrada Arancio, unknown fire a rural property owned by a FF.PP.

Decree n. 05/2020 RD of the Court of Caltanissetta, issued the 11 dicembre 2019, irrevocable from the 4 maggio 2022.

Decree n. 76/2020 RMP, issued by the Court of Caltanissetta the 18 luglio 2022 and integrated the 21 settembre 2022.

Decree n. 15/2021 RD, issued by the Court of Caltanissetta the 27 gennaio 2021, irrevocable the 27 settembre 2022.

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Barrafranca, Pietraperzia, Villarosa and Calascibetta. To the above are connected some groups active in Piazza Armerina, Aidone, Agira, Valguarnera Caropepe, Leonforte, Centuripe, Regalbuto, Troina and Catenanuova.

The constant repressive action has allowed significant process results over time.

Nel senso, si richiama la recente sentenza della Cassazione che ha confermato le condanne emesse nei confronti di personaggi storici di cosa nostra ennese; in particolare, il supremo organo ha reso definitivi i 26 anni di reclusione inflitti in primo grado nell'ambito del processo "Goodfellas" (2017) al capo della famiglia mafiosa ennese, supportata dalla famiglia di cosa nostra catanese, LA ROCCA e attiva nel versante Calatino- Sud Simeto che avrebbe, negli anni, svolto un'importante funzione di "cerniera" tra i clan catanesi e quelli ennesi.

Notable importance, for the internal dynamics at Cosa Nostra ennese, also has the arrest, performed by the Arma on 26 October 2022123, of a subject considered the head of Calascibetta (EN). In the period under review, further judgments of convictions were issued which decimated some clans of the Mafia ennese.

Among these, the one issued on 21 July 2022124 against the 18 defendants in the "Caput Silente" procedure derived from the homonymous investigation, concluded in April 2021, which documented the operativity of the mafia family of LEONFORTE in the extortion and traffic of narcotics.

Another important condemnation is that committed on 7 September 2022125 to 18 other members of the Barrafranca clan already hit, in July 2020, by the execution of numerous cautionary ordinances within the "Ultra" operation.

The investigations concluded in the semester also allowed to reconstruct the activity of organizations dedicated to agriculture and protected the unlawful acquisition of public contributions for agriculture through false declarations but also engaged in the widespread extortion action, in the detriment of traders and agricultural entrepreneurs, often implemented with the classic and systematic demand for sums of money or free services and, in some cases, with the imposition of workers close to the sector.

To confirm, the investigation called "Coda di Volpe" concluded, from the Guardia di Finanza the 15 settembre 2022, with the execution of a preventive seizure126 of goods, for a total value of approximately 700 thousand euros, to the charge of 12 entrepreneurs investigated for money laundering, self-laundering, use of money, goods or utility of unlawful and aggravated origin

The investigation has unveiled a fraudulent system, adopted by farmers contiguous to criminal environments, for the illicit acquisition of State resources and the European Union and granted to rural development.

A further operation which confirmed the interest of mafia crime in public dispensing

In compliance with the Order of Execution for the n. 244/2022 SIEP prison, issued by the Procura of the Republic of the Court of Caltanissetta the 26 ottobre 2022.

Issued by the GUP of the Court of Caltanissetta under the procedure "Caput Silente".

Issued by the Enna Court GUP in the context of the "Ultra" procedure.

Decree n. 15/21 RGNR and n. 107/21 RGGIP, issued by the GIP of the Court of Caltagirone (CT) the 11 giugno 2021 and n. 239/20 RGNR and n. 2125/20 RGGIP, issued by the GIP of the Court of Enna the 7 luglio 2022.

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RELAZIONE SEMESTRALE AL PARLAMENTO Comunità Europea è quella eseguita, il 21 settembre 2022, dalla Guardia di finanza127 a carico di 13 soggetti ritenuti responsabili di associazione di tipo mafioso, trasferimento fraudolento di valori, truffa aggravata per il conseguimento di erogazioni pubbliche, riciclaggio, autoriciclaggio, dichiarazione fraudolenta ed emissione di fatture per operazioni inesistenti, tutti reati aggravati dal metodo mafioso.

The investigative activity "... has concerned, in particular, the systematic infiltration in the field of contributions paid in support of agriculture and breeding, carried out through companies that can be traced back to a given name, by subjects that can be traced to two Mafia families of Cosa Nostra Catania, in particular that of the... Omissis... (original of Biancavilla) and that of... Omissis... (original of Tortorici)", impossible to achieve them as affected by an interdictive Antimafia.

The investigations also highlighted the modus operandi for the obtainment of these contributions, documenting "... a) the ability of these mafia families to win, through complacent public officials, numerous plots of land owned by the company... Omissis... by which then submit requests to obtain European contributions; b) the existence of propagements of the aforementioned Mafia families operating in the territory of the provinces of Enna, between Troina and Centuripe, on the basis of the directives given by prominent subjects of the Mafia organization in existence held...".

Also the results of the operation called "Full Control"128, concluded by Guardia di Finanza the 22 novembre 2022, have documented, in addition to the commission of numerous economic-financial crimes, a vast round of extortions and usury.

In particular, two brothers were deduced to pay money to local entrepreneurs in severe crisis with rates far higher than the maximum limit fixed by the law by "...a consolidated modus operandi used by the inquiries, who, once granted the loan and obliged the victim to the monthly payment of interests always higher than the threshold rates, before the first difficulties manifested by the latter about the regularity and timeliness of the payments, the cost through its formal acquisition through fictitious payments."

At the same time, 13 preventive seizures of cash, goods or other utilities were carried out, all traceable to the two brothers at the head of the organization.

Immuted, in the semester, also the interest of ennese crime regarding traffic and drug trafficking129, as documented, the 7 novembre 2022, the Police

C.D. "White Paper", OCC n. 375/2018 RGNR-DDA and n. 1330/2022 RGGIP, issued by the GIP of the Tribunal Caltanissetta on 1 September 2022.

OCC e decreto di sequestro preventivo n. 2147/2021 RGNR e n. 1808/2021 RGGIP, emessi dal GIP del Tribunale di Enna l'11 novembre 2022.

The investigations "Icaro" (OCC n. 284/2017 RGNR and n. 179/2018 RGGIP, issued by the GIP of the Court of Caltanissetta 30 dicembre 2021) and "Lepus" (OCC n. 1203/2018 RGNR n.

705/2019 RGGIP, issued by the GIP of the Court of Caltanissetta the 24 gennaio 2022), last semester, focusing on two criminal groups who would have run a flourishing activity in the territories of Agira and Leonforte through mutual agreements to ensure the monopoly of the traffic of narcotics.

The investigations also documented how the sodalicy led by a subject considered "near" to Catalan mafia environments and, in particular, to the mafia clan etnea of the Carrateddi "...it was reorganized and was fully operational in the traffic of drugs of the type marijuana and cocaine; in addition to this, it had a way to document how the leadership of the organization itself was trying to ".

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State with the execution, in the context of the operation "Brother"130 started in the summer of 2021, of a precautionary ruling charged with 9 subjects held responsible for detention and spacing of narcotic substances with which a dense network of spake was distracted, traceable to a criminal organization operating between Enna, Castel di Iudica (CT) and Catania.

In Enna in the six months under review, intimidating acts have also taken place against entrepreneurs, traders and representatives of the Institutions131.

As part of the preventive action aimed at preventing mafia infiltration in the apparatuses, it is noted that the Prefect of Enna, in the semester under review, issued 9 interdictive measures against as many companies for which "...it was considered concrete and current, and not occasional, the risk of mafia infiltration".