Eleven people were arrested in the provinces of Trapani, Palermo, Como and Rimini - six are in prison with 5 under house arrest. The suspects are variously accused of mafia, money laundering, auction rigging, fraudulent transfers of valuables and receiving stolen goods.
One of the key figures in the investigation by the Carabinieri of the Trapani Investigative Unit is Angelo Salvatore, mafia boss of Salemi. The organization also allegedly tried to acquire, by reinvesting dirty money, 12 Coop Sicilia outlets (but the deal later fell through); to launder foreign lire on behalf of the 'ndrangheta and to clean up the money of Calogero JohnLuppino, the king of clandestine online betting, another loyalist of the former fugitive. The investigation, which also led to 12 warnings, included historical figures of the Salemi mafia, loyal allies of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro, accused of having cleaned millions of euros.