If the mob are in on it, you can be sure there’s a fast and easy buck to be made, which is why Sicily’s Cosa Nostra long-ago infiltrated Italy’s wind and solar industries. No doubt, providing added valuable protection, wherever it’s needed; no doubt ensuring premium prices for an inferior product. You know, the kind of offer you just can’t refuse?
A decade ago, Matteo Messina Denaro – then the undisputed head of the Cosa Nostra – was targeted by Italian police, which seized €3.5 million in assets including bank accounts in Sicily and Lombardy; and snaffled a further €1.3 billion belonging to his associate, wind-farm and solar-power magnate Vito Nicastri. Denaro and Nicastri ran a web of companies between them, many with direct ownership of large-scale wind and solar operations.
Although he may have been rattled by that financial raid back in 2013, Denaro wasn’t about to lie down; he…
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