Extortion pressure from the Enna mafia on the Dittaino Valley, Enna's main production area. It was during the anti-mafia operation "Stiela," which was carried out in Enna and supervised by the Anti-Mafia Division of Caltanissetta, that the clan was targeted and seven people were arrested. The gang would have been aware of all of the major production activity in the area. Companies "systematically harassed in order to earn primarily monetary sums," which, according to those who examine, are a symbol of "the continuing subjection of some economic operators in that area." Particularly, the boss Sebastiano Gurgone, upon his release, would have implemented strategies to collect the payoffs with the "indispensable complicity" of the others taken into custody in the carabinieri del Ros blitz. In at least one instance, in order to conceal the source of the money, one of the accused would have issued an invoice for a service that, according to the accusatory hypothesis, never occurred and for an amount equal to the amount of money extorted.
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