Oct 03 2008
Late Mafia politician’s son ‘threatened’
Palermo — Massimo Ciancimino, son of the former mayor of Palermo and convicted Mafia member, Vito Ciancimino, claims to have received written threats and had his car doused with petrol.
Massimo Ciancimino was on Thursday questioned by magistrates probing possible political complicity in the 1992 car bomb killings of prominent anti-Mafia judges, Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone.
Ciaciamino earlier this year reported to police that he had been threatened by two unknown men aboard a motorbike as he drove along the motorway to Palermo airport.
Police checks established the motorbike had been stolen, the Il Giornale di Sicilia daily reported on Friday.
Ciancimino has already been sentenced to five years and eight months in jail for laundering money for his father Vito, a Christian Democrat who in 2001 became the first Italian politician convicted of belonging to the Mafia.
In 2002 - the year of Vito’s death - the Municipality of Palermo demanded the restitution of 150 million euros he had accumulated from bribes for public works and building contracts, fraud and embezzlement.
So far, only seven million euros of the money have been recovered.
Late Mafia politician’s son ‘threatened’ - 3 Oct. 2008 - AKI - http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.2536608918
