Six of the 18 suspects who ended up under house arrest as part of the maxi Monte Nuovo investigation by the Cagliari DDA on an alleged mafia-type association active in Sardinia with strong links between the criminal world, politics and institutions.
The interrogations of investigating judge Michele Contini and prosecutors Emanuele Secci and Rosanna Allieri began today and will continue in the next few days.
Marco Lai, Giuseppe Paolo Frongia, Salvatore Gioi, Anna Gioi, Raffaele Gioi and Tomas Littarru decided not to respond.
Frongia, accused of having favored the absconding of Graziano Mesina, made spontaneous declarations: he denied the charges, claiming that he had never met the bandit from Orgosolo.
The choice not to speak, at least in this first phase of the investigations, is shared by all the lawyers who defend the 31 people reached by custody order, 13 in prison - among these the former councilor for Agriculture of the Sardinia Region Gabriella Murgia and the head Tomaso Gerolamo Cocco, responsible for pain therapy at the Marino hospital in Cagliar (before Binaghi), indicated by the investigators as the point of connection between the criminal groups and the institutions - and 18 under house arrest.
The papers to be studied for the defense pool are divided into tens of thousands of pages, also made up of interceptions. Those, at least, made available to the parties: others are covered by the confidentiality of the investigation and could trigger - if they have not already done so - other lines of investigation that could reserve imminent surprises.