"Early on the morning of 8 October, the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri in Belluno put out a press release announcing three arrests, in the culmination of a year-long investigation they called Operation Reset. Two of the three were brothers, were both known members of the notorious SS Lazio Ultras, the Irriducibili, it was stated in the release, and had boasted of having personal ties to former boss Fabrizio Piscitelli, who was murdered in 2019."
"The crimes the brothers had been arrested on suspicion of had not been committed in Rome, but 400 miles north, in the small alpine ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, high in the Dolomites, and home, for the next three weeks, to the Winter Olympics. The brothers are still awaiting trial, but the local public prosecutor's office has alleged that they were running an operation in three phases."
Three arrests followed a year-long investigation called Operation Reset. Two arrested men were brothers and known members of the SS Lazio Ultras, who had boasted of ties to former boss Fabrizio Piscitelli. Prosecutors allege the suspects ran a three-phase operation: seizing control of Cortina's drug distribution, taking over three nightclubs, and extorting the municipal council to award construction contracts linked to Olympic works. Investigators cite a phone note specifying targeted sites and construction projects. The DIA reported that 38% of 2024 anti-mafia measures concerned the construction sector and warned that the Winter Olympics present significant opportunities for organised-crime infiltration.
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