Venice prosecutors will make two arrests related to corruption before the Olympics in February.
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Two brothers of the Italian football hooligan group, Lazio’s Iridosibili, has been arrested and accused of attempting to illegally obtain a public works contract for next year’s Winter Olympics, Italian prosecutors say.
The Rome-born man was trying to benefit from the Olympics after establishing mafia-style control over drug trafficking and nightlife activities at the Alpine resort in Cortina, Venice prosecutors said in a statement.
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The Northern Italian resort is collaborating with Milan for the February 6-22 Winter Games.
The arrested man has been accused of pretending to be a high-level member of the Roman crime world, boasting of his friendship with the late leader of Iridosibilifa Blizio Piscitelli, which was filmed in the Rome Park in 2019.
“Irliducibili” is roughly translated as “stubborn.”
The brothers terrified Cortina’s business rivals, and prosecutors charged them, mentioning the case of a nightlife event organizer dragged into the woods and held at the muzzle.
The man who borrowed drug money from them was trapped in car boots, threatened with death, and two “illegal” drug dealers were also beaten.
In 2022, the pair approached members of the Cortina city government and provided election support that politicians had not accepted. They would later use threatening messages to ask them to be given an Olympic contract, prosecutors said.
The brothers are accused of being forced in a mafia-style manner, one person has been put in pre-trial custody and the other is under house arrest. Five more suspects face the same charges but were not arrested.
