A criminal court in Naples has issued its first-instance verdict in the proceedings against the Moccia clan, imposing heavy prison sentences on four defendants and acquitting businessman Vincenzo Tucci.
The verdict was delivered on 23 October 2026 by the Seventh Criminal Section of the Court of Naples. The case involved 43 defendants and was decided after several days of deliberation held in an external judicial venue.
The main sentences
Reporting on the verdict agrees on the four principal sentences:
- Antonio Moccia: 30 years in prison
- Angelo Moccia: 24 years in prison
- Luigi Moccia: 21 years in prison
- Gennaro Moccia, son of Angelo: 16 years in prison
These figures were reported consistently by La Repubblica, RaiNews and Il Mattino for the first three defendants, with La Repubblica and Il Mattino also reporting the 16-year sentence for Gennaro Moccia.
A long trial with 43 defendants
The size and length of the proceedings help explain the significance of the verdict for readers following organized-crime cases in Campania.
The trial involved 43 defendants in total. According to Il Mattino, the trial phase lasted about four and a half years, with almost one hundred hearings before the court retired to deliberate.
That scale means the verdict addresses many individual positions at once. The sources consulted do not provide the full operative ruling or a complete list of all convictions, acquittals and individual charges, so the published sentences and the reported acquittal below should not be read as the entire outcome for all 43 defendants.
Acquittal of businessman Vincenzo Tucci
Among those acquitted, the sources identify businessman Vincenzo Tucci, owner of Cmc, in relation to a money-laundering charge.
The available reporting does not give a complete list of acquittals. Readers should therefore treat Tucci’s reported acquittal as one confirmed acquittal, not as a summary of all defendants who were cleared.
What the charges concerned
According to the reporting, the proceedings included charges including association aggravated by mafia-related aims and corruption.
The sources also describe the prosecution’s characterization of the organization as having a marked entrepreneurial orientation. That description is reported as the thesis of the anti-mafia prosecutors and magistrates cited by the outlets, not as an independently established fact beyond the first-instance judgment.
What happens next
This is a first-instance judgment, which means it can be challenged on appeal.
RaiNews reports that Antonio Moccia said he respected the judgment but intended to appeal. No appeal outcome is reported in the sources consulted.
For readers, the practical point is that the prison terms announced are the outcome of this stage of the case. Any final legal assessment will depend on subsequent levels of review, if appeals are filed.
