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A mafia boss turned informant has accused judges in Naples of having accepted bribes to acquit him of murders he has confessed to carrying out, Italian media said Thursday. "There was a whole system set up in the court in Naples. Three times the clan paid to ensure an acquittal," former Camorra boss Antonio Iovine told anti-mafia judges, adding that up to 250,000 euros ($340,000) had been paid each time. In his debriefings, he told magistrates his lawyer Michele Santonastaso -- currently serving time for mafia ties -- had asked him twice for large sums of money to change guilty verdicts against him for murder at the appeal stages of the trials.
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