additionally, the piromalli’s desired contracts, subcontracts, and jobs in the two firms that run the port, as well as from other companies in the surrounding area. despite subscribing to an anti corruption pact with the government, the managers of both contship and medcenter gave in to the demands. the arrest warrant issued in january 1999 against members of the piromalli group stated that the two companies contracted firms indicated by the defendants (and in some cases belonging to the latter) in the port-servicing activities and hired people recommended by the piromalli clan, reinforcing the latter’s power in the gioia tauro plain.”