Antonio Ardituro

Antonio Ardituro has been a magistrate since 24 February 1997 and has served as a Deputy National Prosecutor at the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate since 24 November 2022.
Since 2005, he served as a public prosecutor at the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, conducting investigations into members of Camorra clans in Naples and Caserta, in particular the Casalesi clans (Schiavone, Bidognetti, Zagaria, Iovine), as well as the Belforte, Mallardo, Polverino and Longobardi-Beneduce clans.
He has gained significant experience in international cooperation, the management of cooperating witnesses, financial and asset investigations and preventive measures, the penitentiary system and prisoners subject to the 41-bis regime, and the capture of fugitives.
At the National Anti-Mafia Directorate, his areas of responsibility include the Camorra (where he works with the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor in coordinating the Camorra section), crimes against national cybersecurity (where he works with the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor in coordinating the relevant section), Apulian mafias and new mafias, terrorism, international cooperation, reports of suspicious financial transactions, organized football supporter groups and criminal associations, preventive measures, IT services, statistics services, and the management of digitalization processes.
He also works with the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor in coordinating the Directorate’s technology resources, information flows and security service. He is responsible for the project to re-engineer the information system of the National Directorate and the District Prosecutors’ Offices.
He has served as an adviser to the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission; as an adjunct lecturer at the Federico II University of Naples; as a speaker at numerous study and training meetings organized first by the Superior Council of the Judiciary and subsequently by the School for the Judiciary; and as a speaker at numerous training courses for judicial police officers.
He is the author of numerous publications on criminal law and criminal procedural law, as well as the book Lo Stato non ha vinto, published by Laterza, which recounts the decline of the Casalesi clan.
At the Superior Council of the Judiciary, he served, among other roles, as President of the Seventh Commission, which deals with the organization of judicial offices, and as coordinator of the Joint Committee with the Ministry of Justice on matters concerning judicial organization. He also served as President of the Project Committee for the re-engineering of the Superior Council of the Judiciary’s information system.
Among other matters, he was rapporteur for resolutions concerning the “First Survey Manual of Good Practices in Judicial Offices,” the “Survey of Practices Concerning Interceptions,” and the resolution on the “Coordination of Counter-Terrorism Investigations.”
He was a member of the Central Steering Committee and the Central Executive Board of the National Association of Magistrates, of which he served as Vice President in 2011–2012.
He is a member of several working groups at the Ministry of Justice dealing with interceptions and artificial intelligence.
Since 26 May 2025, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Agency for the Administration of Assets Seized and Confiscated from Organized Crime.