Paola Spena is the new Extraordinary Commissioner for the recovery and refunctionalization of assets confiscated from organized crime
The important appointment was approved by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi. The task of the new Extraordinary Commissioner will be to recover the illicitly acquired assets, but also to ensure that they are managed in a transparent manner and according to the principles of legality. Paola Spena, originally from Naples, born in 1959, who boasts several leading experiences at a national level, above all the special assignment of the Ministry of the Interior for the prevention of infiltration of organized crime in Campania, in the so-called “Land of Fires”, as well as as extraordinary commissioner in various municipalities, as well as a member of extraordinary commissions for the management of municipalities dissolved due to conditioning by organized crime, he will certainly be able to give the necessary input to the Agency and the Municipalities to put the seized assets back into circulation before they should be “scarred” by the Camorra. From the data of the National Agency for the administration and destination of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime, it emerged that as of 22 February 2024 there were 22,548 the real estate (land registry parcels, to be precise) intended pursuant to the Anti-Mafia Code (+14% compared to 2023); while there are 19,871 properties still under management and awaiting destination. Instead they are 3,126 le targeted companies (+77% compared to 2023) while 1,764 are still under management. Numbers that paint a shocking scenario. It is from these data that the new Extraordinary Commissioner Paola Spena will have to leave. Since 17 August 2020 the ANBSC has been under the leadership of the prefect Bruno Corda. The four secondary offices of the Agency in Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Naples and Milan depend on him, as well as the National headquarters and the 4 General Directorates divided into the Seized and Confiscated Real Estate Directorate, the Companies Directorate, the Financial Economic Management Directorate and the General Affairs Directorate. of the staff. The main purpose of the Agency is to provide for the administration and destination of the assets seized and confiscated from the mafias, following definitive confiscation, as well as assisting the judicial administrator under the direction of the Judicial Authority during the seizure phase up to the confiscation of first degree, after which it assumes direct management of the same assets. A delicate job that of the Confiscated Assets Agency which, together with the work carried out by the judiciary and the police forces, has made it possible to identify the assets resulting from the shady deals of organized crime and mafias, and make their confiscation operational, thanks also to the commitment made by staff in all sectors of activity assigned to them. On this point Paola Spena, expert in anti-mafia prevention and with a past at the Prefecture of Naples – Area 1 ter OSP office. Anti-Mafia and Confiscated Assets, you will have to try to deploy all available resources in combating the illicit activities of criminal organizations.
