PISTOIA – The Financial Police of Pistoia proceeded with the seizure of over 8,000 euros, in execution of a preventive seizure decree issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Pistoia, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Pistoia, against a convicted criminal of Campania origin, resident in this province for some time, held responsible, without prejudice to the presumption of innocence until the final sentence, for failing to communicate, as required by anti-mafia legislation, the changes in assets that had affected him in the decade following the conviction.
At the state of the proceedings and according to the hypothesis examined by the Judge in the real precautionary measure – without prejudice to subsequent assessments, regarding the effective and definitive assessment of the responsibilities of the person currently under investigation, where an irrevocable sentence of conviction occurs – the investigations, conducted by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Pistoia, in close coordination with the Organized Crime Investigation Group (GICO) of the PEF Florence Unit, have made it possible to reconstruct that the suspect, already definitively convicted of mafia association and fraudulent transfer of values, had carried out real estate sales transactions between 2020 and 2023, without fulfilling the reporting obligations to the Financial Police imposed by law.
Those convicted of mafia crimes and other particularly serious crimes, in fact, are subject to ten-year monitoring, starting from the date on which the provision concerning them became definitive, of all changes in their assets that exceed 10,329 euros. During this observation period, aimed at allowing the legitimate origin of the goods and sums of money moved to be verified, the convicted person has the obligation to communicate any economic-financial changes exceeding this threshold to the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the province of habitual residence.
The operation constitutes further evidence of the constant monitoring action developed by the Corps in the area, aimed at preventing and repressing attempts to infiltrate and pollute the legal economy by economic and organized crime, and to attack assets illicitly. accumulated.
