Even the company that manages the well-known pizzeria in the historic center of Naples “Dal Presidente”, located in via dei Tribunali, would be attributable to the Contini clan: this is what emerges from the investigations of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples which led to the arrest of five people (three in prison and two under house arrest). The Neapolitan DDA (prosecutors Alessandra Converso and Daniela Varone) contests the fraudulent transfer of values and self-laundering, aggravated by the mafia method and the aim of facilitating the Camorra. The pizzeria was seized by the financiers together with other assets.
Seizure of approximately 3.5 million euros
The pizzeria “Dal Presidente”, so called because it was opened by the pizza chef who prepared pizza for the then President of the United States Bill Clinton, is located in one of the two decumani of the Neapolitan capital, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the city. The value of the assets seized today by the financiers amounts to approximately 3.5 million euros. The restaurant business would have been purchased thanks to the economic contribution and “protection” provided by a prominent member of the clan, to whose family part of the related proceeds would have been allocated even after his detention following a conviction for conspiracy to drug trafficking. The investigative findings would have made it possible to establish that the company was managed, in fact, by the prisoner’s brother-in-law, also burdened by numerous criminal records, who would then free himself from the criminal joint venture by starting a new business in the field of product sales from the oven. The investigations, corroborated by the declarations of collaborators of justice, would have also made it possible to ascertain the fictitious ownership of an individual company operating in the tourist services sector, which the previous owner would have been forced to dispose of with threats, beatings and intimidation, and of seven prestigious properties located in the Neapolitan capital. The suspects would have reused 412,435 euros paid in cash in catering and baking companies and in the purchase of real estate with repeated operations on company and personal accounts. The money was seized today together with the shares of the companies, the individual business and the properties registered in the name of nominees: the total value was estimated at over 3.5 million euros.
