Dia confiscated assets worth approximately 500 thousand euros from 3 companies; entrepreneurs involved in the “Low profile” investigation convicted
CATANZARO – The Dia of Catanzaro has carried out the definitive confiscation of three companies attributable to the Bagnato di Roccabernarda and Trapasso di San Leonardo di Cutro gangs. The seizure was ordered by the Court at the same time as the sentence with which heavy sentences were imposed at first instance for mafia association and tax crimes related to false invoicing, the new “gold” of the mafia, against entrepreneurs involved in the investigation who in January 2021 led to“Low profile” operation.
THE SEALS IN CALABRIA, LAZIO AND LOMBARDY
The seals were placed on paper mill companies operating in Calabria, Lazio and Lombardy and on banking relationships and financial resources, for a total value estimated at approximately 500,000 euros. The confiscated companies are My Service 24 srl, Total Service srl and T service srl. The first dealt with cleaning and had its registered office in Cosenza; the second for the construction of buildings with registered office in Rome; the third is a call center based in Caraffa. The owners, Tommaso Stranges from Crotone and a Bulgarian woman, alleged “blockheads”, were also acquitted in the trial but the traceability of the companies remains for the investigators.
«Mafia organizations have proven capable of an evolutionary metamorphosis by combining traditional crimes with new businesses. Massive tax fraud, especially in the value added tax, excise and tax credit sectors, through the use of the false invoicing system, managed thanks to the control of complex networks of paper mills and shell companies located in Italy and abroad ‘abroad”, the national director of Dia, Michele Carbone, told Il Sole 24 Ore. «For the mafias the F24 is the new Kalashnikov». And again: «The clans have also demonstrated that they can comfortably recruit crowds of trustees and dumbbells. This relational network then favors them in the recruitment of compliant professionals called to falsely attest, with massive transfers of fictitious tax credits deriving from building bonuses, the technical requirements of the intervention projects, their actual implementation and the adequacy of the expenses”.
THE LOW PROFILE INVESTIGATION THAT LEAD TO THE CONFISCATION
This seems to be the scenario outlined by the Profilo Basso investigation, emblematic because it shed light on a criminal association, with mafia aggravating circumstances, aimed at issuing invoices for non-existent operations serving the gangs. There are two “deep throats” in this sense: Tommaso Rosa, from Sellia Marina but originally from Roccabernarda, and his wife Concetta Di Noia. Both of them became collaborators of justice after being involved in the investigation, they made revelations about the organization of which they would have been promoters together with the key accused, Antonio Gallo, the entrepreneur from Sellia Marina who, thanks to the support of the Crotone clans, would have taken over a monopoly position in accident prevention procurement.
While Rosa essentially reported to the investigators, and confirmed in the courtroom, that she was Gallo’s right-hand man, Di Noia admitted that she was a close collaborator of her husband in preparing the papers aimed at evading added value and income to allow an undue refund. She was, in fact, responsible for drawing up the invoices on the instructions of Rosa and Gallo, a crime that the Catanzaro DDA considers aggravated by the purpose of facilitating the gangs.
