Maxi joint anti-mafia blitz between the Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri in two provinces of eastern Sicily. Since the early hours of today’s morning, the Financiers of the GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Catania and the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Ragusa have been implementing an order issued by the GIP at the Court of Catania, at the compliant request of the Prosecutor’s Office Etna Anti-Mafia District.
16 arrest orders for numerous charges
The measure of application of precautionary custody in prison was issued against 16 people investigated for mafia-type criminal association, external competition in mafia association, attempted murder, illicit competition with threat or violence, operating between the provinces of Ragusa and Catania .
The latest anti-mafia operations
The last anti-mafia operation in Sicily before this one dates back to less than a week ago and concerns the Nebrodi mafia. It was also conducted by the Financial Police who, in that case, executed a decree of asset seizure issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Messina, at the request of the local District Attorney’s Office, against a man operating on the Tyrrhenian side. of the province of Messina, considered socially dangerous. The provision is also extended to the family members of the suspect, originally from Tortorici but active in the Montalbano Elicona area.
The seized assets
The man was responsible for resolving issues relating to the control of the territory, as well as managing extortion and the plots of land to be used to carry out scams against the AGEA. Today’s economic-financial investigations, conducted by the specialists of the Gico of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Messina, have therefore made it possible, on the patrimonial front, to reveal the availability of assets, belonging to the investigated subject and his relatives, to a disproportionate extent compared to to the legitimate incomes declared, demonstrating the close correlation between documented antisocial behavior and illicit enrichment. The asset prevention measure concerns a total of three business compendiums including the related assets (active in the agricultural sector), six lands and two financial relationships in direct and indirect availability or in any case attributable to the suspect, for an overall estimated value equal to one million euros.
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