The Financiers of the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabriawith the coordination of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti-Mafia Directorate, directed by the Prosecutor Dr. Giovanni Bombardieri, are implementing a measure, issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria, which orders the application of the capital measure from the confiscation Of goods – for a total value estimated at approximately 11.5 million euros – attributable to a entrepreneur from Gioia operating in the sector waste collection and management.
The criminal figure of the aforementioned had emerged, among others, in the operation “MALAPIGNA”, conducted by Carabinieri of the NIPAAF of Reggio Calabriain the context of which – at the state of the proceedings and without prejudice to subsequent assessments regarding the actual and definitive assessment of responsibility – he was deemed to be the leader, promoter and organizer of the “PIROMALLI”, of which he would become, over time, the financier and the entrepreneurial economic arm.
As emerged from the investigative activity, in fact, the preface entrepreneur it would be permanently inserted In the partnership at least starting from 90’s, first as a mere participant and then assuming a top-down role and the function of mafia entrepreneuroperating, in particular, in the sector of disposal of ferrous and metal waste and able, precisely by virtue of his high criminal caliber, to entertain illicit relationships with members of other mafia cliques.
In how much economic-entrepreneurial arm of the gangFurthermore, the aforementioned made his companies available to allow the ‘Ndrangheta to launder illicit proceeds.
In relation to the results of the above activities, the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate – increasingly interested in the economic-entrepreneurial aspects linked to organized crime – valorising the functions of the Guardia di Finanza in preventing and combating any form of criminal infiltration into the fabric economy of the country and of attack on illicitly accumulated assets – delegated the Organized Crime Investigation Group (GICO) of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to carry out a specific investigation a economic/patrimonial nature aimed at the application, against the aforementioned entrepreneur, of a financial prevention measure.
The activity under review, also valorising the results of previous investigations, through a complex and articulated verification and documentary verification activity allowed to reconstruct the asset acquisitions – direct and/or indirect – carried out by the entrepreneur over the course of twenty years and to identify the assets directly and indirectly available to him, the value of which would have been decidedly disproportionate compared to the demonstrated earning capacity or the fruit or reuse of illicit activities.
In light of these findings, the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria in February 2022, it ordered the seizure of the assets referable to the aforementioned entrepreneur and, subsequently, recognizing the validity of the circumstantial system, based on the detailed economic-patrimonial investigations and on the documentary checks carried out by the GICO Financiers of the PEF Unit of Reggio Calabria even during the cross-examination phase with the defence, it ordered – at the state of the proceedings and without prejudice to any subsequent assessment on the merits – the application of the asset prevention measure of the confiscation of all the assets already seized, consisting of the entire company compendium of n. 3 companies and 1 sole proprietorship operating in the metal waste disposal and construction sectors – including 37 between motor vehicles and vehicles and ownership shares of 3 plots located in the province of Reggio Calabria – 4 buildings located in the province of Reggio Calabria, 27 luxury watchesvarious types of jewels and precious objects, approximately 75 thousand euros in cash, as well as all reports banking/financial/insurance and related availability, for a total value estimated at approximately 11.5 million euros.
Furthermore, with the same provision, the aforementioned AG subjected the entrepreneur to the personal prevention measure of the Special Public Security Surveillance for a period of 4 years, with the obligation to stay in the municipality of residence or habitual residence.
The service activity under review once again demonstrates the high level of attention maintained by the Guardia di Finanza Reggio Calabria which – following the precise indications of the Reggio Judicial Authority – continues to be aimed at the identification and consequent attack of the assets and financial resources illicitly accumulated by the criminal gangs of mafia stylewith the aim of curbing market pollution and promoting free competition, with the aim of restoring adequate levels of legality and protecting healthy entrepreneurship while ensuring transparency and public safety.
