REGGIO CALABRIA – The Guardia di Finanza between Calabria and Marche has executed a provision for the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of assets for a total estimated value of approximately 5 million euros.
The activity made it possible to materialize from an economic-financial point of view, through the attack on the assets attributable to the gangs, the investigative context deriving from the operation “Eyphemos”, already conducted by the Flying Squad of the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters. The seizure is the result of the synergistic collaboration between police forces in the fight against organized crime, under the coordination of the local prosecutor’s office.
The economic-patrimonial investigation was carried out against a person originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, with entrepreneurial interests in the construction sector, whose criminal figure had emerged in the “Eyphemos” operation, which made it possible to reveal the structure and operations of the local ‘Ndrangheta of Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte, equipped with margins of autonomy compared to the gang of reference, that of the “Alvaro”within which the aforementioned would have played a top role.
In particular, based on the investigative findings, the entrepreneur was found to be the leader, promoter and organizer of a mafia faction within the aforementioned ‘ndrangheta premises, with decision-making and planning duties to carry out the criminal actions to be carried out.
Furthermore, thanks to his criminal charisma, he would have managed to catalyze a large number of associates eager to found a new bank, or to formalize that autonomy which, in fact, had already been exercised by the group for some time. The entrepreneur also planned the economic activities to be started through which to launder the money and coordinated the implementation of asset disposal documents aimed at evading the application of asset measures through the fictitious registration of the assets attributable to him.
The individual was sentenced in the second degree to 19 years’ imprisonment for the crime, among others, of mafia-type association.
In light of the aforementioned evidence, the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate – always
more interested in the economic-entrepreneurial aspects linked to organised crime – has
delegated by the GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to
carry out a specific economic/financial investigation aimed at application
of personal and property prevention measures.
The activity under review made it possible to detect, through a complex and detailed verification activity, the assets directly and indirectly available to the entrepreneur, whose value would be
disproportionate result compared to the demonstrated earning capacity.
Furthermore, the complex elusive maneuvers and camouflage mechanisms of the actual ownership of real estate, corporate and financial assets were reconstructed, in the fictitious ownership of both close relatives and third-party holders of the entrepreneur, but in fact in his availability.
The seizure of the assets attributable to the entrepreneur consists of the entire business complex of 1 sole proprietorship and 2 companies operating in the construction sector, 10 properties, of which 3 land and 7 buildings located in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Ancona and Pesaro Urbino, as well as banking, financial, insurance relationships and related availability, for a total value estimated at approximately 5 million euros.
