Financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabriawith the support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service – SCICO and the Provincial Commands of the Guardia di Finanza of Ancona and Pesaro-Urbino, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria, directed by Dr. John Bombardierithey are executing – in Calabria and in Marche – to a provision issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the local Court which orders the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of assets for a value overall estimated at approximately 5 million euros.
The activity allows us to materialize from an economic-financial point of view, through the attack on the assets attributable to the gangs, the investigative context deriving from from the operation “EYPHEMOS”, already conducted by the Flying Squad of the Police Headquarters Reggio Calabria.
The seizure And fruit of synergy collaboration between forces of police in the fight against organized crime, under the coordination of the local Prosecutor’s Office. The economic-patrimonial investigation was carried out by soldiers belonging to the
GICO of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria, against a person originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, with entrepreneurial interests in the construction sector, whose criminal figure had emerged in the aforementioned “EYPHEMOS” operation, which allowed us to reveal the structure and operation of the premises ‘ndrangheta Of Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonteequipped with margins of autonomy compared to gang of reference, that of the “ALVARO”, within which the aforementioned would have played a top role.
In particular, based on the investigative findings referred to in the aforementioned investigation, the businessman it would have turned out to be the boss, promoter ed manager of a mafia faction inside the the aforementioned ‘ndrangheta location, with decision-making and planning tasks for 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 planned Even the economic activities to be initiated through which to launder the money and coordinated the implementation of asset disposal acts aimed at evading the application of asset measures through the fictitious registration of the assets attributable to him.
For such conduct – at the state of the proceedings and without prejudice to subsequent assessments regarding the effective and definitive ascertainment of responsibility – the subject was sentenced at second degree to a sentence of 19 years of imprisonment for the crime, among others, of association of mafia style.
In light of the above evidence, the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate – increasingly interested in the economic-entrepreneurial aspects linked to organized crime – delegated the GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to carry out a specific economic/financial investigation aimed at applying personal and financial prevention measures.
The activity under review, also enhancing the results of previous investigations, made it possible to detect, through a complex and detailed verification activity, the assets directly and indirectly available to the entrepreneur, the value of which would have been disproportionate compared to the demonstrated earning capacity.
At the same time, the asset investigation made it possible to reconstruct the complex elusive maneuvers and camouflage mechanisms of the actual ownership of real estate, corporate and financial assets, in the fictitious ownership of both close relatives and third-party holders of the entrepreneur, but in fact in his own availability.
On this basis, with the provision in execution, the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria – at the state of the proceedings and without prejudice to any subsequent assessment on the merits – has ordered the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of the illicit assets attributable to the entrepreneur, consisting, specifically, of the entire corporate compendium of 1 company individual And 2 companies operating in construction sector, 10 propertiesof which 3 lands And 7 buildings located in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Ancona And Pesaro Urbino, as well as banking, financial and insurance relationships and related availability, for a total value estimated at approximately 5 million euros.
The service activity in review testifies, once again, to the high level of attention of the Guardia di Finanza which – following the precise indications of the Reggio Judicial Authority and in collaboration with the State Police only for the part concerning the technical activity already conducted during the investigations – continues to be aimed at identification and consequent aggression of the assets and of the financial resources illicitly accumulated by mafia-style criminal groups, with the aim of curbing market pollution and promoting free competition, with the intent of restoring adequate levels of legality and protecting healthy entrepreneurship by ensuring transparency and public safety.
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