Financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria, with
the support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service – SCICO e
of 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. Giovanni Bombardieri, are implementing – in Calabria
and in the Marche – to a provision issued by the Prevention Measures Section of
local Court which orders the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of
seizure of assets with a total value estimated at approximately 5 million euros.
The activity allows you to materialize from an economic-financial point of view, through
the attack on the assets attributable to the gangs, the resulting investigative context
from the “EYPHEMOS” operation, already conducted by the Flying Squad of the Police Headquarters
Reggio Calabria.
The seizure is the result of the synergistic collaboration between police forces in combating the
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
of a person originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, with entrepreneurial interests in the sector
of the construction industry, whose criminal figure had emerged in the aforementioned “EYPHEMOS” operation, which has
allowed to reveal the structure and operations of the ‘Ndrangheta local 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 referred to in the aforementioned investigation,
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 tasks
criminal actions to be carried out.
Furthermore, thanks to his criminal charisma, he would have managed to catalyze a considerable amount
number of members eager to found a new bank, or to formalize it
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 recycle the
money and coordinated the implementation of asset disposal acts aimed at evading
the application of patrimonial measures through the fictitious registration of assets to him
traceable.
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 aforementioned evidence, the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate – increasingly interested in the economic-entrepreneurial aspects linked to organised crime – has delegated the GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to carry out a specific economic/patrimonial investigation aimed at applying personal and patrimonial 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 manifested 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 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, made up, specifically, 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 to banking, financial, insurance relationships and related availability, for a total value estimated at approximately 5 million euros
