The entrepreneur, according to the accusation, 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. For this conduct, the man was sentenced in the second degree to 19 years’ imprisonment for the crime, among others, of mafia-type association.
In light of the evidence, the Reggio Calabria District Anti-Mafia Directorate has 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 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.
With the provision issued, the Prevention Measures section of the Court of Reggio Calabria has ordered the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of the assets attributable to the entrepreneur, consisting, specifically, of the entire business complex of a sole proprietorship and 2 companies operating in the construction sector, 10 properties, of which 3 lands and 7 buildings located in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Ancona and Pesaro Urbino, in addition to banking, financial, insurance relationships and related assets.
Assets worth approximately 5 million euros were seized this morning by the soldiers of the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria, with 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. The investigators in Calabria and Marche carried out a provision issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of the Calabrian city of the Strait.
The activity falls within the investigative context deriving from the “Eyphemos” operation, conducted by the flying squad of the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters. The economic-financial investigation was carried out by soldiers belonging to the GICO of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria, against a man originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, with entrepreneurial interests in the construction sector, whose criminal figure had emerged in the “Eyphemos” operation, which would have made it possible to reveal the activity of the ‘ndrangheta “local” of Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte, equipped with margins of autonomy compared to the reference gang, that of the Alvaros, within which the man 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 ‘ndrangheta premises, with decision-making and planning duties to carry out the criminal actions to be carried out. Thanks to his criminal charisma, the man 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. (AGI)
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