Naples, 29 May (LaPresse) – Officers from the Salerno Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza have executed an order issued by the Salerno Court at the request of the local Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), ordering the confiscation of shareholdings and properties with an estimated total value of €3 million from a man previously convicted of offences relating to mafia association, extortion, robbery, illegal carrying and possession of weapons, as well as drug-related offences. Specifically, these include shares in two further companies owning properties and business premises, one of which owns a chalet-bar-pizzeria on the Salerno seafront. The investigation has reconstructed, from a financial perspective, the events that had already emerged in previous inquiries carried out by the GICO unit of the Economic and Financial Police of the Salerno Guard, in the context of which, on 16 December 2022, house arrest had been ordered against the man and a 12-month ban on engaging in business activities had been imposed on another suspect. The two are charged with fraudulent transfer of assets. In this context, three studio flats were seized; their possession had been justified by simulated loan-for-use contracts, with a total value of approximately €700,000, forming part of a residential complex in a prestigious area of Salerno. At the same time, given the recognised danger posed by the man convicted of mafia association, due to his criminal record and confirmed membership of a Camorra clan, a preventive seizure order was requested and obtained, covering not only the assets already subject to criminal proceedings but also further assets relating to earlier instances of fictitious ownership, which had since become time-barred.
Camorra: assets worth €3 million seized, including a chalet on the Salerno seafront
Naples, 29 May (LaPresse) – Officers from the Salerno Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza have executed an order issued by the Salerno Court at the request of the local Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), ordering the confiscation of shareholdings and properties with an estimated total value of €3 million from a man previously convicted of offences relating to mafia association, extortion, robbery, illegal carrying and possession of weapons, as well as drug-related offences. Specifically, these include shares in two further companies owning properties and business premises, one of which owns a chalet-bar-pizzeria on the Salerno seafront. The investigation has reconstructed, from a financial perspective, the events that had already emerged in previous inquiries carried out by the GICO unit of the Economic and Financial Police of the Salerno Guard, in the context of which, on 16 December 2022, house arrest had been ordered against the man and a 12-month ban on engaging in business activities had been imposed on another suspect. The two are charged with fraudulent transfer of assets. In this context, three studio flats were seized; their possession had been justified by simulated loan-for-use contracts, with a total value of approximately €700,000, forming part of a residential complex in a prestigious area of Salerno. At the same time, given the recognised danger posed by the man convicted of mafia association, due to his criminal record and confirmed membership of a Camorra clan, a preventive seizure order was requested and obtained, covering not only the assets already subject to criminal proceedings but also further assets relating to earlier instances of fictitious ownership, which had since become time-barred.
