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July 22, 2020 Goods worth over 10 million euros have been seized by the Dia di Caltanissetta from the entrepreneur Giuseppe Li Pera, 71 years old from Polizzi Generosa (Palermo), who has lived in Caltanissetta for years. The seizure order originates from an investigative activity conducted by the Nissian Operations Center and coordinated by the I Department of the Dia, which, retracing his entrepreneurial career since the mid-80s, "has ascertained its significant rise thanks to the continuous relationships maintained with the Sicilian mafia leaders, who allowed him to illegally increase his assets ", say the investigators of the Dia. The preventive investigations have, in fact, "revealed a composite overall picture, characterized by a complex corporate network, only formally attributable to third parties (but indirectly connected to him) and only apparently released from connections with the world of organized crime", investigators say again.

"The figure of Li Pera stood out because, at the end of the 1980s, as an employee of the company in northern Italy - Rizzani de Eccher (active in the sector of major works in public procurement), he not only worked for that company, obtaining illegal advantages in terms of awarding and managing contracts in Sicily, but he took personal enrichment, facilitating his closeness to the mafia context of the time - say the investigators. The controversial story of Giuseppe Li Pera also counts a formal collaboration with Justice, which began in June 1992 and interrupted by him in January 2001, the year in which the entrepreneurial rise of his numerous companies began, headed by nominees and operating in the wind farm sectors in the province of Catania, Messina and Trapani; private residential construction, through the construction of numerous apartments and business premises in Serradifalco (CL), as well as an aqua park and related restaurant facilities ion in Caltanissetta and, lastly, prestigious residences consisting of single and multi-family terraced villas, along the Tyrrhenian coast east of Palermo from Trabia to Campofelice di Roccella ".

The investigations of the DIA have ascertained how Li Pera, in over 30 years of entrepreneurial activity, has maintained business relationships, seamlessly, with Antonino and Giovanni Buscemi, Giovanni Brusca, Angelo Siino, Vito Nicastri, or and with the entrepreneur Pietro Di Vincenzo from Nisseno, recipient of one of the largest confiscations for the Mafia. The seizure order concerns the entire corporate compendium of the SIGI Srl building companies with headquarters in Caltanissetta, Immobil. BI Srl, with headquarters in Rome and San Nicola's Costruzioni Srl, with headquarters in Caltanissetta; the company shares of the Parco delle maccalube campus Srl, Rochel Srl, Altarello Costruzioni Srl, Centounopini Costruzioni Srl, Studio 58 Srl all based in Caltanissetta, 9 real estate properties and 150 banking relationships.