Camorra, assets seized for 36 million between Campania and Lazio from building contractor

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24 September 2020 The financiers of the economic and financial police units of the financial police of Bologna and Naples have confiscated, between Campania and Lazio (in the provinces of Naples, Caserta and Latina) the assets of an entrepreneur worth over 36 million EUR.

According to what was reconstructed by the military, the man, an entrepreneur in the construction sector was a "prominent figure in criminal organizations active in the area".

The provision was issued by the court of Naples (section for the application of preventive measures) on the proposal of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate and concerned movable property, real estate, companies and financial relationships attributable to the 59-year-old entrepreneur, his family and nominees .

According to what was reconstructed by the magistrates in July 2017, the entrepreneur was arrested in the "Omphalos" operation, as he was held responsible for usury, abusive exercise of financial activity, fictitious registration of company shares, fictitious registration of assets and undue receipt of payments to the detriment of the State, aggravated by the mafia method, for having facilitated first the Camorra clans Morelli and then Aversano, active in the municipalities of Grumo Nevano, Casandrino and Sant'Antimo, already arrested in the past for external involvement in a criminal association mafia, was considered "the fulcrum of the planning of extortion activities in the territory", materially carried out by other affiliates, as emerged from the statements of some collaborators of justice, explain the military.

Over time, "he then dedicated himself to usurious loans, managing to penetrate already established companies and to take control of them in a secret and surreptitious manner".

He also invested in the real estate sector and was the architect of a series of frauds in the insurance sector, while maintaining "full participation in the various criminal events of an associative nature perpetrated by the Camorra associations of which he was a member".

The confiscation order was issued following economic and financial police investigations conducted in close collaboration by the Fiamme Gialle of Bologna and those of Campania.