Italian police seize 800 million euros worth of mafia-related assets
A rifleman in a street in Vibo Valentia, Calabria, November 18, 2021 (illustrative image).
AFP - GIANLUCA CHININEA
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The Italian financial police have seized in Calabria, the southernmost region of the boot, property worth 800 million euros belonging to three brothers linked to the N'Drangheta, the all-powerful Calabrian mafia.
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With our correspondent in Rome,
Anne Le Nir
The investigation coordinated by the anti-mafia management of Catanzaro, which led to this operation by the financial police, dates back to 2015. It targets the three sons of an entrepreneur, Antonio Perri, murdered by a henchman of the Calabrian mafia in 2003.
Having become entrepreneurs in their turn, the three brothers, Franco, Pasqualino and Marcello, built a veritable empire made up of 34 companies in the distribution sector, the largest shopping center in Calabria, 19 hypermarkets as well as real estate, motorcycles and luxury cars including a Ferrari and a Maserati.
In total, the amount of property seized is estimated at 800 million euros.
A fortune accumulated thanks to the complicity of the three brothers with the clans of N'Drangheta.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese welcomed this operation against the Calabrian mafia which "
through its investments in one of the poorest regions of Italy, seeks to strengthen its power
".
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