On the proposal formulated by the Public Prosecutor of Rome together with the Questore of the province of Latina, the Court of Rome - Prevention Measures Section ordered the seizure, in Italy and abroad, of assets, corporate structures and financial relationships for an overall value of 50 million euros, attributable to a Pontine entrepreneur for whom it was considered the qualified and generic social danger and the traceability of assets to illegal activities.
This is part of a strategy to combat illegal accumulations undertaken by the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the State Police, through the Central Anti-Crime Service and the Anti-Crime Division of Latina.
Today morning, the Central Anti-Crime Service and the Anti-Crime Division of Latina, coordinated by the Central Anti-Crime Directorate, carried out a seizure order aimed at confiscation issued, pursuant to anti-mafia legislation, by the Court - Prevention Measures Section of Rome, on proposal formulated by the Procurator of that District jointly with the Questore of the province of Latina.
The ablationary measure in question concerns assets, corporate structures and financial relationships for a total estimated value of approximately 50 million euros, attributable to a Pontine entrepreneur.
The proposed, currently subject to the obligation of presentation to the Judicial Police, was arrested in 2020, as part of an investigation, conducted by the State Police with the coordination of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Rome, as a serious suspect, among other things, fraudulent bankruptcy, fraudulent transfer of values, corruption, self-laundering, kidnapping and extortion aggravated by the mafia method. After the review of the Court for re-examination, which confirmed, except for one item, the order of the GIP, the proposal was sent back to trial and the trial is underway before the Court of Latina.
With today's provision, in particular, the Court of Prevention Measures of Rome ordered the seizure of a sole proprietorship, a foundation, all the shares and the entire corporate assets of 37 corporate groups, of which 4 located in the United Kingdom and 2 in Moldova, of 119 buildings and 58 land, 55 vehicles, 1 boat and 72 financial relationships, for a value that amounts, as indicated, to approximately 50 million euros.
The Prefect Francesco Messina, Central Anti-Crime Director reiterates that "The massive seizure carried out today by the State Police against a Pontine businessman stems from a patrimonial prevention measure proposed jointly by the Prosecutor of Rome and the Questore of Latina. This result testifies to the effectiveness of the preventive investigations relating to the illicitly accumulated assets over time by criminal organizations of the mafia type, which often make use of the contribution of professionals who lend their work to conceal the illicit origin of such wealth.
The entrepreneur who is the recipient of today's seizure has thus accumulated over the years a real estate and movable assets equal to 50 million euros, constituting a large number of corporate groups, some of which operating in foreign territory, thus expanding the criminal effects of the original crimes committed by the mafia organization, whose proceeds, once ended up in the availability of the entrepreneur, have perversely caused further damage to the community, causing damage to the economic system and free competition.
In implementation of a precise investigative strategy adopted by the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the State Police, once again, the illegally accumulated assets were hit in a complementary way to the contrast action previously brought to conclusion against the military component of the criminal organization reference of the proposed".