The Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria executed a confiscation provision – issued by the Prevention Measures section of the Court of Reggio Calabria, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office – against an accountant by Melito Porto Salvo (RC), definitively sentenced in 2015 for the crime of mafia association, as “reference point and man of trusted and tax plan”, starting from 2002 “Iamonte” gang, operating in the Greek area.
In particular, the aforementioned professional has made its technical knowledge available to the aforementioned criminal organization, managing the accounting profiles of certain commercial activities and companies in the name of “figureheads” or “wooden heads”, aware of the identity of the real owners of the same, as well as providing advice and suggestions at the top of the partnership to disintegrate the controls of the authorities in charge, especially in moments of fibrillation of the consortium, as on the occasion of investigations aside. of the judicial authority.
As specified in the ablative provision carried out, the aforementioned accountant has therefore provided a wide-ranging criminal collaboration which is fully boundless in a real conduct of associative value, having permanently granted his technical-controlle skills in order to allow to circumvent the prohibitions of the law and to evade the legislation on prevention measures as well as allowing the enrichment of the sphere and the Consolidation of its ability to condition, through forms of participation only apparently lawful, wide sectors of the local economy.
It was therefore considered the social danger of the recipient of the prevention measure in question, so much in relation to the ascertained participation in the “Iamonte” gang (and, therefore, for having made a repeated contribution to the realization of the illegal purposes pursued by the aforementioned consortium), as in relation to the commission of the crime of “fraudulent transfer of values” in terms of fictitious header of goods.
In this regard, the significant property investigation carried out by the Compagnia della Guardia di Finanza of Melito Porto Salvo, in strict and systematic synergy with the central investigation service on the organized crime of the Guardia di Finanza (Scico), has revealed, through complex and articulated investigative findings, a asset compendium directly and indirectly in the availability of the aforementioned accountant, whose value was decidedly disproportionate to its capacity income manifested.
In light of these results, the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria first ordered the seizure of prevention of the assets referable to the aforementioned accountant and, lastly, recognizing the validity of the preliminary investigation (based, as mentioned, on the economic -patrimonial investigations carried out by the Guardia di Finanza), ordered – at the State of the procedure and unprejudiced any different subsequent assessment – the application of the aforementioned measure – of asset prevention of the confiscation on all the assets already in seizure, consisting of 7 properties, for an overall estimated value of almost 2 million euros.