The State Police carried out a decree of seizure of goods for a value of about 250,000 euros issued by the investigating judge of Messina, at the request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti -Mafia Directorate, directed by Antonio D’Amato. The measure stems from the assets carried out by the agents of the Messina mobile team and the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto police station, coordinated by the District Anti -Mafia Directorate, against two men and two women arrested on January 14th active members of the “Barcellonese mafia family”investigated for mafia -type association, embezzlement and extortion aggravated by the mafia purposes.
It is Luisella Alesci 53 years; Domenico Ofria, 53 years old; Tiziana Francesca Foti, 52 years old; And Angelo Munafò, 45 years old.
The investigations carried out have ascertained the traceability of a company operating in the waste disposal sector urban solids, special waste and demolition of vehicles based in Barcelona, to an exponent of the Barcelonesi mafia family And to his family members, despite the fact that the company was confiscated, both in criminal and prevention, and entrusted to a judicial administrator since the year 2011.
The evidence collected have revealed that the company would have been used, first of all, as an instrument of illegal enrichment, through the daily appropriation of money, not accounted for, by the coffers; Getting, in this way, the result of the perception by the community, of a mafia organization capable of managing a company, despite two confiscation measures and related judicial administration.
The property investigations have made it possible to ascertain that the seized assets are the proceeds of illegal activities. In particular, the seizure, aimed at the future confiscation of assets, concerns sums of money, a common investment fund and two cars attributable to the suspects or their closest relatives, for a total value of about 250,000 euros.