The Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service (Scico), has completed an operation that allowed to apply a series of property prevention measures (kidnappings and confiscations) for an overall estimated value of around 6 million euros.
Several subjects who, covering important positions within important gangs of the ‘Ndrangheta, had unduly accumulated over the years illegal assets.
On the basis of these evidence, the Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti -Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria, directed by the prosecutor FF Dr. Giuseppe Lombardo, delegated the group investigation group organized (Gico) of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to carry out targeted and specific property investigations.
The existence of the so -called “social danger” has emerged, since it is subjects who, as also already emerged in various police operations, were belonging or at least contiguous to the ‘ndrangheta, being operational within significant territorial articulations active both in the city of Reggio Calabria and in the territory included in the Tyrrhenian belt.
They would have made a significant contribution to the criminal activities of some of the most important local gangs, including the families “Tegano”, “Alvaro”, “Piromalli”, “Fish” and “Bellocco”.
The appropriate economic -patrimonial assessments – against the same subjects as well as the components of the respective families – have also made it possible to detect that the assets attributable to them was of significantly disproportionate value with respect to the officially declared income.
On the basis of these elements, the Prevention Measures section of the Court of Reggio Calabria has issued, against 15 recipientsthe aforementioned seizure and confiscation measures that concerned, among other things, 47 properties (28 buildings and 19 land), 3 individual companies operating in the retail trade sectors for motor vehicles, wholesale trap of scrap, transport and agricultural, participation shares of a company operating in the sector of processing stones and marble, 6 vehicles, 2 luxury watches, financial resources and money. cash, as mentioned, for an estimated total value of approximately 6 million euros.
Among the assets subject to confiscation, there is also an illicit tax credit of huge value, identified and subjected to urgent seizure juxtaposed just before the attempt to collect by a well -known exponent of the “Books” gang.