In the fight against organized crime, the Financial Police conducted 1,351 investigations in 2025, with 7,442 people involved, including natural persons (5,568) and legal entities (1,874). The data is released by the Corps.
For an effective fight against mafia-type criminal associations, the Guardia di Finanza underlines, it is essential to attack the wealth illicitly accumulated through the commission of crimes. And, in the past year, the Corps, through targeted patrimonial and financial investigations and investigative activities, has proposed seizures to the Judicial Authority (directly, by equivalent and by disproportionality) for over 3.3 billion euros. The value of the total assets and liquid assets seized and/or confiscated during the year is approximately 1 billion 600 million.
As part of the prevention of criminal infiltration into the economic fabric, approximately 66 thousand administrative activities were carried out both for access to construction sites and for the release of anti-mafia documentation. Equal to 29.6 million euros is the overall value of the company assets subjected to preventive administrative or judicial control measures pursuant to articles. 34 and 34 bis of Legislative Decree 159/2001. The results in the fight against drug trafficking are also important: in fact, over 33 tons of drugs were seized by the Financial Police in 2025 (mainly cocaine, hashish and marijuana), with over 800 people reported. In 2025, assets and financial assets worth 8 million euros were seized from drug traffickers and confiscations were carried out for over 3.5 million euros.
In Reggio, assets worth 140 million euros were confiscated from 5 entrepreneurs who colluded with the ‘Ndrangheta
Among the most important results in the fight against organized crime, in Reggio Calabria assets and liquidity worth 140 million euros were confiscated from 5 entrepreneurs from Reggio Calabria, colluding with the ‘Ndrangheta, on whose behalf they laundered money through their companies, with a complex system of tax fraud in the petroleum products sector; in Catania, a prevention measure worth over 40 million euros (89 properties and 20 commercial activities, of which 8 abroad) was carried out against a man close to the Santapaola-Ercolano and Cappello-Bonaccorsi clans, who had designed and supplied the technical and IT equipment necessary for the creation of a management system for online betting, creating the conditions for the clans to enter the online gaming sector; in Brescia, 24 people arrested who were part of a criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking which mainly imported cocaine into Europe, directly from South America via commercial ships arriving in the main ports, sorting it onto trucks used for commercial road transport, with the seizure of goods and liquidity for around 3 million euros; in Trieste, preventive seizure of 92 million euros against a criminal organization dedicated to the illicit trafficking of waste with a complex system of tax and environmental fraud, and 11 natural persons involved and 6 joint-stock companies involved.