Staff of the anti-crime division – Property prevention measures section – of the Rome Police Headquarters carried out a confiscation order issued by the Court of Rome – Prevention measures section, which became definitive following the recent ruling of the Court of Cassation, concerning real estate units and financial assets lying in various banking relationships. Assets that belonged to an 83-year-old Roman, dedicated since the 1970s to structured usurious activities and the laundering of illicit capital on behalf of the ‘Ndrangheta, the Camorra and Cosa Nostra as well as in the interests of the Magliana gang; and to a man of Calabrian origin, who settled in the Castelli Romani area, inserted in very dangerous contexts of organized crime of ‘Ndrangheta origin, operating in the Tyrrhenian district, belonging to the Piromalli gang of Gioia Tauro, which had invested the proceeds of fraudulent bankruptcy crimes and serial fictitious registrations of assets for elusive or facilitative purposes, in real estate complexes.
The local Court – Prevention Measures Section – following the proposal of the Rome Police Commissioner advanced pursuant to the anti-mafia legislation, in March 2021 ordered the seizure and, subsequently, in May 2023, ordered the confiscation of an asset complex worth over 3 million euros, attributable to the aforementioned. The two appealed against this ruling to the Court of Appeal – 4th Criminal Section – which, with a provision dated 05.09.2024, fully confirmed the contested decree which, therefore, became definitive on 09.24.2024 for the Calabrian individual only, given that today’s defendant appealed to the Supreme Court. Following the appeal to the Supreme Court in December 2024, the Supreme Court, annulling the ruling of the second instance judges, ordered the referral to the Court of Appeal for a new trial only against the eighty-three-year-old Roman. The latter, with a decree issued on 04.03.2025, rejected the appeal, confirming the confiscation ordered by the Court. Lastly, on 11.18.2025, the Supreme Court of Cassation, declaring the further appeal presented inadmissible, confirmed the contested provision of the Court of Appeal in this way establishing the definitiveness of the confiscation issued in May 2023 by the local Court.
The ablation measure, now definitive, certifies the significant disproportion between legitimate sources of income, economic activity carried out and availability of assets owned directly or indirectly by the proposed Roman, who, during an interrogation, had defined himself as a “liquid man”, i.e. subject to the disposal of various criminal associations, with the task of laundering the enormous illicit proceeds. The same man, in carrying out his usurious activity, used to boast to the victims of his “intimate” relationships with the leaders of the Banda della Magliana and the Sicilian mafia. Among the irrevocably confiscated assets, which have become part of the State’s assets, are a real estate complex located in the Municipality of Rocca di Papa (Rome) used as a hotel – restaurant, assigned to the Civil Protection, a real estate unit located in the Municipality of Rome, in the Magliana urban area, financial availability lying on various credit reports for a total value of over 300,000 euros. Today’s definitive confiscation also constitutes an important result also from a symbolic point of view, as it returns to the community assets that have always been firmly attested in the patrimonial sphere illicitly accumulated by mafia-type criminal gangs. The subject affected by the ongoing confiscation is not affected by measures limiting personal freedom and lives in the capital.