The soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit – Gico of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples have executed a confiscation decree issued by the Court of Naples for 205 million euros of assets of the brothers Giovanni, Cuono and Salvatore Pellini, entrepreneurs in the sector of recovery, disposal and recycling of urban and industrial waste.
Properties also seized in Cosenza
Among the assets seized are 8 companies between Naples, Frosinone and Rome, 224 properties between Naples, Salerno, Caserta, Cosenza, Latina and Frosinone; 75 land; 70 financial reports, 72 cars, 3 boats and 2 helicopters for a total value of 204,914,706 euros. According to the investigations, part of the wealth of the 3 Acerra entrepreneurs operating in the sector of recovery, disposal and recycling of urban and industrial waste is the result of illicit trafficking in the so-called ‘Land of Fires’.
This is the latest development in a complex judicial process started in 2017, when the entrepreneurs’ assets were subjected to preventive seizure following their final conviction for continued malicious disaster and the asset assessments which had highlighted a marked disproportion between the assets owned and the declared incomes. After a first confiscation in 2019, confirmed on appeal in 2023, in April 2024 the Court of Cassation annulled the provision due to formal defects, ordering the restitution of the assets. The District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Naples, believing that the conditions for the measure still exist and the elements of qualified dangerousness and disproportionate assets are permanent, has therefore ordered a new and in-depth asset survey, also extended to family units. In May 2024, the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Naples seized the assets again and, with a decree filed on 19 February 2026, following the Chamber of Commerce investigation, ordered the confiscation, reiterating the continuing qualified dangerousness of the proposed persons, the structural and significant disproportion between the assets accumulated over time and the legitimate incomes declared and the inadequacy of the defense justifications aimed at demonstrating, in a plausible and documented way, the origin of the resources used.