These are assets for millions of euros that were “scattered” a little throughout Italy. There are also houses and land in Asciano, in the province of Siena. And for days The former 62 -year -old business lawyer Andrea Lo Castro (he was canceled from the register) and his historical “colleague”, the 63 -year -old Calabrian lawyer Francesco Bagnato, They are at the center of a maxi seizure requested by the Public Prosecutor of Messina directed by Antonio D’Amato, and still in the course of work, by the economic-financial police unit of the Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri of the Ros. Financiers and carabinieri are carrying out three distinct decrees, the main more two secondary, issued in recent days by the Prevention Measures section of the Court of Messina chaired in this case by the judge Domenico Armaleo, who is also the rapporteur of the procedure. This is after the request of the pool of magistrates and investigators of the prevention measures, which is coordinated by the assistant prosecutor Vito di Giorgio.
A Inciso. The lawyer wet in recent months has long been interrogated by the magistrates of the National Anti -Mafia Directorate In relation to the hypothesis of sale of some sheds on Messina in view of the construction of the bridge over the Strait, which apparently shares as owner with the Castro. The two are assisted by the lawyers Nino Favazzo and Antonello Scordo. The lawyer Antonio Arena was appointed as judicial administrator of the assets. The first hearing of discussion was set before the judges for October 15th.
The proceedings at the center of the judicial affair are more than one. The “beta” and the “default” the main ones. For the Castro there is the “Beta” procedure, a historic investigation managed in July 2017 by the then subsequent prosecutor of Messina Sebastiano Ardita, who documented the operation and the undisputed supremacy of a “cell” of Cosa Nostra Catania, against which the local clans tended not to contrast. This “cell” was an expression of the Romeo-Santapaola group, which had projected its interests in various sectors of entrepreneurship and the public administration. In this process, the former Messina business lawyer was definitively sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment for competition outside the Romeo-Santapaola Association, a sentence he was serving up to a week ago, in prison, in Reggio Calabria. A few days ago he obtained “Test custody”.
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