‘Ndrangheta: 300 thousand euros confiscated from an entrepreneur from Reggio Calabria active in Tuscany

John

By John

Confiscated by the Guardia di Finanza Beni for about 300,000 euros between Italy and Spain to an entrepreneur from Vinci (Florence), originally from the province of Reggio-Calabriaoperating in the sector of the processing of skin and leather, considered “socially dangerous” e Trait D’union among entrepreneurs operating in Tuscany and Calabrian subjects indicated as linked to the ‘Ndrangheta.

The military carried out a sentence of the Florence Court of Appeal confirmed by the Court of Cassation. In the process, still ongoing, the crimes of association for criminal, attempted extortion, wear, recycling, abusive financial activity, issue of invoices for non -existent operations, fraudulent transfer of values, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method and the aim of facilitating the ‘Ndrangheta, are contested.

The investigations, explains from the Guardia di Finanza, have allowed us to demonstrate, regardless of the criminal liability that must be ascertained in the process, the social danger of the entrepreneur and the disproportion, not justified, between the declared income and its assets, also shielded through mechanisms of fictitious header.

The reconstruction made by the financiers has allowed us to reach the seizure first and now to the definitive confiscation of current accounts and an apartment in Tenerife, thanks also to the international cooperation between the Italian and Spanish judicial authority. The Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has in fact accepted the application for execution of the confiscation of the property presented by the Public Prosecutor of Florence. The assets will now be managed by the National Agency for the Administration and the destination of the seized assets and confiscated from organized crime.