The seizure of 23 real estate units, 24 plots of land, corporate shares and an individual company for a total value of € 4.301.590directly and/or indirectly attributable to three glimpses or adjacent to the mafia group “Arena”falling within the category of subjects characterized by “qualified social danger”.
The soldiers of the Centrale ICO service and the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Catanzaro execute the decree.
The recipient subjects of the precautionary measures were involved in the year 2017 in the “Jonny” operation, which concerned the Mafia organization Arena operating in Isola Capo Rizzuto. The investigative activity had reconstructed how the Crotone gangs, in the past in conflict with each other, were added to a “mafia pax” to share the large sums of public money intended for the reception of migrants Through the supplies, also documented with convenient invoices, at the “Sant’Anna” reception center.
From the investigations carried out, however, it emerged that The association had acquired and maintained a “dominant position” in the online betting collection sectorexercised in totally illegal ways, as well as the rental of online game appliances. The procedural position of the recipients of the seizure, at the moment, has not been defined, as for different aspects hangs before the Court of Appeal of Catanzaro, a postponement of postponement ordered by the Court of Cassation.
The seizure measures were adopted by the ordinary court of Catanzaro, on the basis of the articulated economic – property investigations coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Catanzaro – DDA
In addition, assets deemed to be the result of illegal activity or which constitute a reuse, in particular, some properties that entered the availability of one of the proposed through simulated acts of transfer of the property that actually have also been affected by the seizure. they concealed usurious relationships.
The investigations of the financiers had already led to the issue of similar ablative measures, against other subjects involved in the same investigation, which led to the seizure of further assets worth about 5 million euros.