In recent days, the carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Reggio Calabria Operational Department and the Gioia Tauro Group performed a confiscation decree issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria – Prevention measures section, which has now become definitive, against A man currently detained, believed to be affiliated to the “Cacciola-Grasso” gang in Rosarno.
The provision is the result of a proposal made by the Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria directed by Giuseppe Lombardo, Prosecutor of the Republic who is the functions on investigations carried out by the military of the Arma in the context of“Ares” operationconducted between 2015 and 2018, which had already turned on the spotlight on a vast heritage considered illegally.
In total, goods have been confiscated for a total value of about 600,000 euros, including 14 land and 2 buildings located in the municipality of San Ferdinandoan individual company active in the cultivation of citrus fruits in Rosarno and a financial product. All the assets were formally registered to the man’s wife, but according to the asset investigations they would have been in his full availability.
The operation confirms the central role of the Carabinieri weapon in the contrast to organized crime, through an incisive action on the patrimonial level, aimed at weakening the gangs by hitting them in their economic interests and in the control of the territory.