The Court of Cassation canceled the decree of the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria with postponement which in November 2024 had confirmed the confiscation of assets for about 400 million euros decided, in January of the same year, by the Reggio Court against the Apulian entrepreneur Antonio Ricciowner of the Oia Services, a company that manages the Betaland brand.
“It was not possible to find out – the judges write – the contribution of components lawful from that attributable to illegal conduct, this, in the opinion of the college, is not enough to found a demonstration path, instead necessary, in relation to the generic danger, suitable to justify the confirmation of the seizure of the goods”.
The confiscation concerned the entire company compendium of 3 companies operating in the game and online betting sector, two trusts rooted in Malta, including the respective financial portfolios, as well as banking, insurance financial relationships and related availability. Curls He had been involved in the “galaxy” process on the infiltration of the ‘Ndrangheta in the online game sector. It was an investigation within which the entrepreneur had been seized and then confiscated his assets.
Accepting the appeal of the lawyer Gaetano Sassanellifor the fifth section of the Cassation the Confiscation Decree of the assets of Curls “It does not adequately realize that connection between illegal activities and the use of resources produced thus”. Considering the old criminal proceedings, by some of which Curls It had also been acquitted for the Supreme Court there would have been a “defect of chronological perimeter between the manifestation of the danger and acquisition of confiscated assets”.
“The reasoning of the judges of the prevention – reads the sentence – appears correct as far as the sentence is enhanced, which intervened on 9 July 2024, for the crime of association, the subject of the so -called ‘galaxy’ procedure, for facts committed between 2012 and 2018. But, for the assets acquired by the applicant in the previous period of the ‘galaxy’ procedure, the defensive notations are shared back in time of the generic danger of Curls». Hence the decision of the Cassation to postpone the procedure to the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria for a new decision.