The Provincial Command of the Financial Police of Reggio Calabria has seized assets worth over 914 thousand euros from an entrepreneur from Locride operating in the funeral sector, following an ablative provision issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio Calabria, on the proposal of the local Prosecutor’s Office.
The entrepreneur recipient of the aforementioned patrimonial measure was definitively convicted in 2019 for the crime of mafia association, as his stable “intraneousness” in the “Morabito Bruzzaniti Palamara” gang was ascertained – at the time operating in the territory of Africo, Samo, Brancaleone Bianco and headed by Morabito Giuseppe, known as “Tiradritto” – with the role of participant, dealing with the recovery of the weapons (used to exercise intimidating powers in the relevant hinterland) and, more generally, the organization of mafia meetings and the management of relationships with other criminal families.
More in detail, based on the content of the wiretaps carried out during the investigation which led to the definitive conviction of the aforementioned entrepreneur, the latter stood out “for his uncommon use of weapons (also found in his apartment during the precautionary measure), ready for use, as the most effective remedy in resolving conflicts of an associative nature”, being described by his associates “as a violent man, appreciated and praised by the leaders, ready to intervene to protect his honor outraged by members of other gangs”.
The asset investigation regarding the subject was developed by the Melito Porto Salvo Company, in close and systematic synergy with the Central Investigation Service on Organized Crime of the Guardia di Finanza (SC1.CO), through complex and detailed investigations and documentary checks, which revealed an illicit compendium of wealth directly and indirectly in the availability of the aforementioned entrepreneur, the value of which was decidedly disproportionate compared to the capacity income declared by the same.
Considering the social danger of the entrepreneur and having noted the aforementioned inequality between the standard of living and the declared income, the Reggio Calabria Prosecutor’s Office proposed the application of the patrimonial measure. Consequently, the Court of Reggio Calabria ordered the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of the assets attributable to the entrepreneur – consisting of 10 properties as well as current accounts, deposit books, government bonds, shares, bonds, certificates of deposit, insurance and related assets – for a total estimated value of almost 1 million euros.