The State Police carried out a preventive seizure of goods for a value of about 250,000 euros, At the disposal of the judge for the preliminary investigations of the Court of Messina, at the request of the District Anti -Mafia Directorate (DDA). The provision affects A subject arrested on January 14, investigated for external competition in mafia association and embezzlement aggravated by the mafia purposes.
The investigations, conducted by the Messina mobile team and the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto police station, made it possible to reconstruct A complex intertwining between organized crime and waste management. At the center of the investigation, a company operating in the sector of disposal of urban and special solid waste, as well as in the demolition of vehicles, based in Barcelona PG
Although the company was already the subject of criminal and prevention confiscation and entrusted to a judicial administrator since 2011, the investigations would have ascertained that it continued to be in fact attributable to a prominent exponent of the “Barcelonese mafia family” and his family. The company – according to what was reconstructed by the DDA – would have been used as an instrument of illegal enrichment, through the systematic appropriation of sums of non -accounting money.
The liability responsibilities against the judicial administrator, who would have facilitated the activities of the clan, renouncing his management duties and manifesting “reverence and complacency” against the mafia power. A behavior that, according to the investigators, would demonstrate a total enslavement to the clan and a malicious violation of its public functions. The patrimonial insights have made it possible to ascertain that the value of the seized assets – about 250,000 euros – would represent the direct profit of illegal activities and in particular of the crime of external competition in mafia association.
Today’s measure is added to a similar seizure carried out in recent days, for an identical value, always against alleged affiliates of the Barcelona mafia clan. The total assets seized as part of the operation thus rises to around 500,000 euros.