(ANSA) – PALERMO, 11 APR – Assets amounting to 100 million euros were confiscated by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (Dia) from an entrepreneur, originally from Monreale (Palermo) but with various economic interests in the province of Trapani.
Seals to apartments, land, bank current accounts and companies including a tourist hotel complex in southwestern Sicily, “where Mafia bosses of the caliber of Mazara del Vallo district chief appear to have been hosted”, say the investigators.
The provision came after the first section of the Court of Cassation issued “the rejection sentence advanced by the entrepreneur and put an end to the prevention procedure initiated by Dia in 2014”.
The entrepreneur, “according to recurrent statements by collaborators of justice, was the bearer of interests of the Sicilian mafia gangs through artificial fraudulent mechanisms through which he had access to substantial national and EU public funding by involving individuals close to a known mafia fugitive in his projects”, argue the magistrates.
Among the assets confiscated also some companies based in San Marino and London, involved in complex financial transactions linked to large international commercial transactions.
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Source: Ansa
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