The Court of Appeal of Salerno – Section of Preventive Measures has fully confirmed the decree of application of the patrimonial preventive measure, issued in January 2017, by the Court of Salerno against Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, rejecting the appeal presented by the same.
The Court of Appeal has in fact deemed the social dangerousness of the prelate to be proven, taking into account the various criminal proceedings against him and the disproportionate standard of living compared to his declared income, confirming the confiscation and precautionary constraint on the assets of 5,5 million euros previously seized.
This latest decree therefore constitutes a further confirmation of the determinations that the Public Prosecutor's Office of Salerno had reached at the conclusion of the complex investigations delegated to the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno and which had already led to the request and obtaining of personal precautionary measures (in the form of house arrest) and real precautionary measures (in the form of preventive seizure for equivalent) against Nunzio Scarano.
The investigations, carried out by the financial police of the Economic and Financial Police Unit on behalf of this Public Prosecutor's Office, have made it possible to ascertain not only the evident disproportion between the economic sources and the corresponding uses made by Monsignor Scarano, but also to analyse and qualify, through the detailed examination of the numerous financial and real estate transactions, the origin and nature of the provisions used by the prelate.
To this end, the international collaboration activity initiated and perfected by this Public Prosecutor's Office with the corresponding Swiss Judicial Authority, through the use of the rogatory institute, has proved decisive, which has allowed the acquisition of banking documentation, the examination of which has proved decisive not only for the certain traceability of the off-shore companies - from which derives almost all of the disproportionate financial resources that Scarano was able to dispose of - but also for the qualification of the considerable financial resources ascertained as "undeclared income" and, therefore, illicit.
Article published on 1 June 2018 - 10:57
