18 billion euros seized by the Finance Police from the Mafia. THE VIDEO

18 billion euros, equal to over 1% of the national GDP. This is the sum of the value of seizures of movable and immovable assets (almost 11 billion euros) and confiscations (about 7 billion euros) carried out, in the last five years, by the Guardia di Finanza against economic-financial crime.
What stands out, above all, is the data on confiscations: to say that 7 billion euros have been confiscated from economic-financial crime is equivalent, in fact, to affirming that the assets have been definitively taken away from the "mafias" and acquired, just as definitively, by the State.
These results are the product of over 10.000 checks (5,5 per day on average) and asset investigations involving 55 individuals, as many as the inhabitants of, for example, Italian towns such as Avellino, Sanremo or Anzio.
Moreover, patrimonial aggression - that is, the one that allows to deprive the organization of the energy necessary for its sustenance, to feed itself, and therefore to survive - has always been the distinctive feature of the action of the Corps which, over the years, has been able to strengthen and refine its ability to intercept the entrepreneurial, economic and financial interests of crime, not only organized, but also in its more advanced "economic-financial" guise.
An investigative approach, the one adopted by the Finance Police, which, the result of an inspection culture that began to form in 1921, with the establishment of the Investigative Tax Police, is still put to good use today, on a daily basis, in the context of prevention proceedings initiated against "qualified" dangerous individuals (i.e. those suspected of very serious crimes) and "socially dangerous" individuals or during anti-money laundering investigations, increasingly oriented towards identifying cases of investment or reinvestment in "safe haven" assets (diamonds, precious metals, paintings and archaeological finds). But also in inspection activities (about 1 million per year) conducted on the national territory, in all institutional sectors, very useful for promptly capturing signs of criminal infiltration in the economy.