Mallardo Clan: assets worth 10 million euros seized

Mallardo Clan: assets worth 10 million euros seized

This morning, as part of the activity aimed at attacking mafia assets, the agents of the Anti-Crime Division - Asset Prevention Measures section of the Naples Police Headquarters executed a seizure order of assets, issued, pursuant to the Anti-Mafia Code, by the Court of Naples - Prevention Measures Section, on the proposal of the Naples Police Chief, against Salvatore LUCENTE, 37 year old Neapolitan.

Lucente, son-in-law of Francesco Mallard, head of the Camorra organization of the same name operating in the territories of Giugliano in Campania, Villaricca and Qualiano, was sentenced in May 2018 by the Court of Naples to 13 years and 4 months of imprisonment, confirmed by the Court of Appeal of Naples on 19 June 2020, for mafia-type association, aggravated fictitious registration, aggravated violation of seals and aggravated forgery, with simultaneous confiscation of assets, is currently detained and occupies a prominent position within the criminal organization not only for having married the daughter of the "boss", but also for having contributed to creating a real business empire consisting of companies operating in the supermarket sector, the marketing of dairy products, fireworks and the production and distribution of bread, exercised in an oligopoly regime through threats and violence.

Lucente, who over the years had become the “economic arm” of the Camorra group, actively participated in the clan’s criminal dynamics and in decisions on investments to be made with the reinvestment of illegally acquired capital.

Following the detailed investigative activity, the police managed to locate and identify all the economic activities located in Naples, Giugliano in Campania, Villaricca, Casoria and surrounding areas.

The seizure order, which precedes the issuing of the final confiscation measure, concerned a large amount of assets available to Lucente, registered in his name and that of his wife, acquired through the use of money from illicit activities, for a total value of approximately 10 million euros.

In particular, all the company shares and the entire assets of four companies were seized, 8 premises relating to the seized activities, a garage, two lands, two apartments, two shops, two motor vehicles and a motor vehicle, a storage room, 50% of a boat, 29 bank relationships and deposits and the sum of 25 thousand euros.