Il Tribunale di Salerno ha disposto, su conforme richiesta della Procura della Repubblica di Salerno, Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia, la confisca di beni e assetti societari per un valore di circa 16 milioni di euro, nei confronti dell’imprenditore Squecco Roberto, 55 years.
The measure was carried out in recent days by the Anti-Crime Division of the Salerno Police Headquarters and by the Central Anti-Crime Service of the State Police. Against the aforementioned entrepreneur, already convicted for crimes committed to facilitate the “Marandino” clan.
Last January, aprecautionary custody order in prison for the crimes of fictitious registration of goods, embezzlement, disruption of public service, personal favouritism, issuing invoices for non-existent transactions, invasion of land and buildings, recycling, disturbed freedom of enchantments, abuse of office and other, together with 10 more suspects; at the same time as the execution of the personal precautionary measures, a seizure order for the same assets was executed against Squecco Roberto and subsequently confiscated.
According to a counter-strategy specific to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Salerno and shared at a national level, by the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the State Police, which provides for an innovative operational model, characterized by the parallel performance of criminal investigations and anti-mafia prevention, in this perspective the request for preventive seizure was jointly requested by the Public Prosecutor of Salerno and the Police Chief of Salerno.
The execution of the confiscation order, also extended to some properties located in Romania, has led, for the first time in our country, to the activation of the procedure introduced by the new Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 (which entered into force on 19 December 2020), for the mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders.
In particular, the Court of Salerno recognized that Roberto Squecco was both “qualified” in his capacity as a social dangerous person – as he was accused of belonging to the associations referred to in art. 416 bis of the Criminal Code (specifically the “Marandino” clan) and of the crime referred to in article 512 bis of the Criminal Code (fraudulent transfer of assets) – and “generic” in his capacity as a person who habitually lives off the proceeds of criminal activities.
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Squecco is considered socially dangerous subject since the second half of the 90s. In fact, the reports of fraud, receiving stolen goods, violation of tax regulations, trafficking in cloned cards, as well as the operations of diversion of assets and capital carried out to the detriment of creditors of companies administered, formally or in fact and then declared bankrupt, date back to that period.
These latter conducts for which Squecco has accumulated a huge amount of illicit capital, of over 3 million euros, subsequently reinvested in various business sectors, and for which it has reported two convictions for fraudulent bankruptcy. The provision also highlighted that in the years 2012-2014, the entrepreneur from Salerno also demonstrated a qualified social dangerousness, deriving from his membership in the Camorra clan “Marandino”.
In fact, in 2014, he was arrested for participation in a Camorra-style association headed by Giovanni Marandino and attempted aggravated extortion, and subsequently convicted for these acts. The Court then focused on the results of the most recent investigations coordinated by District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Salerno and carried out by the Salerno Flying Squad, which led to the execution of the aforementioned personal precautionary measures.
It is also highlighted that Squecco, despite the numerous and incisive judicial and administrative provisions, such as anti-mafia interdiction measures concerning his person and his economic activities, has not changed his conduct, repeating the same crimes.
In this context, Squecco, also thanks to the reinvestment of the proceeds of tax crimes, has, in fact, continued to maintain the monopoly in funeral services and public assistance in the municipalities of Agropoli, Acerno, Capaccio, through the creation of new associations and companies registered under front names or by infiltrating already active third-party companies, in order to exploit, in a covert manner, the means and licenses of others, thereby obtaining, moreover, a considerable enrichment; under this last profile, the complex system of invoicing for non-existent operations carried out by the aforementioned, through shell companies operating in the healthcare sector, is also stigmatized, which has generated, in the period 2017/2019 alone, revenues of approximately 1 million euros, subsequently recycled into the coffers of the Onlus attributable to Squecco and diverted for personal purposes or to create cash supplies.
The economic and financial investigations have documented how Squecco reinvested the sums illegally acquired with the two important and long-standing fraudulent bankruptcies, carrying out various commercial operations, among which the following stand out for their particular relevance: first of all, the purchase, through Pianeta Paestum Srl, of 12 lands located in Capaccio, covering an area of approximately 18 hectares, for the declared amount of 1.600.000.000 of the old lire, whose current value, on the basis of the relative urban planning destination and the exploitation potential that distinguishes them, is estimated at approximately 15 million euros.
Among the various projects that affected the aforementioned lands, as well as other neighbouring plots, there was that of creating a theme amusement park, with the intervention of the municipal administrations of Capaccio and Agropoli; secondly, the establishment of two corporate groups in Romania, active in the production and sale of dairy products, registered between 2002 and 2009, owners of real estate in that country.
Therefore, in light of the elements presented, as well as the investigations carried out through a specific request of the Rogatory Commission to the competent Romanian Authorities, the Court ordered the confiscation of a company based in Italy, 2 relief associations, 26 vehicles, 7 bank accounts, 12 lands located in Capaccio – Paestum, 1 land located in Zimbor – Romania, for an overall estimated value of approximately 16 million euros, also applying the preventive measure of special public safety surveillance with an obligation to reside for a period of three years.
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