The Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples has proceeded, by order of the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Naples, to confiscate, between Campania and Lazio, a large estate worth 17.600.000 euros attributable to Michele Palumbo, born in Villaricca (Naples) in 1952, belonging to the Mallardo clan.
The Guardia di Finanza acquired 17 housing units in the municipalities of Giugliano (NA), Aversa (CE), Mentana (RM), and Monterotondo (RM) as part of the State's assets, as well as 11 plots of land in the municipality of Mentana (RM), as well as shares and properties relating to a company operating in the real estate sector with headquarters in Fonte Nuova (RM), attributable to the "defendant" and his family.
The activity originates from investigations delegated by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate and carried out by the G. specialists.
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In this criminal context, as highlighted in sentences of the same Court of Naples, the Mallardo clan invested its illicit proceeds in real estate activities headed by Palumbo and his company operating in the construction sector; the association had been favored by PALUMBO's son-in-law, Giuseppe D'ALTERIO, born in Villaricca in 1977, a prominent member of the MALLARDO clan, on behalf of which he was involved in various economic sectors such as construction, real estate as well as the distribution of coffee to commercial establishments in the Giugliano and Caserta areas, where he also acquired contracts in areas controlled by allied Camorra clans, such as the Casalesi Clan.
The basis for the application of today's preventive asset measure derives from PALUMBO's proven membership in the MALLARDO clan, sanctioned by a 12-year prison sentence for external association with a mafia organization and arises from the economic-asset investigations carried out by the Guardia di Finanza.
In fact, the monitoring carried out by the GICO of Naples has revealed, thanks to the findings developed also through the use of the databases in use by the Corps and the bank checks, a marked disproportion between the legal sources of income that the individual officially had at his disposal and the assets of movable and immovable property of significant value accumulated over the years.
