Assets worth 25 million euros were confiscated from entrepreneur Pasquale Piccirillo: the well-known healthcare and TV entrepreneur from Caserta had made 25 million disappear, a record confiscation by the Finance Police.
Today, the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Caserta is coordinating the execution of a confiscation decree with which the Supreme Court of Cassation, confirming the decisions previously taken by the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere - Prevention Measures Section and, subsequently, endorsed by the Court of Appeal of Naples, has ordered the definitive seizure in favor of the State of real estate, registered movable property and company shares for a total value of over 25.000.000 euros against a Caserta entrepreneur, operating in the health, publishing, telecommunications and real estate sectors.
The measure is the epilogue of targeted economic-patrimonial investigations, carried out by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Caserta, on behalf of the aforementioned Judicial Office, aimed at reconstructing the entrepreneur's social dangerousness profile and identifying the illicit proceeds that allowed him to gain unjustified personal enrichment and to accumulate - over time - a huge amount of wealth inconsistent with the declared income.
Following the aforementioned investigations, the entrepreneur had been subjected to a personal preventive measure, having been recognized as a socially dangerous individual on an "economic-financial" level in light of his involvement, in the period 2005-2017, in multiple legal cases concerning, in particular, numerous and different crimes of a patrimonial nature, such as aggravated fraud for the obtaining of public funds, money laundering, embezzlement and tax crimes for tax evasion and use and issuance of invoices for non-existent transactions.
In order, therefore, to reveal the origin of the significant assets of the entrepreneur and his family, copious documentation was acquired, including the contracts for the sale of assets and company shares as well as numerous other public deeds that have affected the entire investigated family unit over time, subsequently verifying, for each transaction, the related financial movements underlying the creation of the necessary economic provision. The material thus collected was the subject of detailed investigations, including banking, which allowed us to ascertain an unjustified discrepancy between the declared income and the financial resources instead used for the asset acquisitions, in addition to the instrumental use of the companies attributable to him to mask the ownership of his considerable real estate assets and to drain liquidity through fictitious "loan repayment" operations.
On the basis of this evidence, in February 2018 the Second Criminal Section – Panel D of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere had already ordered the seizure, with a view to subsequent confiscation, of the company shares and related business complexes of n. 3 companies (including a well-known dental practice affiliated with the National Health Service, a publishing group active in telecommunications and a real estate company), n. 93 properties (located in Campania, Lazio, Abruzzo and Switzerland, including private villas located in well-known tourist locations), n. 8 motor vehicles as well as the financial resources present in n. 22 bank accounts (current accounts, deposit accounts and other financial investments), for an estimated value of over 25 million euros.
Article published on 18 October 2022 - 11:00
