The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has executed a confiscation order against Ciro Barba, former councilor of Nocera Inferiore, putting an end to a financial matter that the Salerno judiciary deems incompatible with his income. The order, issued by the Review and Preventive Measures Section of the Court of Salerno upon a joint proposal from the Salerno and Nocera Inferiore prosecutors' offices, along with the Director of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (DIA), seizes the man's assets, companies, and financial resources worth approximately three million euros.
Barba, who between the late 1980s and early 1990s held positions in the Public Education and Technological Services Departments, was definitively convicted of extortion in 1999 and had previously been tried in the first instance for mafia association, a crime later declared statute-barred on appeal. It was precisely that criminal history, combined with a perceived persistent dangerousness, that led the magistrates to confirm the measures already initiated during the seizure phase.
According to investigators, Barba had built up a fortune over the years, concealing its true assets behind a network of front men. The decree establishes the confiscation of bank accounts linked to the suspect and his family, vehicles, agricultural land, and the ownership of five companies with offices in Campania and Tuscany, operating in the agri-food and residential construction sectors. The disproportion between the accumulated assets and the declared income was considered decisive for upholding the order.
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