The Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate of Naples has definitively confiscated assets worth a total of €6 million belonging to a businessman from the province of Caserta, active in the production, sale, and transportation of concrete.
The measure follows the ruling of the Supreme Court of Cassation, which confirmed the ruling of the lower courts.
The connection with the Belforte clan
The DIA investigations reconstructed the entrepreneur's assets in detail, bringing to light not only the disproportion between his declared income and his assets, but above all his "qualified dangerousness."
A definition that stems from the relationships, already emerged in previous investigations, with the Belforte clan of Marcianise, one of the historic Camorra organizations in the Caserta area.
The extortion system
The investigation launched by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Office in 2014—and supported by the statements of several collaborators of justice—uncovered a well-established extortion racket, implemented through the concrete production company in which the entrepreneur was a partner.
The system involved two operating methods: over-invoicing supplies, thus creating hidden funds for extortion payments; and direct mediation between victims and clan members, through the organization of meetings to finalize extortion "agreements."
A situation so deeply rooted that, in some cases, the entrepreneurs themselves spontaneously turned to the company owner for information on the clan's contacts to "get in line".
The confiscated assets
Today's ruling confirms the seizure already ordered in 2017 by the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere – Preventive Measures Section. Among the assets now definitively acquired by the State are:
two shares in companies active in the real estate sector and in the processing/marketing of concrete;
34 buildings and 2 plots of land in the Caserta area;
various financial reports, for a total estimated value of approximately 6 million euros.
A blow to mafia assets
The DIA emphasizes that the measure is part of the national strategy to combat the illicit assets of mafia organizations. Attacking illegally accumulated wealth, the statement states, means protecting the healthy part of the economic fabric, threatened by criminal infiltration and unfair competition imposed by the clans.
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It's important to see how the law works to stop the clans, but there are still many problems to be solved. The confiscation of assets is a step forward, but more attention is needed to address the causes of these illegal activities.