Castellammare – Yesterday, members of the Torre Annunziata Financial Police Group executed a precautionary seizure order totaling €2.720.017,80.
The order, issued by the preliminary investigations judge of the Torre Annunziata Court at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office, concerns Adolfo Greco, a businessman from Castellammare di Stabia, who is under investigation for receiving stolen goods.
The operation was conducted by the Castellammare di Stabia Financial Police Company and the Judicial Police Section (Gdf unit) at the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The discovery of the cash and the suspect's version
The seizure represents the culmination of further investigations launched after a search of the businessman's home. The home invasion was carried out during the execution of a pre-trial detention order issued for another crime, as part of operations coordinated by the Naples Prosecutor's Office – District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
On that occasion, a cash sum of €2.720.017,80 was found. Greco, according to the reconstruction, attempted to justify the money by claiming it was partly due to tax evasion and partly to personal savings.
Preventive confiscation already ordered in April 2025
The sum, initially subject to criminal seizure, was then the subject of a separate preventive measure: on April 2, 2025, the Court of Naples - Preventive Measures Section ordered the preventive confiscation of the money.
Why the hypothesis of receiving stolen goods?
Subsequent investigations, carried out despite the "self-accusatory" statements provided to explain the origin of the cash, led investigators to classify the conduct as receiving stolen goods, highlighting several elements deemed indicative of the money's origin from crime.
Among the aspects highlighted: the packaging of the banknotes in bundles in a manner considered anomalous with respect to legitimate business practices; the deemed unlikely attribution of the sum to a tax offense (without certain proof either of the amount or of its connection to the entrepreneur as a natural person or to companies associated with him); the concealment method, with the money hidden in a cavity in the closet; and the proven existence of the entrepreneur's contacts with criminal figures.
The "double bind": criminal seizure and prevention
The Prosecutor's Office therefore requested and obtained the precautionary seizure aimed at mandatory confiscation, based on the nature of the crime being charged.
The investigators also highlight that the seizure in criminal proceedings is in addition to the confiscation already ordered under the Preventive Measures and must be recorded as an additional restriction pursuant to Article 30 of Legislative Decree 159/2011.
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