Foggia: assets worth six million euros seized from a known repeat offender

The Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate has executed a seizure warrant issued by the Court of Bari – Section III, which acts as a Prevention Court against a known repeat offender from the province of Foggia, a leading figure in local organized crime. The complex patrimonial investigations, carried out by the DIA under the auspices of the Bari District Anti-Mafia Directorate, have made it possible to demonstrate how the recipient (currently, subject to further verification at the decision-making stage with cross-examination at the defense), a socially dangerous individual, having been convicted of various crimes against property, has invested large proceeds from criminal activities, accumulating assets of a disproportionate value compared to the income declared to the tax authorities. Today’s ablative measure related in total to a patrimonial compendium consisting of six companies (including a gas station with an adjacent bar/tobacco shop, gaming machine room and car rental), numerous luxury cars and financial assets also on foreign territory, formally registered under front men but to be charged to the repeat offender, for a total estimated value of 6 million euros. This patrimony is in addition to the 5.5 million euros seized from the interested party at the beginning of 2023 in the context of a similar preventive measure issued by the same AG. The result is part of the institutional activities aimed at attacking the illicit wealth acquired and which can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to criminal contexts, thus also protecting and securing the healthy part of the national economic fabric .