Operation of the financial police that executed a precautionary order for 26 people and seized assets for over 50 million euros, believed to be the result of investments in Sicily, Lombardy and Veneto by the 'entrepreneurial mafia' of the Scalisi-Laudani clan.

The crimes hypothesized, for various reasons, by the Dda of Catania are mafia association and fraudulent transfer of values.

In the operation, called 'Follow the money', over 100 soldiers of the provincial command of Catania were employed, in collaboration with the Scico of Rome.

The investigations show that the Scalisi clan of Adrano, a large agricultural center in the Catanese area, had a "strong ability to integrate into the economic-social fabric and to infiltrate productive structures operating throughout the country and based in the North-East, from which it then drew financing ".

The investigation by the Dda of the Etna prosecutor made it possible to ascertain that the boss Giuseppe Scarvaglieri, although detained under the 41bis regime, the so-called 'hard prison', "continued to represent the reference point of the criminal association, directing from the prison the 'activity of the clan and this thanks above all to his nephew, Salvatore Calcagno (among those arrested, ed), who has been recognized an extremely important role in the association as spokesperson for his uncle in the area and supervisor of investments ".

In addition were arrested the entrepreneurs Antonio Siverino, known as the 'Billionaire' and his son Francesco for external competition in the mafia association.