A 212 million euro treasure confiscated by the finance police of Reggio Calabria and by Scico from the Calabrian entrepreneur Domenico Gallo, 65, accused of being close to the Piromalli and Zagari-Fazzalari 'ndrangheta gangs.

In addition to various financial resources, the confiscation concerns 13 joint-stock companies with their company assets, the shares of another company, 11 properties, including land and buildings and a prestigious villa, a car and 12 luxury watches.

Gallo, defined by a collaborator of justice as "bitumen billionaire" , managed to create, within a few years, that amalgamation with exponents of the 'Ndrangheta, men of the public administration and fixers that allowed him to grab the execution of great public works, confirming what has been highlighted by the investigations since 1985, when Gallo was indicated as a prominent emerging element of the new alliance between mafia entrepreneurship and the political-administrative world at local and national level.