Mafia and fraud on petroleum products, 70 arrests throughout Italy and seized assets for a billion
08 April 2021

A one billion assets seizure and about seventy arrests . These are the numbers of the operation of the financial police of the provincial commands of Naples, Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, of the financiers of the Scico and of the carabinieri of the Ros.

The accusations are of mafia-type association, money laundering and tax fraud of petroleum products. At the same time, seizures of properties, companies and cash are underway for a value of approximately one billion.

The operation is the result of 4 different investigations, coordinated by the various Anti-Mafia Prosecutors of Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Naples and Rome and by the National Anti-Mafia Directorate. The investigations merged into the maxi operation in light of the fact that they concerned the same criminal dynamics even if with different subjects involved.