'Ndrangheta and online betting, assets confiscated from an entrepreneur
The criminal organization was active in "covering" the distribution points on the territory and ready to guarantee, with intimidation, the recovery of gaming credits
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Assets for a total estimated value of approximately 1.8 million euros were confiscated by the military of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria and by personnel of the Scico, with the coordination of the Dda Reggio, from a Roman entrepreneur operating in the sector. of online games and betting .

The criminal figure of the recipient of the measure had emerged as part of the "Galaxy" operation and had revealed a sophisticated and highly profitable criminal system, aimed at the illegal collection of online bets through important foreign bookmakers based in Austria and Malta which they would have operated in relationship with the 'Ndrangheta.

The criminal organization would have practically offered a sort of "environmental protection" to the gaming company, allowing the expansion on the territory of distribution points and guaranteeing, with intimidation, the recovery of gaming credits; on the other, the 'Ndrangheta would have obtained a monetary counterpart , infiltrating companies, enjoying a privileged channel for cleaning up dirty money, making money on profits and inserting its representatives in the territorial commercial network.

The entrepreneur, for whom a request for indictment was made also for the crime of conspiracy aggravated by the mafia method, would be among the creators of the illicit system.

The investigations of the financiers made it possible to reconstruct the asset acquisitions made from the year 2000 to 2020 and to detect the assets directly and indirectly in the availability of the entrepreneur , whose value would have been disproportionate to his earning capacity.