Assets worth three million euros confiscated from Corleone bosses
The hands of the State on the assets of Rosario Salvatore Lo Bue, his son Leoluca and Calogero Lo Bue, deceased, all considered in various capacities exponents of the Cosa Nostra mandate

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The ROS carabinieri, with the soldiers of the provincial command of Palermo, executed two separate confiscation decrees of the Prevention Measures section of the Palermo court on the proposal of the DDA, in the context of proceedings against Rosario Salvatore Lo Bue, the son Leoluca and Calogero Lo Bue ( in the photo ), deceased, considered in various capacities to be exponents of the Cosa Nostra mandate of Corleone, of which the former was the regent.

The provisions, which became irrevocable following the latest rulings of the Supreme Court, sanctioned the definitive confiscation of banking relationships, homes, land, insurance policies, complexes of company assets and a warehouse, for an estimated value of over 3 million euros. The asset investigations were carried out by the ROS through the cross-referencing of information coming from the revenue agency, from traditional databases and from those used to carry out investigations of crimes in the agri-food sector.

It was ascertained that Rosario Salvatore Lo Bue and his son Leoluca, through frontmen, operated mainly in the agri-food, organic and livestock breeding sectors, also benefiting from the related community contributions. The disparity between the incomes declared by Calogero Lo Bue and the value of the assets registered in his name or in any case attributable to him would have been ascertained, from which it was possible to deduce that the same, in the years in which he was alive, made use of means and availability illicit financial transactions deriving from his membership in Cosa Nostra.

The investigative activities, carried out in support of the investigations conducted by the investigative unit of the Carabinieri group of Monreale and the Corleone company, constitute the completion of the law enforcement activity, also with reference to asset profiles, carried out by the Carabinieri against the Corleone mafia mandate , which emerged weakened by the results of the Patria, All Stars and Grande Passo investigations and by the seizures of assets carried out over time against other exponents of the same district, including those attributable to the deceased mafia boss Salvatore Riina .

The confiscation also includes Calogero Lo Bue's family home in Corleone, indicated in the judicial documents relating to the capture of Bernardo Provenzano as a "post stop" for the forwarding of correspondence destined for the latter at the time.