Mafia: supplied cars to fugitives, assets worth 26 million confiscated

Gdf seals after the conviction of the entrepreneur Rosario Castello


Assets worth 26 million euros were confiscated by the Palermo Financial Police from Rosario Castello, 72 years old, an entrepreneur in the luxury car sector, definitively convicted of external complicity in a mafia association. The provision was issued by the prevention measures section, at the request of the DDA.
The entrepreneur would have procured "clean" cars used by fugitives from the Palermo district of Brancaccio, including Lorenzo Tinnirello and Cristofaro Cannella.

He would have made safe places available where confidential meetings could be organized between men of honor and finally he would have invested money coming from the boss Antonino Spadaro. The Gico investigations would have revealed a clear disproportion between the declared incomes and the assets available to the entrepreneur and his family unit. Castello was responsible for commercial activities carried out in close combination of interests with Cosa Nostra and real estate purchased with the revenues deriving from his businesses. The seizure began in 2014 and now 3 companies and their share capital have been confiscated; 4 commercial buildings; 2 prestigious villas; 15 banking and financial reports. Castello Immobiliare with headquarters in via Terrasanta, in Palermo, was confiscated.
The two Zeus Car offices, one in via Messina Marine and one in viale Regione Siciliana. Two villas in viale Regione Siciliana and 3 commercial buildings in Villabate (PA), in via Pomara, via Giulio Cesare and via Walter Tobagi and a commercial building in Palermo in via Regione Siciliana.