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Goods confiscated from the mafia, the map of companies and properties taken away from criminal organizations
Villas, apartments and businesses, this is how the assets of the bosses are reused, region by region, municipality by municipality

by Antonio Iafano

There are 12,480 of the stolen assets from the mafia and returned to the community. This is stated by data from the National Agency for Assets seized and confiscated from organized crime (Anbsc), updated from 1980 to early July 2017. The assets consist of 11,604 properties and 876 companies. To these figures are added another 130 thousand units, of which about 17 thousand classified as seized, 52,010 as confiscated and 23,692 recipient goods, or confiscated with final sentence but which are still awaiting destination.

According to the information portal of the Anbsc , there are currently 3,339 ongoing judicial procedures, of which 77% consists of preventive measures and the remainder from classical criminal proceedings. Thanks to the data provided by the Agency, we have mapped and analyzed the assets that were once criminal organizations.

The properties
The map shows the confiscated and intended real estate exiting the management of the Anbsc. The buildings can be transferred to the patrimony of the territorial entities , maintained to the patrimony of the State or sold .



There are 11,640 real estate already destined in Italy. The only Region of Sicily has 4,728 assets , which added to those of the other southern regions represent just over 80% of the total reused properties.

Palermo is the municipality with the highest number of properties ( 1,744 ), followed by Reggio Calabria ( 386 ) and Naples ( 233 ). Milan is the fourth among Italian cities and first among the northern ones with 217 confiscated properties .

The main recipients of the assets are the Municipalities , with 81% of the properties, and the Police for which 11% of the properties have been allocated . A smaller percentage is used by the Regions and other State administrations. More than half of the properties, as provided for by the anti-mafia code, are used for social purposes , the remainder for institutional or public order purposes . 19 properties are maintained by the Anbsc for economic purposes . About 60% of the assets are represented by real estate units for residential use , while about 30% of land and almost 9% of units for industrial or commercial use . Among the assets there are also over 1000 units surveyed as castles or palaces of artistic and historical value. There are 163 properties sold and 14 those destroyed.

The companies
Palermo , with 146 companies , is also the first city for the number of companies confiscated, followed by Rome ( 93 ), Milan ( 43 ) and Naples ( 36 ).



Among the 876 companies confiscated , limited liability companies account for 62%, individual companies 16%, limited partnerships and 15%, only limited companies are only 2.17%.

The confiscated businesses are above all belonging to the construction sector. Businesses belonging to the trade around 10%. A significant share, almost 8%, is also represented by the hotel and restaurant sector.

In contrast to real estate, most companies are liquidated and closed. According to data from the ANBSC 813 companies have been liquidated, 59 sold and only 3 are rented.

According to the Register of Companies, in 2016 the companies confiscated from the mafia counted 2,973 employees and a production value equal to 638,572,504 €

How much are the assets confiscated from the mafia?
According to the President of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, Rosy Bindi, this is a wealth worth over 25 billion euros. However, there is a great deal of confusion among the state offices that deal with the subject. Last year the Court of Auditors tried to estimate the value of confiscated assets, crossing the data of the Ministries of Justice and the Interior, he concluded that the value amounts to at least one billion euros.
But even this figure is not entirely reliable. Article. 36 of the Anti-Mafia Code provides that the judicial administrator appointed by the Court to estimate the asset, and art. 47 that the National Agency for the Seized and Confiscated Assets will decide the destination of the asset on the basis of the estimate of the value performed by the administrator. The Court of Auditors, in his report he noted that judicial offices almost never transcribe the value of the asset and that ANBSC does not have the legal obligation to report the value of the assets. So the Court of Auditors makes its analysis starting from the estimate of the asset at the time of the seizure. The problem is that, as the Court itself notes in its report,

between the communication of the judicial chancery and the actual destination of the assets, they spend more than 5 years, a period in which the good is often abandoned and loses its value. This makes inaccurate any assessment of the total estimate of assets confiscated from the mafia.

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