Ansa :Ndrangheta: fraud in Emilia, seized assets for 2.3 million June 26

Goods for 2 million 300 thousand euros have been seized by the Dia di Bologna to several people involved in a fraud with which the 'ndrangheta emiliana, in competition with members of the "Grande Aracri" gang of Cutro (Kr), has made a huge scam against the Ministry of the Economy and Finance ("Affido Oppido").

The operation is an investigative development of the Aemilia investigation against the branches of the Calabrian mafia in Emilia. Specifically, on the basis of a falsified sentence, attesting to a non-existent compensation right, the ministry accredited, in July 2010, a sum of over two million euros, to a company attributable to a family of Calabrian construction contractors, for years transplanted in the province of Reggio Emilia and contiguous to the Emilian Ndrangheta association. The fraudulent affair, devised by a Neapolitan lawyer salesman, was proposed to the 'Ndrangheta emiliana who had identified a company with suitable structural characteristics based on the considerable reimbursement that would have resulted from the fraud. The operation, rebuilt starting from the statements made by the collaborators of justice in the "Aemilia" process, involving several top exponents of the Emilian ndranghetistic association and the "Grande Aracri" clan of Cutro, with the complicity of professionals. The operations took place in the province of Reggio Emilia and in the regions of Lombardy, Lazio, Campania and Calabria and involved the personnel of the Dia of Bologna, Florence, Milan, Rome, Naples and Catanzaro.

At the end of the activities, also through a judicial police analysis aimed at revealing the existence of concealment operations of real estate and company shares (also through operations of "external appearance" in Ivory Coast and in England), was seized a patrimony consisting of movable and immovable assets for a total value of 2 million and 300 thousand euros, brought back to some of the suspects through patrimonial assessments carried out by the Dia of Bologna.