THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CARRIED OUT AN ORDER OF CONFISCATION WITH A VALUE OF OVER ONE MILLION EUROS

The Direzione Investigativa Antimafia carried out an order of confiscation issued, as part of the preventive proceeding, by the Section Review and Preventive Measures of the court in Salerno, on the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office – Anti-Mafia District Directorate and Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, focusing on the companies, real estate assets and financial resources, with a value of over one million euros, linked to Ferrara Gennaro from Cava de’ Tirreni.

The confiscation order was issued at the end of a complex investigation carried out by the DIA Resident Office in Salerno, aimed at outlining the qualified social dangerousness of the affected party, identifying the assets and the financial resources linked to him, his family members and an individual acting as a “strawman”.

As a precautionary measure, the court – Section Preventive Measures – had already established the qualified social dangerousness of the “affected party” based on his involvement in widespread investigations highlighting his links with the Bisogno “clan”, operating in Cava de’ Tirreni. Indeed, the court had already issued as a precautionary measure the order of seizure ex art. 20 D. Lgs. 159/2011.

Ferrara was sentenced with irrevocable judgment for the crime under art. 416 bis c.p. and has recently been subject to a personal and asset-related preventive measure as a result of the investigations into the crimes of extortion, usury, fraudulent transfer of assets and abusive financial activities. Based on the results of the asset-related investigations carried out by the DIA by proxy of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate, it was ascertained that there was a disproportion between the assets and the income declared by the affected party and his family members

The court in Salerno ordered the confiscation of several commercial businesses in the food and fuel distribution fields operating in Cava de’ Tirreni: “TM DISTRIBUTORI di TARULLI Maria & C. S.a.s.”, “BAR SPORTIVO HAPPY DAYS 2 di Giuseppe FERRARA & C. S.a.s.”, “PECCATI DI GOLA di FERRARA Jessica & C. S.a.s.”, “Ditta Individuale TARULLI Maria”, “HAPPY DAYS 2 ARCARA S.R.L.”, as well as financial relations and real estate assets with a total value of over one million euros.

The Public Prosecutor

Giuseppe Borrelli