FOGGIA. THE DIA SEIZES ASSTS WORTH 400,000 EUROS FROM A BOSS OF THE “SOCIETÀ FOGGIANA”.

Beginning in the early hours of today morning , the DIA Operational Section of Foggia has been seizing movable and immovable assets, as well as various financial relations for a total value of about 400,000 euros, in the hands – also through an intermediary – of MORETTI Rocco, a detainee under special regime ex art. 41 bis o.p., following his final sentences for extortion (4 years and 8 months) and mafia association and other crimes (10 years and 8 months, DECIMATION trial).

Today’s measure, issued by the Court of Appeal of Bari, entirely accepts the proposal made by the local Public Prosecutor’s Office. Given MORETTI’s final convictions, the latter filed a well-founded request on the basis of the preliminary activity carried out by the personnel of the Nucleo di Polizia Economico-Finanziaria (Economic-Financial Police Unit) of the Guardia di Finanza in Bari, seconded to the aforementioned Public Prosecutor’s Office, and of the asset-related investigations conducted by the DIA. The investigations revealed the income received by the entire household and obtained a substantial evidentiary picture regarding the illicit origin of the assets resulting, above all, from extortion and from the membership, as leader, organizer and promoter, of the mafia association called the Foggia society.

The operation, carried out on the basis of the provisions of Art. 240 bis, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code, also affected for an equivalent value, assets that MORETTI was found to hold in a disproportionate amount to his declared income.

Foggia, 26 July 2024