Milan, 28 June (LaPresse) – The Crotone Finance Police has executed a preventive seizure order requested by the Regional Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Auditors in order to preserve, following the first instance conviction, a tax credit of €34 million. The precautionary measure, carried out against a voluntary association in Isola di Capo Rizzuto (KR) and its administrators, led to the seizure of homes, warehouses, agricultural land and financial assets worth over €2.5 million and represents the conclusion of investigations carried out by the Economic and Financial Police Unit, which established that the suspects had misappropriated public funds intended for the care of migrants in order to further their personal interests and those of third parties, including members of local mafia groups. The investigations requested by the Judicial Accounting Authority stem from evidence that emerged during Operation Jonny, coordinated by the Catanzaro District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which in 2017 led to the arrest of 68 suspects and the seizure of assets worth over €60 million, shedding light, among other things, the illegal conduct carried out by the association itself, as the manager of services provided to the Sant'Anna di Isola di Capo Rizzuto migrant reception centre, by its top management. The latter, in fact, taking advantage of the substantial financial resources deriving from contracts entered into over time with public bodies, allegedly appropriated and financed, through a complex system of false invoices issued by complacent catering companies subcontracted for the catering service, the local 'ndrangheta clans.
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