(ANSA) - PALERMO, 11 APR - Assets amounting to 100 million euros were confiscated by the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (Dia) from an entrepreneur, originally from Monreale (Palermo) but with various economic interests in the province of Trapani.
Seals to apartments, land, bank accounts and companies including a tourist hotel complex in southwestern Sicily, "where Mafia bosses of the caliber of the district chief of Mazara delVallo appear to have been hosted", say the investigators.
The provision came after the first section of the Court of Cassation issued "the rejection sentence advanced by the entrepreneur and put an end to the prevention procedure started by Dia in 2014".
The entrepreneur, "according to recurrent declarations of collaborators of justice, was the bearer of interests of the Sicilian mafia groups through artificial fraudulent mechanisms through which he had access to conspicuous national and community public funding by involving individuals close to a known mafia fugitive in his projects", say the magistrates.
Among the confiscated assets also some companies based in San Marino and London, involved in complex financial transactions connected to large international commercial transactions.
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