(ANSA) - PALERMO, APRIL 14 - The confiscation of the assets of Giuseppe Ferdico, 65, a businessman from Palermo, leader in the detergents sector in Palermo, is final.
The section of preventive measures, at the request of the DDA, issued a decree of confiscation of the assets which became irrevocable consent of the court of cassation, for an estimated value of over 100 million euros.
The measure was carried out by the financiers of the provincial command of Palermo.
The prevention procedure stems from the investigations carried out between 2006 and 2008 by the specialists of the Palermo - Gico economic-financial police unit in which Ferdico was investigated for his proximity to "Cosa Nostra", in particular to the mafia families of Acquasanta and San Lorenzo.
To these are added the declarations of numerous collaborators of injustice, and the correspondence seized on the occasion of the arrests of the bosses Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo.
Acquitted in the first degree of trial, Ferdico was sentenced on appeal to nine years' imprisonment for complicity with the Mafia.
Following the appeal in cassation, the supreme court sent the documents back to the appeal court, which has not yet ruled.
The financiers have reconstructed the "economic-financial history" of the important entrepreneurial group in the availability of Ferdico, leader in the province of Palermo in the sector of large-scale distribution and household and hygiene products.
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