(ANSA) - CATANIA, DECEMBER 06 - Assets worth around 20 million euros were confiscated by the Catania finance police from the 44-year-old businessman Sergio Leonardi, believed to be linked to the Mazzei 'family' of Cosa Nostra.
They had been kidnapped on March 13, 2020 as part of the 'Vento di sirocco' operation conducted by the financiers of the economic and financial police core and by the carabinieri of the Etna investigative core against 22 people.
On that occasion Leonardi had been arrested for mafia association, extortion in competition, fictitious heading of assets, use of money and assets of illicit origin, forgery committed by a private individual in public deed, issuing of invoices and other documents for non-existent operations, concealment or destruction of accounting records ,With the'
After Sciuto's imprisonment, the entrepreneur, the prosecutor reconstructs, "between 2009 and 2011 would have ended up under the protective wing of the Mazzei who would have made use of his work for the smuggling of petroleum products".
Leonardi had also been investigated in the past for criminal association aimed at the subtraction of payment of the excise duty on automotive diesel and the smuggling of petroleum products placed on the national market in tax evasion (excise and VAT), use and issue of invoices for non-existent operations, false ideology , trade fraud and disrupted free trade, money laundering and self-laundering.
The Court of Catania considered "Leonardi 'socially dangerous'" and that "
