Finance police on Tuesday confiscated assets worth 400 million euros from a businessman suspected of involvement in the infiltration of online gambling by Calabria's powerful 'ndrangheta mafia.
The seizure concerned company holdings, trusts and financial assets in the Calabria, Puglia and Abruzzo regions belonging to Antonio Ricci, aged 48.
The suspect, targeted by the so-called Galaxy operation going back several years, had been arrested in Malta under a European arrest warrant and extradited to Italy in January 2020.
The investigation coordinated by antimafia prosecutors in ReggioCalabria, uncovered the existence of a criminal system aimed at the illegal collection of bets, with a decision-making and operational base in the Calabrian city and ramifications in Malta, Romania, Austria and Spain.
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