Trapani, assets seized from boss Francesco Domingo.
The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Trapani have implemented a provision seizure of properties, vehicles, bank accounts and company shares aimed atapplication of a capital prevention measure, at the request of the DDA of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Palermo, against Francesco Domingo, criminal already convicted of mafia association, considered the head of the "mafia family” of Castellammare del Golfo, until the arrest made by the Carabinieri of Trapani in June 2020, as part of the operation called "Cutrara".
This top role, according to the investigations, was also recognized by mafia members who have long been present in the USA. In fact, there were numerous visits, documented by the Carabinieri, by members of the Italian-American mafia family Bonanno of New York who updated the Castellammarese mafia boss on the dynamics and balance of Cosa Nostra overseas.
The role of the recipient of the prevention measure in the mafia group can already be deduced from what was procedurally ascertained in 2002: Domingo had even organized a meeting between Gaspare Spatuzza and Matteo Messina Denaro, both fugitives at the time, during which decisions were taken on the custody of the weapons available to the Trapani mafia families.
This latest provision arises from rigorous asset checks which revealed a disproportion between the value of the boss's assets (even formally registered in the name of relatives or in-laws of the proposed person) compared to his earning capacity.
The Court of Trapani - Prevention Measures Section, sharing the proposal for the application of the patrimonial prevention measure, issued a decree, pursuant to the current anti-mafia legislation, with which it ordered the seizure of an individual company dedicated to viticulture, land (including the one in which the Carabinieri had found weapons and ammunition as part of the aforementioned Cutrara operation), rural buildings, a warehouse and 2 current accounts, for a total value estimated at approximately one million euros.
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