Turin, assets seized from drug trafficker: seven other people implicated in money laundering and fraudulent transfer of valuables

La Turin State Police he performed an important asset seizure against a drug trafficker of Bari origin, long resident in the province of Turin. The measure, aimed at confiscation of assets, was issued by Court of Turin and involves, in addition to the main suspect, seven other people, accused in various capacities of fraudulent transfer of values e Recycling, in competition. The seizure concerned motor vehicles, Cash has always been safe-deposit box, for a total value equal to several tens of thousands of euros. A fortune deemed incompatible with the declared income and considered the fruit of the man's criminal activity.

The figure of the 47-year-old is not new to the investigators: his name had in fact emerged in a previous investigation by the Turin Flying Squad, which in 2020 led to its arrest in a few weeks with two precautionary custody orders in prison, issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office for crimes related to the drug traffickingAccording to investigators, the man was seriously suspected of belonging to the criminal association led by the convicted criminal Vittorio Raso. For those facts it was definitively convicted to a penalty of 5 years and 4 months.

Thanks to the following investigative insights of the Flying Squad, it was possible to reconstruct the entire patrimonial consistency of the forty-seven year old, considered illicit, and to identify a complex system of shielding of assets. In particular, the agents ascertained thealienation of a property – the main residence of the suspect and his partner – transferred to a figurehead to evade patrimonial prevention measures. The dispersion of money obtained through transfers, account transfers, purchase of company branches and of amotor car in favor of third parties, currently under investigation for Recycling within the same investigation.