This morning 100 policemen of the Antimafia section of Naples seized assets, on behalf of the Dia director Antonio Girone’s behalf from the Prevention Section of the Santa Maria Capua Vetere Court against 19 people who recycled money for the Casalesi clan. The amount of assets seized was of 120 million Euros, belonging to the families Belforte, Bidognetti and Zagaria.

According to the Dia reconstruction, the figureheads of these families bought real estates at judicial auctions in order to legitimate property and obtain luxury apartments with lower market prices.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute