Italy: Mafia clan hit “Brcaccio” with 60m euros in assets

Italian Antimafia police in co-operation with the Palermos City Attorneyate have executed in the early hours of today a megaoperation that has led to the arrest of 34 members of the Sicilian mafia clan Branccio.

The arrests were conducted in regions of Sicily, Tuscana, Lacio, Emilia Romana, Pulia and Liguria.

The Mega operation has also led to the seizure of 42 enterprises owned by this mafia clan worth about 60m euros.

Among those arrested is Mafia boss Pietro Tagliavia, head of the Brancaccio clan and the Mafia family”Corso dei Mile”, currently under house arrest on drug trafficking charges.

The charge against 34 detainees is participation in mafia organisation, robbery, theft, corruption, responsible for violent threats and illegal weapons.

The investigation into the Palermos anti-mafia has been able to rebuild the entire mafia clan organ Brancaccio. The constituent families, the role of each member and above all, have identified the leading elements of this clan.

Investigations have also dawned that this Mafia clan had full control over a group of industrial-activated entrepreneurs operating in different regions of Italy. Enterprises have been used by the Mafia clan for corruption, fiscal fraud, ownership and monopolise of the territory.

Thanks to cooperation with the mafia, this group of entrepreneurs could have been a national leader in the industrial consolidation sector.

Within the framework of this Finnish Megaoperation of Italian Antimafia has conducted sequencings of machinery and vehicles and in enterprises linked to the Bracaccio Mafia clan.