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Operation of the state police and the Reggio Calabria anti-mafia district management against the Alvaro di Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte clan.
An operation for the execution of has been underway since the early hours of this morning 9 preventive detention orders, of which 4 in prison and 5 under house arrest, issued against the leaders, senior members and nominees of a dangerous joint of ‘Ndrangheta that operates Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte – functionally dependent on the powerful Álvaro clan that rules in Sinopoli, San Procopio, Cosoleto, Delianuova and neighboring areas – responsible, for various reasons, for external competition in mafia association, fraudulent transfer of values and self-laundering, with the aggravation of mafia facilitation.
Investigators from the Reggio Calabria Mobile Brigade and the Palmi Police Station, assisted by operators from the Criminal Police Division of the Central Police Station, the Crime Prevention Departments and various Mobile Brigades in central and northern Italy, are also conducting numerous searches and seizures of businesses, business exercises, apartments and land. Hundreds of agents employed.
The details of the operation will be announced during a press conference to be held at 11 a.m. in the conference room of the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters, in the presence of the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri, the deputy prosecutor Calogero Gaetano Paci and the Reggio Police Chief. Calabria Maurizio Vallone.
“Eyphemos II” is the name given to the operation during which, since the early hours of this morning, the State Police investigators carried out arrests, searches and seizures of businesses, companies, bars, restaurants and real estate, for about 2 million euros, in the province of Reggio Calabria, Ancona, Pesaro Urbino and in the city of Milan, towards the heads and followers of the ‘Ndrangheta that operates in Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte.
Reggio DDA investigation sheds light on a wide range of crimes committed to conceal assets derived from illegal activities and affects the commercial, corporate and real estate complex used by the boss Domenico Laurendi and other important associates of the mafia organization (arrested last February as part of the Eyphemos operation) to infiltrate contracts, clean up illicit profits, penetrate the economic-commercial fabric and disguise their own assets from judicial apprehensions, as well as assert the power clan territory and expand its economic power.
On charges of aiding this criminal system an accountant, a businessman and an employee were arrested for outside competition in a mafia association. Other subjects were detained for fictitious asset searches and car washing.
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