Mafia and money laundering, a company based in San Marino in the sights
Mafia and money laundered on the Titan. In recent days, one hundred million assets have been confiscated, including a company based in San Marino, from the Sicilian entrepreneur, originally from Monreale, Calcedonio Di Giovanni, 81 years old on his shoulders and a wealth of many zeros in the bank, with ramifications and economic interests traced far beyond the province of Trapani. In particular, the numerous companies based in the Republic of San Marino and London, which ended up at company level in complex financial transactions attributable to commercial companies of international level. The first section of the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal, dictating the stop to the prevention procedure initiated by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department in 2014 against the entrepreneur. At the beginning, his resume seemed a respectable curriculum, with a degree in agriculture and the coveted permanent position as inspector at the Ministry of Agriculture, in the sixties Di Giovanni threw his career to the winds, to throw himself headlong into a new adventure, the activity of building contractor created by his father. The epilogue is known. The list of confiscated assets now includes houses, land, current accounts but also businesses, including the Kartibubb tourist hotel complex, in Torretta Granitola near Campobello di Mazara. A place that has hosted Mafia bosses on several occasions.
According to what was declared by various collaborators of justice, Di Giovanni would have become the spearhead of the dubious operations of mafia clans in Sicily. Strengthened by the trust of the bosses and a complex and variegated system of relations, he would have been able to access substantial national and non-national public funding, also counting collaboration on people close to a well-known mafia fugitive. He will then be created with a turnover rich in capillary infiltrations soon branched far beyond the borders of his native land.