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(ANSA) – PALERMO, JUNE 14 – The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has executed a seizure decree aimed toward preventive confiscation issued by the Courtroom of Trapani, which considerations property protected by historic, creative and archaeological curiosity. Specifically, these are numerous amphorae from the late Roman period and a marble base reproducing mythological scenes carved on all sides, from the Hellenistic-Roman age, all thought-about to be of nice worth, belonging to a global trafficker of artistic endeavors, indicated by investigators as linked to the boss Matteo Messina Denaro. In keeping with a observe from Dia, “quite a few clues emerge relating to the recipient of the supply relating to his dangerousness, characterised by being an individual who attracts his livelihood from his exercise as a global trafficker of archaeological finds”. A number of justice collaborators had spoken prior to now concerning the illicit exercise carried out by the trafficker. The prevention measure, issued following a proposal from the Director of the Dia and the Public Prosecutor of Palermo Maurizio de Lucia, follows comparable measures ensuing from the asset investigations carried out by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate of Trapani which demonstrated the disproportion between the sources of earnings and employment of the suspect’s household unit. The artistic endeavors will now be entrusted for safekeeping to the Superintendence of Cultural and Environmental Heritage as a way to make them accessible to the group once more. (HANDLE).
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