The Court of Naples has ordered a €205 million seizure of assets from the brothers Giovanni, Cuono, and Salvatore Pellini, entrepreneurs in the recovery, disposal, and recycling of urban and industrial waste.

The GICO (Italian Operations Coordination Unit) of the Naples Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) has seized eight companies in Naples, Frosinone, and Rome; 224 properties in Naples, Salerno, Caserta, Cosenza, Latina, and Frosinone; 75 plots of land; 70 financial accounts; 72 cars, three boats, and two helicopters. According to investigations, part of their wealth is derived from the illegal trafficking of waste in the so-called "Land of Fires."

"Unscrupulous criminals who have exploited their entrepreneurial skills to make easy money," the Court of Naples emphasizes.

The judicial authorities emphasized the "concrete and serious criminal activity" of the entrepreneurs, which has caused "devastating consequences for the affected areas and for the environment, as well as for animals and people, for whom the connection of cancer diseases to those activities that poisoned the land is more than a suspicion."

According to the judges, therefore, the Pellini brothers "were not honest entrepreneurs, mistakenly involved in the illegal activity."

The confiscation order is part of the ongoing investigation coordinated by the Naples District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which, following the annulment of the previous confiscation order due to formal flaws by the Court of Cassation in April 2024, renewed its proposal for a preventive asset measure, deeming both the financial disproportion and the "qualified" dangerousness of the Pellinis still to exist.

(Unioneonline)