The drug trafficker and Camorra boss Raffaele Imperiale has handed over an island he owns located in an archipelago opposite Dubai to the Italian authorities. The news was announced today by the deputy prosecutor Maurizio De Marco in the trial which sees around twenty defendants, including the international drug trafficker. The prosecutor also gave the Miranda judge some memoirs containing two manuscripts with which Imperiale notifies his decision.
Imperiale was arrested in Dubai in 2021, today he is on trial in Naples and has decided to collaborate with justice. He also handed over two very precious canvases by Van Gogh to the authorities, which were found in a villa.
The island is called Taiwan and belongs to an artificially created archipelago in front of Dubai.
It is located off the artificial archipelago "New world community", in front of the coast of
United Arab Emirates. It is registered to a company whose lawyers have sent a letter to the Neapolitan Prosecutor's Office with which they make it available to the judicial authority. Imperiale said he bought it seven years ago for a dozen million. Today its value would be around 60-70 million. The offer is being examined by the Prosecutor's Office, which remains cautious because it is an asset that is difficult to acquire for the State.
In his indictment, prosecutor De Marco asked for Imperiale to be sentenced to 14 years and 9 months in prison with recognition of the mitigating circumstances provided for collaborators of justice.
(Unioneonline/L)
