Assets confiscated from businessman Giancarlo Iorio Gnisci, charged in Palermo for money laundering linked to mafia purposes
The police, through the investigators of the Anti-Crime Division of Macerata and the Central Anti-Crime Service, carried out a confiscation of assets and company assets totaling about 3 million euros against Giancarlo Iorio Gnisci, a construction and real estate entrepreneur of Calabrian origin who has been settled in the Marche region for twenty years. The confiscation included the shares and corporate assets of six companies operating in the real estate and construction sectors, 15 buildings and 26 plots of land, three vehicles, and numerous financial relationships, with a total estimated value of about three million euros. The measure, issued under anti-mafia regulations by the Court – Prevention Measures Section of Ancona on a proposal jointly formulated by the police chief Luigi Silipo and the prosecutor of Macerata Giovanni Fabrizio Narbone, follows a seizure order issued by the same Court in October 2022.
The recipient of the confiscation, the Police Headquarters states, has been involved in various legal cases in the past involving tax, financial, bankruptcy, property, and public administration crimes, and in waste-related matters. They are also charged before the Palermo court for aggravated money laundering with mafia purposes, having the investigations coordinated by the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of the Sicilian capital established consolidated links with Cosa Nostra in the period 2014-2015. According to the accusation, they would have used the screen of indirectly related company structures to facilitate a stable trust-based collaboration with a high-ranking member of the Graziano clan of the Resuttana Mafia district of Palermo, in real estate and financial operations aimed at investing the illegal economic resources of the mafia organization in the province of Rome and in Romania.
Police investigations have revealed how Iorio Gnisci, despite having a “contained income situation”, established, in the Marche region, through the fictitious interposition of family members and frontmen, an important and articulated corporate system operating in the real estate sector, through systematic operations aimed at preventing the direct link of the business structures in question to himself. The “closely interconnected companies were used to transfer assets and wealth, to justify expenses and subsequent profit reductions (also through the use of non-existent invoicing), to parcel and at the same time launder money, hiding the availability of proceeds from crimes.”
Confiscati beni all’imprenditore Giancarlo Iorio Gnisci, imputato a Palermo per riciclaggio aggravato dalle finalità mafiose
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