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80 million euro seized in 'petrol-mafia' case

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 29 - Finance police on Monday seized around 80 million euros in assets from three entrepreneurs who hade previously been arrested over the so-called Petrolmafie (petrol-mafia) case into alleged infiltration of organized-crime. syndicates in the fuel sector. The police seized control of 20 companies, 60 properties, 86 vehicles and a million euros in cash from the entrepreneurs based in the southern province of Reggio Calabria. The assets were in impounded in Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino Alto-Adige, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania, Calabria and Germany. The three were among 56 people arrested in an operation linked to the Petrolmafie case in April 2021. (ANSA).