Italian anti‑mafia crackdown sees asset seizure and nearly 300 years of jail terms

The Guardia di Finanza in Crotone, coordinated with the Antimafia Directorate of Catanzaro, seized three properties and related bank accounts belonging to a local entrepreneur involved in electrical installations. The assets, valued at more than €150,000, were confiscated under a court order after investigators linked the businessman to a ‘Ndrangheta clan operating in the province.

In a related judicial phase, the abbreviated trial stemming from the “Artemis I” anti‑mafia operation concluded with 31 defendants convicted and sentences totaling close to three centuries of imprisonment. The heaviest penalties – 20 years each – were handed to alleged clan leader Domenico Cracolici and former Carabinieri commander Vincenzo Pulice. Convictions covered mafia association, drug trafficking, extortion, illegal competition, corruption and other crimes, while two individuals were acquitted. A subsequent “Artemis II” phase has already begun.