Some betting agencies used to launder the illicit proceeds resulting from clandestine betting and extortion were registered in the name of drug addicts and the unemployed, to whom the Camorra gave 5 euros a day to act as frontmen: this is what emerged from the investigations of the financiers of Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), coordinated by the Guardia di Finanza of Torre Annunziata (commander Colonel Gennaro Pino) and by the DDA, which made it possible to arrest seven alleged members of the D'Alessandro clan and to seize six commercial activities including internet points and betting agencies between Castellammare and Sant'Antonio Abate, where clandestine totems were also found for placing bets. This is what Ansa writes.
The various charges contested by the investigators against the 17 suspects (seven of whom were arrested), as anticipated this morning, are a criminal association as well as fraudulent transfer of values, self-laundering and extortion, aggravated by the mafia method. The proceeds of the "extortion" imposed on traders in that area south of Naples also ended up in the clan's commercial activities, such as those documented on the occasion of Christmas 2021: the clan imposed extortion by asking shopkeepers for money for the prisoners in exchange for gadgets and raw materials for trade (envelopes and packaging) which he often didn't even deliver. The betting agencies made use of the collaboration of brokers - both Italian and foreign - delegated to collect the clandestine bets that the D'Alessandro clan recycled in its business activities fictitiously registered in the name of frontmen.
