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Financial Police, Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria GIOIA TAURO - The Reggio Calabria Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza, together with the Gioia Tauro Customs and Monopolies Agency, seized a shipment of over 175 kilograms of highly pure cocaine at the port of Gioia Tauro. This operation is part of a more complex and comprehensive plan of operations implemented throughout the Gioia Tauro port area, with intensified inspections and controls aimed at identifying, among the thousands of containers moved daily, those used by criminal organizations to conceal the drugs. Specifically, officers from the Gioia Tauro Group and Customs Agency personnel, as part of checks of the local port terminal to intercept potential shipments of narcotics imported by organized crime, selected and thoroughly inspected three containers, two of which were from Latin America and destined for Italy and Eastern Europe, carrying frozen octopus and shrimp, respectively. Operational action carried out b...

Major Federico Silvestri TRENTO - The Carabinieri write that it is believed it would be useful and have preventative effects to protect the public by raising awareness of the ongoing protection efforts of the Trento Public Prosecutor's Office, through the Carabinieri NAS (National Anti-Corruption Unit), for public health, particularly that of minors. A valuable preventative measure is to inform the public that clinics must be properly licensed, that circumcision surgeries can only be performed by licensed healthcare personnel in licensed healthcare facilities, and therefore of the serious risks to minors when using unlicensed personnel or facilities. In recent months, as part of inspections aimed at combating the unauthorized practice of healthcare, the Carabinieri NAS (National Anti-Corruption Unit) of Trento discovered that a general practitioner in the province of Trento was performing circumcision surgeries, requested for cultural/ritual reasons, on children of foreign origin a...

Financial Police ROME - The Guardia di Finanza has announced that public competitions are being held, based on qualifications and examinations, separate for each part and qualification, to fill the following parts and instruments of the performers' role in the Guardia di Finanza Band: a) First A parts: - 1st Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 1 (soloist); - 1st Trumpet in Bb High No. 1; - 1st Flugelhorn in Eb; b) First B parts - Cassa (with the obligation of Timpani, Xylophone, Celeste and Vibraphone); c) Second A parts - 1st Flugelhorn in Bb No. 2; - 2nd Tenor Flugelhorn in Bb (with the obligation of Bass Flugelhorn in Bb); d) Second B parts - 2nd Flute (with the obligation of Piccolo); - 1st Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 8; - 2nd Tenor Trombone; e) Third Parts A - 1st Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 10; - 2nd Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 4; f) Third Parts B - 3rd Flute (with the obligation to play the Piccolo); - 2nd Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 7; - 2nd Soprano Clarinet in Bb No. 8; - 5th Horn. Par...

Financial Police, Provincial Command of Syracuse SYRACUSE - A "phantom condominium" was deliberately created to illegally access the 110% Superbonus. This is the crux of the complex scam uncovered by the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) of the Syracuse provincial command, which on Friday, November 7, 2025, led to the precautionary seizure of assets and tax credits worth over €10 million. According to investigations coordinated by the Syracuse Public Prosecutor's Office, the scam was masterminded by a representative of a Syracuse-based construction company with the aim of obtaining undue tax benefits by simulating the creation of a condominium that never actually existed. It all began with the purchase of a disused hotel of over 5,000 square meters, located in the capital, for approximately €1 million. The completely abandoned building was transformed by the company through a complex redevelopment project into a modern residential complex, some of whose apartments hav...

The Carabinieri of the G. Carini barracks PALERMO - Carabinieri officers from the Palermo provincial command, with the support of their first response units and dog unit, have executed a precautionary detention order issued by the Preliminary Investigations Judge at the Palermo Courthouse, at the request of the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate, against three individuals belonging to the same family (one of whom was already in prison for another case). They are held responsible, to varying degrees, for the crimes of complicity in murder and illegal possession and carrying of a firearm, both aggravated. The restrictive measure stems from investigations launched by the Palermo investigative unit immediately after June 30, 2022, when Giuseppe Incontrera, a prominent member of the Porta Nuova mafia district involved in illicit activities such as drug trafficking and mafia treasury management, was shot with a .22 caliber pistol while cycling through the Zisa district. He died shortly th...

Financial Police, Piacenza Provincial Command PIACENZA – Acting on behalf of the Piacenza Public Prosecutor's Office, the Piacenza Provincial Fire and Rescue Command (Fiamme Gialle) has executed an emergency precautionary seizure order aimed at confiscating assets totaling over €5 million. The order was issued against a professional resident in Rome, a de facto director of a Piacenza-based company, and a third party. They are believed to be responsible for the crimes of undue compensation and aggravated fraud for the receipt of public funds. These individuals are accused of collusion with 10 other suspects, including de facto directors and legal representatives of 10 companies located in Lazio and Campania, all implicated in a complex and well-structured fraud scheme to the detriment of the Treasury. The investigation, coordinated by the local judicial authorities, was conducted by the financial police of the Piacenza Economic and Financial Police Unit through technical activities ...

The Carabinieri of the ROS (Special Operations Unit) are engaged in an anti-terrorism operation. PAVIA – In the early hours of the morning of Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the Carabinieri Special Operations Group, in collaboration with the military from the Milan and Pavia provincial commands, executed a precautionary detention order against a minor, issued by the Preliminary Investigations Judge of the Milan Juvenile Court at the request of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office. The boy, of Tunisian origin and resident in the province of Pavia, became self-radicalized in 2024 by joining a structured international cyber network dedicated to the propaganda of jihad and martyrdom. As part of his self-training, the minor had obtained several manuals for the construction and assembly of explosive and incendiary devices using readily available substances, expressing his desire to fight in a conflict zone. The suspect has been charged with the crimes set forth in Article 270 bis of the Criminal ...