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Cocaine seizure in Gioia Tauro: 175 kg hidden in fish containers

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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...

Circumcision of 40 children in unauthorized clinic, doctor arrested

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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...

Recruitment of performers for the Guardia di Finanza band

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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...

Condominium created at a table to illegally access the Superbonus

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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...

Premeditated crime: Three arrests for the murder of Giuseppe Incontrera

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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...

Fraud, non-existent tax credits, and undue compensation

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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 ...

A minor arrested for jihad and martyrdom propaganda.

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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 ...

Drugs sold on social media and paid for in cryptocurrency, three arrested

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Eur and Noam, arrest warrants issued by Carabinieri for drug dealing ROME – Following a comprehensive investigative effort led by magistrates from the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office's "Widespread and Serious Crime" department, Carabinieri officers from the Rome-EUR Company's Operational Unit, along with those from the Cryptocurrency Section of the Carabinieri Anti-Counterfeiting Command, have executed an order issued by the Rome Court's preliminary investigations judge ordering the detention of three men residing in the capital. One of them was previously detained in Civitavecchia prison for similar crimes. All are suspected of conspiracy to sell and possess narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, and only one of them is suspected of money laundering and self-laundering. This complex investigation began in 2023 and stems from the analysis of several so-called "cookie" platforms. of exchanges, registered to one of the suspects, on which cryptocurre...

Criminals involved in migrant trafficking with the immigration decrees

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The Carabinieri for the Protection of Labor are engaged in an operation against migrant trafficking. CHIETI - Carabinieri from the Chieti Labor Inspectorate (Nil), acting on behalf of the L'Aquila District Anti-Mafia Directorate, have executed a precautionary measure against a Bangladeshi citizen, the leader of a criminal organization dedicated to "migrant trafficking" through the fraudulent use of the so-called "flow decrees." At dawn on Monday, November 3, 2025, the Carabinieri, with operational support from the provincial commands of Pescara, L'Aquila, and Teramo, on behalf of the L'Aquila Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), executed a precautionary detention order issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations at the L'Aquila court against a forty-five-year-old Bangladeshi man. At the same time, they served a notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigation against 19 individuals, all seriously suspected of criminal conspiracy to commit an uns...

Assets worth €106 million seized, four dangerous entrepreneurs

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Financial Police, Provincial Command of Rome ROME – On Friday, October 31, 2025, the financial police of the Rome provincial command executed the order issued, at the request of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, by the local Criminal Court's Preventive Measures Section. This order ordered the seizure, due to disproportionate seizure, of assets valued at over €106 million, attributable to four Roman entrepreneurs deemed socially dangerous. Following previous investigations conducted by Rome's Economic and Financial Police unit, the individuals were found to be seriously suspected of belonging to a criminal organization, aggravated by having facilitated mafia-type organizations, committed to the commission of multiple tax crimes, as well as consequent money laundering, self-laundering, and reinvestment of criminally obtained funds in economic activities. For these acts, they were subjected to personal precautionary measures in April 2021, as part of the investigation invol...