Mafia: DIA seizes assets worth 100 million, Santapaola-Ercolano clan empire dismantled, father and son are at the head of one of the most important business groups in eastern Sicily

The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate has executed a provision issued by the Court of Catania – Prevention Measures Section with which the confiscation of the impressive corporate and patrimonial complex of Antonio and Carmelo Paratore, father and son respectively, was ordered. The two are at the head of one of the most important business groups in eastern Sicily, operating in various sectors, but mainly in waste management and disposal

Over the years, father and son have managed to create a veritable galaxy of businesses, diversifying the family’s activities with companies active in hospital cleaning services, in the real estate sector and in the management of a very well-known beach resort, located on the Catania coast.

The investigation started in 2020 by the DIA, in agreement with the Etna District Attorney’s Office

The strong bond between the suspects, confirmed in judicial documents, also emerges with certainty from the presence of the Paratores at the baptism of the daughter of the boss Zuccaro as well as at the wedding of the latter’s firstborn, also convicted for mafia-related crimes.

Very good, of course in this story there is the archetype of the Italian mafia: waste trafficking, father & son, baptisms and weddings. Only the coppola is missing… oh no now the archetype is the white collar =D

Anyway, there is one huge problem in all of this. Which has nothing to do with the news directly: why the f… do all the Italian newspapers only write the first letter of the acronyms in capital letters? …it’s something that drives me crazy, haha.

Then in the text you also read:

The Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate

With all the initials in capital letters. But then also write DIA and not Dia. Checazz… also because if a foreigner reads Italian newspapers I think they mess up his life for no reason.