The Land of Fires returns to the center of judicial news and this time with one of the largest confiscations in recent years. The Court of Naples has in fact ordered the confiscation of assets worth over 205 million euros from some entrepreneurs active in the waste recovery and disposal sector.
According to investigations, part of the accumulated wealth is linked to the illicit trafficking of waste which has poisoned the Land of Fires for years.
The measure was carried out by the Gico (Organised Crime Investigation Group) of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Financial Police of Naples, which seized 8 companies between Naples, Rome and Frosinone, but also 224 properties spread across Campania, Lazio and Calabria, 75 lands, 70 financial reports and 72 cars. The confiscated assets also include three boats and two helicopters.
The provision comes at the end of a long judicial process that began years ago. It was 2024 when a ruling from the Supreme Court ordered the restitution of the assets due to a formal defect, but subsequent asset checks confirmed – according to the Naples Prosecutor’s Office – a strong disproportion between the accumulated assets and the declared income, in addition to the danger linked to illicit activities.
The investigations of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate had already led to the final conviction of the same entrepreneurs for environmental disaster, tracing part of their activities to the illegal waste trafficking which contributed to contaminating one of the most tormented territories in Italy.
With the decree filed on 19 February 2026, the Court therefore confirmed the confiscation, deeming the justifications provided on the origin of the resources used to accumulate that assets not credible. A decision that brings attention to a still open wound: that of the Land of Fires, symbol of decades of illegally disposed of waste and of a territory that continues to ask for justice.
