Overview
- Authorities executed 56 precautionary measures, with 11 in Calabria and 45 in Sicily that included arrests, house arrests, residency obligations, reporting requirements, and a business suspension.
- Investigators in Sicily seized more than 10,000 artifacts, including about 7,000 ancient coins, with an estimated total value of roughly €17 million.
- The Sicilian probe documented at least 76 illegal excavations and identified a laboratory allegedly used to produce forged artifacts.
- Catanzaro prosecutors allege involvement by the 'Ndrangheta’s Arena clan, applying the mafia-aggravated association charge to the Calabria suspects.
- Some items were allegedly trafficked abroad to Germany and the United Kingdom, and the owner of an auction house was suspended from commercial activity.