What Happens When The Seizure Of Assets From Heirs' Is Illegitimate

Only after the intervention by the advocates of the Brusca heirs did the Court of Palermo re-assess their decisions, evaluating how illegitimate the seizure of a large part of the assets of the children of Giuseppe Brusca, who died in prison in 2010, were.

The prevention measures of the Court of Palermo arranged for the release of some of the assets of Giuseppe Brusca's four children, uncle of the more famous Giovanni.

Calogero Boccaudtri , Giuseppe Avarello and Miria Rizzo, the heirs' lawyers, have shown that were several details regarding the seizure of assets carried out in June 2016 that did not add up.

First of all, the person that made the request failed to check that the two companies that should have been seized had in fact closed up shop in the 70s, or that the varying bank reports had already stopped.

The cattle breeding and the dairy factory were inserted in the court lists, despite not having said that they had cancelled their tax number, they had been closed for years, as established by the above mentioned lawyers.

Not to mention the alleged inconsistency of the declared incomes in particular from Antonella Brusca and from the husband Mario Carollo.

According to the prosecution, that conducted the seizure of assets, there was not a match between what the spouses were in possession of and that which they declared to the Italian tax authorities.

It is a pity that the two were living for quite some time in the United States, the country in which they work and pay taxes. The taxes were not received in Italy.

Amongst the property which the state had appropriated there was even one owned by Mario Carollo alone, as a result it had nothing to do with Antonella Brusca's inheritance.

There are many details of which the court had not been made aware of when they had prepared the large seizure, this was reduced after the lawyers were able to demonstrate how unlikely it was that the father contributed to the new life of the daughter who lived far away from Sicily.

Once the facts are ascertained, one can establish that it was an initial estimation of one and a half euros, less than one hundred thousand euros can be traced back to the father Giuseppe Brusca and was...

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