Rome dirty money from Chinese community, 20 arrests for international recycling
2019-11-14T10:37:47.354Z
Dirty money from the Chinese community and proceeds from drug trafficking. An international recycling of 18 million euros. The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Rome, supported by the Commands of the territorially competent Corps, between London, the provinces of Rome, Milan, Bari, Vicenza, Pordenone, Viterbo and Campobasso, are carrying out an ordinance, issued by the investigating magistrate at the Court of Rome, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which orders the arrest of 20 people, as well as the obligation to stay with simultaneous interdiction from the exercise of professional or entrepreneurial activities against another 5 suspects, all seriously suspected, in various ways, of the crimes of money laundering aggravated by transnationality, self-laundering, use of money of illicit origin, issuance and use of invoices for non-existent operations. The complex investigations of the Carabinieri have made it possible to ascertain the existence of two criminal associations dedicated to recycling. One, headed by two Italian businessmen from Rome, who had already managed to recycle 15 million euros, illegally accumulated in the province of Milan and deriving from the illegal collection of profits made by members of the Chinese community. In particular, certain legal entities, after having received the capital illegally collected by the aforementioned Chinese subjects in cash, made bank transfers justified by invoices for operations that were in reality non-existent, issued by companies attributable to the organization. In turn, these companies transferred the money to the current accounts of a company, based in London, controlled by Chinese nominees who thus returned, abroad, in possession of the "cleaned up" money. A second association, headed also in this case by an Italian, entrepreneur from the province of Rome, appears to have recycled 3 million euros from drug trafficking in the capital. One of those arrested, a Roman entrepreneur operating in the car trade sector, was arrested in the past for money laundering operations carried out in favor of Enrico Nicoletti, the teller of the Banda della Magliana. The current investigation draws inspiration from another investigative activity, always carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Rome, concerning the hypothesis of a crime of money laundering and fictitious heading of goods, aggravated by the use of the mafia method, borne by an accountant, originally from Naples but resident in Rome for years, permanently at the disposal of representatives of criminal organizations of a Camorrist nature operating on a national scale, encouraging money laundering and the re-employment of illicit capital, arrested on 16 November 2015 for several episodes of fraudulent transfer of assets and values, aggravated by the use of the mafia method.
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January 30, 2018 Dirty money from the Chinese community and proceeds from drug trafficking. An international recycling of 18 million euros. The Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of the Provincial Command of Rome, supported by the Commands of the territorially competent Corps, between London, the provinces of Rome, Milan, Bari, Vicenza, Pordenone, Viterbo and Campobasso, are carrying out an ordinance, issued by the investigating magistrate at the Court of Rome, at the request of the local District Anti-Mafia Directorate, which orders the arrest of 20 people, as well as the obligation to stay with simultaneous interdiction from the exercise of professional or entrepreneurial activities against another 5 suspects, all seriously suspected, in various ways, of the crimes of money laundering aggravated by transnationality, self-laundering, use of money of illicit origin, issuance and use of invoices for non-existent operations. The complex investigations of the Carabinieri have made it possible to ascertain the existence of two criminal associations dedicated to recycling. One, headed by two Italian businessmen from Rome, who had already managed to recycle 15 million euros, illegally accumulated in the province of Milan and deriving from the illegal collection of profits made by members of the Chinese community. In particular, certain legal entities, after having received the capital illegally collected by the aforementioned Chinese subjects in cash, made bank transfers justified by invoices for operations that were in reality non-existent, issued by companies attributable to the organization. In turn, these companies transferred the money to the current accounts of a company, based in London, controlled by Chinese nominees who thus returned, abroad, in possession of the "cleaned up" money. A second association, headed also in this case by an Italian, entrepreneur from the province of Rome, appears to have recycled 3 million euros from drug trafficking in the capital. One of those arrested, a Roman entrepreneur operating in the car trade sector, was arrested in the past for money laundering operations carried out in favor of Enrico Nicoletti, the teller of the Banda della Magliana. The current investigation draws inspiration from another investigative activity, always carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit of Rome, concerning the hypothesis of a crime of money laundering and fictitious heading of goods, aggravated by the use of the mafia method, borne by an accountant, originally from Naples but resident in Rome for years, permanently at the disposal of representatives of criminal organizations of a Camorrist nature operating on a national scale, encouraging money laundering and the re-employment of illicit capital, arrested on 16 November 2015 for several episodes of fraudulent transfer of assets and values, aggravated by the use of the mafia method.
