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July 14, 2020 The Economic and Financial Police Corps of the Gdf of Milan in an investigation by the DDA against the 'Ndrangheta arrested 8 people for crimes aimed at tax fraud aggravated by the mafia method and the availability of weapons, self-laundering, fictitious registration of goods and bankruptcy.

Covid's contributions
From the investigations it emerged that one of the companies obtained 45 thousand euros of non-refundable  contributions for the Covid emergency.
Company headed and managed by Francesco Maida, connected to the clan of the 'ndrangheta headed by Lino Greco of San Mauro Marchesato, province of Crotone.
To obtain the funds provided for by decree 34 of 19 May, Maida would have used false invoices issued by the companies included in the fraud scheme. The investigations, writes the Greek prosecutor in a note, revealed a "complex VAT fraud in the steel trade sector, carried out using a dense network of 'paper' and 'filter' companies, formally represented by figureheads".

Money "cleaned up" in Chinese banks
Affiliates to the 'ndrangheta, explains Milan prosecutor Francesco Greco, made use of the "collaboration" of a Chinese, now arrested, residing in Tuscany, and "interested in laundering important sums" cash and "send them to China".

Half a million euros would have been cleared from the current accounts of some companies included in the tax fraud mechanism. Money that would go to Chinese banks.