The financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Ancona, under the coordination of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, have implemented an order issued by the G.I.P. at the Court of Ancona which ordered the application of four personal precautionary measures (n. 1 under house arrest and n. 3 residence obligations) and the seizure of two companies with an estimated value of over 18 million euros between shares, assets and financial resources.
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The aforementioned measures represent the epilogue of a maxi-operation conducted by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Ancona, which made it possible to discover and dismantle a network of financial promoters that carried out savings collection for large amounts, from unsuspecting investors, without the required authorization.
Numerous and relevant were the suspicious bank movements examined by the financiers who immediately focused their attention on about 500 contracts for the subscription of financial products instrumental to the procurement of customers offered by a company, with apparent headquarters in London, with secondary headquarters in Rome and various operating units in the Marche and Lazio, thanks to the complacency of a dense network of offices and promoters scattered throughout the country.
Thanks to the aforementioned company, the suspects have exercised, in the absence of the required authorizations, a flourishing activity of abusive collection of savings by promoting the illicit purchase and sale of shares of the London company behind the promise of immediate, constant and high profits, exceeding 10% per year.
In this way, unsuspecting investors were repaid, ideally reassured by fast and particularly favorable returns, which, in reality, were guaranteed by funds raised from new customers, according to the dynamics of the well-known Ponzi scheme.
The high interest promised was in fact absolutely incompatible with the absence of an effective investment plan and, last but not least, of a real and active administrative structure in the English capital, resulting, at the end of the investigations carried out also at European level, a mere delivery of correspondence.
The complex analysis of the numerous financial transactions concealed by fraudulent contracts has allowed the investigators of the Guardia di Finanza to shed light on the abusive nature of the fundraising as well as to reconstruct the entire structure of the network of financial advisors that allowed them to make unsuspecting investors subscribe about 500 contracts and to collect, In the last 5 years, over 15 million euros of savings.
It is represented that for the principle of the presumption of innocence the guilt of the persons under investigation in relation to the affair will be definitively ascertained only if an irrevocable sentence of conviction intervenes.
The size of the operation, to protect the transparent investment of citizens' savings, testifies to the constant attention of the Guardia di Finanza to the contrast of the insidious phenomenon of financial abuse and the widespread forms of fraud connected to it carried out by unscrupulous brokers against unsuspecting investors. ■
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