The operation is carried under the coordination of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, with the support also of the Financiers of the Lombardy, Lazio and Sardinia Departments, which allowed to break up an organized group active between Asti, the provinces of Milan, Monza, Como and Lodi.
There are 10 personal precautionary measures, of which 8 in prison and two under house arrest, with the preventive seizure of current accounts, luxury boats, properties and companies.
These are groups not registered as bad payers in the Central Risks of Financial Intermediation, but which have been artificially made reliable through the use of artificial financial statements, also by recycling those drawn up by the previous ownership of the companies acquired at a time in which they were active (in bonis), but with false economic and financial data, since they refer to a period of substantial inactivity.
In essence, it turned out that these financial statements were regularly deposited with the Chamber of Commerce, thus showing third parties (banks, private individuals and public administrations) a prosperous situation, in order to then carry out a credible deception; all using the issue of false sureties, all apparently issued by a primary credit institution.
Through financial investigations activated by the military of the Guardia di Finanza of Asti across the border using the instruments of international cooperation activated through the General Command II Department, it was possible to trace a flow of money for about 250 thousand euros, a result based on the investigations of the financiers of Asti originating from the crime of fraud, first transferred to Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Slovakia) and then from there to Switzerland, from where it was moved back to Italy through a Swiss company attributable to one of the suspects - who was charged with self-laundering crime aggravated by transnationality.
The whirlwind tour through three different European countries was supposed to allow the plaintiff to be able to clean up the money and then buy back the ownership of a prestigious property in Brianza that had been foreclosed following a judicial compensation procedure that had hit him for a previous financial crash.
The wide-ranging transversal action of the economic-financial police of the Piedmontese Fiamme Gialle led to the execution of an incisive operation both of repression and of prevention of crimes damaging the economy, having also led to tracing the attempt to redeem through identity false an insurance policy for a value of € 550,000 in the name of an Italian citizen residing in the Lodi area.
One of the subjects affected by a precautionary arrest measure in prison was also found to receive the citizenship income which, following this judicial measure, will however be suspended as required by the law that regulates the particular social benefit. ■