"Boss" an Albanian, the criminal organization that laundered money in Italy is destroyed

2022-12-16 08:56:28Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

"Boss" an Albanian, the criminal organization that laundered money in

They laundered money with fake investment scams against internet users. In the Turin area, three arrests, together with searches and seizures throughout the national territory, were carried out by the Cyber ​​Security Operational Center of the Postal Police of Turin with the coordination of the Postal Police Service within an operation launched in 2019 under the direction of the Public Prosecution at the Court of Turin.

One of the main structures involved in the complex phenomenon of online trading fraud has been hit. The investigation, divided into three different criminal proceedings, led to the identification of a hierarchical criminal organization operating between Italy and Albania in order to launder the proceeds of fake investment scams against unsuspecting internet users.

At the head of the structure, an Albanian citizen living in the Turin area, who, according to the findings of the investigation, gave his associates precise instructions for the amounts and current accounts where large sums of money were to converge to hide the origin; reporting directly to him, again according to the indictment, two Turinese who have made available the current bank accounts held on behalf of the companies directly or through nominees referring to them.

The carrying out of technical activities allowed the emergence of a group of sixteen people residing in the Turin area, whose homes and companies, specifically four, operating in the digital marketing and lead generation sector, were subject to a control delegated by the Public Prosecutor .

In addition to money laundering activities, direct participation in the creation of fake trading advertisement sites, used to illegally recover personal data left by unsuspecting Internet users interested in investing, has been reconstructed. These pages have been blacked out and are now no longer visible to Italian users.

The operation was spread nationwide, four checks were carried out in Campania, Lazio, Umbria and Veneto with the help of the Postal Police Cyber ​​Security Operational Centers of the respective capitals, to reconstruct the dense network of relations with the Companies that hosted the fake pages of investments.

Finally, in the framework of this, illegal assets were hit through the execution of nine decrees for the seizure of assets of equivalent value to the same number of entities that own shares of companies or figures with the role of participating in the activity of money laundering of illegal origin.

The investigations included indirect evidence of IT, banks and corporations, reconstructed and systematized, also through the use of extended IT technical follow-up activities, which brought unitary coordination in the management of the criminal phenomenon.

Particularly complex was the work carried out by the Police Service of Posts and Communications within the framework of international cooperation, for receiving news and data for the reconstruction of financial flows.


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