Thursday 09 May 2024 – 10.45am
Brothers in business, yes, but illicit, with the 4 money transfer agencies between the provinces of Livorno and Grosseto engaged in illegal money transfers for a total of 534 operations from 228,405.04 euros: the two, of Pakistani nationality, were identified by the financial police and reported for possession and manufacturing of false identification documents, receiptfailure to comply with the obligations of
adequate customer verification provided for by the current legislation on the prevention and combating of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The investigation unfolded between the analysis of current accounts and the accounting and extra-accounting documentation acquired during the local and IT searches at the 4 sales points, and made it possible to ascertain how the two brothers – to guarantee anonymity to their customers and evade anti-money laundering legislation – had used the data and identity of unsuspecting people or customers occasional.
The customers interviewed by the investigators in various cases have completely or partially disavowed the money transfers registered in their name.
The overall judicial police activity monitored 24,989 operations of money transfer for a total amount sent equal to 5,679,144.63 euros.
What emerged was a real fraud system implemented by the two brothers, with sums to be transferred outside national borders to subjects other than the real ones through the illicit use of false, stolen or lost identification documents as well as the personal data of subjects who are completely unaware of the financial transactions registered to them, as formal senders of the money remittances in question.
