Thursday 09 May 2024 – 10.28am
The Fiamme Gialle of the Livorno Group have concluded a complex investigation conducted against 4 “money transfer” agencies in the provinces of Livorno and Grosseto, denouncing the respective owners.
The two owners, as explained by the Guardia di Finanza in a note, are accused of the crimes of possession and manufacture of false identification documents, receiving stolen goods and failure to comply with the obligations of adequate customer verification, provided for by the current legislation on prevention and combating the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The investigation originates from a careful info-investigative activity conducted in the Labro area, culminating in the identification and subjecting to control of two Pakistani brothers, owners of as many individual “money transfer” businesses, characterized by multiple and significant risk alerts .
According to the reconstruction of the financiers, it emerged that the two had used the data and identity of unsuspecting people and/or occasional customers to register fictitious money transfer transactions.
The Financiers then spoke to the numerous customers of the inspected agencies who, in some cases, denied the money transfers registered in their name, stating that they had never carried out such operations at the point of sale while, in others, they declared that they had carried out only some of the money transfer transactions which, however, were recorded in their name.
The judicial police activity carried out, in which 24,989 money transfer operations were monitored for a total amount sent equal to 5,679,144.63 euros, has therefore made it possible to bring to light a real fraud system implemented by the two Pakistani brothers which involved the simulated attribution of the sums to be transferred outside the national borders to subjects other than the real ones, in order to guarantee the anonymity of the executors of the money remittances.
At the conclusion of the investigation carried out, 534 illicit money transfer operations were found for a total amount of €228,405.04 while the two brothers were reported to the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, as well as being reported to the Agents’ Body in financial activity and of credit brokers for the consequent cessation of carrying out the activity.
