An Italian and an Albanian citizen, who have gathered around them numerous other subjects, are being investigated by the Dda, District Anti-Mafia Directorate, of the Florence prosecutor’s office, as part of a criminal association aimed at committing tax crimes, appropriating undue debt and self-laundering.
The two men – as reported by the agency Adnkronos – they are believed to be the promoters and organizers of the partnership, since 2012 they have managed to acquire and/or rent 31 restaurant businesses, located mainly in the historic center of Florence, two hotels, but also car rental businesses, a “beer production business ” (a brewery), for a total investment of over 13 million euros.
The accumulated illicit proceeds would have been reinvested (as well as opening new businesses) also in luxury goods and in the acquisition of shares in an amateur football club from Campania, Ischia Calcio.
Upon delegation from the prosecutor’s office, this morning the financiers of the provincial command of the financial police of Fienze, with the support of the Scico, the provincial command of Naples and the canine units of the groups of Bologna, Rimini and Florence, carried out 23 personal and house searches and venues in the provinces of Florence, Livorno and Naples.
At the same time, the special prosecutor’s office against corruption and organized crime in Tirana, as part of a joint investigation team set up with the coordination of Eurojust, ordered the execution of searches in Albania, in Vlore, Tirana, Durazzo and Elbasan, in care of the National Bureau of Investigation.
The former Napoli and Fiorentina player Pino Taglialatela
Republic of Florence announces that in the city “the restaurants searched this morning by the financial police are the Cavallino (considered the operational base of the association) and the Orcagna restaurant in Piazza della Signoria, the Ponte Vecchio trattoria in Lungarno Archibusieri, the Bisteccheria Santa Croce in Largo Bargellini, the trattoria de’ Pitti in piazza Pitti, the Osteria Lungarno in Lungarno Corsini, the trattoria Giovanni in via Sant’Agostino, the Osteria la Bistecca in piazza della Repubblica”.
Is Republic That The Tyrrhenian Seabut also the local online newspaper of Ischia ildispariquotidiano report that, in the context of the purchase of shares in Ischia Calcio, among those under investigation there would also be the former Napoli and Fiorentina goalkeeper Giuseppe Taglialatela: under the hypothesis of accusation he would have sold 50 percent of the shares to the two suspects of the aforementioned company for the sum of 100 thousand euros, in exchange for a “formal price”, as he writes Republicof only 9 thousand euros.
