The story dates back to 2020, when the Amaranth company had to replace the guarantees stipulated with Winter Bank for a total amount of 900 thousand euros. Yesterday the financiers of the provincial command of Padua carried out a court order which ordered eleven personal precautionary measures
THE financiers of the provincial command of Padua, under the direction of the local public prosecutor’s office, carried out a court order which ordered eleven personal precautionary measures. Three suspects ended up in prison, four under house arrest, three with residence obligations in the municipality of residence and an obligation to report to the judicial police. The activity led to the seizure of assets for 3.5 million euros against the members of a criminal syndicate which, since at least 2021, has defrauded Italian and foreign citizens by procuring sureties deemed false or by fraudulently using an institution under Anglo-Saxon law called an escrow agreement or trust deposit.
The story also concerns Arezzo. It was the autumn of 2020 when the amaranth company, after reporting the Pro Leaguehad to replace the guarantees stipulated with Winter Bank for a total amount of 900 thousand euros. The guarantees, used for registration in the Serie C championship and for the extra budget necessary to cover football transfer operations, were in reality simple pieces of paper, completely disconnected from banking or insurance institutions. There were multiple people under investigation, including a lawyer who drove in Bulgaria commission income pocketed. In the case of Arezzo, cheated like Livorno and Novara, it was approximately 190 thousand euros. The modus operandi, apparently, had also been used by the suspects in other contexts and circumstances. Arezzo is the injured party in this matter as the victim of one fraud.
At the same time as the precautionary measures, dozens of searches were carried out this morning in the provinces of Benevento, Bergamo, Cremona, Florence, Foggia, Milan, Padua, Turin and Venice, with the involvement of other departments of the Guardia di Finanza. The investigations, which arose from an instrumental complaint by extortion presented, as an offended person, by one of the main suspects, they revealed how the victim was, in reality, one of the alleged promoters of the hypothesized illicit activity. The criminal organization, after having identified an audience of entrepreneurs and investors with solvency and funds in the international context, in need of further financial resources to start projects, sometimes even millionaires, exploited a Anglo-Saxon financial companycharacterized by significant capitalization due to the possession of hundreds of millions of dollars in Belgian government bonds, to provide a guarantee of solvency to be spent on primary credit institutions, which would proceed to provide huge loans.
The unfortunate people were then induced, through a recruiter belonging to the association, to contact a lawyer, who would play the role of escrow agent. The latter, once the sum has been received bail by the depositors, sometimes amounting to several million euros, in mutual agreement with the other members of the organization, he distributed it among the members through the provision of bank transfers on foreign current accounts ignited in Estonia, Germany and the United Kingdom, with the aim of carrying out money laundering and self-laundering activities aimed at hindering the identification of the criminal origin of the supplies.
The suspects, together with other subjects not addressed by the order, had been responsible for further scams to the detriment of football clubs, which, in order to obtain the financial guarantees for registration in the football championship Pro Leaguehad turned to so-called professionals to obtain the necessary guarantees, which later turned out to be false.
