C‘he is also a lawyer from Foggia among those arrested by the Financial Police in the operation on false guarantees. Since 2021, the suspects have allegedly defrauded Italians and foreigners in search of financing by procuring guarantees believed to be false or by illicitly using an Anglo-Saxon law institution called a trust deposit.
Among the promoters is the Venetian lawyer Claudio Michelon, 71 years old, ended up in prison. With him also arrested Roberto Massimo Di Bisceglieresident in Abano Terme but domiciled in Estonia, as well as Rosario Tulino of Benevento, with a role as a money launderer. They ended up under house arrest Giorgio Maria Salvatori, lawyer from Foggia; Francis Onabire, Nigerian resident in Bergamo, believed to be the procurer of customers. According to the prosecution, he would have identified potential entrepreneurs to defraud.
Then Marco Russoa Lombard fixer who would have had the role of arranging the documentation for the loan procedures; Elisabetta Pagninwife of Di Bisceglie, accused of laundering the money from the scam together with her daughter Sara Marcato. The latter has the obligation to reside, like the alleged frontmen Giuseppe Grippaldi, of Catania, ed Edoardo Bottoni, of Mirano, near Venice.
The suspects would have committed fraud against football clubs which, in order to obtain the financial guarantees for registration in the Lega Pro championship, had turned to self-styled professionals to obtain the necessary guarantees, which later turned out to be false. Similar modus operandi it would have been adopted with other entrepreneurs looking for financial guarantees to carry out their ordinary business.
“The association – reports a press note from the financiers – would also have defrauded Italian and foreign citizens by procuring guarantees deemed false and/or fraudulently using an Anglo-Saxon law institution called escrow agreement or escrow agreement. The contract in question stipulated between two parties, depositor and beneficiary, is an agreement by which money or goods of any kind are delivered to a third party custodian who is independent of the parties, called an escrow agent, who has the obligation to deliver them, upon the occurrence of a certain agreed condition, to the contractor who is entitled to it.
At the same time as the precautionary measures Dozens of searches were carried out in the provinces of Benevento, Bergamo, Cremona, Florence, Foggia, Milan, Padua, Turin and Venice, with the involvement of other territorially competent departments of the Corps.
