“An overall increase in the risk of money laundering linked to cash, mainly in the provinces of Grosseto, Pisa and Pistoia”. This is what we read in the Anti-Money Laundering analysis published by Sole 24 Ore: cash is most widespread in the south, but it is in the center-north that the risk of money laundering associated with liquid money increases considerably. At stake are cash movements throughout Italy for 179 billion euros. These are operations reported overall by the obligated parties (such as banks and post offices) and which are up 3.5% compared to 2022. In fact, the analysis shows that anomalous uses of cash “are relatively more frequent in the provinces of the center-north”. Maremma is classified as “medium high” risk. “High” risk for the provinces of Pisa and Pistoia. Some sort of “dirty” finance agencies managed by Chinese and Italian criminal organizations capable of laundering illicit capital have been discovered. A “laundering” system based on invoices for non-existent transactions, which makes illicit money legal, which then ends up spotless in bank accounts. The DIA, in recent days, had also stated that “the new gold of criminal organizations are invoices for non-existent transactions”. Investigations have in fact brought to light a series of “shell” companies, that is, companies existing for the sole purpose of producing invoices and accounting papers that, in order to launder money, issue a series of false invoices for non-existent transactions that are used to launder money.
