Spanish justice tracks down money laundered by the mafia in the south of Gran Canaria. After the San Bartolomé de Tirajana Investigation Court No. 3 accepted the Las Palmas Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s complaint, they searched and apprehended three Italian citizens linked to the criminal organization who had bank accounts and properties in the south of the island.
This complaint admitted by the judge last September Javier Ramirez de Verger-VargasAfter complex research, Udef’s Group I Las Palmas National Police, led by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime Javier RodenasHe worked in coordination with Interpol in Rome and the Turin Anti-Mafia Prosecutor to formulate money laundering charges against three Italians residing in Gran Canaria.
This international cooperation is necessary in order to be able to prove the illicit source of funds, which was subsequently discovered in the money laundering investigation in Spain, whose investigations were christened as follows: trattoria operation By the Economic and Financial Crimes Unit (Udef) of the National Police of Las Palmas.
The agents and the prosecutor spent a year plunging into an intricate web of companies scattered around the world to hide their origins. Network of companies intervening with tentacles San Bartolome de TirajanaThe mafia clan transalpine transferred the money previously defrauded in the country.
The Spanish investigation begins with a procedure processed by Public Prosecutor’s Office Italy is on trial at the Turin Court for aggravated fraud in order to obtain public subsidies for energy certificates, according to a statement from judicial sources.
This falsification these documents led to the conviction of 45 people. aggravated fraud, according to the classification of Italian legislation, all connected with a criminal organization specializing in such fraudulent acts. In total, they allocated 110 million euros by manipulating energy certificates to receive public assistance.
Sent “mafia conspiracy” money It adds the same resources to foreign companies with headquarters in Italy “almost all over the world”. They then cashed these revenues from the accounts or had other subjects or the same foreign companies “artificially rotated multiple times”.
The researchers found that all of the companies benefiting from these initial transfers from Italy were nationals. romanian, Bulgarian Y MoldovanIt identified a “money laundering channel” worth 57m euros.
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of these companies Eastern Europefunds were converted into cash or “returned” several times to companies in the same country, as often happens in Bulgaria, or sent to organizations based in China, Hong Kong, Dubai, the Grenadines or Panama. places, among others.
The managers of these companies are “real puppets», charges manipulated and directed by the «real managers» of the investigated projects, in order to avoid detection of both the authors of the scam and those who claim to be exonerated, in order to avoid any liability.
This is stated in the presence report prepared by Udef’s Group I in Las Palmas, the content of which led the prosecutor to file a complaint against two citizens and one’s partner. Investigations conducted by specialist agencies in light of the European investigative order issued by the prosecutor conclude that there are “institutional ties” and “close links” between the parties. Giuseppe G.. and persons convicted in Italy of “membership of a criminal organization” for defrauding public funds. fraudulent energy certificates.
Giussepe G. and his partner Didina H. are the main suspects in the money laundering case against J.Educational Court number 3 of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. The judge recently declassified the trial after accepting the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s complaint last September. It has previously adopted important precautionary measures that are vital to the success of the cause.
These measures include the blocking of Giussepe G.’s checking accounts, agreed upon at the prosecutor’s request, and the confiscation of a bungalow purchased by his partner in 2017 at the end of November 2017. maspalomas.
It is a property located in the complex. Green Flower Dune Purchased at a declared price of 100,000 euros, with funds from illegal activities carried out in Italy.
This single storey house Registered in the Property Register on behalf of Giussepe G’s partner. Udef alleges that, after a year earlier investigation to justify the prosecutor’s complaint, this investigation amassed an illicit wealth of 451,877 euros between 2017 and 2019. supposedly comes from manipulations of energy certificates in Italy to gain access to public aid.
According to forensic sources, the investigating judge has not yet taken the statements of the three people under investigation as their whereabouts are unknown, therefore according to judicial sources, where the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested that they be searched and arrested. This trattoria operationremains open.
Another case under investigation in Tenerife
The establishment of criminal organizations from Italy in the Canary Islands seems to be an indisputable fact. At the very least, this can be deduced from the operations that both the Civil Guard and the National Police Service (CNP) usually carry out annually to combat this phenomenon. The last of these major interventions took place at the end of 2021, with the arrest of 106 people south of Tenerife as part of the CNP’s joint action with Italy’s Polizia di Stato and Europol. According to investigators, the organization allegedly laundered more than 10 million euros in 2021 for Italian mafia clans such as Casamonica, Neapolitan Camorra, Nuvoletta and Sacra Corona Unita from computer scams carried out by different European countries, including Spain. Those arrested are charged with membership of a criminal organization, fraud, drug smuggling, money laundering, kidnapping, document falsification, injury, threat, force, extortion by force, theft by force, fraud and illegal possession. your weapons. | MR