Two subjects, seriously suspected of the crime of financial abusiveness, have been placed under house arrest by personnel from the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza and the State Police of Catanzaro, in execution of a precautionary order issued by the investigating judge of Catanzaro, at the request of the local prosecutor. At the same time, a preventive seizure decree was carried out of the sum of over 1.8 million euros, constituting the illicit profit of the crime.
These are Domenico Masciari of Catanzaro and Rocco Marasco di Battipaglia. A third subject of the province of Salerno is investigated on the loose.
The complex investigative activity made it possible to outline a proven modus operandi illegal operandi of abusive money collection activities for subsequent investments by two financial promoters to the detriment of numerous subjects throughout the national territory, especially in the Calabrian and Campania territorial areas.
The two suspects Numerous subjects would have mistakenly induced who, seeing themselves offering real investment contracts related by adequacy questionnaires, gave in to the enticements of the easy and high earnings proposed by the scammers, who operated without any qualification and registration to the registers prescribed by banking and financial legislation.
The sums subject of investment were received by the suspects through transfers arranged by offended people towards Italian and foreign current accounts of a company specifically created as a vehicle of the proceeds of the illegal activity or, directly, through the reception of cash, for a total amount equal to over 1.8 million euros, the subject of preventive seizure.