A file from the Reggio Prosecutor’s Office brings to the fore a criminal system that intertwines millionaire scams, ghost companies and links with the ‘Ndrangheta.
Fifteen people ended up under investigation in the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations signed by the deputy Sara Parezzan. At the center, a criminal association considered “servant” to the broader mafia organization, with the task of managing illicit economic flows, including international ones, disguised as false fiscal and commercial operations.
According to the accusation, the suspects would have created and managed a collection of paper companies, continuously renewed to replace those that were now compromised. Through these fictitious companies, capital was moved, justified by non-existent commercial relationships, with falsified accounting and tax documentation. A truly “illicit service” available to colluding entrepreneurs, useful for laundering dirty money and offsetting tax debts.
The central figure of the investigation is an entrepreneur who operates in particular in Bianco, considered the dominus of the association and strategist of the fraudulent operations. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, according to what emerged from the analysis of some mobile phones carried out by Dia, the entrepreneur even attempted to infiltrate the secret services, offering favors and luxury gifts to an “unfaithful” investigator, specifically a high-powered car, to facilitate his candidacy in intelligence.
Among those under investigation, the name of a member of the police force stands out, accused of having betrayed his institutional role: according to the accusatory hypothesis, he would have provided advice to evade investigations, registered fictitious companies in his wife’s name, opened current accounts for nominees and, above all, made unauthorized access to confidential databases.
Sensitive information would have been passed on to the entrepreneurs involved, thus favoring the economic interests of the ‘Ndrangheta, including in the public procurement sector.
The accusations speak of money and benefits received in exchange: piloted hiring, social security benefits, promises of large-engined cars.
Not only that: the investigator would have revealed details of ongoing investigations and transmitted confidential documents to a person, also under investigation, believed to be close to Siderno mafia groups. In one case, the “unfaithful” investigator would have sent a photograph of a judicial document with the names of six suspects of the “Pollino” operation, seriously violating his official duties.
In the notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office there is also another public official, already in service in Locride and then in Florence, under investigation for having warned two entrepreneurs from Bianco of the existence of environmental interceptions in their offices, allowing them to discover the installed bugs which, among other things, were used for an investigation by the Florentine District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
The suspects and their defenders now have twenty days to examine the documents, listen to the wiretaps and file any requests, including interrogation requests.
