Vicenza, during today's morning, staff of the State Police of the Vicenza Police Headquarters executed the order for the application of precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Vicenza against BP (house arrest), his children BY and BI (obligation of daily reporting to the judicial police and obligation to reside in the municipality of Lonigo) and of SA (obligation to report daily to the judicial police and obligation to reside in the municipality of Schio) for complicity in the crime of attempted continuous extortion, BP, BY and BI also for complicity in the crimes of kidnapping and persecutory acts, all of which were committed to the detriment of a financial promoter active in the province of Vicenza and surrounding areas.
The investigations - launched by the Vicenza Prosecutor's Office last March following a report from the Flying Squad personnel - had made it possible to reconstruct how BP and his sons - owners/managers of a company operating in the tanning sector - had worked to bring back a large sum of money deposited abroad, in Switzerland and Puerto Rico - a provision whose lawful availability and constitution is the subject of current investigation - through investment activities in foreign funds.
The sum, quantified at approximately five hundred thousand euros, appeared to have already arrived in Italy and was deposited in a safe deposit box at a company, found to be unrelated to the facts, having its headquarters outside the province.
The investigative activity carried out made it possible to ascertain that BP and its children had instructed the financial promoter to work to obtain the return of the cash, the physical delivery of which would have taken place between the end of March and the beginning of April.
The investigative investigations immediately initiated and carried out - also through the use of interception activities as well as targeted observation and shadowing services - made it possible both to acquire significant circumstantial elements in relation to all the suspects and to recover and seize the sum of around five hundred thousand euros in cash and some valuable watches.
The investigation made it possible to reconstruct and highlight the methods through which the subjects involved - also with the help of SA - had requested the financial promoter's intervention to recover the money. The man had been threatened several times, as well as in some circumstances held against his will inside a house. Furthermore, for months, some of the suspects had bombarded the financial promoter with telephone calls, on some occasions even showing up at his home. For this reason the man not only had to change his lifestyle habits - due to the state of disturbance and anxiety induced - but he had also temporarily changed his domicile.
Today, in addition to the execution of precautionary measures, searches were carried out by Flying Squad personnel at the homes of the suspects and the company headquarters, resulting in the seizure of the total sum of approximately €25.000,00. cash.
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