Cosenza, money laundering and receiving stolen goods. Foreign citizen under house arrest.

The State Police executed a precautionary measure, issued by the GIP at the Court of Cosenza, against a foreign citizen, currently under investigation for money laundering.

The investigations of the Postal Police, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Cosenza, arose from the complaint presented by a local entrepreneur who, misled by an email received from an address similar to that of one of his own contacts, had paid over 30 thousand euros into accounts that he believed belonged to his suppliers.

The timeliness of the complaint and the immediate intervention of the investigators of the Operational Section for Cyber ​​Security of Cosenza allowed the recovery of the sum in its entirety.
Subsequent investigations made it possible to reconstruct numerous, further episodes of money laundering and receiving stolen goods of the proceeds of online scams, carried out in the form of romance scams – so-called “romantic” scams, which exploit the feelings and emotions of more vulnerable victims – and man in the mail – abusive intrusions into email inboxes often aimed at carrying out scams.

The fruits of these latest illicit activities, which at the moment are on the order of some hundreds of thousands of euros flowed into the accounts of today's suspect. During the execution of the precautionary measure, the investigators managed to recover part of the laundered sums.