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Monza Brianza: 12 arrests for criminal association, fraud and self-laundering in the car trade.

Guardia di Finanza operation: 14 investigated, 8 million euros seized and 110 front men involved in a network of fraud and money laundering.

Monza Brianza: 12 arrests for criminal association, fraud and self-laundering in the car trade.

Military of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Monza Brianza they are executing, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Monza, an order for the application of the pre-trial detention in prison, house arrest and the obligation to sign, ordered by the GIP at the Court of the capital. The operation concerns 14 managers, seriously suspected of being the promoters or participants of a criminal association aimed at fraud andself-laundering.

At the same time, the Finance Police, with the help of canine units “cash dog”, are performing a preventive seizure of financial availability for over 8 million euro, equal to the illicit profits deriving from the contested crimes.

The investigations, coordinated by the Monza Public Prosecutor's Office and developed by the military of the Monza Group, began from info-investigative activities about six car showrooms active in the Brianza and Bergamo areas, dedicated to fraud against financial companies and the laundering of illicit proceeds.

The structure of the criminal association

The investigations conducted by the Yellow Flames, under the aegis of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Monza, have allowed the identification of a network composed of 14 subjects:

  • 6 people in prison,
  • 6 under house arrest,
  • 2 subject to signature requirement.

The group was led by entrepreneurs from Brianza operating in the car trade, who, using individuals of “Sinti” ethnicity, identified front men to whom they could sign financing contracts that were not to be honoured.

The modus operandi

The scammers used a network of 110 penniless subjects, who benefited from the financing by presenting false documents on their income situation. Once the funds were obtained:

  1. The purchased cars were registered in the names of the front men.
  2. The cars were then sold to dealerships controlled by the association's leaders.
  3. Finally, the cars were resold to prices lower than market prices to unsuspecting customers.

The commitment of the Guardia di Finanza

This operation, carried out in synergy with the Monza Public Prosecutor's Office and under the coordination of the Monza Brianza Provincial Command, highlights the constant commitment of the Guardia di Finanza in fight against scams and in 'assault on illicit assets.

With regard to the conduct under examination by the Judicial Authority, it is emphasized that, based on the principle of presumption of innocence, the guilt of the persons investigated will be definitively ascertained only with an irrevocable sentence of conviction. If necessary, the ascertained profits will be confiscated.

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