The last pieces of the ‘Free Credit’ operation linked to the millionaire fraud on the tax bonuses contained in the Relaunch Decree are also going to settle. The men of the Guardia di Finanza of Rimini, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of the Romagna city, arrested two of the people at the top of the disjointed organization, in recent months, precisely from the Fiamme Gialle and fugitives in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
In January the financiers had carried out 35 precautionary measures and over 80 searches in Emilia-Romagna and, at the same time, in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Lazio, Lombardy, Marche, Puglia, Sicily, Tuscany, Trentino and Veneto, dismantling a partnership with an operational base in Rimini, but branched out throughout the national territory, made up of 56 associates and 22 figureheads, under investigation with the accusation of having defrauded the Italian State. In six months, bogus tax credits have been accumulated – taking advantage of the facilitations of rental bonuses, seismabonus and facades bonuses – for 440 million euros. A river of money, obtained by ‘profiting’ on measures designed to revive entrepreneurial activity and the economy weakened by two years of coronavirus emergency, reinvested in crypto currencies, gold bars, current accounts in Malta, Cyprus and Madeira.
Only two suspects had managed to escape: Andrea Leonetti who, at the state of the investigations, is believed to be the head of the Apulian branch of the organization and renamed by the investigators the ‘King of bonuses’ and an accountant, Roberto Amoruso, considered the technical mastermind of the each other. A few days before the execution of the order they had flown to Santo Domingo and Colombia for a short vacation but, having learned of the ’roundup’ carried out by the Rimini Finance, they never returned to Italy. Country where the two will now have to return. Like other suspects in the affair, however, they had filed an appeal – through the lawyers – against the measure. Appeal, as learned, rejected, like the others, by the Review Court.
The accountant was stopped and arrested at the Medellin airport in Colombia and is being held in Bogota prisons pending extradition procedures while the one who is considered the head of the Apulian branch of the organization was arrested in Boca Chica in Santo Domingo. : he had with him numerous cell phones, various telephone cards of different nationalities and over ten credit cards and cash including euros, dollars, Colombian and Dominican pesos for about 6,000 euros.
In recent months, the investigators of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Rimini financiers had monitored every movement of the two arrested people and, knowing the places they frequented and their habits, asked the Ministry of Justice to issue an international arrest warrant. Thanks to the International Police Cooperation Service, the data of the two fugitives were communicated to the Interpol offices of the Dominican Republic and Colombia which, supported by Italian security experts working at the Embassies in the two countries, activated the police forces. premises for the tracing and arrest – for extradition purposes – of the persons under investigation and wanted.
While the accountant is currently detained in the prisons of Bogota, Colombia with a view to extradition, the other person arrested was expelled from the Dominican Republic and boarded on a plane to Italy, escorted by two agents of the International Cooperation Service. of Police. The former fugitive landed last Sunday at Fiumicino Airport, where the financiers and agents of the Border Police of the State Police formally arrested him and took him to prison in Rimini.
Source: Ansa
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