Money laundering, maxi operation: 59 arrests and 23 million seized. Three Bari lawyers involved Crimes of conspiracy aggravated by transnationality aimed at tax fraud, money laundering and self-laundering, drug trafficking and extortion Tax fraud of considerable value, for an illegal volume of business of approximately 170 million euros, implemented through the indication of fictitious VAT credits deriving from non-existent passive operations indicated in the tax returns in the absence of the related invoices. Precisely in the phase of the 'monetization' of the illicit proceeds, the involvement of the Bari organized crime would have emerged, able to recruit numerous 'fiduciaries' to hold credit cards with which to drain, according to a pre-established timing, the provisions illegally obtained by the organization for the subsequent reinvestment also in drug trafficking.
