A river of money recycled in many companies, acquired or established in Italy and abroad. This is how a Neapolitan business group acted, in which there were also some people close to the Camorra clan. At stake were large sums of money coming from tax fraud obtained through undue compensation or from counterfeiting crimes. The companies were registered in the name of frontmen paid to escape any seizure measures.
On this basis, three suspects were subjected to precautionary custody in prison, 9 to house arrest and thirteen to the obligation to report to the judicial police and the preventive seizure of financial resources and movable and immovable assets for approximately 8.4 million euros.
As reported by Ansa, Salvatore D'Amelio, owner of various youth clothing brands including Minimal and Drop list, also ended up under house arrest . The investigations also revealed that some of the recipients of the measures were transporting clandestine weapons with abraded serial numbers, both common firearms and weapons of war.
Fundamental was the help of compliant professionals who encouraged money laundering in the most disparate economic sectors, such as trendy clothing, the sale of counterfeit branded watches, the trade of food and IT products, catering and goods transport.