Gdf and Cc discover criminal group, ‘it acted with mafia modalities’
(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, OCTOBER 27 – They had taken over the management of a retirement home on the Bolognese Apennines, Alto Reno Terme, emptying the old company, in bankruptcy, of liquidity, leading it to bankruptcy and creating a new cooperative, using some figurehead. Furthermore, the alleged criminal group would have threatened and intimidated the employees of the structure, with “typically mafia modalities”, for the investigators, in order to have them first discharged and then summarized in the new reality.
This was discovered by the ‘Ragnatela’ operation of the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza which led to a precautionary custody order against two Crotonese and a preventive seizure against them and another 21 natural or legal persons for two million. The measures were issued by the Gip of the Court of Bologna, Alberto Ziroldi, at the request of the prosecutor of the Dda Roberto Ceroni. The accusations, for various reasons for 23 suspects, are criminal association, extortion aggravated by the mafia method, fraudulent bankruptcy of assets, documents and for malicious operations, fraudulent subtraction from the payment of taxes, issuing of invoices for non-existent operations, spending and introduction into the State of counterfeit coins. The seizure involved two Lombard companies (a real estate company in Brescia and a retail store of current monopoly goods in the Milanese hinterland) and liquid assets. (HANDLE).