The plane that brought him back to Italy from Doha landed at 1pm in Fiumicino. Waiting for him, as soon as he landed in the Roman airport, the judicial agents who accompanied him to the police offices where he was notified of the custody order under house arrest. Massimo Bochicchio, the broker accused of a massive fraud against several VIPs, arrested on 7 July in Jakarta, Indonesia, is back on Italian territory. The decision taken by the investigating magistrate of Rome who revoked the prison measure and converted it into house arrest, recognizing the “seriousness and validity” of the proposal to repay the sums to investors, sparked the reaction of the many VIPs who denounced the deception of the manager and fear a new “fraudulent” operation.
«My clients have turned to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, trusting in full protection of their rights. We hope that Bochicchio’s declarations of intent, which allowed him the benefit of house arrest, will be evaluated with extreme rigor by the judicial judicial authority to avoid a further, sensational, fraudulent maneuver “, says the lawyer Cesare Placanica, lawyer, among others, the Italian ambassador in London, Raffaele Trombetta, the former Inter coach Antonio Conte and the Roma player Stephan El Shaarawy. Bochicchio’s “victims” are on a war footing and fear that a new “scam” this time “would include not only, and for the second time, those who had given unconditional trust to Bochicchio, but also the magistrates and judicial police operators who have been working hard on this case for almost a year, ”adds Placanica.
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The day after the arrest, the broker’s defender, the lawyer Daniele Ripamonti, assured that “the repayment scheme is serious and at a very advanced stage, it provides for the almost total repayment of the investments, in full agreement with the judicial authority “. The investigation for international money laundering, charged to the broker, which, according to the documents, would have collected over 500 million euros from 2011 onwards, was transmitted in the first days of July by the prosecutors in Milan to those in piazzale Clodio for territorial jurisdiction . Over the years, according to the accusatory system, Bochicchio allegedly “raised” substantial capital “through the companies Kidman Asset Management and Tiber Capital, which he leads in London. Intercepted he claimed to have moved even “1 billion and 800 million”. Money that he would have diverted into investments between “Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, promising high returns”. And trying to “hide or hinder the identification of the actual beneficiaries of the sums”, invested with “high risk” instruments. Before arriving in Jakarta, among other things, Bochicchio would have passed in recent weeks for Singapore and Hong Kong (it is not clear whether to try to recover money from his operations), but the GDF with the collaboration of Interpol has managed to follow the traces.