GENOVA (ITALPRESS) – From the dawn of today, the D.I.A. and the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Genoa, together with the Anti-Fraud Section of the Local Office of Genoa of the Agency of Customs and Monopoli (ADM), with the support of the competent departments for territory, are carrying out, under the coordination of the European Procura EPPO – Sede di Torino, numerous searchs and arrests in Italy and abroad, together with the police forces of United Kingdom, Poland, France and Switzerland, Foreign activities have benefited from the active collaboration: in the United Kingdom of the Metropolitan Police Service and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of London (UK); in Poland of the Economic Crime Unit of Warsaw and Kielce; in France of the Douane of Paris and in Switzerland of the Federal Office of Customs and Confin Security (UDSC). The operation, called “Borotalco”, originated from the analysis of the encoming container movements in the Ligurian port of call, carried out by the Antimafia Investigative Direction and developed for more than a year in collaboration between DIA, GDF and ADM, has allowed to appraise the existence of a transnational organization, with operational base in the United Kingdom and links in Europe, Asia and Africa, directed by persons known as criminal Kurdish exponents.
The investigations have evidenced how the organization has wide transnational projection, availing itself of the collaboration of sodali or third operatives both in the European territory (Italy, France, Holland, United Kingdom, Poland, Georgia and Switzerland) that in extra-Community countries (Turkey, Armenia, Kenya, United Arab Emirates); adopting stably several routes of navigation to evade customs controls; employing subjects aware of customs practices to facilitate the departure and/or the scare The action of contrast and feedback, carried out at the port of Genoa and other European ports of call, has moreover allowed to seize approximately 32 tons of T.L.E., estimating an omitted payment of the border rights, for a total amount pairs to beyond 8 million euros; in the specific, in several interventions, they were removed to the organization, about 12.200 kg of T.L.E. arrived between the months of June and September 2024. 9. arrived between July and October 2024; 10,000 kg of T.L.E. arrived between June and October 2024. It was also documented the illegal import of additional 8,900 kg of T. L.E. in July 2024, with a total omission of the euro.
For this reason, at the request of the European Attorney General, the G.I.P. at the Court of Liguria, issued an order of precautionary measure of the custody in prison against 6 subjects investigated and a decree of confiscation of goods for a value of about 2,5 million euros, corresponding to the tax evaded and the profit of the crime committed, by association for criminals aimed at the international smuggling of foreign processed tobacco, introduction in the territory of the State of quantitative ingenious tons. and ideological falsehood. Nine further shipments, transited from the Ligurian port between the months of October 2023 and July 2024, bearing characteristics similar to the established traffics, are in progress. The association exploited in Liguria a society that, in order not to arouse suspicion in the execution of the customs operations, was indicated as notify of the shipments (cd. part third to which to communicate the arrival of the goods, in addition to the recipient indicated in the letter of car) and that made available its own business space, in the province of Alessandria, for the unloading of the goods of smuggling, the storage and ricarico for other destinations, as well as for the detention of the The same company also provided advice on customs matters and drew up strategies to avoid checks at the transport and customs clearance stage.
For this reason, in the state, the company was held to be a legal person responsible for the administrative offences provided for by Legislative Decree 231/2001. The proven modus operandi provided, moreover, the collaboration of a computer expert, of Campania origin, that, availing of its technical skills, guaranteed the elaboration, creation and management of websites and mail fictitious addresses to dissimulate the consignees (destinators), in the customs documentation of the illicit shipments; a network of dedicated computer communications, through encrypted chats “Signal” and facilitate contacts “Telegram” and The investigations, also developed thanks to the support of the International Police Cooperation Service – Enfast Network (S.C.I.P.), of Europol and of the international anti-Mafia network called @ON, confirm the importance of the action of contrast placed in place to protect the economic-financial security of the European Union, repressing illegal practices in the fiscal field of customs duties, excise and VAT, giving serious damage to the balance sheet.
The 5 inquired recipients of the custody in prison were conducted at the competent penitentiaries in the territory of the captures; in the institute of Genoa-Marassi the two Italians arrested in the Ligurian capital, placed at the disposal of the A.G. Giudicante.
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