The Postal Police coordinated by the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office is engaged in a vast operation against one of the most important international criminal organizations dedicated to cyber attacks aimed at cyber fraud and money laundering. Polposta's Financial Cybercrime policemen, in collaboration with Eurojust, Europol and the Romanian police, are making arrests in Italy and Romania and kidnappings of villas, apartments, cars, shops and cash. The turnover of the criminal organization amounted to 20 million euros per year.
According to what was learned, the first level of the criminal organization operated in Romania from where, with sophisticated IT techniques, the organization took away sums of money from unsuspecting citizens of many European countries. The money was credited to Italian current accounts headed by nominees. The Italian member of the gang then took care of withdrawing the cash, hiding it and then physically transferring it to Romania.