(ANSA) - CUNEO, 22 JAN - An international criminal organization, dedicated to corruption, money laundering, self-laundering and evasion, was dismantled by the Cuneo Financial Police, in an operation that saw the participation of Spanish colleagues from Fiamme Gialle and Eurojust.
Fourteen arrests were made between Italy and Spain, including that of Giovanni Piero Montaldo, 77, who fled Italy in the late 1980s.
About fifty properties seized, including a farm in the Cunean area worth 5 million euros.
The details of the operation, dubbed 'Tre cunei', are now being illustrated in Cuneo, live streaming with the judicial authorities of Madrid and Brussels (Eurojust).
In Spain, Montaldo "has built up a galaxy of companies over the decades, especially in the real estate market, by registering the good wooden heads", explains the prosecutor of Asti, AlbertoPerduca, specifying that the man "was arrested for his social risk".
Money from illegal activities, which came in the Malaga area, was then laundered in Italy.
Over 20 million euros have been transferred in ten years.
The investigations, which lasted over two years, were carried out by a special team of investigators between Italy and Spain, who worked in a coordinated way even during the pandemic.
Among the assets seized are also luxury furnishings and works of art;
over 100 bank accounts blocked as a precaution.
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