An impressive operation sees around six hundred Financiers of the Provincial Command of Cagliari and the Central Organized Crime Investigative Service engaged in arrests and searches, underway in various Italian regions.
The activity represents the corollary of a complex investigation, coordinated by the District Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Cagliari, conducted against a
Nigerian criminal association
aimed at international money laundering.
The offenses also include aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
Among the alleged offenses, the abusive exercise of payment service provision activities.
Numerous other people involved in the investigations, also suspected of being part of an extensive network of people involved, in various capacities and in concurrence with each other, in the crimes of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, against individual freedom and exploitation of prostitution, with the aggravating circumstance of transnationality.
More details on the operation will be illustrated during the press conference to be held at 10.00 at the National Antimafia and Antiterrorism Directorate of Rome, which will also be attended by the National Antimafia and Antiterrorism Attorney, Federico Cafiero de Raho.