"Transfers to foreign casinos", "millions of euros landed in Montecarlo" and the yellow on 80,000 euros paid to a pensioner from Anzio.
It is the new chapter in the tug of war that is characterizing the separation between Francesco Totti and Ilary Blasi, at least according to some rumors reported by the newspaper La Verità, which speaks of "some reports of suspicious transactions by anti-money laundering officers".
These would be reports that reached the men of Bank of Italy and linked to what - it is no secret - are the great passions of the former Roma captain: betting and gambling.
Passions that would be among the causes of the quarrels that led to the separation between Totti and Blasi.
La Verità speaks of "a meticulous control activity carried out by the competent central structures of the credit institution to which the '10' has entrusted its earnings for years".
And from the analysis work - writes the newspaper - "the massive investment of financial resources in betting" would emerge.
In particular, there is talk of a document that dates back to last August and which concerns an 80,000 euro "interest-bearing loan" sent to the account of a pensioner from Anzio, jointly owned by the daughter of the woman employed by the Sport and Health company controlled by the Ministry of Economy .
"On the same day - we read - the forty-five-year-old from Rome transfers the money to the account shared with her husband and the latter to hers. The man is an employee of the Ministry of
The man's account would therefore be fed in part "by domestic transfers from companies operating in the online betting sector": in total there would be fifteen transfers for a total of around 87 thousand euros.
Bank checks for a value of 445 thousand euros would also have been negotiated on the accounts examined.
For the anti-money laundering it would be "an opaque activity with counterparties operating in the online betting sector and a significant sum transfer activity with direct withdrawals and wire transfers".
The spouses in question would not have provided adequate clarifications or justifications and would have shown an evasive and non-cooperative attitude". Another line at the center of the investigation would concern two accounts of the former captain. One is jointly held with Ilary Blasi, the
Five checks and a bank transfer made out to the Societé financiére et d'encaissement (Sfe) based in Monte Carlo are being examined, paid between August 2018 and January 2020 for a total of one million and 305 thousand euros.
Finally, among the suspicious transactions under observation there would be a transfer of 300,000 euros to "United London services limited" connected with the London casino" and another of 200,000 euros in favor of Belco, apparently connected with the casino in Las Vegas (ANSA).