The Italian Job

A massive Italian Tax Police investigation unveiled a 15-billion-euro money laundering operation involving Italian mafia, Colombian drug barons, and Putin’s oligarchs. 

In September 2022, the Italian Tax Police (Guardia di Finanza), a famously effective militarized police force, visited a couple of businesspersons in Brescia, a man and his wife who had sent to Slovenia and other Eastern European countries 4.5 million Euros as alleged payments of ferrous materials that had never entered Italy. Not finding the evidence they were looking for in the house, they decided to dig in the garden, where they found strange metal drums. They opened the drums, and discovered they were full of banknotes for a total of eight million euro. Another three millions euro were found buried in the couple’s cellar. All this money had come from China.

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