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A scam of 4.5 million euros against the well-known designer and architect Antonio Citterio was carried out by one of his collaborators who, thanks to a bank official, from 2013 to 2018, took advantage of the delegation to operate in the firm’s current accounts. of the seventy-year-old professional, he would have improperly charged the large sum.
The soldiers of the provincial command of the Gdf, are complying with the measure of the residence obligation towards the employee of the credit institution and a preventive embargo for the equivalent of the same amount illegally pocketed. Money that the woman would have reallocated to renovate a restaurant in Chiavari, in Liguria and in games of chance.
Licia Azzurrina Scagliotti and former BPM employee Simone Facchinetti are investigated in the investigations coordinated by the prosecutor Giovanni Tarzia and carried out by the Gdf’s Economic-Financial Police Unit. The crimes alleged for various reasons are aggravated fraud, car laundering, tax evasion, and the misuse and falsification of credit cards. Sign both the precautionary measure of the obligation of residence in the municipality of Inzago, in the Milanese area, against the old bank, as well as the order of freezing of 4.5 million, the profit of the crime. is
it was the investigating judge Valerio Natale.
The investigations, initiated as a result of the Citterio complaint, determined that from 2013 to 2018, the two suspects carried out complex and systematic fraudulent activity, to the detriment of the world-renowned designer, from his studio in via Cerva.
The secretary, who had the power to operate in the company’s accounts, would have dried them up by falsifying Citterio’s signatures on cash withdrawal receipts, on more than two hundred checks – 234 to be precise -, as well as on requests for broadcast to her. unaware of 21 prepaid cards used for purchases and cash withdrawals. All with the complicity of the former bank employee (the institute had not realized what was happening).
According to the investigation of Fiamme Gialle, the collaborator would have used the money, not only to satisfy his inclination to gambling, but to renovate a restaurant he owns in Chiavari, while the banker (who has been removed from Bpm) would transfer the money to accounts relatives.
Citterio, 70, has twice won the ‘Compasso d’oro’ award and has works exhibited at MoMA in New York and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.
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