Rome, street trade: 18 arrests. One million euros seized



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Racket, extortion and corruption in Rome as part of the itinerant trade. Eighteen precautionary measures (eight in prison and ten under house arrest) were executed this morning, by delegation of the prosecutor, by soldiers of the Special Currency Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza and by the staff of the Local Police of Roma Capitale as part of the investigation into the so-called authorization fraud for street commerce with the participation of public officers, businessmen and trade unionists, some belonging to a well-known family of Roman street vendors.

me offenses disputed, for various reasons, are those of Association commit a crime, corruption, undue incentive to grant or promise benefits, disclosure of office secrecy, extortion, abusive financial activity, usury and self-laundering. the researchersMeanwhile, a preventive seizure of economic resources was carried out for one million euros, equal to the illicit profits obtained by some suspects.

The investigation of Financial police and the local police of Rome called “Monzón” allowed to rebuild “a proven system of corruption and extortion established by a criminal association of 13 people”: two public officials (the then head of the Offices of “Discipline” and “Rotations” of the Department of Productive Activities of the Municipality of Roma and one of his direct collaborators), four exponents of a trade union association sector and a group of seven businessmen / traders (three of whom are Bangladeshi, Syrian and Israeli). The organization – according to researchers – has “managed, for the purpose of enrichment, the administrative authorizations for the exercise of activities commercial in public spaces and the many locations of the capital in the sector of deal itinerant, making use (if necessary) of pipes intimidating, threats and violence to obtain undue sums of money ”.

Cash, repeat lunches or dinners, designer clothing and annual passes to attend Serie A football games. These were the ‘benefits’ received by the public workers and by those responsible for the public service involved, according to Financial police and the Local police, in a system of extortion in the management of itinerant commerce in the capital. The usury hypotheses with loans between 2 and 5 thousand euros and the application of annual interest rates above 500% are also questioned.

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