The Guardia di Finanza has seized almost one million euros from the former Speaker of the Chamber, Gianfranco Fini, already under investigation by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office for complicity in money laundering. The operation, dubbed "Rouge et noir", was carried out at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the capital.
The preventive seizure concerns two life insurance policies with a surrender value of 495 thousand euros each and was triggered as part of the same investigation that last December 13 led to the arrest of Francesco Corallo and his alleged associates Alessandro La Monica, Rudolf Theodoor , Anna Baetsen, Arturo Vespignani and Amedeo Laboccetta. The accused are accused of being promoters and participants in a transnational criminal association dedicated to the crimes of embezzlement, money laundering and fraudulent evasion of tax payments.
The illicit profit of the association, once laundered, would have been used by Corallo in economic and financial activities and in real estate acquisitions which would have involved the members of the Tulliani family, in turn under investigation for laundering and re-employment and already recipients, last February 14 , of a seizure order worth 7 million euro.
According to the investigators, today's kidnapping is based on the "planning and decision-making centrality" assumed by Fini in the affair. On April 10, before the prosecutors, the former AN leader denied all charges, handing the investigators a voluminous memorandum in which he allegedly provided his version of the facts.
