Two Italians on money laundering charges
27/07/2012 00:00
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The Tirana Prosecution has closed the investigations for two Italian
citizens who have prior precedents in Italy for a commercial firm
through which they are accused of having recycled 500 million EUR of
dirty money.
Alessandro Locatelli, 65, and Pietro Grandoni, 58, with a criminal history in their country, have become part of suspicious money transfers in Albania.
The money laundering case was opened in 2010, right after the Italian Bank in Tirana warned the Albanian Police about their suspicions that two Italian clients were cleaning money. The Prosecutor says that Alessandro Locatelli has made two transfers from Slovenia to Albania in 2010, with a total of 500.000 EUR, and justified this transaction by saying that he had just sold a chain of shops in Germany. The beneficent of this transfer was an Italian company that leases agricultural tools.
After this transfer, the defendant has deposited 490 EUR for the company that was represented by the Italian Pietro Grandoni. During the next 10 days, Grandoni has made three withdrawals of 60.000 EUR.
After the bank rejected the transfer of the rest of the money, they have created a company in Albania. The Albanian state has as their address a residence in Vaqarr for which they will make the announcement when the trial will start.
According to the Prosecution, Alessandro Locatelli has been sentenced in 2002 for taking 1 billion Italian Lira by a company that was declared as bankrupt.
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