Salerno, bankruptcy and money laundering: 2 arrests and seizure of 1.5 million

The Special Currency Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza, together with the soldiers of the Provincial Command of Salerno, Napoli e Terni they implemented a “Application order of personal and real precautionary measures“, issued by the investigating judge of Salerno at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, against fourteen under investigationseriously suspected in various capacities for the crimes of fraudulent bankruptcy, recycling e self-laundering, with which they were arranged house arrest against two suspectsone of which is resident in Spain, as well as the seizure for a total value of over 1.5 million euros.

The investigations

According to the investigators’ reconstruction, the company Bushop S.r.l.operating on the national territory for the sale of IT products online, he would have requested 3,319 from the Nexi company Cancellation requests submitted by customers due to non-delivery of goods previously sold, for a total of 883.462 euro. Nexi had credited the indicated sums back to the credit cards of the customers who had made the purchases and requested a refund, without obtaining it due to Bushop’s financial insufficiency. According to the accusatory hypothesis, however, this latter company would have disposed of the sums received from customers through multiple transfers to other parties (recipients of the real precautionary measure) without valid economic reasons or would have used these sums to establish new legal entities in turn destined to repeat the commission of the indicated crimes.

Bankruptcy

Faced with Bushop’s insolvency, the Prosecutor’s Office requested and obtained its own from the Court judicial liquidationas a result of which the crime of fraudulent documentary, patrimonial and improper bankruptcy was hypothesized, and hypothesizing the presence of directors in law and in fact who, in competition with each other, also making use of the work of a chartered accountant, would have maliciously caused the bankruptcy of the company, as well as distracting the company assets, thus causing prejudice to creditors.