The Swiss trader precious metals and stones will appear before the court on charges of helping Italian mafia in money laundering through diamond operations, Bloomberg writes.
The total amount of tax scam is estimated at $ 35 million, of which the suspect has an operation by 750 thousand. He spent this money for the purchase of diamonds through the stock exchange in Israel.
Also, it is also accused of selling ten kilograms of gold for money, the origin of which is not obvious, and the help of the Italians translated over a million dollars from Swiss banks to Hungarian without resolving regulators. At the same time, prosecutors are confident that the trader knew or had to know what kind of money he uses.
As noted in the material, the trial can disclose the mechanism of using the mafia jewels. Such methods have become particularly relevant on the background of combating money laundering, which is conducted in Europe.
Swiss banks are increasingly alerts belong to the reception of a major cash batch, which makes criminals to look for new ways to maintain funds. Including this trend has already led to the booming of bank cells.
Earlier it was reported that the Italian mafia came up with a way to assign a part of payments from a large-scale Foundation for the rescue of the European economy. For this, its representatives began to introduce into enterprises from various sectors, mostly from the IT sector.