The penalty has been heard since this Thursday morning as part of an ongoing investigation targeting the Ajaccian criminal group of the small bar, of which he is the advice.
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Lawyer Pascal Garbarini was in police custody on Thursday May 12 in the morning, in the premises of the Ajaccio gendarmerie where he had been summoned as part of an ongoing judicial information targeting the members of the A team of Corsican criminals of the small bar, suspected of having put the southern Corsica in the South Corsica and which he defends for a long time. The information was confirmed in the world of several sources close to the investigation. 58 years old, this penalty from Corsica and installed in Paris is known for having defended the nationalist Corse Yvan Colonna. We still do not know at this stage the specific reasons why the magistrates wish to hear it.
His placement in police custody intervenes in the last phase of the investigation, opened in 2018 and led by magistrates of the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Marseille for acts of aggravated money laundering, non-adjustment of resources and participation to a Association of criminals aimed at the small bar. Several tens of millions of euros in suspicious financial flows towards Hong Kong, Luxembourg or Malta have been uncovered and, according to justice, they would demonstrate active research by this group, already condemned for “drug trafficking”, “attempt to ‘Assassination “or” extortion “, means of whitening the fruit of its activities. The investigation has already given rise to multiple charges, including those of Antony Perrino, an important businessman on the island, and several figures from the island environment.
Among them, Jacques Santoni, 44, presented as the head of the Little Bar band. Incarcerated in the wake of his arrest in January 2021, he was finally released under judicial supervision in March due to his state of health considered to be incompatible with detention. Several times condemned, he is today awaiting a trial at the assizes before which he must appear for his possible involvement in the assassination of the lawyer Antoine Sollacaro in October 2012.
During his last interrogation before the investigating judges on March 22, Mr. Santoni had answered by silence to some 800 questions – with the exception of three of them – which had been asked. In addition to his place in the Petit Bar team, his supposed contacts within the police and justice, the origin of his funds allowing him to carry out high train, his various investments, the magistrates tried to Know more about the development of its defense and its financing.
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