They had gained control of hotel management company in Rimini and province using typical methods of organized crime with extortion, usury and weapons. An attempt of criminal infiltration into the economic fabric of the Riviera blocked by an operation of the Finance Police of Rimini which he performed this morning six precautionary measures, including two arrests in prison, one under house arrest, as well as the preventive seizure of assets with a total value of over 200 thousand euros.

The crimes contested by the association to delquere, fraudulent transfer of values, extortion, usury, abusive financial activity, aggravated theft, are illegal arms, favoring prostitution, simulation of crime, ideological act of the private in public, fraud. From this morning on 50 military of the Guardia di Finanza, coordinated and directed by the Rimini Public Prosecutor’s Office with the support of the local territorial departments of Avellino, Bari, Caserta, Forlì-Cesena, Milan and Naples, are carrying out the provision of the Rimini Gip with which they were also arranged 13 house searches and at the offices of as many companies.

The details of the operation, called ‘Paper Moon 2‘, taken simultaneously in Campania, Puglia and Lombardy, in a press conference at 10.30 at the provincial command of Rimini (further updates coming soon).