The Hungarian secret of the Calabrian mafia was revealed: They wanted to invest drug money in crypto currency in Budapest
The Italian drug mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta In 2017, he decided to break with his previous traditions and use a completely new, highly sophisticated business model to travel his drug proceeds all over Europe, so that eventually the money’s path becomes untraceable in the sea of bills.
The millions of euros from drug revenues also traveled to Denmark, England, Cyprus, France and Hungary, and then landed in various economic companies, which were headed by Strömans. With this, or more precisely, on suspicion of money laundering, a star lawyer from Pest who, according to the Italian prosecutors, cleaned the money of the mafia in Budapest. The lawyer and her exclusive office in Pest came to the attention of the investigators in 2018.
Whether the lawyer knew about the criminal dealings of her acquaintances has not yet been proven, nor has it been proven that she committed a crime. According to Italian newspaper information, he was arrested after the telephone conversations of his clients were systematically tapped.
The Calabrians had ambitious plans for Hungary. They want to invest the money they are interested in here mainly in real estate companies, but their plans included buying into a financial institution dealing with cryptocurrencies.
The real estate market also lured one of Oman’s deputies to Budapest, who, hoping for a 30 percent ownership share in such a company, transferred about HUF 800 million to his principals, whom he did not suspect were members of the mafia.
Of course, the money disappeared, but the member of the government did not file a complaint, so the Italian prosecutors cannot make this case a subject for the time being.
The path of the money was supervised by an accountant who moved the threads from Milan and does not appear in two other investigations. According to assumptions, he may have been the link of the criminal organization in Sant’Onofrio located between its headquarters and the lawyer in Budapest.
25 people are being investigated in the case, eight of them are on trial. The other Hungarian company in the case is a 54-year-old woman living in Milan who is a driver registered with the Pest lawyer’s office.
This business with the with a luxury yacht, which was finally seized in the port of Vibo Valentia by the Italian police under the suspicion that it really came from mafia money. The company’s assets were frozen, and the woman was banned from exercising company management rights for the duration of the investigation.
