Chinese Codes Encrypted to Organize Drug Trafficking in South America: All Arrested Availed of Right to Remain Silent by Editorial Staff
November 29, 2024
To organize drug trafficking from South America to Liguria, Gabriele Silvano, the entrepreneur arrested together with the mafia boss Salvatore Mario Lo Piccolo (pictured) and four other people, had turned to a Chinese organization to transfer money from one end of the world to the other.
This is what emerges from the documents of the investigation by the Genoa DIA coordinated by the prosecutor Monica Abbatecola. In the meantime today they all availed themselves of the right to remain silent during the preliminary hearing. The scene is also silent for the lawyer investigated for aiding and abetting (assisted by lawyers Stefano Savi and Stefano Bonanni).
Silvano, defended by the lawyer Nicola Scodnik, is accused of fraudulent transfer of assets with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the Tommaso Natale mafia gang of Palermo, of which Lo Piccolo was a member (defended by the lawyer Laura Razetto).
The entrepreneur is also accused of extortion against his ex-wife, possession of four pistols and 500 bullets, as well as organizing cocaine trafficking together with Enrico Bomarsi (defended by the lawyer Giuseppe Sciacchitano), the Colombian John Harold Ordonez Garcia (lawyer Mario Iavicoli) and the Ecuadorian brothers Boris Jiampier Maruri Moreira, Victor Manuel Maruri Moreira.
From what has emerged, to move the money (at least 600 thousand euros according to investigators) for drug trafficking "the group used the "parallel banking" system provided by the Chinese organization - writes judge Paola Faggioni who ordered the arrests - which guarantee a protected method of transferring money abroad, absolutely safe and confidential because it is untraceable".
The method consists of "delivering the cash to a person indicated by the suppliers who then takes care of the transfer to the latter. In essence - concludes the investigating judge - to guarantee the correct and safe execution of the payment, before the delivery of the money, the buyers receive a code (token) corresponding to the alphanumeric series of a banknote which, at the end of the operation, is delivered with the handwritten indication of the amount paid countersigned by the intermediary".
