IThe preliminary investigations judge Benedetto Ruberto of the Taranto court has ordered (accepting the request of the Prosecutor's Office) the immediate trial of Mario Torromacco, 43 years old from Carinaro, Salvatore Tammaro, 31 years old from Giugliano, and Francesco Brosco, 58 years old from Casoria, who were arrested last July in an illegal printing shop used for the production of counterfeit euros, located inside a rural home in the countryside of the province of Taranto. The perpetrators, all with specific precedents for similar criminal acts, were immediately arrested and were surprised while they were busy printing and packaging 50 euro banknotes, ready to be illegally placed on the market. The printing shop, equipped with particularly sophisticated and high-performance off-set printing machines, was located inside a single-family house in the olive groves of the municipality of Maruggio (TA). The clandestine laboratory (owned by the sons of one of the arrested, difficult to reach and originally used as a summer residence) was located in a building that after careful structural modifications to accommodate the bulky machinery needed for printing, coming from the outskirts of Naples and transported by heavy vehicles. The three had already produced a quantity of counterfeit banknotes for 8 million euros. The hearing has been set for April.
Gustavo Gentile
Article published on November 27, 2018 - 21:11
