They cleaned the banknotes stolen from banks of the blue ink that makes them unusable and "monetized" them using the automatic teller machines at motorway toll booths, the only ones that accept such banknotes.
The Caserta Highway Police Section and the Caserta Police Headquarters Flying Squad have executed an order for the application of precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, at the request of this Office, against 5 people, considered seriously suspected of laundering banknotes of criminal origin, due to the blue ink colouring reported on some banknotes, traced by the anti-robbery/anti-theft systems of ATMs and cash-in-transit vehicles.
In this case, it emerged that some of the banknotes had been cleaned by the suspects using chemical products suitable for the removal, although not definitive, of the ink stains.
The investigations originated from the arrest in flagrante delicto of one of the people involved, AS (cl. 58), carried out in March 2018 by the personnel of the Caserta Nord Highway Police Sub-section, for multiple episodes of laundering banknotes of criminal origin.
In particular, the trick used by one of the suspects was as simple as it was clever: banknotes stained with ink released by anti-theft/anti-robbery systems are not legal tender, in the sense that they cannot be circulated validly, so much so that they are not even accepted by the majority of automatic teller machines, with the exception of those installed at motorway toll booths.
The suspect, possibly aware of this possibility, was accustomed, even in the course of the same day, to make several trips to the motorway toll booths, travelling very short distances, in order to optimise the profit of the criminal activity he was carrying out.
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In exchange for the payment of a toll of 50 cents, the suspect inserted the 50 euro note into the automatic cash machines, thus cleaning up the stained banknotes and obtaining the “clean” sum of 49,50 euros for each transit made.
Following the first arrest, this Public Prosecutor's Office proceeded with investigations into the alarming criminal phenomenon, between May 2018 and March 2019, activating telephone interceptions followed by investigations by the Judicial Police, acquiring a serious and consistent set of evidence against the suspects in relation to several episodes of laundering of banknotes of criminal origin, some of which were also seized by the operating PG, in confirmation of the technical activities in progress.
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The “banknote cleaning” operations were carried out by the suspects in a qualified and professional manner, also with the help of other individuals, unidentified foreigners, with specific skills in the matter.
Therefore, sharing the accusatory hypothesis formulated by this office on the basis of the serious and consistent evidence of guilt collected against the accused and also considering the existence of the precautionary needs connected to the risk of repetition of the crime, the GIP applied the measure of precautionary custody in prison to SA (cl'58), the measure of house arrest to MG (cl.'64) and that of the obligation to report daily to the PG to DP.D. (cl.'68) MR (cl.'62) and DV. L. (cl.' XNUMX).
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