Acquistavano marche da bollo false prodotte a Villa Literno e con la complicità di due avvocati di Santa Maria Capua Vetere e uno del Tribunale di Napoli Nord le smerciavano negli uffici giudiziari di Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Avellino e Salerno.
Nella giornata di ieri, i Carabinieri del Comando Antifalsificazione Monetaria, supportati dai militari dei Comandi Provinciali di Roma, Napoli, Caserta, Avellino e Salerno, a conclusione di un’articolata attività investigativa diretta dalla Procura della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Napoli Nord in Aversa, finalizzata al contrasto della produzione e distribuzione di valori di bollo falsi, patenti di guida automobilistiche e nautiche, hanno eseguito un’order di applicazione di misure cautelari coercitive personali, emessa dal competente Giudice per le Indagini Preliminari, nei confronti di 18 indagati.
Ten of the defendants were placed under house arrest; five of the defendants were ordered to report to the Judicial Police; civil lawyers from the Santa Maria Capua Vetere and Napoli Nord courts involved in the repressed criminal activities were instead banned from practicing law (for 2 of them, for 12 months).
The investigations, launched in January 2020, based on the findings of previous activities developed in the specific criminal context, active especially in Campania, were aimed at: localizing the production activities of counterfeit revenue stamps. Precisely in the context of these activities, on July 20, 2020, a "clandestine production center" was identified and dismantled, set up in the Villa Literno area, where the main suspect produced, on media found in China, the fake revenue stamps; identification of the individual responsibilities of the suspects employed both in the production and, above all, in the distribution of the counterfeit product.
The need to structure a complex investigative activity essentially arose from the worrying spread of the criminal phenomenon, which was increasingly insidious both in relation to sophisticated counterfeiting techniques, continually evolved in order to satisfy a growing "market" demand, and due to the use of stamps in administrative and judicial contexts.
In particular, it emerged that from the original counterfeiting techniques consisting in the manual increase of the nominal value of genuine brands, the counterfeiters had moved on to another, more treacherous methodology, consisting in the application of the personalization print on blank supports (bearing only the coat of arms of the Republic, the header and the counterfeit security elements) imported from China, in laboratories equipped with the necessary hardware and software equipment. The investigations also allowed to outline six distribution routes, managed by the counterfeiter's "intermediaries", whose terminals were located in Rome, Naples, Caserta, Avellino and Salerno.
Once produced and distributed, the fake revenue stamps were used by professionals and sector employees on judicial and administrative documents for which the payment of charges intended for the treasury is foreseen. In this specific diffusion context, the responsibilities were outlined of: an illegal parking attendant who, operating in Naples in the areas adjacent to the Prefecture, the Revenue Agency and the Provincial Labor Inspectorate, managed the distribution of the fake revenue stamps instrumental to the completion of the administrative procedures handled by the aforementioned public offices; a well-known “distributor” who, although restricted to house arrest at his home in Naples, in fact fueled a lucrative and continuous sale of fake revenue stamps; an intermediary from Afragola who fueled distribution channels of fake revenue stamps destined for a driving school in Casoria and for a “dealer orbiting on the Roman coast, to whom he also supplied fake car and boating licenses; – owners of a real estate agency and a tobacconist in Rome. Particular importance was also given to the distribution channels directly supplied by the forger, consisting of a couple of practicing lawyers in the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, who were banned from practicing law for 12 months, who, in turn, supplied them to a lawyer in the Court of Naples. Nord, who was also banned from practicing law for six months.
During the investigations, the following objectives were achieved, culminating in: the dismantling of the main production center, located in Villa Literno, - carried out on July 20, 2020, with the simultaneous seizure of printing and IT equipment necessary for the counterfeiting of revenue stamps; the arrest in flagrante of four individuals responsible for the production and sale of revenue stamps; the seizure of thousands of fake revenue stamps with a total value of approximately 200.000 ee dozens of fake driving licenses, the latter destined for the Roman coast. The outcome of the investigation activities, concluded in June 2021, led to the processing of a request for precautionary measures against the main suspects, found by: the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Naples North, on February 23, with the issuance of the precautionary order put into effect today. At the same time as the execution, two searches were also carried out on two lawyers (one from the Nocera bar and the other from Avellino, both under investigation but not affected by the measure), aimed at possibly finding further evidence.
Today's operation is to be seen as part of a broader strategy to combat this insidious phenomenon that the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North, with the assistance of the Carabinieri Anti-Counterfeiting Command, has been developing for several years and which has so far allowed, in addition to the identification and referral of many individuals among producers, distributors and users of the counterfeit material, the seizure of counterfeit stamps causing considerable damage to the treasury.
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Particular importance was also attributed to the distribution channels directly supplied by the forger, consisting of a pair of lawyers practicing in the Court of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, banned from practicing law for 12 months, who, in turn, supplied them to a lawyer from the Court of Naples North, also banned from practicing law for six months.
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During the investigations, the following objectives were achieved, culminating in: the dismantling of the main production center, located in Villa Literno, - carried out on July 20, 2020, with the simultaneous seizure of typographic and IT equipment necessary for the counterfeiting of revenue stamps; the arrest in flagrante of four individuals responsible for the production and sale of revenue stamps.
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Article published on March 3, 2022 - 09pm
