A dramatic turn of events has taken place in the trial of the alleged financial fraud involving the leaders of the nonprofit organization Eurolife, who allegedly pocketed €6,4 million from 2283 investors from across Italy hoping to capitalize on their savings.
Money that instead would have been partly used to purchase luxury goods, such as a luxury boat worth 40 thousand euros. The judge of Napoli Nord Simone Farina (first criminal section, panel B), at the request of Afue, the association that defends victims of financial fraud, accepted the request to summon the custodian banks of the non-profit organization Eurolife, who are asked to answer for their alleged negligence in complying with European directives on anti-money laundering.
A decision that opens a window to the possibility of obtaining compensation for the damages suffered. The trial, which began on June 28, 2021, involves five people accused, to varying degrees, of crimes such as criminal association, receiving stolen goods and money laundering. These are the president of Eurolife Gianpaolo Mazzola, 43 years old from Vico Equense (Naples); the vice president of Eurolife, Carlo Annunziata, 34 years old from Naples; the person in charge of maintaining contact with investors Serena Del Conte, 35 years old from San Giovanni Rotondo (Benevento); and Patrizia Rugna, 61 years old from San Giovanni (Milan) and Antonio Bevilacqua, 36 years old from Monteroni di Lecce (Lecce), both administrators of the WhatsApp groups that acted as collectors and through which the trust of investors was also stolen.
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