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They used the cash to buy a 50 percent stake in Ischia Calcio between December 2023 and May 2024, at the official price of around 9,000 euros, instead handing over 100,000 euros to Taglialatelas, the company's legal representative.
The Italian police have hit a structured criminal group in Florence that controlled a chain of restaurants. According to the Italian media , 8 people have been arrested by the action of the Italian authorities in cooperation with SPAK, among them the former goalkeeper of the Fiorentina and Napoli team, Giuseppe Taglialatela.
Among those arrested are Alessandro Bigi, 49 years old, Florentine, and Eluert Kamami, 40 years old, the latter two are considered the heads of the organization. They had eight restaurants in the historic center of Florence and their group had long been under investigation by the DDA, in cooperation with SPAK.
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After this action, deputy prosecutor Luca Tescaroli and prosecutor Christine Von Borries brought to light the disturbing behind-the-scenes of a large number of restaurants that were in the hands of the Albanian group. According to the Italian prosecution, these restaurants were used to earn money which they then used to reinvest in the purchase of other facilities, for which the District Anti-Mafia Directorate has launched an investigation.
In total, investigators believe the group has managed to buy 31 restaurants from 2012 to date, most of them in central Florence, two hotels, car rental businesses and a brewery for around 13.5 million euros.
In particular, the financiers knocked on the door of Ischia Calcio and Il Cavallino restaurants in Piazza della Signoria considered as a kind of base where black money could flow. Trattoria Giovanni, La Bistecca Osteria Fiorentina, Ponte Vecchio, Bistecchia Santa Croce, Trattoria de Pitti, Osteria Lungarno and Orcagna, belong to companies managed by Eluert Kamami or otherwise known as Bigi.
According to the accuser, Kamami or Bigi had created a criminal association in Florence offering places to collect sums of dirty money which he then laundered with fictitious invoices he issued to the restaurants he managed.
At the moment, the financiers believe that the group has spent about one and a half million euros in cash. The money was then used, at least in part, to pay the premises workers illegally and the rest to be reinvested in the purchase of restaurant businesses in the center of Florence. But the leaders of the organization - Kamami and Bigi according to investigators - also bought luxury personal goods such as three Ferraris, jewelry, gold bars and diamonds.
They used the cash to buy a 50 percent stake in Ischia Calcio between December 2023 and May 2024, at the official price of around 9,000 euros, instead handing over 100,000 euros to Taglialatelas, the company's legal representative.
The former goalkeeper must also answer for issuing invoices for non-existent operations related to fictitious sponsorships, at least in part: invoices of around 80,000 euros issued by Ischia football club to a Naples club.
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