Rome: over €2 million seized from Giancarlo Tulliani for money laundering

Rome, 13 November. (LaPresse) – The Central Organised Crime Investigation Service of the Guardia di Finanza (Italian Financial Police) has executed a seizure order issued by the Court of Rome – Prevention Measures Section, on the recommendation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rome – District Anti-Mafia Directorate, against Giancarlo Tulliani, a resident of Dubai who is currently a fugitive. Bank accounts in Italy and abroad and two cars, one of which is a luxury vehicle, were seized, for a total value of approximately €2.2 million. Today’s action stems from a previous judicial investigation which, in 2017, led to the execution of a pre-trial detention order issued by the Preliminary Investigating Magistrate’s Office of the Court of Rome against the members of a transnational criminal organisation involved in embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion. The association’s illicit profits, which were laundered, were used not only in economic and financial activities but also in the acquisition of real estate by the Tulliani family, in particular Giancarlo. After receiving, either directly or through their offshore companies, large transfers of money of illegal origin, without any reason or justification other than fictitious contractual documents, the man transferred the sums abroad using his own bank accounts. These illegal proceeds were reinvested in the acquisition of real estate and movable property, which were seized by the Guardia di Finanza (Italian Financial Police).