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Corruption, 10 Leonardo managers and two Google companies investigated

The Finance Police acquired documents in two offices of the aerospace group, which is an offended party

Milan, 12 January 2021 - The soldiers of the economic-financial police unit of the Milan Finance Police have acquired documents in the Leonardo offices in Rome and Pomigliano d'Arco (Naples) as part of an investigation by the prosecutor Gaetano Ruta for money laundering, tax crimes and corruption between private individuals . The latter is an offense for which ten managers of the group are responsible , who are an offended party.

Google Ireland and Google Payments are also investigated in the investigation , which involves a total of 14 individuals and three legal entities . In particular, the latter platform would have been used to carry out transactions resulting from corruption, preventing the identification of those who made the transfers.

According to what has been reconstructed, an Italian company that deals with electronics and hardware for the aerospace and military sector would have played the part of the corruptor against the 10 managers of Leonardo. This is Transpart srl, part of a holding company specialized in the distribution of components and supplier of the Italian defense giant. Four managers of the company under investigation for offering "gifts and compensation" to the 10 executives of Leonardo in order to obtain contracts. The system used and reconstructed by the military of the Milan economic and financial police unit was also that of "fictitious consultancy". Based on the investigative reconstruction, iblack funds were 'distracted' from the real orders paid by Leonardo to the company and transferred to tax havens , and thus made to disappear.

At least 6 million were identified by the yellow flames, because they left Italy to foreign countries in 6 years, from 2012 to 2018. A sea of ​​finished money, through a company based in the USA belonging to the Transpart holding, in partnership offshore based in Panama, UK and Ireland. The value of 25 'transfers' returned to Italy is 400 thousand eurosand presumably used to pay bribes through the Google Pay platform. However, the overall value of the corruption system has yet to be established. The capital was returned by relying on two 'recyclers' who used purely the digital platform. The anomaly, however, was that in the Italian accounts that then received the transactions the 'settlor' was not specified, but declared as Google Payment, the company of the Mountain View group that deals with digital payments.

For this reason, among the legal entities that are investigated for law 231, in addition to Transpart itself, there are Google Payment and Google Ireland Ltd, the two companies that manage Google's digital payments. For the investigators, with their conditions, they would have hindered the identification of who really made the transfers from abroad which were then used to bribe the Italian executives.

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10 Leonardo managers suspected for bribes

Also implicated are two Google companies. Italian group offended party in the investigation. Acquired cards

The soldiers of the economic-financial police unit of the Milan Finance Police acquired documents in the Leonardo offices, in Rome and in Pomigliano d'Arco (Naples), as part of an investigation by the prosecutor Gaetano Ruta for money laundering, tax crimes and corruption between private individuals. The latter is an offense for which ten managers of the Group are responsible, who are the offending parties.

In the investigation, which involves a total of 14 individuals and three legal persons, Google Ireland and Google Payments are also under investigation.

The two companies of the American giant would have allowed "the transfer of sums of money from tax fraud" hindering "the identification of the criminal origin". The Milan prosecutor Gaetano Ruta writes this in the charges of the order of presentation of the documents. Through the "interposition" of the two companies it was not possible "to trace the identification of the person who arranged the transfers".

The Leonardo Group, the injured party for the alleged bribes pocketed by its 10 employees accused of corruption between private individuals, collaborated with the investigations of the prosecutor Ruta. At the center of the reconstruction of investigators and investigators is a supplier of Leonardo, Transpart, an intermediary company in the distribution of parts, materials and equipment for the most diverse sectors, from military to aerospace, from transport to petrochemicals. Company based in Milan and in which 4 managers are being investigated, who, according to the investigations, in exchange for contracts would have paid Leonardo's employees gifts and fees, also in the form of fictitious consulting contracts. This money, coming from black funds that the employees of the supplier company based in Corso Sempione, would have created by 'hijacking' part of the proceeds from (lawful) contracts on a US subsidiary, which, in turn, between 2012 and 2018 transferred, in the absence of contractual and accounting justifications, 6 million euros to three off-shore offices, a in Panama, one in the UK and one in Ireland. To bring this sum back into Italy for the purposes of bribe payments, this is the hypothesized scheme, we would have used two recyclers who in turn would have used the Google Pay payment platform. In particular, with regard to this step, the Gdf reconstructed, between 2017 and 2019, 25 operations from abroad to Italy for a total of 400 thousand euros. Operations that would have seen the interposition of two companies of the Mountain View giant in the channeling of funds in order to hinder the identification of the authors of the transfers and the origin of the funding. Therefore, in addition to the 14 natural persons, they are investigated under the corporate liability law, Transpart in relation to tax crimes and money laundering and Google Ireland and Google Payments in relation to money laundering only.

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Bribes, 10 Leonardo employees and two Google companies under investigation

Sandro De Riccardis, Luca De Vito

The company is an offended party in the Milan investigation. The Finance has acquired documents in the offices of Leonardo in Rome and Pomigliano d'Arco

An investigation into the supplies to the Leonardo group, considered an injured party in the investigation, led the soldiers of the economic-financial police unit of the Milan finance police to visit the group's offices in Rome and Pomigliano d'Arco, in the province of Naples. The Milan prosecutor, with the prosecutor Gaetano Ruta, investigates for money laundering, tax crimes and corruption between private individuals. Google Ireland and Google Payments, a company and platform that would have allowed the return to Italy of part of the black funds used to pay bribes, are also investigated for the law on administrative liability of entities.

The investigation, which concerns a total of fourteen individuals, including 10 employees of Leonardo who are under investigation, and three legal entities, would have brought to light a system of payments by a supplier company, Transpart, to the group of employees, to favor obtaining orders. The top management of Transpart would have created black funds abroad, the result of tax evasion, used precisely to pay bribes and gifts to people who within Leonardo had the possibility to modify the procurement procedures, adapting them to the needs of the holding.

The money, around six million euros between 2012 and 2018, would be transferred to offshore companies in Panama, England and Ireland. Part of the money - about 400 thousand that traced - would have returned to Italy via the Google pay platform. Hence the involvement in the investigation of the Google companies which, as we learn from the documents, would have allowed "the transfer of sums of money deriving from tax fraud, hindering the identification of the criminal origin".