Overview
- Police carried out 21 searches across several provinces and executed nine detentions ordered by Brescia prosecutors, with a tenth suspect unlocated.
- Investigators say the scheme moved about €30 million in six months from the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore through invoices for non‑existent services, money laundering and self‑laundering.
- More than €1.5 million intended for restoration of the Complesso Eugeniano was rerouted via a 'man in the middle' ploy, then dispersed through chained transfers to domestic and foreign accounts.
- Authorities seized over €500,000 in cash during the latest raids, on top of €200,000 taken in September, and identified a Milan apartment on via Asiago as a cash storage hub with fee-based intermediaries.
- Named suspects include brothers Luca and Daniele Bertoli and seven others, with prosecutors citing intercepts indicating Luca Bertoli planned to flee as they continue tracing flows to accounts in China, Luxembourg, Poland, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, Nigeria and Croatia.