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Crac di Byblos e Truffa Milionaria: Chiesto il Processo Per tre Manager

Quasi un milione di euro incassati indebitamente in pochi mesi ai danni dello storico marchio della moda made in Italy nato negli anni ‘80

Quasi un milione di euro incassati indebitamente in pochi mesi ai danni di Byblos, storico marchio della moda made in Italy nato negli anni ‘80 e, dopo il rilancio nel 2018, l’anno scorso ammesso al concordato preventivo. È questa la ricostruzione della Procura di Milano che ha chiesto il rinvio a giudizio di Enrico Vanzo, ex direttore generale della società, Davide Berto, ai tempi direttore della produzione, e di Roberto Ciccioli, ex responsabile dell’area legal, finacial and consulting nonchè ex sindaco unico. I fatti contestati risalgono all’estate 2018, mentre parti offese sono l’imprenditore del fashion e direttore creativo della griffe Manuel Facchini e il padre Dino. Il gup Tommaso Perna ha fissato il 21 settembre l’udienza preliminare a carico dei tre accusati di truffa pluriaggravata e solo Ciccioli anche di emissioni di fatture per operazioni inesistenti ai fini di evasione fiscale. Come si legge nel capo di imputazione i tre ex manager il 15 febbraio 2018 avrebbero stipulato a nome della griffe "un contratto simulato di prestazione d’opera" con una "fantomatica società con sede a Hong Kong" - secondo il pm, costituita posteriormente la firma del contratto e "da loro amministrata di fatto" - che avrebbe dovuto effettuare il controllo qualità delle merci ordinate da Byblos "prima e durante il processo produttivo in Cina". Il corrispettivo sarebbe stato di 340mila euro, in due rate, per attività "mai concretamente svolta". A giugno 2018 avrebbero costituito un’altra società, Consulting Centre, con sede a casa di Ciccioli, che avrebbe emesso alla casa di moda due fatture da 600mila euro + Iva per una consulenza legale e tributaria non effettuata. L’importo sarebbe stato versato su un conto aperto da Ciccioli e in parte girato poi a Vanzo, e "tramite quest’ultimo a Berto". Ora la parola passa al giudice...

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Prime Minister Hun Sen Issued an Urgent Notice

Prime Minister Hun Sen Issued an Urgent Notice: GCG Asia used fraudulently propaganda name of Prime Minister Hun Sen, Public are reminded to be cautious of GCG Asia！

(Phnom Penh) Prime Minister Hun Sen issued an urgent notice tonight, saying that GCG Asia fraudulently used his photos and names for false publicity. Hun Sen particularly reminded the public to beware of the scam of the GCG Asia.

Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a “National Security Emergency Notice” on Facebook on the 16th May 2019 tonight.

Prime Minister Hun Sen pointed out in the post that the GCG ASIA used its photos and names publicized on the official website that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is a supporter of the group and will attend the opening ceremony held on 20th May 2019 as a national prime minister.

Prime Minister Hun Sen pointed out that the group also announced that the National Bank of Cambodia and Bank of China are partners in the cryptocurrency business.

“As the Prime Minister of the Cambodian government, I deny these claims. The news released by the company on the official website is false. I had ask all relevant authorities and departments to investigate immediately and bring the lawless elements to justice.”

According to Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Indonesian Embassy in Cambodia has proved that GCG ASIA is an illegal company and has been blacklisted. Prime Minister Hun Sen called on compatriots across the country, domestic and foreign investors to be vigilant and prevent the scams of the GCG Asia group.

According to the news received by the “The Cambodia China Times” from the Bank of China Phnom Penh Branch, the GCG ASIA Group fraudulently used the name of the Bank of China to conduct fraudulent propaganda.

GCG Asia mentioned that their company will distribute the bank draft to the members at the opening of the GCG Asia Phnom Penh headquarters on 20th May, or the members can also collect the bank draft at the Bank of China Phnom Penh branch by themselves.

Bank of China Phnom Penh Branch told reporters that the bank has formulated a response plan based of this fraudulent propaganda. 该银行已制定了应对预案。

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Main Hizbullah/IRGC Fund-Raising Cell In Latin America Caught

Last week, the US uncovered a main fund-raising cell for Hizbullah, its Iranian parent the IRGC and IRGC's external arm called Quds Forces. Miami businessman Khaled Safadi was then facing terrorism-related charges for selling a consignment of Sony PlayStations to a shopping centre in Paraguay which US authorities said was a fund-raising front for these Shi'ite groups. The case against Safadi, a Lebanese Shi'ite emigre with Paraguayan nationality and US residency, and two Florida associates, followed a three-year joint investigation by US anti-terrorism agencies.

The federal trial was to shed light on the border triangle between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina which Israeli and Western intelligence agencies had long maintained was a haven for smugglers and counterfeiters funding militant Shi'ite groups. A shipment of PlayStation consoles and Sony cameras Safadi was alleged to have exported, using fake documentation, were destined for the Galeria Page, a mall in Paraguay's commercial town of Ciudad del Este, just across Parana River from the Brazilian town of Foz do Iguacu and Argentina's Puerto Iguazu. The shopping centre is owned by Shi'ite Lebanese emigre Ass'ad Ahmad Barakat and blacklisted by the US and other states as an alleged Hizbullah agent. All US sales to the place were banned in 2006 under an executive order to curb terrorist financing signed by then President George W. Bush less than two weeks after al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks in the US. Barakat was in 2009 released from jail in Paraguay after serving six years for tax fraud. Brazilian and Paraguayan authorities co-operated with the Miami investigation.

The triangle is the hub of a thriving "informal" economy run, among others, by members of the Lebanese and Palestinian emigres. Ana Sverdlick, an Argentine criminal lawyer, has described Ciudad del Este, with 250,000 people, as the "third largest commercial city in the world, only surpassed by Hong Kong and Miami". The US risk analyst Rand Corporation says Hizbullah-linked networks in the area raise millions of dollars from pirating DVDs and CDs. Safadi was on March 1 released from jail on $1.5m bail, pending trial at which the defendants faced 20 years in jail. Safadi's lawyer Michael Tein told the bail hearing his client was innocent, adding: "Terrorism? More like The Great Sony PlayStation Caper. The indictment literally charges them with selling PlayStation 2 video games to Paraguay. That's some weapon of mass destruction!".

It is alleged that a joint operation by the Quds Forces and Hizbullah agents which killed 85 and wounded many at a Jewish community centre in Bueno Aires in 1994 had moved from that triangle. The operation was allegedly led jointly by by Quds' then chief Gen Ahmad Vahidi and Hizbullah's commander Imad Mughniyeh.

Vahidi, now Iran's defence minister and a key supremacist figure in IRGC's command, is wanted by Interpol. Mughniyeh, a former guerrilla of the Palestinian group Fatah who as a Lebanese Shi'ite in 1982 helped the IRGC in creating Hizbullah, was assassinated in the heart of Damascus on Feb. 12, 2008 - a murder case which has remained a mystery up to now, with Hizbullah having accused Israel's intelligence agency Mossad of the killing but Syria's regime having remained silent (see news8-LebSyrHizbIranFeb18-08).

Israel and Argentina accuse Gen Vahidi of having masterminded the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish community centre. Interpol has distributed a warrant for Gen Wahidi's arrest, although Iran has consistently denied any involvement in the attack.