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An oil widow was arrested in an affair with the mafia, which also quarreled over Bulgaria

Singer Anna Betz and 70 others accused of fraud involving more than 1 billion euros in the Italian treasury

An investigation with the smell of oil, mafia and show business shook Italy. Famous show star Anna Betz, widow of oil tycoon Sergio di Cesare, was arrested along with 70 other people for fraud involving more than 1 billion euros in the state treasury with the help of the mafia. According to the investigation, the 62-year-old singer gave the star of the movie Gabriel Garco 150,000 euros for advertising, which came from the profits of the Neapolitan Camorra. According to investigators, millions of euros in illegal profits of network participants were disputed through accounts abroad, including in Bulgaria. It’s about at least

EUR 41 million,

invested in

fictitious companies

in Bulgaria, Romania,

Croatia, Hungary. At a convenient time for the mafia, the money had to be returned to its disposal.

When the striking singer and millionaire Anna Betotzi, known by the artistic pseudonym Anna Betz, was first stopped by the Italian authorities, it was like a crime scene in the highlife. Anna is in her Rolls-Royce, driven by her driver, trying to cross the Italian-French border at Ventimiglia to go to the Cannes Film Festival. The action takes place on May 16, 2019.

The Financial Guard searched the limousine and found 300,000 euros in cash hidden in a boot. Anna spoke feverishly on the phone with her lawyer, Hilario d’Apolito, who is now also under arrest. He asks her if she has the key to the cash register of the Galia Hotel in Milan and if not, to put it in the driver’s pocket. Authorities later found 1.5m euros in cash at the cash register. The lawyer then clicks his tongue

reproaches the driver

to Anna, “that it is not

hid the key

in your pants,

as he told him. “

During the current operation called “Petrol Mafia” of the authorities under the control of the prosecutor’s offices in Rome, Naples, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, frauds were discovered for over 1 billion euros in the treasury. Both daughters of Anna Betz, the fiancé of one of her daughters, and her nephew were arrested.

Paying in black for an advertisement for actor Gabriel Garco, with whom Anna loved to show off, is part of one of the accusations against her of money laundering. According to him, 150,000 euros, coming from the Casalezi clan and laundered through the oil business, were given to Garco. In one of the phone taps intercepted by the authorities in 2019, the actor complained to Anna that he had received a contract for advertising for 250,000 euros, while he wanted to appear on paper only 100,000. “50 I have already given them, there are 200 more Said Anna. “100 in black and 100 officially,” Garco replied.

For months, photos of Anna and Gabriel Garco have been circulating in all the gossip magazines in Italy. Anna Betz did not fail to advertise herself in all possible ways, showing her cars, houses and jewelry. The Rome Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office claims that Anna’s Maxpetrol company, renamed Made Petrol and inherited from her late husband, was

abundantly

funded

with the profits of

The chamber

With its dirty money, the mafia “served” troubled companies, making rich profits by not paying VAT, excise duties and company tax.

Camorra mediator Alberto Coppola contacted Anna via Facebook and, after they became close, poured money into her company from the Mocha, Casalezi and Mikola clans. In just three years, its company’s turnover has swelled from 90 to 370 million euros. According to the investigation, together with her daughter Virginia di Cesare, the Italian woman tried to defraud the state treasury, avoiding the payment of 172 million euros of VAT and over 12 million for excise duties. In order to be washed, the rivers of the Camorra’s dirty money were invested in buying houses, cars and were covered in all sorts of places.

Who is Anna Betz? Born in Rome but of American descent, Anna became Silvio’s girlfriend at the time

Berlusconi,

to whom it is

neighbor in a villa

of Porto Rotondo in Sardinia. Initially, he started working in the field of real estate. After that, however, she entered show business, where she appeared as a singer and dancer. He tries to break through with Ecstasy, as the video for the song is made by the producer of videos of Madonna and Michael Jackson. Anna recorded other hits such as Who Is It Tonight, Black and White, released several albums, but remained only a singer longing for success.

The turn in life

comes after her

her marriage with

the oil tycoon

Sergio di Cesare, by whom he has two daughters.

I still remember from the black chronicles how the two spouses were captured in 1999 in their house in Rome, after which the criminals stole an amount equal to 50,000 euros today. After inheriting her husband’s oil business, Anna tried to get him back on his feet, putting him in the nets of the Neapolitan mafia through the mediator Coppola. He applied a method in which companies presented fictitious documents in the form of intentions to purchase products. Then they invoiced – again fictitiously. According to the investigation

at the garage address

figured

the seats of

dozens of companies

run by fictitious individuals who even confused the names of the companies they allegedly represented over the phone. Anna Betz, who had entered this world and had long been accustomed to being watched by paparazzi, did not realize that her investigators were following in her footsteps. Today, more than 100 companies have been seized by the authorities, as well as accounts in Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Malta, Croatia and England.

“As is said in some of the intercepted conversations, oil gives more profits than drugs,” Catanzaro prosecutor Nicola Grateri told Italian media. “Where there is money, the mafia intervenes. The interests of those under investigation extend from Malta to Turkey, “said Giovanni Bombardieri, head of the Reggio Calabria prosecutor’s office. Gavino Putsu of the Financial Guard of Rome says “suspicious” oil filled white gas stations, falsifying the market.

Very often the illegal organization transported diesel, presenting it as a fuel for agriculture, which means that it benefited from much lower excise taxes. According to the investigation, the transport trucks had special handles and knobs, which were activated if necessary, and so the diesel was colored to hide its true contents.

Seized 108 tons

fuel, smuggling

from Bulgaria

The financial guard of the city of Como seized 108 tons of smuggled diesel fuel coming from Bulgaria, local media reported. During a control check of a truck, the authorities saw that its documentation described the goods as lubricating oil, while the transported cargo resembled diesel fuel. The goods came from Bulgaria and were destined for a warehouse in Grandate, Lombardy.

After searching it, authorities found a place in it, adapted for a diesel warehouse. Two tanks and a train were also seized.

A lawsuit has been filed against the truck driver for evading the payment of fuel excise taxes for 67 thousand euros. This crime is punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years.

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