The review court confirms the prison measure for Bergamo. He is one of the accomplices of the dentist-financier Alberto Vazzoler and Elena Manganelli
«Do you think he has all this studio that works, an impressive stuff, he is a man who will earn 3.4 million euros a year maybe even more … He has a whole tour of these, there in Lugano, because then being there over the years they know each other, where to put money on one side in black, that is under the table, they divert money from him ». The speaker is Alberto Vazzoler, an assault dentist-financier from Musile di Piave who, unaware of being intercepted, on 1 December 2016 to his interlocutor makes a portrait of the business partner, 52-year-old Marco Remo Suardi, in prison since 25 May .
And who is Suardi? Bergamasco is officially the manager of an important investment fund with offices in Lugano, in reality together with Vazzoler he is the brain and operator of a criminal holding specialized in transnational money laundering. Or in helping the great tax evaders of our country (entrepreneurs, freelancers and managers of cooperatives by name and not in fact) to bring back to Italy the "black" accumulated in Swiss banks sheltered from Italian tax authorities. Since May 25, he is the only one still left behind bars, while his accomplices have conquered house arrest. Like? Telling, if not all, at least part of the dirty business that made them end up under investigation. He also asked for that milder precautionary measure (housekeeping to be served at his mother's house), but he was always silent. And the Venice Review Court rejected the request and sent it back to the sender. Including the revocation of the pre-trial detention order.
According to the Review, there is not so much the danger of escape from Suardi. Rather, there is a risk that you will continue to grind money with money laundering produced by the evasion of others. And that you try to pollute the evidence gathered against him. Moreover, the 52-year-old resident of Lugano is a well-known person in the news, having already been sent to house arrest as part of a recent investigation by the Florence prosecutor called "Ricchi e felice". Always for the same story of an organization at the service of unsuspected entrepreneurs who filled their backpacks and briefcases with "shoulder bags" at his orders, ready to leave for Switzerland or the Principality of Monaco. And once you get there, capable of depositing that money (the result of the company's "black") into current accounts across the Alps before directing it to some tax haven. Suardi is suspected of being the director of the gang with an accomplice: both white-collar workers (the latter a Milanese financial advisor). White and so "dirty".
Here is the conclusion of the Review: if Suardi returns free (or almost) he could resume his job. And his job – as the Padua investigating magistrate Cristina Cavaggion had written in the order for pre-trial detention requested by the prosecutor Roberto D'Angelo – was to carry out recycling activities. Worse than being taunted by "criminal money laundering practices carried out continuously and in a perspective of continuation indefinitely … professional and work activity to which the associates (in addition to Suardi, Vazzoler and 4 other suspects) turn their full dedication".
