Seals on a hotel complex on the Costa Smeralda, the Tre Monti di Baia Sardinia, in Arzachena .

The raid by the financiers of the Bari Metropolitan Operations Unit and the Olbia Group was triggered in execution of a provision issued by the Bari investigating judge.

The preventive seizure was ordered as part of a money laundering investigation which led to the referral of four people. The suspects are Alfonso Marco Santori, 42 years old from Canosa di Puglia, managing partner and legal representative of Triveneto Alberghi srl; Felice D'Agostino, 40, from Terlizzi, de facto director of Triveneto Alberghi srl; Mauro D'Agostino, from Terlizzi, 43, majority shareholder and de facto director of Gripal Costruzioni srl with registered office in Bucharest; and Gaetano Vernarelli, 77, from L'Aquila, legal representative of Gripal Costruzioni.

The four, in competition with each other, through a series of illicit and fictitious transfers of property between various companies set up ad hoc (some even abroad), according to the indictment , hindered the investigation into the illicit origin of the renowned hotel structure of the value of 1.7 million, resulting from the bankruptcy of the Ap.Tov company, which was declared bankrupt in 2017 .

The proceeding, it should be noted, is still in the preliminary investigation stage. But the investigations carried out so far have led the investigators to believe that the acquisition of the hotel constitutes a crime.

(Unioneonline/L)