A series of searches were carried out on Wednesday in Iglesias, Cagliari, Muravera, Castiadas and in other centers on the island in around fifty properties (houses, seaside villas and commercial buildings), which the Cagliari Prosecutor's Office and the Police of Finance believe they can be traced back to the former captain of the Fiamme Gialle, Salvatore Mandalà, with a past in service in various island barracks. Tax evasion and alleged money laundering are hypothesized against him, but in reality the work of the military concerns first of all the attempt to understand how the former financier - who also served in Gallura - managed to accumulate that enormous wealth real estate.
The investigations
The investigation is carried out by the deputy prosecutor Andrea Vacca who is coordinating the work of the Fiamme Gialle investigators. The investigations would have started from an SOS (acronym for "Reporting suspicious transactions") triggered automatically through software that independently cross-references the names of people and companies present in various databases, reporting suspicious transactions to the competent district attorneys . In the case of Mandalà the alarm could be linked to the numerous rents collected for the properties, which apparently include a restaurant and beach houses with swimming pools. The searches ordered by the public prosecutor Vacca would have been used precisely to verify whether the houses and commercial premises that the Prosecutor's Office deems attributable to Mandalà were inhabited and rented, thus trying to reconstruct the turnover that would revolve around his real estate assets and its origin: at the moment, among other things, it cannot be excluded that they are of family origin. It is not yet clear whether, at the end of the searches, any seizures were also made (apparently also of some parking spaces) or whether further hypotheses of crime were formulated.
