Luca Di Donna, an Italian lawyer with ties to former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, is beneath investigation for OneCoin cash laundering.
Di Donna (proper) stands accused of overseeing a number of Italian firms, by way of which he collected practically €700,000 EUR in charges.
The charges have been paid by “Bulgarian firms”, working as fronts for OneCoin.
The implication being that Di Donna was laundering cash for the $4.6 billion Ponzi scheme.
The Monetary Intelligence Unit’s anti-money laundering division launched an investigation.
They discovered “a whole bunch of hundreds of euros” had handed by way of financial institution accounts tied to Di Donna. The funds had arrived from overseas, by way of real-estate firms in Eire.
In November 2019 Konstantin Ignatov, former OneCoin CEO and brother of founder Ruja Ignatova, testified that a part of OneCoin’s cash laundering operations was carried out by way of the Financial institution of Eire.
Italian investigators allege in July 2018, Di Donna
benefited from a financial institution switch from Sofia: € 321,000 paid by B&N Seek the advice of Eood.
It was not the one cost: 4 months later, on the finish of November, a brand new donation of virtually 365 thousand euros arrived on the account of the lawyer.
Cause for “closing cost on success price ”, reads the report. Translated: “Last cost for objective achieved”.
What goal it’s will not be specified.
The US DOJ has recognized B&N Seek the advice of Eood as a occasion of curiosity in legal proceedings in opposition to Ruja Ignatova.
B&N Seek the advice of Ltd., presumably a associated entity, was additionally cited in Mark Scott’s $400 million OneCoin cash laundering case.
In follow, inside 100 days, the good friend of the prime minister “subsequently obtained a complete of € 685,786 from B&N Seek the advice of, presumably by means of cost for companies,” the monetary investigators write.
The B&N Firms have been arrange and owned by OneCoin insider Irina Dilkinska. After OneCoin collapsed in early 2017, management was transferred to Aleksandar Boychev Stavrev, an affiliate with ties to Ruja’s husband.
The revelations by investigators type a part of a wider investigation into Di Donna, who’s accused of masks grifting throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Di Donna is alleged to have leaned on his connection to Prime Minister Conte to generate curiosity in his enterprise enterprise.
As I perceive it, Di Donna’s enterprise companions initiated the investigation by submitting a grievance.
Di Donna claims his
accusers have invented false circumstances and lies “which can quickly be demonstrated in entrance of the investigators”.
When questioned on the matter, Prime Minister Conte said Di Donna was “not an affiliate”.