Over the past few months, the Embassy in Bucharest, supplemented by the presence of a legal expert, has cooperated on an operational level with the Italian Asset Recovery Office, hinged at the Ministry of the Interior - Service for International Police Cooperation (S.C.I.P.), on some pending requests for the tracing of criminal assets to be seized on behalf of the Romanian Authorities. The cooperation also concerned the recovery of sums deriving from the execution of confiscations in Romania on corporate and real estate assets seized from Italian organised crime, to be allocated to the FUG Single Justice Fund.
In the wake of this operational cooperation, a bilateral working group dedicated to strengthening asset tracing, seizure, and confiscation activities met on 20 January. On the Italian side, the bilateral consultations were led by Prefect Maria Rosaria Laganà, Director General ANBSC, Cons. Antonio Balsamo, Deputy Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, Col. GdF Roberto Ribaudo Director of the ARO Office at the Ministry of the Interior, Col. GdF Luca Cioffi, Head of the Analysis Office of the General Command of the Guardia di Finanza, Maj. Francesco Venditti, Officer of the Specialised Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud of the Guardia di Finanza.
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