Milan prosecutor Francesco Greek again: the request for the arrest Longo (PSDI) to the fight against tax havens – The Daily

“For the next five or even ten years, the attention of the prosecution, in particular that of Milan, has to be focused to the activity of contrast to tax havens .” And ‘the calling card of Francis Greek, appointed today by the CSM Public Prosecutor of Milan, instead of Edmondo Bruti Liberati , retired in November. Corruption , tax evasion , recycling , autoriclaggio and capital flight and heritages are the major themes of his career.

born in 1951, son of an admiral, Francesco Greek has entered the judiciary in 1977. After the listener in Rome, arrived in Milan. Him you start talking in the eighties, when calling for the arrest for the then secretary of the Psdi Piero Longo , accused of having pocketed a bribe. A few years later he joined the pool Clean Hands , but not right away. His contribution is necessary to the pool of colleagues when, after an endless series of incidents of bribes cost the jail politicians and businessmen, inquiries arrive at the top of the industrial giants. These are the years of the tangent maxi Enimont , the investigation and the Raul Gardini , the process Cusani . The preparation of Greek on the financial fronts emerges at that time. Does not like to resort to handcuffs and prefers to unravel the economic interweaving and get to the “spoils.”

A lover of skiing and sailing, Francesco Greek has been part of different ministerial committees : the first assignment received him when he was Keeper of Giuliano Vassalli in the commission that dealt with economic criminal law. He later served as president of two committees under the former ministers of Justice Clemente Mastella and Paola Severino dealing with Fug (the only justice fund), of ‘ Agency of the goods seized from the Mafia and self-laundering, new offense introduced in 2014 which also punishes those who reuses the proceeds of a crime personally committed.

With a target linked “not so much convictions – as stated by the same Greek-but effectiveness of the activity. ” Ie ‘hoards’ recovered and reported to the State. And over the last decade highlights with a touch of pride, the department led by him over the last five years he has treated in Milan 14 thousand dossiers “of money in the state coffers has brought them many”. More than 3.6 billion euro finished the Treasury following the findings of the investigative pool of which he was leader.

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