Glina landfill managers, a Romanian and an Italian, were arrested two weeks ago at the request of Italian investigators. They were the middlemen in the financial transactions of the Cosa Nostra mafia members.
The case looks like a movie script and it is a classic case of money laundering. Important people from Romania have protected for a decade the most feared criminals in Italy.
Massimo Ciancimino, son of former Cosa Nostra mafia group leader, Don Vito Ciancimino is the one who took over the business after his father’s death: money laundering, tax fraud, usury and killings.
Ciancimino Masimo received three convictions in Italy in 2011. He also recognized before the prosecution that the group had planned to assassinate Berlusconi’s son.
But what is the connection to Romania that the mobster has? Massimo Ciancimino is said to be the one behind the company that manages the Glina landfill. Specifically, in 2005 Ciancimino allegedly paid 100 million euros to buy the pit.
Business Administration has been provided by the Ecorec company, managed by two key people: a Romanian Victor Dombrovschi and an Italian Sergio Pileri , a close friend of the mafia group. The Italian authorities were those who sounded the alarm.
In Italy they suspected that Ciancimino was hiding in our country no less than 400 million euro covered in the “Glina landfill business ".
Glina was not the only landfill that the Italian group used to launder their dirty money. Other companies controlled by Cosa Nostra administered landfills in Arges and Prahova. For years, no authority in Romania approached the Italian mobsters companies.
The procedure was quite simple. Hundreds of million were transferred from Italy to Romania and were invested in the construction of landfills in Prahova, Arges and Ilfov.
Masimo Ciancimino was sending money in our country through the Sirco SpA company. The company transferred the money in turn, to another company Agenda 21, led by Giuseppe and Sergio Pileri brothers. The company belonging to the two would then transfer the money to the Ecorec Glina administered by Victor Dombrovschi. After the scandal escalated in Italy, Romanian authorities did nothing but shrug their shoulders.
Under pressure from the Italians, Victor Dombrovschi and Sergio Pileri, were detained two weeks ago by DIICOT. They will be extradited to Italy, and at the request of the Italian prosecutors, DIICOT investigators have seized all properties in Romania, and the bank accounts of those involved in the landfill business, to cover any damages..
Still, in Romania nobody paid any attention to the case.