Loro Piana, an official of the Revenue Agency of Vercelli arrested for attempted extortion: he had asked for 300 thousand euros under the threat of disclosing confidential information
The Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Milan carried out yesterday afternoon a Vercelli, a precautionary custody order to the House arrest, issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Turin at the request of the prosecutor, against an official of the Revenue Agency of Vercelli, responsible of unauthorized access to a computer system or telematic and of attempted extortion against the well-known Loro Piana family of entrepreneurs.
The investigative activity, conducted by the military of the Milan Investigative Unit, was born following the complaint presented by the wife of the deceased entrepreneur Sergio Loro Piana, after receiving an anonymous letter with an extortion request from 300 thousand euros, in 800 gold pounds, with the threat of disclose confidential information relating to a pending dispute between the company Loro Piana Spa and the Revenue Agency of Vercelli.
The investigations made it possible to trace the author of the anonymous message, also ascertaining that the man had carried out some queries in the Serpico database of the Revenue Agency, without any formal assignment, on behalf of the company Loro Piana spa and Loro Piana Sergio as well as having drawn up and filed some files relating to a ranking of the wealthiest entrepreneurs from the province of Vercelli, including the wife and family of the deceased entrepreneur.
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