Cycling in San Marino with the dirty money in your shoes

San Marino And 'again to the great flow of "money blacks" to and from San Marino. Indeed, it is never finished. But now the 'facilitators' do not use the more powerful cars: they are never reported to deposit money to the IRS by bicycle. It is the most bizarre ways: from the bottle through the soles of the shoes even for models "dernier cri" of underwear.

The Dodgers, despite the Government's tough nose Mountains, they have made clever, very clever. But I started to fall into the web of Finance or the Italian Guardia di Rocca San Marino. It is taken, on average, three per month.

The data, released by the financial information of Titan, are relentless: last year 29 people have been caught red-handed, at the entrance of San Marino. The "guardians" of the fortress, a military equivalent to our border police, lurking at the Customs, or the historic entrance to the "land of freedom" and stop the suspects.

They also made brisk San Marino. In the viewfinder, as you said, there are bikes. You know, the land of Romagna Passista and climbers. Pantani, the pirate, lived here. And over the weekend hundreds of cyclists, even in bad weather, climbing the steep hairpin bends that lead in the small Republic. And coincidentally, on Sunday morning, the banks of the Titan are open. And then the strict controls. And the money emerge out of pink bras blacks and women cyclists or insoles of shoes. The sums in excess of ten thousand euros were confiscated, 40 percent remains in the vaults of Fortress Guard. Then taking the administrative and criminal sanctions.

"In San Marino there are still funds deposited blacks very consistent," says an officer of Finance. Which, in turn, took over the controls on the highway. The data are not known, but it is clear - and the officer does understand very well that several "facilitators", maybe in the car, were intercepted.

So agents are San Marino and Italian are divided tasks: first to control the bike (and it seems to be back to the Fifties Italian-Swiss border), the other self shadowing suspicious. But how many have passed through the net free cross? Hundreds, if not thousands. Which have been increasing their behalf "black". From the tax shield, in fact, it is estimated that in Italy they returned just over one third of the 14 billion euros that were stored in banks of San Marino. Which, in spite of the many pronouncements made on the regularization of the dubious financial affairs, remains a tax haven for many. In 2010, in fact, were very large 296 suspicious financial transactions. So not only small hotels but large international speculators. AIFA, the financial intelligence unit, arrived in 2010 15 per cent more reports over the previous year. Of these, 17 have become the judiciary investigations that San Marino is taking to recycling. The fields are always the same: gambling, electronics, construction, luxury cars, waste disposal and more. The novelty is that they are the same banks in San Marino to report AIFA financial maneuvers that appear irregular. Well, not everyone is complicit: the Aif asked, in collaboration with the judiciary, information to many different countries: Cyprus, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Nigeria and even in Vanuatu, in the middle of Oceania.