Milan, investigation into escort ring with 750,000 euro transfers. Among the clients 70 footballers

From the company owning the Pineta Milano, Carpa srl, the Ma.De agency of the Buttini-Ronchi couple is also alleged to have received €757,962 in bonuses in less than two years. 

The investigation papers also mention a gdf report that identified 25 other premises (all uninvestigated) where the 'association' organised its events.

Investigators list well-known clubs and restaurants in the city. These include: Ceresio7, the Langosteria Bistrot on Via Bobbio, the Jazz Café, the Dolce&Gabbana Martini on Corso Venezia, the Ten Eleven Portrait Milano, the Osteria La Risacca, the Riviera Milano, the Voya Rooftop on the 20th floor of the World Join Center Tower at Portello and numerous others.

Four people ended up under house arrest and a number of searches were carried out as part of an investigation by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office centred on a company that organised events in the most famous nightlife venues.

According to the prosecution, he offered an escort ring to party guests, including some footballers.

The investigation, co-ordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Bruno Albertini and delegated to the GdF economic and financial police nucleus, also led to a pre-emptive seizure of over 1.2 million euro aimed at confiscating the profit from the crime having 'promoted an activity aimed at aiding and abetting and exploiting prostitution, with the consequent self-laundering of the proceeds'

A 'considerable amount of evidence' against the suspects, who, according to the indictment, 'had focused their business on recruiting women, including professional escorts, willing to participate in organised events and ready to provide sexual services, subsequently remunerated, in favour of a particularly wealthy clientele willing to spend large sums of money', among whom - explains a source - 'well-known personalities' such as businessmen and footballers.

Investigations revealed the 'modus operandi' of the group based in Cinisello Balsamo.

The four arrested allegedly acted in complicity with a number of escorts and 'public relations officers', the Milan public prosecutor, Marcello Viola, announced in a note.

The asset investigations would have ascertained the total disproportion between the income declared by the suspects and the real economic assets.

At least seventy footballers took part in the parties organised by Ma.De. Many athletes from teams such as Inter, Milan, Juventus, Verona, Turin, Sassuolo and Monza, whose names are confidential and whose investigations are under way to find out who really took advantage of the escort service and 'laughing drugs'.

Indemnified from prosecution, on the other hand, are players or other sportsmen and women: being a client does not imply having committed a crime.

In addition to Buttini and Ronchi, house arrests were also ordered for Alessio Salamone and Luz Luan Amilton Fraga, defined as 'participants'. And that with two others they would have maintained 'contacts with the internationally renowned footballers' and would have managed 'the girls' - between escorts and those 'image' a hundred and mostly between 18 and 20 years old - employed in the various evenings not only 'deciding' where they should appear, but also their 'private meetings'.

Salamone, for example, would have thought about the supply of laughing gas.

Accounts found in Lithuania.

Tearing the veil off the evenings in the five-star clubs of the Milanese nightlife and ending up, not for everyone, in a hotel room, was a young foreigner in August two years ago. She told of paid sex, of having lived, like other young women, in a flat in a building in Cinisello Balsamo, in the hinterland, where the 'screen' company was based and where they had also set up an 'abusive' disco.

And that their alleged exploiters kept '50 per cent of the amount paid' and would claim the rent for the accommodation.

And even 'in the period of the lockdown and restriction on meetings' because of Covid, those parties had not stopped. In Judge Valori's deed, among the many interceptions (there is even mention of a 'Formula One driver'), several not very refined ones crop up and the case of a girl who allegedly had relations with footballers and who was trying 'to trace' a date in order to identify the 'partner with whom she conceived her child' is also mentioned.

Now the investigation will allegedly continue with the auditions of the young girls exploited to shed light on the extent of the ring and the people involved, while the papers reveal contacts between a suspect and a user account in the name of a former Lazio and Inter player;