Daniel Kinahan

Kinahan cartel ally Raffaele Imperiale has revealed how he invested as much as €30 to €40 million in solid gold as he attempted to launder the massive ...

This "work" from Brazil had been done without the knowledge of the Amato-Paganos, and I decided to sell that quantity in the Neapolitan territory, little by little, so as not to attract attention. And that I sold in the Neapolitan area for around €31,000 per kg, thus earning €9 million. To start over, I contacted Rico Riquelme, currently detained in the Netherlands. “I found a strong contact, a money changer and started working on money flows. He recovered with a 300-kilo load of cocaine that he brought in wholesale. "I invested in gold bars,” he has told prosecutors.