Thread by @nicolaborzi

#BarraiLeaks2 1 - Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Antonio "Tony" #Velardo

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Take a careful look to this picture, please take notice of this name, "Harry #Fitzsimons", and read this toponym, #Calabria

https://twitter.com/nicolaborzi/status/1488616920840654849

#BarraiLeaks2 2 - Please, remember carefully this picture

#BarraiLeaks2 3 - Now, let's read what #MiamiHerald wrote on January 25, 2022. Read carefully

miamiherald.com/news/business/…

#BarraiLeaks2 4 -As you may have read, #Velardo has a long curriculum vitae of stunning links to the most powerful Italian #mafia, #ndrangheta from #Calabria. A relation dating back a decade, if not more. Very interesting. He's a very able in moving money all around the world.

#BarraiLeaks2 5 - The relations among #Velardo and #mobsters from #Calabria are known everywhere since 2013. Let's read The Irish Times by March 7th, 2013

irishtimes.com/news/ex-ira-ma…

#BarraiLeaks2 6 - And then here we go again, #Fitzsimons from #Ira and Velardo and #ndrangheta, from The Irish Times, March 9th 2013:

"Both Fitzsimons and Velardo “knew perfectly well that they were dealing with local organised crime exponents”".

irishtimes.com/news/crime-and…

#BarraiLeaks2 7 - Here we go again, the odd couple #Fitzsimons and #Velardo with the Calabrian families, Irish Independent, March 10th 2013

independent.ie/irish-news/maf…

#BarraiLeaks2 8 - Sordid details following, "Italian Police believe Harry #Fitzsimons had reason to fear for his life…" Mick Fealty on March 7, 2013,

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#BarraiLeaks2 9 - #Fitzsimons got caught, #TheTimes May 26 2013

thetimes.co.uk/article/belfas…

#BarraiLeaks2 10 - Then the inquiry crashed, #Fitzimons and #Velardo acquitted of all counts. Since the new inquiry by #MiamiHeralds in January 2022, Velardo disappeared from the media

irishnews.com/news/2014/04/1…

#BarraiLeaks2 11 - In fact, what happened was that the link amond Velardo, Fitzsimons and 'ndrangheta men was proven, but it wasn't clear who was acting for who, whose the money was. So Velardo and Fitzsimons were acquitted of all counts.

#BarraiLeaks2 12 - "#Velardo was acquitted in one probe, dubbed “Metropolis.” Despite an initial 4-year sentence on a tax charge in the 2nd probe — “Black Money” — that charge was dropped on appeal for exceeding the statute of limitations". Miami Herald

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#BarraiLeaks2 13 - And then, all of a sudden, here we see Antonio "Tony" #Velardo emerging as a "finance teacher". Where? But on #TerraBitcoin Club secret Telegram chat, together with Paolo #Barrai. Here's the video of that "lesson" held on Feb 4 2021

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#BarraiLeaks2 14 - The video lasts one hour and 49 minutes. Mr #Velardo gets into the scene as a "finance teacher", introduced by Barrai, on 13' 52''. Sorry, the video is in Italian.
But I think you'll appreciate the introduction taken from "The wolf of Wall Street", in English.

#BarraiLeaks2 15 - Obviously, in 2021 #Velardo name and connections and past werw well known in Italy and all around the globe. It was enough to google his name.

But #TerraBitcoin doesn't run on Google. The main channel is Telegram.

Enjoy.

#BarraiLeaks2 16 - So in #TerraBitcoin the founder, Paolo #Barrai, invites to teach finance Antonio Velardo who was connected to 'ndrangheta, then acquitted, and Daniele #Sestagalli who worked in a company by Oliver #Camponovo, who had 'ndrangheta customers and then was acquitted

#BarraiLeaks2 17 - Sheer coincidences. I truly believe they were sheer coincidences. It can happen if you are very unlucky. And they seem to be. They met people, they trusted, they didn't check. The world is so little.