Born in 1966, Italian, 30 years career as investigative reporter. I'm a whistleblower also. Opinions are strictly mine. Retweet ≠ endorsement
May 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1 Scrivi un articolo per spiegare che il #bitcoin ha perso il 60% del suo valore, che oltre la metà dei suoi investitori lo ha comprato negli ultimi 12 mesi, che un terzo di loro non sa nemmeno cosa sia, e un'orda di massimalisti invasati ti assale e copre di insulti, dicendo
2 in sostanza che non sai di cosa parli, che sei un incompetente e/o un idiota, che il futuro è delle cripto eccetera eccetera. Questo ridicolo tentativo di linciaggio è la dimostrazione migliore del fatto che l'ecosistema cripto usa ormai di fatto gli stessi schemi delle sette.
Feb 21, 2022 • 12 tweets • 13 min read
1 #Tether today announced an agreement with #Switzerland Canton #Ticino City of #Lugano "to transform Lugano into the European #bitcoin capital". A press conference will be held March 3rd, 2022 to show "#Lugano's plan B". #Bitfinex and Tether CTO Paolo #Ardoino will attend.
2 Since May 5th, 2017, Giancarlo #Devasini, #Bitfinex and #Tether#CFO, established in #Lugano his Smart Property Solutions SA company, whose aim was to release #crypto, #stablecoin, store and manage money, precious metals, art pieces, certificates and value documents.
#BarraiLeaks2 2 - Please, remember carefully this picture
Jan 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1 - Chiasso is a small, anonymous town on Italian border at the extreme southbound Canton Ticino, Italian speaking part of #Switzerland. A place which has been well known for decades as a centre for money laundering of Italian nationals capitals fleeing away. An offshore haven.
2 - It's a transit for many legit and unlegal businesses. When Switzerland signed an treaty with Italy on tax informations and ruled out bank secrecy, which was for decades the engine of its bank industry, Chiasso banks and its whole financial industry were badly hit.
Jan 27, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
1 - On the night of August 4th 2021 #Popsicle platform said it had been "hacked". On that occasion, on a secret Telegram chat, #TerraBitcoin, who hids a group of crypto investors, mostly Italians, managed by Paolo #Barrai, there was a dialogue among the investors
2 - who put their money in #Popsicle and other #Sestagalli's projects, the same Sestagalli, Paolo #Barrai and Giancarlo #Devasini of #Bitfinex. Then my sources in #TerraBitcoin screnshotted and gave me the chat of that dialogue (in Italian, sorry). Here's the pics of that story
Jan 27, 2022 • 19 tweets • 13 min read
1 - So, whoa! At the end of the day mr #Devasini and mr Daniele #Sestagalli, the Italian man behind Wonderland ($Time), Popsicle Finance ($ICE), and Abracadabra ($MIM) projects in #Switzerlandmistress are connected. During last drawdown Sestagalli cashed out 30 mln to #Bitfinex
2 - One of the #Wonderland#Sestagalli project managers is a well known name of #QuadrigaCX scandal, @0xSifu aka Michael #Patryn aka Omar #Dhanani, see
On April 21, I'll go under trial in Rome with colleague Francesco Bonazzi for three stories I wrote in 2017 on Italy security agencies bank accounts in Banca Nuova, sicilian subsidiary of failed Banca Popolare di Vicenza. Public prosecutors indicted us for State secret breach.
I risk a 10 years term conviction. I just did my job: for Il Sole 24 Ore,my at that time daily newdpaper, I tried to detect why Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BpVi) hadn't been properly checked by authorities for two decades, letting it go bankrupt.
Feb 20, 2021 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
1/ By far, the biggest Ponzi scheme I've discovered until now was the diamonds one. In 2014, two years before other media and 3 years before prosecutors, I wrote stories about physical diamonds sold by 2 brokers through banks to tens of thousands of Italian investors.
2 / Diamonds were sold at constantly rising prices in a sort of linear progression, which wasn't related to real market prices. The prices were produced by the two brokers themselves, Intermarket Diamond Business (Idb) and Diamond Private Investment (Dpi), then published monthly