1888 Clubs Target Rich
by Unwanted Publicity Intelligence – Staff Writer [ E-MAIL: UnwantedPublicity@Gmail.com ]
[ IMPORTANT Public Disclaimer: Although the entity SIMI S.A. ( below ) was listed, amongst other businesses, on 1888 Club internet webpages there was 'no evidence found of any illegal activity' involving SIMIS S.A. or Riccardo Cornacchia ( below ). ]
September 11, 2010 – Updated: 11:33:22 ( PST )
5th generation Mafia businessmen fraudsters have gone global with other like-minded organized crooks in suits joining a private membership network known as “1888 Clubs” operating worldwide convention center hotel conferences targeting assets of high net worth individuals and other organizations by using a variety of ruses, including claims they represent the Knights of Malta.
Recent inquiries came across my global anti-fraud desk from international investor victims whom expressed an interest in locating two (2) individuals. Private intelligence reports indicated “two (2) men of interest” reportedly specialized in complex business financial schemes involving private placement investment monies and assets applied toward complex financial instrument derivative trading profits from believed membership contacts within a private group known as the 1888 CLUB network comprised of high-level business financial fraud crime organizations operating in concert globally under the disguise of only being a private network of business financial specialists making already welathy individuals even more wealthy based on false promise schemes to return huge rates of interest based on the size of privately placed monies and assets that eventually disappeared through a lengthy and complex chain of foreign traders whom all claimed to know somebody special inside the United States Federal Reserve Board System ( FED ) that somehow controlled only a few privately favored individuals whom were allowed entry into mysteriously secret Big Board trading where the supposed ‘minimum investment trading entry amount’ starts at $100,000,000 million USD – consisting of pooling private placement investment monies and mortgages – and much greater investment amounts.
The 1888 Club satellite network are named somewhat differently and most provide “Table Tour” introductions, a fashion show runway of different types of fraudulent scheme deals, and schedule worldwide private convention center meetings, conferences, and presentations guiding high-level fraud representatives – some claiming hierarchy with the Knights of Malta – targeting “Ultra High Net Worth” individual investors around the world.
Complexities, under the network of 1888 Clubs, at operational levels defines how and why for so many decades have thousands of wealthy individuals been convinced by such sophisticated fraud schemes taking billions ever year. The fact this global organization even exists, especially for as many decades as it has, cannot be so easily explained to well-seasoned investigators whose individual cases typically finalize within 1-year or so.
I pondered at the stupidity of 1888 Clubs providing – over its public access internet websites – the times, dates, locations, and financial fraud subject matters conducted under their convention center Big Top fraud circus events, and yet how convenient that would make it for international federal law enforcement to collect information from gatherings under these Big Top meetings labeled ‘strictly confidential’ and ‘by private invitation only’, and how that could pre-empt financial losses to individuals around the world.
Such would surely be less costly than the U.S. FBI international round-up of over 50 individuals, during its legacy “Operation Sweet Tea Masquerade Party” sting where, in comparison, taking down an 1888 Club meeting would be akin to raiding a “Victoria Secret House Party” filled with dozens of ‘moon bat’ fraudsters flitting around under a Big Top. The only problem with that analogy would be locating a government law enforcement agency adept enough to do it.
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Kidnapped Mafia Businessman Cornacchia Sees 2 More Mafia Abductors Arrested In Naples -
On June 5, 2008 some believe justice began when a coordinated effort between Milan, Italy anti-Mafia district prosecutor Francesco Prete, State Police investigator Sara Wells, Republic Public Prosecutor, and preliminary investigation judge Giovanna Verga whom brought criminal allegations against four ( 4 ) bandits, charging:
- Kidnapping;
- False Imprisonment;
- Attempted Extortion;
- Possession of new UZI 9-millimeter, standard-size 19-inch, fully assembled machine-guns, formerly made in Yugoslavia; and,
- Transportation of new UZI 9-millimeter, standard-size 19-inch, fully assembled machine-guns, formerly made in Yugoslavia.
On April 21, 2008 it was believed a financial broker in Varese, Riccardo Cornacchia ( age: 41 ), who had numerous business activities in Lugano, Switzerland was kidnapped from his leased apartment at via Gaetano Donizetti located in the heart of Varese. After 6-weeks it took only a matter of hours this morning to arrest the remaining two ( 2 ) – of four ( 4 ) bandits – as they slept in a car on a street in the Ponticelli district of Naples, Italy.
Involved in connection with the Mafia “clan,” the two ( 2 ) arrested today, were:
- Aniello Di Salvatore ( age: 31 ), of Torre del Greco, Naples; and,
- Roberto Esposito ( age: 42 ) of Naples.
The two ( 2 ) arrested earlier on April 22, 2008, were:
- Riccardo Giorgi ( age: 41 ), resident of Falconara Marittima, Ancona; and,
- Massimiliano Ciriello ( age: 37 ) residing in Ancona.
SIMIS S.A ( Lugano, Switzerland ) – in liquidation ( since 24NOV06 ) by order of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission – financial broker, Riccardo Cornacchia, answered a knock on the door of his leased apartment to two ( 2 ) individuals believed to be Carabinieri ( Sheriffs / Marshals ), however when the two ( 2 ) escorted Cornacchia out of his apartment, he realized something was amiss when he spotted another individual who appeared possibly hooded and slumped down in the back seat area of the car.
A few hours later, relatives of Riccardo Cornacchia delivered a message request to obtain 50,000.00 euros, the equivalent of about 80,000 francs that was to be delivered within 24-hours at a Ticino location near the Lugano – Agno airport.
Ransom -
Alerted from a colleague of Cornacchia, Italy law enforcement contact those responsible for the Federal Criminal Police in Lugano, Switzerland and from there the information was transmitted to the proper cantonal ( county ) Police and border guards.
The size of the ransom was such that authorities would perform a “lightning arrest.”
In the meantime, the vehicle reached the kidnapper’s “safe house” ( hideout ) on Lake Como ( Lago di Como ), in the territory of Gravedona, where hostage Riccardo Cornacchia was being supervised by two (2) people.
Already Tuesday morning – April 22, 2008 – and with little time remaining on the “ultimatum” – the other two (2) bandits were already in Lugano, Switzerland proceeding to collect the money, in-fact they made additional claims, “This is only the first ‘tranche’ ( payment ) of the other 200,000.00 euros.”
They did not know, however that Riccardo Giorgi and Massimiliano Ciriello had unknowingly alerted airport control by activating a bomb detector device, and what they especially did not know was, that with the utmost discretion were already under surveillance from highway A-2 – in the direction of the Chiasso – Brogeda border – until arrival at the checkpoint when they didn’t even have time to put on their hoods before they were arrested.
The money was found hidden in the socks of the two (2) men, under the car seat there were sheets torn in pieces, and – with a little patience – agents are able to figure-out the “jigsaw puzzle” to discover this was about the leased apartment in Gravedona. What’s more, the vehicle GPS was “oriented” towards that address.
Looking further, the police found a pair of handcuffs, semi-automatic UZI 9mm 19″ assembled machine-guns ( formerly manufactured in Yugoslavia ), a few other items, plus several leads acquired for purposes of the investigation. Their guardians, in a few minutes if an hour at most, gave the prisoners leg-irons.
The search for a flight, “at the suggestion” of the two (2) “guardians”, perhaps an alert from one (1) last phone call from Riccardo Giorgi and Massimiliano Ciriello, or institution of “Plan B” so in-case the men sent across borders were not presented at a given time and had not given news to return to the course?
At checkpoint Chiasso-Brogeda on this case, the two (2) may have appeared relaxed since the first moment, but on the contrary they tried to deny any degree of complicity in the abduction, claiming they had only played debt collectors during the “mission” at Lugano – Agno airport and only on behalf of a third (3rd) person – an Englishman – who would have contacted them, but that they do not know.
While that version of their’s continued to reverberate through the following week, during interrogations conducted by Como judge for preliminary investigations Nicoletta Cremona, it took them all the way to the capital prison “Bassone.”
After that history, on the evening of Tuesday April 22, 2008, Riccardo Cornacchia reappeared in Cernobbio where he was perhaps thrown out of the car by the two (2) bandits during their rapid exodus from their hideout.
This location appears as an unusual choice since Cernobbio is only a stone’s throw from both road and roadway passes of Chiasso, out-of Vacallo Maslianico, and perhaps behind the arrest made at the first checkpoint “for the pair returning from the airport less than an additional 3-kilometers where the A-9 interchange exists headed toward Milan, Italy – in less than 20-minutes – or any other location sought.
Investigations -
While officials raided the apartment in Gravedona and while experts from Police forensics carry out surveys during their investigations, Riccardo Cornacchia is manufacturing his own version of the story before Como investigators that were added from the Varese territorial jurisdiction.
It follows then the possible link with the activities of financial “brokers” such as Riccardo Cornacchia who claim they are not nor have they ever found them self in a difficult financial situation, even though the suspension of SIMIS S.A. would have caused some problems in relations with a client whose heritage was partly managed through the office at Viale Castagnola 27 ( formerly, located at: Del Tiglio 3 ) in Lugano, Switzerland.
Information estimated at-play was 2,000,000 million euros that would have landed on Mafia accounts or in some location offshore “but from” SIMIS S.A. “nothing could be more managed as the Trust put into liquidation, with expectation for what went to STUDIO GIUSEPPE FERRARI S.A. Before that “veto” operation, arriving from Bern, Switzerland the company brokering since February 1995, when the first two (2) directors Riccardo Cornacchia ( Stanton, California, USA ), Carlo Santamaria ( Clivio, Varese ), and sole director Gianpaolo Ballabio ( Viganello, Morbio Inferiore ) of the firm ADRIANO BALLABIO & CO. S.A. ( Fiume 7, Viganello, Morbio Inferiore ) and MD MOTORS S.A. ( TEL: 091 / 9729360 – Lugano, Tessin ) were all present on staff amongst flourishing conditions, and again during May 2006 when a substantial increase in capital was made from 300,000 to 750,000 francs.
Epilogue -
Against Riccardo Giorgi and Massimiliano Ciriello, who insist they are “not guilty” of kidnapping, are formalized charges of keeping a person sequestered ( imprisoned at their hideout ), charges of improperly transporting firearms – a “pearl” more in their low profile “curriculum” – plus arrests for crimes committed when it becomes clear as to their activities in connection with a small aligned Mafioso clan that tried settling on the coast with many grandiose specializations active in arson, robberies, and narcotics trafficking.
The latest condemnation of both is tied to an attempted obscure sales “collaboration” with a former criminal leader inconsistent with institutional justice that saw Anconetano.
Recently returned to freedom, the two ( 2 ) have obviously taken over from where they left off.
The arrest of the two ( 2 ) Naples bandits may have resulted in a total reconstruction of what the entire kidnapping plan was to have actually involved, which only ended with a total of four ( 4 ) arrested, and nothing worse.
With much intelligence information missing in the aforementioned case, someday someone may reveal who the alleged “Englishman” actually was.
[ IMPORTANT Public Disclaimer: Although SIMI S.A. ( above ) was listed, amongst other businesses, on 1888 Club internet webpages there was 'no evidence found of any illegal activity' involving SIMIS S.A. or Riccardo Cornacchia ( above ). ]
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Reference(s)
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