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Preventive seizure of the sum money obtained by the institution as a profit for the crime of money-laundering
- 01/10/2018
By Judicial Decree of 20 August 2018, the Court of Milan stated the preventive seizure of the profit earned by a professional association, due to the crime of money laundering ascribed to the main partner lawyer of the association.
It has been noted that, according to the case law, professional associations are also beneficiaries of the Regulation referred to Legislative Decree 231/2001 (already applied, for example, in the case of accountants associations), and that the sum of money in question constituted a profit obtained by the entity as a result of the commission of the crime referred to in art. 648 bis c.p. on behalf of the main partner of the professional association, the Judge has ordered the preventive seizure of the money stored in the current account of the Firm.
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