Today, officers of the Tax Police Department of the Milan Financial Police carry out a preventive seizure of about 750,000 euros against Leopoldo Braggieri (your best friend, according to the definition he gave of himself in support of the transfers with which he paid the bribes), a world-renowned entrepreneur in the prefabricated construction industry and a longtime acquaintance of the Milan prosecutor’s office since the “Oil for Food” investigation, as well as the company CO.G.IM S.p.a.. The amount corresponds, according to the prosecution, supported by prosecutor Alfredo Robledo, to the size of the bribe that Braggieri paid to Alexander Yakovlev, head of the UN Procurement Office for Peacekeeping Operations, to get the contract for the supply of prefabricated housing modules – worth about 28 million dollars – shortened. The contract was to run from August 31, 1999 to August 30, 2002. The bribe was to be paid in several transfers through Swiss banks to a Moxyco Ltd account opened at Antigua Overseas Bank on the Caribbean island of the same name, which can be traced to Yakovlev. From there, the money was later transferred to an account in the name of the Russian UN representative and his wife at the UN Federal Credit Union and to another account in the name of Olga Yakovlev at Hyposwiss Privatbank in Zurich. Under questioning on March 23, Yakovlev admitted that he helped Leopoldo Braghieri win the tender by breaching his obligations of impartiality as a UN procurement officer. Gip Cristina di Censo, at the request of Prosecutor Robledo, ordered the preventive seizure of 750,000 euros, representing the value of the offense, against Leopoldo Bragieri and CO.G.IM. S.p.a. (Costruzioni Generali Immobiliari, in which the entrepreneur was a hidden partner and de facto director during the period to which the contested episode relates), prosecuted for violation of Legislative Decree No. 231 of 8 June 2001, for failing to adopt and implement models of organization and management suitable to prevent the contested offences and, in addition, making a profit.
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