An events promotion company in Milan’s nightlife districts allegedly organized nights with luxury escorts, attracting a long list of wealthy clients. Among them were businessmen, celebrities and many Serie A footballers.
The investigation, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Bruna Albertini and led by the Milan Economic and Financial Police Unit, “allowed a considerable amount of evidence to be obtained against the suspects, who allegedly acted in concert with other members of the organization, including escorts and public relations workers“, according to a press release from the Prosecutor’s Office in Milan, writes gazzetta.it.
The company allegedly offered complete packages: evenings in nightclubs, followed by rooms in luxury hotels. This option would have been granted to customers – footballers or VIPs – in exchange for thousands of euros.
A turnover of over 1.2 million euros is estimated. A significant number of celebrities are believed to have been involved.
The number of clients exceeds 50. They are not only footballers, but also other sportsmen (“It’s a friend of mine, a Formula 1 driver… coming here to Milan tonight, he wants a girl”, according to an interception).
Four people arrested
The documents also reveal the use during the evenings of laughing gas, the so-called “balloon drug”, a chemical that induces euphoria without leaving traces and – for this reason – is not classified as a performance-enhancing drug. Therefore, the athletes could have used it as it would not have been detected during the checks.
The investigation, coordinated by the Prosecutor’s Office in Milan, led to the arrest of four people believed to be the leaders of the organization. The charges against them are very serious: complicity and exploitation of prostitution, in addition to laundering the proceeds of the illegal activity.
Investigators gathered considerable evidence proving that the agency recruited not only professional escorts, but also young women attracted to social life. The women, about 10 in total, both Italian and foreign, aged between 18 and 30, who received 50% of the profits, allegedly stayed at the company’s headquarters in Cinisello Balsamo and ran the same business in Mykonos.
The authorities, who reconstructed the assets illegally accumulated by the criminal organization, found that the sources of income of the suspects, completely disproportionate to those declared, were attributable exclusively to the activity of organizing events.
The exact locations and areas are not known, but according to the documents, the agency would involve the so-called “Milano bene” (high-class Milanese) as clients for the complicity and exploitation of prostitution in Milan’s nightclubs. They would have been offered a real “post-match service” that included a complete package: an evening in a club, a hotel and an escort.
