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From Bitcoin Linkie Report by Mario Spezia
Louis Bonaventure, ex boss crotonese, now a justice collaborator: “The 'ndrangheta is no longer coppola and lupara. The new mafiosi are all graduates and up to date with technological developments. You don't become a boss just because you're a killer, but if you are capable of thinking and making money without having problems"

It sounds like the plot of a James Bond film. Eidoo, startup founded by Italians that allows you to conserve, convert and spend cryptocurrencies, chooses in 2017 as an operational headquarters an apartment in a building confiscated by the 'ndrangheta in Chiasso, in Switzerland, exactly a 400 meters from the border with Italy. Among the owners of the property there is a former consultant of the company, Oliver Camponovo, sentenced to three years in first instance by a Swiss court for having facilitated the money laundering of a gang. From that building in via Giuseppe Motta, private crowdfunding starts, unregulated, called in jargon Ico, to finance the company that reaches i 27 million dollars, 18 only in the first hour of trading. It is the highest figure ever obtained by an Italian cryptocurrency startup. But a small portion of that funding, made by anonymous users, it could come from gangs of the 'Ndrangheta That, as stated by the Anti-Mafia commission, now launders their money through bitcoin.

And it's not the only cryptocurrency exchange startup at risk. Because in this spy movie plot, there is no agent 007: at the moment there is no Italian or European regulation that can stop the possible laundering of mafia gangs through bitcoins. «We cannot exclude that someone linked to mafia associations has purchased ours utility token (a voucher to use the startup's services in the future)», explains an Eidoo spokesperson, «but it would have been risky and stupid to do it with Eidoo because there are easier foreign sites, fast and impersonal to achieve that goal". Read More