{"id":586969,"date":"2017-01-19T08:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/?p=586969"},"modified":"2017-01-20T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T07:40:55","slug":"the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caribbean &#8220;ghost&#8221; resort scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would not want a <strong>suite in a luxury hotel<\/strong>, maybe in the middle of a Caribbean atoll? This dream of many became the nightmare of a few unlucky investors who, after being attracted by <strong>the false promises of DGH SAGL in Lugano<\/strong>, run by Domenico Giannini, had invested money in order to receive shares in a luxury <strong>resort in Belize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But, unfortunately, on that atoll, called <strong>Blue Hole<\/strong>, it is not possible to build anything because of strict constraints. And yet, the website went into the smallest of details, with names, plans, the faces of architects, investors and VIPs. But there was nothing behind it. <strong>Puerto Azul International Holding<\/strong>, with headquarters in the Bahamas, was not the owner of the atolls. The collection of funds for the company served only to enrich those who <strong>were involved in this scam<\/strong>. The photos and drawings were all false.<\/p>\n<p>Also the capital <strong>of the company Puerto Azul<\/strong> had not been deposited, so the \u20ac<strong>1 million guaranteeing the investment <\/strong>did not exist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE OPERATION BY VARESE\u2019S REVENUE GUARD CORPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This deception was discovered during the <strong>Operation: &#8220;Puerto Azul&#8221;<\/strong>: scams and laundering that led to 7 arrests ordered by the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in Busto Arsizio (the initial report came from Gallarate); the people arrested were part of an international gang of criminals that had been scamming clients with the promise of magnificent villas in Caribbean paradises. In the end, <strong>goods worth over \u20ac18 million were seized<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STARS USED WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This story has an unusual aspect. On the website, Giannini published pictures taken during a party that took place in Cannes, in 2014; through a series of contacts, he was able to get <strong>both John Travolta and Andrea Bocelli<\/strong> involved. The photos of that dinner were then used on the company\u2019s website (<strong>which you can see here<\/strong>) and on other promotional occasions, in order to get the trust of investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Puerto Azul, the 8-star resort with which a holding company in Lugano pulled in investments, never existed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Caribbean &quot;ghost&quot; resort scam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operation Puerto Azul, the 8-star resort with which a holding company in Lugano pulled in investments, never existed.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Caribbean &quot;ghost&quot; resort scam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operation Puerto Azul, the 8-star resort with which a holding company in Lugano pulled in investments, never existed.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"VareseNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/varesenews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"Ssml Varese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-19T07:37:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-20T07:40:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SSML\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SSML_Varese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@varesenews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Scritto da\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SSML\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tempo di lettura stimato\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minuti\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/\",\"name\":\"The Caribbean \\\"ghost\\\" resort scam\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-01-19T07:37:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-20T07:40:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/84973f107a9e585e0a65364be10e8dc4\"},\"description\":\"Operation Puerto Azul, the 8-star resort with which a holding company in Lugano pulled in investments, never existed.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2017\/01\/the-caribbean-ghost-resort-scam\/586969\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Caribbean &#8220;ghost&#8221; resort scam\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/\",\"name\":\"VareseNews\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/84973f107a9e585e0a65364be10e8dc4\",\"name\":\"SSML\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"it-IT\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SSML-Round.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/SSML-Round.png\",\"caption\":\"SSML\"},\"description\":\"If you have a passion for languages then the \u201cScienze della Mediazione Linguistica\u201d degree will start you on your path towards becoming a translator or an interpreter. 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