At the end of an investigation conducted by the military of the Economic and Financial Police, it was found that behind an inactive internet point, a different kind of activity was going on in the shop: they were receiving and sending money. Suspicious money, mainly sent to Afghanistan and Pakistan, by citizens of those countries. Citizens who did not have any ‘official’ source of income. The owners of the ‘ghost’ internet point were Pakistanis.

It is not the first time that Pakistani citizens have been arrested for this kind of activity. The Udine investigations were started after a Brescia court signaled the issue to the Udine police, as a result of a local investigation. This because Brescia, a town in the north of Italy, and its province in the past ten years, have increasingly become an epicenter for money laundering and terror-funding.