Scenes like from a sensational movie played off the coast of Sicily. From a driftboat close Ragusa, packages of cash with a full value of around 700,000 euros went to sea. Seeing the bills floating on the water, the beachmen moved to catch money.
According to the diary “La Repubblica”, everything started with a boat failure where there was no fuel. erstwhile 2 crew members sailed to the port for a supply of natural material, a drifting unit spotted a resting on the beach and... called the Coast Guard. This caused the panic of the others on board the boat: in the sight of the approaching service, 2 another people began to throw overboard boxes of banknotes.
The money came almost to shore, triggering a real race among beachers who threw themselves into the water to catch an unexpected injection of cash.
Financial defender officers, police and riflemen rapidly appeared. They secured almost all the cash and identified the persons on the boat, and the motorboat was towed to the port where it would be thoroughly searched. Investigators fishy that the money thrown into the sea may have come from criminal activity.
