In this summertime private detectives from the investigative agency Octopus are turning into “boat hunters”. Many millionaires going through separation or divorce can’t help from falling into the temptations of luxury like yacht, but it’s not easy to spot them: even though it’s strongly wanted by the insurance companies (tormented by the scams in this Read more about In this summertime private detectives from the investigative agency Octopus are turning into “boat hunters”.[…]

In the last few days, a dear colleague of mine, the owner of a detective agency, has told me in advance that we private investigators will finally be equipped with badges. This does not thrill me, because in our job the badge has always been a counterproductive vanity, born of envy for the police badge. Read more about Soon we private investigators will all have badges[…]

A wiretap saved Johnny Depp from being falsely accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife Amber Heard, who will now have to answer for defamation before a Fairfax County jury. It is too early to say who will be right in court, but the actor’s recorded evidence and witnesses have shown that he was the Read more about The interceptions made among participants saved Johnny Depp.[…]

More than thirty years after the crime of Via Poma, the media, in search of an audience, throw headlines like “there is a breakthrough in the murder of Simonetta Cesaroni”. Then you read further and discover that after such a long time there is a witness who makes the alibi of the lawyer Francesco Caracciolo Read more about The verification of a 30-year-old alibi is the nightmare of any judicial investigator or detective agency authorized to carry out defensive criminal investigations.[…]

Investigations are very much like wars between truth and lies. When I teach ‘great investigations’ to the student detectives of my detective agency Octopus I am often inspired by ‘The Art of War’. About a thousand years ago, El Cid Campeador won his battles by catapulting baskets of bread into fortresses to be conquered; today, Read more about To the student detectives of my detective agency Octopus I teach The Art of War.[…]

Many years ago a client approached my first detective agency Octopus in Bergamo for an international investigation. My research ended up in the United States, where I met a fellow private detective who had opened his own detective agency in Los Angeles after a career as a policeman in an anti-gang squad in California. At Read more about We Italians were lucky not to have street gangs like in the States[…]

I have to say that I have never liked Roberto Saviano. He owes his initial success to the fact that he wrote uncomfortable truths about the Neapolitan camorra and since then he sees organized crime everywhere, tending to give mobster organizations more importance than they have. Even on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Read more about I have never liked Roberto Saviano[…]

The war between Ukraine and Russia is uncovering who are the real allies, the clever international statesmen and the good diplomats; unfortunately, Italy lacks all three. I speak of bad allies because Biden’s United States is playing a dangerous tug-of-war over our heads, without considering the risks that will fall over the whole Europe, and Read more about War between Ukraine and Russia[…]

My detective agency Octopus has been investigating fraud since 1988 and in forty years of private investigations I have never seen a fraudster pay the price for his misdeeds. In Italy, you can’t say ‘make the law, find the loophole’ because the loophole is already in the law itself. This was confirmed by the latest Read more about Once the law is made, find the loophole[…]

Some people are ruling out Silvio Berlusconi for the Quirinal, but the possibility is more likely than it seems. When Silvio Berlusconi was entering the entrepreneurial world of private television, I was a collaborator of some investigative agencies in Milan. I was asked to gather information about him, who at that time was still a Read more about Silvio Berlusconi at the Quirinal[…]