The Excise police launch a raid against Chinese mafias with over 100 firms involved in a mega money-laundering scheme. Ever since early dawn, over 1000 men of the Guardia di Finanza are executing arrest, search and confiscation warrants for real-estate, luxury cars, share-holdings and cash in eight Italian regions: Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Latium, Campania and Sicily.