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May 1, 2019 7 mins
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Marco Saba is an economist specialized in forensic accounting. He published three books: "Bankenstein" (2006), "O la banca o la vita" (2008), and "Moneta Nostra" (2010, available online). (Forthcoming: "Forensic accounting of money creation.")

He was born in 1961 in Florence. Her mother, a psychologist, came from a Dutch dynasty of notaries dating from the 1300’. His father was a lawyer - son of a director of the Florence Chamber of Commerce - adhering to the “Soccorso Rosso Militante” initiative to protect left-wing protester from judiciary persecution. After graduating in classic studies, he attended a Master in “IT planning and engineering” at the SDA-Bocconi in Milan.

He worked for some years at an aerospace company of North Italy and then for a Milan software-house producing software for bank accounting.

In 1997 he became an activist on the Internet campaigning for a full disclosure of Stay-Behind (Gladio) agents’ activity in Italy and North Africa.

In 1999 he campaigned against the use of uranium in weapons during peace-keeping NATO wars. He founded the Italian Ethic-Environmental Observatory (OEA, Osservatorio Etico Ambientale).

In 2000 he was summoned to testify in the Italian parliament (Commissione Affari Esteri e Comunitari) against the use of uranium in weapons that had began in Viet-Nam (uranium flechette) and Yom-Kippur (uranium bullets in sniper rifle). In the same year he was one of the two prosecutor in the Italian chapter of the International Tribunal for U.S./NATO war crimes in Yugoslavia organized by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. In November, 4, he was the only Italian researcher invited at the international conference on depleted uranium organized by C.A.D.U. in Manchester, UK.

In 2003 he joined the Organized Crime Observatory of Geneve (O.C.O.) specializing in banking crime.

In 2005 he founded the Italian Center of Monetary Studies (C.S.M., Centro Studi Monetari) together with Prof. Antonino Galloni, a son of the former head of the Italian Superior Council of the Justices (Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura).

From 2006 to 2013 he published three books on banking while deepening his research on bank accounting frauds.
In 2014 he began to publicly auditing Italian banks on the accounting of money creation during the shareholders meetings at Unicredit, Carige, Intesa, Mediobanca, etc. In the same 2014 he was able to have INTOSAI (the UN body supervising supreme audit institutions) investigating about the mismanagement of bank accounting for money creation.

In January 2015, he was named president of the Italian Institute for Superior Studies in Economic and Monetary Sovereignty (IASSEM, Istituto di Alti Studi sulla Sovranità Economica e Monetaria) while continuing the bank auditing activity and some consulting for the Italian Court of Auditors, members of the Parliament, and other governmental bodies.

In 2016, the INTOSAI investigation ended up activating the IFRS to publish the DISCLOSURE INITIATIVE with Amendments to IAS 7.

In April, 2016 he began questioning the accounting practices at central banks by appearing at the 2016 shareholders meeting of the Swiss central bank in Bern (SNB-CH). In 2017, he began offering consulting and auditing services to the banking system. He teach in the course of "Forensic accounting on money creation."

He is currently the promoter of a private project to establish an International Monetary Cadastre under a “OpenClearing” initiative.

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