Sa yacht worth 200 thousand euros was seized by order of the Court of Trieste, identified in recent days in the Neapolitan territory and attributable to Pasquale Formicola, arrested in May for tax crimes and money laundering. The seizure was carried out by the economic-financial police unit of Trieste, during the operation 'Black Gold' in which Depositi Costieri Trieste Spa is also involved, as a further measure of effective compensation for the treasury coffers following the millionaire tax evasion discovered by the Public Prosecutor's Office in recent months, in the commercial sector of petroleum products. Thanks to stakeouts and inspections, investigators from the Trieste financial police identified the luxury vessel hidden in a storage facility in Torre del Greco, in the province of Naples. Although formally registered to a company attributable to a front man, the vessel was actually fully available to Formicola, known to the news as one of the three de facto administrators of the Trieste Spa declared bankrupt on January 9th. As emerged from the investigations, the same people are said to be the heads of a criminal gang involved in a complex fraud carried out with the participation of various companies and with the issuing of false invoices for a total of 160 million euros. This caused a huge debt to the Treasury, never paid, with VAT evasion of 35 million euros. Part of the illicit proceeds were then used by those arrested, including Formicola, to acquire ownership of Depositi Costieri Spa. The seized boat - equipped with an internal and external kitchen, an ultra-modern bathroom, 4 beds and every kind of comfort - is added to the other assets, movable and immovable, already taken from the availability of the suspects in recent months: money, houses, cars, company shares, valuable watches.
Article published on November 26, 2018 - 15:23
