Companies created like a matryoshka and fake invoices, 10 ordinances for maxi scam on household detergents

The Guardia di Finanza of Salerno executed 10 arrest warrants against members of a criminal group that, through false invoicing and fictitious companies, had earned over one and a half million euros in unpaid VAT; the gang had devised a mechanism of Chinese boxes and false accounting to make non-existent transactions appear.
An intricate system of Chinese boxes, to set up a scam in the wholesale sector of detergents and household products that has brought in at least 1,6 million euros. The organization, based in the Salerno area but with branches in various regions and even abroad, was dismantled with 10 precautionary custody orders issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Nocera Inferiore and executed by the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno. The charges against the suspects are, to varying degrees, criminal association aimed at international tax fraud and issuing invoices or other documents for non-existent operations with the aggravating circumstance of transnational crime.

The mechanism revealed by the Guardia di Finanza was essentially based on a round of false invoices, issued by foreign companies based in England, Spain, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
At the end of the investigations, the 1st Company Finance Police, coordinated by the Salerno Group Command, notified 3 orders of precautionary custody in prison to CL and DS, residents of Mercato San Severino (Salerno), and to DG, from San Michele di Serino (Avellino), considered the promoters of the organization and the organizers of the fraud; house arrest was instead issued for RF, from Baronissi (Salerno), FM, from Castellammare di Stabia, AP, resident in Matino (Lecce) and BR, resident in Nocera Inferiore. For BG and DLJ, both from Pagani (Salerno) and PV, resident in Fisciano (Salerno), the measure of obligation to reside in the Municipalities of residence was ordered. The investigating judge has ordered the preventive seizure, aimed at confiscation, of assets for a value of one million and 600 thousand euros, corresponding to the evaded VAT, against the suspects and the Italian and foreign companies involved in the fraud.

 Gustavo Gentile