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 network of Chinese boxes operated to orchestrate a fraud in the wholesale detergent and household products sector that netted at least €1,6 million. The organization, based in the Salerno area but with branches in various regions and even abroad, was dismantled with 10 precautionary detention orders issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Nocera Inferiore and executed by the Salerno Financial Police. The suspects are charged, to varying degrees, with criminal conspiracy for the purpose of international tax fraud and issuing invoices or other documents for non-existent transactions, 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 conclusion of the investigation, the 1st Company Finance Police, coordinated by the Salerno Group Command, served three arrest warrants on CL and DS, residents of Mercato San Severino (Salerno), and DG, from San Michele di Serino (Avellino), considered the instigators of the conspiracy and organizers of the fraud. House arrest was also placed on RF, from Baronissi (Salerno), FM, from Castellammare di Stabia, AP, resident in Matino (Lecce), and BR, resident in Nocera Inferiore. BG and DLJ, both from Pagani (Salerno), and PV, resident in Fisciano (Salerno), were ordered to remain in their municipalities of residence. The investigating judge ordered the precautionary seizure, aimed at confiscation, of assets worth €3 million, corresponding to the evaded VAT, held by the suspects and the Italian and foreign companies involved in the fraud.
Gustavo Gentile
EDITORIAL TEAM
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