Fuel tax fraud: 53 million seized between Naples and Trieste
Assets worth over 53 million euros have been seized by the Guardia di Finanza Finanza of Naples and Trieste to five people accused by the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office of tax fraud in the sector of the marketing of motor fuels.
The investigations, launched by the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Friulian capital, have allowed the discovery of a major tax evasion, according to the investigators, set up by a well-known Campania company operating in the trade of petroleum products, Petrolifera Italiana Srl, which allegedly made fictitious fuel sales to the phantom companies Antony Group of Testa Antonio, Perfetto Deposito of Perfetto Abele, Cera Deposito of Ceraso Carmine, Cm of Castellano Marcello, Barca Deposito of Barca Raffaele, Auletta Group of Auletta Giuseppe, Mezzopieno Srl, Rall Group Srl, Sammarco Srl, Company Group Srl, GC Trading Srl, Vincent Group of Petrucci Vincenzo, for over 146 million euros, thus evading Value Added Tax for approximately 33 million euros.
Furthermore, in the tax year in question, the tax return never appears to have been filed, resulting in the evasion of IRES of almost 20 million euros. Furthermore, Petrolifera Italiana srl was found to be one of the major suppliers of the entrepreneur Giuseppe Paparo, known as the “Emir of Vesuvius”, involved in another operation by the Guardia di Finanza of Naples and coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Nola. According to the reconstruction of the Guardia di Finanza, Petrolifera Italiana would have placed itself at the center of a large group of phantom companies located throughout the national territory. The de facto owners of the company, thanks to their many years of experience in the mineral oil sector, would have sold millions of liters of energy products to shell companies that fictitiously declared themselves “habitual exporters” who, precisely because of this false status, could purchase the products without applying VAT.
Subsequently, the shell companies resold the same products instead applying VAT to the final customer without then paying it to the Treasury (the so-called “carousel fraud”). Over the years, Petrolifera Italiana would have thus assumed an absolutely dominant position on the market, creating unfair competition with serious damage not only for the Treasury, but also for companies in the sector that operate legally.
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