The Guardia di Finanza discovered a conspiracy that defrauded the treasury through false tax compensations: six ended up under house arrest.
There are 180 financial officers from the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples who have executed, between Campania, Puglia and numerous other regions of the national territory, an order applying personal and real precautionary measures issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples at the request of the Neapolitan Public Prosecutor's Office against 6 individuals (all under house arrest), seriously suspected of being part of a criminal association aimed at tax fraud.
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The damage caused to the Treasury amounts to over 27 million euros. The synergy with the Revenue Agency of Naples was very effective, from whose reports evidence had emerged attributable to a complex mechanism of tax fraud. The subsequent investigations, delegated by the Economic Crime Section of the Naples Prosecutor's Office to the specialists of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Naples, led to the reconstruction of a criminal association composed of professionals, businessmen, mediators and front men, architects of the sophisticated fraudulent system of undue compensations.
Tax compensation consists in the possibility recognized to the taxpayer to use his credits towards the Treasury to pay any debts towards the same. Precisely by exploiting the possibilities offered by compensations, the association would have been the protagonist of a large phenomenon of tax evasion that involved, first of all, the creation of false VAT credits in the hands of "shell" companies, managed by compliant front men.
Those credits were reported in the VAT declarations and provided with the stamp of conformity by compliant tax consultants; in many cases they were also transferred to be used in compensation also by other companies outside the organization. This practice, now prohibited by law, was implemented by resorting to the institute of tax assumption or transfer of the tax credit by companies that showed, in their declarations, VAT credits for the benefit of third-party taxpayers who used them in compensation.
The criminal association was led by an accountant and an entrepreneur, both Neapolitans burdened by multiple previous convictions for tax crimes (the most recent in the sector of fraud in the marketing of petroleum products), who availed themselves of the crucial collaboration of 4 tax experts, also affected by the measure of house arrest.
The “sale” of non-existent credits to other taxpayers took place thanks to a widespread network of businessmen and procurers who proposed the purchase of the same as compensation through the payment of a variable sum, depending on the amount of the credits, up to 70% of the nominal value.
The illicit phenomenon would have involved 27 "shell" companies, certifying non-existent VAT credits, and a dense network of businessmen, tax consultants and intermediaries linked to the investigated association, who would have been responsible for procuring the companies and taxpayers who were beneficiaries of the undue compensations, in the tax periods 2016, 2017 and 2018, for over 27 million euros.
Overall, the activity ended with the execution of 6 house arrest measures, the preventive seizure of assets worth 27 million euros against 62 companies and taxpayers using non-existent VAT credits, and the reporting of 93 individuals for the crime of undue compensation.
List of recipients of the precautionary measure of house arrest:
By Fenza Luigi, 67 years old from Naples
Coppola Roberto, 56 years old from Naples
By Cristofaro Claudio, 58 years old from Naples;
The Women Maurizio, 58 years old from Naples;
Sorbo Michele, 70 years old from Casapulla;
Selvarolo Savino, 59 years old from Andria
Article published on May 13, 2021 - 10:10 pm
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