Tax Evasion: Assets worth 1 million euros seized in Cilento

Fighting tax evasion: the Guardia di Finanza of Salerno uncovers a transnational VAT fraud. Assets seized for over 1,2 million euros.

On behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Vallo della Lucania, the Financiers of the Provincial Command of Salerno they executed a preventive seizure order of assets, for a value of over one million euros, against eight subjects, investigated for fraud aimed at tax evasion and transnational self-laundering.

The first investigations by the Yellow Flames of the Company of Agropoli they arose from the in-depth analysis of some anomalies detected in the operation of current accounts attributable to a Cilentan entrepreneur.

The fifty-two year old, originally from Vatolla of Perdifumo, already known to the police for previous tax and criminal convictions fraudulent bankruptcy, in fact managed several society, scattered among theItaly , Bulgaria, those carrying out consultancy activities for companies who intend to take advantage of the so-called “training tax credit 4.0”, a public incentive provided by the Budget Law of 2018 to facilitate technological and digital development processes.

In essence, in order to “save” the tax due on the fees of the services, quantified in over one million euros, the man would have made use of Bulgarian companies, real "screens", represented fiscally in Italy by mere “wooden heads” – a repeat offender Cava de 'Tirreni and a subject of Bulgarian nationality currently untraceable -, who issued invoices without ever paying even a cent of VAT.

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Invoices for “subjectively” operations non-existent, since they referred to services materially provided by Italian companies (all payments by customers, in fact, took place on the current accounts of the latter, taking advantage of the fact that they had the same name as the foreign ones).

To offset the accrued debt, other false invoices were then used, on the basis of which the companies involved created fictitious tax credits.

Le investigations, carried out also through the analysis of financial movements and telephone interceptions, have allowed us to trace the ways in which the illicit earnings gradually accumulated were used, discovering, among other things, thepurchase of a series of luxury goods, mainly boats and cars, the latter however re-registered in Bulgaria and brought back to Italy with foreign license plates, so as to access more advantageous rates on insurance and car tax.

Part of the illicit proceeds was also invested to buy a rrestaurant in the port of Agropoli, later completely renovated with quality furnishings, finishes and materials. Materials which, with the complicity of the same suppliers, were formally destined abroad, thus being able to fall within the regime of suspension of the tax on intra-community transactions, when in fact they were used for the furnishing of the same premises.

On one of the social profiles Numerous videos of the main suspect have also emerged in which the man, totally unknown to the tax authorities from 2014 to 2019 and who never officially held any role in the administration of the structure, declared himself the owner, paradoxically presenting himself as “an entrepreneur who pays taxes.”

In the complex fraudulent mechanism reconstructed by the investigators, there are also, in various capacities, seven other people, accused of self-laundering, issuing invoices for non-existent transactions and false tax returns. At the same time, reports have been made five companies for the related administrative liability profiles.

In order to ensure the recovery of the sums stolen from the Treasury, this Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered the preventive seizure of assets for 1,2 million euros. During the searches, the Finance Police seized cars and boats owned by the suspects, as well as the liquidity found in the current accounts, placing the seals also to the mentioned restaurant, for a total value that reaches the full amount established in the precautionary measure.