Massive tax fraud and shell company: assets worth 52 million seized in eight regions. Neapolitan professionals involved.
The military of the Turin financial police are executing, as part of the “Zero Assoluto” operation, a preventive seizure order for over 52 million euros issued by the Preliminary Investigations Judge of the local Court against 30 people and 19 companies, for the alleged crimes of fraudulent declaration and undue compensation of non-existent tax credits.
The investigations, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Piedmontese capital and conducted by the financial police of the Turin Economic and Financial Police Unit, have allowed the reconstruction of a complex fraud system involving a vast network of companies, some of which were "shell" companies, lacking the means of production and formally registered, for the most part, to penniless front men, with the sole function of documenting transactions that never took place.
The fraud mechanism involved the pre-establishment of tax credits, which later turned out to be non-existent, which, through the fraudulent use of the institutions of the assumption of tax debt or the transfer of credit, were then sold, at approximately 35% of the offset amount, to third parties, in order to allow their offsetting with real tax debts, thus benefiting from an undue saving on the taxes due, in many cases completely "zeroing" their debt positions towards the Treasury.
The investigative activities were also conducted through wiretapping, stakeouts, shadowing and searches, for the crimes of fraudulent declaration and use of non-existent tax credits relating to the period from 2017 to 2020.
Among the people involved, the involvement of 11 professionals operating in 8 Italian regions (Piedmont, Marche, Tuscany, Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania, Puglia and Sicily), particularly in the provinces of Turin, Asti, Ascoli Piceno, Pisa, Rome, Chieti, Naples, Lecce and Agrigento who, in violation of their professional duties, falsely certified the tax returns of certain companies or personally made false tax payments.
The seized assets include over 570 current accounts, 37 properties (including a villa in Canavese) and 44 vehicles, including a Ferrari 599 GTO.
This is what is provided for in the preventive seizure decree, being executed by the Turin financial police, for over 52 million euros issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of the local Court against 30 people and 19 companies, for the hypotheses of the crime of fraudulent declaration and undue compensation of non-existent tax credits.
Article published on 16 September 2021 - 08:04
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