Facade Bonus, Work Never Done to Abusive Parking Attendants, Convicts and People with Citizenship Income: 143 Under Investigation

Facade bonus, mega scam discovered of work never carried out on abusive parking attendants, criminals and people with citizen's income: 143 investigated and seizure of assets for over 772 million euros.

And this morning, following a complex investigative activity directed by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North, personnel from the Frattamaggiore Guardia di Finanza Group executed a precautionary seizure order, issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples North, at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Naples North.

These are credits deriving from building and rental bonuses for over 772 million, claimed by 143 individuals and legal entities, respectively resident or having their registered office mostly in the provinces of Naples and Caserta.

The activity originates from an operational analysis, at the instigation of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples, relating to the circulation of credits for renovation and energy efficiency works, as well as for rental fees, provided for by Legislative Decree 34/2020 (the so-called "Relaunch" Decree).

This is the continuation of a similar activity, which already led last March to the seizure of approximately 108 million euros from two brothers living in Vallo della Lucania.

In particular, the in-depth analysis carried out on the negotiations of the two entrepreneurs from Valle d'Aosta, which took place between 2021 and the current year, has allowed us to identify a further, large group of assignees, whose credits, like the first ones, arose from construction work and from real estate leases that in reality did not exist.

The aforementioned transferees, in fact, had communicated to the Revenue Agency, through the insertion of transfer forms on the Entratel portal, the availability of credits amounting to several million euros, received in exchange for phantom renovation works that were in fact never carried out.

 Among the recipients there are also people with citizen's income

During the investigations, in addition to reconstructing the complex chain of chain sales carried out by the responsible parties, it was also ascertained that over 70% of them were recipients or in any case applicants for citizen's income.

This aspect represents further evidence of an economic-financial and entrepreneurial dimension that is completely incompatible with the movements of the huge financial resources that they apparently had at their disposal.

Even illegal parking attendants linked to the Camorra in the facade bonus scam

Furthermore, among the credit holders, there were also individuals who had been reported several times by the Police Forces for illegally exercising the parking attendant activity, for being found to have no VAT number, for having carried out business activities for only one day, for being found to be engaged in economic sectors other than construction and even for contiguity with the Camorra, both in Naples and Caserta.

 An inmate in Santa Maria Capua Vetere is even said to have carried out work worth 30 million euros

As further confirmation of the illicit nature of the credit provisions subjected to today's seizure order, the position of one of the responsible parties was examined in particular, who allegedly received renovation works for over 34 million euros and, at the same time, allegedly carried out renovation works for over 30 million euros himself, even though he was actually detained in the Santa Maria Capua Vetere prison.

The amount seized also includes the credits transferred to Poste Italiane SpA for the purposes of their negotiation, in the amount of tens of millions of euros, based on a quantification still underway.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of North Naples, therefore, following the entire reconstruction of the incident, obtained the preventive seizure from Judge for Preliminary Investigations aimed at seizing credits for a total amount of 772.400.276 euros, in order to prevent, through the possible transfer to financial institutions, the undue disbursement of public resources.

The illicit activity under investigation, which, as mentioned, carries out a criminal behavior already previously monitored, is of such gravity, due to the high sums negotiated, that it can concretely determine a significant damage to public resources, impoverished and diverted from their correct destination to the redevelopment of the national real estate assets and the implementation of the ecological transition, objectives which have in fact become more difficult to achieve.