Tax fraud in Avellino, assets seized for 4 million euros. The Guardia di Finanza of Avellino has placed 6 people under investigation and seized assets from 5 companies for tax fraud.
A large tax fraud ring was discovered between Avellino and the province: 6 people investigated, one of whom ended up under house arrest and assets worth approximately 4 million euros were seized.
At the end of the investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Avellino, the military personnel of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Avellino proceeded to execute a provision issued by the GIP at the Court of Avellino, which orders the precautionary custody under house arrest and the interdiction measure against a subject, a professional accountant, and the interdiction for five additional suspects, for periods between six months and 10 months, from exercising the managerial and administrative offices of companies, all considered seriously suspected, to varying degrees, at the state of the investigations, of the tax crimes of fraudulent declaration through other artifices, undue compensation of tax credits and concealment or destruction of accounting documents.
The preventive seizure aimed at the direct confiscation of money, goods or other utilities for a total value of €3.788.202,90 was also carried out against five companies involved in the fraud.
The complex investigations, carried out by the military of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza of Avellino, have brought to light, in particular, the position of a company formally operating in the IT sector, with registered office in the province of Avellino and attributable to "front men" who, through a series of fictitious operations and thanks to the declaration fraud carried out for VAT purposes, would have artificially produced for the 2018 tax year a substantial value added tax credit, for an amount exceeding 3 million euros. Credit subsequently used to accumulate further illicit profit by exploiting the possibility of tax compensation.
In this regard, the figure of an accountant from Puglia emerged who, through his professional intermediation work that proved to be crucial to the success of the fraud, would have allowed numerous companies, individual firms and individuals, having tax domicile throughout the national territory, to "reduce" their tax and social security debts through the so-called "horizontal" compensation with part of the non-existent credits produced by the originating company, thus allowing the beneficiaries not to pay taxes, between 2019 and 2020, for a total of 2 million euros.
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