Discovered tax evasion on energy products for 1,5 million euros. At the head of the organization are two entrepreneurs from Salerno and a commercial agent from Perugia.
1,5 million Euros of evaded VAT and fines of up to approximately 3 million Euros are in summary what was ascertained by officials of the Agency of Excise, Customs and Monopolies (ADM) of Perugia who in the last few hours have notified the relative provisions in collaboration with colleagues from the Customs Office of Salerno.
The accounting and administrative audit involved a company operating in the fuel trade with headquarters in Rome whose legal representative, resident in Salerno, was found to have no experience in the sector and to be completely unrelated to the management of the company, thus appearing as a mere front man.
The investigations, which began in 2018 following an inquiry conducted by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Perugia also with the assistance of the Guardia di Finanza, had expanded to the Lazio region, involving the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome to which three people had been reported: the administrator of the Roman company together with an employee in charge of marketing the oil goods, both from Salerno, and a man from Perugia with the role of representative who had already begun his activity in looking for distributors in Umbria willing to purchase their energy products.
The investigation had ascertained, so strong was the interest in "penetrating" the Umbrian territory thanks to the logistically favorable position with respect to the main headquarters, that the alleged perpetrators of the fraud had tried to acquire a property to use as a fuel depot from which to then distribute the products coming from EU countries and transited through tax warehouses in Central Italy.
The fraudulent intent was typical of “shell companies”: by simulating possession of the status of habitual exporter, purchases were made on the national territory by illegitimately issuing declarations of intent for a total taxable amount of 3.373.577 Euros.
The corresponding evaded VAT, considering the methods of purchase and subsequent resale, was quantified in 1.484.000 Euros net of sanctions that amount, as already indicated, to approximately 3 million. In these very hours the contestation activities to the Campania administrator have been formalized.
“This is a complex investigation activity that demonstrates how high ADM's vigilance is on the territory even in the delicate sector of the trade of petroleum products, which has always been the object of speculation and fraud by companies with criminal purposes”, commented the ADM Territorial Director for Tuscany and Umbria, Roberto Chiara.
Article published on 28 December 2022 - 12:12
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