The Guardia di Finanza of Marcianise has executed an order for the application of precautionary measures in prison, issued by the GIP of the Court of Naples at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office - Economic Crime Section - against an entrepreneur (active in the logistics sector within the Interporto Sud Europa of Marcianise) and his tax consultant, with the simultaneous preventive seizure of movable and immovable assets with an estimated value of over 6 million euros.
Already in February 2022, the two individuals had been the recipients of a precautionary interdiction measure (temporary ban on exercising, respectively, entrepreneurial and professional activities) following an investigation in which serious evidence of guilt had emerged regarding their involvement in a complex fraud scheme aimed at tax evasion.
In particular, under the "direction" of his tax advisor, the entrepreneur allegedly unduly benefited from significant tax savings (non-deductible costs for a value of over 40 million euros for direct tax purposes and non-deductible VAT for a value of over 8,6 million euros) thanks above all to the systematic use of fictitious accounting documentation, including over 2.600 invoices for non-existent transactions issued by specially established so-called shell companies.
During the subsequent investigations delegated by the public prosecutor, the investigators of the Guardia di Finanza acquired serious circumstantial evidence regarding the commission of further criminal offences by the suspects (self-laundering, false accounting, documentary and fraudulent bankruptcy, undue receipt of public funds and undue compensations carried out using non-existent credits), who allegedly continued to operate in the same sector, through a new economic entity specifically created and registered in the name of nominees, obtaining illicit profits of over 6 million euros.
Article published on March 14, 2023 - 12pm
