A major operation by the Guardia di Finanza of Agropoli and the Provincial Command of Salerno was carried out across the entire national territory involving 274 companies and their respective legal representatives.
Over 100 units of the Corps in 42 provinces have executed an order issued by the investigating judge of the Court of Vallo della Lucania which ordered the application of personal precautionary measures and the preventive seizure of approximately 57 million euros.
A total of 279 people are under investigation for the crimes of criminal association, issuing invoices for non-existent transactions, undue compensation of tax credits and self-laundering.
According to the investigations, the companies involved, between 2020 and 2021, would have carried out an undue compensation of non-existent credits, artificially generated by falsely certifying the training activity of the employees in the sector of the technologies envisaged by the National Industry 4.0 Plan.
According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, a dense network of procurers identified the client companies to which they proposed to benefit from the tax credit relating to staff training; to this end, a company based in Cicerale provided the companies with the documentation relating to the hours of training that the employees would have declared to have completed but which, in reality, never occurred.
With the help of some union delegates, false company collective contracts were then drawn up, using counterfeit revenue stamps to falsely certify the costs incurred by the companies and to backdate the stipulations of the contracts themselves.
Finally, some compliant professionals provided the beneficiary companies with the certification of the tax credit, which was immediately offset by them, and then returned a percentage of the total amount as a commission. The turnover achieved yielded an overall illicit profit estimated at around 57 million euros.
Article published on 19 April 2023 - 11:10
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