Construction bonus scam, operation “Capisci ammé”: 18 investigated

Following investigations by the economic and financial judicial police, which arose as part of Operation Capisci ammè (coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of ASTI), which on March 22nd had led the military of the Provincial Command of Asti, in collaboration with other Departments of the Corps in 18 provinces, to carry out, among other things, the seizure of tax drawers containing tax credits for the astronomical sum of over 1,5 billion euros.

But also to the arrest of 10 people, believed to be involved in various capacities in the vast fraud - soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit have finally executed a new preventive seizure decree for 704.696.217,00 euros, issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Asti Court.

The intervention, aimed at preventing the use of this additional large group of tax credits deemed non-existent, generated and/or bought and sold in 2022 by the now disjointed criminal association, was conducted by the Fiamme gialla of Asti with the collaboration of the Revenue Agency of Rome, to which the magistrate decree was notified, in order to deactivate access to the incriminated tax drawers placed by the suspects on the appropriate digital platform of the tax office.

These credits for over 700 million were registered to 18 companies and 4 individuals - already involved in the operation "capisci ammè" and subject to a search on March 22. These are pseudo-economic operators, formally declared to be in the provinces of Milan, Pavia, Imperia, Ferrara, Naples, Caserta, Avellino, Salerno, Benevento, Taranto, Brindisi and Palermo, but characterized by being total tax evaders (non-compliance with all tax reporting obligations), companies and firms that are completely inactive and/or registered to people who are listed as penniless in the Tax Registry.

With the completion of this last phase of the complex criminal investigation, the false tax credits ascertained by the Fiamme gialla of Asti and subjected to the judicial constraint of preventive seizure, to avoid the significant possible damages to the public budget, are equal to 2 billion and 200 million euros. As for the personal precautionary measures applied to the suspects, these have been confirmed by the Review Court of Turin.