As part of investigations coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Napoli In the North, officers from the Campania Railway Police Department executed an order issued by the preliminary investigations judge of the Naples North Court, ordering the precautionary custody of a 47-year-old Neapolitan man.
The recipient of the precautionary measure is seriously suspected of committing the crimes of forgery of a public document with misleading of the public official and aggravated fraud against the State, crimes committed in collaboration with currently unidentified persons, with multiple conduct repeated in the years 2020, 2021,2022 ,XNUMX.
The investigations arose from the particular attention paid by Polfer in repressing the phenomenon of copper thefts suffered by the Italian Railway Network. In the latest line of investigation the police have ascertained that many thefts were attributable to the same ROM gang of the Camp located in via Carrafiello in the "Ponte Riccio" area of Giugliano in Campania: many of the cars used in the thefts were in fact traced precisely in that Roma camp. From the subsequent census of the cars present in the main Roma camps in the province of Naples, it emerged that the majority of the cars used by the Roma were fictitiously registered in the name of third parties, in particular to a company dedicated to the purchase and sale of motor vehicles, whose sole director and legal representative is the suspect, arrested.
Subsequent checks carried out on the ACI database revealed that the company was the owner of approximately 600 vehicles. The suspect had not filed a tax return for 10 years and had numerous police records, including thefts, scams, fraudulent damage to insured assets, ideological falsity in a public document.
All the elements acquired supported the investigative hypothesis that behind his company there was the illicit activity of the fictitious registration of cars. Subsequent investigations at the company headquarters made it possible to ascertain that there was no corporate office and no car fleet at that address. The company was essentially created ad hoc to allow people who want to use cars without registering them in their name to also save on the costs of transferring ownership and the taxes due.
In fact, companies with a VAT number aimed at selling cars enjoy the possibility of registering the vehicles in their name by carrying out a "mini transfer" (the so-called mini transfer). The main benefit of this procedure is the exemption from paying the IPT (provincial transcription tax), with a considerable saving on the costs of the operation. In fact, if on average the transfer of ownership of a medium-powered car is around 600,00 euros, the cost for the company is around 120,00 euros.
Furthermore, these vehicles could not circulate unless they had a test plate, while in reality they circulated with ordinary plates and for purposes certainly not linked to future sales!
That everything was cleverly planned was further demonstrated by hearing from the former owners of the cars who confirmed that the cars were purchased in cash by the owners but registered in the name of the suspect who exploited the company's benefits.
Yesterday morning the recipient was tracked down by the police at his home in Sant'Antimo and, in execution of the precautionary measure, placed in the Poggioreale prison.
In the order, the investigating judge also ordered the preventive seizure of the 630 vehicles registered to the company.
Further investigations are underway to identify the man's accomplices.
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