An illicit turnover of over 2,7 billion euros, fictitious tax credits of 1,6 billion, and money laundered through a network of shell companies and "front men."
This is the heart of the investigation that this morning led the Guardia di Finanza of Naples and Avellino to execute 14 precautionary measures—four in prison, seven under house arrest, and three prohibitive measures and mandatory reporting—by order of the investigating judge of the Avellino Court.
According to the Irpinia Prosecutor's Office, the group allegedly set up a sophisticated criminal scheme to unduly obtain contributions related to the Ecobonus and other building incentives, presenting work that had never been carried out, relating to nonexistent properties, or registered in the name of unsuspecting, deceased, or even homeless individuals.
The system: phantom properties, non-existent invoices and credits sold in a chain
The investigation, initiated thanks in part to the Revenue Agency's risk analysis, has revealed a "severely circumstantial" picture: a criminal conspiracy involving entrepreneurs, accountants, front men, and compliant technicians.
The method, reconstructed thanks to the seizure of computer devices, was tested:
companies registered under front names were used to simulate energy requalification works;
communications were sent to the Revenue Agency to obtain tax credits for work never carried out;
the credits, once generated, were transferred through a dense network of transactions, often between the same subjects who exchanged the roles of transferor and transferee;
The sums obtained were then laundered and transferred to accounts in Italy and abroad.
The overall amount is impressive:
€2.771.037.936 of fictitious expenses declared;
€1.654.786.540 of tax credits generated;
€90.111.044 sold to third parties;
€17.545.366 of tax debts offset against non-existent credits.
Among the anomalies found by investigators were the absence of invoices, the presence of "vanishing" economic operators, false land registry data, and the involvement of individuals with criminal records.
An initial emergency precautionary seizure was carried out in March 2023 to prevent the monetization of outstanding credits. A second measure, in September 2025, aimed to freeze sums amounting to €13,7 million, already transferred to foreign accounts.
The 2025 construction bonus black hole: other mega-scams discovered in Campania
The Avellino investigation is part of a regional scenario that has seen an exponential increase in construction incentive fraud attempts in 2025. In Campania alone, between January and October, the Guardia di Finanza dismantled at least five large fraud schemes, with a total value of over €3,5 billion in false credit.
1. Naples, April 2025 – The network of “ghost construction sites”
A cartel of companies declaring renovations to non-existent condominiums was discovered, totaling €410 million in fictitious credit. Qualified technicians were implicated, certifying work that had never been carried out.
2. Caserta, May 2025 – Bonus on properties seized from the Camorra
A particularly sophisticated scam: incentives were requested for work that was actually impossible to carry out because the properties were under anti-mafia seizure. The value of the fake loans: €120 million. Two notaries are also under investigation.
3. Benevento, June 2025 – The accountant of golden bonuses
A professional allegedly created a network of disposable companies to generate approximately 95 million in credit, which was then sold to a national network. Assets worth 14 million were seized.
4. Salerno, July 2025 – The fraud of the “clone” condominiums
Computerized duplicates of real buildings, with cadastral data altered to produce duplicate works: 265 million in seized credits.
5. North Naples, September 2025 – The massive money laundering of bonuses
A structure similar to the one discovered in Avellino, with front men recruited from among the poor and penniless. Non-existent credits amounting to €570 million.
The anti-fraud protocol and its national impact
The Avellino investigation is the result of the protocol signed between the Prosecutor's Office, Guardia di Finanza and the Revenue Agency, one of the most advanced in Italy in combating tax incentive fraud. The goal is to prevent funds created to boost the economy and construction industry from becoming a cash machine for criminal organizations, including—according to other parallel investigations—those linked to the Camorra.
The phenomenon, investigators explain, "represents one of the most serious attacks on the tax system in recent decades." And the 2025 figures confirm this: more fictitious credits seized than work actually carried out.
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Comments (30)
The evil of Italian
Alfonso Schiavone, when will this scam end? And thank goodness Conte only governed for 2 years.
Gaetano De Rosa, the handsome one who now plays the saint! What a despicable creature!
Of course! Always scamming! Bastards! Honesty isn't in your DNA.
We thank the 5 super bonus stables for wasted money, as well as the income from armchairs, desks on wheels, and masks.
Now everything is solved, it's cool!
Gaetano De Rosa The problem isn't Conte!!!! Who's managing it!!!
Tell that to the 5 assholes
But you also have to say who has benefited from it, apart from the fact that we already have some ideas as usual since they have immunity.
Racca Vanni, what does Fico have to do with this? His boss has been managing the super bonus for three years, and in three years she hasn't seen anything.
Antonello Elem, aside from the fact that I no longer vote for the movement because it now goes arm in arm with the pseudo-left, explain to me what the 5 Star Movement has to do with the swindlers and scammers who exist in Italy?
Antonello Elem also thanks Meloni who extended the bonus and took advantage of it
Gaetano De Rosa, there are millions of scams and frauds in Italy. Can you explain what the movement and Conte have to do with this?
Fabio Ruocco, you don't give the citizen's income to those who had a Ferrari and to those who were in 41bis... A law made by imbeciles should have been managed by the Revenue Agency.... Not the INPS
Loreto Leone took advantage of it first
Loreto Leone well now your mother can stop being a courtesan!
Antonello Elem, well, you can tell when someone is brain-dead if they repeat the same wrong things because people like him know how to say and repeat this over and over again, and by now they've convinced themselves it's Conte's mistake. Instead, we've explained the reasons a thousand times, but out of a million right-wing voters, a million always write this, unfortunately they have the same dementia as the entire right, Meloni Tajani, the bridge over the Strait first and foremost.
Double scam. The money always disappears.
Pina Auletta now no one has already been managed,
Fabio Ruocco's law was badly made and managed, or rather, not managed at all.
Loreto Leone, those who took advantage of the superbonus, had it before this government, after that they just had to move forward, it depended on the progress of the work, which then the companies that were born from nothing and disappeared into thin air with unfinished work just ate up, what can I say, the problems are with the condominiums that find themselves in trouble, then there were also honest companies that did a good job.
Nicola Palladino using it? Why did she cash it in for her own purposes?
Fabio Ruocco, what does this have to do with anything? Where do you live? Do you still believe in fairy tales?
The remedy is the confiscation of all assets, even those registered in the name of the family, in order to evade taxes, as searches are simple to carry out.
Capocelli Rosaria spiga we are all ears
Capocelli Rosaria If you are referring to the super construction bonus, the Meloni government has currently been managing it for three years and recently it has also been extended in some earthquake-stricken municipalities!
Antonello Elem we thank the smart and dishonest people, but the first example comes from those who govern us, how can Santanche become minister
What a discovery
Now that you have discovered them, make the owners and those of the compliant companies pay for the damages.
The article discusses a very important investigation into tax crime in Italy, but many people are unaware of how this type of fraud occurs. I hope the authorities will clarify everything thoroughly.