16 million VAT evaded with false invoices Investigations also reach Bergamo – EcoDiBergamo.it

An alleged tax fraud was discovered by the Guardia di Finanza de Cecina that would have been carried out thanks to invoices for non-existent transactions, issued or used, for more than 93 million euros, with a VAT evasion of about 16 million. There are 22 people investigated for fraudulent declarations, 3 for money laundering and 2 for self-laundering of money that for the Fiamme Gialle would have been illegally accumulated thanks to tax evasion. Already ordered by the Livorno investigating judge and made preventive seizures of assets for 6.3 million euros.

The investigations, explains the Gdf, began with checks in a “modest orthopedic goods store” in the Livorno area, “a small Srl which, in a few months, however, has seen its purchases increase from 100,000 to 15,000,000 euros “. , finally identifying a hundred businessmen from various regions, who are allegedly involved in the alleged fraud.

The investigation, which began in 2018, was developed in two phases: the first led to the discovery, as explained in the note from the Financial Police, of “a pernicious compensation system for the tax debts contracted by 10 individuals between Rome, Piedimonte Matese ( Caserta) and Civitavecchia with, in the center, as accollante, the Srl “del Livornese” that had a VAT credit of 3.2 million euros, justified however by the use of 15 million euros of false invoices received in 2017 for a simulated purchase of a warehouse in Carsoli (Aquila), all with the help of three tax advisers from the province of Rome ».
The second phase “highlighted a network of” empty boxes “and subjectively non-existent relationships throughout the national territory, always aimed at evasion” of VAT, with the Livornese Srl still involved, which would later move the headquarters to Bari, changing its name and declaring to carry out the sale of pellets as well as orthopedic articles.

In addition, around 600 thousand euros, part of the 16 million euros of VAT evaded would have been “self-washed” by transferring them to a wallet or digital wallet, for the purchase of cryptocurrencies, managed by a London company “well known in the sector” . The main suspect in the operation, called “Confusion”, is indicated in the de facto director of Livornese Srl: originally from San Vincenzo, with registered office in Bergamo and registered office in Romania, he is accused of the crimes of tax fraud, concealment or destruction of accounting documents, undue compensation and self-cleaning.

Among the other people involved in various capacities, directors or legal representatives of filter companies or ‘cartierè spread between Lazio, Veneto, Lombardy and the three Roman consultants for undue compensation. The wife and mother of the main suspect were also referred on money laundering charges. With respect to the approximately 100 businessmen involved in the alleged fraud, 60 different departments of the Guardia di Finanza were denounced for the recovery of unduly compensated pending taxes.

Among the assets subject to preventive seizure are three agricultural lands in Velletri, seven between shops and industrial buildings also in Velletri and Paliano (Frosinone) and financial resources. Among the seized properties are three, with a commercial value of 1.4 million, attributed to one of the investigated accountants despite being “inspected” by a British company, a London-based Ltd.

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