Tax fraud, blitz in Reggio Emilia: 51 precautionary measures and 24 million seized. Suspects: “What do we do? We make money”

They are accused of mounting a articulated criminal system specialized in offering ‘professional’ services issuance of invoices for non-existent transactions, to allow beneficiary companies to reduce their tax base and thus defraud the tax authorities. The organization, based on Reggio emilia, composed by 49 subjects, operated throughout Italy and was decommissioned today by a joint operation by policeman me Financial police called ‘Billions’. At the request of the investigating judge of the Reggio court, 250 officers and soldiers carried out 51 personal precautions, of which 22 in prison, for tax fraud, bankruptcy and money laundering and seizures of assets and money for 24 million euros. It was also found that nine of the suspects were beneficiaries of the citizens’ income, who benefited from a total of more than 80 thousand euros.

The investigations made it possible to rebuild a particularly complex associative structure, explains the Police, also dedicated to money laundering, including abroad, self-laundering and the commission of fraudulent bankruptcy crimes. At the top of the organization, there were leaders who coordinated ten operational cells that could count on front companies to issue invoices for non-existent transactions, for ‘withdrawals’ of money from ATMs and attorneys for economic subjects interested in obtaining such illegal services. Then, at the base of the pyramid, a large group of decorative figure owners of a myriad of ‘paper’ businesses that only served to produce fake invoices. “They produce money“So some suspects in an interception joked about what their companies were producing. Among the recipients of detention is a Calabrian crime featured topic, who was one of the protagonists of the ‘Ndrangheta war fought in Reggio Emilia in the 90s