(ANSA) – CHIETI, 03 APR – The Chieti Financial Police has reported two people for tax crimes, money laundering and aggravated fraud at the end of an investigation by the Ortona Police Department, coordinated by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic of Chieti Giuseppe Falasca , against a company based in the Teatro area and operating in the wholesale trade of fresh frozen and deep-frozen meat. The company is registered in the name of a frontman, a 47-year-old with no property, and without an operational structure or capital availability. Through invoices issued for non-existent operations for over 7 million euros, the company had interposed itself between the real buyer of the goods and the European supplier, creating the typical system of “carousel fraud”, taking on the VAT debt and allowing the beneficiary of the fraud , a company operating in the Salerno area, to purchase, as a result of non-payment of the tax, goods at a price lower than the market price. The VAT debt that the State owed towards the “paper mill” company exceeds 750,000 euros. At the origin of the matter is the perception of public contributions for 405 thousand euros used for the purchase of foreign meat, disbursed in 2020 by credit institutions, under the guarantee of the Banca del Mezzogiorno – MedioCredito Centrale Spa, as part of the “regime of Covid 19 Aid”. The illicit modus operandi was aimed at aggravated fraud: the “dominus” created the conditions for obtaining state funds not due, through financial statements and tax returns artfully prepared by an accountant from Chietino, special prosecutor of the joint-stock company, altered through recording of revenues never achieved. The situation brought the joint-stock company to the attention of the regional Court of Auditors for possible tax damage. The provincial commander of the Guardia di Finanza of Chieti, Colonel Michele Iadarola, highlights how “the maximum investigative performance of the Guardia di Finanza is able to intercept the fraudulent phenomena and the conduct most harmful to the Treasury. This produces feelings of trust towards of the Corps, exalting the uniqueness of its economic-financial police action in favor of the State, citizens, virtuous businesses and the weakest sections of the population”. (HANDLE).
