The Fiamme Gialle of the Tenenza of Ortona have discovered a tax evasion for an amount of approximately 8 million euros in a company in the Teatro area.
The period of the Covid-19 pandemic, many remember it as one of the darkest that we have had to overcome in recent years. What is now only a sad memory, represented at the time a period of extreme discouragement, also financial, to which the State tried to respond efficiently through the provision of special funds for those businesses that had suffered damage from the imposed closures.
However, there have been cases in which these funds, have been pocketed illicitly, causing considerable damage to the treasury. A case of this kind occurred in a company in the Teatro area, for which the support funds disbursed during the pandemic represent only the tip of the iceberg of a fraudulent mechanism which led to an evasion of 8 million euros.
A Theatine feat, operating in the wholesale sector of fresh frozen and deep-frozen meat, ended up in the sights of the Fiamme Gialle of the Tenenza of Ortona who, on behalf of Giuseppe Falasca of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Chieti, completed a meticulous investigation which allowed to bring out a fraudulent mechanism which led to a tax evasion of 8 million euros.
In fact, the company it was registered in the name of a nominee, a 47 year old man from Ripa Teatina, on paper having nothing. Furthermore, the company lacked an operational structure and capital availability. The mechanism implemented was decidedly usual in this type of operation: the company stood in the way between the real buyer of the goods and the European supplier.
This happened through issuing invoices for non-existent operations, quantified at over 7 million euros, more than 750 thousand euros were the VAT debt that the State owed towards the “paper mill” company. In this way, the classic was created “carousel fraud” system in which the company took on the VAT debt and allowed the beneficiary of the fraud, a company operating in the Salerno area, to be able to purchase, as a result of non-payment of the tax, goods at a price lower than the market price.
As if that wasn’t enough, the investigations revealed that in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the company would have received a subsidy of 405 thousand euros: these are state funds which did not belong to the company and which were obtained through financial statements and tax returns artfully prepared by a Theatino accountantbringing out a corporate solidity that had never been created.
