TURIN – At the end of a detailed judicial police investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Piedmontese capital, the Guardia di Finanza of Turin carried out a preventive seizure decree aimed at confiscating the proceeds of crime amounting to over 1 million euros, in comparisons of two companies operating in the production, processing and marketing sector of the so-called “lamellar gneiss” (the well-known “Pietra di Luserna”, typical of the Val Pellice area).
The investigations, conducted by the financiers of the Pinerolo Company as part of the operation conventionally called “Rolling Stones”, arose from tax inspection activities, which also involved other economic subjects operating in the same sector, following which the administrators of the two companies, held responsible for the criminal tax cases of failure to declare, concealment and destruction of accounting documents and fraudulent evasion of the payment of taxes, were referred to the Judicial Authority.
According to the reconstruction of the investigators and without prejudice to the presumption of innocence until the responsibilities have been ascertained, the two companies would also have taken over the activity carried out by a third economic entity headed by the same legal representatives, resulting in the impoverishment of the company’s assets and availability financial and making it insolvent towards the Treasury, as well as “sheltered” from a possible compulsory collection procedure.
As a result of further investigations, the involvement of a legal and administrative consultancy firm based in the Piedmontese capital also emerged, which would have probably assisted the aforementioned companies in carrying out the hypothesized offences.
Sharing the investigative theories of the prosecution, the GIP at the Court of Turin issued a preventive seizure decree of the sums constituting the profit of the crime, for a total of Euro 862,621.00, carried out by the Fiamme Gialle.
Furthermore, the company assets subject to fraudulent transfer between the companies involved in the criminal plan were seized, for a value of approximately a further Euro 270,000.
The service confirms the Corps’ constant commitment to combating economic crime, in order to intercept and repress any form of pollution of the legal economy to safeguard correct economic operators and citizens.
