TRIESTE – The Trieste financiers carried out the preventive seizure of fictitious tax credits of the total nominal value equal to 3,750,000.00 euros.
Facade bonuses and tax credits
The seizure order, issued urgently by the GIP Office at the Court of Trieste, at the compliant request of the local Public Prosecutor’s Office, takes on an “impeditive” nature, since the aim pursued is to prevent the compensation or monetization of such tax credits, all accrued in 2021, originated by falsely certifying to the financial administration’s electronic portal the execution of building recovery works connected to the so-called. “facade bonus”, appropriately combined with the simultaneous request to make use of the option of transfer to third parties. In fact, in order to illicitly benefit from construction bonuses connected to the transfer of accrued creditsinitially permitted and subsequently limited by the Government Authority, starting from 2022, through the introduction of effective corrective measures from a regulatory perspective, a construction company located outside the Region was able to accumulate a significant nominal amount of fictitious tax credits which, through subsequent operations transfer to third partieswere last “monetized” at Poste Italiane Spa..
It was precisely the careful analysis of the management of an individual company based in Trieste, operating in the sector of thermo-hydraulicwhich led the soldiers of the Economic-Financial Police Unit to identify and meticulously reconstruct all the operations preceding the purchase of a tax credit with a nominal value of half a million euros, sold by the construction company that had fraudulently originated it. This purchase operation was in fact immediately considered suspicious, since it was defined without the apparent payment of any consideration by the Julian entrepreneur, as the transferee: in reality, the actual benefit for the latter was substantiated precisely in the possibility of monetizing the amount of this credit, of the fictitiousness of which both the seller and the buyer were, following the outcome of the investigations carried out, perfectly aware.
The transformation of this credit into cash took place immediately after its purchase at one Poste Italiane branch in Triestein an absolutely easy way, even if the operation carried out allowed its identification by the Julian Fiamme Gialle, which proceeded to reconstruct the methods of formation of the credit, subsequently subject to preventive seizure promptly ordered by the competent judicial authority .
The crimes committed against not only the Julian businessman, but also others twelve subjects involved in the sale of fictitious tax credits resident in VenetoLombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna and Calabria, can be traced back to aggravated fraud against the Stateself-laundering and reuse of illicit proceeds unduly received.
The ultimate aim of the discovered fraud system was in fact precisely to obtain the liquidation, in the quickest and most unsuspecting way possible, of the artificially produced tax credits and to equally quickly re-use the money thus obtained in the legal economic circuit, to make further profits.
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